PepsiCo ended Friday trading at $169.74, up 1.29%. That’s a $2.16 gain per share, setting the stock up with some momentum as March U.S. trading kicks off.
Home Depot shares finished Friday at $380.72, up 1.5%. Heading into Monday, investors are still linking the retailer’s prospects with interest rates and housing turnover.
Nu Holdings wrapped up Friday with its U.S.-listed shares slipping 0.5% to close at $14.98, keeping the stock just shy of the $15 mark as Monday approaches.
Synopsys faces renewed headwinds going into Monday, as Morgan Stanley downgraded the chip-design software company to Equal-Weight from Overweight and slashed its price target to $480, down from $550. Shares closed Friday at $414, losing 2.8%.
Warner Bros. Discovery Series A dropped 2.2% to close at $28.17 on Friday. The stock sits roughly 9% under Paramount Skydance’s $31-per-share cash bid, a gap reflecting how investors are weighing both regulatory hurdles and the clock.
Coinbase Global Inc finished Friday’s session at $175.85, slipping 2.88% as investor caution crept back into crypto-related stocks. Trading volumes hit roughly 11.43 million shares, Investing.com data showed.
Spotify Technology S.A. closed out Friday with a 3.9% gain, finishing at $514.94. After hours, shares slipped 0.4% to $513.07—a period when trading continues beyond the bell. U.S. markets will be closed Sunday, so the next action comes with Monday’s open.
Duolingo dropped another 14% by Friday’s close, capping off two rough sessions after the language-learning platform announced plans to prioritize user gains over short-term revenue and profit growth.
SoFi Technologies, Inc. dropped 7.0% on Friday, ending the session at $17.76. The stock hit a low of $17.31 during the day as sellers stepped in late week. Trading volume swelled to around 115.3 million shares—well above Thursday’s 69.9 million.
IREN Limited dropped 7.4% Friday, closing at $40.95 and capping off a rough end to February for risk assets. The Nasdaq listing barely budged in late after-hours trading.
Applied Optoelectronics shares finished Friday’s regular session up a hefty 56.9%, ending at $84.23 after a burst of trading sent volume soaring. In after-hours action, the stock was recently quoted at $88.68.
Cisco Systems, Inc ended Friday at $79.46, up 1.7%. Now, investors are tuned in to what the company will offer on the conference circuit as the new week begins.
Merck & Co finished Friday’s session up 3.8%, closing at $123.82. Shares moved between $119.68 and $124.00 throughout the day, with roughly 17.6 million changing hands, Investing.com data show.
Israel has temporarily shut portions of its natural gas reservoirs—including the offshore Leviathan field run by Chevron—following joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, according to three sources. Energean reported that its production vessel, which supplies multiple Israeli fields, is also offline. The country’s Energy Ministry cited “the current situation” and ongoing security assessments as reasons for the closures.
Flutter Entertainment plc tumbled Friday, wrapping up a tough post-earnings day for the FanDuel parent. Shares in New York finished at $106.14, a drop of 13.8%. In London, the stock closed at 7,712p, losing around 15%.
GE Aerospace ended Friday up 0.4% at $342.26, roughly 2% shy of its latest peak. After-hours quotes slipped a bit, landing at $341.55. Traders, looking ahead, were still digesting a supplier alert that singled out ongoing bottlenecks at Airbus, RTX's Pratt & Whitney, and GE as persistent threats to fulfilling robust jet orders.
Mastercard edged up 0.47% to finish at $517.21 on Friday, resisting the broader slide as the S&P 500 slipped 0.43% and the Dow tumbled 1.05%. Visa added 1.09% at the close.
UnitedHealth Group heads into Monday with a new cost-cutting move in focus: Bloomberg News says the company limited employee pay bumps this year to between 0% and 2%, depending on performance, and recently informed some workers of layoffs. Shares of UNH finished Friday’s session up 2.31% at $293.27, trading roughly 9.7 million shares.