Stock Movers

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Monte dei Paschi di Siena is seeking to buy two separate banks for a combined price of €34 billion ($40 billion) in a defensive move designed to ward off a takeover by rival Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.
- Renault gets downgraded to equal weight from overweight at Barclays, with analysts citing tough competition and the need for major cost cuts.
- CTS Eventim drops after reporting normalized Ebitda for the first half-year that met the average analyst estimate.
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Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Samsung Electronics plans to return as much as 110 trillion won ($79 billion) to shareholders, joining rival SK Hynix Inc. in handing investors a chunk of the windfall generated by the AI rush.
- Unimicron shares are down as SK Hynix supports the optical sector but damages the case for copper circuit boards.
- Pop Mart International Group Ltd. shares fell the most in nearly five months after the Labubu toymaker said it will likely miss its 2026 sales-growth target, citing a far tougher-than-expected first half.
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On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Flower Foods (FLO) slid in extended trading after the maker of Wonder Bread cut its adjusted earnings per share forecast for the full year.
- Ross Stores (ROST) raised its annual profit outlook for a second time this year, signaling that the discount retailer’s momentum is holding up. The California-based company now expects full-year earnings of $8.61 to $8.77 a share, it said in a statement Thursday, up from $7.50 to $7.74 previously and ahead of Wall Street’s estimates.
- Moderna (MRNA) shares tumbled 24%, the worst ever daily slide, one day after the drugmaker’s record 177% surge that stemmed from a clinical trial win. Shares of the drugmaker had more than doubled after the company said a personalized cancer vaccine combined with partner Merck & Co.’s Keytruda helped cut the recurrence of melanoma in a large, late-stage trial.
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- Ross Stores (ROST) shares were trading higher in extended trading after it release earnings with sales that beat Wall Street estimates.
- Shares of crypto-related companies like Coinbase (COIN), Strategy (MSTR), Circle (CRCL) all rallied today after Bitcoin jumped to a more than two-month high, boosted by US President Donald Trump’s White House gathering of industry leaders yesterday and his administration’s surprise intervention in the bond market dragged down the US dollar.
- SpaceX (SPCX) shares slipped as a second tranche of stock is released from a post-initial public offering lockup period. Meanwhile, Anthropic is expected to match or beat the size of SpaceX’s record-setting IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of overwhelming demand from investors looking to profit from the artificial intelligence boom.
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On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Walmart (WMT) shares slide. Quarterly sales fell short of expectations, with sales at US stores open at least a year, excluding fuel, rising 2.6% in the second quarter. The company's pharmacy business was hindered by federal negotiations that led to lower drug prices, and shoppers spent less per trip during the quarter.

- Alibaba (BABA) ADRs rise. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s profit plunged more than 75% after the company increased quarterly capital spending to almost $10 billion to safeguard its position in the global AI arena. The company reported a 9% jump in revenue, but net income tumbled to 10.5 billion yuan and it registered a free-cash outflow of $6.6 billion, reflecting the rising cost of AI projects and computing infrastructure.
-Coty (COTY) shares fall on Thursday after the beauty conglomerate refrained from providing full-year guidance, predicting a “transition” period in the current fiscal year. Net revenue increased 1% to $1.27 billion, but declined 1% on a like-for-like basis, including an estimated 1% headwind from the Middle East conflict.
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