2026-08-25 02:33 UTC · QUOTES VIA STOOQ
Equities, earnings prints, the daily AI-equity tape.
NVDA reports fiscal Q2 after the close Wednesday with the Street modeling near-100% YoY growth; the new Fed chair keynotes Friday with forward guidance officially retired.
NVDA's Aug. 26 after-close report lands with a straddle-implied move worth hundreds of billions in market cap, a $500B chip-backed financing facility as backdrop, and a Huang keynote in Palo Alto tonight as a pre-earnings catalyst.
MU rose more than 2% Thursday after Micron unveiled a decade-long research institution, framed as the first dedicated U.S. memory research hub of its kind.
The Claude maker's Q2 revenue hit $11.5B, a 14x jump, as annualized run-rate cleared $65B and investors float a $2 trillion valuation.
BofA models a $3–4B beat above Nvidia's own $91B guide and a Q3 raise to $107–108B, with the Vera Rubin ramp as the swing factor.
Minutes from the July 28–29 FOMC meeting show many officials backed further tightening if inflation fails to decline, with AI-related investment cited as a factor sustaining price pressures.
The long bond touched 5.32% Tuesday, dragging SOXX names down 4-9% while enterprise SaaS caught a bid. Anthropic's $65B run-rate disclosure sets the frame for Wednesday's FOMC minutes.
The Claude maker last priced at $965B in May; a $2T listing would top SpaceX's June debut and mark a tenfold revenue jump from $47B annualized.
Micron −7.3%, Marvell −9%, Teradyne −10% as the AI hardware trade unwinds; Adobe +4.6% on CLSA initiation and a BlackRock 10% stake.
Cloud backlogs across the top four providers rose 16% quarter-over-quarter to $2.3T while Bank of America projects aggregate hyperscaler FCF at −$64B for 2026.
With the S&P 500 fresh off records, Applied Materials opens the run Monday and Nvidia — guided to ~$91B for Q2 FY27 — closes it, in a window that will confirm or crack the summer AI rally.
Analyst Vivek Arya's $350 target implies 56% upside, with the stock at 16x forward earnings — its lowest multiple in roughly a decade.
Q4 revenue guide of $10.25B blew past the $9.55B Street consensus, but investors focused on flat gross margins and rising opex.
Alphabet's SpaceX and Anthropic markups and Amazon's $53.4B Anthropic gain distorted Q2 prints as monday.com beat with a 22% cash-backed revenue lift.
The AI cloud provider raised full-year guidance to $12.4B–$13.2B and disclosed $25B in new Q3 commitments, even as net losses widened to $626M against $35B in debt.
MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR frame NVIDIA GPUs as a financeable infrastructure asset class.
CRWV beat Q2 consensus, raised 2026 revenue guidance to as much as $13.2B, and landed a $21B Meta contract and multi-year Anthropic deal — triggering a neocloud rally.
CRWV beat consensus on both lines, guided Q3 to as much as $3.6B, and raised full-year capex to $35B–$39B — one day after Nvidia unveiled a $500B compute-financing platform with six Wall Street asset managers.
NVDA rallied 4%+ Wednesday after Musk endorsed the Vera Rubin architecture on SpaceX's first public earnings call, days before Nvidia's Q2 FY2027 report.
U.S. commercial sales up 149% to $764M; Karp raises 2026 guide to $8.15B–$8.158B, calls the quarter 'otherworldly.'
SPCX closed higher after Argus lifted the stock to Buy with a $160 target, one day after 911.5M shares came off lockup without breaking the tape.
Palantir's U.S. commercial line grew 149% to $764M and net income tripled to $1.07B, sending the stock to its second-best session on record.
Q2 revenue beat consensus by ~$140M, U.S. commercial jumped 149% to $764M, and management raised full-year guidance to $8.15B–$8.158B.
U.S. commercial revenue surged 149% and Palantir raised full-year guidance to $8.15B–$8.16B, sending shares to their second-largest one-day gain on record.
SPCX closed at $125 — below its $135 IPO price — after Q2 capex jumped sixfold, with $15.83B flowing to xAI infrastructure ahead of Thursday's insider lockup expiry.
PLTR closed $3.37B in TCV, reported $1.07B in GAAP net income, and raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance by roughly $500M. Shares climbed as much as 12% after-hours.
