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Stocks to watch next week: BP, Diageo, Disney, Uber and WPP
BP is set to release its second-quarter results amid declining oil and gas prices, with analysts expecting earnings of $1.35 per share and $60 billion in revenue. The company is under pressure due to weak cash flow, rising net debt, and challenges in its transition to cleaner energy sources. Activist investor Elliott has raised concerns over BPs performance, particularly its lagging shareholder returns. Analysts predict a pre-tax profit of $4.6 billion, up from $4.2 billion in Q1, but still below past levels. BPs cash flow and net debt, forecasted to be $24.9 billion by Q1 2025, remain key issues.
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Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs
Microchip Technology has acquired Neuronix AI Labs to expand its capabilities for power-efficient, AI-enabled edge solutions deployed on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Neuronix AI Labs provides neural network sparsity optimization technology that enables a reduction in power, size and calculations for tasks such as image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation, while maintaining high accuracy. The acquisition will enable Microchip to develop cost-effective, large-scale edge deployments of components designed for use in computer-vision applications on systems that have cost, size and power constraints and enable a multifold increase in AI/ML processing horsepower on low and mid-range FPGAs.
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