To Follow Up Later -- When Things Slow Down -- April 24, 2019

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Wow, what a day for investors>

Boeing: discussed earlier;

ATT: discussed earlier;

Microsoft: beats earnings; stock jumps. Market cap: $1 trillion. AAPL back below $1 trillion, market cap? Clash of the tech titans.

Xilinx: record quarter; shares drop 11% after hours

COP, OXY, and Anadarkoa: surprise, surprise, surprise. OXY drops over 7% in pre-market trading; recovers by end of day; very, very interesting story

Shell: strikes big oil in Blacktip well, Gulf of Mexico; co-owned by CVX, Equinor, and Repsol

• Shell's second material discovery in thePerdido Corridor
• I assume it's heavy oil
• for more, see this post

Tesla (pending):

Tesla estimates, link here, estimates --

• for 1Q19:
• adjusted loss per share, range 64 cents to $2.60, with average at $1.30
• revenue estimate, range from $4.40 billion to $5.12 billion, with average of $4.8 billion
• automotive gross margin estimate: +17.8%
• CAPEX, range from $291 million to $625 million, with average of $508 million
• for 2Q19:
• automotive gross margin estimate: +19.5%
• CAPEX, range from $250 million to $650 million, with average of $551 million

Facebook: jumps almost 6% after hours; up $10.42; beats expectations; takes $3 billion legal expense; Yahoo!Finance;

Visa: quarterly profit jumps 14% on higher consumer spending. Americans aking America great.

 First Solar (pending): Zacks.