Stocks to watch this week: Shell, TSMC, Levi Strauss, Vistry and Jet2
Shell (SHEL.L) will kick off the week's company reporting, with the oil major due to update on second quarter performance on Monday.
Investors will be looking at TSMC's (2330.TW, TSM) latest monthly sales figures, given the company is the world's largest contract chipmaker, helping to give a sense of demand in the sector.
In the world of retail, investors will be keeping an eye on results from Levi Strauss (LEVI) to see how the jeans brand is navigating tariff uncertainty.
Back in the UK, Vistry (VTY.L) will be in the spotlight, with investors hoping the housebuilder's troubles are behind it after issuing three profit warnings towards the end of last year.
Given Jet2 (JET2.L) has already provided some guidance on performance for the year in a trading update, the focus will be on the travel company's outlook for the year ahead.
Here's more on what to look out for:
The share prices of FTSE 100-listed (^FTSE) companies Shell (SHEL.L) and BP (BP.L) have fluctuated in the past month thanks to big swings in oil prices, as conflict between Iran and Israel sparked concerns about disruption to supply through the Strait of Hormuz.
While a ceasefire between the two countries appears to be holding, traders continue to watch developments around the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, in terms of how this impacts tensions in the Middle East.
However, oil prices have steadied in the wake of the truce, with investors now focused on an expected decision to increase supply when major producers meet this weekend. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known as OPEC+, are widely expected to agree on a production increase of 411,000 barrels per day.
Prior to the June spike in oil prices, fears that tariff-fuelled economic downturn could dampen demand for fuel weighed on the commodity. This has contributed to longer-term concerns about slowing demand putting pressure on companies' refining margins, which reflect the profits made from processing oil.
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In the first quarter, Shell (SHEL.L) posted a global indicative refining margin of $6.20 a barrel, which was up from $5.50 in the fourth quarter, but down from $12 for the same quarter last year.
The Anglo-Dutch energy major reported adjusted earnings of $5.58bn (£4.09bn) for the three months to March, down 28% from $7.73bn a year earlier but ahead of the $5.09bn forecast by analysts polled by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG.L).
Despite the fall in profits, Shell (SHEL.L) announced another $3.5bn in share buybacks with the release of the results in May, which marked its 14th consecutive quarter of repurchases of at least $3bn.
Meanwhile, BP (BP.L) reported a significant drop in first-quarter profit. The company reported an underlying replacement cost profit — a key metric used as a proxy for net profit — of $1.38bn (£1bn), falling short of the $1.53bn forecast by analysts polled by LSEG (LSEG.L).
BP's (BP.L) weaker performance has led to speculation that the oil major has become a takeover target, with reports that Shell (SHEL.L) was in talks to make a bid on its rival. However, Shell put paid to the rumours in a statement to markets at the end of June, saying it had "no intention of making an offer for BP".
Attention will now turn to Shell's (SHEL.L) second quarter update release on Monday, which should give investors an idea as to how the oil major has been performing ahead of it publishing the full results on 31 July.
TSMC's (2330.TW, TSM) June sales data will also give a sense of how the chipmaker has performed in the first half of the year.
For May, TSMC (2330.TW, TSM) posted net revenue of TWD320.52bn (£8.11bn), which was down 8.3% on the previous month but up nearly 40% on the same month last year.
The chipmaker has guided to net revenue of $28.4bn to $29.2bn for the second quarter, which would be up from $25.5bn for the first quarter. TSMC (2330.TW, TSM) is due to release its full second quarter results on 17 July.
In a note on Thursday, Barclays (BARC.L) analysts, who have an "overweight" rating on the stock, said that they continued to see the stock as a "core holding".
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"Monthly sales data so far this quarter shows continued strong revenues meaning over 2/3s of quarterly guidance has already been achieved," they said. "Thus we think TMSC (2330.TW, TSM) can beat its guidance for revenues and we see scope for an upgrade to FY (full year).
