The secretive clan behind the Dillard’s department store chain has a reputation for avoiding reporters, refusing to hold earnings calls and dodging investor queries about their results. So low-profile and seemingly unambitious with respect to their peers, they are sometimes called “the Dullards.” But there is nothing dull about the family fortune, which is suddenly…
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After missing analyst expectations for revenue and Disney+ subscriber adds, shareholders today whacked Walt Disney Co. DIS share prices across the knees, sending them down almost 6 percent in initial trading hours after the Hollywood giant’s latest earnings. That Wall Street response to Disney’s miss wasn’t quite as rough as the beating investors handed out…
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Amazon Growth. Grocery home deliveries are accelerating. Amazon has three grocery formats that are rushing food to homes – they are Amazon PrimeAMZN -1.8%, Amazon FreshAMZN -1.8%, and on-line Amazon’s Whole FoodsWFM 0.0%. A most recent report by M science finds that the fastest growth in year over year performance was by Amazon Fresh which…
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Ever since the stay-at-home mandates began rolling out across the country, we’ve seen numerous companies withdraw guidance and discontinue providing business outlooks. Without this guidance, consensus estimate ranges have grown wider than ever before, reflecting a greater degree of uncertainty. In these times, both investors and corporate operators who use insights from alternative data will…
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