Clorox ( CLX ) declares $1.24/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 3.92% Payable May 8; for shareholders of record April 22; ex-div April 22. See CLX Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Clorox The Clorox Company (CLX) Presents at Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference 2026 - Slideshow The Clorox Company (CLX) Presents at Consumer Analyst Gr...
Clorox ( CLX ) declares $1.24/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 3.92% Payable May 8; for shareholders of record April 22; ex-div April 22. See CLX Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Clorox The Clorox Company (CLX) Presents at Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference 2026 - Slideshow The Clorox Company (CLX) Presents at Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference 2026 Prepared Remarks Transcript Clorox: Solid Q2 Results And Cheap Valuation MakesThis Defensive Dividend Stock A Strong Buy Clorox outlines 0–1% category growth target and innovation-led recovery as ERP transition ends Clorox Non-GAAP EPS of $1.39 misses by $0.04, revenue of $1.67B beats by $30M
Mispriced risk in African sovereign debt is costing the continent billions of dollars in additional debt-service payments and constraining critical economic growth, according to a Zambian Treasury official. African nations pay nearly three percentage points more to borrow than peers in other regions because investors have “overblown fears,” Secretary to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa said Tuesday at...
Mispriced risk in African sovereign debt is costing the continent billions of dollars in additional debt-service payments and constraining critical economic growth, according to a Zambian Treasury official. African nations pay nearly three percentage points more to borrow than peers in other regions because investors have “overblown fears,” Secretary to the Treasury Felix Nkulukusa said Tuesday at a conference in Cape Town. “Every investor believes Africa is just a monolith of political instability and bad governance.” Nkulukusa’s view is shared by some policymakers and investors, who argue that even as global interest rates fall and African capital markets deepen, the region’s borrowing costs remain the highest in the world. Others say the premium is justified, citing a string of recent defaults in places like Ghana and Zambia, and the continent’s turbulent politics and grafts scandals. South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has previously argued that’s not the full story. He sees a bias against the continent that stretches from credit-rating companies to international institutions and investors. The evidence, he said, is that “countries with the same fiscal metrics get a better rating than Africans.” Nkulukusa also noted that the continent’s default rate of 5.5% is less than half that of Asia, at 11.9%, and roughly a third of Latin America’s 14.5%. Even so, African nations pay more to borrow than peers in other regions, he said. “If you ask me what the cost of capital in Africa compared to these countries is, Africa pays higher even if the actual risk is low.” Africa’s ‘Prejudice Premium’ Is Sparking a Bond Market Debate ‘Prejudice Premium’ Costs Africa $75 Billion a Year, AFC Says South Africa Hits Out at Ratings ‘Bias’ as Upgrade Awaited Africa Finance Corp. , a development bank, has dubbed it a “prejudice premium,” estimating that the continent pays as much as $75 billion a year in additional borrowing costs. Standard Bank Group Ltd. estimates the so-c...
President Donald Trump got applause from Democrats and Republicans alike when he called in his State of the Union address for Congress to stop insider trading among lawmakers.
President Donald Trump got applause from Democrats and Republicans alike when he called in his State of the Union address for Congress to stop insider trading among lawmakers.
Iran To Buy Chinese Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles As US Carriers Near As US carriers and warships mass in the Gulf and as the next round of Geneva talks are expected by week's end, Tehran appears to be quietly upgrading its ability to threaten maritime chokepoints. According to Reuters , Iran is in advanced negotiations with Beijing to purchase Chinese-made CM-302 anti-ship cruise missiles - which...
Iran To Buy Chinese Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles As US Carriers Near As US carriers and warships mass in the Gulf and as the next round of Geneva talks are expected by week's end, Tehran appears to be quietly upgrading its ability to threaten maritime chokepoints. According to Reuters , Iran is in advanced negotiations with Beijing to purchase Chinese-made CM-302 anti-ship cruise missiles - which are supersonic weapons (projectiles which go faster than the speed of sound) designed to skim low over the water and evade naval defenses . via state media: CM-301/YJ-12 "The deal for the Chinese-made CM-302 missiles is near completion. No delivery date has been agreed," informed sources told the outlet . "Iran has military and security agreements with its allies, and now is an appropriate time to make use of these agreements," an Iranian Foreign Ministry official said separately, at a moment additional deals with Russia are being reported, including a half-billion Euro agreement for Moscow to send thousands of its advanced shoulder-fired missiles to Tehran. As for the Chinese CM-302, it has a listed range of roughly 290 kilometers (or 180 miles) and is engineered specifically to penetrate layered ship defenses - which the Iranians would seek as they want to complicate US naval operations in the Persian Gulf and beyond, in the event of a hot conflict. Talks to acquire the weapons have reportedly been in the works for some two years, but were accelerated in the wake of Israel's US-backed 12-day war against Iran last June. Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli intelligence officer now with the Institute for National Security Studies, has been cited in international reports describing that the acquisition would be "a complete game-changer if Iran has supersonic capability to attack ships in the area." "These missiles are very difficult to intercept ," he added. "China does not want to see a pro-Western regime in Iran. That would be a threat to their interests. They are hoping t...
