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Nasdaq Drops Over 100 Points; Campbell Soup Earnings Beat Estimates

Published 07/06/2023, 17:37
Updated 07/06/2023, 18:40
© Reuters.  Nasdaq Drops Over 100 Points; Campbell Soup Earnings Beat Estimates

© Reuters. Nasdaq Drops Over 100 Points; Campbell Soup Earnings Beat Estimates

Benzinga - U.S. stocks traded mixed midway through trading, with Nasdaq Composite dropping over 100 points on Wednesday.

The Dow traded up 0.20% to 33,639.18 while the NASDAQ fell 0.90% to 13,156.82. The S&P 500, also fell, dropping, 0.26% to 4,272.83.

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Leading and Lagging Sectors

  • Energy shares jumped by 2.6% on Wednesday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Nine Energy Service, Inc. (NYSE: NINE), up 9%, and HighPeak Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: HPK), up 9%.
  • In trading on Wednesday, communication services shares fell by 1.5%.

Top Headline

Campbell Soup Co (NYSE: CPB) posted upbeat earnings for its third quarter.

Campbell Soup reported third-quarter FY23 net sales and organic sales growth of 5% year-over-year to $2.229 billion, versus the consensus of $2.23 billion. Adjusted EPS was $0.68 (-3% Y/Y), beating the consensus of $0.65.

Campbell sees FY23 net sales growth of 8.5%-10%; adjusted EPS of $2.95-$3.00 versus consensus of $3.01. It sees Adjusted EBIT growth of 4.5%-6.5%.

Equities Trading UP

  • Yext, Inc. (NASDAQ: YEXT) shares shot up 33% to $12.78 after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and issued strong FY24 forecast.
  • Shares of Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ: FARM) got a boost, shooting 59% to $3.0683. Treehouse Foods inked a deal with Farmer Brothers to acquire certain assets for around $100 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
  • Stitch Fix, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFIX) shares were also up, gaining 29% to $4.7650 as the company reported better-than-expected results for its third quarter.

Equities Trading DOWN

  • Vaxart, Inc. (NASDAQ: VXRT) shares dropped 29% to $0.8836 after the company reported pricing of $15 million public offering of common stock.
  • Shares of PolarityTE, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTE) were down 43% to $0.2470. On June 6, 2023, PolarityTE Filed Voluntary Petitions For Relief Under Chapter 11 Of The United States Bankruptcy Code
  • Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE) was down, falling 26% to $16.39 after the company posted first-quarter earnings and issued weak second-quarter sales forecast.

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Commodities

In commodity news, oil traded up 1.6% to $72.86 while gold traded down 1.1% at $1,960.00.

Silver traded down 0.4% to $23.565 on Wednesday while copper fell 0.4% to $3.7525.

Euro zone

European shares were mixed today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 fell 0.19%, London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.05% while Spain’s IBEX 35 Index rose 0.53% The German DAX dropped 0.2% French CAC 40 fell 0.09% and Italy’s FTSE MIB Index rose 0.07%.

Retail sales in Italy rose 0.2% from the prior month in April. France reported a current account gap of EUR 0.1 billion in April 2023, versus a revised EUR 0.3 billion surplus in the prior month. French trade deficit increased to EUR 9.7 billion in April versus a revised EUR 8.4 billion gap in the prior month. Industrial production in Germany rose 0.3% month-over-month in April. The Halifax house price index in the UK declined 1% year-over-year in May.

Asia Pacific Markets

Asian markets closed mostly higher on Wednesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropping 1.82%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index gaining 0.80% and China’s Shanghai Composite Index gaining 0.08%. India’s S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.56%.

Austria recorded a trade surplus of EUR 0.44 billion in March versus a year-ago deficit of EUR 1.61 billion, while the country’s economy expanded 0.2% qoq in the first quarter. Foreign exchange reserves in Hong Kong fell to a seven-month low of $421 billion in May, while Chinese foreign exchange reserves declined to $3.177 trillion in May. Chinese trade surplus narrowed to $65.81 billion in May from $78.40 billion in the year-ago period.

The index of leading economic indicators in Japan rose to 97.6 in April from a final reading of 96.9 in the prior month, while index of coincident economic indicators climbed to 99.4 in April versus a 99.2 in the previous month.

Economics

  • Mortgage applications in the U.S. dropped 1.4% in the week ended June 2, 2023.
  • The trade deficit in the U.S. increased to a six-month high level of $74.6 billion in April, versus a $60.6 billion gap in the prior month. Exports from the U.S. fell by $9.2 billion from a month ago to $249 billion in April, while imports rose by $4.8 billion to $323.6 billion.
  • U.S. crude oil inventories dropped by 0.451 million barrels in the week ending June 2, versus market estimates of a 1.022 million gain.

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COVID-19 Update

The U.S. has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world, reporting a total of 107,147,350 cases with around 1,166,160 deaths. India confirmed a total of at least 44,992,090 cases and 531,880 deaths, while France reported over 40,102,440 COVID-19 cases with 167,420 deaths. In total, there were at least 690,000,260 cases of COVID-19 worldwide with more than 6,888,820 deaths.

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