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Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of Samsara Inc. with a Buy rating and set a $36 price target, arguing the company is positioned to capture demand to digitise vehicle fleets, equipment and field operations. The bank highlights Samsara's integration of hardware and cloud software, embedded AI, and anticipated revenue growth above 20% annually, while…
Applied Materials said Samsung Electronics will join its $5 billion EPIC Center in Silicon Valley, a 180,000-square-foot research and cleanroom facility opening this spring. The announcement coincided with a 4.3% rise in Applied Materials stock, with the partnership focused on co-developing materials and process innovations to accelerate advanced n…
Kraft Heinz on Wednesday abandoned plans to divide into two standalone companies - one concentrating on groceries and the other on sauces and spreads - joining a series of major corporations that have cancelled or delayed proposed separations. The list includes firms across sectors from tyres and industrial materials to telecoms, media, banking and…
Sunrise New Energy Co Ltd announced a corporate rebrand to E-Power Inc., effective February 12, 2026, as it shifts from a focus on graphite anode materials toward AI data center microgrid solutions and broader energy storage offerings. The company said it will keep its existing leadership intact and is establishing U.S. production capacity through …
Frontier Group, parent of Frontier Airlines, issued a 2026 adjusted earnings forecast that ranges from a 40-cent-per-share loss to a 50-cent-per-share profit, with the midpoint implying a 5-cent profit. The company said it will accelerate certain lease terminations, defer deliveries of A320neo jets and introduce first-class style seating in early 2…
Micron Technology's stock rose sharply after the company's CFO clarified that HBM4 is already in high-volume production and being shipped to customers. Executives said shipments are being ramped up in the current quarter - one quarter ahead of previous expectations - and described the product as delivering performance above 11 gigabits per second. …
Jefferies upgraded ArcelorMittal to Buy from Hold and increased its price target to €62 from €44, citing planned European trade measures that could materially curb low-cost imports. The brokerage projects higher utilization, stronger prices and elevated earnings across the cycle, forecasting substantial EBITDA gains for ArcelorMittal by 2027 while …
Classover Holdings Inc reported a 71.2% surge in premarket trading Wednesday after its board authorized a $2 million repurchase program for Class B common stock. The company said the buyback will be financed from on-hand cash and expected operating cash flows, and may be executed through various trading mechanisms under regulatory rules.
Apptronik, a humanoid robotics company based in Austin, Texas, raised $520 million in a Series A extension led by investors including Google and Mercedes-Benz, valuing the firm at about $5 billion. The financing will fund development of updated Apollo robots, production scale-up, facility builds for training and data collection, and workforce expan…
Multiple company insiders disclosed notable transactions on February 6-10, 2026. Varonis Systems executives — including the CEO and two directors — made meaningful purchases, while Jana Partners sold a large block of TreeHouse Foods stock. Other sizable insider activity included sales by executives at Zurn Elkay, Coinbase, Caterpillar and Lam Resea…
PRF Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:PRFX) shares climbed sharply in premarket trading after the company disclosed a software-as-a-service agreement to install its DeepSolar AI analytics platform at the 71 megawatt Satu Mare photovoltaic site in Romania. The contract with Shikun & Binui Energy represents a commercial deployment intended to provide ongoing …
PMGC Holdings' stock spiked in premarket trading after its subsidiary NorthStrive Biosciences signed a definitive license with Modulant Biosciences. The pact grants Modulant exclusive worldwide (excluding South Korea) rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize products derived from NorthStrive's EL-22 and EL-32 technologies for non-human anim…
Upstream Bio's stock dropped 23% after the company released mixed results from its Phase 2 VALIANT study of verekitug for severe asthma. Both tested dosing schedules achieved statistically significant reductions in annualized asthma exacerbation rate (AAER), but the 100mg every 12 weeks dosing produced a larger reduction and was judged more compara…
Martin Marietta Materials posted a decline in fourth-quarter net earnings and issued a revenue outlook for 2026 that falls short of analyst expectations. While shipments and pricing benefited from demand driven by data center construction and energy and infrastructure projects, elevated costs for fuel, energy, raw materials and equipment, along wit…
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) agreed to be acquired by Saltchuk Resources in a transaction valuing the dredging firm at about $1.2 billion. Saltchuk will initiate a cash tender offer of $17.00 per Great Lakes share, a premium to recent trading levels and to the company's record closing price. The boards of both companies unan…
Aurora Mobile said it has entered a strategic agreement with PAG Pegasus Fund LP that will use Aurora’s big data capabilities to support data- and AI-driven investment strategies. The deal includes a $10 million allocation from PAG Pegasus and three-year warrants to buy up to 725,000 American depositary shares at $13.80 per ADS. Aurora Mobile share…
Rapid7 experienced a sharp premarket decline after reporting muted fiscal 2025 results and issuing guidance that points to further near-term weakness. Annual recurring revenue was unchanged year over year, revenue edged up modestly, and profitability metrics deteriorated. Broker Canaccord lowered its rating and slashed its price target amid uncerta…
Capital Economics finds that a severe stock market correction would harm global growth, but is unlikely to on its own cause a worldwide recession. Chief global economist Jennifer McKeown notes that historically the flow of causation runs from economic weakness to market declines, with only certain episodes where market stress compounded existing vu…
T-Mobile said it has begun offering a real-time AI translation service integrated directly into its wireless network that translates phone calls across more than 50 languages. The capability, activated when at least one participant is on T-Mobile’s network and described as instantaneous once turned on, coincided with a 5.5% premarket decline in Duo…
Tower Semiconductor reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations, driven by demand for silicon photonics chips used for high-speed data transmission in AI infrastructure. The company announced an additional $270 million equipment investment in silicon photonics, bringing total spending on the technology to $920 m…
Charles Schwab's CEO expressed surprise and disappointment after the firm's stock dropped following investor concerns about AI disruption. In a Bloomberg Television interview, Rick Wurster said Schwab is leveraging AI tools like Wealth.com, and that the technology has reduced the company's cost to serve accounts by 21%.
UBS Group AG shares dropped 3.8% as worries over artificial intelligence disrupting traditional advisory roles spread across wealth managers in Europe and the United States. The move followed a selloff that began after a startup introduced AI-enabled tax planning tools, stoking investor concerns that automated platforms could replace human advisers…
Webull plans to introduce a single overnight market data feed that aggregates real-time liquidity and pricing from two off-exchange U.S. venues, providing users a combined view of quotes and order book depth during extended hours trading. The initiative targets fragmented overnight markets and will be made available across most of the broker's inte…
Chairs of two influential House committees have written to U.S. cabinet officials urging new, broad export restrictions on equipment and subcomponents used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing that China cannot produce domestically. The lawmakers also seek limits on servicing of machines already operating in Chinese fabs and a month-long briefin…
Chinese automakers expanded their footprint in Europe in 2025, doubling their aggregate share of new car sales to 6% according to Inovev. Market penetration ranged from almost 14% in Norway to just over 2% in Germany and Slovakia. Growth was pronounced in the UK, Spain, Italy and Poland, while tariffs on Chinese EVs and local consumer preferences l…
