DTE`s 1Q Earnings Surge on Colder Weather and Lower Benefit Costs

We will be maintaining our $55 fair value estimate and stable narrow moat trend for DTE Energy DTE after the company announced first-quarter earnings that were driven higher primarily by much colder weather for both the gas and the electric utilities. During the quarter, DTE earned $1.34 per share versus $0.91 per share for the…

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Autoliv Reports 1Q Results, Beats Street Consensus by $0.09; Maintaining our $80 FVE

No-moat, positive-moat-trend rated Autoliv ALV reported first-quarter earnings per share before special items of $1.32, $0.09 ahead of the Street consensus of $1.23. Even so, owing to lackluster European new-car demand and Autoliv’s European customers’ inventory corrections, the $1.32 first-quarter EPS were down $0.24 from $1.56 a year ago. However, management favorably tweaked its full-year…

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SBA Beats Expectations, Raises Guidance Once Again in the First Quarter

SBA Communications SBAC notched another strong firstquarter result, highlighted by better-than-expected earnings and another guidance upgrade. First-quarter revenues grew by 62% year over year to $313 million–roughly 4% above consensus. The growth was driven by a 64.1% increase in the firm’s tower base, which now stands at 17,539. Once again, however, SBA’s growth was in…

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Five Things Which You Didn’t Know About Twitch, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s Recent Acquisition

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced on Monday that it had acquired Twitch for $970 million. What is it about the video game streaming platform that had major companies like Amazon and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) vying for its hand? Twitch is an exponentially growing video game live streaming website The operative word here is ‘exponentially growing’. Twitch…

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