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...Other earnings: Firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson and American Outdoor Brands will both report earnings after the bell....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...Smith & Wesson is also inclined to pay out cash to its shareholders....
...“The current increase in consumer demand for firearms is, in many ways, unparalleled,” Mark Smith, Smith & Wesson’s chief executive, told analysts....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...“I do think that this bodes very well for us into the future,” said Mark Smith, chief executive of Smith & Wesson, about the August survey....
...Friday: Microsoft president Brad Smith appears before Congress to answer questions on competition issues before a House Judiciary committee....
...American Outdoor, which announced plans last year to spin off Smith & Wesson, is down 75 per cent from its 2016 peak. Sturm Ruger has lost about a third....
...Smith & Wesson’s parent company American Outdoor Brands raised its full-year outlook after booking stronger quarterly sales than forecast, as US demand for firearms has picked up in the back half of 2019...
...Klein’s Churchill Capital Corp IV, which is merging with Tesla-wannabe Lucid, had the largest short interest of any Spac, at $373m....
...Shares in American Outdoor Brands, which owns Smith & Wesson, jumped after the company set out plans to split in two, saying that banks’ reluctance to deal with firearms companies was weighing down the rest...
...Earlier this month the second-largest US gunmaker, American Outdoor Brands, announced plans to split itself in two, separating the Smith & Wesson gun unit from its outdoor products business, which sells...
...But such brutal figures have hardly affected two of the country’s largest and publicly traded gun makers, Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brands, owner of Smith & Wesson guns....
...American Outdoor Brands, the owner of gun maker Smith & Wesson, reported stronger quarterly sales and earnings than anticipated, but struggles for one of the company’s accessory units weighed on shares late...
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...The owner of gun maker Smith & Wesson posted better than expected earnings and revenue for the period....
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...The company, which owns the Smith & Wesson gun brand, notched net income of $7.6m, or 14 cents a share, and quarterly sales of $138.8m....
...Shareholders voted to require American Outdoor Brands, owner of Smith & Wesson, to provide evidence it is working on gun safety and monitoring violence associated with its products, following the mass shooting...
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...; 1958-60 associate, Smith Barney & Co; 1964-81 various roles in economics department, Princeton, including director of financial research centre, professor and chairman; 1975-77 member of the Council of...
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...The company — which makes the Smith & Wesson brand — was one of several firearms makers and retailers to which BlackRock had submitted a list of questions, ranging from how they were managing risks associated...
...At the start of trading on Friday, Sturm Ruger was down 1.6 per cent to $48.20, American Outdoor Brands — formerly known as Smith & Wesson — was off 3.7 per cent to $9.74 and Vista Outdoor was off 0.4 per...
...Norway’s $1.1tn oil fund cut its stake in American Outdoor Brands — formerly known as Smith & Wesson — by almost 90 per cent during last year....
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