(Discounted with Starbucks)
PARIS, June 23 (Reuters) – Top stocks to watch on Friday on Wall Street, where futures on major indices suggest an opening down 0.32% for the Dow Jones, 0.52% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 and 0.72% for the Nasdaq:
* 3M gains 3% ahead of the stock market, the group having announced that it has reached an agreement of 10.3 billion dollars (9.49 billion euros) with a set of public players in the management of water in the States States, which accused the group of pollution linked to “eternal pollutants”, or PFAS.
* AMGEN – California, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the states of New York and Washington have joined the US antitrust regulator’s lawsuit against Amgen’s $27.8 billion takeover of HORIZON THERAPEUTICS.
* META – Malaysia announced on Friday that it would take legal action against the Facebook-owning group, which it accuses of failing to moderate hate-inciting content on its platform.
* STARBUCKS loses 2% in pre-market trading as the group’s union says more than 3,000 employees at 150 cafes will go on strike next week amid accusations that the group banned ‘Pride Month’ decorations (“Pride Month”) in its points of sale.
* Smith & Wesson Brands SWBI.O gains 5.7% in pre-market trading, the group having announced diluted earnings per share of 0.32 dollars, against a consensus of 0.27%.
* CARMAX gained 11.3% in pre-market after the publication of its first quarter results, which exceeded market expectations.
* VIRGIN GALACTIC lost 16.7% before the stock market, the group having announced that it could issue up to 400 million dollars in shares from time to time to finance its operations.
* CONFORMIS – The medtech announced Thursday evening that it had reached a definitive agreement for its acquisition by the manufacturer of orthopedic equipment restor3d, for 2.27 dollars per share. The course soared 90.52%, to 2.22 dollars, before the market.
* ACCENTURE – TD COWEN lowers its recommendation from “superformer” to “line performance”.
* REINSURANCE GROUP OF AMERICA – Jefferies lowers its recommendation from “buy” to “hold”. (Report Corentin Chapron, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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