The so-called "reopening boom" is benefiting Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) along with others from the consumer niche that were hit hard during strict social-distancing limitations over the past year.
ShipBob is now an official shipping and fulfillment partner on the Walmart (NYSE: WMT) Marketplace, giving small and medium-sized businesses new options for fulfilling their e-commerce orders within two days.
Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) shares traded lower by 3% on Monday following a downgrade.
The Analyst: Bank of America analyst Robert Ohmes downgraded Dollar General from Neutral to Underperform and cut his price target from $225 to $190.
Toward the end of trading Wednesday, the Dow traded down 1.08% to 33,693.98 while the NASDAQ fell 0.66% to 13,215.41. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.94% to 4,088.99.
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) on Tuesday reported first-quarter fiscal 2022 revenue of $138.7 billion, a 2.7% increase from the 2020 first quarter, while operating income rose 32% to $6.9 billion in what the company called strong across-the-board performance.
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) reported quarterly earnings of $1.69 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $1.21 by 39.67 percent. This is a 43.22 percent increase over earnings of $1.18 per share from the same