4Q17 Earnings

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Earnings Calendar

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I don't have time to check/update earnings on all companies that might interest me or readers.

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Note: by 4Q16 I lost a lot of interest in tracking earnings. I'm not sure where I will go with this page. In fact, there are more and more days when ... no, I won't go there. 

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Daimler: nothing to do with earnings but came out during earnings season -- but announced today -- huge Chinese automobile company bought 10% of Daimler for $9 billion.

ERF: shatters forecast; huge report.

ONEOK: 4Q17 slides.

GE: will restate earnings for 2016 and 2017.

EOG: 4Q17 and full year results.

GE is not going to spin off Baker Hughes any time soon: can you think of a more bullish energy signal? I cannot. GE is up nicely today.

CLR beats Street as production surges: memo to self, call the naysayers. CLR expects stronger performance in 2018. But look at this: 4Q17 net income of $2.25/share vs 7 cents/share one year ago. Earnings 41 cents vs 32 cents forecast. Wow.

CenterPoint beats 4Q17 profit forecasts: 33 cents/share vs 30 cents/share forecast.  Denbury Resources tops Street 4Q forecasts: 12 cents vs 7 cents forecast. Doing some exciting stuff; I will come back to Denbury later.

Chesapeake Energy back to profit as production, prices rise. 33 cents/share vs 30 cents/share forecast. But look at this: revenue jumped 25 percent to $2.5 billion. Analysts had only expected revneues of $1.23 billion. Wow.

Zacks oil, energy wrap. This is really quite amazing. 4Q17 results.

Enerplus: quarterly profit beats expectations.  27 Canadian cents/share vs 17 Canadian cents/share. ERF shares up 7% today.
 

ENB: 4Q17 earnings slides here.

EW: holy mackerel, up 4% in after-hours trading after it announces earnings. EPS beats earnings by 4 cents, but more important: strong guidance for next quarter. Sales crushed consensus.

AMZN: huge; shares surge 6% after hours; after earnings announced.

AAPL: beats by 3 cents. Revenue beats; a little over $88 billion in revenue. Investors not impressed; shares down in after hours. It will be interesting to see what shares do when the dividend increase is announced. See my note here: From the weekend print edition of the WSJ, Saturday, January 20 - 21, 2018, doing the math, analysts suggest that AAPL will declare a special dividend of $2.35/share once the repatriation dust settles. In addition, the analyst suggests Apple will target $71 billion in share buybacks, and increase the dividend by $1.00/share over two years. The current dividend is $2.52. I can't post the electronic link because I'm reading this in the print edition. But I'm sure the story is easy to find for those interested.

CVX: boosts quarterly dividend for first time since late 2016.  The company had expected to raise the dividend 3 cents to $1.11 but surprised everyone and raised the dividend to $1.12.

BAX: beats by 5 cents;

COP: meets forecasts. Income of $1.58 billion vs a loss the same quarter one year ago. EPS of 45 cents were right in line. Press release: ConocoPhillips reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 results; increases quarterly dividend by 7.5 percent and planned 2018 share repurchases to $2 billion; announces preliminary 2017 year-end reserves and bolt-on transaction in Alaska.

T: booked a $20 billion paper gain from federal tax overhaul; will gain about $3 billion in extra cash this year. At The Wall Street Journal. Shares up 3%.

GE: shares are plummeting; epic selloff. Went below $16. One shark said his target is $13.  One wonders how much Jack Welch contributed to this? Did he inflate his company with earnings reports that were not decipherable?

Netflix: huge earnings report. Results even better than already-high expectations. Shares surge over 8%. Wow.  It looks like Kevin Spacey cost Netflix as much as $39 million. Destroys expectations; stock soars.

HAL:

• forecast: earnings to soar to 46 cents vs 4 cents a year ago
• in fact: earnings soared to 53 cents, excluding various items

SLB: results better than analyst views; EPS soared 63% to 44 cents with revenue up 14% to $8.12 billion; book a billion-dollar charge on a Venezuelan investment; and signed an MOU with Occidental Petroleum for a 5-year service project in New Mexico's Delaware basin for 700 wells

Schwab: earnings beat estimates; revenues in line

KMI: 4Q17 loss compared to profit same period one year ago; after adjustment, earnings were positive, at 21 cents, beating consensus of 18 cents; KMI shares rose very, very slightly on a huge day for the Dow

F: Ford 2018 profits forecast disappoints. Shares fall almost 7%.

Bank of America: takes $2.9 billion charge, but adjusted results came in above expectations

GE: to take $6.2 billion charge; more bad news could follow; tea leaves suggest company will be broken up

Citigroup: beats on Q4 earnings; records $22 billion tax charge

United Health: earnings more than doubled

CSX: easily beats; 64 cents vs forecast of 56 cents/share


WFC (Wells Fargo): EPS beat, $1.16 vs $1.07; missed on revenues; investors liked the numbers; shares up 0.5%;

JPM: very, very nice report.