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[微笑]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/109005939","repostId":"1137964402","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1137964402","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1619651546,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1137964402?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-29 07:12","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1137964402","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65","content":"<p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</li><li>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.</li><li>Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.</li></ul><p>Apple&nbsp;reported&nbsp;a blowout quarter&nbsp;on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</p><p>Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e791f63f460807906f1793c2d58933e\" tg-width=\"1302\" tg-height=\"833\"></p><p>Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its&nbsp;most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65.5% from last year. Its Mac and iPad sales&nbsp;did&nbsp;better, with its computers up 70.1% and iPad&nbsp;sales&nbsp;growing nearly 79% on an annual basis.</p><p>Apple said it would increase its dividend by 7%&nbsp;to $0.22 per share&nbsp;and authorized $90 billion in share buybacks, which is significantly higher than last year’s $50 billion outlay&nbsp;and 2019′s $75 billion.</p><p>Here’s how Apple did versus Refinitiv estimates:</p><ul><li><b>EPS</b>:&nbsp;$1.40&nbsp;vs. $0.99 estimated</li><li><b>Revenue</b>:&nbsp;$89.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $77.36&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 53.7% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPhone revenue</b>:&nbsp;$47.94 billion&nbsp;vs. $41.43&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up&nbsp;65.5% year-over-year</li><li><b>Services revenue</b>:&nbsp;$16.90 billion&nbsp;vs. $15.57&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 26.7% year over&nbsp;year</li><li><b>Other Products revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.83&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $7.79&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated,&nbsp;up 24%&nbsp;year-over-year</li><li><b>Mac revenue</b>:&nbsp;$9.10&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $6.86&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 70.1% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPad revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.80 billion&nbsp;vs. $5.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 78.9% year-over-year</li><li><b>Gross margin</b>:&nbsp;42.5% vs. 39.8%&nbsp;estimated</li></ul><p>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June. It hasn’t provided revenue&nbsp;guidance since the start of the pandemic, citing uncertainty.&nbsp;This is Apple’s second quarter in a row with double-digit growth in all product categories.&nbsp;Apple CFO Luca Maestri told analysts that the company expects June quarter revenue to rise by double digits year-over-year, although it faces some supply shortages due to the worldwide chip shortage.</p><p>Apple has said in the past months that its business has been boosted by the pandemic as consumers&nbsp;and businesses&nbsp;bought&nbsp;computers&nbsp;to work and entertain themselves while at home. But Apple’s strong results in the quarter suggest that the trend may persist as more economies&nbsp;open up.</p><p>Or, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this&nbsp;moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days&nbsp;ahead for all of us.”</p><p>Mac sales were up 70%, and Cook said that the result was “fueled by” the company’s introduction of its Mac&nbsp;laptops&nbsp;that used its own M1 chips&nbsp;for longer battery life, instead of processors sold by&nbsp;Intel.&nbsp;iPad sales were up&nbsp;nearly 79% year-over-year.</p><p>Neither of those&nbsp;results&nbsp;include iPad Pro or iMac models the company announced in March, which are expected to drive additional demand.</p><p>“We’re seeing strong first-time buyers on the Mac&nbsp;…&nbsp;it continues to run just south of 50%,” Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton. “And, in China, it’s even higher than that&nbsp;…&nbsp;it’s more around two-thirds. And that speaks to people preferring to work on the Mac.”</p><p>Apple’s iPhone also reported strong results this quarter, quelling fears that the current annual cycle could slow down. Last year, Apple released iPhones with a new exterior design and 5G support, which many investors believed could prompt a major upgrade cycle, which this quarter’s results indicate.</p><p>In greater China, which includes the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan,&nbsp;Apple’s revenue increased over&nbsp;87% year-over-year to $17.73 billion, although the comparison is to a quarter last year in which China was largely shut down in the early days of the pandemic.&nbsp;Every other geographical category, including the Americas and Europe, were also up on an annual basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37a8b45c92174e3c9ab224d9a85f5e2d\" tg-width=\"1910\" tg-height=\"1114\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Apple’s&nbsp;high-margin&nbsp;services business, including iCloud, App Store, and subscriptions like Apple Music, also showed 26.7% growth.</p><p>One metric that Apple uses to show the growth in services is the number of subscriptions it has, which not only include its own subscriptions like Apple One, but also subscriptions through its App Store.</p><p>“We now have over 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on the platform, and that’s up 40 million from the previous quarter, which is an acceleration from 35 million,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>However, Apple’s App Store has been challenged by lawmakers and companies that say it costs too much and has too much power. A closely-watched trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store policies kicks off next week.</p><p>“The App Store has been an economic miracle. Last year, the estimates are that there was over a half a trillion dollars of economic activity because of the store. And, so, this has been just an economic gamechanger for not only the United States, but several countries around the world. And, we’re going to go in and tell our story. And we’ll see where it goes. But, we’re confident,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>Apple’s gross margin was also unusually elevated for the company. Most quarters, it tends to be in the 38% to 39% range, but in the quarter ending in March, Apple reported 42.5% margins.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-04-29 07:12</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</li><li>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.</li><li>Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.</li></ul><p>Apple&nbsp;reported&nbsp;a blowout quarter&nbsp;on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</p><p>Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e791f63f460807906f1793c2d58933e\" tg-width=\"1302\" tg-height=\"833\"></p><p>Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its&nbsp;most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65.5% from last year. Its Mac and iPad sales&nbsp;did&nbsp;better, with its computers up 70.1% and iPad&nbsp;sales&nbsp;growing nearly 79% on an annual basis.</p><p>Apple said it would increase its dividend by 7%&nbsp;to $0.22 per share&nbsp;and authorized $90 billion in share buybacks, which is significantly higher than last year’s $50 billion outlay&nbsp;and 2019′s $75 billion.</p><p>Here’s how Apple did versus Refinitiv estimates:</p><ul><li><b>EPS</b>:&nbsp;$1.40&nbsp;vs. $0.99 estimated</li><li><b>Revenue</b>:&nbsp;$89.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $77.36&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 53.7% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPhone revenue</b>:&nbsp;$47.94 billion&nbsp;vs. $41.43&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up&nbsp;65.5% year-over-year</li><li><b>Services revenue</b>:&nbsp;$16.90 billion&nbsp;vs. $15.57&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 26.7% year over&nbsp;year</li><li><b>Other Products revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.83&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $7.79&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated,&nbsp;up 24%&nbsp;year-over-year</li><li><b>Mac revenue</b>:&nbsp;$9.10&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $6.86&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 70.1% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPad revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.80 billion&nbsp;vs. $5.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 78.9% year-over-year</li><li><b>Gross margin</b>:&nbsp;42.5% vs. 39.8%&nbsp;estimated</li></ul><p>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June. It hasn’t provided revenue&nbsp;guidance since the start of the pandemic, citing uncertainty.&nbsp;This is Apple’s second quarter in a row with double-digit growth in all product categories.&nbsp;Apple CFO Luca Maestri told analysts that the company expects June quarter revenue to rise by double digits year-over-year, although it faces some supply shortages due to the worldwide chip shortage.</p><p>Apple has said in the past months that its business has been boosted by the pandemic as consumers&nbsp;and businesses&nbsp;bought&nbsp;computers&nbsp;to work and entertain themselves while at home. But Apple’s strong results in the quarter suggest that the trend may persist as more economies&nbsp;open up.</p><p>Or, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this&nbsp;moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days&nbsp;ahead for all of us.”</p><p>Mac sales were up 70%, and Cook said that the result was “fueled by” the company’s introduction of its Mac&nbsp;laptops&nbsp;that used its own M1 chips&nbsp;for longer battery life, instead of processors sold by&nbsp;Intel.&nbsp;iPad sales were up&nbsp;nearly 79% year-over-year.</p><p>Neither of those&nbsp;results&nbsp;include iPad Pro or iMac models the company announced in March, which are expected to drive additional demand.</p><p>“We’re seeing strong first-time buyers on the Mac&nbsp;…&nbsp;it continues to run just south of 50%,” Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton. “And, in China, it’s even higher than that&nbsp;…&nbsp;it’s more around two-thirds. And that speaks to people preferring to work on the Mac.”</p><p>Apple’s iPhone also reported strong results this quarter, quelling fears that the current annual cycle could slow down. Last year, Apple released iPhones with a new exterior design and 5G support, which many investors believed could prompt a major upgrade cycle, which this quarter’s results indicate.