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May 7, 2026

McDonald's Corp. edged up 3% to $294.17 after the fast-food company reported first-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $2.83 on revenue of $6.5 billion.

MCD

Zillow Group declined 6% to $41.85 after the real estate platform operator's revenue in its latest quarter fell short of market expectations.

May 6, 2026

Advanced Micro Devices soared 21% to $429.58 after the chip and server company reported better-than-expected first-quarter results.

The sustained growth in demand from data centers supported the increase in outlook beyond the market expectations.

Revenue jumped 38% to $10.3 billion from $7.4 billion, net income advanced 95% to $1.4 billion from $709 million, and diluted earnings per share soared 91% to 84 cents from 44 cents a year ago.

Data center revenue soared 57% from a year ago to $5.8 billion, driven by strong demand for the company's CPU and GPU processors.

Client and gaming segment revenue rose 23% to $3.6 billion, and embedded segment revenue increased 6% to $873 million.

For the second quarter, the company estimated revenue of $11.2 billion, with a band of $300 million, an annual increase of 46% from the midpoint of the range, and a sequential increase of 9%.

The company guided an adjusted gross margin of 56%.

In the year so far, AMD has surged 65% and, over the last 52 weeks of trading, advanced 260%.

AMD

May 5, 2026

Duolingo decreased 1.5% to $108.75 after the language-learning mobile app operator reported better-than-expected quarterly results.

Revenue increased 27% to $292.0 million, and total bookings jumped 14% to $308.5 million from a year ago, respectively.

The company reported 133.1 million monthly active users last quarter, sharply lower than the 145 million estimated by analysts on Wall Street.

Net income increased to $43.5 million from $35.1 million, and diluted earnings per share advanced to 89 cents from 72 cents a year ago.

DUOL

Jan 28, 2026

ASML Holding jumped 5.5% to $1,535.68 after the advanced semiconductor equipment company reported strong sales and orders in its latest quarter.

Net sales in the fourth quarter increased to €9.7 billion from €9.2 billion, net income increased to €2.8 billion from €2.7 billion, and diluted earnings per share advanced to €7.34 from €6.83 a year ago.

Net bookings in the quarter rose to €13.2 billion from €5.4 billion in the previous quarter, and backlog at the end of the quarter increased to €38.8 billion.

ASML expects total net sales in the first quarter to be between €8.2 billion and €8.9 billion, with a gross margin between 51% and 53%, and 2026 total net sales to be between €34 billion and €39 billion, with a gross margin between 51% and 53%.

The company announced a new stock repurchase program of up to €12 billion ending at the end of 2028.

ASML

Jan 27, 2026

Health insurance companies fell sharply after the Trump administration proposed to keep Medicare Advantage rates flat in 2027.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid proposed to raise insurance rates 0.09% in 2027, sharply lower than the 4% estimated by several analysts.

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, CVS Health, Molina Healthcare, Centene, and Elevance Health dropped between 5% and 14%.

Separately, UnitedHealth reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results and issued a softer guidance for the current quarter.

Revenue increased to $113.2 billion from $100.8 billion, net income attributable to shareholders fell to $10 million from $5.5 million, and diluted earnings per share dropped to 1 cent from $5.98 a year ago.

The company's performance in the fourth quarter was negatively impacted by costs related to cyber attacks ($799 million), restructuring and other charges ($2.5 billion), and gains from portfolio divestiture ($442 million).

The net negative impact on the quarterly net earnings was $1.6 billion or $1.78 billion.

UNH

Jan 9, 2026

Costco Wholesale Corp. extended its two-day gain to 5% and rose to $919.71 after the company's December sales rose.

U.S. core comparable store sales rose 6.3% in December, on top of 9.8% in the month a year ago, indicating solid performance over two years despite the tough comparison.

COST

Tilray Brands soared 10% to $10.0, and the cannabis company reported record revenue in the fiscal second quarter.

Net revenue increased 3% to $217.5 million from $211 million, net loss improved to $43.5 million from $85.3 million, and diluted loss per share improved to 41 cents from 99 cents a year ago.

TLRY

Nov 20, 2025

Nvidia Corp., the AI chip maker at the center of a seven-month-long market rally, reported revenue soared 62% from a year ago to a record $57 billion in its latest quarter, soothing market nerves.

Revenue soared 62% to $57 billion from $35.1 billion, net income advanced 65% to $31.9 billion from $19.3 billion, and diluted earnings per share jumped to $1.30 from 78 cents a year ago.

Data-center segment revenue soared to a record $51.2 billion, up 25% from the previous quarter and up 66% from a year ago.

During the first nine months of fiscal 2026, the company returned $37 billion to shareholders in the form of shares repurchased and cash dividends.

The company had $62.2 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization at the end of the fiscal third quarter.

The company's current-quarter revenue guidance exceeded market expectations, easing worries that surging valuations were ahead of fundamentals.

The company estimated revenue in the fiscal fourth quarter of $65 billion, plus or minus 2%, and earlier the company announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure.

Nvidia's strong revenue growth eased market worries that the race to build data centers could slow down in the near future, after CEO Jensen Huang said that demand for its Blackwell chips is "off the charts."

Following Nvidia's stronger-than-expected quarterly results and outlook, AI supply chain-driven stocks rallied in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

NVDA

Nov 19, 2025

Onsemi increased 3.3% to $47.04 after the company's board authorized a new three-year stock repurchase program of $6 billion starting January 1, 2026.

The current stock buyback program, which is scheduled to end at the end of 2025, has acquired about $2.1 billion of stock, using 100% of the company's free cash flow in 2025.

Earlier in the month, the company said revenue decreased to $1.6 billion from $1.8 billion, net income fell to $255 million from $410.7 million, and diluted earnings per share decreased to 63 cents from 93 cents a year ago.