Before-Xmas earnings: Micron, Cal-Maine Foods, ARK

Not only the Nike set out its numbers before Xmas. I draw up 3 other companies from my watch list.

Micron's HQ in Idaho - computerworld.com

The well-known SSD memory chip maker, Micron (MU) also set out its numbers on Tuesday parallel with Nike after market closure. Key numbers are:

• EPS $0,24 (on GAAP basis $0,19); expected EPS $0,23, 1 cent beat; last year's EPS $0,97.
• Revenue was $3.35 billion in 1st fiscal quarter, down 27% year-over-year; appr. $110 million less of estimations.
• Gross margin decreased 25%, down from 36% during the same period last year.
• Revenue expected to be between $2.9 billion and $3.2 billion, with a gross margin between 17.5% and 20% for the 2nd fiscal quarter.
• Analysts predicts $0,54 EPS for the whole current fiscal year.

Share's price fell almost 9%.

Micron's average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $22.21.

Cal-Maine Foods Inc (CALM) also launch its report on 12/23/2015.

Share price of the famous shell egg producer and processor company fell 3,45% in aftermarket on Wednesday. Key numbers are:

• EPS: $2,26; expectation: $2,40.
• Revenue: $545.98 million; expectation: $552.31 million.
• Average selling prices for shell eggs were up 42.9% year-over-year,
• but prices declined 12.2% compared with the prior quarter.
• P/E 6,86; Debt/Eq 0,05; Dividend yield 6,07%/y.

Egg prices to remain volatile until there's more clarity on how many flocks are affected by the avian influenza outbreaks in the U.S.

 On Wednesday reported a little, New York headquartered restaurant chain, ARK Restaurants Corp. (ARKR) that has high dividend yield (4,46%).

• EPS $0,57,
• Revenue $40,58 million,
• Company-wide same store sales increased 7.4% in the fiscal quarter.
• For fiscal 2015 company-wide same store sales increased 0.9% compared to last year.
• Market capitalization of $76.31 million and a P/E ratio of 14.55.

 Share price had volatile moves on recent week.

Huge downfall in YUM price

Nike's revenue break-down - marketrealist.com

There we've seen to come out the first few company reports. The earliest company in the row - as usually - was the DOW30 component Nike (NKE).

Nike's Q3 EPS is $1,34, up 23% Y/Y.  Expected EPS was $1,19.

Its revenues up 5% to $8.4 billion, up 14% on a currency-neutral basis.

Nike shares surged 9% to a record high on 24th of Sept.

Costco (COST) also came out with its numbers on 28th of Sept.

EPS $1,72, while analysts awaited only $1,66.

Net sales $34,99B which missed previously thought $36,26B.

Micron Technology Inc (MU) - which is one of Blogger's favorite chip maker - jumped 12% on earnings beat. The company reported non-GAAP EPS of $0.37 for the quarter, down from $0.82 during the fourth quarter of 2014. Analysts were expecting  of $0.33. Profitability collapsed in the Compute Networking Business Unit, which includes PCs, with the segment operating margin declining by 10 percentage points from the third quarter to 7.6%. The mobile business remained quite profitable, with an operating margin of 27.3%.

On 6th of October Pepsi (PEP) released its latest earnings report before opening bell on Tuesday morning, posting adjusted earnings of $1.35 per share and sales of $16.3 billion, a 5% year over year decline. Analysts had been expecting earnings of $1.26 per share and revenue of $16.22 billion. Shares popped.

Tuesday was black for Yum! Brands (YUM). It's share downed 17% after poor numbers. Yum's adjusted earnings came in at $1.07/share on $3.42B of revenue. This badly missed forecasts. Analysts expected $3.68 billion of revenue.

Yum's same-restaurant sales, grew just 2% last quarter in China. Analysts had expected 9%. (China itself makes up more than half of Yum's operating profit.)

Capital spends (YUM) - financialorbit.tumblr.com