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SoFi jumps on Q1 beat and raise

The midcap fintech firm had been a laggard this year, down 14% through yesterday’s close, after rising more than 50% in 2024.

Matt Phillips

SoFi Technologies is up in the premarket session after posting a good old-fashioned beat and raise that helped allay concerns over how rising interest rates and falling consumer sentiment would register in the fintech firm’s financials.

Net revenue of $771 million, up 20% year over year, topped expectations of $739 million. And non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.06 doubled the consensus call for $0.03 a share. The company was also GAAP-profitable — that is, using the stricter accounting rules that often don’t figure in the Wall Street estimates — for the sixth consecutive quarter. Prior to that, the company was money losing, by GAAP standards, for six years straight.

SoFi also hiked it financial guidance as well, raising full-year GAAP profit guidance to between $320 million and $325 million in 2025, as well as raising guidance for a range of other business metrics.

If the shares hold on to their healthy premarket gains Tuesday, it will add to the recent romp that pushed them up 20% over the last seven sessions.

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SpaceX gets a wave of bullish ratings from Wall Street analysts

SpaceX received more than a dozen positive analyst calls on Tuesday — including from major Wall Street banks — as they initiate coverage on Elon Musk’s space and AI company.

SpaceX went public on June 12 at a $2.2 trillion valuation, the largest debut in history. While the company hasn’t yet posted a profit, it seems to have convinced Wall Street that it will get there and grow its valuation on the way.

Of the at least 17 analysts that gave a rating on Tuesday, all but one gave it a “buy” or “outperform” rating. MoffettNathanson was "neutral."

The ratings come as SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 index, a benchmark tech-heavy basket of companies that underpins millions of portfolios. The inclusion adds built-in demand for the stock from index funds and ETFs.

Still, SpaceX fell more than 5% on Tuesday amid a broader sell-off, and is currently effectively flat from its opening price of $150 a share.

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Nike sinks to lowest level since 2014 after warning of “challenged” sales environment in Q4 report

Did Nike do it?

Investors had a mixed reaction after the global sports apparel company reported its fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday after the bell. Shares initially rose 5% as Nike beat out Wall Street expectations amid a hefty tariff refund bonus. However, the stock then sank to its lowest level since August 2014 in postmarket trading.

Here are the Q4 numbers:

  • Revenue of $11.0 billion (estimate: $10.8 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $0.20 (estimate: $0.12).

Ahead of this report, Nike warned that results would be flattered by a one-time tariff refund (now estimated at roughly $0.52 per share for the bottom line). That gave the company an extra cushion in snapping its streak of seven quarters of year-over-year profit declines.

Over the past year, the company had been punished by tariffs on imported goods, stagnant consumer spending, and increasing competition from other footwear brands like New Balance, Adidas, and Hoka.

Outgoing CFO Matthew Friend deemed it an “increasingly challenging operating environment, where sell-through remains challenged.”

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