Stock Movers

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

On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Home Depot (HD) reported a key sales metric that beat expectations in the latest quarter on steady demand, though the retailer cautioned that macroeconomic challenges remain. Comparable sales, which track performance at locations open at least a year, rose 0.4% in the quarter ended Feb. 1, better than the average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Earnings per share, excluding some items, also outpaced expectations in the period.
- Paramount Skydance (PSKY) raised its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), extending the long-running battle for one of Hollywood’s iconic studios, according to people familiar with the matter.The new, unspecified bid improves on the $30-a-share, all-cash proposal that Paramount took directly to Warner Bros. shareholders on Dec. 8 and addresses some of the company’s concerns with previous Paramount bids, according to the people, who asked to not be identified because the details aren’t public. Those concerns include greater certainty of Paramount financing.
- Keysight Technologies (KEYS) rise in trading after the company reported EPS and sales above estimate.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Standard Chartered announced a fresh $1.5 billion share buyback as it reported weaker-than-estimated fourth-quarter earnings, weeks after its share price was hit by the surprise departure of its chief financial officer.
- Telefónica posted fourth-quarter earnings that met analyst estimates as growth in Spain and Brazil offset weakness in other European markets.
- Unite plunged the most in more than four months after the UK student housing landlord’s full-year results showed a protracted slump in demand from international applicants.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Novo Nordisk’s next-generation weight-loss drug CagriSema isn’t even on the market yet, but the company’s chief executive officer is already batting back suggestions that the drug is obsolete following the release of disappointing trial results on Monday.
- Fresenius Medical Care fell after it posted a disappointing outlook where it expects broadly flat revenue and said profit could potentially decline this fiscal year.
- Telefónica posted fourth-quarter earnings that met analyst estimates as growth in Spain and Brazil offset weakness in other European markets.
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- Shares of PayPal (PYPL) rose after a report suggested that its days as a standalone public company may be numbered, with its stock being described as "deeply undervalued" The company has fielded meetings with banks amid unsolicited interest from suitors, with at least one large rival looking at the whole company and others interested in certain PayPal assets.

- American Express (AXP) dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower on Monday afternoon as investors responded to a bleak 2027 AI-driven recession scenario published by Citrini Research, a firm that offers thematic and global macro trading ideas.

- Domino’s Pizza Inc. shares jumped after the company reported a larger-than-expected rise in comparable sales, as consumers were drawn to the pizza chain’s budget-friendly pies. Domino’s US same-store sales for the fourth quarter rose 3.7% in the quarter, above the 3.3% increase projected by analysts, fueled by demand for its stuffed crust pizzas and its “Best Deal Ever” pizza promotion
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.

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- IBM (IBM) shares plunged on Monday, after the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool can help with modernizing COBOL, a dated programming language that’s mainly run on IBM computers. Shares sank 13% in their biggest one-day percentage loss since October 2000. With the decline, the stock is now down 27% in February, on track for its biggest one-month percentage decline since at least 1968, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

-Arcellx (ACLX) shares surge as much as 78% — a record — to an all-time high after Gilead Sciences agreed to acquire the biotech company for $115 per share in cash and one contingent value right of $5 per share. Stifel views the deal as a “a near-term better-case scenario” for Arcellx.

DoorDash (DASH) stock slid Monday as investors reacted to a viral post from a research group describing the food-delivery company as a "poster child" for risks from AI agents. A company cofounder responded on X after the report sparked debate on the social media platform over the weekend.
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