Momo and Quarantine: how hello group business works

Hello GroupMOMO5,09 $ Hello Group (NASDAQ: MOMO) – Chinese service for communication and content consumption, who owns the well-known Momo platform. The company is inexpensive, and it has prospects. But the coronacrisis could confuse all plans..

Investidea: Napco, because chaos is growing.

Napco Security TechnologiesNSSC17,64 $ Today we have a moderately speculative idea.: take shares of a manufacturer of goods to protect the property of Napco Security Technologies (NASDAQ: NSSC) in view of the deteriorating law and order situation in America.

Investidea: Alarm.com, because crime is not asleep

Alarm com Holdings IncALRM61,07 $ Today we have a moderately speculative idea.: take the shares of the supplier of services and goods to protect the property of the Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM), in order to make money on the deterioration of the criminal situation in the United States.

The parent company Google for the first time in two years reported worse than expected

Alphabet Class AGOOGL2301,00 $Купить Alphabet Class CGOOG2300,83 $ Alphabet reported for the first quarter of 2022 worse than analysts' forecasts. 26 In April, its shares in the post-market fell by 3%, to 2308 $. Financial results Here's how the company's key indicators have changed year-on-year, and here's what analysts expected: revenue - $ 68 billion (+23%), expectations — $68.1 billion; earnings per share - 24,6 $ (−6%), expectations - 25,9 $. Alphabet's net profit fell due to the revaluation of its own stock portfolio. A year ago, investments in shares of other companies brought Alphabet almost $ 5 billion, but now the loss was about a billion. At the same time, operating profit, or profit from operating activities, increased by 22%, to $20.1 billion. Operating margin remains the same — 30%. Alphabet reported worse than expected for the first time in two years, that is, since the beginning of the pandemic. All this time she earned good money., as many advertisers have increased spending on promoting products on the network. Now revenue growth has begun to slow down.. Here's how sales increased in key operating segments. Google Advertising - YouTube Ads, Google Search and other services - $ 54.7 billion (+22%). About 13% in this segment is accounted for by ads on YouTube. And here sales grew by only 14% and turned out to be significantly lower than expected.: 6,9 versus $7.5 billion. The company attributed the poor performance to competition and the high base effect.: a year ago, in quarantine, people spent more time online, including on YouTube. And the departure from Russia also affected. Last year, the country accounted for about 1% of total annual revenue. Google Other — комиссии в Google Play, YouTube Premium subscriptions, гаджеты Pixel и прочее — 6,8 млрд …

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Microsoft's quarterly revenue grew by 18%

Microsoft CorporationMSFT283,22 $ Microsoft has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, which is over 31 Martha. The results were better than expected, and MSFT shares in the postmarket 26 April grew up on 4,5%, to 282 $. Financial Results Microsoft's Year-Over-Quarter Financial Results and Analysts' Expectations: revenue - 49.4 billion dollars (+18%), expectations — $49 billion; adjusted EPS — 2,22 $ (+14%), expectations - 2,19 $. And this is the revenue in each of the three operating segments.. Productivity and Business Processes — приложения Office, social network LinkedIn, Dynamics Business Applications - $15.8 billion (+17%). Sales of office applications for corporations grew by 12%, for ordinary users — on 11%. During the quarter, the company raised prices for some subscriptions., and also increased the number of subscribers. Intelligent Cloud - Azure cloud service, Windows Server and SQL Server - $19.1 billion (+26%). Sales of Azure cloud services, a key and fast-growing business of the company, grew by 46%. Analysts expected the same. More Personal Computing — ОС Windows, Xbox set-top boxes and subscriptions, Surface laptops and tablets, advertising - $14.5 billion (+15%). Sales of Windows licenses increased by 11%. This is a good result., since the rush demand for PCs, which began during the pandemic, gradually subsides. Xbox Game Pass game and subscription sales up just 4% due to high base effect. But the demand for the consoles themselves is still high.. Here, sales have added 14%. According to Microsoft, in the current quarter, the company's total sales will amount to 52.4-53.2 billion dollars. This range includes the analysts' forecast of $53 billion..

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