Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.

On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Amazon (AMZN) shares dipped in afterhours trading following earnings. The company said it  plans to spend $200 billion this year on data centers, chips and other equipment, worrying investors the company’s colossal bet on artificial intelligence will pinch profits while it waits for investments to pay off. 

- Strategy shares (MSTR) fell in extended hours trading as Bitcoin's plunge below $65,000 is intensifying the crisis rocking the digital-asset complex. In an earnings announcement Thursday, the Bitcoin-hoarding company confirmed a net loss of $12.4 billion for the fourth quarter, driven by the mark-to-market decline in its vast holdings. That pain deepened this week, as fresh market turmoil pushed the firm’s Bitcoin stash below its cumulative cost basis for the first time since 2023 — and erased the token’s post-election gains.

- Ares Management Corp. (ARES) shares ended the day lower in a broad selloff among alternative asset managers over fears of AI disruption, even as the firm reported that it ended the fourth quarter with record assets. Alternative investment firms are exposed to companies that make financial and legal software products at risk of being rendered obsolete by artificial intelligence. In a nod to those concerns, Ares noted in its earnings statement that exposure to the software industry — where stocks have plunged in recent days — represents 6% of total assets, and less than 9% of private credit.

 

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