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10 Big Names With Surprising Gains

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Ten stocks defied a broader market pessimism on Wednesday, boasting surprising gains amid impressive corporate earnings and strong investor optimism, among others.

Meanwhile, only the Dow Jones finished in the green, inching up 0.04 percent. The S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped by 0.24 percent and 0.67 percent, respectively.

In this article, we focus on the 10 companies that led the market rally and break down the reasons behind their gains.

To compile the list, we focused exclusively on stocks with $2 billion in market capitalization and at least 5 million shares in trading volume.

A trader cheers his market gains. Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels

10. H World Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:HTHT)

Shares of H World Group grew by 5.43 percent on Wednesday to close at $35.16 apiece as investors were impressed by its earnings performance and growth outlook for the current quarter.

In the second quarter, attributable net income increased by 45 percent to 1.5 billion yuan from 1.067 billion yuan in the same period last year, on the back of a strong performance from Legacy-Huazhu. Total revenues grew by 4 percent to 6.4 billion yuan from 6.148 billion yuan year-on-year, near the high-end guidance of 1 to 5 percent revenue growth target.

As of June 30, H World Group Ltd.’s (NASDAQ:HTHT) worldwide hotel network ended at 12,137 with rooms totaling 1.18 million. Of the total, 12,016 hotels were under Legacy-Huazhu.

Looking ahead, H World Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:HTHT) said it expects revenues in the third quarter of the year to grow by 2 to 6 percent.

9. Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VKTX)

Viking Therapeutics bounced back by 5.46 percent on Wednesday to finish at $25.69 apiece as investors resorted to early bargain-hunting to take advantage of its cheap valuations.

This followed the company’s 42-percent decline on Tuesday, dragged by results of its weight loss clinical trial that saw a huge dropout rate in the number of enrollees due to mild to moderate adverse effects, including nausea and vomiting.

In a statement, Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VKTX) said it registered a 28-percent dropout rate in the overall number of enrollees for the second phase of its VK2735 clinical study, sparking concerns about the drug’s tolerability.

In a call with analysts, Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VKTX) CEO Brian Lian said that GI-related adverse event rates might be further reduced through lower starting doses and or slower dose escalation.

He added that the company was looking to explore it further in an upcoming maintenance dosing study.

Following the results, Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VKTX) earned a “sell” recommendation from Zacks Research.

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The $250 Trillion AI Hype is Real. A few years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d bought this stock.

Dr. Inan Dogan

Dr. Ian Dogan

Co-Founder and Research Director at Insider Monkey

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.

Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.

At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000.

Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040.

Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:

  • 175 Teslas
  • 107 Amazons
  • 140 Metas
  • 84 Googles
  • 65 Microsofts
  • And 55 Nvidias

And here’s the wild part — this $250 trillion wave isn’t tied to one company, but to an entire ecosystem of AI innovators set to reshape the global economy.

It’s a leap so massive, it could reshape how businesses, governments, and consumers operate worldwide.

Even if that $250 trillion figure sounds ambitious, major firms like PwC and McKinsey still see AI unlocking multi-trillion-dollar potential.

How could anything be worth that much?

The answer lies in a breakthrough so powerful it’s redefining how humanity works, learns, and creates.

And this breakthrough has already set off a frenzy among hedge funds and Wall Street’s top investors.

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In fact, Verge argues this company’s supercheap AI technology should concern rivals.

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  • Bill Gates sees artificial intelligence as the “biggest technological advance in my lifetime,” more transformative than the internet or personal computer, capable of improving healthcare, education, and addressing climate change.
  • Larry Ellison — through Oracle, is spending billions on Nvidia chips and partnering with Cohere to embed generative AI across Oracle’s cloud and apps.
  • Warren Buffett — not known for tech hype — says this breakthrough could have a ‘hugely beneficial social impact.

When billionaires from Silicon Valley to Wall Street line up behind the same idea — you know it’s worth paying attention to.

Even as we admire what Tesla, Nvidia, Alphabet, and Microsoft have built, we believe an even greater opportunity lies elsewhere…

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Dr. Ian Dogan

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