Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Walmart, Coinbase, Moderna, Alibaba & more

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · Aug 20, 2026 · 455 words · By Michelle Fox

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Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Walmart — The retail giant dropped 6%.

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What happened

Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Walmart — The retail giant dropped 6%.

Why it matters

Walmart posted a revenue beat for its second quarter .

Common ground

comparable sales grew by 2.6%, short of the 3.5% increase expected from analysts polled by FactSet.

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Claim 1: “Circle Internet gained 7.5%, while Mara Holding and American Bitcoin each added roughly 5%.”

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The evidence provided consists of a Yahoo Finance landing page for MARA, an IELTS writing sample, and general Wikipedia entries. None of these confirm the specific percentage gains for Circle Internet, Mara Holding, or American Bitcoin.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon.com, Inc. (doing business as Amazon) is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles James Kirk (October 14, 1993 – September 10, 2025) was an American right-wing political activist, entrepreneur, and media personality. He co‑founded the conservative student organization Turn…
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Claim 2: “U.S.-listed shares of the Chinese tech company slipped nearly 4% after Netease's quarterly earnings missed analyst estimates.”

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Claim 3: “Earnings per share, however, topped expectations.”

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Claim 4: “Earnings per share guidance for the fiscal third quarter and full year also fell short of expectations.”

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web search NEUTRAL — Walmart Inc.[b] is an American multinational omnichannel retail corporation [c] that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, grocery stores, pharmacies…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart

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web search NEUTRAL — Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
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web search NEUTRAL — Shop for null. Buy products such as Airthings Corentium Home Radon Detector 2350 Portable, Lightweight, Easy-to-Use, (3) AAA Battery Operated, USA Version, pCi/L at Walmart and save.
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Claim 5: “Nordson sees adjusted earnings for the full year in a range of $11.80 to $12 a share, up from its earlier call for $11.30 to $11.80 per share.”

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Claim 6: “Its loss of $2.26 per share, however, was less than the $2.45 per share loss expected from analysts.”

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Claim 7: “Advance Auto Parts — The automotive parts provider tumbled nearly 15% following mixed results for its second quarter.”

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Claim 8: “The semiconductor components maker's quarterly revenue of $149.6 million fell short of FactSet's $150 million consensus estimate, sending shares 10% lower.”

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Claim 9: “It also reported a loss in comparable sales of 0.5%, versus the gain of 1.4% expected from analysts, per FactSet.”

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Claim 10: “The outlook also surpassed the FactSet consensus call for $11.60 a share.”

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Claim 11: “Shares rose 5.4% after lifting the company, which manufactures equipment used to apply coatings and adhesives, raised its full-year guidance.”

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Claim 12: “Walmart posted a revenue beat for its second quarter .”

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Multiple sources indicate a revenue beat or positive performance. Benzinga discusses analyst expectations for a beat, and Simply Wall St explicitly states EPS exceeded analyst expectations for the second quarter.

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web search NEUTRAL — Earnings Estimates: Analysts expect Walmart to report second-quarter revenue of $168.57 billion, according to data from Benzinga Pro. The company reported revenue of $161.63 billion in last year's sec…
https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/24/08…

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web search NEUTRAL — Second quarter 2027 earnings: EPS exceeds analyst expectations.Walmart plans to invest US$1.3b in a new automated fulfilment centre in Carnesville, Georgia, with construction expected to start later t…
https://simplywall.st/it/stocks/us/consumer-retailing/nasdaq…

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web search NEUTRAL — Key Earnings Announcements: Analog Devices exceeded $4 billion in quarterly revenue as AI data center demand accelerated. Walmart’s advertising business grew 38% as its higher-margin digital businesse…
https://gritcap.io/p/walmart-s-advertising-business-is-up-38

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Claim 13: “U.S.-listed shares fell 3.4%.”

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No evidence was found or provided regarding the specific percentage drop of Alibaba's U.S.-listed shares.

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Claim 14: “The Chinese tech giant reported a 75% drop in profits for the June quarter due to its jump in spending on artificial intelligence.”

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Multiple independent sources (CNBC, LinkedIn, and other web search results) confirm that Alibaba reported a 75% drop in profits for the June quarter due to increased AI spending.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun (Chinese: 阿里云; pinyin: Ālǐyún; lit. 'Ali Cloud'), is a cloud computing company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to on…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba (), is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Founded on 28 June 1999 in Hangzhou, Z…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Damai Entertainment Holdings Limited is a Chinese film company under the Alibaba Group. The film company was formerly ChinaVision Media of which Alibaba Group bought a majority stake in late 2014. It …
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Claim 15: “Shares slipped 14.5% after the beauty company reported a larger quarterly loss than expected”

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Claim 16: “Advance Auto Parts posted revenue of $1 billion, short of the $2.04 billion expected from analysts polled by LSEG.”

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Claim 17: “Walmart — The retail giant dropped 6%.”

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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia and corporate pages for Walmart; none of the sources mention a 6% drop in shares.

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Claim 18: “Coty saw an adjusted loss of 2 cents per share for its fourth quarter, more than the 1 cent loss expected from analysts polled by FactSet.”

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Claim 19: “Its revenue, however, beat expectations.”

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Claim 20: “The trial showed the experimental vaccine, from Moderna and Merck, in combination with Keytruda met key goals in patients with higher-risk or advanced melanoma whose detectable cancer had been completely removed through surgery.”

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Claim 21: “Its capital expenditures grew by 75% in the quarter.”

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Multiple sources confirm that Alibaba's capital expenditures jumped 75% in the June quarter to nearly $10 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, Chinese: 通义千问; pinyin: Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of predominantly open weights large and small language models (LLM and SLM) developed by Alibaba Cloud. Its lates…
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Claim 22: “the company's U.S. comparable sales grew by 2.6%, short of the 3.5% increase expected from analysts polled by FactSet.”

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Claim 23: “Moderna — The pharma giant shed 7%, a day after it gained 177% on the back of promising late-stage trial results for its cancer vaccine.”

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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia entries for Moderna and does not contain any information regarding recent stock price movements or cancer vaccine trial results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Moderna COVID‑19 vaccine, sold under the brand name Spikevax among others, is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the American company Moderna, the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Studio Moderna Group is an omnichannel, multi-brand and direct-to-consumer retailer, primarily operating across Central and Eastern Europe. In 2011, Studio Moderna launched Octaspring technology. and …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Moderna, Inc. ( mə-DUR-nə) is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that focuses on RNA therapeutics, primarily mRNA vaccines. These vaccines use a co…
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Claim 24: “Coinbase rose nearly 7% and Strategy jumped 10%.”

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While the claim states Strategy jumped 10%, a web search result from a financial news source reports Strategy shares rose only 2.94% in premarket trading. No evidence was provided to corroborate the Coinbase 7% gain.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windo…
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