Plug Power surges on no news, heavy volumes

Plug Power is roaring higher in premarket trading on a dearth of news and elevated volumes.

The hydrogen fuel cell company’s stock is up nearly 7% as of 8:15 a.m. ET with about 4.3 million shares traded, putting it in the top 10 for volumes among all US equities.

(Since it’s such a nominally cheap stock, the actual amount of money that’s changed hands trading Plug Power this morning is outside the top 50.)

Over the past month, volumes traded for the entire session were running a little shy of 43 million. Trading one-tenth of that well before the market opens is certainly unusual. There have been four trades in excess of 75,000 shares already — for context, there has not been even a single trade at least that big during the premarket session since August 18, per data from Bloomberg.

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Ford beats revenue estimates in Q4, with weaker-than-expected earnings

The Detroit automaker released its fourth-quarter and full-year results after the bell on Tuesday.

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Robinhood Q4 revenue misses estimates, but earnings beat

Robinhood Markets posted fourth-quarter revenue that fell short of analysts’ estimates, but earnings topped Wall Street’s forecasts.

(Robinhood Markets Inc. is the parent company of Sherwood Media, an independently operated media company subject to certain legal and regulatory restrictions. I own Robinhood stock as part of my compensation.)

The stock, crypto, and options trading platform reported:

Q4 earnings per share of $0.66 vs. analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.63, according to FactSet.
Sales of $1.28 billion vs. expectations of $1.35 billion.
Transaction-based revenue of $776 million vs. expectations of $797.6 million.

Shares of the company were down 5.4% shortly after the report.

Robinhood shares notched gains of 193% and 204% in 2024 and 2025, respectively, though they’ve recently given up some of those gains amid volatility in the crypto markets.

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Lyft gives mixed earnings report, announces $1 billion buyback

Lyft — which has a $6.7 billion market cap — announced that it would buy back up to $1 billion in shares.

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Stocks dip ahead of tomorrow’s delayed jobs report

After weaker-than-expected retail sales, Wall Street awaits tomorrow’s delayed jobs report and Friday’s delayed CPI for clues into the health of the economy.

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The tech sector’s biggest winners and losers are swapping places

It’s bizarro world for the tech sector.

Software stocks, the market’s collective whipping boy in 2026 in light of the presumptive threat of AI disruption, are continuing to recover on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the biggest winners of the AI boom this year — memory stocks, benefiting from intense shortages — are taking their turn in the red.

The iShares Expanded Tech Software ETF’s gains are being led by Datadog, a rare case of a software stock rising after reporting earnings this season, with heavyweights Oracle and ServiceNow outperforming the industry. Figma, which isn’t in this product, is also up double digits.

On the other side of the spectrum, Micron, Sandisk, Seagate Technology Holdings, and Western Digital are selling off.

The seesaw of modern markets often requires that as one group’s fortunes inflect positively after a long drubbing, so too must a high-flyer have its wings clipped.

That is, if you’re a portfolio manager long memory and short software stocks, and enough investors are willing to catch a falling knife and buy the beaten-down group, staying market-neutral and reducing this position would require you to purchase software and dump some memory stocks.

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