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Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) made history on Tuesday morning, August 4, reporting second-quarter 2026 results that crossed $20 billion in sales and revenues for the first time in the company's 100-year history. CEO Joe Creed called the milestone out directly in the earnings press release: "This is the first time in company history that we have generated over $20 billion in sales and revenues in a single quarter." GAAP net income rose 65% year over year to $3.593 billion, and diluted ...
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SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) enters its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report — due Tuesday, August 5, after the market close — as one of 2026's most dramatic reversal stories. The memory and storage company's stock had surged roughly 439% year-to-date at its peak, riding the AI memory supercycle as demand for high-bandwidth memory chips hit unprecedented levels. Then came the crash: SNDK has plunged more than 50% from its 2026 high, touching the critical $1,000 support level in recent days, before staging ...
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Amazon just crossed a historic threshold. In its second quarter of 2026, the company reported net sales of $200.6 billion — the first time in its history it has cleared the $200 billion mark in a single quarter. Revenue rose 20% year over year, easily topping the $196.5 billion Wall Street consensus. Adjusted EPS came in at $1.97, beating the $1.82 estimate. The market's reaction was swift and dramatic: AMZN stock surged 15.3% on the trading day following the report, ...
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Advanced Micro Devices reports its second-quarter 2026 results tonight, August 4, after the closing bell — and the setup is unusually charged. AMD guided for approximately $11.2 billion in Q2 revenue, which would represent roughly 46% year-over-year growth. Wall Street analysts have nudged their consensus estimate slightly higher to $11.3 billion, setting up the classic scenario where AMD needs to beat its own guidance and the street number to avoid disappointing a market that has grown accustomed to upside surprises ...
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Reddit printed one of the clearest earnings beats of the entire Q2 2026 season — and the market absolutely torched the stock anyway. Revenue surged 61% year over year to $805 million, crushing the $745 million Wall Street consensus. Earnings per share hit $1.25, blowing past the $0.95 estimate, while net income came in at $253 million. The company beat on revenue, profit, guidance, and average revenue per user. RDDT still dropped 23%, its worst single-day decline since its 2024 ...
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Apple delivered its best June quarter in company history on July 30, yet investors still punished the stock. Revenue came in at $109.4 billion, up 16% year over year, while diluted earnings per share hit $2.02, a 29% increase that was boosted by $0.11 in favorable tariff refunds. iPhone revenue surged 22% to $54.25 billion, and every single geographic segment posted double-digit growth. It was, by every headline metric, a blowout quarter — and AAPL still fell roughly 6% in ...
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Oil prices cratered on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was calling off a planned military strike on Iran in favor of resuming nuclear negotiations. Brent crude dropped as much as 7.3%, trading as low as $81.55 a barrel before stabilizing around $83.50 — a sharp reversal after crude surged nearly 25% in July alone, its biggest monthly gain since March, on fears of an escalating U.S.-Iran military conflict. WTI crude fell by a similar magnitude. The move ...
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Palantir Technologies delivered a decisive earnings beat on Monday, August 3, reporting Q2 2026 revenue of $1.85 billion — well above the $1.81 billion analyst consensus and up significantly from $1.63 billion in Q1 2026, which itself represented an 85% year-over-year surge. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.35, topping the $0.28 Street estimate. The results mark Palantir's twelfth consecutive quarter of beating revenue estimates, cementing the company's reputation as one of the most consistent AI growth stories in ...
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