GOOGL fell more than 7% after raising 2026 capex to as much as $205B; Mag 7 index tumbled 4.8% in its worst session since April 2025 as investors punish AI spending without visible returns.
PLTR beat consensus on the top and bottom lines, hiked full-year guidance by roughly $500M, and rallied 12% after hours as U.S. commercial revenue jumped 149%.
Google Cloud grew 82% to $24.8B and consolidated revenue rose 24% — then the stock cracked on a $15B capex-guide hike that dragged Amazon, Microsoft and Meta into the selloff.
Microsoft and Amazon rallied on demand-anchored capex; Meta and Apple sold off as free cash flow buckled under the AI buildout.
Microsoft's Azure grew 43% and Amazon's AWS posted its fastest expansion since 2021, with Amazon lifting 2026 capex to $220 billion.
Microsoft added nearly $450B in market cap on its best day since 2008 while Meta sank ~9% on a $784M free cash flow print and $130B–$145B capex guide.
MSFT jumped 8% after-hours on a $4.74 adjusted EPS print, 43% Azure growth, and a capex line that came in short of Street fears.
AMZN surged its most since 2012 after AWS printed its fastest growth since Q4 2021, easing investor fears that a $720B–$745B AI spending spree lacks a return.
Microsoft's Q4 print — $90B revenue, Azure +43%, 30M Copilot seats — split the mag-7 tape from Meta's EPS miss and 9% drop on the same evening.
Fiscal Q4 revenue of $90.0B beat the $87.62B consensus; Azure accelerated past guided 39–40% range, and full-year cloud revenue crossed $100B for the first time.
Samsung fell 13.4% and SK Hynix 14.65% as Seoul halted trading twice; 'round-tripping' concerns now shadow Nvidia's guarantee for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio build.
Combined 2026 hyperscaler capex now tracks to ~$724B, up 77% YoY. Investors want free cash flow, not another guide-up.
GOOGL fell 7%+ Thursday after Q2 free cash flow went negative for the first time since 2004; Mag Seven index lost 4.8% on the day, its worst since April 2025.
Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon report July 29–30 after Alphabet's raised $205B capex guide and first negative free cash flow since 2004 triggered a 4.8% Mag Seven rout.
Alphabet raised 2026 capex guidance to $195-$205B and posted negative FCF for the first time as a public company; the Bloomberg Mag7 Index fell 4.8% Thursday, its worst day since April 2025.
Non-GAAP EPS of $0.42 doubled the $0.21 consensus; INTC is up 172% YTD but shed 28% in July.
Lisa Su unveiled the first x86 CPU on TSMC's 2nm node and a $5.25M Helios rack the same afternoon Intel reported Q2 results, framing a 12-month competitive gap.
Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth on TPU and AI infrastructure demand — then Alphabet raised full-year capex guidance for the second time this year.
Alphabet's Q2 2026 report is the season's first hyperscaler read. Options imply a 5.3% swing on cloud growth, capex trajectory, and whether free cash flow keeps compressing.
Q2 revenue beat consensus by $2.9B and Google Cloud printed $24.8B against a $22.4B Street bar; shares slipped on the analyst call as capex guidance jumped.
The iShares Semiconductor ETF has fallen 20% since its June 22 record after China's Moonshot unveiled a frontier open model, with Intel down 33% and Micron 30% off recent highs.
The NYT-first-reported deal would turn Meta's $145B capex build into a revenue line and pit it against CoreWeave and Nebius.
The 2.8-trillion-parameter open model helped tank the SMH ETF nearly 9% for the week and briefly cost Nvidia the world's most-valuable-company crown.
Krishna blames late-June client pivot to servers, storage, and memory; Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Alphabet drag in the sector rout.
Anthropic proposed a two-year deal in June that would pay Meta in monthly increments; META closed down 2% Friday as the PHLX Semiconductor Index shed 11% on the week.
The 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model unveiled in Shanghai has helped drag the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down more than 20% from its June record high.
Preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2B missed by $660M as customers redirected capex to memory and servers ahead of price hikes; $67B in market cap gone.
JPM's Q2 equities revenue jumped 86% to $6.03 billion as June CPI landed at 3.5% — but a reinstated Iran blockade sent Brent above $85 and knocked Nvidia 3.5% lower.
The Korean memory giant priced 177.9M ADRs at $149 and closed Friday at $168.01, as CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned 2027 will be the industry's worst-ever supply shortage.
