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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Riot Platforms, Hims & Hers Health, Intel & more

Cnbc · · 319 words · By Fred Imbert
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What to know about Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Riot Platforms, Hims & Hers Health, Intel & more

Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Intel – The chipmaker fell slightly after upsizing a common stock offering to $20 billion from $15 billion.

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What happened

Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Intel – The chipmaker fell slightly after upsizing a common stock offering to $20 billion from $15 billion.

Why it matters

The proceeds, Intel said, would be used for " general corporate purposes ." Hims & Hers Health – Shares fell 6% after the telehealth company trimmed the upper end of its full-year EBITDA outlook.

Common ground

Hims & Hers also posted a net loss of 37 cents per share for Q2, compared with a profit of 17 cents per share in the prior year.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Riot Platforms – The crypto miner rallied nearly 20% after its second-quarter revenue topped analyst expectations.”
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One source confirms Q2 revenue rose to $174.2 million, and another reports the stock 'jumps' following an AI lease report and strong revenue context. While the '20%' figure isn't explicitly in the snippets, the revenue beat and positive stock movement are supported.
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web search NEUTRAL — Riot Platforms’ second-quarter 2026 results are expected to reflect weaker Bitcoin-mining economics. Rising network difficulty, fewer Bitcoins mined and Bitcoin price volatility are likely to have pre…
https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2967593/riot-platforms-to-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — Second-quarter revenue rose 14% year-over-year (YoY) to $174.2 million from $153.0 million. Data center revenue totaled $23.2 million, including $4.9 million in lease revenue and $18.3 million from wo…
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/duquesne-e…
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web search NEUTRAL — Riot Platforms NASDAQ:RIOT signed its biggest AI infrastructure contract yet.The deal changes the scale of Riot’s data-center business. Average base-term revenue works out to about $455 million a year…
https://ts2.tech/en/riot-platforms-stock-jumps-on-9-1-billio…
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Claim 2: “On Holding — Shares for the Switzerland-based company dropped over 16% on mixed second-quarter results.”
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Claim 3: “Hims & Hers also posted a net loss of 37 cents per share for Q2, compared with a profit of 17 cents per share in the prior year.”
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One web source explicitly reports a net loss of $86.3 million for Q2 2026 and a net income of $42.5 million in the prior year. While the claim's per-share figures ($0.37 loss vs $0.17 profit) are not explicitly listed in the snippet, the swing from profit to loss is confirmed by one source. No other source provides the specific per-share numbers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The election denial movement in the United States is a widespread false belief that elections in the United States are rigged and stolen through election fraud by the opposing political party. Adheren…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P SmallCap 600 (S&P 600) stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the "S&P 600", the ind…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States took place on Monday, January 20, 2025. Due to freezing temperatures and high winds, it was held inside the U.S. Capitol ro…
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Claim 4: “Cardinal Health reported adjusted earnings of $2.60 per share, topping the $2.42 a share expected from analysts polled by FactSet.”
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No evidence was found regarding Cardinal Health's adjusted earnings or FactSet estimates.
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Claim 5: “The firm also hiked its price target on shares to $318, signaling more than 30% upside.”
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No evidence was found regarding a price target of $318 for First Solar.
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Claim 6: “Riot's top line clocked in at $174.2 million, while analysts polled by FactSet expected revenue of $154.3 million.”
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One source confirms the Q2 revenue of $174.2 million. However, the FactSet analyst expectation of $154.3 million is not mentioned in the provided evidence. Only the revenue figure is corroborated by one source.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military strike in Venezuela and captured incumbent Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The US operation, codenamed Operatio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Social media are new media technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and netwo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — X, formerly known as Twitter, is an American microblogging and social networking service owned by SpaceX's artificial intelligence subsidiary SpaceXAI. It is one of the world's largest social media pl…
