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Haliburton Rises, Meta Drops, Carnival Down After 2Q Guidance

Mar 27, 20263 min
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On this episode of Stock Movers:

-  Haliburton (HAL) shares rise. JPMorgan raises its price target on the oilfield services company as it expects limited first-quarter earnings impact from the war compared to peers. Analyst Arun Jayaram notes that while Halliburton peer SLB cut its 1Q EPS guidance due to Middle East disruptions, Halliburton’s Saudi Arabia and North America guidance is maintained

- Meta Platforms (META) shares fall on concerns about AI spending and concerns about a jury verdict that found Meta and Alphabet's Google liable for harming a young user with products designed to be addictive, which may lead to increased government regulations.

-Carnival (CCL) shares are down. Carnival forecasted adjusted earnings per share for the full year of about $2.21. The company also approved a $2.5 billion share buyback.

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The Stock Movers Report, your roundup of companies making moves in the stock market, harnessing the power of Bloomberg data.

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Let's take a look at some of the stocks on the move today. We can do that with Bloomberg's Christina Kino. Christine, what are you looking at today? All right? Let's start with Halliburton. Paul tick Her hal that SHAR is doing well today, up two point seven percent, and that is because JP Morgan raised its price target on the company, saying that expects limited first quarter earnings impact from the

Iran war compared with this other peer. So JP Morgan rating the stock overweights and maintaining that rating, but they did raise the price target to forty dollars from thirty five dollars. Current stock price around thirty nine dollars, and so analysts from JP Morgan citing that the fact that Halliburton maintained its guidance for Saudi Arabia and North America compared with lower guidance by some of its peers, helps keep up its rating there and the outlook as well.

Although second quarter earnings could see some impact from the war but not majorly so at the moment. All right, and let's move on to your second stock in the tech space, absolutely, Scarlett. Let's take a look at Meta, So take her m Eta. Those shares are down today, expending some of those opening to clients now down two point seven percent. And of course we all know that Meta and Google were found liable in the first social media addiction trial. So companies, of course have responded to

the verdict. They disagree, and Meta says that it is evaluating its legal options. We have Bloomberg Intelligence analysts weighing in on the verdict and its impact for the company, saying that ultimately it's unlikely to have a material business impact given that the case, while it was strong, it wasn't a unanimous decision, and so that could potentially poke some holes in the arguments depending on how the appeal

process goes. Carnival Cruise Lines. Carnival Cruise Lines, we just got the report earlier today and that is not voting well for to share, So it took her CCL. Those stairs are down now more than three percent at the moment, and as because we did get some disappointing outlooks for the company from for both the second quarter period and

the full year period. So first quarter adjusted EPs actually beat estimates that came in a twenty cents versus eighteen cents, But it's the outlook that investors are worried about clearly. So for the full year EPs, outlook is about two dollars twenty one cents. The estimate was two dollars thirty

five cents. I also note that their fuel costs bigger than expected, as one would expect, so now they're seeing their fuel costs for the second quarter six hundred and ten million versus five thirty nine for the estimate.

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