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Brian Stewart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

Services revenue topped $30 billion.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

Those are both quarterly revenue records for those segments of the company.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

I think the problem with Apple is that people don't see the same kind of investment they're seeing at places like Apple.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

Microsoft and Meta.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

Apple's being much quieter about the progress it's making on the AI front.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

It's sort of just going about its business, selling iPhones, and having kind of bubbling in the background the idea that it's going to have these other technological jumps in the future.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

So I think the market is just sort of, again, in a wait-and-see attitude with Apple, thinking at some point we're going to see what they have behind the curtain.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

Yeah, just a couple of stories that might have flown a little under the radar, given the high-profile earnings reports.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

We had UnitedHealth drop sharply.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

It had earnings, and that included negative guidance.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

It projected a revenue decline in 2026, which is the first time in decades the company has seen a revenue decline.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

The real driver for

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

The stock dropped about 20% after its earnings report.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a very tiny fractional increase in the payment rates for 2027.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

So this impacted UnitedHealth, which has a huge managed care program.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

portion of its business.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

And then other health insurance stocks dropped as well.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

So Humana was down 21%.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

CVS, which owns Aetna, was down 14%.

Wall Street Breakfast
Wall Street Roundup: big name earnings

Molina Healthcare was down 8%.