Scotts Miracle-Gro is the largest provider of gardening and lawncare products in the United States. The majority of the company's sales are to large retailers that include Home Depot, Lowe's, and Walmart. Scotts Miracle-Gro can sell its products at a higher price point than its competition because of a well-recognized portfolio of brands that include Miracle-Gro, Roundup, Ortho, Tomcat, and Scotts. Scotts is also the leading supplier of cannabis-growing equipment in North America through its Hawthorne business.

Toll Brothers is a leading builder of upscale homes, serving step-up, empty-nest, active-adult, and second-home buyers. The company delivered 9,597 homes in FY23. At the end of the fiscal year, the company operated 370 selling communities across 24 states. The company operates its own lumber distribution, component-assembly, and manufacturing operations. Toll also has subsidiaries that provide architectural, engineering, mortgage, title land development and golf course management services. TOL also operates a growing number of for-rent apartments. The company, which is based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, had fiscal FY23 home sales of $9.9 billion, up from $9.7 billion in FY22 and the pre-pandemic record of $7.08 billion in FY19. In April 2022, TOL was the number 5 U.S. homebuilder based on revenue. The company's fiscal year ends on October 31.

Stock markets were mixed on Thursday morning following a slightly better-than-expected PPI reading. In March, U.S. headline PPI rose 0.2% after increasing 0.6% in February and 0.4% in January. Prices for final demand services advanced 0.3%, while goods prices declined 0.1%. This brings annual PPI to 2.1%, up from 1.6% last month. Core PPI rose 0.2% after advancing 0.3% in February. The annual core PPI rate now stands at 2.8%, up from 2.7% in February. Leading the increase in services was the index for securities brokerage and investment-related services, which rose 3.1% -- while prices for traveler accommodation services declined 3.8%. A major factor in the decrease for final demand goods was energy, which decreased 1.6% -- while food prices advanced 0.8%, led by a 10.7% increase for processed poultry. The Dow was down 0.4%, while the S&P 500 was flat and the Nasdaq was up 0.5%. Crude oil traded above $85 per barrel and gold rose $12 to $2360 per ounce.

Wipro is a leading global IT services provider, with 175,000 employees. Based in Bengaluru, this India IT services firm leverages its offshore outsourcing model to derive over half of its revenue (57%) from North America. The company offers traditional IT services offerings: consulting, managed services, and cloud infrastructure services as well as business process outsourcing as a service.