</p><p>In greater China, which includes the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan,&nbsp;Apple’s revenue increased over&nbsp;87% year-over-year to $17.73 billion, although the comparison is to a quarter last year in which China was largely shut down in the early days of the pandemic.&nbsp;Every other geographical category, including the Americas and Europe, were also up on an annual basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37a8b45c92174e3c9ab224d9a85f5e2d\" tg-width=\"1910\" tg-height=\"1114\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Apple’s&nbsp;high-margin&nbsp;services business, including iCloud, App Store, and subscriptions like Apple Music, also showed 26.7% growth.</p><p>One metric that Apple uses to show the growth in services is the number of subscriptions it has, which not only include its own subscriptions like Apple One, but also subscriptions through its App Store.</p><p>“We now have over 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on the platform, and that’s up 40 million from the previous quarter, which is an acceleration from 35 million,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>However, Apple’s App Store has been challenged by lawmakers and companies that say it costs too much and has too much power. A closely-watched trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store policies kicks off next week.</p><p>“The App Store has been an economic miracle. Last year, the estimates are that there was over a half a trillion dollars of economic activity because of the store. And, so, this has been just an economic gamechanger for not only the United States, but several countries around the world. And, we’re going to go in and tell our story. And we’ll see where it goes. But, we’re confident,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>Apple’s gross margin was also unusually elevated for the company. Most quarters, it tends to be in the 38% to 39% range, but in the quarter ending in March, Apple reported 42.5% margins.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1137964402","content_text":"KEY POINTSApple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65.5% from last year. Its Mac and iPad sales did better, with its computers up 70.1% and iPad sales growing nearly 79% on an annual basis.Apple said it would increase its dividend by 7% to $0.22 per share and authorized $90 billion in share buybacks, which is significantly higher than last year’s $50 billion outlay and 2019′s $75 billion.Here’s how Apple did versus Refinitiv estimates:EPS: $1.40 vs. $0.99 estimatedRevenue: $89.58 billion vs. $77.36 billion estimated, up 53.7% year-over-yeariPhone revenue: $47.94 billion vs. $41.43 billion estimated, up 65.5% year-over-yearServices revenue: $16.90 billion vs. $15.57 billion estimated, up 26.7% year over yearOther Products revenue: $7.83 billion vs. $7.79 billion estimated, up 24% year-over-yearMac revenue: $9.10 billion vs. $6.86 billion estimated, up 70.1% year-over-yeariPad revenue: $7.80 billion vs. $5.58 billion estimated, up 78.9% year-over-yearGross margin: 42.5% vs. 39.8% estimatedApple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June. It hasn’t provided revenue guidance since the start of the pandemic, citing uncertainty. This is Apple’s second quarter in a row with double-digit growth in all product categories. Apple CFO Luca Maestri told analysts that the company expects June quarter revenue to rise by double digits year-over-year, although it faces some supply shortages due to the worldwide chip shortage.Apple has said in the past months that its business has been boosted by the pandemic as consumers and businesses bought computers to work and entertain themselves while at home. But Apple’s strong results in the quarter suggest that the trend may persist as more economies open up.Or, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days ahead for all of us.”Mac sales were up 70%, and Cook said that the result was “fueled by” the company’s introduction of its Mac laptops that used its own M1 chips for longer battery life, instead of processors sold by Intel. iPad sales were up nearly 79% year-over-year.Neither of those results include iPad Pro or iMac models the company announced in March, which are expected to drive additional demand.“We’re seeing strong first-time buyers on the Mac … it continues to run just south of 50%,” Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton. “And, in China, it’s even higher than that … it’s more around two-thirds. And that speaks to people preferring to work on the Mac.”Apple’s iPhone also reported strong results this quarter, quelling fears that the current annual cycle could slow down. Last year, Apple released iPhones with a new exterior design and 5G support, which many investors believed could prompt a major upgrade cycle, which this quarter’s results indicate.In greater China, which includes the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Apple’s revenue increased over 87% year-over-year to $17.73 billion, although the comparison is to a quarter last year in which China was largely shut down in the early days of the pandemic. Every other geographical category, including the Americas and Europe, were also up on an annual basis.Apple’s high-margin services business, including iCloud, App Store, and subscriptions like Apple Music, also showed 26.7% growth.One metric that Apple uses to show the growth in services is the number of subscriptions it has, which not only include its own subscriptions like Apple One, but also subscriptions through its App Store.“We now have over 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on the platform, and that’s up 40 million from the previous quarter, which is an acceleration from 35 million,” Cook told CNBC.However, Apple’s App Store has been challenged by lawmakers and companies that say it costs too much and has too much power. A closely-watched trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store policies kicks off next week.“The App Store has been an economic miracle. Last year, the estimates are that there was over a half a trillion dollars of economic activity because of the store. And, so, this has been just an economic gamechanger for not only the United States, but several countries around the world. And, we’re going to go in and tell our story. And we’ll see where it goes. But, we’re confident,” Cook told CNBC.Apple’s gross margin was also unusually elevated for the company. Most quarters, it tends to be in the 38% to 39% range, but in the quarter ending in March, Apple reported 42.5% margins.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"AAPL":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":2186,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":374350246,"gmtCreate":1619422378985,"gmtModify":1634273612357,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Sounds interesting","listText":"Sounds interesting","text":"Sounds interesting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/374350246","repostId":"1160776805","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1290,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":374350979,"gmtCreate":1619422358491,"gmtModify":1634273612476,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"This was so insightful!","listText":"This was so insightful!","text":"This was so insightful!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/374350979","repostId":"1173749540","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1418,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":344670331,"gmtCreate":1618408352623,"gmtModify":1634293152780,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/344670331","repostId":"1114138942","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1136,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":344647684,"gmtCreate":1618408313948,"gmtModify":1634293153020,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Hmm","listText":"Hmm","text":"Hmm","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/344647684","repostId":"1106080522","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1106080522","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1618363477,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1106080522?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-14 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The 24 Most-Hated Stocks in the S&P 500, and Why You Should Love Them","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1106080522","media":"Barrons","summary":"Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks an","content":"<p>Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks analysts are shunning.</p>\n<p>While simply avoiding those companies is one sound strategy, it can also make sense to dig through the reject bin. Sometimes the only direction to go from the bottom is up. The most hated stocks can only get less hated over time, a fact that on its own can be enough for above-average stock gains.</p>\n<p>Wall Streetratingsare always a helpful guide for investors—the pros as well as amateur stock pickers. Analysts covering companies at brokerage firms are, after all, paid to follow industry trends, compare companies, and value stocks.</p>\n<p>Over the past year, analysts’ favorite 10% ofS&amp;P 500stocks are up almost 70% on average. The bottom 10%, on the other hand, is up closer to 50%. Favorites have outperformed by about 20 percentage points. The overall S&amp;P index, meanwhile, is up about 48%.</p>\n<p>It might seem odd that the average gain for a hated stock in the S&amp;P 500 is 2 percentage points better than what the index achieved over the past year. The reason is that the S&amp;P 500 is weighted according to market capitalization, so moves in bigger companies’ stocks have more impact on the overall benchmark. Not adjusting for market capitalization, the average gain for an S&amp;P 500 stock is about 63%.</p>\n<p>That fits with the common-sense view that avoiding the dregs is a good idea. But this past year was difficult. During the first several months of the pandemic, it paid to invest in large, high-quality stocks. It will surprise no one to learn that Microsoft (ticker: MSFT), Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) are all well liked by the Street.</p>\n<p>Now, thetide is turningand the economy is growing again. That could be a signal to look at stocks that have had a harder time.</p>\n<p><i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;came up with a list of the least-liked stocks on the Street by weighting the Buy, Hold, and Sell calls on each company to arrive at a single number summarizing overall sentiment. We took the percentage of ratings for a stock that are Buys, subtracted the share that are Sells, and then added the percentage at Hold, counting each as one-fourth of a Buy to reflect the fact that most analysts expect Hold-rated stocks to keep pace with their peers.