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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: NVIDIA, Coca-Cola, PetroChina, CVS Health and Zoom Video Communications

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – May 19, 2020 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: NVIDIA NVDA, Coca-Cola KO, PetroChina PTR, CVS Health CVS and Zoom Video Communications ZM.

Here are highlights from Monday’s Analyst Blog:

Q1 Scorecard and Research Reports for NVDA, KO, PTR and More

The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily provides a real-time update on the Q1 earnings season, in addition to featuring new research reports on 16 major stocks, including NVIDIA, Coca-Cola and PetroChina. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.

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Q1 Earnings Season Scorecard

For the 453 S&P 500 members that have reported Q1 results already, earnings are down -11.1% on +1.2% higher revenues, with 67.1% beating EPS estimates and 57.4% beating revenue estimates.

The pademic-related shelter-in-place policies took effect only in the last few weeks of the quarter, but the current period (2020 Q2) is expected to experience the brunt of Covid-related disruptions.

As a result, estimates for Q2 and the remainder of the year have been steadily coming down lately, though the pace of cuts has eased to some extent in recent days as the bulk of the Q1 reporting cycle has come to an end.

S&P 500 earnings are now expected to be down -42.3% in Q2, -23.8% in Q3 and -12.9% in 2020 Q4.

Today's Featgured Reports

NVIDIA’s shares have outperformed the Zacks General Semiconductor industry over the past year (+132.2% vs. +49.5%), with the stock benefiting from strong growth in GeForce desktop and notebook GPUs, which is boosting gaming revenues.

Moreover, an increase in Hyperscale demand remains a tailwind for the Data Center business. Further, the solid uptake of AI-based smart cockpit infotainment solutions is a boon. Additionally, strength across desktop workstation products is aiding Professional Visualization revenues.

However, in the near term, management expects a $100-million negative impact of the coronavirus menace on revenues. Moreover, the U.S.-China trade war remains a key concern. Also, lower demand for notebook workstations might be a near-term hindrance.

Shares of Coca-Cola have lost -15.1% over the past six months against the Zacks Soft Drinks Beverages industry’s fall of -12.6%. This modest underperformance notwithstadning, the Zacks analyst believes that innovation and investments in core categories and brands should remain key focus areas for the company, which should lead to the expansion of retail value share. It is gaining from the effective execution of strategies to evolve as a consumer-centric total beverage company.

The company continued with its earnings beat streak for the second straight quarter in first-quarter 2020. Despite a beat, its top line declined in the first quarter as gains from a strong start to 2020 were offset by disruptions in the latter half of the quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It witnessed a decline in unit case volume, while price/mix and concentrate sales remained flat. The company expects the pandemic to significantly hurt second-quarter results. Also, adverse currency impacts are likely to persist.

PetroChina’s shares have lost -19.2% over the past three months against the Zacks International Integrated Oil industry’s fall of -33.8%. The Zacks analyst believes that limited international operations and losses on gas imports give investors more reason to be cautious on the stock.

With higher production and lower lifting costs supporting the state-run giant's upstream unit, the stock might gain further. PetroChina's E&P segment posted 6.1% increase in production in the first 3 months of 2020, while oil and gas lifting costs fell 8.9% from what it averaged in the March quarter of last year.

However, the historic oil price crash has hit PetroChina hard. Further, in a sign of weakness in the company’s downstream business, earnings plunged due to depressed domestic product demand, lower refined products sales and drop in price.

Other noteworthy reports we are featuring today include CVS Health and Zoom Video Communications.

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