Earnings Call Insights: MercadoLibre (MELI) Q4 2025 Management View Ariel Szarfsztejn, CEO & President, highlighted accelerated commerce growth in Brazil and Mexico, each posting 35% GMV growth, and a 45% increase in items sold in Brazil, attributing this to strategic investments, especially lowering the free shipping threshold. He emphasized the direct impact of artificial intelligence across the...
Earnings Call Insights: MercadoLibre (MELI) Q4 2025 Management View Ariel Szarfsztejn, CEO & President, highlighted accelerated commerce growth in Brazil and Mexico, each posting 35% GMV growth, and a 45% increase in items sold in Brazil, attributing this to strategic investments, especially lowering the free shipping threshold. He emphasized the direct impact of artificial intelligence across the ecosystem, stating, “Our value proposition is generating traction in Mexico, too, where GMV also grew 35%. Across our ecosystem, we are seeing clear evidence that our investments in artificial intelligence are accelerating revenue.” Martin de Los Santos, CFO, reported, “Our relentless focus on customer experience translated directly into strong financial performance with fourth quarter net revenues growth of 45% year-over-year.” He also pointed to AI-driven gains in advertising, noting 67% growth, and detailed fintech momentum: “Monthly active users are growing close to 30% for 10 consecutive quarters. Our credit portfolio nearly doubled year-over-year to $12.5 billion, including almost 3 million new credit cards issued in Q4 alone.” Osvaldo Giménez, Fintech President, noted that Mercado Pago’s AI assistant now resolves 87% of user interactions without human support and that the brand achieved the leading Net Promoter Score in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Outlook Management stated, “We remain confident these investments strengthen our ecosystem, deepen our competitive advantages and expand the long-term growth runway in a region where both e-commerce and financial services remain meaningfully underpenetrated.” The company enters 2026 “in a position of strength. All our business units are growing at a fast pace, demonstrating that these investments are already generating results and unlocking long-term value.” No explicit forward guidance or numerical targets for 2026 were provided during the call. Financial Results CFO de Los Santos reported, “Our revenues full ye...
Speaking for more than an hour and 40 minutes, President Trump beat his previous record for longest speech given to a joint session of Congress. (Image credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
Speaking for more than an hour and 40 minutes, President Trump beat his previous record for longest speech given to a joint session of Congress. (Image credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
2月24日,在伦敦举行的“欧洲储能峰会”(Energy Storage Summit)上,天合储能宣布,正式与储能私募股权投资机构Gore Street Capital (GSC) 达成战略合作,共同参与一项新设立的专注于欧盟27国电池储能系统(BESS)的专项私募基金——欧盟储能基金(EU BESS Fund)。结合已落实合作及未来的投资承诺,Gore Street Capital预计到今年年底...
2月24日,在伦敦举行的“欧洲储能峰会”(Energy Storage Summit)上,天合储能宣布,正式与储能私募股权投资机构Gore Street Capital (GSC) 达成战略合作,共同参与一项新设立的专注于欧盟27国电池储能系统(BESS)的专项私募基金——欧盟储能基金(EU BESS Fund)。结合已落实合作及未来的投资承诺,Gore Street Capital预计到今年年底,该基金的总体规模及协同投资金额将上升至10亿欧元。根据规划,基金首批项目预计将于今年年中完成签约,并于2026年第四季度开启首轮交付。基金整体目标是在欧盟成员国范围内推进储能部署,基金80%以上的投资及运营布局将集中在欧盟区域,总交付规模目标超过12GWh,为区域电力系统提供更加稳定、灵活与高效的调节能力。(人民财讯)
pidjoe/iStock via Getty Images I initiate coverage on Seagate Technology Holdings plc ( STX ), as the stock is gaining interest among market participants in the AI data center memory space. The perception around this stock has changed drastically over the past six months, from being a bet on private cloud refresh cycles to now being priced as an infrastructure bet on the AI data center buildout. A...
