Stocks To Watch Next Week -- Every Saturday At Seeking Alpha -- This One Particularly Interesting -- AAPL, Dividends; Big Oil On Tap -- April 23, 2022

April 23, 2022: next week, stocks to watch --

• Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), and Intel
• Thursday: AAPL earnings
• Friday: earnings -- XOM, CVX, PSX
• Fed rate hysteria sinks the markets
• predicted:
• 50 bp-increases at next three meetings;
• 25 bp-increases until final rate of 3.50% in May, 2023
• dividend increases being forecast:
• AAPL: 24 cent from 22 cents (yawn)
• MRO: 8 cents from 7 cents (yawn)
• XOM: 92 cents from 88 cents (okay, a bit better, perhaps, but not much)
• why the recent transportation service issues? UNP says "congestion on tracks was hurting its ablity to meet shipping demand.”
• Boeing earnings preview: EPS with a loss of 21 cents/share; revenue of $16.16 billion; a lot of headwinds; but some bright spots: commercial deliveries rose 24% and defense shipments were up 5%.
• Apple: analysts still confused; look at all the possible partners analysts have suggested:
• Porsche; Tesla; Volkswagen; Hyundai; XPeng; Nio; Magna International; Stellantis; Foxconn; Nissan; Toyota; and .... drum roll ... more.