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Q3 Earnings Continue, Housing and Permits Mixed
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Before the bell halfway through the week, we saw results for September Housing Starts and Permits come in, with mixed results. Seasonally adjusted, annualized housing starts of 1.047 million was the lowest tally in a year and a half, down 9% from the previous month. However, Building Permits — a forward indicator of future housing starts — rose 6.3% to 1.22 million.
We also have a plethora of new Q3 earnings data:
Morgan Stanley (MS - Free Report) far surpassed expectations with 81 cents per share (64 cents was the estimate) on $8.9 billion in revenues (as compared to $8.24 billion expected). It’s the fourth straight beat for Morgan Stanley on the bottom line, on record sales in Wealth Management as well as stronger Trading revenues, as we saw with Goldman Sachs’ stellar results yesterday.
Morgan’s earnings shot up 2.3x the year-ago results of 34 cents per share. Stocks for the investment major are up more than 1% in the pre-market.
U.S. Bancorp (USB - Free Report) also reported its Q3 earnings this morning, meeting the 84 cents per share expected while topping revenue estimates of $5.34 billion to $5.39 billion, up more than 4 1/2% year over year.
Suburban Chicago-based Abbott Labs (ABT - Free Report) beat Q3 earnings estimates by a penny to 58 cents per share, an 8% gain year over year, while bringing sales in-line with $5.3 billion for the quarter.
Halliburton (HAL - Free Report) results were mixed, swinging to a profit of 1 cent per share when -$0.07 was expected for the quarter, though $3.84 billion in sales missed the $3.9 billion in the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Even still HAL shares are up more than 1% in early trading; the company is up nearly 40% year to date.
Finally, Seagate Technology (STX - Free Report) missed estimates on both top and bottom lines for its Q3. Earnings of 22 cents per share were well below the 38 cents expected, on revenues of $2.595 billion which narrowly missed the $2.603 billion the Zacks consensus had anticipated. Shares are down 1.5% ahead of the opening bell.
Mark Vickery
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