Wall St ticks up on megacaps, earnings boost
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Elevance Health up after Q1 profit beat
Tesla falls after DB downgrades to 'hold'
Indexes up: Dow 0.59%, S&P 0.45%, Nasdaq 0.41%
Updated at 12:04 p.m. ET/1604 GMT
By Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A
April 18 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main stock indexes gainedon Thursday as investors cheered upbeat earnings across several sectors, while advancing megacap growth stocks were amongst the biggest boosts.
Megacap growth stock Meta Platforms META.O outpaced peers and gained2.7% after Bernstein raised its price target to $590, a sixth such hike on the stock this week.
The first-quarter earnings season was in full swing with Genuine Parts GPC.Njumping 12.9%, the top percentage gainer on the S&P 500, as the automotive parts distributor raised its 2024 profit forecast.
Elevance Health ELV.N added 3.9% after the health insurer reported quarterly profit above Wall Street estimates and slightly raised its annual earnings forecast.
D.R. Horton DHI.N rose 2.4% after the U.S. homebuilder raised its annual revenue forecast as tight housing supply boosted sales.
"Once the stock market is expensive, you need substantive earnings growth to justify these prices and we're getting it (so far)," said Phil Blancato, chief executive officer at Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management.
The S&P 500 currently trades about 20 times its 12-month forward earnings, as per LSEG data.
Meanwhile, New York Fed President John Williams said there's no pressing case to lower interest rates right now.
On the data front, the number of Americans filing new claims forunemployment benefits was unchanged at a low level last week, pointing to continued labor market strength.
The S&P 500 .SPX and the Nasdaq .IXIC clocked their fourthstraight day of losses on Wednesday asinvestors remained jittery about the Fed's interest-rate outlook.
Money markets are now pricing in about 40 bps of rate cuts this year, down from around 150 bps seen at the start of the year, according to LSEG data.
All 11 major S&P 500 sectors traded higher, with communication services .SPLRCL leading gains, up1.1%.
At 12:04 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 223.36 points, or 0.59%, at 37,976.67, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 22.41 points, or 0.45%, at 5,044.62, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 64.12 points, or 0.41%, at 15,747.50.
On the downside, Tesla TSLA.O slipped3.3% after Deutsche Bank downgraded its rating on the stock to "hold" from "buy".
Las Vegas Sands Corp LVS.N lost 7.5% after brokerages cut their price targets on the casino operator due to weakness in its Macau operations.
Equifax EFX.Nshed 5.2% after the credit ratings firm forecast its second-quarter revenue below estimates.
Snap-On SNA.O retreated 5.6% after the equipment maker missed Wall Street estimates for first-quarter sales.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.44-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 1.69-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded three new 52-week highs and eight new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 12 new highs and 166 new lows.
Reporting by Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai, Arun Koyyur and Maju Samuel
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