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9/24/2021 16:09pm
Wall Street in Fives - Must Read Lists for Friday

Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these Top Fives, as compiled by the editors of The Fly. 

1. STOCK NEWS: 

  • Nike (NKE) reported a Q1 earnings beat but slid after management cut FY22 guidance due to limited inventory availability [more]
  • Costco (COST) reported a sales and earnings beat [more]
  • China's central bank has reportedly deemed all cryptocurrency transactions illegal, pushing Bitcoin prices down [more]
  • Carnival (CCL) guided for Q3 adjusted net losses of ($2B) [more]
  • McDonald's (MCD) raised its quarterly dividend and resumed share repurchases [more]

2. WALL STREET CALLS:

  • Street Fight: Wells Fargo cuts Roku (ROKU) to Equal Weight day after Guggenheim upgrades to Buy [more]
  • Salesforce (CRM) upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at Piper Sandler [more]
  • Oppenheimer downgrades Cloudflare (NET) amid competition from Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) [more]
  • Jefferies upgrades five casual dining stocks following selloff in the space [more]
  • JPMorgan cuts Micron (MU) target to $100 from $140 on DRAM pricing softness [more]

3. AROUND THE WEB:

  • China is unlikely to approve Baidu's (BIDU) acquisition off Joyy's (YY) YY Live, Reuters reports [more]
  • IAC (IAC) is in talks to acquire Meredith (MDP) in a deal valued at over $2.5B, WSJ reports [more]
  • Tesla's (TSLA) Elon Musk sees the chip shortage as a "short-term" issue, CNBC reports [more]
  • A Pennsylvania jury determined that J&J's (JNJ) talc-based baby powder did not cause a woman's ovarian cancer, Bloomberg reports [more]
  • The Pentagon told Bloomberg that its review of Lockheed's (LMT) proposed takeover of Aerojet (AJRD) is ongoing [more]

4. MAJOR MOVERS:

  • vTv Therapeutics (VTVT) jumps after announcing results of a multiple ascending dose study evaluating HPP737, an orally administered phosphodiesterase type 4 inhibitor, in healthy adults [more]
  • Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) higher after reporting quarterly results [more]
  • Helbiz (HLBZ) drops after filing to sell 11M shares of common stock [more]
  • Altice USA (ATUS) continues slide as JPMorgan analyst Philip Cusick cut the firm's price target [more]
  • InMed Pharmaceuticals (INM) lower after reporting 2021 results [more]

5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE:

  • CalAmp (CAMP) reported upbeat Q2 adjusted earnings [more]
  • Progress Software (PRGS) provided a "beat and raise" report for Q3 [more]
  • Trip.com (TCOM) reported upbeat Q2 results [more]
  • HNI Corporation (HNI) lowered its Q3 revenue growth view [more]
  • Applied Genetic (AGTC) reported upbeat Q4 earnings [more]

INDEXES:

The Dow rose 33.18, or 0.095%, to 34,798.00, the Nasdaq lost 4.55, or 0.03%, to 15,047.70, and the S&P 500 advanced 6.50, or 0.15%, to 4,455.48.

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