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Anheuser-Busch InBev briefly reached a 52-week high of $86.60 before retreating to $84.05. The stock is up 44.4% over the past year after a stronger-than-expected Q2 2026 report and a flurry of analyst support, including a Wells Fargo target of $97 and an InvestingPro fair value of $140. Key drivers include revenue per hectoliter gains, rapid growt…
Aug 4 - Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) reduced its full-year 2026 revenue and adjusted earnings per share targets, attributing the change to heightened economic uncertainty that has made some clients more cautious about technology spending. The announcement pushed FIS shares down more than 10% in premarket trading. The company reporte…
Corning (GLW) has traded through sharp swings in recent sessions - a 16% post-earnings sell-off on July 28 after conservative Q3 guidance, followed by a rebound and an early-August pre-market spike tied to a proposed U.S. restriction on Chinese data center optical transceivers. The company beat Q2 expectations on revenue and adjusted EPS, and its o…
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. stock rose 3.1% in pre-market trading to $118.07 as investors build positions ahead of the company’s first audited quarterly earnings report since its June IPO. Strong analyst support, heavy short interest and a risk-on market backdrop are combining to lift the shares, while an approaching lock-up expiry and ele…
Three sell-side initiations from Stifel, Wolfe Research and RBC Capital Markets conclude that SK hynix is well positioned to benefit from sustained AI-driven demand for memory, constrained industry capacity and upcoming contract repricing in high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The analysts set ADR price targets between $200 and $240, highlighted market-sh…
Chevron reported its strongest quarterly earnings in six years with Q2 FY2026 EPS of $6.06, beating estimates by a wide margin. The profit surge, driven by higher crude prices linked to the Iran war, was followed by public pressure from President Trump to reduce retail gasoline prices. That sequence raises several distinct risk vectors - from volun…
Oppenheimer reduced Walmart's rating to Perform from Outperform and eliminated its $140 price target, flagging a less compelling near-term investment case ahead of the retailer's August 20 earnings report. The firm trimmed its same-store sales forecast for Walmart U.S., highlighted potential pharmacy-related pressure tied to the Inflation Reduction…
Renée James, a former Intel president who co-founded and sold Ampere Computing, and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, formerly CEO of Intel Products, have introduced Rule42 Sports Technology Group. The self-funded venture offers a free digital showcase for amateur athletes and charges college recruiters and professional scouts to find prospects. The plat…
Soaring electricity demand tied to large-scale AI workloads is creating a structural opportunity for select utilities and power-equipment providers. The U.S. grid will need roughly 15-20% more capacity to support planned data center expansion through 2030, favoring companies with the right geography, generation mix, transmission assets or equipment…
Corvex’s stock jumped sharply after the company confirmed a multi-year supply agreement to deliver clusters built around NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking to a leading AI customer. The expanded contract includes dedicated high-speed storage and CPUs, was partially delivered in the first quarter, and is funded through debt, c…
Obsidian Security announced an $85 million Series D round that values the company at $1.1 billion. The financing, led by Crescent Cove Advisors with participation from Greylock Partners and Menlo Ventures, arrives as enterprises expand use of autonomous AI agents and high-profile testing incidents highlight risks. Obsidian says proceeds will be use…
J.P. Morgan reduced its rating on Denmark's Tryg A/S to underweight from neutral and cut Finland's Sampo to neutral from overweight. The broker pointed to one of the weakest earnings-growth profiles in the Nordic insurance sector for Tryg, which it now values less favorably after trimming its price target. For Sampo, J.P. Morgan sees limited remain…
IDEXX Laboratories rallied in pre-market trading after the company reported second-quarter 2026 adjusted EPS of $4.27 on revenue of $1.22 billion, both above Wall Street estimates. Management raised and narrowed full-year 2026 guidance for EPS and revenue, a move that, combined with positive macro conditions, helped lift the stock.
Scotts Miracle-Gro stock rose in pre-market trading after the company presented three-year financial targets at its Investor Day 2026 on the New York Stock Exchange. Management outlined specific mid-range goals for fiscal 2027-2029, while analysts upgraded outlooks following recent quarterly results. A favorable market tone further supported the ga…
SK hynix rallied in pre-market trading after detailing a new High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) standard with SanDisk at FMS 2026 and disclosing its tenth-generation V10 375-layer 4D NAND. The announcement, which positions HBF between HBM and SSDs for AI inference workloads, plus upbeat analyst initiations and a firmer macro backdrop, drove a notable pre-o…
On Aug. 4, Pfizer reported second-quarter adjusted earnings that surpassed analyst expectations, driven by robust demand for the blood thinner Eliquis. The company slightly raised the lower end of its full-year sales forecast and highlighted its strategy to rely more on newer medicines and the $10 billion Metsera acquisition to diversify revenue aw…
AMD reports second-quarter 2026 results after the close with consensus at $1.61 in EPS and $11.29 billion in revenue. Pre-market trading shows the stock up to $502.30, but history and current market positioning suggest that even a beat may not be sufficient to lift the share price unless management delivers clear guidance on Helios ramp timing, gro…
Indian equity benchmarks closed lower on Tuesday, with the Nifty 50 losing 0.64% and the BSE Sensex 30 falling 0.27%. Declines were broad-based, led by Real Estate, Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Healthcare names, even as select industrial and financial stocks posted gains. Volatility edged higher and commodity prices, including crude oil and gold …
Citi told investors that consensus projections are understating revenue growth and profitability tied to artificial intelligence, citing faster hyperscaler cloud revenue growth, an expanding backlog, steady cash returns and a marked increase in expected capital spending across the sector. The bank quantified shortfalls in consensus forecasts for 20…
Morgan Stanley's eighth annual AlphaWise intern survey shows growing fragmentation across apparel and athletic footwear categories, declining preference for Lululemon and Nike, rising share for brands such as Ralph Lauren, Vuori and On Running, and a concentration in handbags around Coach and luxury labels.
Wix.com reported second-quarter 2026 results that exceeded analyst expectations on both earnings and revenue, sending the stock higher in pre-market trading. A notable acceleration in the profitability outlook for Base44, the company’s AI-driven no-code app platform, and a reiterated full-year revenue growth target helped restore investor confidenc…
Microsoft's share price has accelerated into a late-stage parabolic advance, trading at USD 487.66 and sitting 17.3% above its 20-day simple moving average. The relative strength index (RSI) reached 80.86, placing the stock well into overbought territory. Technical indicators point to a pivotal moment where a reversal could trigger rapid mean rever…
SK Hynix is trading at ₩1,577,000 on the 4-hour chart and remains capped below significant resistance. Technicals point to continued downside pressure: moving averages signal a macro downtrend, momentum indicators show only a weak recovery, volume has not supported the recent bounce, and a bear-flag formation is about 60% complete. Traders should w…
Intel shares trade near $91.00 and remain more than 11% beneath the 50-period simple moving average, with the stock confined to a long-running descending channel. Technical indicators show a modest short-term recovery from oversold readings, but the prevailing structure and multiple resistance layers favor further downside unless the price closes a…
The Nikkei 225 is trading around JPY 63,917.5 on the 4-hour chart after recovering nearly 6,000 points from July lows. Short-term indicators show improving momentum, but the index remains beneath the 200-period simple moving average and has repeatedly failed to clear a supply zone near JPY 64,800-65,000. A decisive break below JPY 62,000 could reac…
