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Financial Analysis News 5 January 2026

Rocket Lab stock slips after rally as insider sale filing surfaces; Neutron timing in focus

Rocket Lab stock slips after rally as insider sale filing surfaces; Neutron timing in focus

New York, January 5, 2026, 11:35 EST — Regular session Rocket Lab Corp shares slipped 0.7% to $75.43 by 11:09 a.m. EST on Monday, after closing at $75.99 on Friday. The stock traded between $71.31 and $75.70 and sits roughly 5% below its 52-week high of $79.83. FinancialContent The wobble follows a sharp re-rating since Rocket Lab said it had won an $816 million prime contract from the U.S. Space Development Agency to design and manufacture 18 satellites for the agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program. The company said the award includes a $806 million base plus up to $10.45
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GE Aerospace earnings preview: Jan. 22 report to test the rally after a 52-week surge

GE Aerospace earnings preview: Jan. 22 report to test the rally after a 52-week surge

New York, Jan 5, 2026, 10:34 EST GE Aerospace will report fiscal fourth-quarter results on Jan. 22, with investors watching whether the jet-engine maker can extend its profit streak after a strong run in the stock. The report matters now because expectations have reset higher across the aerospace supply chain, and GE’s shares have become a referendum on whether engine makers can keep turning heavy maintenance demand into steady cash. Supply-chain constraints are easing, helping GE ramp deliveries of its LEAP engines and expand commercial engine and services orders, Nasdaq wrote. The same analysis noted that faster deliveries can pressure
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EQT stock slides as natural gas prices slump — EIA storage report is the next test

EQT stock slides as natural gas prices slump — EIA storage report is the next test

New York, January 5, 2026, 10:25 EST — Regular session EQT Corp shares fell 4.2% to $51.20 in morning trading on Monday, tracking a slide in U.S. natural gas prices at the start of the week. The move matters because producers like EQT sell into a market where winter heating demand can swing quickly with weather forecasts. In January, a few degrees on the map can mean a very different balance between supply and demand. Front-month Henry Hub natural gas futures — the nearest, most actively traded contract — were down about 3.3% at $3.498 per million British thermal units
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Rigetti Computing stock steadies premarket after Needham fireside chat reveal — what RGTI investors watch next

Rigetti Computing stock steadies premarket after Needham fireside chat reveal — what RGTI investors watch next

New York, January 5, 2026, 09:16 EST — Premarket Rigetti Computing (RGTI) shares held near Friday’s close in U.S. premarket trading on Monday after the quantum-computing company said its CEO will join a fireside chat at the Needham Growth Conference next week. The session is scheduled for Jan. 13 at 12:45 p.m. ET and will be webcast, the company said. Rigetti ended Friday up 6.6% at $23.60. GlobeNewswire The appearance offers a near-term checkpoint for a stock that has swung with sentiment toward speculative growth names. With few fresh company updates in early January, traders are watching for anything that
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Comcast’s Versant spinoff is done — what’s inside VSNT and why CMCSA shares slid

Comcast’s Versant spinoff is done — what’s inside VSNT and why CMCSA shares slid

NEW YORK, January 5, 2026, 09:30 EST Comcast (CMCSA) said on Monday it completed the spinoff of its NBCUniversal cable networks into Versant Media Group, distributing shares of the new company to existing investors. Versant (VSNT) began trading on Nasdaq and was down 3.5% in premarket trading. Comcast has said the assets generate about $7 billion in annual revenue. Reuters The separation lands as U.S. pay-TV bundles keep shrinking and streaming pulls viewers toward on-demand platforms. For Comcast, it peels off slower-growing cable channels that once anchored its media unit. Investors now get two stocks to price: Comcast’s remaining businesses
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NIO stock dips in premarket ahead of 1 millionth car milestone — what investors watch next

NIO stock dips in premarket ahead of 1 millionth car milestone — what investors watch next

New York, Jan 5, 2026, 08:39 EST — Premarket NIO Inc shares slipped in premarket trading — before the New York open — as investors digested the electric-vehicle maker’s coming production milestone. The stock was last down 2.3% at $5.02 after closing Friday at $5.14. MarketWatch The timing matters because early January delivery tallies are the first hard datapoint for China’s EV makers in the new year, often shaping expectations for pricing and factory utilization. For NIO, the market is weighing whether a strong finish to 2025 can carry into 2026 without worsening margin pressure. Gasgoo Auto News Investors are
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Super Micro (SMCI) heads into 2026 with analysts on edge — margins are the fight

Super Micro (SMCI) heads into 2026 with analysts on edge — margins are the fight

NEW YORK, Jan 5, 2026, 07:19 ET Super Micro Computer (SMCI) shares were up about 6% in premarket trading on Monday, but analysts remained cautious on the server maker’s ability to protect margins as competition intensifies in AI hardware. The company sits in the middle of a global buildout of data centers for artificial intelligence, where customers are ordering dense, power-hungry systems that require complex supply chains and new cooling designs. That makes Super Micro a bellwether for whether the AI infrastructure boom can translate into durable profits, not just fast revenue growth. Wall Street is watching closely after a
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BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) stock jumps in pre-market as Jan. 14 vote on 50-billion share plan nears

