Boring company has exciting day — in a bad way
Financial data company FIS is the worst stock in the S&P 500 Tuesday after falling short of Wall Street expectations on Q4 sales numbers and issuing a lackluster full-year forecast for earnings. Revenue in the company’s main business, selling software to the banking industry, fell short of expectations, posting a sluggish growth rate of just 1.5%.
Analysts at Oppenheimer called the quarter the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” writing that “overall 4Q results drive greater investor uncertainty around revenue visibility, the core investment characteristic for FIS investors, we believe.”
Seems that way. The stock’s tumble is its worst since October 2022, which followed another ugly earnings report.
Analysts at Oppenheimer called the quarter the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” writing that “overall 4Q results drive greater investor uncertainty around revenue visibility, the core investment characteristic for FIS investors, we believe.”
Seems that way. The stock’s tumble is its worst since October 2022, which followed another ugly earnings report.