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Toast Plans To lay Off 10% of its Workforce, As Growth SlowsToast, ( NYSE:TOST ) maker of restaurant management software, stated on Thursday it will lay off 550 employees, about 10% of its workforce. The company also reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations.
Several Tech companies have instituted layoffs in 2024. On Wednesday Cisco ( NASDAQ:CSCO ) said it would eliminate 4,000 jobs as sales declined and clients became even more cautious about spending.
Toast’s ( NYSE:TOST ) shares were initially up as much as 16%.88 after hours but then gave back much of the gains.
According to the recently published report, the company's earnings per share were a loss of 7 cents per share, which is better than the expected loss of 11 cents per share. The revenue for the quarter was $1.04 billion, which exceeded expectations of $1.02 billion. Toast ( NYSE:TOST ), as per the statement released by the company, saw an increase of nearly 35% in revenue as compared to the previous year. Its net loss of $36 million in the current quarter is an improvement from the $99 million loss in the same quarter last year. The company has allocated $250 million for share buybacks.
The pandemic led many restaurants to adopt Toast’s mobile ordering and payment tools, which helped double the company’s revenue. Shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, amid that uptick. Demand has sublimed since then, down from 37% in the third quarter and about 45% in the second quarter.
Toast ( NYSE:TOST ) faces increasing competition from the likes of Block, Fiserv, and Shift4, Bank of America analysts wrote in a December note as they reduced their rating on the stock from buy to neutral.
Toast’s ( NYSE:TOST ) new layoffs should result in $45 million to $55 million in charges, mostly in the first quarter, and $100 million in annualized savings.
Those cuts come weeks after Aman Narang, Toast’s co-founder and COO, replaced Chris Comparato as CEO. Under Comparato’s leadership last summer, Toast ( NYSE:TOST ) began to charged a fee of 99 cents for each online order that totaled more than $10. Consumers and restaurant owners objected, prompting urging the company to eliminate the surcharge.
US Stock In Play: $TOST$TOST - Tech | Software Infra (another tech as the sector is leading in 1&3 mths RS)
traded out of a 6mths bullish falling wedge to rising 10/20 MAs and RS. pre-Fri's ER posted strongest ever quarterly sales. Fri traded as much as +19% intraday
ATH VWAP is a key pivot level now
How Low Can Recent IPO Toast (NYSE: $TOST) Go❓Toast, Inc. operates a cloud-based technology platform for the restaurant industry in the United States and Ireland. It offers Toast Point of Sale (POS), a hardware product; Toast Order & Pay, which allows guests to order and pay from their mobile devices; Toast Flex that is used for on-counter order and pay, as well as used as a server station, guest kiosk, kitchen display system, or order fulfillment station; Toast Go, a handheld POS device that enhances the table turn times through tableside ordering and payment acceptance; and Toast Tap, a card reader that supports NFC, EMV, and MSR payments. The company also provides kitchen display system software that connects the front of the house with the kitchen staff; multi-location management software, which allows customers to manage and standardize their operations and configure menus; xtraCHEF by Toast, a restaurant-specific invoice management software; and Toast Flex for Kitchen, a larger format mountable piece of hardware that can be used as a kitchen screen. In addition, it offers Toast Online Ordering & Toast TakeOut app, a software that connects online channels, point of sale, menu management, and kitchen operations in real-time; First-Party Delivery services for restaurants to manage a fleet of drivers, and customize delivery hours, zones, fees, and minimum ticket sizes; Toast Delivery Services, which enables restaurants to utilize a partner network of delivery drivers; and Toast Delivery Partners services. Further, the company provides loyalty programs and branded gifts; payroll and team management products; business owner policy insurance and restaurant-specific add-ons; payment processing solutions; loans advanced to restaurants; purchase financing; reporting and analytics solutions; Toast Partner Connect that allows customers to discover, select, and connect their restaurant to its partners; and bi-directional APIs. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
It was a good run friend's50SMA Crossing 100SMA, will perpetuate 21SMA Crossing 200SMA. This is now confirmed. Lower supports will have to be explored.
It was a good run friends. Let's hope if/when we bounce we'll see each other at the beginning of the next cycle with the same or more enthusiasm and symbiosis than we harnessed last time.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch - S&P 500?I come from a strict crypto technical analysis background but it doesn't take much to accept that this trend is TOAST.
1W cloud wasn't able to hold, so what are you waiting for? this is not a dip, this is a dump. I believe the crypto space will follow s&p's next move as well.
*not financial advice
Turn Your Bread into Buttery Toast w the ETH Toaster
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Get your fresh bread out folks, we've reached a critical point in the market. We've been getting our bread burnt for so long many of us are giving up on toasters. This all-time negative toaster sentiment is a psychological signal to the end of the times of burnt toast, for soon there will be butter and toast to be shared all around.
In the short term, breakouts above 420, 650, and 800 levels will forecast how much butter is in our future. A breakdown from any level below 650 could signal a butter trap and take us back down to burnt toast.
However should we break 800 in the long term, expect butter and golden toast to ATH.
Should we break all time high hop on tha mothafuckin butter rocket we goin to the moon... and guess what, they got Jesus toast.
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