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Mixed FANG Earnings, Oil Stocks Stutter, & Grubhub Goes Shopping

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On today’s episode of the Zacks Friday Finish Line, Associate Stock Strategist Ryan McQueeney and Editor Maddy Johnson take on this week’s biggest stories, including Grubhub’s shiny new acquisition, Spotify’s impressive user growth, and mixed reactions to earnings announcements from FANG stocks and oil giants.

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First, the Finish Line team discussed Grubhub’s latest earnings report, which saw the food delivery giant post better-than-expected results and announce the acquisition of LevelUp, a payments and customer rewards company. Grubhub shares soared in the wake of the report, and Maddy and Ryan discuss why this might have more to do with the benefits of the LevelUp buy than any current growth figures.

Next, the hosts chatted about Spotify’s (SPOT - Free Report) second earnings report as a publicly-traded company. The music streaming giant missed some revenue estimates, but investors were far more interested in its impressive user growth figures. Maddy and Ryan discuss setting expectations for Spotify and interpreting its current user numbers heading forward.

Maddy and Ryan also covered this week’s top tech reports from FANG member Facebook , Amazon (AMZN - Free Report) , and Alphabet (GOOGL - Free Report) .

Google parent Alphabet kicked things off strong this week, posting staggering revenue growth for a company of its size and stature. However, the wind was taken out of the FANG sails after Facebook reported a rare double miss and suffered a historically bad day of trading.

Still, Amazon surprised to the upside and looked ready to rejuvenate the group later in the week. Maddy and Ryan recap the key facts from all of these reports, so make sure to check out the episode to hear more!

Finally, the hosts wrapped up the episode by checking in on the mixed earnings results from oil behemoths Royal Dutch Shell , Exxon Mobil (XOM - Free Report) , Chevron (CVX - Free Report) , which gave updates on the state of oil production and share repurchase programs.

Tune in to hear what the Finish Line team had to say about these major oil stocks!

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