$Oracle (ORCL.US)$ is set to report fiscal third-quarter results next Monday (March 10) after the closing bell rings in New York. What is technical and fundamental analysis saying about the software/cloud/AI giant's stock heading into the results?
Oracle's Fundamental Analysis
As I write this, the Street is looking for ORCL to report $1.49 of adjusted earnings per share and about $1.07 of GAAP EPS on $14.4 billion of revenue.
Such an adjus...

Tech giant $Broadcom (AVGO.US)$ will report fiscal first-quarter results after the bell next Thursday (March 6). What does technical and fundamental analysis say about the stock heading into the results?
Let's see:
Broadcom's Fundamental Analysis
I generally think of Broadcom as a semiconductor business that designs, develops and supplies higher-end chips to a range of businesses, but AVGO is also an enterprise-software operation and a c...

$Rocket Lab (RKLB.US)$ has risen by more than 400% over the past year, and the space-equipment maker is set to report earnings after the bell next Thursday (Feb. 27). What does technical and fundamental analysis say heading into the results?
Let's have a look:
Rocket Lab's Fundamental Analysis
Wall Street is looking for RKLB to report a $0.07 adjusted loss per share on $130.6 million of revenue. That would stand up well to the company’s ye...

Most "Magnificent Seven" stocks have reported fourth-quarter results by now, and most have disappointed – if not on the top and/or bottom lines, then on something like capex, guidance or where they're headed with either cloud computing or generative AI. Will numbers due later this month from Mag-7 darling $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ serve as the season's "make-or-break" release?
Let's check things out:
Nvidia's Fundamental Analysis
Nvidia expec...

Legendary American fast-food chain $McDonald's (MCD.US)$ will release its fourth-quarter results Monday (Feb. 10). What does technical and fundamental analysis say about whether MCD stockholders will deserve a break that day?
Let's see:
McDonald's Fundamental Analysis
As I write this, analysts expect the "Golden Arches" to post $2.86 in adjusted earnings per share for the quarter on roughly $6.5 billion of revenue.
Those numbers, if real...

$Palantir (PLTR.US)$ had a heck of a year in 2024, running 340% to the upside and joining both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100. What does technical and fundamental analysis say about PLTR as the counterterrorism-software maker prepares to report earnings next Monday (Feb. 3) after the bell?
Let's check it out:
Palantir's Fundamental Analysis
Palantir has become one of the leading purveyors of big-data infused, AI-accelerated software that has ma...

Facebook parent and "Magnificent Seven" member $Meta Platforms (META.US)$ will release fourth-quarter earnings next Wednesday (Jan. 29) after the bell. Let's check out social-media giant's technical and fundamental picture heading into the report.
Meta's Fundamental Analysis
Over the past four quarters, META has moved 9.9% on average the day after reporting earnings. So, expectthe potential for significantvolatility and be mentally pre...

$Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.US)$ will report Q4 numbers next Wednesday (Jan. 22) at a time when the medical company’s stock has been under the weather, falling back some 14% since early September even as the S&P 500 gained about 7%. What does JNJ's technical and fundamental analysis say could happen from here?
Let's look:
Johnson & Johnson's Fundamental Analysis
The Street is looking for JNJ to report $2.04 in adjusted Q4 earnings per sha...

We recently had the lack of a so-called "Santa Claus Rally," an omission that's historically a negative sign for stocks. And now, the $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ -- the broadest large-cap U.S. equity index -- has developed a pattern of bearish reversal as well.
Check out the SPX's chart going back six months through Wednesday (Jan. 8):
Readers will see that the S&P 500 developed a head-and-shoulders pattern of bearish reversal in late O...