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Speaker 2: This is the closing bell on the stock movers report
Speaker 2: the company's making moves at the close of US trading
Speaker 2: with Carol Masser, Tim Stenoveeck Romain Bostik, and Katie Greifel.
Speaker 3: Guys, let's get to some of the individual gainers as
Speaker 3: we await earnings to cross the Bloomberg terminal, got to
Speaker 3: go to meta platforms. This definitely was an outperformer in
Speaker 3: today's session. Of course, twenty four hours ago we were
Speaker 3: breaking down their earnings. It's the number three gainer in
Speaker 3: the S and P five hundred, I believe the number
Speaker 3: one in the Nasdaq one hundred. That stock, as you
Speaker 3: can see, up ten percent here at the close. There's
Speaker 3: a lot to say about this company. Check it out
Speaker 3: on the Bloomberg, but just real quickly EPs sales beats.
Speaker 3: The company also gave a revenue outlook that was much
Speaker 3: stronger than expected, which helped offset set really the impact
Speaker 3: of higher AI related spending that has been on everybody's minds,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless investors being pretty rosy when it comes to meta.
Speaker 3: I just want to mention Southwest LUV is the ticker
Speaker 3: that is the number one gainer in the S and
Speaker 3: P five hundred, up about nineteen percent in today's session,
Speaker 3: reporting results at top dnalyst estimates, signaling the fruits of
Speaker 3: a turnaround after a rather challenging year. Company working to
Speaker 3: add premium options and has transition from its longtime open
Speaker 3: seating system. We all remember that to assigned seas as
Speaker 3: part of a strategy to be Some of us.
Speaker 1: Still love it. Well, I can't.
Speaker 3: I want my seat, I want to know where I'm going,
Speaker 3: and I want to be in boarding group number one. Okay,
Speaker 3: sorry Princess, Sorry no, I wear the Crowns cruise ships.
Speaker 3: They were definitely some outperformers in today's session. We'll bring
Speaker 3: up the boards for your Royal Caribbean up more than
Speaker 3: eighteen percent in today's session. Company came out fourth quarter
Speaker 3: financial really squashed investors' concerns over cruise demand. They said
Speaker 3: demand for cruise holidays keeps accelerating, which could see the
Speaker 3: liner add as many as six additional ships to its fleet.
Speaker 3: They had a lot more positive commentary too about the business,
Speaker 3: So Royal carib up almost nineteen percent. You saw Norwegian
Speaker 3: also up about him. I'm really cool, aren't I real?
Speaker 3: Norwegion up about ten percent, and then Carnival up about
Speaker 3: eight and a half percent in today's session. I'm not
Speaker 3: really cool, but I try Okay.
Speaker 1: Stocks in the green, stocks in the red gotta start
Speaker 1: with Microsoft shares having their worst day, going all the
Speaker 1: way back to twenty twenty, down ten percent, this after
Speaker 1: reporting records spending and slowing cloud sales growth, fueling investor
Speaker 1: concerns about the return on that spending. We spoke to
Speaker 1: Angelo Zeno of CFI a little earlier. He's he's recommending
Speaker 1: people buy the dip on the sellof He said the
Speaker 1: valuation is compelling. Concerned around the Azro number and concentration
Speaker 1: risk and open AI kind of sees those as overblown.
Speaker 1: He's still bullish on the stock.
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