Earnings live: Kohl's, Abercrombie stocks soar on Q3 results, Alibaba rises

Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) banal surged implicit 18% successful premarket trading aft beardown income astatine the company's Hollister marque lifted earnings.

The retailer reported net per stock of $2.36, compared to analysts' estimates of $2.16, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Net income reached $1.29 billion, besides supra estimates for $1.27 billion.

Overall, same-store income roseate 3% twelvemonth implicit year, driven by a 15% income summation for the Hollister marque and a 7% income diminution for Abercrombie.

“We achieved 3 years of consecutive quarterly income growth, delivering grounds 3rd 4th nett sales, with 7% maturation to past year," CEO Fran Horowitz said successful the release. "Hollister brands grew 16% connected a beardown decorativeness to back-to-school and autumn seasonal transition. Abercrombie brands made sequential advancement in-line with our expectations, and we are tightly managing inventory arsenic we purpose for 4th fourth marque nett income to beryllium astir level to past year’s record."

The institution raised the little extremity of its full-year outlook for nett income maturation to a scope of 6% to 7%, portion nett income per diluted stock is expected to travel successful astatine $10.20 to $10.50. Previously, the institution saw nett income increasing 5% to 7% and nett income successful a scope of $10.00 to $10.50.

Best Buy's (BBY) 3rd 4th results bushed analysts' estimates arsenic the institution raised its full-year outlook connected Tuesday.

The retailer, which is heading into the vacation season, said that its income were driven by "strong results crossed computing, gaming and mobile phones." Shares successful Best Buy roseate 3% during premarket trading.

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Kohl's (KSS) banal soared 23% earlier the doorbell connected Tuesday aft the retailer reported better-than-expected 3rd 4th results. Both net and gross surpassed Wall Street estimates. The retailer besides accrued its full-year outlook.

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Alibaba (BABA) banal roseate 4% earlier the doorbell connected Tuesday aft the Chinese e-commerce elephantine bushed analysts' estimates for quarterly ​revenue, arsenic investments successful ‌one-hour transportation helped thrust much users to its buying apps,‌ portion its unreality part reported beardown growth.

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Zoom (ZM) banal bounced 3% higher successful extended trading connected Monday aft the communications bundle institution bushed net expectations, raised its yearly outlook, and accrued its banal buyback authorization by $1 billion.

Here's what Zoom reported for the 3rd quarter, compared to estimates compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan noted that customers' adoption of the company's AI offerings continues to expand, thing investors were watching going into the report, on with AI monetization.

“Zoom is continuing to physique connected our imaginativeness of an AI‑first level that helps radical link and collaborate much seamlessly,” Yuan said. “This 4th we announced AI Companion 3.0, and we’re thrilled to spot AI Companion adoption turn meaningfully. We’re besides seeing beardown momentum with Custom AI Companion and our AI‑first Customer Experience suite, which helped marque this 1 of our champion CX quarters, with wide AI adoption crossed large deals."

Zoom besides raised its fiscal outlook slightly. The institution present expects full gross for the twelvemonth betwixt $4.852 cardinal and $4.857 billion, compared to its anterior guidance of betwixt $4.825 cardinal and $4.835 billion.

The institution besides raised its net per stock guidance to a scope of $5.95-$5.97 from $5.81-$5.84 previously.

With astir each S&P 500 (^GSPC) companies' 3rd 4th net reports logged, the scale is tracking for an net maturation complaint of 13.4%, according to FactSet's John Butters. While 83% of companies person reported a affirmative net surprise, it's the gross maturation successful Q3 that stands out.

Butters notes that S&P 500 companies are reporting the highest gross maturation complaint successful 3 years.

If it holds, the S&P 500's existent blended gross maturation complaint of 8.4% successful Q3 would beryllium the highest people since Q3 2022, erstwhile the scale posted a gross maturation complaint of 11%.

The Health Care, Financials, and Consumer Discretionary sectors person led the gross maturation trend, with companies specified arsenic Cardinal Health (CAH), Morgan Stanley (MS), Ford (F), Amazon (AMZN), and Tesla (TSLA), among galore others, contributing significantly.

At the aforesaid time, net maturation has slowed for the tech highfliers that person led the markets.

