STAAR prelims signal upside
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:07.6 | It's good to be with you on this Thursday, the 9th of April. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:13.9 | Star Surgical Company is on our biggest movers list ahead of Market Open. |
| 0:19.1 | St.AA is up 21% in pre-market action. On Wednesday, Starr said that it |
| 0:24.8 | expects first quarter net sales to exceed $90 million, more than double from $42.6 million a |
| 0:32.3 | year earlier. The company said China accounted for the majority of the increase while the |
| 0:37.4 | America's posted continued double-digit growth. Star added that The company said China accounted for the majority of the increase while the Americas posted |
| 0:38.5 | continued double-digit growth. Star added that improved sales and a lower cost structure |
| 0:44.2 | are expected to lead to a significant improvement and adjusted EBAA for the quarter. The company noted |
| 0:50.9 | that first quarter 2025 sales were impacted by minimal shipments to China |
| 0:56.0 | as distributors reduced excess inventory, which it said has now returned to targeted levels. |
| 1:03.0 | Consensus revenue for Q1 is 67.59 million. |
| 1:07.2 | Starr said the figures are preliminary and unaudited with full results to be reported in |
| 1:13.3 | early May. Disney is preparing to eliminate approximately 1,000 positions. According to a Wall Street |
| 1:21.2 | Journal report citing sources, this is happening in the coming weeks as the new CEO begins a strategic reorganization. |
| 1:29.9 | The workforce reductions represents less than 1% of Disney's approximately 231,000 global staff. |
| 1:37.6 | The report added, citing people familiar with the matter, it will primarily target the company's marketing department. |
| 1:45.9 | It also said the workforce reduction is a central component of Project Imagine, a strategic initiative launched in January |
| 1:52.2 | under Disney's newly appointed chief marketing officer. The program seeks to consolidate |
| 1:57.8 | promotional operations across film, TV, and streaming to address |
| 2:02.4 | narrowing profit margins and a volatile theatrical market. |
| 2:07.5 | Low-cost copies of Simaglutide from Novo Nordisk are reshaping India's obesity drug market |
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