</p>\n<p>In the S&amp;P 500, about 56% of ratings are Buys. 36% are Holds and 7% are Sells. The numbers don’t total 100 due to rounding.</p>\n<p>Taking all that into consideration, the 24 lowest-rated S&amp;P stocks—the ones analysts tell their clients to avoid—are as follows: American Airlines Group (AAL), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), Consolidated Edison (ED),Franklin Resources(BEN).Brown-Forman(BF. B), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD),Waters(WAT), Hormel Foods (HRL),McCormick(MKC), ViacomCBS (VIAC), Unum Group (UNM), Comerica (CMA) Under Armour (UAA), J.M. Smucker (SJM), Western Union (WU), Robert Half International (RHI),Discovery(DISCA), Varian Medical Systems (VAR), Invesco (IVZ), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Genuine Parts (GPC) and WEC Energy Group (WEC).</p>\n<p>The Dirty Two DozenThe 24 lowest-rated stocks in the S&amp;P 500, calculated using a weighted score for Buy, Sell, and Hold ratings.</p>\n<table>\n <thead>\n  <tr>\n   <th>Company / Ticker</th>\n   <th>Analyst Rating Score*</th>\n   <th>2021E P/E</th>\n   <th>Percentage Off All-Time High</th>\n   <th>% YTD</th>\n  </tr>\n </thead>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td>American Airlines / AAL</td>\n   <td>-0.7</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>-60.2</td>\n   <td>88</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Lumen Technologies / LUMN</td>\n   <td>-0.5</td>\n   <td>8.2</td>\n   <td>-74.3</td>\n   <td>32</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Consolidated Edison / ED</td>\n   <td>-0.5</td>\n   <td>17.7</td>\n   <td>-21.0</td>\n   <td>-11</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Franklin Resources / BEN</td>\n   <td>-0.4</td>\n   <td>10.3</td>\n   <td>-48.4</td>\n   <td>91</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Brown-Forman / BF.B</td>\n   <td>-0.3</td>\n   <td>41.0</td>\n   <td>-14.9</td>\n   <td>14</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Mettler-Toledo / MTD</td>\n   <td>-0.3</td>\n   <td>41.1</td>\n   <td>-3.9</td>\n   <td>68</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Expeditors Int’l of Washington / EXPD</td>\n   <td>-0.3</td>\n   <td>25.7</td>\n   <td>-1.5</td>\n   <td>54</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Waters / WAT</td>\n   <td>-0.2</td>\n   <td>31.9</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>57</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Hormel Foods / HRL</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>26.5</td>\n   <td>-12.5</td>\n   <td>-1</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>McCormick / MKC</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>29.7</td>\n   <td>-16.5</td>\n   <td>16</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>ViacomCBS / VIAC</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>10.3</td>\n   <td>-58.9</td>\n   <td>160</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Unum / UNM</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>5.8</td>\n   <td>-55.8</td>\n   <td>89</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Comerica / CMA</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>13.4</td>\n   <td>-30.4</td>\n   <td>118</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Under Armour / UAA</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>142.1</td>\n   <td>-58.5</td>\n   <td>105</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>J.M. Smucker / SJM</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>14.4</td>\n   <td>-18.5</td>\n   <td>17</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Western Union / WU</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>12.3</td>\n   <td>-12.0</td>\n   <td>30</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Robert Half / RHI</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>24.2</td>\n   <td>-2.6</td>\n   <td>92</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Discover / DISCA</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>14.6</td>\n   <td>-46.3</td>\n   <td>88</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Varian Medical Systems / VAR</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>33.8</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>57</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Invesco / IVZ</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>10.2</td>\n   <td>-57.0</td>\n   <td>181</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Walgreens Boots Alliance / WBA</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>11.2</td>\n   <td>-44.3</td>\n   <td>29</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Cincinnati Financial / CINF</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>25.8</td>\n   <td>-11.1</td>\n   <td>30</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Genuine Parts / GPC</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>20.4</td>\n   <td>-1.6</td>\n   <td>68</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>WEC Energy / WEC</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>23.0</td>\n   <td>-15.7</td>\n   <td>-3</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Dirty Dozen's average</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>25.8</td>\n   <td>-27.7</td>\n   <td>61.2</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>S&amp;P 500 average</td>\n   <td>1.1</td>\n   <td>23</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>10</td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>*Lower scores have more sell ratings.</p>\n<p>Sources: Bloomberg; Barron's calculations</p>\n<p>It’s an eclectic list. Some stocks, such as American Airlines, are there because of huge, pandemic-induced losses. Others simply look expensive. Mettler, for instance, trades at 41 times the per-share earnings expected for 2021.</p>\n<p>Others firms face potentially damaging long-term changes in their industries. Franklin Resources, for instance, is an asset manager dealing with the shift from actively managed funds to index funds with lower fees. And some companies just don’t seem to have much room for growth. McCormick sells spices, and the chances that demand will rocket higher unexpectedly appear slim.</p>\n<p>Not every one of the hated names will pass muster for investors. But the hated stocks have one thing going for them: They are cheaper. Although not every one of the two dozen is making money, the shares trade for an average of about 20 times estimated 2021 earnings, while the market is at closer to 24 times.</p>\n<p>Another plus is that unlike the S&amp;P 500, the rejects aren’t trading near their record highs, a factor that points at the potential for a rebound. The two dozen are down by an average of roughly 25% from their all-time highs.</p>\n<p>The bottom line, then, is that bargains may be hiding in the trash heap. But as is the case with any stock screen, investors will have to dig deeper to find out which.</p>\n<p>Go to it, contrarians.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The 24 Most-Hated Stocks in the S&P 500, and Why You Should Love Them</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe 24 Most-Hated Stocks in the S&P 500, and Why You Should Love Them\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-14 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-24-most-hated-stocks-in-the-s-p-500-and-why-you-should-love-them-51618332859?mod=hp_LEAD_1><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks analysts are shunning.\nWhile simply avoiding those companies is one sound strategy, it can also make ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-24-most-hated-stocks-in-the-s-p-500-and-why-you-should-love-them-51618332859?mod=hp_LEAD_1\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"WU":"西联汇款","DISCA":"探索传播","WEC":"威州能源",".DJI":"道琼斯","BF.B":"布朗霍文","MTD":"梅特勒-托利多","UNM":"尤纳姆集团","EXPD":"康捷国际物流","UAA":"安德玛公司A类股","MKC":"味好美",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","SJM":"斯马克","LUMN":"Lumen Technologies","BEN":"Franklin Resources Inc","HRL":"荷美尔","RHI":"罗致恒富","CMA":"联信银行","ED":"爱迪生联合电气","WAT":"沃特世","AAL":"美国航空"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-24-most-hated-stocks-in-the-s-p-500-and-why-you-should-love-them-51618332859?mod=hp_LEAD_1","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1106080522","content_text":"Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks analysts are shunning.\nWhile simply avoiding those companies is one sound strategy, it can also make sense to dig through the reject bin. Sometimes the only direction to go from the bottom is up. The most hated stocks can only get less hated over time, a fact that on its own can be enough for above-average stock gains.\nWall Streetratingsare always a helpful guide for investors—the pros as well as amateur stock pickers. Analysts covering companies at brokerage firms are, after all, paid to follow industry trends, compare companies, and value stocks.\nOver the past year, analysts’ favorite 10% ofS&P 500stocks are up almost 70% on average. The bottom 10%, on the other hand, is up closer to 50%. Favorites have outperformed by about 20 percentage points. The overall S&P index, meanwhile, is up about 48%.\nIt might seem odd that the average gain for a hated stock in the S&P 500 is 2 percentage points better than what the index achieved over the past year. The reason is that the S&P 500 is weighted according to market capitalization, so moves in bigger companies’ stocks have more impact on the overall benchmark. Not adjusting for market capitalization, the average gain for an S&P 500 stock is about 63%.\nThat fits with the common-sense view that avoiding the dregs is a good idea. But this past year was difficult. During the first several months of the pandemic, it paid to invest in large, high-quality stocks. It will surprise no one to learn that Microsoft (ticker: MSFT), Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) are all well liked by the Street.\nNow, thetide is turningand the economy is growing again. That could be a signal to look at stocks that have had a harder time.\nBarron’s came up with a list of the least-liked stocks on the Street by weighting the Buy, Hold, and Sell calls on each company to arrive at a single number summarizing overall sentiment. We took the percentage of ratings for a stock that are Buys, subtracted the share that are Sells, and then added the percentage at Hold, counting each as one-fourth of a Buy to reflect the fact that most analysts expect Hold-rated stocks to keep pace with their peers.\nIn the S&P 500, about 56% of ratings are Buys. 36% are Holds and 7% are Sells. The numbers don’t total 100 due to rounding.