Rippers Weekly Recap 11/19: Layoffs, 13Fs and Much Much More

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Major Earnings

Walmart reported earnings Tuesday before the market opened, posting numbers of:

• EPS of $1.50, beating expectations of $1.32

• Revenue of $152.8B, beating expectations of $147.5B

Walmart approved a new $20B share buyback program.

Home Depot reported earnings Tuesday before the market opened, posting numbers of:

• EPS of $4.24, beating expectations of $4.13

• Revenue of $38.9B, beating expectations of $38B

Target reported earnings Wednesday before the market opened, posting numbers of:

• EPS of $2.44, missing expectations of $2.49

• Revenue of $9.5B, beating expectations of $9.41B

Target said people stealing from its stores reduced its gross profit margin by $400M so far in 2022 compared to 2021.

Nvidia reported earnings Wednesday after the market closed, posting numbers of:

• EPS of $0.58, missing expectations of $0.70

• Revenue of $5.93B, beating expectations of $5.8B

I put out a full cheat sheet with everything you need to know about Nvidia’s earnings, which you can read here.

Alibaba reported earnings Thursday before the market opened, posting numbers of:

• EPS of $1.81, beating expectations of $1.57

• Revenue of $28.95B, missing expectations of $29.19B

Alibaba approved a $15B increase to its share buyback program.

Major Headlines From This Week

Monday:

• ​Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway started a new 60.1 million share position in Taiwan Semiconductor during Q3 - Reuters

• FedEx's freight unit plans to furlough workers - Reuters 

• Sea Limited has fired more than 7,000 employees (around 10% of its workforce) over the last 6 months - The Information

• The Saudi Public Investment Fund bought 4.05 million shares of Google during Q3 - Arab News

• The SEC is charging S&P global ratings with conflict of interest violations regarding a 2017 MBS transaction - SMN

• Michael Lewis, the writer behind The Big Short and Money Ball, has been traveling with and interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried for the last 6 months and plans to write his next book on the FTX founder - CoinDesk 

• Amazon announced plans to lay off about 10,000 employees - New York Times

• Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever brought in $331.3 million at the global box office in its opening weekend - Hollywood Reporter

• The US Army has begun testing SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet in remote Arctic bases - Bloomberg

• Federal appeals court blocked Biden’s student debt relief program nationwide - CNBC

• Illumina is firing 5% of its global workforce - Reuters

• Apple is offering a rare discount of up to 10% on Macs for businesses buying in bulk - Bloomberg

• Elliott Management increased its stake in Pinterest to 15 million shares during Q3 - Rueters

• Apple job listings suggest the company is building its own metaverse for its long-rumored headset - Insider

• Alameda was reportedly buying crypto tokens ahead of their listing on FTX over the last year - WSJ

• More than 33% of all UK pubs and restaurants have cut their hours to save on energy bills - Reuters

• Tyson Foods said its automation projects are moving faster than expected, allowing them to shift workers away from more “laborious” jobs - Bloomberg

• Microsoft unveiled a new software to ease supply-chain disruptions - Microsoft

• Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to states over location tracking - TechCrunch

• Nike plans to open a virtual sneaker shop and trading platform called .swoosh - Bloomberg

• Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company has slowed down some hiring - CBS News

• Bird overstated the revenue it received from its shared electric scooters for at least two years, according to a new filing with the SEC - TechCrunch 

• Poland plans to seize Gazprom's pipeline assets in Poland - Reuters

Tuesday:

• US PPI for October came in at +8% YoY, below expectations of +8.3% YoY - FXStreet

• US PPI for October came in at +0.2% MoM below expectations of +0.4% MoM - CNBC

• Former Tesla Australia Director Kurt Schlosser pleads guilty to insider trading - Reuters

• Apple says it’s made a decision to source chips from Arizona, rumored to be in reference to TSMC - Bloomberg

• The president of Poland said there’s nothing that proves there was an intentional attack on Poland - Euro News

