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Taiwan Semi, InvenSense Stumble Over Apple’s iPhone Shortfall

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ( TSM ) stumbled into Apple ‘s ( AAPL ) iPhone shortfall early Tuesday when it reported Q1 sales that missed by $30 million. Those results came a day after InvenSense ( INVN ) posted its first-ever year-over-year sales fall and guided to a steeper dip in June. In early trading on the stock market today , InvenSense stock crashed 20%, and Taiwan Semiconductor’s U.S. shares were down 0.5%. The stocks have lost 16% and 6%, respectively, since Apple’s fiscal Q2 sales miss — its first in 13 years — on April 26. For the March quarter, TSM reported $6.14 billion in sales and 38 cents earnings per American depositary receipt ex items, down 13% and 21%, respectively, vs. the year-earlier quarter. Sales lagged the consensus view of eight analysts polled by Thomson Reuters for $6.17 billion, but earnings met the 38-cent model. Current-quarter sales guidance for $6.66 billion to $6.75 billion would be flat at the midpoint vs. the year-earlier quarter. TSM didn’t provide an earnings view, but analysts model 40 cents per ADR ex items. Last Monday, InvenSense reported $79.5 million in fiscal Q4 sales and 2 cents earnings per share ex items, down 20% and 83%, respectively, vs. the year-earlier quarter, but in line with the consensus of 13 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. On a year-over-year basis, fiscal Q4 was the first time InvenSense’s sales have fallen after decelerating for five consecutive quarters. It was also InvenSense’s biggest-ever EPS topple. InvenSense wrapped fiscal 2016 with $418.4 million in sales and 49 cents EPS ex items, up a respective 12.5% and 7%. Sales missed the consensus for $420.9 million, but EPS beat the 47-cent model. For the current quarter, InvenSense expects sales to fall 44% at the midpoint of its range of $58 million to $62 million and, for the first time, a 5-cent to 7-cent per-share loss ex items, swinging from a 14-cent gain in the year-earlier quarter.

Allergan Q1 Mixed, But Stock Rises On Share Buyback, Teva Deal

Specialty-drug giant Allergan ( AGN ) reported a mixed first quarter, affirmed guidance and announced a massive share buyback Tuesday, lifting its battered stock. Allergan stock was already boosted 6% Monday after Teva Pharmaceutical Industries ( TEVA ) said in its Q1 report that its buyout of Allergan’s generics unit, Actavis, is on track to close next month after having been delayed by various regulatory issues. This would render moot the worries over generic-drug pricing that drove the stock to a two-year low on Friday, after it had already been hammered by the break-up of its merger with Pfizer ( PFE ). The stock was up another 5.5% in early trading on the stock market today as Allergan reported operating earnings of $3.04 a share, up 15% from the year-earlier quarter and beating analysts’ consensus by 4 cents, according to Thomson Reuters. Sales climbed 48% to $3.8 billion, about $150 million below Wall Street’s average estimate. Allergan affirmed full-year revenue guidance of $17 billion vs. $15.1 billion last year. All the above numbers exclude Actavis. The company said it will use part of the roughly $40 billion in proceeds from the Teva deal to buy back stock. It plans to buy $4 billion to $5 billion over the next four to six months, and said if conditions allow it will consider extending the program up to as much as $10 billion. Allergan stock, once a resident of the IBD 50, still holds an excellent EPS Rank of 97 and actually declined less than the group as a whole during the drug-stock sell-off between August and February. But the high-profile dissolution of the Pfizer deal in early April pushed the stock down to single-digit Relative Strength Ratings, leading to a mediocre Composite Rating of 40.

Amazon Launches YouTube Rival, Gets $1,000 Price Target

Amazon ( AMZN ) stock got a boost Tuesday after the e-commerce giant announced a new platform on its streaming video service that goes head-to-head with Alphabet ( GOOGL )-owned YouTube. The new platform, called Amazon Video Direct, lets anyone upload clips or their own licensed videos. They can also designate whether the videos are free or available to rent or own, or with advertisements. IBD’s Take: How healthy is Amazon’s stock, and how does it stand up vs. rivals? Find out at IBD Stock Checkup In a press release, Amazon described Amazon Video Direct as “a new self-service program for creators and storytellers to make their video content available to Amazon customers, including tens of millions of Prime members.” It also launched AVD Stars, a program which gives video creators a share of a $1 million per month award based on customer engagement with their title. Amazon will distribute to creators a monthly bonus from the $1 million monthly fund, based on the Top 100 AVD titles in Prime Video, in addition to any other revenue earned. It said the AVD Stars program will make its first bonus distributions based on streaming activity from June 1 st to June 30th. Sanford Bernstein analyst Carlos Kirjner raised his price target on Amazon to a whopping 1000, which is 47% above its close of 679 on Monday. Amazon stock rose 2.9% near 699 in morning trading in the stock market today , hitting a new high. Alphabet stock climbed 1% to about 736. Alphabet is working on its fifth straight gain, but it is still below its 50-day moving average.