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Claim 7: “Hims & Hers Health – Shares fell 6% after the telehealth company trimmed the upper end of its full-year EBITDA outlook.”
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While sources discuss Hims & Hers' financial outlook and stock price drops, none specifically mention 'trimming the upper end of its full-year EBITDA outlook'. One source mentions a forecast for 2026 EBITDA, but not a reduction of the upper end.
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web search NEUTRAL — Looking ahead, Hims & Hers forecasts 2026 revenue to be between $2.7 billion and $2.9 billion with adjusted EBITDA of between $300 million to $375 million.While the full-year outlook was within expect…
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/02/27/down-past-year-him…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hims & Hers Health (HIMS) stock was down about 11% on Tuesday, as of writing, after the telehealth company reported a larger-than-anticipated loss for Q1 2026 and issued weak earnings guidance. The fi…
https://www.tipranks.com/news/hims-hers-health-stock-hims-si…
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web search NEUTRAL — BTIG: Hims & Hers Health's adjusted EBITDA contracted by 51% year-on-year to $44.3 million and fell significantly short of expectations. The company also raised its 2026 revenue outlook.
https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-stock-ratings/price-target/…
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Claim 8: “First Solar – The solar panel maker popped more than 3% after Baird upgraded the stock to outperform from neutral.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Baird upgrades First Solar stock to Outperform. Here’s why analyst Ben Kallo recommends owning FSLR shares in the second half of 2026.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/baird-just…
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web search NEUTRAL — First Solar Inc stock price live, this page displays NASDAQ FSLR stock exchange data. View the FSLR premarket stock price ahead of the market session or assess the after hours quote. Monitor the lates…
https://www.investing.com/equities/first-solar-inc
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web search NEUTRAL — Baird maintains 'Outperform' rating for ULS. Price target adjusted from $97 to $96, indicating a -1.03% change.December 17, 2025: Baird upgraded the rating from 'Neutral' to 'Outperform' while maintai…
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Claim 9: “The company's full-year EPS guidance also beat expectations.”
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Claim 10: “The company, which focuses on the athletic sports accessories industry, also reduced its full year revenue guidance.”
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Claim 11: “Intel – The chipmaker fell slightly after upsizing a common stock offering to $20 billion from $15 billion.”
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Two independent web sources (MEXC Crypto Pulse and Anadolu Ajansı) explicitly confirm that Intel increased its common stock offering from $15 billion to $20 billion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Intel Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as central processing units (CP…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of Intel processors by generation attempts to present all of Intel's processors from the 4-bit 4004 (1971) to the present high-end offerings. Concise technical data is given for each product…
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Claim 12: “The company also announced a 191-megawatt data center lease deal with "a Leading Frontier AI Lab."”
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Multiple independent sources (Bloomberg, and other web results) confirm Riot Platforms signed a 191-megawatt data center lease with a 'leading AI lab' (identified as Anthropic in some sources).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms a…
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Claim 13: “Plug Power – Shares rallied 13% after the electrical equipment manufacturing company reported a smaller-than-expected loss for the second quarter.”
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Two sources confirm Plug Power reported a smaller-than-expected loss. One source notes the adjusted loss was 7 cents per share (1 cent less than expected), and another notes a loss of 3 cents per share (against a 10 cent expectation).
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web search NEUTRAL — Revenue for the second quarter totaled $178.3 million, exceeding the FactSet consensus by 11.4%. The adjusted loss came in at seven cents per share, which was a cent less than analysts expected. Hydro…
https://ts2.tech/en/plug-power-stock-gains-6-4-but-guidance-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Earnings Miss: FuelCell reported a second-quarter loss of $1.45 per share on revenue of $35.6 million, both falling short of Wall Street expectations, primarily due to a non-cash impairment charge rel…
https://intellectia.ai/news/stock/plug-power-fuelcell-and-bl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Plug reported a loss of 3 cents per share from $68 million in sales. Analysts were looking for a loss of 10 cents from $57 million in sales. Management is talking about applying fuel-cell technology t…
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Claim 14: “Its revenue of $63.67 billion, however, fell short of the $65.15 billion consensus estimate.”
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