The major stock indices remain pressured with the NASDAQ index down nearly 2% ahead of some key earnings including Microsoft and Alphabet after the close.
A snapshot of the market currently shows:
- Dow industrial average is down -241 points or -0.76% at 31749
- S&P index down -49.13 or -1.24% at 3917.81
- NASDAQ index -225.60 or -1.91% at 11558.10
The NASDAQ index is testing/dipping below its 100 hour moving average at 11566.41 (see blue line in the chart below). Stay below is more bearish:
So what are investors expecting for the 2 key releases:
For Microsoft:
- earnings-per-share $2.29
- revenues $52.45 billion
- earnings-per-share guidance for Q1 2022 $2.47
- fiscal year 2022 $9.29
- revenue guidance Q1 2022 $51.53 billion
- revenue guidance FY 2022 $198.85 billion
- revenue guidance fiscal year 2023 $225.82 billion
Looking at the hourly chart of Microsoft, it fell from its 100 hour moving average near $259.33 currently (blue line in the chart below) and also its 200 hour MA at $257.72. Momentum selling has taken the price all the way down to $249.57. It would take a move back above the 100 hour moving average to tilt the bias back to the upside.
For Alphabet:
- earnings-per-share earnings-per-share $1.28
- revenues $69.95 billion
- earnings-per-share guidance Q3 2022 $1.37
- fiscal year 2022 EPS guidance $5.44
- revenue guidance Q3 2022 $73.04 billion
- revenue guidance fiscal year 2022 $294.27 billion
- revenue guidance fiscal year 2023 $335.89 billion
Microsoft is trading down $8.48 were -3.27% currently at the moment, while Alphabet is trading down$-2.62 for -2.44% at $105.10.