• Meta's India public policy chief and WhatsApp's India boss quit - Rueters

• Donald Trump formally entered the 2024 US Presidential race - CNN

• 68% of Americans now say they support marijuana legalization - Gallup

• The Pentagon told Congress today it’s $1.4 billion short of funds needed for the next major contract to buy F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin - Bloomberg

• Nike increased its quarterly cash dividend to $0.340 per share from $0.305 per share - Business Wire

• Tesla's chairman of the board Robyn Denholm said got good value by agreeing to pay Elon Musk approximately $55 billion to be its CEO - CNN

• New York City taxis are increasing metered fares by 23%, the first increase since 2012 - Bloomberg

• Walmart agreed to pay $3.1B to settle opioid crisis lawsuits brought by several US states and municipalities - WSJ

• Meta cut 871 jobs at three locations in New York City - Patch

• Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne bought $102M of Amazon during Q3 after selling its entire $199M Amazon stake in Q2 - Bloomberg

• Google owned YouTube is planning to bring shopping features to its YouTube Shorts video service - Financial Times 

• Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Clinic, a virtual healthcare service - CNBC

Wednesday:

• Nvidia announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft to "build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world” - Silicon Republic

• Disney acquired a half built cruise ship - Bloomberg

• Amazon Web Services is asking managers to weed out underperforming workers on teams that have grown too fast, and will extend a hiring freeze for most teams in 2023 - Fortune

• A six-figure salary is now needed to be able to afford the typical US home - Bloomberg

• Tesla shareholder says Elon Musk identified a potential successor in the 'last few months' - Reuters 

• Robinhood released its October operating data, with monthly active users of 12.5M up from 12.2M last month - Robinhood

• American Express and Square plan to launch a new credit card built specifically for Square sellers - Yahoo 

• Airbnb now has more than 4 million hosts on its platform - TechCrunch

Thursday:

• Visa announced the appointment of Ryan McInerney as its next CEO, effective February 1st. - CNBC

• Facebook fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year. - WSJ

• Elon Musk is softening his remote work mandate as fewer workers than expected opted into Elon’s ultimadum to stay at Twitter - Fortune

• Twitter temporarily closed its office and suspended building access - Entrepreneur 

• Nvidia and Lockheed Martin announced a new partnership to "build an artificial intelligence-driven Earth Observations Digital Twin that will provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" - Nvidia News

• Roku fired 5% of its US workforce, about 200 employees - Hollywood Reporter

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a note to employees telling them the company will do another round of layoffs in early 2023 - Blog

• The Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to allow student the loan debt relief program to resume - CNBC

• General Motors expects to build 400,000 EVs in North America from 2022 through the first half of 2024 and grow capacity to 1M units annually in North America by 2025 - Benzinga

• UberEats wants to add thousands of New York City bodegas to its delivery app - NYP

• US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership and will continue as a member of the US House - CNBC

• Amazon is raising outbound fufillment fee rates by an average of $0.22 - Benzinga

• Microsoft is dropping the price of its Xbox Series S console to $249.99 for the holidays - The Verge 

• The MLB's Atlanta Braves will soon be a public company after Liberty Media announced plans to spin off the team - Yahoo

Friday:

• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11.25 years in prison - CNN

• The Justice Department said it plans to investigate Ticketmaster’s parent company over anti-trust concerns - New York Times

• President Biden said he will sign a bill making it easier for researchers and manufacturers to study marijuana after it was passed by congress - Marijuana Moment

• Qatar is set to ban all beer sales at and around its World Cup stadiums.This is two days before the tournament begins and after Budweiser spent $75M to be a tournament sponsor - CNBC

• Carvana is cutting 1,500 jobs, or 8% of its workforce - Reuters

• General Motors is now servicing Teslas at its dealerships, and the automaker actually sees it as a growing business - InsideEVs 

• The White House announced $13B in new funding to modernize the US electric grid - Reuters

• Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees that WhatsApp and Messenger are what will drive its next wave of sales growth - Reuters

• DraftKings will launch its online sportsbook in Maryland on November 23 - Global Newswire

• FED’s Collins: 75 basis points at next meeting still on table - Reuters 

• FED’S Kashkari: “The entire concept of crypto is nonsense” - WSJ

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