Sarah Whitten | CNBC Consumers stocked up on board games, not Barbie dolls, amid the coronavirus pandemic, sending Mattel’s sales in the first quarter tumbling. While toy sales across the industry rose 7.6% between January and March, according to NPD data, it seems that lockdowns aren’t giving all toymakers a boost. On Tuesday, Mattel reported
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General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on April 1, 2020 tours one of the company’s facilities in Warren, Michigan that will produce Level 1 face masks. GM General Motors is set to report its first-quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday as the company grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that’s shuttered
DuPont products are shown for sale in a hardware store in National City, California, December 9, 2015. Mike Blake | Reuters Industrial materials maker DuPont on Tuesday slashed its capital expenditure by about $500 million and raised its annual cost-savings target to counter global trade uncertainties brought on by the coronavirus outbreak. The industrial giant
The Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse greets children at Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. Getty Images Last year, Disney’s Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products segment was its fastest-growing profit driver. Now, it could be the company’s biggest drag on earnings, thanks to the Covid-19 outbreak. The coronavirus pandemic has caused many headaches for Disney. The
Niraj Shah, CEO, Wayfair Ashlee Espinal | CNBC Online furniture retailer Wayfair‘s net loss widened in the first quarter as its sales surged nearly 20%, with more people flocking to its website to furnish their home offices and bedrooms during the coronavirus pandemic. Its shares were down more than 3% in premarket trading following the announcement. Here’s
Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday posted a record net loss of nearly $50 billion as the coronavirus pandemic pummeled its common stock investments, but operating profit rose even as COVID-19 hurt its businesses. Berkshire’s first-quarter net loss totaled $49.75 billion, or $30,653 per Class A share, reflecting $54.52
A Tyson Fresh Meats plant employee leaves the plant on Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Logansport, Indiana. Darron Cummings | AP Tyson Foods on Monday reported that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell 15% from a year ago, as production disruptions weighed on its results. The company also said that it has secured a $1.5 billion
A research associate performs a buffer exchange for protein formulation at AMGEN, a drug research and development laboratory. Ricardo Dearatanha | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Amgen on Thursday reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and said it plans to study psoriasis drug Otezla as a potential treatment for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the
Andrew Jassy, chief executive officer of web services for Amazon.com Inc., speaks during the 2019 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston on March 11, 2019. F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon’s market-leading cloud business crossed $10 billion in revenue for the first time in the first quarter. At $10.22 billion, Amazon
Amazon reported its first-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, revealing the pandemic’s impact on the business that has been a rare bright spot on the stock market. The stock fell about 5% after hours after missing estimates on earnings while beating revenue expectations. Here’s what Amazon reported: Earnings per share (EPS): $5.01 Revenue: $75.45 billion