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Alcoa Launches Earnings Season With A Whimper
You've heard the CEO's oracular outlook; you've read the press-release; you've seen Maria Bartiromo flush and the algos stymied in after-hours trading. Now here are the facts:
- *ALCOA CUTS 2012 GLOBAL ALUMINUM DEMAND FORECAST TO 6% VS 7%
- Free Cash Flow: Q3 -$39MM
- Adjusted EBITDA: Q3 $282mm, down 45% from Q2
- Adjusted EBITDA: Q3 2011: $821 MM; Q2 2012: $ 517 MM; Q3 2013: $282 MM
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin Changes: Q3 2011: 12.8%; Q2 2012: 8.7%; Q3 2012 4.8%
- Total debt: $9,524; Net debt: $8,092; LTM EBITDA $1,875 million; Total Leverage: 5.1x; Net Leverage: 4.3x
and here is the correlation:
(h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer)
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bullish!
In all seriousness, did ANYONE ever really believe in Alcoa's 7% global aluminum demand increase?
@slaughterer
Klaus pulled a Schrodinger. Said auto demand was a big positive, but light truck sales are showing stress.
Where is Jack Welch on this?
Twitter?
This is how the world ends ... not with a bang, but a whimper.
I just called and he said he's still recycling cans...has no idea what's up...
saw Jack this afternoon with a garbage bag of cans riding his bicycle to the recycle center. Apparently he's an enviromentalist or he's broke
The bigger question is doesn't Jack Welch look a dried up evil wizard - with the voice to match? And how does his wife fuck that wrinkled bald piece of shit without cringing?
I have a theory about Jack and Suzie - Jack acts like the tough guy on TV (the runt couldn't beat up a little girl) - but behind the scenes he is a SEVERE deviant.
I suspect he cut a deal with young Suzie and pays her BIG dollars no whammies to strap on the biggest cock he can possibly find on horsecockstraponsforyou.com and roger him really, really fast and hard.
And scrawny Jack with the arse like a soft back of saggy shit squeels great yelps of joy in that high pitched voice of his.
Suzie - you deserve every single Goochi and Lou Vitton bag that Jack buys for you - you are a very very good whore.
MOOORE ZERO'S BEN!!
It's working flawlessly!!
You little margin eviscerator you!
.. and queue the headline across all tickers around the world ..
Alcoa beat estimates
Well, with only 7.8% unemployment of course they did!
Exactly!!!!
Thank you ZH for posting the truth - MSM is trying to jump start this bitch with CONfidence stories... problem is the bitch is dead. Ain't nothing going to help bring her back.
What? You are tapped out and can't consume - no worries - how about a car loan with no payments? Or how about you show us your pulse and we loan you thousands to go back to school and come off the job stats to make us look better - or better still, fake a limp and we'll give you disability and take you off the job stats...
We are SO absolutely FUCKED.
it a typical seasonal oversupply issue/result- winter= less building= less Steel, aluminium, scrap. combine with oversupply.
sorry dbl post
Did Maria leave a steamer?
You can't eat aluminum
It could mean the return of goat herding.
"Shouldn't take more than five buck to dig up"
But you can eat by-products of Aluminium smelting....It's even encouraged.
Good thing; as this is definitely a 'He Who Smelt It" earnings report...
Gotta love the one time (every earnings report) charges. People still fall for it though. Without the extraordinary charges that we put up every earnings report, AA would have earned 3 cents. As it was, we lost 12. Carry on.
13 cent loss turns into a 3 cent gain "ex-tems." Why Mario didn't ask about new contract pricing?
Earnings don't matter. Go long accounting gimmicks.
What are these "earnings" you speak of?
Long hat rabbits, sleeve pigeons
I think you're wrong Fonz. Qe3 was baked in and there's limited market upside. We may churn here for a while as the fed's resolve is tested ,but my guess is we are headed south.
Of course if Ben decides to do a surprise QE all bets are off.
you are prob right. i would not be surprised at all though if this sets up some ridiculous end of year rally, but i think u are correct. by the way...surprise qe...is that actually possible from here on out?
If the Feds do another 'unusual' QE move in the middle of QEi I would think the markets would initially rally then be in full panic mode as all of the artifical lift that the Fed can manufacture has already worked its way through the system. I agree with you Doc, I too think we are headed south.