The analysts added: "The debate we think is on 2H and whether TSMC (2330.TW, TSM) is able to deliver further sequential growth or if what we believe have been pull-in benefits limit quarterly growth from here. We increase our USD revenues for 2025 and now model +33% growth yoy, and if pull in activity has been limited then we think our estimates could be conservative."
Year-to-date TSMC's (2330.TW, TSM) Taipei-listed shares are less than 1% in the green, as tariff-related volatility has weighed on chip stocks more broadly.
Despite beating expectations in the first quarter, shares in Levi Strauss & Co (LEVI) fell after it posted its results in April, which were released just days after Trump announced sweeping tariffs on "Liberation Day".
Levi Strauss (LEVI) maintained its top and bottom line guidance for the year but said this excluded the impact from the tariff announcements but added that it anticipated minimal impact to its margins for the second quarter.
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Speaking to Yahoo Finance at the time, Levi Strauss (LEVI) chief financial officer Harmit Singh said the company debated lifting its full-year guidance but felt it was "prudent" to maintain its outlook, given it was early in the year and in light of the tariff announcement.
Levi Strauss (LEVI) posted net revenues of $1.5bn in the first quarter, which was up 9% on an organic basis on the same period last year. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.38, compared with $0.25 for the first quarter of 2024.
For the year, the jeans maker has guided to 3.5% to 4.5% growth in organic net revenues, while earnings per share are expected to be between $1.20 and $1.25.
Shares in Vistry Group (VTY.L) are up 8% year-to-date but have failed to recover from a sharp drop towards the end of last year on the back of profit warnings by the housebuilder.
While revenue for the year rose 7% to £17.2bn ($23.5bn), final profit before tax was down 35% to £263.5m.
Vistry (VTY.L) is due to share a trading update on Thursday, giving investors a glimpse into what to expect from its actual half-year results in September.
AJ Bell's (AJB.L) investment experts Danni Hewson and Coatsworth said: "Analysts will look to chief executive Greg Fitzgerald for reassurance that last year's problems were limited to just two of the four regional operations in the south and that they are now in hand, after a major reorganisation of management there."
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While they said the update is unlikely to be too detailed, areas to watch include any commentary on the housebuilder's forward order book, which stood at £4.4bn at the last count.
The company's sales rate per site per week would be another area to keep an eye on, which came in at 0.59 in the first quarter.
The outlook for the second half and how that is expected to contribute to full-year profits will also be in focus. Hewson and Coatsworth said current analyst consensus is looking for adjusted pre-tax profit of £270m this year.
"Any sign of improved momentum in the order book and sales per outlet, as well as debt reduction, could be taken well, providing 2024's problems are indeed behind Vistry (VTY.L), and there are no more additional charges for cladding remediation, either," they said. "At least the shares are bumping around one times tangible net asset value (NAV), so value hunters have something to ponder there, given the huge derating from two times and more."
Shares in Jet2 (JET2.L) surged after its full-year trading update at the end of April and have continued to climb since then, hitting an all-time high in June.
For the year, Jet2 (JET2.L) said it expected profit before foreign exchange revaluation and tax to come in between £565m and £570m for the year. That excluded a £10m profit on disposal of assets primarily from our retired Boeing 757- 200 aircraft fleet. The travel company said that this would represent approximately 9% growth on profits for the previous year.
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At the time, Jet2 (JET2.L) said its sale capacity for this summer was 8.3% than the previous year at 18.3 million seats, with new bases at Bournemouth and London Luton airports contributing approximately 4% of this growth.
Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2 (JET2.L), said that the 2025 financial year "ended with another year of healthy profit growth, which underlines the resilience, flexibility and popularity of our product offering".
"Although still very early in FY26, we are satisfied with progress for summer 2025 so far," he said.
Jet2 (JET2.L) also announced plans to launch a £250m share buyback programme, in more welcome news for investors.
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