This earnings season may be winding down but there are still a number of companies reporting in the coming week.
Markets will be keeping an eye on Dell's latest results to see if demand for its Nvidia-powered artificial intelligence (AI) servers can continue to drive momentum at the computer maker, after the company raised its annual forecasts in the previous quarter.
Investors will also be looking to chipmaker Analog Devices' earnings for clues on the health of broader US economic activity, given the range of sectors its serves.
Meanwhile, football club Manchester United is set to release its first quarter results just days after Ruben Amorim makes his debut as manager of the Premier League team.
In retail, Urban Outfitters is to report, after having posted record second-quarter sales back in August.
Back on the UK market, investors will want to see if easyJet is reaping the benefits of continued rising demand for air travel.
Shares in computer maker Dell were among those that rose on the back of Nvidia's (NVDA) highly-anticipated third quarter earnings release, as the chipmaker beat estimates on key metrics, which boosted partner stocks.
The attention now turns to Dell's own third-quarter earnings, which are due out on Tuesday.
The computer hardware maker raised its annual revenue profit forecast on the back of its second quarter results, saying that it expected revenue to come in between $95.5bn (£76.2bn) and $98.5bn, according to Reuters.
Yvonne McGill, chief financial officer at Dell Technologies, said that the company's momentum in its infrastructure solutions group business was a "significant tailwind", with a record revenue of $11.6bn, which was up 38% year-on-year.
This part of the business includes AI-optimised servers which are powered by Nvidia's chips.
Dell shares soared following the release of its second quarter results in August, with the stock up 82% year-to-date.
The company's recent performance marked an improvement from earlier in the year, with Dell having revealed a 2.5% fall in gross margins in the first quarter due to slower demand for its AI servers.
Dell then reportedly announced a fresh round of job cuts in August as part of reorganisation of its sales teams with a new unit focused on AI.
Bloomberg reported that Dell sales executives Bill Scannell and John Byrne had said the business was getting "leaner" and was "streamlining layers of management and reprioritizing where we invest".
Chipmaker Analog Devices is considered as a valuable barometer of economic activity in the US and globally.
It specialises in analogue, mixed-signal processing, and power management chips, serving more than 125,000 customers across diverse sectors, offering more than 75,000 products. Just over half of its sales are driven by industrial markets, a quarter by the automotive sector, with the remainder coming from communications and consumer applications.
Analog Devices' shares have been volatile this year, which has meant the stock is less than 8% in the green year-to-date.
However, the company's CEO Vincent Roche noted a "nascent recovery" in the business cycle in the third quarter.
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Revenue for this period came in at $2.3bn, which was above the midpoint of its outlook, with growth in industrial, consumer and communications areas of the business. However, this was 25% lower than the $3.1bn reported for the same period last year.
Diluted earnings per share of $0.79 for the third quarter, were 55% lower than the $1.74 reported in the previous year.
Richard Puccio, chief financial officer for Analog Devices, said: "Improved customer inventory levels and order momentum, across most of our markets, position us to grow again sequentially in our fourth quarter, increasing our confidence that we are past the trough of this cycle.
"However, economic and geopolitical uncertainty continues to limit the pace of the recovery."
For the fourth quarter, Analog Devices forecasted revenue of $2.4bn, plus or minus $100m and expected a reported operating margin of around 22.3%, as well as reported earnings per share of $0.85.
New York-listed shares in Manchester United rose after the club confirmed that it had fired manager Erik ten Hag.
Shares are still down 14%, reflecting the team's Premier League performance. Manchester United finished last season in eighth place in the Premier League, having won 18 matches but losing 14 games.
This season Man Utd has sunk lower in the league, languishing down at 13th place, having lost four and won the same number of matches, while drawing three games. There's currently an eight-point gap between United and its main rival Manchester City, which stands at second place in the Premier League.
Ruben Amorim, former manager of Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon, was named as ten Hag's successor at the beginning of November and this weekend's match against Ipswich Town will be his first as manager.
