Weekly Bot Brief Newsletter on Robotics 7/24/2020

地球上没有力量比一个时间来的想法更强大。“Victor Hugo

Bots in The News:

The price of gold jumped 5% during the week, nearing the $1900 mark in active futures trading. Increasing tensions between the U.S. and China as well as concerns over the value of the dollar contributed to the rise in the precious metal. Those concerns did not play in favor of equity investors who witnessed the broad market’s decline of a quarter of a percent. For the first time in six weeks, the bots underperformed the S & P 500 but recorded less that a half percent reduction.

对于如此小的总市场下降，机器人指数在其组件中的一半重大举动中受到了显着的动作。五家公司经历的增加超过三倍半，而十个次数撤退。

The gainers were led by the 6.58% increase in NIO Inc. when the China International Capital Corp. upgraded the stock to a buy. The price target was upped from the current $11.82 to a price of $13.50.

Lockheed Martin’s 4.81% increase was attributed to an earnings per share jump of 16% on a 12% expansion in revenues. Investors had been expecting $5.72 in earnings, so the surprise built momentum for the stock. In addition, there was some speculation that the company was interested in acquiring drone manufacturer Kratos Defense and Security Systems who has an enterprise value of near $2.10 billion. The fit would be even more attractive since the Air Force just announced that Kratos was a finalist in the $400 million Skyborg Vanguard Program.

直观的外科在贝辛卡·贝宁卡出版了一个有权的研究报告时，“直观的外科手术”从未如此强大，“分析师表示，在Q2报告之后，”直观的外科手术的前景“。

在丰田之后，日本公司的钥匙上涨了4.27％，以进一步提出作为国家第二大公司的主张。

ABB有限公司增加了4％的投资者在释放每股每股收益的$ .12与Zacks的共识估计为$ .11。盈利公告可能担保了.83股息及其高3.19％的收益率。

On the weaker side:

投资者使用极其强劲的盈利季度，即去年的$ 0.48，伊罗伯托的EPS为1.06美元，以清算股票。该股票从今年年初到上周的价格从48.95美元上升到86.07美元的高度，并提示投资者降低股票15.23％。

The up and down fortunes of Tesla proved down last week as Benzinga published, ‘Is Now The Time To Short Tesla's Stock?’ The company’s shares retreated over 5 ½ %.

Wolfe Research issued an ‘underperform’ rating on Apple and assigned a target price of $315, well off the current price of $370.46. The week’s 3.85% decline was the result of the change in evaluation.

The growing tensions between China and the U.S. did not prove positive for Tesla’s sales potential in the Asian market and the stock retreated over 5 ½% for the week.

An earnings per share decline of 11.4% and a revenue slide exceeding 5% pushed shares of Teledyne 5.33% lower last week.

其他值得注意的下跌者包括：

• Cyber​​dyne -4.97％
• Yaskawa Electric -4.49%
• 3D Systems -9.94%
• AeroVironment -3.47%
• Brooks -3.24%

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BOT简介是一家每周通讯，专为经济学家，投资专家，记者和院士学习而设计。它从任何可能不时出现的公司收到薪酬，其评论，分析，意见和研究代表了Balcones Investment Research，LLC的主观观点。由于主题的复杂性和迅速变化，公司无法保证所提出的材料的绝对精度。