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AIAnthropic Told Investors Quarterly Revenue Hit $16.8 Billion, Reuters and the FT Report. The Dollar Gain Was Smaller Than the Quarter Before.
The number is large, and the pitch to investors was about profit and cash. The slowdown in dollar growth, what "adjusted" leaves out, and how much of the business runs through two cloud partners are what buyers will price.
Server racks in a large computing centre. Anthropic told investors it earned $1.70 in revenue for every $1 it spent on computing power, the FT reported. File photograph.
Anthropic told prospective investors on Wednesday that its revenue for the third quarter was $16.8 billion, up 45 per cent from the second quarter, and that it made a profit on an adjusted basis, Reuters reported, citing two attendees of an investor day at the company's San Francisco headquarters. The Financial Times reported the same revenue figure, along with positive cash flow, according to an account published by Yahoo Finance. Anthropic has not published the numbers, and Reuters said the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The headline is a growth number, and by this publication's arithmetic it is a slower one than the quarter before. Reuters reports that revenue was $11.6 billion in the second quarter and $4.7 billion in the first. That makes the third-quarter increase $5.2 billion, or 45 per cent. The second-quarter increase was $6.9 billion, or about 147 per cent. Revenue is still rising quickly. It is rising by a smaller dollar amount.
Reuters said attendees met Chief Executive Dario Amodei and Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao, and that several were encouraged by the company's revenue growth and path to profitability. According to those attendees, the company said it was profitable on an adjusted basis in the quarter. The FT, in the account relayed by Yahoo Finance, said it was the second consecutive quarter of adjusted profit and that Anthropic generated "$1.70 in revenue for every $1 spent on computing power."
Business
Agility Bought Tristar for About $7 Million in 2003. It Is Selling It at a $1.5 Billion Enterprise Value, and Says the Bet Returned More Than $1 Billion.
The headline value is for the whole company.
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Retail Sales Rose 0.8 Per Cent in September and Are Up 6.3 Per Cent in a Year. Leave Out Cars and Gasoline and the Gain Was 0.2 Per Cent.
Retail sales are reported in dollars, not goods.
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Schwab Reported Record Revenue of $7.17 Billion and Its Stock Fell Anyway. Margin Loans Have Nearly Doubled in a Year to $187.9 Billion.
The earnings are strong, and more of the growth is in lending to clients against their portfolios.
Warsh Would Not Say Whether the Fed Will Hike Again on 28 October. His Last Words Before the Quiet Period Were About AI.
The chair's last public remarks before the blackout were about AI and the shape of the economy, not the rate.
Truist Is Selling $7.7 Billion of LightStream Loans to Carlyle, Weeks After Shedding $5.5 Billion of Auto Loans. It Also Took a $1.45 Billion Securities Loss.
A new chief executive, six weeks in, is shedding businesses the bank calls non-core and replacing much of the consumer leadership.
EU Leaders Pressed Brussels for Quotas on Chinese Chemicals and Machinery. The Hybrid-Car Deal Covers €15 Billion of a €360 Billion Deficit.
Six days after the hybrid-car deal, governments are already arguing about the next sector.
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China Exported 919,000 Passenger Cars in September, Up 64 Per Cent. Its Domestic Sales Fell 27 Per Cent to 1.67 Million.
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Steris Will Pay $2.1 Billion for Xodus Medical. The Target Expects $245 Million of 2026 Revenue and $135 Million of Adjusted Operating Profit.
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IonQ Will Pay Up to $1.3 Billion in Stock for Elisity. Up to $150 Million of That Depends on Performance.
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Goldman Sachs Has Had 17 Downward Earnings Revisions and No Upgrades in 30 Days. It Reports on Tuesday Against a $13.02 Consensus.
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Meta Priced Its First Frontier Model at $4 per Million Tokens, Level With Anthropic's Opus 5.5. Its Shares Closed Up 3.4 Per Cent.
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California's Largest State Union Voted 96.2 Per Cent to Strike on 21 October. It Will Not Say How Many of Its 100,000 Members Voted.
The 96.2 per cent figure is a share of voters, not of members, and the walkout would be the first statewide strike in the union's 44-year history.