\nTaking all that into consideration, the 24 lowest-rated S&P stocks—the ones analysts tell their clients to avoid—are as follows: American Airlines Group (AAL), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), Consolidated Edison (ED),Franklin Resources(BEN).Brown-Forman(BF. B), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD),Waters(WAT), Hormel Foods (HRL),McCormick(MKC), ViacomCBS (VIAC), Unum Group (UNM), Comerica (CMA) Under Armour (UAA), J.M. Smucker (SJM), Western Union (WU), Robert Half International (RHI),Discovery(DISCA), Varian Medical Systems (VAR), Invesco (IVZ), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Genuine Parts (GPC) and WEC Energy Group (WEC).\nThe Dirty Two DozenThe 24 lowest-rated stocks in the S&P 500, calculated using a weighted score for Buy, Sell, and Hold ratings.\n\n\n\nCompany / Ticker\nAnalyst Rating Score*\n2021E P/E\nPercentage Off All-Time High\n% YTD\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Airlines / AAL\n-0.7\nN/A\n-60.2\n88\n\n\nLumen Technologies / LUMN\n-0.5\n8.2\n-74.3\n32\n\n\nConsolidated Edison / ED\n-0.5\n17.7\n-21.0\n-11\n\n\nFranklin Resources / BEN\n-0.4\n10.3\n-48.4\n91\n\n\nBrown-Forman / BF.B\n-0.3\n41.0\n-14.9\n14\n\n\nMettler-Toledo / MTD\n-0.3\n41.1\n-3.9\n68\n\n\nExpeditors Int’l of Washington / EXPD\n-0.3\n25.7\n-1.5\n54\n\n\nWaters / WAT\n-0.2\n31.9\n0.0\n57\n\n\nHormel Foods / HRL\n-0.1\n26.5\n-12.5\n-1\n\n\nMcCormick / MKC\n-0.1\n29.7\n-16.5\n16\n\n\nViacomCBS / VIAC\n0.0\n10.3\n-58.9\n160\n\n\nUnum / UNM\n0.0\n5.8\n-55.8\n89\n\n\nComerica / CMA\n0.0\n13.4\n-30.4\n118\n\n\nUnder Armour / UAA\n0.0\n142.1\n-58.5\n105\n\n\nJ.M. Smucker / SJM\n0.1\n14.4\n-18.5\n17\n\n\nWestern Union / WU\n0.1\n12.3\n-12.0\n30\n\n\nRobert Half / RHI\n0.1\n24.2\n-2.6\n92\n\n\nDiscover / DISCA\n0.1\n14.6\n-46.3\n88\n\n\nVarian Medical Systems / VAR\n0.1\n33.8\n-0.1\n57\n\n\nInvesco / IVZ\n0.1\n10.2\n-57.0\n181\n\n\nWalgreens Boots Alliance / WBA\n0.2\n11.2\n-44.3\n29\n\n\nCincinnati Financial / CINF\n0.2\n25.8\n-11.1\n30\n\n\nGenuine Parts / GPC\n0.2\n20.4\n-1.6\n68\n\n\nWEC Energy / WEC\n0.2\n23.0\n-15.7\n-3\n\n\nDirty Dozen's average\n-0.1\n25.8\n-27.7\n61.2\n\n\nS&P 500 average\n1.1\n23\n0.1\n10\n\n\n\n*Lower scores have more sell ratings.\nSources: Bloomberg; Barron's calculations\nIt’s an eclectic list. Some stocks, such as American Airlines, are there because of huge, pandemic-induced losses. Others simply look expensive. Mettler, for instance, trades at 41 times the per-share earnings expected for 2021.\nOthers firms face potentially damaging long-term changes in their industries. Franklin Resources, for instance, is an asset manager dealing with the shift from actively managed funds to index funds with lower fees. And some companies just don’t seem to have much room for growth. McCormick sells spices, and the chances that demand will rocket higher unexpectedly appear slim.\nNot every one of the hated names will pass muster for investors. But the hated stocks have one thing going for them: They are cheaper. Although not every one of the two dozen is making money, the shares trade for an average of about 20 times estimated 2021 earnings, while the market is at closer to 24 times.\nAnother plus is that unlike the S&P 500, the rejects aren’t trading near their record highs, a factor that points at the potential for a rebound. The two dozen are down by an average of roughly 25% from their all-time highs.\nThe bottom line, then, is that bargains may be hiding in the trash heap. But as is the case with any stock screen, investors will have to dig deeper to find out which.\nGo to it, contrarians.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{".DJI":0.9,".IXIC":0.9,".SPX":0.9,"AAL":0.9,"BEN":0.9,"BF.B":0.9,"CMA":0.9,"DISCA":0.9,"ED":0.9,"EXPD":0.9,"HRL":0.9,"LUMN":0.9,"MKC":0.9,"MTD":0.9,"RHI":0.9,"SJM":0.9,"UAA":0.9,"UNM":0.9,"VAR":0.9,"VIAC":0.9,"WAT":0.9,"WEC":0.9,"WU":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1958,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":111452635,"gmtCreate":1622694906427,"gmtModify":1634099051879,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wow this is so insightful! 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Shocked! As in the classic line from the film Casablanca, the stock market somehow was surp","content":"<p>Shocked! Shocked! As in the classic line from the film&nbsp;<i>Casablanca</i>, the stock market somehow was surprised by reports that the Biden administration is set to propose&nbsp;a sharp increase in capital-gains taxes on high earners.</p>\n<p>That’s even though that prospect had been discussed widely, including in this space, following Joe Biden’s inauguration as president in January. And it had been a major part of the Democrats’ platform during the election campaign last year.</p>\n<p>Yet stocks hit an air pocket when the news was reported early Thursday afternoon, suggesting that the reaction was caused in great part by machines programmed to scan headlines. By Friday, the losses were more than recouped after human investors had time to read and reassess the reports.</p>\n<p>Those indicated that the administration would propose taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income for people earning over $1 million a year. The top bracket for them also would revert to 39.6% from the 37% peak rate under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.</p>\n<p>The net effect would roughly be to double the rate on capital gains for these high earners, to 43.4% from the current 23.8%, including the 3.8% Obamacare levy on investment income. It would mean that, for the first time, some Americans’ capital gains would be taxed at a higher rate than ordinary income, such as wages and salaries, instead of getting favored treatment as it has during most of U.S. tax history.</p>\n<p>None of these proposals has been officially announced or made yet; they’re likely to be outlined when the president addresses a joint session of Congress Wednesday evening. “The Biden tax proposals are an opening salvo in a negotiating process,” writes Greg Valliere, chief U.S. strategist for AGF Investments, in a client note. He and other Washington watchers look for the administration to seek a cap-gains rate of 28% or 30% for million-dollar earners, which would be about halfway between the current 23.8% and the 43.4% top rate reportedly under consideration.</p>\n<p>And because it’s basically an unofficial trial balloon at this point, there are far more questions than answers about any tax changes that could be aimed at investors.</p>\n<p>In its efforts to tax capital the same as labor, the administration also could seek to tax dividends at the same rate as ordinary income. Since 2003, these payouts have been taxed at the lower capital-gains rate, which helps to offset their double taxation at the corporate and shareholder levels.</p>\n<p>Another reported target is the estate-tax exemption. The administration would seek to slash the current one of $11.7 million to $5.5 million. However, because the exemption effectively is doubled for couples, the change would affect only a small number of estates.</p>\n<p>Potentially, a bigger impact would come from&nbsp;the elimination of the step-up in cost basis on inherited assets. That could produce a big hit on investments made years ago. For instance, if you invested $10,000 in theSPDR S&amp;P 500&nbsp;exchange-traded fund (ticker: SPY) when it debuted on Jan. 29, 1993, it now would be worth $159,472.86, according to Morningstar calculations. Under current law, if you were to die, your heirs would owe taxes only on gains above that appreciated value. Were the step-up in basis eliminated, your heirs would owe taxes on the gains above the original $10,000 cost when they sell.</p>\n<p>Critics contend that the step-up in basis promotes dynastic wealth and inequality. But calculating the tax on hard-to-value assets, such as private businesses established years ago, can be nearly impossible. Even figuring the original price paid for long-held publicly traded shares would be tough.</p>\n<p>The reported proposals also could have some unexpected effects, among them increased corporate leverage, according to Hans Mikkelsen, credit strategist at Bank of America. A higher capital-gains levy would raise the cost of equity, while a hike in corporate tax rates would lower the after-tax cost of debt, he writes in a research note. That would be negative for corporate credit ratings and default risk.</p>\n<p>Investors could sell assets now to take advantage of the current capital- gains rate, given that few observers think any increases would be retroactive. However, even if a hike is approved by Congress—a very big if, given Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate—UBS suggests that the impact on stocks might be limited.</p>\n<p>Only 25% of U.S. equities are owned by U.S. taxable investors, with the remaining 75% held by people and entities not subject to capital-gains levies, such as pension plans and other retirement accounts, endowments, and foreign investors, according to a note to the bank’s clients. And UBS expects some of the unaffected investors to buy any dip in the stock market. That could help support share prices.</p>\n<p>Moreover, investors have a lot of leeway in realizing capital gains. By deferring selling, you might pay a higher rate, but you’d also benefit from the continued growth of the assets, rather than paying the taxman now. Those with incomes that vary from year to year could realize capital gains whenever their annual income is under $1 million. Taxable income also could be reduced by charitable contributions or by shifting from taxable bonds to tax-exempt municipals, the bank points out.</p>\n<p>The very rich are different from you and me, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously observed. In one aspect, they certainly are: having a myriad of ways to manage their financial affairs to minimize taxes.</p>\n<p>However, even though the Biden White House’s tax proposals are certain to get watered down, that won’t reduce their headline risk, adds Valliere. His prediction: “The rich, corporate and individual, are vilified by the progressives who dominate the administration, and this will keep the stock market on edge.”</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>A Higher Capital-Gains Tax Wouldn’t Be as Scary as It Sounds </title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nA Higher Capital-Gains Tax Wouldn’t Be as Scary as It Sounds \n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-26 14:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/take-heart-investors-a-higher-capital-gains-tax-wouldnt-be-as-scary-as-it-sounds-51619224906?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Shocked! Shocked! As in the classic line from the film Casablanca, the stock market somehow was surprised by reports that the Biden administration is set to propose a sharp increase in capital-gains ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/take-heart-investors-a-higher-capital-gains-tax-wouldnt-be-as-scary-as-it-sounds-51619224906?mod=RTA\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/take-heart-investors-a-higher-capital-gains-tax-wouldnt-be-as-scary-as-it-sounds-51619224906?