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Retail behemoth Walmart (NYSE:WMT) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025, with sales up 5.6% year on year to $190.7 billion. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $172.2 billion was less impressive, coming in 1.3% below analy

Higher education company Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025, with sales up 27.9% year on year to $541.4 million. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $1.90 billion at the midpoint came in 2.2% abov

Cloud communications provider Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025, but sales fell by 1.1% year on year to $207.7 million. The company expects next quarter’s revenue to be around $201.5 million, coming in 2.9% above

SoftBank revealed new positions in each of these three companies.

Online marketplace Etsy (NYSE:ETSY) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025, with sales up 3.5% year on year to $881.6 million. Its GAAP profit of $0.92 per share was 7.6% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Swimming pool distributor Pool (NASDAQ:POOL) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025, with sales flat year on year at $982.2 million. Its GAAP profit of $0.85 per share was 12.2% below analysts’ consensus estimates.

Labcorp Holdings has outperformed the broader market over the past year, and analysts remain highly bullish about the stock’s prospects.

Automotive parts company LKQ (NASDAQ:LKQ) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025, but sales were flat year on year at $3.31 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.59 per share was 9.3% below analysts’ consensus estimates.

Ralph Lauren has outperformed the broader market over the past year, and analysts remain highly bullish about the stock’s prospects.

Infrastructure solutions provider Quanta (NYSE:PWR) reported Q4 CY2025 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 19.7% year on year to $7.84 billion. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $33.5 billion at the midpoint came i

Turbocharger technology company Garrett Motion (NYSE:GTX) reported revenue ahead of Wall Street’s expectations in Q4 CY2025, with sales up 5.6% year on year to $891 million. The company expects the full year’s revenue to be around $3.7 billion, close to a

Trane Technologies has outperformed the broader market over the past 52 weeks, but Wall Street analysts retain a measured, moderately positive view on the stock’s future prospects.

Automotive technology company Visteon (NYSE:VC) reported revenue ahead of Wall Street’s expectations in Q4 CY2025, but sales were flat year on year at $948 million. On the other hand, the company’s full-year revenue guidance of $3.73 billion at the midpoi

Take-Two Interactive Software has notably outperformed the broader market over the past year, and analysts remain strongly bullish on the stock’s prospects.