Category: Corporate Wins/Losses

United Parcel Service is entering what executives describe as the final stages of a sweeping operational overhaul, yet the company’s first-quarter 2026 results show that soft package volumes and rising fuel expenses are still squeezing the payoff. On the April 28 earnings call, CEO Carol Tome told analysts the restructuring is “closer to the finish…

Robinhood Markets posted $0.37 in diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2026, up from $0.18 a year earlier, according to its 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Two relatively new business lines did much of the heavy lifting: prediction markets and the…

Shell PLC is making its biggest bet on North American natural gas in more than a decade. The European energy giant has agreed to acquire ARC Resources Ltd. in a deal valued at roughly C$16.4 billion (about US$12 billion in equity), a transaction that would vault Shell into the top tier of western Canadian gas…

Verizon added postpaid phone subscribers in a first quarter for the first time since 2013, reporting 55,000 net new lines in Q1 2026 and breaking a 12-year streak of early-year customer losses. The result, disclosed on April 27, blindsided analysts who had forecast a net decline. Shares rose on the news, and management raised its…

Qualcomm shares surged roughly 13% in premarket trading on Monday, April 28, 2026, after supply-chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that OpenAI is working with the San Diego chipmaker on AI-focused smartphone processors. Qualcomm, which closed the prior Friday near $168 per share with a market capitalization of roughly $188 billion, saw billions of dollars in…

Starbucks has called Seattle home since a single Pike Place storefront opened in 1971. Now the company is betting $100 million that its future also runs through Nashville. In a January 2026 internal memo first reported by the Associated Press, Sara Kelly, Starbucks’ executive vice president and chief partner officer, outlined plans to open a…

A lawsuit filed against JetBlue in late April 2026 alleges the airline uses customers’ personal data to set ticket prices, turning a viral social media moment into a legal fight over a practice federal regulators have called “surveillance pricing.” The trouble started when a JetBlue customer posted about a $230 fare spike that appeared while…

Texas Instruments hadn’t moved like this in a quarter century. Shares of the analog chipmaker surged 18% on April 23, 2026, their largest single-day percentage gain since 2000, after first-quarter earnings blew past Wall Street forecasts and management signaled that artificial-intelligence demand is pulling revenue higher faster than almost anyone on the Street had modeled….