The South Korean memory maker's ADRs priced at $149 and closed near $168 Friday, the biggest first-time US listing by a foreign company on record.
Micron's raised domestic capex plan lifted the semi complex Thursday; CRM fell 4.5% after KeyBanc cut it to sector weight on Agentforce concerns.
Reuters reported DeepSeek is building its own inference chip hours before Samsung's 19-fold Q2 profit jump underwhelmed the AI bar; MU fell 4.7%, SMH lost 3%+.
Samsung shares fell as much as 8% in Seoul despite a 1,800% operating-profit forecast, dragging Micron −4.7% and the SMH more than 3% lower as a Reuters DeepSeek chip scoop compounded the rout.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is up 47% in 2026 and Micron, Intel and AMD added $2 trillion in Q2 market cap — Nvidia has gained just 3.2%.
Zuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI capacity sent shares surging, but BofA's 'snapback' warning and neocloud fears rewired the tape.
A Bloomberg report on Meta's planned cloud unit lifted META shares nearly 9% Wednesday, while a BofA bubble-risk print of 0.91 on semiconductors triggered a sharp software-over-hardware rotation.
Zuckerberg's move to sell excess AI capacity puts META against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — and against its own $21B CoreWeave tenant.
Bloomberg's July 1 scoop that Meta will sell surplus AI compute and hosted Muse Spark models sent neoclouds tumbling and lifted a stock down 15% YTD.
MU rivals AWS Bedrock with hosted-model access; CoreWeave and Nebius sink ~12% as a key customer becomes a competitor.
Oracle jumped in pre-market Wednesday after William Blair named it a top July pick, capping a rebound from last week's 19% drawdown — the stock's worst week since 2001.
Hyperscalers off double-digits from 52-week highs as investors demand proof the $725B 2026 spend is translating to revenue.
The CNBC Magnificent 7 Index has fallen 10% in June 2026 with Microsoft down 20% and Nvidia off 13%, even as chip-equipment names rally on memory shortages.
Sam Altman is leaning past a 2026 debut after SpaceX's post-IPO slide spooked advisers; SoftBank fell the most since August 2024 and the Nasdaq sank a sixth straight session.
MU revenue tripled YoY and EPS of $25.11 blew past the $20.83 consensus, capping a week in which memory and AI chip names shed 13%+ before the print.
MU jumped 15% to $1,213 on a Q4 sales forecast that beat consensus by roughly $7B, before a Times report that OpenAI may push its debut to 2027 cooled the rally.
MU jumped 15% after-hours on a 346% revenue jump, 84.9% gross margins, and $22B in locked customer cash commitments — unwinding the June 23-24 AI capex selloff.
The Nasdaq has fallen more than 6% from its June 2 high as investors revolt against AI capex, but NOW surged Friday on an expanded IBM partnership and broker bullishness.
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been suspended globally since June 12, injecting a regulatory-shutdown risk into a pre-IPO narrative built on a $47B run-rate and a projected first profitable quarter.
MU jumped ~15% after-hours after revenue rose 346% YoY and management guided next quarter to $50B ± $1B with 86% gross margin.
Anthropic submitted draft IPO paperwork June 1 at a $965B valuation; OpenAI followed June 8 off an $852B mark. With SpaceX on the road near $1.75T, the trio targets the largest simultaneous capital raise on record.
Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are headed to Anthropic, compounding last week's exits of Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and Nobel laureate John Jumper. Alphabet closed down ~5% Monday, its steepest one-day drop since May 2025.
GOOGL closed down ~5% Monday, its worst session in over a year, after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and Nobel laureate John Jumper left DeepMind for rivals.
Nasdaq closed at 25,587 Tuesday after a 580-point drop; Kospi tripped a circuit breaker at -10%, and Fed hike odds by year-end jumped to nearly 90%.
Alphabet fell as much as 7.2% Monday — its worst intraday move since February — after back-to-back defections of two top AI researchers landed alongside a Nadella interview calling AI 'commoditized.'
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan lined up on the deal; OpenAI followed days later with its own confidential filing at $852B.
Anthropic filed June 1 at a $965B valuation, OpenAI followed June 8 at $852B, and SpaceX debuts Friday — the three largest IPOs on record could all price by November.
RPO grew $85B sequentially to $638B, up 363% YoY; Bank of America says OpenAI is more than half of it. Oracle plans another $40B in debt and equity in FY2027.
