NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 12:48 ET — Regular session
- Rigetti fell about 2% in midday trade as quantum-computing shares stayed volatile into year-end.
- A recent sector pullback has been blamed on profit-taking, thin holiday volumes and valuation worries, an Investors.com report said.
- Investors are looking ahead to Rigetti’s next results window in early March, based on past reporting patterns.
Rigetti Computing shares fell about 2.1% to $21.92 in midday trading on Monday, after closing at $22.38 on Friday.
The decline highlights how quickly sentiment can shift in the small group of “pure-play” quantum-computing stocks as the year ends. Profit-taking and thin holiday liquidity have amplified swings in the sector, Investors.com reported. Investors
Moves across the group were mixed. IonQ fell about 2.3% while D-Wave Quantum rose about 0.6%, and Quantum Computing Inc slid about 2.3%.
Quantum-computing shares jumped on Dec. 22 without major company news and then sold off over the following three sessions, the Investors.com report said, as some investors locked in gains and others balked at valuations.
Even with the late-December pullback, Rigetti was still up about 46% for 2025, while D-Wave was up about 201% and IonQ about 10%, Investors.com reported. It added that the group remained more than 40% below its yearly highs.
Rigetti is a “full-stack” quantum computing company that builds superconducting quantum processors and operates quantum computers over the cloud, serving enterprise, government and research customers. Reuters
Quantum computing uses “qubits,” which can represent more than one state at a time, unlike classical bits that are either 0 or 1. Advocates say that could eventually speed up certain calculations, but commercial use remains early and uneven. Reuters
The company’s latest reported quarter underscored that gap between ambition and near-term sales. Rigetti posted $1.95 million in revenue for the September quarter and missed analysts’ revenue expectations, according to MarketBeat’s earnings summary.
Investors.com said Wall Street coverage has broadened across the quantum group in 2025, bringing more institutional attention to stocks that have long been dominated by retail trading.
On Monday, Rigetti traded between $21.54 and $22.55, with volume around 17.3 million shares, according to market data.
The next obvious catalyst is earnings. Rigetti’s next report is estimated for around March 4, 2026, based on past reporting schedules compiled by MarketBeat and Zacks.
Beyond quarterly numbers, investors are weighing whether smaller “pure-play” companies can carve out durable customers while competing with technology giants that run their own quantum programs. MarketWatch columnist Charlie Garcia wrote this week that investors increasingly split the space between pure-plays, big-tech incumbents and “picks-and-shovels” suppliers. marketwatch.com