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Everything we have published, newest firstBank of America Took a $1.2 Billion Treasury Penalty the Day Before It Reported. The Charge Cost 17 Cents a Share, and Earnings Still Missed Without It.
Treasury announced more than $1.21 billion in anti-money-laundering and sanctions penalties against Bank of America on Tuesday 13 October, and the bank reported third-quarter results the next morning. The bank says the penalty is a non-deductible charge of about 17 cents a share. The bank earned 91 cents a share, or $1.08 excluding the charge, below the $1.12 analysts had expected.
Bumble Agreed to a $1.3 Billion Cash Buyout at $6.05 a Share, a 138 Per Cent Premium. Its Public Shareholders Will Not Get a Vote.
Bumble said on Tuesday 13 October that it will be acquired by Ithaca Holdings for $6.05 a share in cash, a deal it values at $1.3 billion. The price is about 138 per cent above the stock's close on 9 October. Affiliates of Blackstone and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd approved the deal by written consent after it was signed, so public shareholders will not vote; regulatory approvals are still required.
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McKesson Is Paying $1.4 Billion for Half of Option Care. The Deal Sets Up a Framework for It to Buy the Rest.
Clayton Dubilier & Rice and McKesson agreed on Monday to take Option Care Health, the largest independent home infusion company in the United States, private for $32.05 a share. McKesson is putting in about $1.4 billion for 49 per cent, and the agreement sets out a framework for it to buy the private equity firm's majority later. Lenders have committed more money to the deal than the two buyers have.
Citi Reported Its Best Third-Quarter Revenue in a Decade, $23.8 Billion. Its Return on Tangible Equity Fell to 11.5 Per Cent From 13.0 in the Second Quarter.
The growth was broad, and last year's Banamex write-down flatters the comparison. The return measure slipped from the second quarter, and management has told investors to expect a seasonal drop in trading.
Pope Leo XIV Has Lung Cancer, the Vatican Says. Surgeons Removed Part of His Right Lung Without Complications.
Two days after telling pilgrims about a small nodule, the 71-year-old pope had it removed. The Vatican's medical bulletin confirms the cancer the pre-operative tests suspected, and says nothing yet about what comes next.
Business
The FTC Says Martin Shkreli Traded Shares in at Least 60 Drug Companies Despite a Lifetime Ban. It Wants His Profits, With No Offset for Losses.
The Federal Trade Commission and seven states asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday 13 October to hold Martin Shkreli in civil contempt of the 2022 order banning him from the pharmaceutical industry for life. They allege he has traded shares in more than 60 drug companies since leaving prison and promoted short positions on livestreams. The court has not ruled, and no response from Shkreli or his lawyers had been reported.
Goldman Earned $17.01 a Share Against a $13.02 Consensus. Equities Revenue Alone Ran About $1.8 Billion Above the Preview Estimate.
Goldman Sachs reported third-quarter earnings of $17.01 a share on Tuesday 13 October, against an LSEG consensus of $13.02, on net revenue of $18.68 billion. Equities revenue rose 72 per cent from a year earlier to $6.44 billion, while fixed income was flat. Earnings per share were still 19 per cent below the second quarter.
The securities loss, which Jamie Dimon called discretionary, explains 18 cents of the gap.
Business
Wells Fargo Beat on Earnings and Missed on Revenue. Its Capital Ratio Fell to 10.0 Per Cent as Its Unrealised Losses Doubled.
Wells Fargo earned $5.95 billion, or $1.87 a share, in the third quarter, above the $1.85 average estimate, but revenue of $21.87 billion was below the $22.15 billion analysts expected, according to the Associated Press. Its CET1 ratio fell to 10.0 per cent from 10.3 per cent in three months, as its accumulated other comprehensive loss rose from $8.3 billion to $16.5 billion.
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The IMF Publishes Its Full Outlook on Tuesday. Its July Forecast Assumed $89 Oil This Year, and Brent Is Above $100.
Hall and Woodford Won the Economics Nobel for Models Behind Forward Guidance. Forty-Five Days Earlier, the Fed Chair Said the Practice "Has Overstayed Its Welcome."
ASML Reports Wednesday and No Longer Publishes Orders. China Was 16 Per Cent of Its First-Half Sales, Against a Full-Year Guide of About 20 Per Cent.
