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Comcast's growth in broadband customers offsets fourth-quarter cord-cutting

The Philadelphia-based cable company reported fourth-quarter revenue of $28.4 billion, beating the Wall Street consensus estimate of $28.17 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. The business generated fourth-quarter revenue of $5.04 billion, beating the average estimate of $4.82 billion. Comcast continued to lose cable TV subscribers as viewers flocked to streaming services, but those losses happened at a greater rate than Wall Street expected. …read more […]

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Tesla Remains a Sell at UBS After Target More Than Doubled

(Bloomberg) — Even after more than doubling his Tesla Inc. price target, UBS Group AG analyst Patrick Hummel still recommends that investors sell the electric-car maker.With the shares worth more than twice as much as they were at the beginning of October, UBS’s increased target of $410 is still 28% below the last closing price of $569.56.While Tesla has the potential to become the most profitable original equipment manufacturer (OEM), the positives are “taken for granted” at the current price, according to Hummel, who sees the company’s volumes doubling by 2022.Having the biggest long-term opportunity in autonomous vehicles, Tesla justifies …read more […]

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Finnish state investor raps Nokia for poor communication on profit dive

The head of Finland’s state investment firm Solidium criticised Nokia for poor communication on Thursday and said he had sent management some “feisty feedback” after its sudden profit warning in October. “We were very disappointed by the radical change in (Nokia’s) guidance and above all in their communications about it,” Solidium’s Chief Executive Antti Makinen told Reuters in a sharp rebuke to the company from its biggest shareholder. On Oct. 24 Nokia slashed its 2019 and 2020 profit outlook and halted dividend payouts, saying the company would need to spend more to fend off rivals in the fast-growing …read more […]