11:31 AM EDT, 04/26/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Exponent (EXPO) shares rose 23.4% in recent Friday trading after the company reported fiscal Q1 earnings late Thursday of $0.59 per diluted share, up from $0.56 a year earlier. Three analysts polled by Capital IQ expected $0.47. Revenue before reimbursements for the quarter ended March 29 was $137.2 million, compared with $128.7 million...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Porsche on Friday reported a 30% drop in first-quarter operating profit, citing higher investments in what the German luxury carmaker has called its biggest year of product launches in history. Operating profit in the first three months of 2024 came in at 1.28 billion euros ($1.37 billion), in line with an LSEG estimate, while sales for the period...

HCA Healthcare Inc ( HCA ) reported on Friday its first-quarter revenues of $17.34 billion, up from $15.59 billion a year ago, beating the consensus of $16.78 billion. The hospital chain reported adjusted EPS of $5.36, up from $4.93 a year ago, beating the consensus of $5.36. “The strong fundamentals we saw in our business this past year continued into the first quarter...

Vincerx Pharma Inc ( VINC ) shares are trading lower by 9.7% to $0.81 during Friday’s session after the company priced an underwritten public offering, including 6 million shares of common stock with accompanying warrants to purchase the same number of shares, and pre-funded warrants for up to 16 million shares with accompanying warrants for the same amount. The combined...