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Logistics and freight forwarding company Expeditors (NYSE:EXPD) reported Q4 CY2024 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 29.7% year on year to $2.95 billion. Its GAAP profit of $1.68 per share was 16.7% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Constellation Brands shares jumped in premarket trading Tuesday after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a new investment in the beer and spirits maker. Monitor these key chart levels.

Cathie Wood and her firm ARK Invest have a propensity for high-flying tech and artificial intelligence stocks. In fact, few have been more optimistic about cryptocurrencies than Wood, except for perhaps Michael Saylor. Wood has been particularly bullish on the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), in part because she views it as a form of digital gold and therefore an inflation hedge.

The Tokyo-based company has accumulated more than 2,000 bitcoin.

Industrials businesses quietly power the physical things we depend on, from cars and homes to e-commerce infrastructure. Unfortunately, this role also comes with a demand profile tethered to the ebbs and flows of the broader economy, and the industry is currently lagging as its six-month return of 6% has trailed the S&P 500’s 9.3% gain.

Dredging and coastal protection company Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (NASDAQ:GLDD) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, but sales rose 11.6% year on year to $202.8 million. Its GAAP profit of $0.29 per share was 27.9% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. But they are at the whim of volatile macroeconomic factors that influence capital spending (like interest rates), and the industry has underperformed the market over the past six months as its 5.9% return lagged the S&P 500 by 3.5 percentage points.