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IT project management software company, Atlassian (NASDAQ:TEAM) reported Q4 CY2024 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 21.4% year on year to $1.29 billion. Guidance for next quarter’s revenue was optimistic at $1.35 billion at the midpoint, 2.4% above analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.96 per share was 27.1% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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Semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) reported Q4 CY2024 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 23.7% year on year to $3.08 billion. On top of that, next quarter’s revenue guidance ($3 billion at the midpoint) was surprisingly good and 3.8% above what analysts were expecting. Its non-GAAP profit of $8.20 per share was 5.7% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Computer processor maker Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) reported Q4 CY2024 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, but sales fell by 7.4% year on year to $14.26 billion. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $12.2 billion was less impressive, coming in 5.4% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP loss of $0 per share was significantly below analysts’ consensus estimates.

Shares of fabless chip and software maker Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) jumped 6.3% in the afternoon session after Meta reported fourth quarter earnings and announced plans to scale up its deployment of MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) chips, developed in partnership with Broadcom, to optimize cost. Currently used for ad and organic content workloads, these custom chips will expand to AI training tasks, including generative AI, by 2026. To get a picture of how significant these investment

Online learning platform Coursera (NYSE:COUR) reported revenue ahead of Wall Street’s expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 6.1% year on year to $179.2 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $175 million was less impressive, coming in 1.8% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.08 per share was 82.2% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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