Tesla, Intel and Microsoft face bigger questions about the path forward, after their shares took a beating last year.
After one of the worst years in Wall Street’s history, investors have some serious questions for companies. As holiday returns roll in — and with them, forecasts for the months or year ahead — many have the chance to answer those questions, or avoid them.
Microsoft Corp. Microsoft MSFT shed $737 billion in market value last year, the third-most of any S&P 500 company, then announced plans to lay off some 10,000 workers this month. Previously a Wall Street darling thanks to the phenomenal growth of its Azure cloud-computing offering, Microsoft now faces a cutback in enterprise spending on cloud and other products, as companies seek to cut their bills after spending wantonly during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There’s little hope for a big rebound when Intel reports Thursday afternoon. Personal-computer sales have experienced their biggest year-over-year declines ever recorded, and Intel’s long-delayed new data-center offering that is meant to answer AMD’s challenge only began selling this year.Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, though, has a chance to lay out his vision for a long-term Intel rebound, as he attempts to make Intel a chip-manufacturing powerhouse again after years of struggles.
For the week ahead, 93 companies in the S&P 500 index SPX , and 12 of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA components, are set to report quarterly results.Among the highlights: General Electric Co. GE reports Tuesday for the first time since splitting off its GE HealthCare Technologies GEHC business. 3M Co.
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