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Morning movers: Generac’s $2.4bn delivery test
Generac surges on its Amazon agreement as Fluence cuts guidance and Nokia expands a partnership. For option sellers, future sales, delivery failures and software adoption carry different risks.
Morning movers: Intel gains 4.77% on talks, not a signed deal
Intel rallies on reported chip talks, while Trip.com’s earnings and Axon’s financing tell different stories. For option sellers, the key is separating potential business from results and funding risk.
Morning movers: Bank of America faces a 10%-plus fee squeeze
Bank of America’s fee warning contrasts with Apple’s Siri test and Broadcom’s defence of AI demand. For option sellers, the distinction is weaker earnings expectations versus products and promises.
Morning movers: $RUM's $13.7B contract gets a reported name
$RUM jumps on a reported customer identity, while $CRWD rises on security sentiment and $NOK falls despite a deployment win. For premium sellers, a headline is not new revenue or protection against a reversal.
Morning movers: AeroVironment’s $480.5M quarter splits the earnings tape
AeroVironment rises as American Eagle and CooperCompanies fall after earnings. The opening test is whether those moves reflect lasting demand, recurring profit or temporary inventory changes.
Morning movers: ServiceTitan drops 17% as guidance takes center stage
ServiceTitan slides after earnings while Rocket Lab and Corning advance on fresh business catalysts. The key distinction is what changes revenue prospects—and what is only a price reaction.
Morning Read: $99 Brent meets the post-holiday reopening
Oil rises as U.S. stock futures slip ahead of the post-holiday reopening. Bloom Energy has an index catalyst, while inflation releases and Oracle earnings approach.
Morning movers: LULU slides 18.8% after comps fall 9%
Lululemon fell 18.8% in pre-market trade after Q2 comparable sales dropped 9% and full-year guidance was cut. Samsara jumped 13.4% on 30% ARR growth, while Snowflake digested a 37% product-revenue beat and a raised outlook.
Morning movers: GitLab jumps 21% as bookings accelerate
GitLab rose 21.35% in delayed pre-market trading as revenue, bookings and retention improved. Dell also jumped on record AI-server demand, while Moderna slipped after completing a $3.0 billion convertible financing.
Morning movers: PG&E slides 9.9% as wildfire risk returns
PG&E fell 9.94% in delayed pre-market trading after a wildfire-risk downgrade. Intel and Strategy rose on two reports that still lacked company confirmation.
Morning movers: OKTA jumps 20.1% as identity demand accelerates
OKTA climbed 20.12% in delayed pre-market trading after revenue rose 11% and backlog growth accelerated. CRM gained 11.84%, while HPQ fell 10.03% as margin and unit details offset higher sales.
Morning movers: NVTS jumps 7.1% on the Claros deal
NVTS rose 7.11% in delayed pre-market trading after Navitas agreed to acquire Claros for up to $232.8 million. ASST gained 5.83% as a new filing paired more bitcoin with more shares.
Morning movers: AAOI slides 12.2% on a $600M stock-sale plan
AAOI fell 12.23% in delayed pre-market trading after filing a $600 million at-the-market stock-sale program. Marvell and Micron dropped about 3% before NVIDIA’s Wednesday results.
Morning movers: Ross jumps 9.0% after a traffic-led quarter
Ross Stores rose 9.04% in delayed pre-market trading after traffic drove a strong quarter and raised outlook. OSI Systems fell 14.50% on weaker quarterly revenue, while Flowers Foods slipped 3.80% after lowering guidance.
Morning movers: Webull jumps 14.9% after record revenue
Webull rose 14.93% in delayed pre-market trading after record Q2 revenue and trading volume. Wolfspeed fell 12.85% after negative margins, while Moderna gave back 9.68% after Wednesday's historic surge.
Morning movers: Amylyx holds gain after Phase 3 win
Amylyx held a modest pre-market bid after a 63.8% surge on Phase 3 LUCIDITY success. Keysight rose 2.6% on record orders, while Mercury Systems fell 12.4% despite backlog strength.
Morning read: Asia tech slides, NVIDIA locks Ohio AI campus
U.S. stocks fell on August 18 as chips and AI names led losses, while Asia sold off overnight. NVIDIA’s SEC filing details a multi-year Ohio AI campus package with OpenAI as tenant.
Morning movers: Fabrinet falls 10.5% after record revenue
Fabrinet fell 10.54% in delayed pre-market trading even after record quarterly revenue. Infleqtion slid 6.26% after disclosing revenue-recognition corrections and a delayed Q2 filing.
Morning movers: IREN rises 3.3% as Horizon 1 lands
IREN gained 3.25% after Microsoft accepted the first 50 MW Horizon deployment and NVIDIA awarded Exemplar status. WDC rose 3.87% after its annual filing, while CAPR added 1.08% before a binary regulatory week.
Morning movers: Reddit jumps 12.6% on S&P 500 entry
Reddit rose 12.57% after S&P Dow Jones Indices scheduled its entry into the S&P 500. Applied Materials fell 5.29% despite record results, while Nubank gained 8.54% after quarterly net income topped $1 billion.
Morning movers: Harmonic jumps 25.8% on broadband growth
Harmonic jumped 25.83% after 54% broadband growth and a higher full-year outlook. Cerebras fell 17.92% as rapid cloud growth met a conventional revenue miss, while StubHub lost 17.21% despite record event sales.
Morning movers: Lumentum rises 8.0% as AI optics accelerate
Lumentum rose 8.03% after quarterly revenue more than doubled and its next-quarter outlook increased. Supermicro gained 8.67% on stronger sales, margins and guidance, while Borr Drilling fell 9.86% as refinancing charges compounded weaker Q2 operations.
Morning movers: BW jumps 38.7% as Upwork slides
Babcock & Wilcox jumped 38.74% after revenue, profit and backlog improved together. Upwork fell 19.63% as client and transaction contraction outweighed margins, while Hims & Hers slipped 6.77% despite 38% revenue growth.
Morning movers: ABCL gains 5.8% before trial data
AbCellera gained 5.77% before a binary Phase 2 readout, while monday.com rose 3.30% ahead of morning results. Rocket Lab added 4.01% before its after-close report, leaving all three moves exposed to event-driven reversals.
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