Buckle up, stock scrutinizers - because an absolute earnings avalanche is headed our way next week with enough seismic shakeup potential to rattle portfolios to their very core! We've got a veritable volcanic lineup of finance titans, disruptive innovators, and corporate juggernauts all hoisting their quarterly fireworks for imminent launch. Some will scale dizzying new heights with triumphant releases, while others may very well crater into molten tedium.
But never fear, my income stream incinerators! Your supremely insightful spectral analysts at Modern Rock have boldly ventured ahead to scout the lava fields of earnings upheaval sure to dominate next week's market action. Our team has carefully curated this high-risk/high-reward eruption watchlist for your viewing pleasure (and portfolio prosperity) - consider it your hazmat-certified VIP pass to witness the financial Krakatoas of tomorrow!
First into the searing crucible - none other than Elon Musk's electric vehicle/AI disruptor Tesla (TSLA)! The infamous $792 billion market cap eccentric targets $0.51 EPS for its July 23rd fuse-lighting, a far cry from last year's comparatively measly $0.71 showing. While analysts stubbornly see TSLA burning out around $234, another beat could easily launch this volatile puppy into uncharted valuation tropospheres. Talk about a stock constantly detonating all conventional analytics!
Staying in Big Tech's erupting caldera, we've also got Google-parent Alphabet (GOOG) strutting up to the $1.51 EPS earnings launchpad on the 23rd. Last year's $1.64 EPS performance suddenly seems pedestrian for the $2.25 trillion disruptor, doesn't it? Analysts see alt-upside blastoffs approaching $211 valuations, roughly 15% above current hovering levels. Another volcanic quarter for GOOG could melt away recent market-underperformance angst in one massive gas emission.
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Next up, dive briefers at payments linchpin Visa (V) predict they'll posit a $2.44 EPS thermal detonation on the same apocalyptic July 23rd date. The $545 billion cashflow kings ironically outdid themselves to the tune of $2.41 EPS this period last year - but maintain a vigorous $316 average price target well above present $273 stream beds. Nail the numbers, and V could very well thrust stock valuations into escape velocity from a single revenue plume!
Don't worry though, we've got some more...burnished...earnings landmarks peppering the docket too. Exhibit A: Coca-Cola (KO), that classic $281 billion dividend gusher flush with timeless product sustainability. The iconic beverage proprietor aims to quench growth thirsts with potential $0.70 EPS magnitudes, handily eclipsing last year's $0.49/share performance. Though forecasting modest ~$5 stock price frothings, at least KO's carbonated income stream remains a reliably effervescent constant.
Pivoting to finance, we've got $57 billion credit card OG Capital One (COF) loading its very own $3.31 earnings charge for July 23rd ignition. After last year's $2.24 EPS dud mired them around $115 valuations, analysts licking their chops see sunnier COF skies enabling $161 breakout trajectories this go-around if they hit their marks. Is the creditsphere about to shower gains aplenty amid stubborn inflations wormholed economic uncertainty? COF may very well provide the answer in fireworks format.
To healthcare next, where $85 billion hospital behemoth HCA Healthcare (HCA) hopes to breathe life into its $5.01 EPS target vitals for the 23rd. Last year's $5.93 showing suddenly appears expendable if they nail current forecasts - more importantly, analysts envision HCA stock potentially rocketing to $366 trading ranges amid the imminent eruption aftermath. As America's frontline medical systems brace for impact from myriad cyclical ailments, this earnings discharge could prove particularly volatile.
Speaking of volatility, the lava truly flows at $109 billion global insurance titan Chubb (CB)! Their underwhelming $5.31 EPS sight picture for July 23rd fuses badly underwhelms 2021's $8.30 historical blast radius - and CB analysts effectively see shares burning out near $262 levels post-fireworks. Maybe insurers really are fire-fighting their own earnings flames as harsh realities seep through the economic blast radius?
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But let's go out with an earnings bang - focused on financial data/analytics juggernaut MSCI (MSCI). With their $3.45 billion EPS charge priming detonation on July 23rd, this $40 billion market intelligence innovator aims to one-up last year's $3.68 EPS fiscal depth charge. While surface-level MSCI rumblings currently hover around $504, their $577 analyst crosshairs imply plenty of upside shockwave potential if forthcoming fireworks prove earthshakingly transcendent!
There you have it, dear precipice spectators - our earnings avalanche frontline reporting from the molten income statement combat zones! Some imminent explosions threaten to reduce portfolios to ash with disappointing deflagrations...while others practically guarantee propelling ground-based capital valuations to dizzying stratospheric altitudes at even faintest whiffs of triumphal guidance.
The incendiary truth remains, however: this particular procession of detonating earnings depth charges could thrill or chill almost any risk temperament under the broiling surface of the sun! So prepare those thermal shieldings accordingly, and stay frosty under those incinerating opening bombardments next week - because this eruption cycle essentially guarantees scorching new landscapes no matter what shrapnel rains down.