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) stock jumps in pre-market as Jan. 14 vote on 50-billion share plan nears

NEW YORK, January 5, 2026, 07:07 ET — Premarket BitMine Immersion Technologies’ shares rose about 4% in U.S. pre-market trading on Monday as investors looked ahead to a shareholder vote that could widen the company’s financing options. BMNR was up 4.4% at $32.55 by around 7:00 a.m. ET. StockAnalysis The move matters because BitMine’s vote is not about a routine corporate housekeeping change. It goes to how freely the company can raise money and manage its share price as it pushes a crypto-treasury strategy centered on ethereum. Traders have tended to treat BMNR as a high-beta proxy for crypto sentiment,
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Palantir vs Oracle: Wall Street’s AI stock split — and 3 alternatives investors are watching in 2026

Palantir vs Oracle: Wall Street’s AI stock split — and 3 alternatives investors are watching in 2026

NEW YORK, Jan 5, 2026, 06:50 ET Wall Street analysts are largely neutral on Palantir Technologies (PLTR) and see more upside in Oracle (ORCL) as investors enter 2026 still sorting winners from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, a Motley Fool analysis published on Sunday showed. The Motley Fool That matters now because last year’s run-up in AI-linked shares left little room for disappointment. Investors are increasingly splitting between companies selling AI software and those building the infrastructure — data centres, cloud capacity and chips — that make the technology run. Cost pressures are also creeping into the conversation as companies
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Plug Power stock rises in premarket as PLUG heads into key Jan. 29 vote on new shares

Plug Power stock rises in premarket as PLUG heads into key Jan. 29 vote on new shares

NEW YORK, January 5, 2026, 06:41 ET — Premarket Plug Power Inc shares rose 3.1% to $2.30 in premarket trading on Monday, extending a new-year rebound in the hydrogen equipment maker. The stock closed Friday at $2.23, up 13.2%. Yahoo Finance The move puts focus on a Jan. 29 shareholder vote that could give Plug more headroom to issue stock. In its definitive proxy statement, the company said it wants to double authorized common shares to 3.0 billion — the legal cap on shares it can issue. Plug said it needs that flexibility to raise capital and meet contractual obligations
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Sandisk (SNDK) stock flat in premarket after 16% surge; new director and Jan. 29 earnings in focus

Sandisk (SNDK) stock flat in premarket after 16% surge; new director and Jan. 29 earnings in focus

NEW YORK, January 5, 2026, 05:59 ET — Premarket Sandisk Corp shares were little changed in premarket trading on Monday after a sharp rise in the first session of 2026. The stock last traded at $275.24. The move keeps Sandisk on traders’ screens as money rotates through storage and memory names tied to data-center demand. Sandisk sells NAND flash, a type of memory chip used in solid-state drives, and the group can swing sharply on shifts in pricing and capital spending. That sensitivity matters more now because Sandisk’s next earnings update is approaching, and investors are looking for proof that
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Rolls-Royce stock rises in London after first buyback trades hit the tape

Rolls-Royce stock rises in London after first buyback trades hit the tape

LONDON, Jan 5, 2026, 08:30 GMT — Regular session Rolls-Royce Holdings shares rose on Monday after the aero-engine maker disclosed its first share repurchases under a £200 million buyback programme. By 08:30 GMT, the stock was up 2.09% at 1,222.05 pence.  Investing The timing matters because the buyback is one of the few company-specific catalysts at the start of the year, and it lands with the stock already close to a 52-week high. Investors are looking ahead to full-year results in late February for any fresh guidance and capital returns signals.  Investing A share buyback is when a company buys
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Stock Market Today

Walmart stock jumps to $131 as traders brace for CPI and Feb. 19 earnings

Walmart stock jumps to $131 as traders brace for CPI and Feb. 19 earnings

7 February 2026
Walmart shares rose 3.3% Friday to $131.18, up 10% since Jan. 30, as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. The retailer’s market value crossed $1 trillion this week. Investors await January inflation data on Feb. 13 and Walmart’s quarterly results on Feb. 19 for signs of continued momentum.
Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

7 February 2026
Caterpillar shares surged 7.1% to $726.20 Friday, driving the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. The move erased recent losses and followed insider selling by Group President Bob De Lange earlier in the week. Deere and CNH Industrial also gained as investors rotated into industrial stocks. Markets await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data.
Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell 9% Friday after the company announced plans for $200 billion in 2026 capital spending, mainly for AWS and AI, and issued a first-quarter profit outlook below estimates. The stock drop could erase $200 billion in market value. Fourth-quarter net sales rose 14% to $213.4 billion, while free cash flow declined due to higher spending on AI infrastructure.
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