The Rippers Daily Recap 1/27: Breaking Down Apple's Earnings and More

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Here's How The Stock Market Performed Today

The Major Indexes

• Nasdaq 100 $QQQ closed at $13,349.76 down 1.42% 

• Dow Jones $DIA closed today at $34,154.78 down 0.04%   

• S&P 500 $SPY closed at $4,326.12 down 0.55%

Heat Map of the S&P 500

How The Largest Stocks Performed

Best Performing Large Cap Stocks

Worst Performing Large Cap Stocks

Major Earnings Headlines

Apple Earnings

• EPS of $1.88 in line with expectations  

• Net Income: $34.6B up 20.1% YoY 

• Rev of $123.9B (Up 11.2% YoY) beating expectations of $118.3B (all time high revenue)

• Gross Margin: 43.8% 

• Cash and Marketable Securities of $202.6B 

• Total Debt $123B

Services vs Product

Sales by Segment and Region

Forward Guidance: Apple did not give forward guidance for next quarter but did provide some “directional Insights.”

Dividend: Apple also declared a quarterly dividend of $0.22 per share — unchanged from its previous quarterly dividend.

Some of headlines from the conference call, which you can listen to here:

• 66% of Apple Watch buyers this past quarter were first time buyers

• Apple's $AAPL retail locations had their highest total revenue ever last quarter

• There are currently 1.8 Billion active Apple $AAPL devices

• When asked about the Metaverse Tim Cook said the company has a lot of AR apps already on the App store adding "We see a lot of potential for this space and are investing accordingly"

My favorite quote from the earnings call was when Tim Cook said:

"We have a different model, We try to announce things when they're ready or close to ready and try to maintain an element of surprise"

Tesla Earnings

Tesla is too big to not include in this. They reported Q4 earnings this Wednesday, Jan. 26, after the markets closed, including headline numbers like:

• EPS of $2.54 — beating expectations of $2.11 

• Rev of $17.7B (+65.4% YoY) — beating expectations of $16.1B 

• Operating Cash flow of $2.8B

Tesla also announced it has now reached cumulative profitability since inception.

The two biggest headlines I got from the conference call:

1. Tesla expects its growth to be "comfortably" over 50% in 2022

2. Elon Musk said he thinks Tesla's humanoid robot business has the potential to be more significant over time than its car business

All-in-all, Q4 wraps up another strong year of growth for Tesla, with revenue up 68.8% YoY.

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Other Earnings Headlines

McDonald's ($MCD) reported earnings this morning posting numbers of:

• EPS of $2.23, missing expectations of $2.34 

• Rev of $6.01B, missing expectations of $6.03B

Mastercard ($MA) reported earnings this morning posting numbers of:

• EPS of $2.35 beating expectations of $2.21 

• Rev of $5.22B beating expectations of $5.16B

Visa ($V) just reported earnings posting numbers of:

• EPS of $1.81 beating expectations of $1.7 

• Rev if $7.1B bearing expectations of $6.8B

Robinhood $HOOD just reported earnings posting numbers of

• EPS of -$0.49 missing expectations of -$0.45 

• Rev of $363M beating expectations of $362.14M

Major Headlines

• Nvidia ($NVDA) announced today its  GeForce Now app for LG TVs has exited beta and is now available for LG TV users - Wccftech

• EU regulators have conditionally approved Facebook's (Meta) ($FB) proposed acquisition of Kustomer - Bloomberg

• Chinese regulators have conditionally approved $AMD proposed acquisition of Xilinx ($XLNX) - Reuters

• Bill Ackman's Pershing Square bought 3.1M shares of Netflix ($NFLX) - Twitter

• Palantir ($PLTR) announced the appointment of Philippe Mathieu as the head of Palantir's Europe, Middle East and Africa region - BusinessWire

• Facebook (Meta) ($FB) owned Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats and calls are available to everyone - The Verge 

• Penn National's ($PENN) Barstool Sportsbook has been approved for launch in Louisiana launching tomorrow at 8AM CST - Business Wire

Tomorrow's Largest Events: Earnings Expectations

*All the numbers are consensus Wall ST expectations*

Chevron: EPS of $3.13 up from -0.01 Q4 2020, Rev of $45.22B up 79.1%YoY

The numbers will be released around 6:00AM EST with the conference call starting at 11:00AM EST

Caterpillar: EPS of $2.26 up 6.6% YoY, Rev of $13.22B up 17.6% YoY

The numbers will be released around 6:30AM EST, with the conference call starting at 8:30AM EST

Twitter Spaces

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In this spaces, we were joined by @WOLF_Financial, @stocktalkweekly, @StockMarketNerd, and @TSOH_Investing to discuss Microsoft's earnings review, a deep dive into GoodRx, market volatility, and more!

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That's it for today! Thanks for reading Rippers! Stay bullish, and we'll see you all in the next one 🔥