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Revolut is exploring a share sale in the second half of this year as pre-IPO investor interest grows, with backers pushing for higher private valuations and the company targeting a significantly larger IPO valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. Deliberations remain preliminary and no decisions on timing or size have been announced…
Steven Madden declined to provide its 2026 earnings forecast, pointing to unclear U.S. tariff policy following a Supreme Court decision and the introduction of a temporary 10% global import tariff. The company still projected 9% to 11% revenue growth for the year, but the guidance pause highlights ongoing disruption for consumer-facing manufacturer…
Bank of America downgraded Fox shares to Underperform from Buy and reduced its price target to $45 from $80, identifying Fox as the most exposed company in its coverage to the forthcoming NFL media rights negotiations. The bank estimates a potential ~22% hit to FY27E EBITDA under a 1.5x AAV step-up scenario and trimmed its valuation multiple to abo…
Truist's sector survey indicates self-storage net effective rents for a 10x10 unit fell 1.4% year-over-year in February 2026, the fourth straight month of annual declines, even as rents rose 2.7% from January to February. Public Storage (PSA) stood out with 5.4% year-over-year net rent growth and reported fourth-quarter 2025 earnings per share of $…
Shares of Oddity Tech plunged 50% after the beauty and wellness technology firm warned first-quarter revenue would fall roughly 30% year-over-year as elevated customer acquisition costs tied to an advertising partner reduce marketing efficiency. The company beat fourth-quarter revenue estimates, but management withheld full-year guidance while it a…
SoundHound AI has opened an innovation center in Bengaluru, India, to accelerate work on its agentic AI platform. The move expands the company’s presence into the Indian technology sector and is intended to support continued development of its voice and conversational intelligence solutions and broader technology infrastructure.
Novocure Ltd. stock climbed 4.3% in premarket action Wednesday following a decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reinstate the company's Medicare billing privileges for its U.S. unit. The restoration, communicated in a letter to Novocure Inc. on Monday, rescinded a prior revocation that had been applied retroactively. Novo…
RBC strategists view large-cap U.S. pharmaceutical companies as defensive holdings with potential earnings upside as artificial intelligence accelerates drug discovery and development. The team points to valuation discounts, sizable acquisition capacity and AI-driven efficiencies that could boost earnings, then lays out differentiated ratings and p…
Whirlpool Corp shares rose modestly in premarket trading after the company completed several equity transactions that prompted a critical letter from hedge fund manager David Tepper. The manufacturer priced a public offering and sold mandatory convertible preferred stock, alongside a small private placement to a Whirlpool China unit. Tepper called …
Goldman Sachs analysts say colossal capital spending by hyperscaler firms on AI infrastructure is set to crest later this year, a shift that may strain stocks tied to AI hardware and services. The bank projects cumulative hyperscaler AI capex of $1.5 trillion between 2023 and this year, and forecasts a 2026 spend of $667 billion. Goldman expects qu…
Piper Sandler estimates that Advanced Micro Devices’ multi-year supply agreement with Meta could translate into about $100 billion of additional revenue for AMD over the next five years. The deal, which follows the structure of AMD’s OpenAI engagement, involves a customized MI450 GPU paired with the Helios rack, warrants issued to Meta, and a stage…
Intuitive Machines said a group of global institutional investors will provide a $175 million strategic equity investment to support revenue growth and build communications and on-orbit data processing capabilities after the company’s acquisition of Lanteris Space Systems. The announcement coincided with a 13.3% premarket decline in the company’s s…
Ahead of SanDisk's appearance at the Bernstein Insights TMT Forum, analyst KC Rajkumar of Lynx Equity Strategies cautions that the NAND flash supply shortage will likely persist longer than DRAM constraints, projecting NAND relief not until 2028. Rajkumar expects SanDisk executives to discuss the shortage and updates on multi-year, non-cancellable …
Classover Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:KIDZ) saw its shares rise 49% in premarket trading after the company published an industry white paper titled "The Delivery Problem," which claims the Tutor Studio platform has produced a 200% increase in instructional productivity and enables a 2x rise in teaching capacity without equivalent increases in instruction…
Morgan Stanley says IBM endured its worst trading day since 2000 following Anthropic’s launch of the Claude Code tool, prompting a reassessment of AI-related disruption risk. The bank trimmed its price target amid heightened volatility, while analysts debate whether new generative AI capabilities pose a material threat to mainframe-dependent enterp…
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission carried out a search of Microsoft Japan’s offices as part of an investigation into whether the company’s local unit improperly blocked or dissuaded customers of its Azure cloud platform from using competing cloud providers. The action underscores regulatory scrutiny of cloud-market conduct in Japan and the JFTC’s autho…
Shares of Rayonier Advanced Materials climbed after American Industrial Partners disclosed a 5.1% equity stake. AIP bought 3.4 million shares for about $25.4 million, funded via working capital and existing credit lines, and outlined plans that could link the holding with a fluff pulp business it is acquiring from International Paper.
Evercore lowered its rating on Workday to In Line and reduced its price target by $40 to $160 after the enterprise software firm issued fiscal 2027 subscription revenue guidance below consensus. Shares fell about 9% in Wednesday premarket trading as the company balanced a healthy fourth quarter against a cautious near-term outlook driven by increas…
Thomson Reuters said it will repurchase up to $600 million of common shares under an amended normal course issuer bid and plans a $605 million return of capital to shareholders via a special cash distribution and subsequent share consolidation. The moves coincide with a modest premarket share uptick and will be subject to shareholder and court appr…
Charles River Laboratories said it will divest its CDMO and Cell Solutions businesses to GI Partners and certain European Discovery Services assets to IQVIA, triggering a premarket stock increase. The transactions reduce reported revenue for 2026 but are expected to drive at least 100 basis points of non-GAAP operating margin improvement and add ro…
Shares of International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) plunged 13% on Monday - the steepest single-day decline in more than 25 years - after investors grew concerned that Anthropic’s Claude Code tool could speed modernization of COBOL-based systems that underpin parts of IBM’s business. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives maintained an Outperform rating and a $…
Nasdaq raised its medium-term Solutions revenue growth target and provided division-level detail at its Investor Day, prompting a modest share price increase. The company increased the Capital Access Platforms revenue target, kept Financial Technology guidance intact, reaffirmed 2026 expense expectations, and unveiled an AI-driven productivity init…
Nasdaq has lifted its medium-term revenue growth projection for its largest segment, citing stronger-than-expected performance in capital access platforms that encompass its data, listings and index businesses. Executives will present more detailed growth and scaling plans at the company’s biennial investor day in New York.
Spain's National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) has determined that Apple and Amazon did not act quickly enough to eliminate contract provisions that the regulator had ordered removed immediately. The clauses, previously cited in a July 2023 enforcement action that resulted in proposed fines of 194 million euros, restricted the number…
Axon Enterprise shares jumped in premarket trading after the company reported fourth-quarter adjusted profit that exceeded analyst estimates. The maker of Tasers, body-worn cameras and digital evidence management systems said strong demand - supported by increased federal investment in immigration enforcement and corporate spending on executive sec…
