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Premarket Movers: Nvidia Edges Up as Salesforce Slides; Food and Beverage Stocks Rally

Premarket Movers: Nvidia Edges Up as Salesforce Slides; Food and Beverage Stocks Rally

U.S. stock futures ticked down modestly as investors absorbed a batch of quarterly results. Nvidia beat expectations and guided above estimates, lifting its shares, while Salesforce cut its fiscal 2027 revenue outlook below forecasts, sending its stock lower. Media, consumer packaged goods, energy and beverage companies posted a range of outcomes, …

Hormel Sales Fall Short as Consumers Trade Down; EPS Beats Expectations

Hormel Sales Fall Short as Consumers Trade Down; EPS Beats Expectations

Hormel Foods reported quarterly sales that missed analyst estimates amid U.S. shoppers shifting to lower-cost options. The company raised prices in fiscal 2025 to offset rising commodity costs, but first-quarter retail volumes fell sharply. Hormel reaffirmed its full-year sales and adjusted EPS outlooks and said the recent sale of its whole-bird tu…

Sandisk Seeks Multi-Year Data Center Deals as AI Fuels NAND Demand

Sandisk Seeks Multi-Year Data Center Deals as AI Fuels NAND Demand

Sandisk is moving away from short-term, quarterly pricing toward multi-year supply contracts with large data center customers as artificial intelligence workloads reshape the NAND flash market, CEO David Goeckeler said at Bernstein's TMT Forum. The company forecasts data center demand becoming the largest NAND segment in calendar 2026 and is aligni…

C3 AI Plunges After Weak Q4 Revenue Forecast, Announces Major Job Cuts

C3 AI Plunges After Weak Q4 Revenue Forecast, Announces Major Job Cuts

C3 AI shares dropped sharply in premarket trading after the enterprise AI software company issued fourth-quarter revenue guidance well under Wall Street estimates and disclosed significant job cuts. The company projected revenue between $48 million and $52 million for the quarter, versus the analyst consensus of $77.47 million. At least three broke…

Teleflex Shares Slide After Quarter That Fell Short of Expectations

Teleflex Shares Slide After Quarter That Fell Short of Expectations

Teleflex (NYSE:TFX) shares tumbled in premarket trading after the company released fourth-quarter results that missed analyst forecasts on both revenue and adjusted earnings. Management provided a 2026 adjusted profit range well below consensus, and outlined expected pre-tax savings tied to a planned restructuring while continuing with previously a…

Greg Abel to Set Tone for Berkshire’s Next Era in First Shareholder Letter

Greg Abel to Set Tone for Berkshire’s Next Era in First Shareholder Letter

Berkshire Hathaway’s incoming CEO Greg Abel will publish his first annual letter to shareholders this Saturday, a closely watched document investors expect to reveal how the conglomerate’s leadership transition will be managed, how the company might address its $381.7 billion cash balance, and how Abel intends to balance continuity with his own ope…

UBS Signals Nearing Completion of Credit Suisse Client Migration

UBS Signals Nearing Completion of Credit Suisse Client Migration

UBS has one remaining task to finish the migration of former Credit Suisse clients onto its platforms, Switzerland Country Head Sabine Keller-Busse said. The bank plans to start decommissioning Credit Suisse systems at the end of March, with the full process slated to conclude by the end of 2026. Keller-Busse also flagged policy unpredictability in…

Raymond James Sees a Tradeable Bounce Forming in Software Stocks at Key Technical Support

Raymond James Sees a Tradeable Bounce Forming in Software Stocks at Key Technical Support

Raymond James told clients that software stocks look to be stabilising after a two-month decline, with the S&P 500 Software Industry Index testing a critical support region near 6,156.06 and the 200-week moving average. The firm outlined a potential counter-trend bounce with initial and intermediate upside targets, while noting that hardware shares…

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Deploys AI to Spot ESG and Integrity Risks

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Deploys AI to Spot ESG and Integrity Risks

Norway's $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has implemented artificial intelligence tools to screen newly acquired equity holdings for environmental, social and governance risks and integrity concerns. The fund, which owns stakes in roughly 7,200 companies and about 1.5% of all listed equities worldwide, uses large language models to rapidly scan …