Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- PepsiCo Inc.’s quarterly revenue and earnings beat expectations, as the maker of Doritos and Lay’s sees improvement in salty snacks volume following recent price cuts. Organic sales, which strips out items such as currency swings and acquisitions, increased 2.6% in the first quarter, the company said in a statement Thursday, outpacing analysts’ average estimate. Earnings per share, excluding some items, also exceeded projections.
- Netflix’s (NFLX) stock struggled through the winter as the company engaged in a bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. But since ending the chase two months ago, the company has gotten back to basics, a strategy welcomed by investors and that’s expected to be validated when it reports earnings after the close.
- Shares of Alibaba (BABA) advance after the company announced it will raise prices for its anti-DDoS services that protect enterprise clients from cyber attacks.