pidjoe/iStock via Getty Images I initiate coverage on Seagate Technology Holdings plc ( STX ), as the stock is gaining interest among market participants in the AI data center memory space. The perception around this stock has changed drastically over the past six months, from being a bet on private cloud refresh cycles to now being priced as an infrastructure bet on the AI data center buildout. As seen below, this led to a massive rerate, with the current forward multiple sitting at 35x. Guidance Terminal In the last quarter, Seagate printed its strongest free cash flow profile in 8 years, with management guiding further expansion in FQ3. Both results and guidance came in above the Street consensus, and the revenue models for the next few quarters have been upgraded again. The revenue mix is heavily tilted toward the data center market, with 87% of exabyte shipments (up 31% yoy) coming from the data center end market. However, despite this high exposure, I am not impressed with the company's growth prospects, as the hike in average selling prices is not the same for HDDs (i.e., hard disk drives) as for SDDs or DRAM memory chips. I discuss below why and the rationale behind my hold rating. A Change In Perception As is often the case with the main stocks in the memory space, like Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, and Seagate, the investor perception has drastically shifted from the traditional business (in the case of Seagate, enterprise private cloud and on-premise mass capacity storage) to the longer-term AI data center buildout, fueled by the $670B in hyperscaler spending this year alone. In the case of Seagate, this shift in perception began in mid 2025, with a fast rerate since the start of the year. Guidance Terminal Why? Well, let's look at the last earnings report. Free cash flow was up by 42% sequentially, adding up to $607M. To put that number into perspective, that was the highest FCF level in eight years. If that wasn't enough, the outlook for the March q...
Charnchai/iStock via Getty Images It has only been five months since my previous coverage of Lincoln National Corporation ( LNC ). And yet, I have already seen a lot of interesting changes in Q4 2025 and the first two months of 2025. If you look closely at its price trend in the months that followed my article, I can say my hold rating was justifiable. The price went down to $38 before bouncing ba...
Charnchai/iStock via Getty Images It has only been five months since my previous coverage of Lincoln National Corporation ( LNC ). And yet, I have already seen a lot of interesting changes in Q4 2025 and the first two months of 2025. If you look closely at its price trend in the months that followed my article, I can say my hold rating was justifiable. The price went down to $38 before bouncing back to $46 and finally decreasing again to $38-39. As an investor here, I didn't see any reason to add to my position when I wrote my previous analysis at $42-44. We must always remember that the market is not always linear before making a move. Fundamentals may be strong and sound, as I noted, but valuation and technicals signaled caution then. As I make another coverage of LNC, I see new buying opportunities after the recent downtrend. This is supported by its robust performance and fundamentals. Its valuation now appears more reasonable as I consider more aspects, which I will discuss later. Technicals still suggest caution, but buying opportunities are emerging. LNC Q4 2025: Stronger And Larger The macroeconomic environment in the US remains volatile amid sticky inflation and tariff hikes. Even insurance companies are not entirely safe from these headwinds. After all, these continue to affect their pricing flexibility, purchasing power, and retention rates of policyholders. Aside from that, they must be cautious about its asset management and investment strategies to ensure sustainability. Even an established player like Lincoln National Corporation feels the impact at some levels. But its well-diversified business model and strategic target market help it remain resilient. In Q4 2025, its operating revenue amounted to $4.92B , which was 20.9% higher than in my previous coverage. It weakened by 2.5% YoY from $5.05, but this was due to other revenues. This primarily pertains to the amount generated from the disposal of its investments and other assets. If you only look at...
Foreign inflows into Indian equities in February are set to surpass domestic institutional demand for the first time in 17 months, aided by signs of improving earnings momentum and easing valuations. Global funds have added a net $2.1 billion of shares through Feb. 24, topping the $1.8 billion bought by domestic peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. If sustained, that would be the first ...
Foreign inflows into Indian equities in February are set to surpass domestic institutional demand for the first time in 17 months, aided by signs of improving earnings momentum and easing valuations. Global funds have added a net $2.1 billion of shares through Feb. 24, topping the $1.8 billion bought by domestic peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. If sustained, that would be the first time since September 2024 that overseas inflows have exceeded local purchases. READ: GQG Has $24 Billion in India as ‘Perfect Storm’ for Stocks Eases The buying comes after India secured a long-awaited trade deal with the US earlier this month, while Hong Kong-listed Chinese stocks trailed their Indian peers by the most since October. December-quarter earnings also showed signs of improvement, with Jefferies expecting MSCI India profits to grow about 10% in the financial year ending in March. Global funds raised exposure to financial services and capital goods sectors but turned sellers of information technology stocks earlier this month, cutting positions amid artificial intelligence concerns.