Now that Nvidia (NVDA), the past of the "Magnificent Seven" companies to study earnings, has issued its quarterly release, Butters writes that the Magnificent Seven reported net maturation of 18.4% for the 3rd quarter.

That's the lowest net maturation complaint for this radical of stocks (Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon, Meta (META), Tesla, and Nvidia) since Q1 of 2023.

"The weaker show comparative to expert expectations and the little net maturation complaint for the 'Magnificent 7' companies are chiefly owed to the antagonistic EPS astonishment reported by Meta Platforms ($1.05 vs. $6.72) for Q3," Butters explained.

"Despite the little maturation complaint comparative to caller quarters, 4 of the 'Magnificent 7' companies (NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon.com, and Microsoft) are among the apical 7 contributors to net maturation for the S&P 500 for the 3rd quarter."

Gap (GAP) banal climbed much than 9% successful midday trading Friday arsenic investors cheered connected a beardown 4th from the apparel company.

In an interrogation with Yahoo Finance, Gap CEO Richard Dickson described the company's latest quarterly show arsenic a "playbook" that's working.

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BJ's (BJ) reported 3rd 4th fiscal 2025 net that bushed analysts' expectations connected Friday. The retailer's banal roseate 4% earlier the doorbell aft the institution raised its full-year nett outlook connected the spot of its rank income.

The wholesale nine relation posted adjusted net per stock of $1.16, beating the expert statement of $1.10.

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Gap (GAP) banal popped successful extended trading aft the apparel institution topped net expectations and delivered an upbeat outlook.

The retailer reported net per stock of $0.62, which surpassed estimates, and $3.9 cardinal successful gross arsenic same-store income grew 5% twelvemonth implicit year. Wall Street was expecting $3.9 cardinal successful gross and $0.59 per stock successful earnings, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Gap's 3 halfway brands — the namesake Gap brand, Old Navy, and Banana Republic — showed spot during the quarter, portion athleisure marque Athleta was the wide laggard. Same-store income astatine Gap roseate 7% twelvemonth implicit year, income astatine Old Navy roseate 6%, and income astatine Banana Republic roseate 4%. Athleta's same-store sales, meanwhile, dropped 11%, arsenic Gap said it's applying a "reinvigoration playbook" to the brand.

Gap besides raised the little extremity of its full-year gross forecast. It present sees 1.7% to 2% top-line growth, up from its erstwhile guidance of 1% to 2%.

"The spot of our 3rd 4th and quarter-to-date show positions america good for the vacation selling play and gives america the assurance to summation our afloat twelvemonth nett income outlook to the precocious extremity of our anterior guidance scope and rise our afloat twelvemonth operating borderline outlook," CEO Richard Dickson said successful a statement.

Intuit (INTU) banal modestly roseate aft hours pursuing top- and bottom-line beats successful its fiscal archetypal 4th net report.

Profits grew to $1.59 per stock connected gross of $3.9 billion. Analysts were expecting a net per stock of $1.26 connected gross of $3.7 billion, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Intuit besides forecast better-than-expected fiscal 2nd 4th gross growth, a affirmative awesome astir its artificial intelligence-powered concern bundle offerings.

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Bath & Body Works (BBWI) banal was hammered successful precocious greeting trading, falling implicit 23%, aft the institution chopped its forecast and its caller CEO acknowledged that the specialty idiosyncratic attraction retailer is successful request of immoderate changes.

In the 3rd quarter, nett income declined 1% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $1.59 million, missing Wall Street's estimates for $1.63 cardinal successful nett sales, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Earnings per stock of $0.37 besides declined twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth and fell abbreviated of expectations for $0.39 per share.

The seller of soaps and assemblage lotions besides said it doesn't expect overmuch betterment this year, owed to antagonistic user sentiment. The institution said it expects Q4 income to beryllium down successful the precocious azygous digits versus past year. It besides lowered its full-year nett income nett to a diminution of debased azygous digits from maturation of 1.5% to 2.7% previously.

Full-year net per stock are present expected to beryllium astatine slightest $2.83. The Street was looking for guidance of $3.33.

On the company's net call, Bath & Body Works CEO Daniel Heaf, who joined the institution successful May, said Bath & Body Works failed to accommodate to changing user preferences and outlined a program to crook the institution astir implicit the adjacent mates of years, emphasizing that the strategical reset volition instrumentality "time and focus."

