Stock Movers

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Monte dei Paschi di Siena is seeking to buy two separate banks for a combined price of €34 billion ($40 billion) in a defensive move designed to ward off a takeover by rival Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.
- Renault gets downgraded to equal weight from overweight at Barclays, with analysts citing tough competition and the need for major cost cuts.
- Nibe shares gain as much as 10%, the most since May, after the Swedish heating and climate solutions group posted strong earnings, that SB1 Markets predicted could trigger single-digit upgrades to consensus estimates.

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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Monte dei Paschi di Siena is seeking to buy two separate banks for a combined price of €34 billion ($40 billion) in a defensive move designed to ward off a takeover by rival Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.
- Renault gets downgraded to equal weight from overweight at Barclays, with analysts citing tough competition and the need for major cost cuts.
- CTS Eventim drops after reporting normalized Ebitda for the first half-year that met the average analyst estimate.

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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Samsung Electronics plans to return as much as 110 trillion won ($79 billion) to shareholders, joining rival SK Hynix Inc. in handing investors a chunk of the windfall generated by the AI rush.
- Unimicron shares are down as SK Hynix supports the optical sector but damages the case for copper circuit boards.
- Pop Mart International Group Ltd. shares fell the most in nearly five months after the Labubu toymaker said it will likely miss its 2026 sales-growth target, citing a far tougher-than-expected first half.

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On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Flower Foods (FLO) slid in extended trading after the maker of Wonder Bread cut its adjusted earnings per share forecast for the full year.

- Ross Stores (ROST) raised its annual profit outlook for a second time this year, signaling that the discount retailer’s momentum is holding up. The California-based company now expects full-year earnings of $8.61 to $8.77 a share, it said in a statement Thursday, up from $7.50 to $7.74 previously and ahead of Wall Street’s estimates.

- Moderna (MRNA) shares tumbled 24%, the worst ever daily slide, one day after the drugmaker’s record 177% surge that stemmed from a clinical trial win. Shares of the drugmaker had more than doubled after the company said a personalized cancer vaccine combined with partner Merck & Co.’s Keytruda helped cut the recurrence of melanoma in a large, late-stage trial.

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- Ross Stores (ROST) shares were trading higher in extended trading after it release earnings with sales that beat Wall Street estimates. 

- Shares of crypto-related companies like Coinbase (COIN), Strategy (MSTR), Circle (CRCL) all rallied today after Bitcoin jumped to a more than two-month high, boosted by US President Donald Trump’s White House gathering of industry leaders yesterday and his administration’s surprise intervention in the bond market dragged down the US dollar. 

- SpaceX (SPCX) shares slipped as a second tranche of stock is released from a post-initial public offering lockup period. Meanwhile, Anthropic is expected to match or beat the size of SpaceX’s record-setting IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of overwhelming demand from investors looking to profit from the artificial intelligence boom.

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On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Walmart (WMT) shares slide. Quarterly sales fell short of expectations, with sales at US stores open at least a year, excluding fuel, rising 2.6% in the second quarter. The company's pharmacy business was hindered by federal negotiations that led to lower drug prices, and shoppers spent less per trip during the quarter.
 
- Alibaba (BABA) ADRs rise. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s profit plunged more than 75% after the company increased quarterly capital spending to almost $10 billion to safeguard its position in the global AI arena. The company reported a 9% jump in revenue, but net income tumbled to 10.5 billion yuan and it registered a free-cash outflow of $6.6 billion, reflecting the rising cost of AI projects and computing infrastructure.

-Coty (COTY) shares fall on Thursday after the beauty conglomerate refrained from providing full-year guidance, predicting a “transition” period in the current fiscal year. Net revenue increased 1% to $1.27 billion, but declined 1% on a like-for-like basis, including an estimated 1% headwind from the Middle East conflict.

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On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Walmart (WMT) shares slide. Quarterly sales fell short of expectations, with sales at US stores open at least a year, excluding fuel, rising 2.6% in the second quarter. The company's pharmacy business was hindered by federal negotiations that led to lower drug prices, and shoppers spent less per trip during the quarter.

- Advance Auto Parts (AAP) shares drop. The parts provider reported second-quarter sales that fell short of analyst estimates. Though the company boosted its adjusted earnings per share forecast for the full year, it maintained its sales guidance, which is also below estimates at the midpoint.

- Coty (COTY) shares fall on Thursday after the beauty conglomerate refrained from providing full-year guidance, predicting a “transition” period in the current fiscal year. Net revenue increased 1% to $1.27 billion, but declined 1% on a like-for-like basis, including an estimated 1% headwind from the Middle East conflict.

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

On this episode of Stock Movers:

- Shares of Walmart (WMT) tumbled ahead of the market open after the retail giant’s quarterly sales fell short of expectations, a rare miss that’s likely to stoke concern about the leading big-box retailer decelerating alongside a slow-growing US economy. Sales at US stores open at least a year, excluding fuel, rose 2.6% in the second quarter, shy of the lowest analyst estimate compiled by Bloomberg. That rate of growth — hindered primarily by pricing pressure in its pharmacy business — is the slowest in more than six years.

- Shares of Advanced Auto Parts (AAP) sunk in premarket trading after the parts provider reported second-quarter sales that fell short of analyst estimates. Though the company boosted its adjusted earnings per share forecast for the full year, it maintained its sales guidance, which is also below estimates at the midpoint.

- Shares of Coty (COTY) fell after the beauty conglomerate reported fourth-quarter results. While the company’s net revenue for the quarter beat the average analyst estimate, Coty didn’t provide a full-year forecast and said it expects to provide a broader outlook following a strategic review. The company also reported a wider-than-expected loss, or a one cent earnings per share miss.

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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Shares of Deere & Co. (DE) moved higher in premarket trading after the company narrowed its annual profit outlook as a stabilizing agriculture sector points to a more pronounced rebound next year for farm machinery. The builder of iconic green and yellow tractors estimated net income for the fiscal year between $4.75 billion and $5 billion, compared with its previous outlook for $4.5 billion to $5 billion.
- Shares of Moderna (MRNA) fell in early trading, paring gains from a record Wednesday session for the stock. The biotech company said a personalized cancer vaccine combined with partner Merck & Co.’s Keytruda helped cut the recurrence of melanoma in a large, late-stage trial. The study also met a key secondary goal of showing the shot could help prevent tumors from spreading to new areas of the body, the companies said in a statement Wednesday.
- Shares of Strategy (MSTR) and other crypto-linked stocks are climbing in premarket trading as Bitcoin’s rally unleashed the biggest wave of short liquidations in records going back to 2021. The stocks were also boosted as President Trump met with crypto executives from firms including Coinbase, Payward and Blockchain.com.

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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- JD Sports Fashion Plc cut its profit outlook after weaker-than-expected sales of sneakers in the second quarter, as its customers grapple with cost-of-living pressures and pull back on discretionary spending.
- Aegon shares fall as much as 4.5%, the worst drop since March, after the insurer released interim results. Analysts said operating capital generation and operating profit topped expectations, although mainly thanks to one-offs, and noted the stock’s strong performance leading into the print.
- Trainline drops a further 5.7% on Thursday, extending strong declines after Wednesday’s announcement of a UK competition watchdog investigation into so-called drip pricing, as JPMorgan cuts its price target to a new Street-low.

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