Dell, Techs Head Lower — Wednesday’s IP Market Recap
by Kyle Woodley | February 22, 2012 4:56 pm
[1]The S&P 500 shied away from a key resistance point at 1,360 on Wednesday, with tech and financial stocks among the trading day’s bigger losers.
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL[2]) dropped almost 6% on a lousy fourth-quarter earnings report[3] that saw profits decline 17% and fall below Wall Street estimates. Dell also provided weak current-quarter forecasts[4]. Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX[5]) dropped more than 4% on the same day it announced its service would be immediately available on Sony’s (NYSE:SNE[6]) PlayStation Vita handheld video game device.
Also falling were online stocks Zillow (NASDAQ:Z[7], -6.1%) Pandora (NYSE:P[8], -4.4%) and medical information company WebMD (NASDAQ:WBMD[9]).
Financials suffered modest losses, especially across regional banks. Comerica (NYSE:CMA[10]) shed around 4%, Suntrust Banks (NYSE:STI[11]) was down 3.7%, PNC Bank (NYSE:PNC[12]) dropped 2.5% and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB[13]) lost 2.3%. Big Four banker Citigroup (NYSE:C[14]) also declined 3% on the day.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT[15]) ran into a second straight day of losses after its lackluster earnings report[16], shedding about 2.5% Wednesday. The company’s report, which usually comes near the end of the earnings season, was an appropriate symbol for this go-around — the S&P 500 has seen its lowest earnings beat rate (64%) since 4Q 2008[17], with 26% of companies falling below estimates.
Three Up
- Threshold Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:THLD[18]): Up 20.4% ($1.02) to $6.03.
- Chico’s FAS (NYSE:CHS[19]): Up 16.6% ($2.13) to $14.94.
- Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN[20]): Up 9.3% ($4.17) to $48.86.
Three Down
- Newfield Exploration (NYSE:NFX[21]): Down 12.7% ($5.37) to $36.88.
- Yingli Green Energy (NYSE:YGE[22]): Down 10% (48 cents) to $4.33
- Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU[23]): Down 5.1% (13 cents) to $2.44.
Kyle Woodley[24] is the assistant editor of InvestorPlace.com[25]. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Check out recaps from previous trading days here[26].
Endnotes:
- [Image]: https://investorplace.com/hot-topics/investorplace-market-recap/
- DELL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=DELL
- lousy fourth-quarter earnings report: https://investorplace.com/2012/02/post-earnings-losers-dell-tol-pzza-cake/
- weak current-quarter forecasts: https://investorplace.com/2012/02/can-dell-carve-a-new-path-to-profit-dell-aapl-msft/
- NFLX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NFLX
- SNE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SNE
- Z: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=Z
- P: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=P
- WBMD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=WBMD
- CMA: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CMA
- STI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=STI
- PNC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PNC
- FITB: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FITB
- C: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=C
- WMT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=WMT
- after its lackluster earnings report: https://investorplace.com/2012/02/wal-mart-one-step-forward-two-back/
- lowest earnings beat rate (64%) since 4Q 2008: https://investorplace.com/2012/02/earnings-wrapup-it-couldve-been-worse/
- THLD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=THLD
- CHS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CHS
- GRMN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GRMN
- NFX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NFX
- YGE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=YGE
- ALU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ALU
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