Leidos Holdings

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 🗞️

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗸𝘂𝗿𝘇 𝘃𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗺 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗿𝗼𝘁𝘁 / 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗣𝗢 / 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗸𝗮𝘂𝗳𝘁 𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻

𝗘𝘅-𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 📅

As of today, Coca Cola ($CCC3 (+0.73%)), Comerica ($CA3 (+0%)), Domino's Pizza ($EZV (+0.45%)), Garmin ($GEY (+0%)), Gilead ($GIS (+0.47%)), Merck & Co. ($6MK (+0.68%)) and Leidos ($S6IA (-0.11%)) traded ex-dividend.

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀𝘇𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗻 📈

Today, Crealogix ($CX1), JD Sports Fashion ($9JD2), AstroNova ($ALOT (+1.06%)) and Sanne Group ($SNN) will present their quarterly results.

𝗜𝗣𝗢𝘀 🔔

Dutch Bros - The largest drive-through coffee chain in the United States has selected tomorrow (9/15-21) as the date for its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company expects to raise approximately $484 million. Of this, 200 million is to be used to cover debt. The remaining capital is to be used for share repurchases and corporate growth. In addition, the company announced that it will donate 1% of the capital raised through the IPO to a charitable organization over the next 10 years.

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 🏛️

Evergrande ($EV1A) - The second largest, Chinese real estate and construction group again warns of liquidity shortages. This is due to a sharp decline in the company's property sales. Attempts to sell some of the company's assets to generate new capital have also failed to bring much progress. Evergrande has taken on more than 260 billion euros in debt after years of aggressive expansion. At the current time, the group employs about 163,000 people. After the announcement of the impending liquidity shortage, numerous people (homebuyers, artisans & small investors) gathered in front of the group's headquarters in Shenzhen to demand their money back.

𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 💎

MicroStrategy ($MIGA (-3.18%)) - The U.S.-based software company, whose founder and CEO is bitcoin maximalist Michael Saylor, took advantage of declines in the bitcoin exchange rate and bought 5,050 bitcoin ($BTC-EUR (+0.52%)) worth $242.9 million at an average bitcoin price of $48,099 per bitcoin. In total, MicroStrategy now holds 114,042 bitcoin. This currently equates to a total value of US$5.131 billion. Thus, the company holds approximately 0.5% of the world's existing Bitcoin. MicroStrategy bought its Bitcoin at an average price of 27,712 US dollars per Bitcoin. As a result, the company generated a notional profit of about $2 billion. However, the company has never sold a single Bitcoin.