GOOGL, AMZN, INTC and More: 5 Stocks Investors Couldn't Stop Buzzing About This Week
Key takeaways
- Retail buzz around Alphabet, Amazon, Intel, Reddit, and Microsoft was driven by earnings surprises and AI‑related growth stories, leading to a mix of price moves and analyst target changes.
- Alphabet $2.12 vs. $2.99 estimate
EPS
Earnings per share — profit for one share of the company, in dollars.
- Amazon AWS revenue $184 billion annualized run rate
- Intel $0.52 vs. $0.37 estimate
EPS
Earnings per share — profit for one share of the company, in dollars.
What happened
Retail investors focused on five big tech names—Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Intel (INTC), Reddit, and Microsoft (MSFT)—during the week of Oct. 26‑30, driven by earnings releases, AI‑related growth stories, and corporate news. Alphabet posted Q3 earnings that missed estimates ( Earnings per share — profit for one share of the company, in dollars.EPS
Why it matters
These earnings and What a company says it expects for future sales or profits — a forecast from the company, not a guarantee.guidance
Short-term and longer-term
Short-term. In the next few days, watch for price reactions to the earnings miss and What a company says it expects for future sales or profits — a forecast from the company, not a guarantee.guidance
Longer-term. Over the coming months, the earnings and What a company says it expects for future sales or profits — a forecast from the company, not a guarantee.guidance
Words on this card
- EPS Learn
- Earnings per share, the portion of a company’s profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock.
- Capex
- Capital expenditures, the money a company spends on acquiring or upgrading physical assets.
- AWS
- Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing division.
- Azure
- Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
- PC unit market
- The market for personal computers, measured by sales volume.
- Guidance
- What a company says it expects for future sales or profits — a forecast from the company, not a guarantee.