OpenAI submitted draft paperwork Monday, one week after Anthropic filed at a $965B valuation and days before SpaceX's record listing prints.
INTC opened up $12.72 on Trump's Truth Social claim of an Apple manufacturing pact; the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index advanced more than 6% to a record. Neither company has confirmed.
Q4 revenue and EPS topped estimates and RPO surged 363% to $638B, but a planned FY2027 capital raise and negative $23.7B free cash flow rattled shareholders.
The Claude maker submitted draft paperwork to the SEC on Monday, one week after a $65B Series H. OpenAI followed seven days later.
Vanda Research's new label folds SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic into the seven incumbents; the three new entrants alone carry a combined $3.6T in pipeline valuation.
ChatGPT maker submitted draft paperwork Monday with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as leads; last private mark was $852B, against Anthropic's $965B and SpaceX's $1.8T.
OpenAI's June 8 submission lands a week after Anthropic's $965B filing and days before SpaceX trades — three of the largest listings on record converging on Wall Street.
SPCX jumped 19% from a $135 offer price Friday, briefly pushing market cap above $2.25 trillion as Goldman framed the deal as proof capital markets will fund AI infrastructure.
SPCX closed up 19.34% Friday after raising $75B in the largest IPO on record, with OpenAI's confidential S-1 and Anthropic's $965B round next in line.
Cloud infrastructure grew 93% and RPO ballooned to $638B, but a 162% jump in capex and another $40B financing plan rattled shares.
ORCL beat with $19.2B in Q4 revenue and 93% OCI growth, but shares fell after-hours when management flagged ~$40B in new FY2027 debt and equity.
SPCX raised $75B at a fixed $135 share price, drew $250B in orders, and lists with a 4.3% float and Musk's dual-class voting control intact.
Fixed-price deal blows past Saudi Aramco's 2019 record; SPCX begins trading on Nasdaq with 30% retail allocation and Musk holding 82% voting control.
Musk's rocket-and-AI conglomerate is on track to price 555.6M shares at $135 Wednesday and open as SPCX Friday at a $1.77T valuation.
ORCL beat on Q4 revenue and EPS, with OCI up 93%, then sank after-hours as capex hit $55.7B and the company flagged another $40B raise for FY2027.
Morgan Stanley-led syndicate begins marketing the largest IPO ever as Morningstar pegs fair value at $780B and Anthropic's $1.25B/month compute deal underwrites the AI thesis.
S&P Dow Jones Indices will swap MRVL in for Pool Corp on June 22, six trading days after Jensen Huang called Marvell the next trillion-dollar company at Computex.
The Claude maker submitted a draft registration to the SEC days after a $65B Series H, setting up a head-to-head AI listing race with OpenAI and SpaceX.
Dell's AI-Optimized Server revenue grew 757% to $16.1B; HPE's best-ever single-day gain followed a $1 EPS guide-raise and $16.4B in cumulative AI bookings.
Q2 AI semi revenue grew 143% to $10.8B and Q3 guidance of $29.4B beat the Street — but Hock Tan declined to lift the FY27 $100B AI target.
The Claude maker submitted draft paperwork Monday, days after a $65B Series H eclipsed OpenAI's private mark.
AVGO posted record Q2 revenue of $22.19B and AI chip sales of $10.8B, but Hock Tan's refusal to raise the $100B full-year AI target triggered the first revenue miss since December 2024.
Claude-maker submitted draft paperwork Monday — one week after a $65B Series H — with Q2 revenue tracking $10.9B and annualized run-rate set to clear $50B by month-end.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's onstage endorsement in Taipei added more than $40B to Marvell's market cap in a single session and lifted shares another 10% premarket Wednesday.
Nvidia CEO used his GTC Taipei keynote to push the company into Windows laptops, confirm Vera CPU is in full production, and tease an unannounced second-half product.
SNOW raised full-year product revenue guidance to $5.84B and inked a five-year Graviton infrastructure pact with AWS as Q1 grew 33% YoY.
MU jumped 19% Tuesday after UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri raised his target from $535 to $1,625, projecting $400B in cumulative free cash flow through 2029.
Data Center segment up 92% YoY; Hyperscale at ~50% of mix; Q1 FY27 adjusted EPS of $1.87 beats consensus $1.76.