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Oscar Health continues its push higher after getting Barclays upgrade

Oscar Health shares surged Wednesday, fueled by an upgrade from Barclays after the company reiterated its full-year guidance earlier this week.

The stock has rallied lately, up about 40% from its June 3 closing price and pushing to its highest levels since the hype days just after its IPO in March of 2021.

Barclays upgraded the insurer to “overweight” from “equal-weight” and raised its price target to $35 from $30, according to Investing.com. Analysts cited the company’s focused participation in the fast-growing Affordable Care Act market as an avenue for potential growth.

On Monday at a Goldman Sachs healthcare conference, Oscar reassured investors by reaffirming the company’s full-year 2026 financial guidance, according to a company filing.

The recent momentum comes after Oscar reported strong Q1 results in May. The company reported revenue of $4.65 billion, up from $3 billion for the first quarter of 2025, driven by higher membership and rate increases.

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Cracker Barrel soars, on pace for its best trading day ever after earnings beat

Country-themed restaurant chain Cracker Barrel is soaring on Wednesday, on pace for its best trading day ever following an earnings beat on Tuesday afternoon.

The chain, known for its rocking chairs, little peg games, and various memorabilia featuring the American flag/Route 66/wagon wheels, reported Q3 sales of $797.4 million, beating Wall Street expectations of $776.7 million. It posted adjusted earnings of $0.29 per share, compared to the $0.48 per-share loss expected by analysts polled by FactSet.

Cracker Barrel also hiked its fiscal year revenue forecast to between $3.27 billion and $3.3 billion, up from $3.24 billion to $3.27 billion.

Those results have propelled the stock to gains of more than 26% on Wednesday, putting the chain on track to surpass its previous highest daily market gain of 25% in November 2008. Traders are pouring into the stock, with trading volumes up more than 6x their 30-day average.

As of Wednesday morning, Cracker Barrel shares are now up more than 80% in 2026.

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Microcap stock Paranovus whipsaws after announcing plans for $195 million equity raise

After soaring more than 2,000%, the stock crashed back down to earth on Wednesday.

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Core inflation comes in cooler than expected

Inflation ticked up in May, but the key core inflation metric came in cooler than economists had expected, according to the most recent reading by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released on Wednesday.

Consumer prices rose 0.5% month over month, with core inflation (which strips out volatile food and energy prices) rising 0.2%, slightly cooler than the 0.3% economists were expecting.

Year over year, prices increased 4.2%, the highest in three years, reflecting higher energy prices caused by the war in Iran. Stripping out food and energy, prices rose 2.9%. Both figures are right in line with what economists were penciling in.

S&P 500 Index futures, which had fallen earlier this morning amid escalating tensions in Iran, trimmed some of their losses after the report.

Expectations across various Fed-related prediction markets were largely unchanged following the report. The inflation report, paired with a surprisingly strong jobs report last week, seemed to solidify expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep rates steady at its meeting next week.

“The in-line headline CPI and subdued core inflation data give the Fed some breathing room to remain patient as the energy supply shock plays out,” Angelo Kourkafas, a strategist at Edward Jones, said in a statement.

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Chewy reports Q1 results that narrowly beat estimates

Chewy shares whipsawed in premarket trading after the online pet retailer reported Q1 results that slightly surpassed earnings expectations and narrowly beat revenue estimates.

Key numbers:

Net sales of $3.36 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $3.35 billion).
Adjusted earnings per share of $0.43 (estimate: $0.41).

Just a few weeks ago, Chewy CEO Sumit Singh, while speaking at the JPMorgan Technology, Media & Communications Conference in late May, said that US consumers appear more financially stretched than they were at the start of 2026, Barron’s reported.

“Our first quarter results demonstrate the resilience of our business model and the strength of our execution, despite a more dynamic consumer backdrop,” Singh said in a statement.

Chewy did not issue a forward guidance update or a revised full-year outlook in its initial press release. Its stock has dropped roughly 39% year to date.

The company’s adjusted EBITDA rose 31.3% to $253.1 million. Gross margin improved 50 basis points year over year to 30.1%.

Chewy added nearly 200,000 net active customers in the quarter, expanding its total active user base to 21.5 million customers, a 3.6% year-over-year increase.

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Super Micro plunges after announcing $7 billion in equity and equity-linked financing

Super Micro Computer fell around 9.5% at one point before the bell Wednesday after announcing $7 billion in equity and equity-linked financing plans late on Tuesday, as the company looks to raise funds to satisfy increased demand for its advanced AI servers.

In a press release, SMCI outlined plans to issue $1.25 billion in common stock and $3.75 billion worth of depositary shares, which reflect fractional interests in the company’s newly issued convertible preferred stock, as part of its underwritten public offering, in addition to selling up to $2 billion of shares in an at-the-market offering slated to start no earlier than the third quarter of 2026.

Super Micro stated that a portion of the funds would be used for the “purchase of components to satisfy the AI orders that the Company has received in recent weeks for its advanced AI servers,” disclosing that it has received $39 billion in AI server orders from more than 20 customers in the last few weeks.

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