The Zacks Analyst Blog highlights visa, Starbucks, booking stocks and Seagate

Chicago, IL – April 30, 2025 – Zacks.com announces the list of shares presented in the analyst blog. Every day, the analysts of Zacks Equity Research discuss the latest news and events that affect stocks and financial markets. The shares recently presented on the blog include: Visa V, Starbucks Sbux, Booking Holdings BKNG and Seagate Technologies StX.

The S&P 500 enjoyed its sixth lead in the stock exchange market on Tuesday, whereby neither economic data nor earlier reports offer figures that affect the latest positive mood. However, hope for the commercial tariff front continues to rest in faith. Up to this point, there is no specific trade agreement between the USA and one of its global trading partners.

The Dow won only 300 points +0.75%on Tuesday trading. The S&P 500 added +32 points, +0.58%, while the Nasdaq grew by +95 points, +0.55%. The Small-Cap Russell 2000 rose by 9 points, +0.49%. The yields of the bonds continued to shrink, with the 10-year to 4.17% and the 2-year-old had dropped at 3.65%.

Half an hour before yesterday's opening bell, the latest Case Shiller Home Price Index came out for the month of February. The heading +3.9% is 20 basis points (BPS) below the previous month, with the 10-city survey at +5.2% ( +5.7% before) and the 20 cities +4.5% ( +4.7%). Leading cities for rising property prices are New York City at +7.7%, Chicago +7.0%and Cleveland +6.6%.

Since the mortgage lenses hovered in the middle of the scope of the real estate two months ago in the middle of 6%, the real estate market showed resistance. A year over the year, only Tampa showed a negative move of -1.5%. Month over a month Tampa was -0.3% and Miami too; Charlotte, NC was 0.0%. All other cities in the survey were in the positive area. Nevertheless, this data looks quite far in the rearview mirror.

The Job offers and work sales survey (backs) The data for March was published about half an hour after the opening bell yesterday morning, which is subject to expectations: 7.19 million compared to 7.5 million. The previous month was originally attributed from 7.57 million to 7.5 million. The opening rate reached +4.3%.

The termination of jobs a month of a month was 3.3 million over a month with an overall termination of +2.1%. Discharges and discharges fell significantly for retail, -66,000 and the federal government, -11,000. This is remarkable because the mastiff is released and subsequent jobs do not appear elsewhere for the past month.

The Conference Board published its latest Consumer confidence index (CCI) Tuesday morning after the opening bell with a heading 86.0 below the expected 87.3 and -7.9 points from 93.9 a month ago. This is now the fifth CCI report in a row, whereby the levels have now come to the covid era.

Because as weak as these headlines are, the expectation index is even worse: 54.4 is a month month of -12.5, the lowest since October 2011. For a certain context, the threshold for expectations that normally signal a recession is 80. have seen.

visa Held his impeccable earnings strip intact and surpassed the result of the financial year in the second quarter with a profit of $ 2.76 per share compared to the expected $ 2.68 and the previous year's quarter of USD per share. The income of 9.59 billion US dollars exceeded the expected 9.56 billion US dollars, with the total payment quantity increased by +8%.

The company takes consumer expenses into account as “resilient”, and in the publication, a share buyback program of $ 30 billion was announced. The stocks have increased by almost 2% in after-hours and increased the growth of +8% a year compared to the previous year.

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Starbucks After yesterday's conclusion of the end yesterday, both upper and lower lines came in the second quarter, whereby the winning of 41 cents per share was missing the Zacks consensus by 8 cents. The income of 8.76 billion US dollars was shy compared to the analysts of 8.79 billion US dollars, whereby sales of -1.0% in the same business is somewhat worse than the expected -0.6%.

Booking stocksOn the other hand, in his quarter on Tuesday afternoon, solid strikes recorded in its first quarter and below the first quarter with a profit of 24.81 USD per share at 4.76 billion US dollars that exceeded the expected quarterly sales of $ 17.20 per share of $ 4.59 billion. Gross bookings, EBITDA and room evenings were all higher than expected for the quarter.

Seagate Technologies Also after yesterday's degree exceeded estimates, whereby the profit of $ 1.90 per share was predicted before the analysts of USD 1.76. Income of 2.16 billion US dollars made the consensus of Zacks almost 2.13 billion dollars. The profit guidelines for the next quarter were increased by 12 cents per share to $ 2.40, and the stocks rose by +6% in the news in late retail.

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