Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils large utility scale home batteries at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. David McNew | AFP | Getty Images Tesla shares surged on Wednesday after what Barclays’ called the company’s “impressive” record quarterly deliveries number, but Wall Street analysts largely remain cautious, focused on the upcoming second-quarter earnings
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Pedestrians walk past a Walgreens store in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations Thursday before market open. The drugstore chain reported adjusted earnings of $1.47 per share, beating analysts polled by Refinitiv’s expectations of $1.43 per share. Walgreens posted $34.59
Nike sold more sneakers and sports gear during the fiscal fourth quarter than Wall Street expected, helping to boost revenues by 4% to just over $10 billion. Its earnings released Thursday, however, missed analysts’ expectations by a few pennies a share, and the stock initially fell by more than 4% in after-hours trading before rebounding.
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 24: Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell, April 24, 2019 in New York City. U.S. stocks started the trading day mixed, following Tuesday’s closing record highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Drew Angerer | Getty Images
A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a Rite Aid Corp. store in Los Angeles, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Rite Aid seesawed premarket trading Thursday on disappointing quarterly earnings results as the drugstore chain struggles to prove itself as an independent company. Rite Aid lost 99.3 million,