CheckMan Stock Market Overview

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares may be 35% higher year on year, but Wedbush analysts reckon there is plenty more upside to come for the world's most valuable company after its latest profit beat. Azure, with its rapidly accelerating artificial intelligence integrations, was the “star of the show”, said Wedbush, noting the 7% positive impact the cloud-computing platform had on profit growth.

Air Products (APD) is expected to have benefited from cost-improvement and productivity initiatives, higher volumes and pricing gains in Americas in Q2.

Daqo New Energy (DQ) is likely to have gained from higher prices, healthy demand for polysilicon and actions to improve efficiency in the first quarter.

Stocks like NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN), Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD), Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) and CleanSpark Inc. (CLSK) are likely to benefit from the cryptocurrency rally.

Higher U.S. output and lease operating expenses are likely to have impacted APA Corporation's (APA) profit levels in the first quarter.

Five stocks to focus with recent dividend hike are: JNJ, TRV, SON, KBH, SPFI.

Riot Platforms (RIOT), Stronghold (SDIG) and CleanSpark (CLSK) are three Bitcoin mining stocks that must be tracked with the April halving event behind us.

Phillips 66 (PSX) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.90 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.05 per share. This compares to earnings of $4.21 per share a year ago.

T. Rowe Price (TROW) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.38 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.01 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.69 per share a year ago.

Despite negative sentiment in gold mining stocks and Wall Street analysts downgrading the shares of the renowned mining firm Newmont (NYSE: NEM) to a ‘hold,' the NEM stock has soared over 15% in a single day on a positive earnings report, pulling with it the rest of the industry.