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Coty (COTY) net revenue fell 1% in 2016 before climbing 76% in 2017. The Consumer Beauty segment drove the growth in both years.

Citigroup is projected to grow its revenue 2% and 4% in 2017 and 2018, respectively. The 2017 and 2018 diluted EPS are projected to grow 12% and 14%, respectively.

In this part of our focus on the top 18 cheap S&P 500 stocks, we’ll discuss another six stocks: General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Owens-Illinois (OI), The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (GT), Navient (NAVI), and Brighthouse Financial (BHF).

Donald Trump’s promises of financial deregulation, infrastructure spending, and tax cuts played a major role in the stock market rally this year.

A few months ago, Samsung said that it would bundle its pre-existing IoT services into a new unified IoT platform named SmartThings Cloud.

According to a report by Markit Economics, Indonesia’s (IDX) (ASEA) manufacturing activity stood at 50.1 in October as compared to 50.4 in September.

Devon Energy Corporation’s 56.0% dividend cut in 2016 was followed by a 43.0% cut in 2017.

HPE Pointnext launched in March 2017 In March 2017, hardware technology (QQQ) company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched HPE Pointnext, a technology service vertical aimed to drive digital transformation in companies. This business is also expected to deliver financial value to HPE, supporting its margins and revenue. HPE Pointnext will leverage the expertise of approximately 25,000 […]

Amid rising competition in the wireless space, AT&T (T) has its hopes in the proposed acquisition of leading content provider Time Warner (TWX).

Qualcomm is a step ahead of Intel because it recently unveiled its X50 5G modem in a smartphone device at the Hong Kong 5G summit in October 2017.

Frontier Communications (FTR) will publish its 3Q17 results on October 31, 2017. Analysts expect Frontier’s EPS (earnings per share) to fall $1.09 in 3Q17.

China’s GDP grew at an annualized rate of 6.8% in 3Q17 and met the market expectation. The economy expanded at an annualized rate of 6.9% in the first two quarters of 2017.

Netflix noted that it would spend $8 billion on original content in 2018.

The final Russia Services PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) was 55.2 in September 2017 compared to 54.2 in August 2017.

The final Markit Brazil Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) stood at 50.9 in September 2017. It remained unchanged compared to August 2017.

Monetary value of a user Social media companies Twitter (TWTR), Facebook (FB), and Snap (SNAP) show how much money they make off each of their user accounts as average revenue per user, or ARPU. ARPU is a measure of monetary value a user brings to a platform. Whereas Facebook and Snap released their ARPU for 2Q17, […]

On a yearly basis, economic growth in India (INDA) showed a strong improvement of 9.2% in the first quarter of 2016.

The technology industry is the most competitive industry, making it crucial for companies in this industry to have a competitive edge for survival.

Micron expects the NAND industry supply to grow 30%–40%, with its NAND supply expected to grow at the higher end of the industry supply range.

According to data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, US retail sales fell 0.2% in August 2017.

Alibaba’s (BABA) revenue per monthly active mobile user (or MAU) was 196 yuan (or $29.00) in fiscal 1Q18.

Brazil’s (EWZ) services PMI was in the contraction zone in August 2017.

According to a report by Markit Economics, China’s Caixin services PMI rose to 52.7 in August 2017 as compared to 51.5 in July.

In August 2017, Indonesia’s (IDX) (ASEA) manufacturing activity saw a sharp rise in the overall business conditions as compared to a contraction in the previous month.

Baidu and PayPal combined their digital payment services to make it easier for millions of Chinese consumers to pay for purchases from overseas vendors.

The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM), which tracks the performance of emerging markets, rose nearly 27.3% on a year-to-date basis as of September 7, 2017.

Intel controls more than 99% of the data center chip market.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has upped the core count of consumer CPUs (central processing unit) from the maximum of ten cores to 16 cores.

Apple (AAPL) announced its fiscal 3Q17 results on August 1. Apple reported revenues of $45.4 billion in fiscal 3Q17, a rise of 7% year-over-year.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has entered the high-performance GPU market with the launch of its Vega architecture.

Currently, institutional investors own 81.1% and insiders own 0.69% of the total outstanding shares of Micron.

NVIDIA’s non-GAAP gross margin improved from 57.5% in fiscal 1Q17 to 59.6% in fiscal 1Q18.

Microsoft has already agreed to partner with Qualcomm to develop server chips.

NVIDIA (NVDA) is developing products to support AI (artificial intelligence) adoption in the data center, embedded devices, and automotive spaces.

Apple (AAPL) has completed $211.2 billion of its $250.0 billion ongoing capital return program and extended its capital return program by $50.0 billion.

Investors generally invest in high-yield bonds (BND) when there are expectations for higher growth in the economy.

According to PotashCorp, the outlook for potash appears positive in 2017. North America, Latin America (especially Brazil), India, and China have been running low on inventory.

According to NPD Group’s retail tracking service, GoPro (GPRO) accounted for three out of the top five products—including the top two positions—on a unit basis in the US Digital Imaging Product segment for 4Q16.

The SPDR Euro STOXX 50 ETF (FEZ) rose by 2.6%. The United Kingdom’s (FKU) FTSE 100 was among the leaders in European markets. It rose by 2.6%.

Critical Asian indexes were trading on a mixed note on June 27 with the Japanese and Chinese indexes leading the gains. The Nikkei 225 posted a significant gain of 2.4%, while the Dow Jones Shanghai Index rose by 1.5%.