Shares RH, the company formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plunged nearly 19 percent Friday morning after it cut its 2019 forecast, suggesting that the company’s new strategy will take longer to pay off than originally expected.

Late Thursday, RH posted its fiscal fourth-quarter results, which were mixed as revenue fell short of expectations.

The high-end retailer has been shifting to position itself as a luxury lifestyle brand and dropped “Hardware” from its name in 2017. In order to create a more welcoming shopping environment it has been opening so-called RH Galleries, which are expansive museum-style stores.

The company’s strategy of initially focusing on experience rather than profit may have contributed to the mixed earnings, while RH also cited the downturn in the high-end housing market, which has weighed on demand for its products.

RH said it will continue to reshape the company and promote it as a high-end lifestyle brand, saying “Leaders have to comfortable making others uncomfortable.”

“We also believe, ‘We have to think until it hurts, until we can see what others can’t see, so we can do what others can’t do,’” said RH CEO Gary Friedman in a letter to investors. Instead of moving to a digital-first model, it said, RH will continue to focus on its physical retail locations.

“Speaking of profitability, which is surprisingly absent in the narrative of most retail businesses that are birthed online, we believe what many have overlooked is that the cost of marketing an invisible store is proving to be more expensive than physical experiences,” it said.

RH also noted disappointing fourth-quarter results of Waterworks, the luxury kitchen and bath brand RH acquired in 2016. Its performance forced RH to take additional impairment charges.

“While the acquisition has been financially disappointing, causing a 70 basis point drag to our operating margins, we plan to take aggressive steps to refocus … and still believe in the potential long term synergies and value creation,” it said.

In the latest period, RH net income rose to $36.1 million, or $1.41 per share, from about $261,000 or a penny per share, a year ago. Excluding an impairment charge for Waterworks, RH earned $3 per share, beating Refinitiv estimates of $2.86.

Revenue, however, inched up only slightly to $670.9 million from $670.3 million a year ago, and was below estimates of $686.3 million.

The company now expects 2019 earnings on an adjusted basis to be between $8.41 and $9.08 per share on sales of $2.59 billion to $2.64 billion. Previously, the company expected to earn between $9.30 and $10.70 per share on sales of $2.72 billion to $2.82 billion a year ago.

Deutsche Bank downgraded RH to hold from buy following the earnings report, but other analysts are standing by the retailer. Wells Fargo kept RH as outperform.

Wells Fargo analysts expected shares to open lower on Friday but said, “We believe the headline appears worse than the reality.”

RH shares, which have a market value of $2.3 billion, have gained more than 43 percent over the past year, but are only up 10 percent since January.

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DowDuPont cut its forecast for first-quarter sales on Thursday, citing the impact of U.S. Midwest floods on its agri business as well as weakness in its packaging and specialty plastics division.

Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the Farm Belt across Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and several other states, idling ethanol plants, slowing rail shipments of agricultural products and swamping storage bins holding grain from previous harvests.

The company said the floods have limited its ability to deliver products to customers, while delaying pre-season applications.

Sales from its agri business are expected to be down 4 percent to 6 percent and operating earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) are expected to be down by $125 million to $150 million, DowDupont said.

Grains trader Archer Daniels Midland was also forced to lower its first-quarter profit forecast on Monday due to floods and a severe winter.

For the first quarter, DowDupont now expects net sales to be down in the high single-digit percentage range. It had previously forecast sales to fall in the mid single-digit percentage range.

DowDupont also forecast a $100 million reduction in its materials science division’s operating EBITDA, compared with previous expectations, due to lower margins in packaging and specialty plastics globally.

Accenture on Thursday raised its full-year profit forecast after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, benefiting from its investments in digital and cloud services.

The consulting and outsourcing services provider’s shares rose 4 percent before the opening bell.

Much of Accenture’s recent growth has been driven by digital and cloud services, which include everything from managing clients’ social media marketing strategies to helping them migrate to the cloud.

Revenue from digital, cloud and security-related services, which the company calls “the New,” constituted more than 60 percent of its total revenue in the second quarter.

Accenture raised its full-year earnings per share forecast range to $7.18 to $7.32, from $7.01 to $7.25.

Net income attributable to the company rose to $1.12 billion, or $1.73 per share, in the quarter ended Feb. 28, from $863.7 million, or $1.37 per share, a year earlier.

Analysts on average had expected a profit of $1.57 per share.

