Stocks - Lyft Falls in Premarket; Bed, Bath & Beyond Plunges

By Geoffrey Smith

Investing.com -- Stocks in focus in premarket on Wednesday, February 12th. Please refresh for updates.

8:56 AM ET: Molson Coors (NYSE:TAP) stock rose 3.4% after the brewer’s fourth-quarter earnings benefited from lower input prices and better cost control.

Sales volumes fell 1% due to weakness in North America, but revenue per hectoliter rose 1.8%, reflecting its efforts to extract more value from its brand names.

8:48 AM ET: CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) stock fell after its fourth-quarter revenue fell more than expected, due to a drop in average daily trading volumes from an exceptionally strong Q4 2018.

Trading volumes at the exchange operator were down by 19% on the year, but in essence only returned to the long-term trend.

8:36 AM ET: Heineken (OTC:HEINY) ADRs were in focus after the company’s domestic-listed stock in Amsterdam rose 6.2% to a new all-time high in the wake of its fourth-quarter earnings report.

The Dutch-based brewer confirmed that operating profit would rise by around 5% this year, after casting doubt on that target in its previous update. Fourth-quarter organic sales volumes and average prices both came in above expectations.

The company had announced on Thursday that long-serving CEO Jean-Francois van Boxmeer will stand down in June, to be replaced by the current head of the group’s Asian business, Dolf van den Brink.

8:30 AM ET: CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) stock rose 2.7% after the company posted another quarter of above-forecast earnings and revenue growth in the wake of its acquisition of Aetna (NYSE:AET) 15 months ago.

The company’s health benefits business more than doubled its revenue from a year earlier.

CVS also raised its guidance for the current year.

8:13 AM ET: Bed Bath&Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) stock fell 26%, giving up around half of last year’s gains, after the company’s same-store sales for December and January fell 5.4%, more than the 4% expected.

CEO Mark Tritton said the company was experiencing short-term pain in our efforts to stabilize the business,” with store footfall and product availability both weighing on performance.

8:20 AM ET: Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) stock rose 8.0% to a new all-time high after the Canadian online retailer beat sales expectations for the fourth quarter and forecast 2020 revenue would also be above consensus estimates.

Shopify had a particularly impressive Thanksgiving weekend, with worldwide sales of over $2.9 billion between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, up over 60% from a year earlier.

Around 46% of the company's free-float stock is shorted, according to data compiled by Shortsqueeze.com

8:08 AM ET: Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) stock was down 5.2% after the company failed to revise its guidance in line with Uber’s, despite a set of quarterly numbers that matched or beat expectations on all notable operational and financial items.

Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) didn’t change its guidance that it would be profitable by the end of 2021. By contrast, Uber (NYSE:UBER) – which consistently failed to meet its own financial targets in the last couple of years – promised last week to be profitable on an underyling basis by the end of this year.

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