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1173749540","content_text":"Shocked! Shocked! As in the classic line from the film Casablanca, the stock market somehow was surprised by reports that the Biden administration is set to propose a sharp increase in capital-gains taxes on high earners.\nThat’s even though that prospect had been discussed widely, including in this space, following Joe Biden’s inauguration as president in January. And it had been a major part of the Democrats’ platform during the election campaign last year.\nYet stocks hit an air pocket when the news was reported early Thursday afternoon, suggesting that the reaction was caused in great part by machines programmed to scan headlines. By Friday, the losses were more than recouped after human investors had time to read and reassess the reports.\nThose indicated that the administration would propose taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income for people earning over $1 million a year. The top bracket for them also would revert to 39.6% from the 37% peak rate under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.\nThe net effect would roughly be to double the rate on capital gains for these high earners, to 43.4% from the current 23.8%, including the 3.8% Obamacare levy on investment income. It would mean that, for the first time, some Americans’ capital gains would be taxed at a higher rate than ordinary income, such as wages and salaries, instead of getting favored treatment as it has during most of U.S. tax history.\nNone of these proposals has been officially announced or made yet; they’re likely to be outlined when the president addresses a joint session of Congress Wednesday evening. “The Biden tax proposals are an opening salvo in a negotiating process,” writes Greg Valliere, chief U.S. strategist for AGF Investments, in a client note. He and other Washington watchers look for the administration to seek a cap-gains rate of 28% or 30% for million-dollar earners, which would be about halfway between the current 23.8% and the 43.4% top rate reportedly under consideration.\nAnd because it’s basically an unofficial trial balloon at this point, there are far more questions than answers about any tax changes that could be aimed at investors.\nIn its efforts to tax capital the same as labor, the administration also could seek to tax dividends at the same rate as ordinary income. Since 2003, these payouts have been taxed at the lower capital-gains rate, which helps to offset their double taxation at the corporate and shareholder levels.\nAnother reported target is the estate-tax exemption. The administration would seek to slash the current one of $11.7 million to $5.5 million. However, because the exemption effectively is doubled for couples, the change would affect only a small number of estates.\nPotentially, a bigger impact would come from the elimination of the step-up in cost basis on inherited assets. That could produce a big hit on investments made years ago. For instance, if you invested $10,000 in theSPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ticker: SPY) when it debuted on Jan. 29, 1993, it now would be worth $159,472.86, according to Morningstar calculations. Under current law, if you were to die, your heirs would owe taxes only on gains above that appreciated value. Were the step-up in basis eliminated, your heirs would owe taxes on the gains above the original $10,000 cost when they sell.\nCritics contend that the step-up in basis promotes dynastic wealth and inequality. But calculating the tax on hard-to-value assets, such as private businesses established years ago, can be nearly impossible. Even figuring the original price paid for long-held publicly traded shares would be tough.\nThe reported proposals also could have some unexpected effects, among them increased corporate leverage, according to Hans Mikkelsen, credit strategist at Bank of America. A higher capital-gains levy would raise the cost of equity, while a hike in corporate tax rates would lower the after-tax cost of debt, he writes in a research note. That would be negative for corporate credit ratings and default risk.\nInvestors could sell assets now to take advantage of the current capital- gains rate, given that few observers think any increases would be retroactive. However, even if a hike is approved by Congress—a very big if, given Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate—UBS suggests that the impact on stocks might be limited.\nOnly 25% of U.S. equities are owned by U.S. taxable investors, with the remaining 75% held by people and entities not subject to capital-gains levies, such as pension plans and other retirement accounts, endowments, and foreign investors, according to a note to the bank’s clients. And UBS expects some of the unaffected investors to buy any dip in the stock market. That could help support share prices.\nMoreover, investors have a lot of leeway in realizing capital gains. By deferring selling, you might pay a higher rate, but you’d also benefit from the continued growth of the assets, rather than paying the taxman now. Those with incomes that vary from year to year could realize capital gains whenever their annual income is under $1 million. Taxable income also could be reduced by charitable contributions or by shifting from taxable bonds to tax-exempt municipals, the bank points out.\nThe very rich are different from you and me, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously observed. In one aspect, they certainly are: having a myriad of ways to manage their financial affairs to minimize taxes.\nHowever, even though the Biden White House’s tax proposals are certain to get watered down, that won’t reduce their headline risk, adds Valliere. His prediction: “The rich, corporate and individual, are vilified by the progressives who dominate the administration, and this will keep the stock market on edge.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{".DJI":0.9,".IXIC":0.9,".SPX":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1418,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":109005939,"gmtCreate":1619653498221,"gmtModify":1634211064950,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Sounds interesting! Really insightful! [微笑]&nbsp;","listText":"Sounds interesting! Really insightful! [微笑]&nbsp;","text":"Sounds interesting! Really insightful! [微笑]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/109005939","repostId":"1137964402","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1137964402","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1619651546,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1137964402?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-29 07:12","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1137964402","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65","content":"<p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</li><li>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.</li><li>Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.</li></ul><p>Apple&nbsp;reported&nbsp;a blowout quarter&nbsp;on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</p><p>Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e791f63f460807906f1793c2d58933e\" tg-width=\"1302\" tg-height=\"833\"></p><p>Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its&nbsp;most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65.5% from last year. Its Mac and iPad sales&nbsp;did&nbsp;better, with its computers up 70.1% and iPad&nbsp;sales&nbsp;growing nearly 79% on an annual basis.</p><p>Apple said it would increase its dividend by 7%&nbsp;to $0.22 per share&nbsp;and authorized $90 billion in share buybacks, which is significantly higher than last year’s $50 billion outlay&nbsp;and 2019′s $75 billion.</p><p>Here’s how Apple did versus Refinitiv estimates:</p><ul><li><b>EPS</b>:&nbsp;$1.40&nbsp;vs. $0.99 estimated</li><li><b>Revenue</b>:&nbsp;$89.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $77.36&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 53.7% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPhone revenue</b>:&nbsp;$47.94 billion&nbsp;vs. $41.43&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up&nbsp;65.5% year-over-year</li><li><b>Services revenue</b>:&nbsp;$16.90 billion&nbsp;vs. $15.57&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 26.7% year over&nbsp;year</li><li><b>Other Products revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.83&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $7.79&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated,&nbsp;up 24%&nbsp;year-over-year</li><li><b>Mac revenue</b>:&nbsp;$9.10&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $6.86&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 70.1% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPad revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.80 billion&nbsp;vs. $5.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 78.9% year-over-year</li><li><b>Gross margin</b>:&nbsp;42.5% vs. 39.8%&nbsp;estimated</li></ul><p>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June. It hasn’t provided revenue&nbsp;guidance since the start of the pandemic, citing uncertainty.&nbsp;This is Apple’s second quarter in a row with double-digit growth in all product categories.&nbsp;Apple CFO Luca Maestri told analysts that the company expects June quarter revenue to rise by double digits year-over-year, although it faces some supply shortages due to the worldwide chip shortage.</p><p>Apple has said in the past months that its business has been boosted by the pandemic as consumers&nbsp;and businesses&nbsp;bought&nbsp;computers&nbsp;to work and entertain themselves while at home. But Apple’s strong results in the quarter suggest that the trend may persist as more economies&nbsp;open up.</p><p>Or, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this&nbsp;moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days&nbsp;ahead for all of us.”</p><p>Mac sales were up 70%, and Cook said that the result was “fueled by” the company’s introduction of its Mac&nbsp;laptops&nbsp;that used its own M1 chips&nbsp;for longer battery life, instead of processors sold by&nbsp;Intel.&nbsp;iPad sales were up&nbsp;nearly 79% year-over-year.</p><p>Neither of those&nbsp;results&nbsp;include iPad Pro or iMac models the company announced in March, which are expected to drive additional demand.</p><p>“We’re seeing strong first-time buyers on the Mac&nbsp;…&nbsp;it continues to run just south of 50%,” Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton. “And, in China, it’s even higher than that&nbsp;…&nbsp;it’s more around two-thirds. And that speaks to people preferring to work on the Mac.”