Revenue rose 5.5 percent to $10.45 billion, ahead of estimates of $10.30 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Lennar, the second-largest U.S. homebuilder, on Wednesday posted a 76.1 percent jump in quarterly profit, as easing mortgage rates boosted homebuyer appetite.

Net income attributable to Lennar rose to $239.9 million, or 74 cents per share, in the first quarter ended Feb.28, from $136.2 million, or 53 cents per share, a year earlier.

Total revenue rose 29.7 percent to $3.87 billion.

Southwest Airlines shares slipped 1 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday after the low-cost carrier trimmed its revenue forecast following the grounding of its Boeing 737 Max planes.

The Dallas-based airline expects its revenue per available seat mile, a key industry metric of how much an airline generates for each seat it flies a mile, to grow 2 to 3 percent compared with an earlier forecast of as much as 4 percent growth.

The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Boeing 737 Max planes earlier this month following two fatal crashes. Investigators have said there are “clear similarities” between an Ethiopian Airlines crash of a 737 Max on March 10 and another deadly crash of that model of plane in Indonesia in October.

Southwest operates an all-Boeing 737 fleet, and has 34 737 Max 8 planes in its fleet of about 750 aircraft.

Southwest said its operating costs, excluding fuel, in the quarter will likely rise 10 percent from a year ago, up from a previous forecast of a 6 percent year-over-year increase.

The airline said it expects to lose $150 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2019, up from a February estimate of $60 million, due to weather-related cancellations, maintenance issues, weak leisure-travel demand and the Max groundings, the airline said.

It is a small amount compared with the $5.3 billion in revenue analysts expect Southwest to generate in the first three months of 2019, but investors are focused on how the suspension of the 737 Max planes will financially impact airlines.

American Airlines earlier this week said it planned to cancel about 90 flights a day through April 24 due to the grounding of the Max planes. That period encompasses the busy Easter and Passover travel period.

Boeing is scheduled on Wednesday morning to outline the changes to a piece of software that Indonesian investigators have indicated that it played a role in the Lion Air crash in October, raising worries about links between the two fatal crashes.

“Due to the current uncertainty regarding the duration of the Max groundings and any requirements for reinstatement of the aircraft into service, it is difficult for the company to forecast the impact of the MAX groundings beyond first quarter 2019,” Southwest said.

As of March 13, Southwest said it had 41 deliveries of Max planes scheduled for this year as well as firm orders for 221 firm orders, 115 options for the aircraft and deliveries for three more planes past 2019.

Southwest reports first-quarter earnings in late April.

For its display business, Samsung said Tuesday that LCD panel prices fell more than expected due to an expansion in capacity from Chinese competitors while demand from large-scale buyers of its flexible OLED display screens, which are typically used in high-end smartphones, also declined.

Mehdi Hosseini, senior equity research analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group, wrote in a Monday note that weak smartphone industry demand was pressuring Samsung’s display business unit, particularly OLED panels.

OLED panels make colors “pop” more than on a traditional LCD panel, which means photos, videos and games can look much more true to life.

“In fact, our checks suggest Apple has dramatically cut back on the purchase of ‘flexible’ OLED panels, as they try to keep channel inventory to a minimum,” Hosseini said. Samsung is a major OLED screen supplier to the iPhone maker.

He added that he expects Samsung’s display revenue to decline around 50 percent on-quarter, worse than previous expectations of a 30-40 percent drop. Still, a bright spot for Samsung is its latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S10, which is on track to ship up to 12 million units in the three months to March and forecast to ship another 10-12 million units between April and June, according to Hosseini.

“We expected OLED display shipments to increase into the June quarter, but the magnitude is still tracking below prior expectations,” he said.

Samsung shares slid 0.88 percent in morning trade, falling behind the broader Kospi index which was in positive territory on Tuesday morning.

— CNBC’s Chery Kang contributed to this report.

Shares of Canadian pot company Cronos slid by more than 5 percent Tuesday after reporting disappointing fourth-quarter revenue.

In the quarter, Cronos’ sales totaled 5.6 million Canadian dollars ($4.2 million), up from CA$1.6 million ($1.2 million) in the same period last year and calculated based on today’s exchange rates. Yet that figure was still well short of analysts’ average estimate of CA$10.4 million ($7.8 million), according to data compiled by FactSet.

The company reported a net loss of CA$11.8 ($8.8 million) in the quarter, a loss of 6 Canadian cents per share. In the year-ago quarter, Cronos earned CA$667,000 ($498,412) equaling a Canadian penny per share.

Canada legalized adult recreational use of marijuana in October, making the fourth quarter a closely watched one.