"Over the years, consumers person evolved," Heaf said connected the net call. "They question greater efficacy, ingredient-led products, modern packaging, ... storytelling, and elevated multichannel experiences. Our competitors person risen to conscionable those needs. We person not."

While galore retailers similar Target (TGT) are delivering caveats to their 3rd 4th results that the user remains pressured, Walmart (WMT) again distinguished itself arsenic supra the fray.

"[It's] thing we're keeping an oculus on, but overall, erstwhile you instrumentality the user successful total, it inactive feels precise consistent," Walmart CFO John David Rainey told Yahoo Finance successful an interrogation Thursday.

Rainey noted that consumers are inactive prioritizing worth and convenience, which helped thrust Walmart's 4.5% same-store income maturation and higher profits successful Q3.

That said, Walmart is seeing signs of the much-discussed K-shaped economy, wherever a increasing disagreement is emerging betwixt high-income households and low-income ones.

"What I volition say, ... if you dissect that a small spot and you look by income cohort, the disparity betwixt the debased income cohort and the precocious income cohort has grown a small spot successful much caller months," Rainey said, adding that "it's accordant with the macro data."

The adjacent trial of user spot is present underway, arsenic aboriginal Black Friday income supply clues connected the important vacation buying season. There, Walmart is optimistic too.

"Holiday is disconnected to a beauteous bully start," Rainey said connected the company's net call. "Back-to-school tends to beryllium an aboriginal indicator for however that goes, Halloween, likewise for Thanksgiving, and everything that we've seen truthful acold makes america optimistic and encouraged astir customers and members leaning into the seasonal events and vacation buying period."

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Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang took nonstop purpose astatine analysts and commentators touting the hazard of an AI "bubble," touting however his institution is poised for occurrence successful the rapidly evolving frontier.

"There's been a batch of speech astir an AI bubble. From our vantage point, we spot thing precise different," Huang said connected the company's net call, aft Nvidia's results and forecast bushed estimates.

Huang said Nvidia is positioned for occurrence successful "every signifier of AI, from pre-training and post-training to inference."

Nvidia's net telephone is underway, and CFO Colette Kress said Blackwell income proceed to summation momentum portion Ruben remains "on track" to ramp successful the 2nd fractional of 2026.

"We presently person visibility to a fractional a trillion dollars successful Blackwell and Rubin gross from the commencement of this twelvemonth done the extremity of calendar twelvemonth 2026," Kress said.

She aboriginal added, "The GB300 crossed implicit GB200 and contributed astir two-thirds of the full Blackwell revenue. The modulation to GB300 has been seamless."

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Shares of immoderate of the largest tech and spot companies roseate successful after-hours trading aft Nvidia's (NVDA) net results provided much-needed reassurance to investors skittish implicit the AI trade.

Shares of AMD (AMD) and Micron (MU) some jumped implicit 4%. Broadcom (AVGO) roseate implicit 2%. Megacap tech companies — specified arsenic Meta (META), Microsoft (MSFT), and Google (GOOG) — besides ticked up aft the report's release.

Nvidia (NVDA) shares roseate implicit 5%. Read much astir the results here.

Nvidia (NVDA) banal continued to determination implicit 4% higher, adding implicit $300 cardinal to the company's marketplace cap, arsenic investors parsed the spot titan's latest net report.

"I'm not definite what other you could inquire for, astatine slightest connected the print. It was a nice, coagulated bushed and raise," Bernstein elder expert Stacy Rasgon told Yahoo Finance conscionable aft the release.

Further details connected Nvidia's visibility into aboriginal gross volition beryllium successful absorption erstwhile the net telephone kicks disconnected astatine 5 p.m. ET.

"The institution is fundamentally wholly being driven by information centers," CFRA expert Angelo Zino told Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton. "The information that we stay proviso constrained here, which we deliberation volition persist done 2026, and conscionable based connected the bookings that we saw present from the hyperscalers ... means that it's going to beryllium a reasonably proviso constrained done of adjacent year, and astir apt good done 2027 if not each of '27."

"That's going to bode good for the information halfway gross potential," Zino said. "We deliberation margins volition beryllium capable to beryllium sustained astatine that mid-70s level present for the foreseeable future."