UnitedHealth Reports Tuesday Against Expectations of About $4.15 a Share. Its Own Guidance Implies a Second-Half Medical Care Ratio Near 91 Per Cent.
Morgan Stanley Reports Wednesday After Telling Investors "3Q Is No 2Q." Its Closest Rival Has Just Shown What That Can Look Like.
Morgan Stanley reports third-quarter results at about 7:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday 14 October. The LSEG consensus, as cited by Reuters, is $2.94 a share against $3.46 in a record second quarter and $2.80 a year earlier. In September co-president Dan Simkowitz said "3Q is no 2Q." Goldman Sachs, reporting on Tuesday, showed revenue down 13 per cent from the second quarter in its comparable business.
TSMC's Third-Quarter Sales Rose About 51 Per Cent, Above Its Own Guidance. Analysts Expect Its Net Margin to Fall From 55.6 Per Cent to About 50.
Revenue is already known, so the quarter turns on how much of last quarter's margin was operating strength and how much was a one-off gain on shares in another chipmaker. Stripping that gain out brings the second-quarter margin close to what analysts now forecast.
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JPMorgan Reports Tuesday After a Quarter With $5.6 Billion of One-Off Gains. Analysts Expect Revenue of About $51 Billion.
Devon Is Selling 4 Per Cent of Its Production for $4.2 Billion. The Buyer Has Now Made 10 Eagle Ford Deals Since 2023.
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Anthropic Told Investors Quarterly Revenue Hit $16.8 Billion, Reuters and the FT Report. The Dollar Gain Was Smaller Than the Quarter Before.
Thoma Bravo's Proofpoint Will Pay $6.3 Billion in Cash for Varonis at $49.75 a Share. The Premium Is 52 Per Cent Against June and 17 Per Cent Against September.
Japan Will Pay Up to $21 Billion for Two New Fabs in Upstate New York. GlobalFoundries Will Run Them, and Washington Will Own About 4 Per Cent of the Company.
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Schwab Reported Record Revenue of $7.17 Billion and Its Stock Fell Anyway. Margin Loans Have Nearly Doubled in a Year to $187.9 Billion.
Warsh Would Not Say Whether the Fed Will Hike Again on 28 October. His Last Words Before the Quiet Period Were About AI.
Industrial Production Rose 0.7 Per Cent in September, and Utilities Supplied More of It Than Factories. Manufacturing Rose 0.3 Per Cent and Is Up 1.1 Per Cent in a Year.
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Truist Is Selling $7.7 Billion of LightStream Loans to Carlyle, Weeks After Shedding $5.5 Billion of Auto Loans. It Also Took a $1.45 Billion Securities Loss.
A GTCR-Led Group With Elliott Will Take CCC Private at $7.75 a Share, a $6.1 Billion Enterprise Value. Its Chief Executive and President Are Rolling Over Part of Their Stakes.
Penske Automotive Agreed to Be Taken Private at $212 a Share, a $16.3 Billion Enterprise Value. The Premium Is 8.8 Per Cent, and Its Two Buyers Are Also Its Two Largest Holders.
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EU Leaders Pressed Brussels for Quotas on Chinese Chemicals and Machinery. The Hybrid-Car Deal Covers €15 Billion of a €360 Billion Deficit.
AT&T Will Sell Its Mexican Wireless Business for $2 Billion, About 0.4 Times Its 2025 Revenue. The Buyers Plan to Borrow Up to $1.4 Billion of the Price.
One Research Firm Puts Regenerative Medicine at $41 Billion, Heading for $162 Billion. Dr. David Borenstein on Why the FDA Keeps Cracking Down on Unproven Clinics.
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- 3 Oct Oil Is Up 61 Per Cent Since February. American Natural Gas Costs What It Did a Year Ago.
- 3 Oct The Trucking Companies Going Bankrupt Are Small. Diesel Is Paid in Days, Freight in Months.
- 3 Oct The G-7 Will Release 100 Million Barrels. Some May Already Have Been Promised in March.
- 29 Sept LNG Canada Will Double to 28 Million Tonnes. The Announcement Has a Date in the 2030s and No Price.
- 28 Sept The 30-Year Treasury Closed at Its Highest Since the Bond Came Back in 2006. Households Had Already Marked Up Their Inflation Forecast.
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