Roundup 2: Alphabet disappointed despite growth strength – billions for AI
Mountain View – The Google (Alphabet C (Ex Google)) – Group Alphabet (Alphabet A (Ex Google)) cannot keep up with the very high expectations of many investors and analysts. In the final quarter 2024, Google’s cloud business brought a little less than analysts to almost $ 12 billion despite an increase in sales from 30 percent. The focus is also on competitive pressure due to the growing AI use of competitors. At the same time, the group continues to put a lot of money into the expansion of its own AI skills. The stock came under pressure.
Roundup: Santander pours out the cornucopia after leap
Madrid – The Spanish large bank Santander increased its profit in 2024 even more than expected. With almost 12.6 billion euros, the institute earned 14 percent more than in the previous year, as announced in Madrid on Wednesday. Bank boss Ana Botín now unpacks the cornucopia and wants to put another 1.5 billion euros in the annual profit in the buyback of her own shares. For 2025 and 2026, she even wants to spend 10 billion euros on this purpose. The dividends come on top.
Roundup: Novo Nordisk benefits from weight skirts – forecast is well received
BAGSVAERD – Good shops with its weight skirts and diabetes funds Ozempic and Wegovy gave the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk to momentum last year. The Danish manufacturer beat himself better than expected. For 2025, the management around CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen gives a rather cautious forecast, but here too analysts had hoped for less. The stock exchange was therefore more than satisfied in the middle of the week. Novo Nordisk also announced an application for admission for his new weight lower Cagrisema for the coming year.
Roundup: Bechtle deserves less in 2024 – revitalization in the final quarter
Neckarsulm – The IT service provider Bechtle recorded a decline in results last year. In 2024, the input tax was shrunk by around eight percent to around 345 million euros in 2024, the company announced when the key data was presented on Wednesday. The corresponding margin is 5.5 percent after 5.8 percent. Analysts had expected on average with a slightly better result.
Circles: E-Commerce-Riese JD.com is again interested in Ceconomy
Beijing/Düsseldorf-According to circles, the Chinese e-commerce-giant JD.com (JDcom) again consider the takeover of the media market and Saturn mother Ceconomy (Ceconomy ST). The Beijinger had recently approached the company and have now started to probe a possible deal with the major shareholders of the Düsseldorf company, the Bloomberg news agency reported on Wednesday and referred to the matter familiar with the matter. A ceconomy spokeswoman said on request that speculation on the market would not be commented on. On the stock exchange, the rumors nevertheless ensured a high-altitude flight of the Ceconomy share, which was raised by 14 percent around noon to a high since spring 2022. The papers of JD.com listed in the USA, on the other hand, fell by 2, 5 percent.
Roundup: GSK surprises positively with a strong year and higher destinations
London – The pharmaceutical company GSK did better than expected due to an unexpectedly strong final sprint 2024. “We have had a year with excellent development,” said CEO Emma Walmsley in London, according to Wednesday. The company also raised its sales goals by 2031 and announced a share buyback over two billion pounds within the next 18 months. The dividend should also continue to rise. On the London stock exchange, the stock attracted the news.
Roundup 2: wind turbine manufacturer Vestas with order record – share despite outlook
Aarhus – The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas (Vestas Wind Systems AS) significantly increased sales and profits in 2024 and expected better than expected from analysts. With a record order book in the back, the Danish competitor of the Siemens-Energy subsidiary (Siemens Energy) Gamesa and Nordex expects further growth. However, Vestas said that the necessary start -up of production in the United States and Europe, however, announced in Aarhus in Danish on Wednesday. That is why the company gave a conservative prognosis regarding the expected profitability.
Amgen surprises positively with a quarter and forecast – still under pressure
Thousand Oaks – The US Biotech Group Amgen looks optimistic about the future after a surprisingly well -run quarter. In 2025, sales are expected to be $ 34.4 to $ 35.7 billion, the company announced on Tuesday after the Aviation Closing in Thousand Oaks. Analysts have so far calculated an average of 34.6 billion. In 2024, the proceeds were climbed by 19 percent to $ 33.4 billion due to increased medication sales. The bottom line dropped by almost 40 percent to a good $ 4 billion. The reason for this was, among other things, higher expenses in connection with the takeover of Horizon.
Walt Disney surprises positive thanks to ‘Moana 2’ and streaming business
Burbank-Thanks to a strong streaming business and through the success of the animated film “Moana 2”, the US media company Walt Disney exceeded the market expectations at the start of its new financial year. Sales and profits were higher than expected, as can be seen from the figures presented on Wednesday in Burbank from Disney. In other business areas, including the TV business and the operation of the themed parks, however, it was less rosy. On the stock exchange, it was also criticized that the forecast was not increased. The stock gave in pre-exchanging US trade.
AMD fails to expect expectations in the AI business
Santa Clara-The catch-up of the semiconductor group AMD (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)) to AI chip market leader Nvidia does not run as quickly as hoped for by Wall Street. The proceeds in the business with data centers rose by 69 percent to $ 3.9 billion in the past quarter in the past quarter, as the company announced on Tuesday after the Aviation conclusion. An average analysts had expected a higher amount at $ 4.14 billion. The AMD share temporarily dropped by around five percent in post-market trading. AMD is the clear number two in the business with chips for training software based on artificial intelligence. But the distance to the market leader Nvidia is huge.
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