</p><p>Apple’s iPhone also reported strong results this quarter, quelling fears that the current annual cycle could slow down. Last year, Apple released iPhones with a new exterior design and 5G support, which many investors believed could prompt a major upgrade cycle, which this quarter’s results indicate.</p><p>In greater China, which includes the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan,&nbsp;Apple’s revenue increased over&nbsp;87% year-over-year to $17.73 billion, although the comparison is to a quarter last year in which China was largely shut down in the early days of the pandemic.&nbsp;Every other geographical category, including the Americas and Europe, were also up on an annual basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37a8b45c92174e3c9ab224d9a85f5e2d\" tg-width=\"1910\" tg-height=\"1114\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Apple’s&nbsp;high-margin&nbsp;services business, including iCloud, App Store, and subscriptions like Apple Music, also showed 26.7% growth.</p><p>One metric that Apple uses to show the growth in services is the number of subscriptions it has, which not only include its own subscriptions like Apple One, but also subscriptions through its App Store.</p><p>“We now have over 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on the platform, and that’s up 40 million from the previous quarter, which is an acceleration from 35 million,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>However, Apple’s App Store has been challenged by lawmakers and companies that say it costs too much and has too much power. A closely-watched trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store policies kicks off next week.</p><p>“The App Store has been an economic miracle. Last year, the estimates are that there was over a half a trillion dollars of economic activity because of the store. And, so, this has been just an economic gamechanger for not only the United States, but several countries around the world. And, we’re going to go in and tell our story. And we’ll see where it goes. But, we’re confident,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>Apple’s gross margin was also unusually elevated for the company. Most quarters, it tends to be in the 38% to 39% range, but in the quarter ending in March, Apple reported 42.5% margins.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nApple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-04-29 07:12</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</li><li>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.</li><li>Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.</li></ul><p>Apple&nbsp;reported&nbsp;a blowout quarter&nbsp;on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and&nbsp;significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.</p><p>Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e791f63f460807906f1793c2d58933e\" tg-width=\"1302\" tg-height=\"833\"></p><p>Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its&nbsp;most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65.5% from last year. Its Mac and iPad sales&nbsp;did&nbsp;better, with its computers up 70.1% and iPad&nbsp;sales&nbsp;growing nearly 79% on an annual basis.</p><p>Apple said it would increase its dividend by 7%&nbsp;to $0.22 per share&nbsp;and authorized $90 billion in share buybacks, which is significantly higher than last year’s $50 billion outlay&nbsp;and 2019′s $75 billion.</p><p>Here’s how Apple did versus Refinitiv estimates:</p><ul><li><b>EPS</b>:&nbsp;$1.40&nbsp;vs. $0.99 estimated</li><li><b>Revenue</b>:&nbsp;$89.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $77.36&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 53.7% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPhone revenue</b>:&nbsp;$47.94 billion&nbsp;vs. $41.43&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up&nbsp;65.5% year-over-year</li><li><b>Services revenue</b>:&nbsp;$16.90 billion&nbsp;vs. $15.57&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 26.7% year over&nbsp;year</li><li><b>Other Products revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.83&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $7.79&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated,&nbsp;up 24%&nbsp;year-over-year</li><li><b>Mac revenue</b>:&nbsp;$9.10&nbsp;billion&nbsp;vs. $6.86&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 70.1% year-over-year</li><li><b>iPad revenue</b>:&nbsp;$7.80 billion&nbsp;vs. $5.58&nbsp;billion&nbsp;estimated, up 78.9% year-over-year</li><li><b>Gross margin</b>:&nbsp;42.5% vs. 39.8%&nbsp;estimated</li></ul><p>Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June. It hasn’t provided revenue&nbsp;guidance since the start of the pandemic, citing uncertainty.&nbsp;This is Apple’s second quarter in a row with double-digit growth in all product categories.&nbsp;Apple CFO Luca Maestri told analysts that the company expects June quarter revenue to rise by double digits year-over-year, although it faces some supply shortages due to the worldwide chip shortage.</p><p>Apple has said in the past months that its business has been boosted by the pandemic as consumers&nbsp;and businesses&nbsp;bought&nbsp;computers&nbsp;to work and entertain themselves while at home. But Apple’s strong results in the quarter suggest that the trend may persist as more economies&nbsp;open up.</p><p>Or, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this&nbsp;moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days&nbsp;ahead for all of us.”</p><p>Mac sales were up 70%, and Cook said that the result was “fueled by” the company’s introduction of its Mac&nbsp;laptops&nbsp;that used its own M1 chips&nbsp;for longer battery life, instead of processors sold by&nbsp;Intel.&nbsp;iPad sales were up&nbsp;nearly 79% year-over-year.</p><p>Neither of those&nbsp;results&nbsp;include iPad Pro or iMac models the company announced in March, which are expected to drive additional demand.</p><p>“We’re seeing strong first-time buyers on the Mac&nbsp;…&nbsp;it continues to run just south of 50%,” Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton. “And, in China, it’s even higher than that&nbsp;…&nbsp;it’s more around two-thirds. And that speaks to people preferring to work on the Mac.”</p><p>Apple’s iPhone also reported strong results this quarter, quelling fears that the current annual cycle could slow down. Last year, Apple released iPhones with a new exterior design and 5G support, which many investors believed could prompt a major upgrade cycle, which this quarter’s results indicate.</p><p>In greater China, which includes the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan,&nbsp;Apple’s revenue increased over&nbsp;87% year-over-year to $17.73 billion, although the comparison is to a quarter last year in which China was largely shut down in the early days of the pandemic.&nbsp;Every other geographical category, including the Americas and Europe, were also up on an annual basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/37a8b45c92174e3c9ab224d9a85f5e2d\" tg-width=\"1910\" tg-height=\"1114\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Apple’s&nbsp;high-margin&nbsp;services business, including iCloud, App Store, and subscriptions like Apple Music, also showed 26.7% growth.</p><p>One metric that Apple uses to show the growth in services is the number of subscriptions it has, which not only include its own subscriptions like Apple One, but also subscriptions through its App Store.</p><p>“We now have over 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on the platform, and that’s up 40 million from the previous quarter, which is an acceleration from 35 million,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>However, Apple’s App Store has been challenged by lawmakers and companies that say it costs too much and has too much power. A closely-watched trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store policies kicks off next week.</p><p>“The App Store has been an economic miracle. Last year, the estimates are that there was over a half a trillion dollars of economic activity because of the store. And, so, this has been just an economic gamechanger for not only the United States, but several countries around the world. And, we’re going to go in and tell our story. And we’ll see where it goes. But, we’re confident,” Cook told CNBC.</p><p>Apple’s gross margin was also unusually elevated for the company. Most quarters, it tends to be in the 38% to 39% range, but in the quarter ending in March, Apple reported 42.5% margins.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1137964402","content_text":"KEY POINTSApple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.Apple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June.Apple authorized $90 billion in share buybacks.Apple reported a blowout quarter on Wednesday, announcing companywide sales up 54% higher than last year, and significantly stronger profits than Wall Street expected.Apple stock rose over 4% at one point in extended trading.Apple reported double-digit growth in every single one of its product categories, and its most important product line, the iPhone, was up 65.5% from last year. Its Mac and iPad sales did better, with its computers up 70.1% and iPad sales growing nearly 79% on an annual basis.Apple said it would increase its dividend by 7% to $0.22 per share and authorized $90 billion in share buybacks, which is significantly higher than last year’s $50 billion outlay and 2019′s $75 billion.Here’s how Apple did versus Refinitiv estimates:EPS: $1.40 vs. $0.99 estimatedRevenue: $89.58 billion vs. $77.36 billion estimated, up 53.7% year-over-yeariPhone revenue: $47.94 billion vs. $41.43 billion estimated, up 65.5% year-over-yearServices revenue: $16.90 billion vs. $15.57 billion estimated, up 26.7% year over yearOther Products revenue: $7.83 billion vs. $7.79 billion estimated, up 24% year-over-yearMac revenue: $9.10 billion vs. $6.86 billion estimated, up 70.1% year-over-yeariPad revenue: $7.80 billion vs. $5.58 billion estimated, up 78.9% year-over-yearGross margin: 42.5% vs. 39.8% estimatedApple did not issue official guidance for what it expects in the quarter ending in June. It hasn’t provided revenue guidance since the start of the pandemic, citing uncertainty. This is Apple’s second quarter in a row with double-digit growth in all product categories. Apple CFO Luca Maestri told analysts that the company expects June quarter revenue to rise by double digits year-over-year, although it faces some supply shortages due to the worldwide chip shortage.Apple has said in the past months that its business has been boosted by the pandemic as consumers and businesses bought computers to work and entertain themselves while at home. But Apple’s strong results in the quarter suggest that the trend may persist as more economies open up.Or, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement: “This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days ahead for all of us.”Mac sales were up 70%, and Cook said that the result was “fueled by” the company’s introduction of its Mac laptops that used its own M1 chips for longer battery life, instead of processors sold by Intel. iPad sales were up nearly 79% year-over-year.Neither of those results include iPad Pro or iMac models the company announced in March, which are expected to drive additional demand.