NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 20:22 ET — Market closed
- Vertiv shares fell 0.7% to $164.34 at the close on Tuesday.
- Wall Street ended slightly lower in choppy, holiday-thin trade after the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes. 1
- Investors are watching Wednesday’s jobless-claims report and year-end positioning ahead of the New Year’s Day market holiday. 2
Vertiv Holdings Co shares fell 0.7% to $164.34 on Tuesday, tracking a soft finish for U.S. equities into the final day of the year.
The pullback matters now because year-end flows can exaggerate moves in stocks tied to big themes such as data-center expansion, especially when liquidity is thin. Rate expectations also tend to loom larger late in the year as investors reset allocations for 2026. 1
Vertiv sells power and cooling equipment used in data centers, a corner of the market that has drawn heavy attention as companies build out infrastructure to run artificial intelligence workloads. A shift in tech sentiment or interest-rate assumptions can quickly ripple through the group.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended slightly lower on Tuesday as declines in technology and financial stocks offset gains elsewhere, Reuters reported. “It’s just a healthy rebalancing of allocations more so than an emotionally driven sell-off,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide. 1
Other AI-linked and data-center-adjacent names also eased. Nvidia slipped 0.3%, while Eaton and nVent edged lower; Johnson Controls and Trane Technologies closed down about 0.6% each.
Vertiv traded between $163.90 and $166.50 and opened at $165.99, with about 3.76 million shares changing hands, according to market data.
In its most recent quarterly update in October, Vertiv reported net sales of about $2.68 billion, up 29% from a year earlier, and raised its full-year 2025 guidance, the company said. 3
The company has also pushed deeper into liquid cooling—systems that use fluids rather than air to remove heat in high-density server racks—completing the acquisition of PurgeRite earlier this month, its investor relations site shows. 4
Macro signals stayed in focus late Tuesday. Minutes from the Fed’s December meeting showed officials agreed to a 25-basis-point (0.25 percentage point) rate cut only after a nuanced debate, and investors are now expecting the central bank to keep rates unchanged at its Jan. 27-28 meeting, Reuters reported. 1
Before the next session, traders will parse Wednesday’s weekly jobless claims report, which the Labor Department scheduled for Dec. 31 because Jan. 1 is a federal holiday. U.S. bond markets are set to close early at 2 p.m. ET, while stock markets operate a normal schedule on New Year’s Eve, Investopedia reported. 2
For VRT stock, Tuesday’s low near $163.90 and the session high around $166.50 are the closest reference points heading into the final session of 2025. A move through either end of that range would be a quick tell on whether year-end flows are still unwinding.
Investors are also looking ahead to Vertiv’s next earnings report—market calendars tracked by Nasdaq show an estimate around Feb. 11—when management’s outlook on data-center demand will again be in focus. Traders will be listening for any read-through on 2026 budgets from hyperscalers, the large cloud and internet groups that spend billions building and outfitting data centers. 5