When the twist ends and the fed goes for another 45 bil full blown LSAP in January is that a surprise or is that already getting baked in on the way down.
When the market starts really heading down and the dollar turns down at the same time and yields start climbing (and monkeys start flying out of my ass) and metals start roaring...I will become very interested.
Ooops . . . declining margins look scary--more head count reductions coming? They need to use more aluminum in iphones and lobby for a ban on plastic and glass beverage containers--that'll fix it.
Layoffs are only permissible if those cut go immediately to the "stopped searching for work" pool. Do not pass Go; do not collect $200 unemployment.
Ha. The Disappeared. Don't give 'em any ideas...
As long as they are only still whimpering at the same volume level as they have been for the last decade...the thesis is bullish.
no wimper here... esp with Babs singing! ;)
YouTube - Corporations are the Luckiest People! Obama bitch slaps Mitt for being Ridiculous!
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Give a rest please. We get it. No need to continually post the same link in every.. single.. post. It makes you look unstable.
Might be worth an out of the money long WWIII bet !..... BTFD !!
More demand for aluminum tin-foil hats needed!
Foiled again are you? Personally I prefer epee. He who gets the touch first wins. So don't lose your touch with words.
EBITDA margin down to just 4.8% in the production of Aluminum?
Go long.....er recycling.
This report is why Romney will win. Don't want your Alcoa stock to collapse? Need more defense spending!!
And that's what you're going to get.
And that's why Romney is going to win.
Romney DID say his plan is to create one million jobs per year in America. When Obama promised to create jobs, the Repubs were all over that and pointing out that government doesn't create jobs. It's one of Rush Limbaugh's pet peeves. Now that Romney talks jobs on the campaign trail, it is all ok. Maybe the jobs will be created in the military? Cannon fodder anyone?
However, there is no money that government could spend to either go to war or "create" jobs.
Fiscall cliff and all that REALITY which we're approaching FAST.
Baloney. There's $40 trillion more in QE to loot from American homeowners before America collapses. We're going to loot it all, and the underclass is going to have to be satisfied with defense-related jobs. How do you think Reagan won? The minute he started talking about ramping up defense spending, everyone knew he would win. Romney is channeling Reagan (did you see the debate? the tone of voice? the hand movements?--all pure Reagan). He'll get 55% of the vote. He'll surprise everyone. Prince Barack simply can't be bothered any more. Neither could Prince Jimmy.
Romney's plan, to win, is so far being executed well -- and that is to not be Obama. Obama had his chance and has failed.
Romney is best advised not to offer much in the way of specific plans. That's not how you defeat a failed incumbent. You defeat one by simply pointing out the failure over and over and saying "I will do better".
That's how one wins.
I don't think Reagan EVER said "I will do better" or anything even approaching it. He said he would spend a shitload more on defense. And THAT is how he won. Let's hear anyone contradict me.
And by the way, do I need to say more?
http://www.navytimes.com/prime/2012/10/PRIMEnavy-romney-plan-lehman-100912w/
The Gubermint needs to add more fluoride to the water. It will help with "cavities" and help Alcoa. Let us increase it 10 fold for children and Merica. Fuck Yeah!
There are few things more amusing than reading spin jobs from the MSM re. corporate earnings.
"Alcoa Beats Expectations..."
http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2012/10/09/alcoa-beats-expec...
Alcoa announced a quarterly EPS of $0.03 vs. a "projected" EPS of $0.00. Too bad that analysts were projecting an EPS of $0.07 some 90 days ago before they steadily lowered them to $0.00... before Aloca "beat" EPS.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=AA+Analyst+Estimates
This is the same ole BS that goes on every quarter from the MSM.
100% FUBAR.
lol stimulus what a f*cking joke
Aloca is dreaming that China will go all out again, with oil bid over 90?? Which essentially means that global riots (oil inflation/stagflation) are ensured and China will look for a distraction. Namely Japan.
We take the market pain and adapt.
F*ck the Fed and Obama and that idiot Romney.
...and f*ck Europe.
Thank you.
Let's see if the bots/algos can spin this one. Nikkei just opened (8p EST) and is down 1.3% - not bad for 5 minutes.
And the next leg down - primary wave 3 - looks ready to unfold on the SP500.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/standard-poors-500-weekly-october-05-2012/