For all of 2018, Cronos’ revenue reached CA$15.7 million ($11.7 million), up from CA$4.1 million ($3 million) in 2017. It posted a net loss of CA$19.2 million ($14.3 million), or a loss of 11 Canadian cents per share, compared to a profit of CA$1.8 million ($1.3 million), or 1 Canadian cent per share in 2017.

Cronos said its expenses more than tripled during the fourth quarter to CA$12.4 million ($9.3 million) after pouring CA$2.4 million ($1.8 million) in research and development. It also hired new employees and pursued strategic partnerships with tobacco giant Altria and biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, among others. For the full year, Cronos’ operating expenses totaled CA$29.4 million ($22 million), a 215 percent increase from the CA$9.3 million ($7 million) it spent in 2017.

Altria bought a 45 percent stake in Cronos for $1.8 billion in December. Shortly after, the tobacco company spent $12.8 billion for a 35 percent stake in e-cigarette company Juul. When asked whether investors could assume this would lead to Cronos and Juul working together, Cronos CEO Michael Gorenstein told analysts he views cannabis and nicotine as two very different markets.

CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabis compound, has become incredibly popular in the U.S. Gorenstein said the company’s original plan was to perfect its strategy in Canada and prepare to eventually bring it to the U.S. He said while that’s still the goal, Cronos will keep a close watch on how the CBD market unfolds in the U.S.

He said Cronos probably won’t telegraph its strategy as clearly as some of its competitors have, though the company is “absolutely excited” about the possible opportunity.

Tiffany on Friday reported a 1 percent drop in sales worldwide during the holiday quarter, citing “external challenges and uncertainties.”

Its stock was down more than 5 percent in pre-market trading on the news.

The luxury jewelry retailer said net sales fell to $1.321 billion during its fiscal fourth quarter, while analysts had been expecting sales of $1.332 billion, according to a Refinitiv survey.

Tiffany reported net earnings of $204.5 million, or $1.67 a share, compared with $61.9 million, or 50 cents per share, a year ago. That was slightly ahead of analysts’ expectations for earnings per share of $1.60.

Sales at Tiffany stores open for at least 12 months dipped 1 percent overall, while analysts had forecast growth of 0.8 percent.

The retailer earlier this year said sales during the holiday season fell unexpectedly as Chinese tourists spent less, and demand for its diamonds softened in Europe. Tiffany has typically been reliant on Chinese shoppers to boost sales. But uncertain and ongoing trade talks between the U.S. and China have posed a larger threat for luxury retailers, like Tiffany, that have benefited from that geography in the past.

“I continue to strongly believe that Tiffany has vast global growth opportunities and we look forward to realizing our full potential in the future,” CEO Alessandro Bogliolo said.

As of Thursday’s market close, Tiffany’s stock had rallied more than 24 percent so far this year.

Shares of clothing company Guess tumbled nearly 14 percent in the premarket Thursday after reporting earnings that missed analyst expectations.

Guess posted adjusted earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 70 cents. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected a profit of 75 cents a share.

The company also said its same-store sales in the Americas fell 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet had forecast an increase of 1.5 percent. Gross margins also contracted from the year-earlier period.

Thursday’s before-the-bell move would wipe out Guess’ year-to-date gains. The stock was up 6.3 percent through Wednesday’s close.

The move also comes ahead of blue jeans maker Levi Strauss‘ initial public offering. Levi Strauss is set to go public on Thursday after pricing its IPO at $17 per share.

This is one of the most anticipated IPOs of the year. Three sources told CNBC the IPO was more than 10 times oversubscribed, indicating high demand.

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Growing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, coupled with nagging concerns about the Chinese economy have rattled confidence in some of the industry’s key players. Soft iPhone sales, along with a deceleration in cryptocurrency mining ventures, further fed investor anxiety surrounding weakened demand.

Looking ahead, Credit Suisse’s Nigam said investors should focus on supply-side issues within the sector, with Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung all signalling a reduction in capital expenditure.

“Based on the current (capital expenditure) guidance from all three main memory makers, you are looking at a underlying supply growth which will not be more than 15 percent,” Nigam said. “Demand growth, even in a reasonably bearish scenario, will probably be well ahead of that.”

As a result, he said, the discussion in the sector could be moving from “current inventory concerns and sharp (average selling price) concerns to concerns around likely shortages … before the year is out.”

— Reuters, along with CNBC’s Maggie Fitzgerald and J.R. Reed, contributed to this report.