“We’re seeing strong first-time buyers on the Mac … it continues to run just south of 50%,” Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton. “And, in China, it’s even higher than that … it’s more around two-thirds. And that speaks to people preferring to work on the Mac.”Apple’s iPhone also reported strong results this quarter, quelling fears that the current annual cycle could slow down. Last year, Apple released iPhones with a new exterior design and 5G support, which many investors believed could prompt a major upgrade cycle, which this quarter’s results indicate.In greater China, which includes the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Apple’s revenue increased over 87% year-over-year to $17.73 billion, although the comparison is to a quarter last year in which China was largely shut down in the early days of the pandemic. Every other geographical category, including the Americas and Europe, were also up on an annual basis.Apple’s high-margin services business, including iCloud, App Store, and subscriptions like Apple Music, also showed 26.7% growth.One metric that Apple uses to show the growth in services is the number of subscriptions it has, which not only include its own subscriptions like Apple One, but also subscriptions through its App Store.“We now have over 660 million paid subscriptions across the services on the platform, and that’s up 40 million from the previous quarter, which is an acceleration from 35 million,” Cook told CNBC.However, Apple’s App Store has been challenged by lawmakers and companies that say it costs too much and has too much power. A closely-watched trial with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store policies kicks off next week.“The App Store has been an economic miracle. Last year, the estimates are that there was over a half a trillion dollars of economic activity because of the store. And, so, this has been just an economic gamechanger for not only the United States, but several countries around the world. And, we’re going to go in and tell our story. And we’ll see where it goes. But, we’re confident,” Cook told CNBC.Apple’s gross margin was also unusually elevated for the company. Most quarters, it tends to be in the 38% to 39% range, but in the quarter ending in March, Apple reported 42.5% margins.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"AAPL":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":2186,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":374350246,"gmtCreate":1619422378985,"gmtModify":1634273612357,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Sounds interesting","listText":"Sounds interesting","text":"Sounds interesting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/374350246","repostId":"1160776805","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1290,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":344670331,"gmtCreate":1618408352623,"gmtModify":1634293152780,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/344670331","repostId":"1114138942","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1136,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":344647684,"gmtCreate":1618408313948,"gmtModify":1634293153020,"author":{"id":"3577092105346620","authorId":"3577092105346620","name":"lolzies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4c14b2defd1aecdccfdf3d13576b666b","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3577092105346620","authorIdStr":"3577092105346620"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Hmm","listText":"Hmm","text":"Hmm","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/344647684","repostId":"1106080522","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1106080522","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1618363477,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1106080522?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-04-14 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The 24 Most-Hated Stocks in the S&P 500, and Why You Should Love Them","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1106080522","media":"Barrons","summary":"Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks an","content":"<p>Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks analysts are shunning.</p>\n<p>While simply avoiding those companies is one sound strategy, it can also make sense to dig through the reject bin. Sometimes the only direction to go from the bottom is up. The most hated stocks can only get less hated over time, a fact that on its own can be enough for above-average stock gains.</p>\n<p>Wall Streetratingsare always a helpful guide for investors—the pros as well as amateur stock pickers. Analysts covering companies at brokerage firms are, after all, paid to follow industry trends, compare companies, and value stocks.</p>\n<p>Over the past year, analysts’ favorite 10% ofS&amp;P 500stocks are up almost 70% on average. The bottom 10%, on the other hand, is up closer to 50%. Favorites have outperformed by about 20 percentage points. The overall S&amp;P index, meanwhile, is up about 48%.</p>\n<p>It might seem odd that the average gain for a hated stock in the S&amp;P 500 is 2 percentage points better than what the index achieved over the past year. The reason is that the S&amp;P 500 is weighted according to market capitalization, so moves in bigger companies’ stocks have more impact on the overall benchmark. Not adjusting for market capitalization, the average gain for an S&amp;P 500 stock is about 63%.</p>\n<p>That fits with the common-sense view that avoiding the dregs is a good idea. But this past year was difficult. During the first several months of the pandemic, it paid to invest in large, high-quality stocks. It will surprise no one to learn that Microsoft (ticker: MSFT), Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) are all well liked by the Street.</p>\n<p>Now, thetide is turningand the economy is growing again. That could be a signal to look at stocks that have had a harder time.</p>\n<p><i>Barron’s</i>&nbsp;came up with a list of the least-liked stocks on the Street by weighting the Buy, Hold, and Sell calls on each company to arrive at a single number summarizing overall sentiment. We took the percentage of ratings for a stock that are Buys, subtracted the share that are Sells, and then added the percentage at Hold, counting each as one-fourth of a Buy to reflect the fact that most analysts expect Hold-rated stocks to keep pace with their peers.</p>\n<p>In the S&amp;P 500, about 56% of ratings are Buys. 36% are Holds and 7% are Sells. The numbers don’t total 100 due to rounding.</p>\n<p>Taking all that into consideration, the 24 lowest-rated S&amp;P stocks—the ones analysts tell their clients to avoid—are as follows: American Airlines Group (AAL), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), Consolidated Edison (ED),Franklin Resources(BEN).Brown-Forman(BF. B), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD),Waters(WAT), Hormel Foods (HRL),McCormick(MKC), ViacomCBS (VIAC), Unum Group (UNM), Comerica (CMA) Under Armour (UAA), J.M. Smucker (SJM), Western Union (WU), Robert Half International (RHI),Discovery(DISCA), Varian Medical Systems (VAR), Invesco (IVZ), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Genuine Parts (GPC) and WEC Energy Group (WEC).</p>\n<p>The Dirty Two DozenThe 24 lowest-rated stocks in the S&amp;P 500, calculated using a weighted score for Buy, Sell, and Hold ratings.</p>\n<table>\n <thead>\n  <tr>\n   <th>Company / Ticker</th>\n   <th>Analyst Rating Score*</th>\n   <th>2021E P/E</th>\n   <th>Percentage Off All-Time High</th>\n   <th>% YTD</th>\n  </tr>\n </thead>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td>American Airlines / AAL</td>\n   <td>-0.7</td>\n   <td>N/A</td>\n   <td>-60.2</td>\n   <td>88</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Lumen Technologies / LUMN</td>\n   <td>-0.5</td>\n   <td>8.2</td>\n   <td>-74.3</td>\n   <td>32</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Consolidated Edison / ED</td>\n   <td>-0.5</td>\n   <td>17.7</td>\n   <td>-21.0</td>\n   <td>-11</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Franklin Resources / BEN</td>\n   <td>-0.4</td>\n   <td>10.3</td>\n   <td>-48.4</td>\n   <td>91</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Brown-Forman / BF.B</td>\n   <td>-0.3</td>\n   <td>41.0</td>\n   <td>-14.9</td>\n   <td>14</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Mettler-Toledo / MTD</td>\n   <td>-0.3</td>\n   <td>41.1</td>\n   <td>-3.9</td>\n   <td>68</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Expeditors Int’l of Washington / EXPD</td>\n   <td>-0.3</td>\n   <td>25.7</td>\n   <td>-1.5</td>\n   <td>54</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Waters / WAT</td>\n   <td>-0.2</td>\n   <td>31.9</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>57</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Hormel Foods / HRL</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>26.5</td>\n   <td>-12.5</td>\n   <td>-1</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>McCormick / MKC</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>29.7</td>\n   <td>-16.5</td>\n   <td>16</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>ViacomCBS / VIAC</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>10.3</td>\n   <td>-58.9</td>\n   <td>160</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Unum / UNM</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>5.8</td>\n   <td>-55.8</td>\n   <td>89</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Comerica / CMA</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>13.4</td>\n   <td>-30.4</td>\n   <td>118</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Under Armour / UAA</td>\n   <td>0.0</td>\n   <td>142.1</td>\n   <td>-58.5</td>\n   <td>105</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>J.M. Smucker / SJM</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>14.4</td>\n   <td>-18.5</td>\n   <td>17</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Western Union / WU</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>12.3</td>\n   <td>-12.0</td>\n   <td>30</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Robert Half / RHI</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>24.2</td>\n   <td>-2.6</td>\n   <td>92</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Discover / DISCA</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>14.6</td>\n   <td>-46.3</td>\n   <td>88</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Varian Medical Systems / VAR</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>33.8</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>57</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Invesco / IVZ</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>10.2</td>\n   <td>-57.0</td>\n   <td>181</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Walgreens Boots Alliance / WBA</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>11.2</td>\n   <td>-44.3</td>\n   <td>29</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Cincinnati Financial / CINF</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>25.8</td>\n   <td>-11.1</td>\n   <td>30</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Genuine Parts / GPC</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>20.4</td>\n   <td>-1.6</td>\n   <td>68</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>WEC Energy / WEC</td>\n   <td>0.2</td>\n   <td>23.0</td>\n   <td>-15.7</td>\n   <td>-3</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>Dirty Dozen's average</td>\n   <td>-0.1</td>\n   <td>25.8</td>\n   <td>-27.7</td>\n   <td>61.2</td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td>S&amp;P 500 average</td>\n   <td>1.1</td>\n   <td>23</td>\n   <td>0.1</td>\n   <td>10</td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>*Lower scores have more sell ratings.</p>\n<p>Sources: Bloomberg; Barron's calculations</p>\n<p>It’s an eclectic list. Some stocks, such as American Airlines, are there because of huge, pandemic-induced losses. Others simply look expensive. Mettler, for instance, trades at 41 times the per-share earnings expected for 2021.</p>\n<p>Others firms face potentially damaging long-term changes in their industries. Franklin Resources, for instance, is an asset manager dealing with the shift from actively managed funds to index funds with lower fees. And some companies just don’t seem to have much room for growth. McCormick sells spices, and the chances that demand will rocket higher unexpectedly appear slim.</p>\n<p>Not every one of the hated names will pass muster for investors. But the hated stocks have one thing going for them: They are cheaper. Although not every one of the two dozen is making money, the shares trade for an average of about 20 times estimated 2021 earnings, while the market is at closer to 24 times.</p>\n<p>Another plus is that unlike the S&amp;P 500, the rejects aren’t trading near their record highs, a factor that points at the potential for a rebound. The two dozen are down by an average of roughly 25% from their all-time highs.</p>\n<p>The bottom line, then, is that bargains may be hiding in the trash heap. But as is the case with any stock screen, investors will have to dig deeper to find out which.</p>\n<p>Go to it, contrarians.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>The 24 Most-Hated Stocks in the S&P 500, and Why You Should Love Them</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThe 24 Most-Hated Stocks in the S&P 500, and Why You Should Love Them\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-14 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-24-most-hated-stocks-in-the-s-p-500-and-why-you-should-love-them-51618332859?mod=hp_LEAD_1><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks analysts are shunning.\nWhile simply avoiding those companies is one sound strategy, it can also make ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-24-most-hated-stocks-in-the-s-p-500-and-why-you-should-love-them-51618332859?mod=hp_LEAD_1\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"WU":"西联汇款","DISCA":"探索传播","WEC":"威州能源",".DJI":"道琼斯","BF.B":"布朗霍文","MTD":"梅特勒-托利多","UNM":"尤纳姆集团","EXPD":"康捷国际物流","UAA":"安德玛公司A类股","MKC":"味好美",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","SJM":"斯马克","LUMN":"Lumen Technologies","BEN":"Franklin Resources Inc","HRL":"荷美尔","RHI":"罗致恒富","CMA":"联信银行","ED":"爱迪生联合电气","WAT":"沃特世","AAL":"美国航空"},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-24-most-hated-stocks-in-the-s-p-500-and-why-you-should-love-them-51618332859?mod=hp_LEAD_1","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1106080522","content_text":"Investing in the best-loved stocks can be a good idea. But investors should also know what stocks analysts are shunning.\nWhile simply avoiding those companies is one sound strategy, it can also make sense to dig through the reject bin. Sometimes the only direction to go from the bottom is up. The most hated stocks can only get less hated over time, a fact that on its own can be enough for above-average stock gains.\nWall Streetratingsare always a helpful guide for investors—the pros as well as amateur stock pickers. Analysts covering companies at brokerage firms are, after all, paid to follow industry trends, compare companies, and value stocks.\nOver the past year, analysts’ favorite 10% ofS&P 500stocks are up almost 70% on average. The bottom 10%, on the other hand, is up closer to 50%. Favorites have outperformed by about 20 percentage points. The overall S&P index, meanwhile, is up about 48%.\nIt might seem odd that the average gain for a hated stock in the S&P 500 is 2 percentage points better than what the index achieved over the past year. The reason is that the S&P 500 is weighted according to market capitalization, so moves in bigger companies’ stocks have more impact on the overall benchmark. Not adjusting for market capitalization, the average gain for an S&P 500 stock is about 63%.\nThat fits with the common-sense view that avoiding the dregs is a good idea. But this past year was difficult. During the first several months of the pandemic, it paid to invest in large, high-quality stocks. It will surprise no one to learn that Microsoft (ticker: MSFT), Google parentAlphabet(GOOGL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) are all well liked by the Street.\nNow, thetide is turningand the economy is growing again. That could be a signal to look at stocks that have had a harder time.\nBarron’s came up with a list of the least-liked stocks on the Street by weighting the Buy, Hold, and Sell calls on each company to arrive at a single number summarizing overall sentiment. We took the percentage of ratings for a stock that are Buys, subtracted the share that are Sells, and then added the percentage at Hold, counting each as one-fourth of a Buy to reflect the fact that most analysts expect Hold-rated stocks to keep pace with their peers.\nIn the S&P 500, about 56% of ratings are Buys. 36% are Holds and 7% are Sells. The numbers don’t total 100 due to rounding.\nTaking all that into consideration, the 24 lowest-rated S&P stocks—the ones analysts tell their clients to avoid—are as follows: American Airlines Group (AAL), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), Consolidated Edison (ED),Franklin Resources(BEN).Brown-Forman(BF. B), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Expeditors International of Washington (EXPD),Waters(WAT), Hormel Foods (HRL),McCormick(MKC), ViacomCBS (VIAC), Unum Group (UNM), Comerica (CMA) Under Armour (UAA), J.M. Smucker (SJM), Western Union (WU), Robert Half International (RHI),Discovery(DISCA), Varian Medical Systems (VAR), Invesco (IVZ), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Genuine Parts (GPC) and WEC Energy Group (WEC).\nThe Dirty Two DozenThe 24 lowest-rated stocks in the S&P 500, calculated using a weighted score for Buy, Sell, and Hold ratings.\n\n\n\nCompany / Ticker\nAnalyst Rating Score*\n2021E P/E\nPercentage Off All-Time High\n% YTD\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Airlines / AAL\n-0.7\nN/A\n-60.2\n88\n\n\nLumen Technologies / LUMN\n-0.5\n8.2\n-74.3\n32\n\n\nConsolidated Edison / ED\n-0.5\n17.7\n-21.0\n-11\n\n\nFranklin Resources / BEN\n-0.4\n10.3\n-48.4\n91\n\n\nBrown-Forman / BF.B\n-0.3\n41.0\n-14.9\n14\n\n\nMettler-Toledo / MTD\n-0.3\n41.1\n-3.9\n68\n\n\nExpeditors Int’l of Washington / EXPD\n-0.3\n25.7\n-1.5\n54\n\n\nWaters / WAT\n-0.2\n31.9\n0.0\n57\n\n\nHormel Foods / HRL\n-0.1\n26.5\n-12.5\n-1\n\n\nMcCormick / MKC\n-0.1\n29.7\n-16.5\n16\n\n\nViacomCBS / VIAC\n0.0\n10.3\n-58.9\n160\n\n\nUnum / UNM\n0.0\n5.8\n-55.8\n89\n\n\nComerica / CMA\n0.0\n13.4\n-30.4\n118\n\n\nUnder Armour / UAA\n0.0\n142.1\n-58.5\n105\n\n\nJ.M. Smucker / SJM\n0.1\n14.4\n-18.5\n17\n\n\nWestern Union / WU\n0.1\n12.3\n-12.0\n30\n\n\nRobert Half / RHI\n0.1\n24.2\n-2.6\n92\n\n\nDiscover / DISCA\n0.1\n14.6\n-46.3\n88\n\n\nVarian Medical Systems / VAR\n0.1\n33.8\n-0.1\n57\n\n\nInvesco / IVZ\n0.1\n10.2\n-57.0\n181\n\n\nWalgreens Boots Alliance / WBA\n0.2\n11.2\n-44.3\n29\n\n\nCincinnati Financial / CINF\n0.2\n25.8\n-11.1\n30\n\n\nGenuine Parts / GPC\n0.2\n20.4\n-1.6\n68\n\n\nWEC Energy / WEC\n0.2\n23.0\n-15.7\n-3\n\n\nDirty Dozen's average\n-0.1\n25.8\n-27.7\n61.2\n\n\nS&P 500 average\n1.1\n23\n0.1\n10\n\n\n\n*Lower scores have more sell ratings.\nSources: Bloomberg; Barron's calculations\nIt’s an eclectic list. Some stocks, such as American Airlines, are there because of huge, pandemic-induced losses. Others simply look expensive. Mettler, for instance, trades at 41 times the per-share earnings expected for 2021.\nOthers firms face potentially damaging long-term changes in their industries. Franklin Resources, for instance, is an asset manager dealing with the shift from actively managed funds to index funds with lower fees. And some companies just don’t seem to have much room for growth. McCormick sells spices, and the chances that demand will rocket higher unexpectedly appear slim.\nNot every one of the hated names will pass muster for investors. But the hated stocks have one thing going for them: They are cheaper. Although not every one of the two dozen is making money, the shares trade for an average of about 20 times estimated 2021 earnings, while the market is at closer to 24 times.\nAnother plus is that unlike the S&P 500, the rejects aren’t trading near their record highs, a factor that points at the potential for a rebound. The two dozen are down by an average of roughly 25% from their all-time highs.\nThe bottom line, then, is that bargains may be hiding in the trash heap. But as is the case with any stock screen, investors will have to dig deeper to find out which.\nGo to it, contrarians.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{".DJI":0.9,".IXIC":0.9,".SPX":0.9,"AAL":0.9,"BEN":0.9,"BF.B":0.9,"CMA":0.9,"DISCA":0.9,"ED":0.9,"EXPD":0.9,"HRL":0.9,"LUMN":0.9,"MKC":0.9,"MTD":0.9,"RHI":0.9,"SJM":0.9,"UAA":0.9,"UNM":0.9,"VAR":0.9,"VIAC":0.9,"WAT":0.9,"WEC":0.9,"WU":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1958,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}