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Amorim's debut will be followed by the club's first quarter financial results, which are due out on Tuesday.
In the fourth quarter, Manchester United posted a 15% fall in total revenue to £142m ($177m), compared with the same quarter last year. This left the compared with just 2% growth in revenue for the year, at nearly £662m.
Losses for the year widened to £113m, up from nearly £29m in 2023 and marked its fifth consecutive year of net losses, according to Reuters.
Omar Berrada, who took over as CEO in the summer, said: "We are working towards greater financial sustainability and making changes to our operations to make them more efficient, to ensure we are directing our resources to enhancing on-pitch performance."
Manchester United started work on its business transformation plan at the beginning of the fourth quarter in 2024, with the club aiming to generate annual cost savings of around £40m to £45m, before implementation costs of £10m.
In terms of outlook, the club guided to revenue of £650m to £670m for the 2025 fiscal year and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, debt and amortisation of £145m to £160m.
Another company set to report on Tuesday is Urban Outfitters, whose brands also include Anthropologie and Free People, with shares in the clothing retailer up just 5% year-to-date.
Analysts are expecting Urban Outfitters to post quarterly earnings of $0.84 per share, which points to a year-on-year decline of 4.6%, according to Zacks Equity Research.
Revenues are expected to come in at $1.3bn, which would be 4.1% higher than the same period last year.
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The company reported record sales for the second quarter, rising 6.3% to $1.4bn and logged net income of $117.5m, with earnings per diluted share of $1.24.
Net sales were highest from Anthropologie and Free People, which are the company's higher-end brands.
Richard A. Hayne, CEO of Urban Outfitters, also highlighted that four of the company's five brands delivered record operating profits during the second quarter.
The majority of analysts have a "hold" recommendation on the stock, according to Yahoo Finance data. Most recently, Citigroup reiterated a neutral rating on the stock.
Budget airline easyJet was among the low-cost carriers that had been slapped with a fine by Spain's consumer rights ministry, according to an announcement on Friday.
EasyJet, along with Ryanair (RYA.IR), International Airlines Group's (IAG.L) Vueling, fellow Spanish airlines Volotea and Norwegian Air Shuttle, have been fined a combined combined €179m (£149m).
In a statement released Friday, the ministry said the fines were over "abusive practices such as charging extra for hand luggage or reserving adjacent seats to accompany dependent persons", according to a translation.
EasyJet was fined €29m of the total amount, though shares were still more than 1% in the green by Friday afternoon.
Looking to the easyJet's upcoming earnings on Wednesday, this will be the last set of results with Johan Lundgren as CEO, before chief financial officer, Kenton Jarvis, takes the reins in January.
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Analysts are expecting easyJet to post a headline pre-tax profit of £595m for the year, according to AJ Bell's investment experts Russ Mould, Danni Hewson and Dan Coatswort. This would be up from £455m a year ago.
Key metrics behind this headline figure include capacity, which is expected to have grown 8% to 100 million in the year to September 2024. Airline revenue per seat is among the other figures that analysts will be watching, with a benchmark of £79.84 last year.
In terms of dividends, analysts are expecting a payout of 12p per share, with this anticipated to rise to 14.8p for the year ending September 2025.
Aarin Chiekrie, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that easyJet's last set of results "landed well with markets, who had become nervous after rival Ryanair issued a weak performance over the same period. But easyJet bucked the trend by selling a higher percentage of its available seats for the fourth quarter, despite increasing its capacity by 7%.
"This was enough to reassure investors that the group remains on the right flight path to deliver another record-breaking summer," he said.
Chiekrie added: "Recent industry data shows that air travel demand continues to soar higher, and investors are eager to hear what easyJet sees on the horizon in next week’s results.”
Monday 25 November
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Tuesday 26 November
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AO World (AO.L)
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Macy’s Inc (M)
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Wednesday 27 November
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