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Traders might not be too impressed by Nvidia’s earnings report, but Wall Street analysts sure are

A largely ho-hum set of second-quarter results from Nvidia, with modest top- and bottom-line beats and guidance slightly ahead of expectations, isn’t lifting the shares today.

But the numbers were enough to fortify Wall Street’s confidence in where the stock is headed: higher.

The sell side is continuing its pre-earnings trend of big boosts to Nvidia price targets with even more of the same. The shops increasing their outlook for how high the chip designer’s stock can climb include:

  • to $235 from $220 at Bank of America

  • to $230 from $215 at KeyBanc

  • to $228 from $210 at Truist

  • to $225 from $185 at Bernstein

  • to $220 from $190 at Benchmark

  • to $215 from $170 at JPMorgan

  • to $215 from $200 at Rosenblatt

  • to $210 from $206 at Morgan Stanley

  • to $210 from $190 at Citi

  • to $205 from $200 at Jefferies

  • to $180 from $155 at Deutsche Bank

The Street is overwhelmingly in the bull camp on Nvidia, with 73 “buy” ratings, seven with “hold,” and just one “sell” rating among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Over the past month, the average price target is up nearly 13%, its fastest growth since the period following Nvidia’s fiscal Q3 2025 report last November.

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Low-cost airlines climb amid report that Spirit Airlines could liquidate as soon as this week

Shares of low-cost US airlines Frontier and JetBlue are up more than 3% in premarket trading following a Wednesday evening report that rival Spirit Airlines could liquidate as early as this week.

Spirit, which has made efforts to emerge from its bankruptcy filed in August, has reportedly been pummeled by elevated jet fuel prices.

JetBlue reached a deal to acquire Spirit in 2022, but it was blocked in 2024 on antitrust grounds. Bloomberg reported that Frontier had been in talks to merge with Spirit in December.

Jet fuel prices have squeezed the industry since the days leading up to the war in Iran. This month, most major US carriers hiked their bag fees in an attempt to offset some of the cost.

Lower oil prices are also moderately boosting airline stocks on Thursday morning. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down about 3% as of 8:30 a.m. ET.

JetBlue reached a deal to acquire Spirit in 2022, but it was blocked in 2024 on antitrust grounds. Bloomberg reported that Frontier had been in talks to merge with Spirit in December.

Jet fuel prices have squeezed the industry since the days leading up to the war in Iran. This month, most major US carriers hiked their bag fees in an attempt to offset some of the cost.

Lower oil prices are also moderately boosting airline stocks on Thursday morning. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down about 3% as of 8:30 a.m. ET.

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Allbirds traded more than JPMorgan and Exxon Mobil yesterday

After a surprising announcement that the tech-bro shoemaker would be pivoting to AI on Wednesday, shares of Allbirds were flying high — soaring nearly 600% by the end of the day in record trading volume.

This was, for many reasons, completely insane.

Flipping the BIRD

Before the latest pop, Allbirds had a miniscule market cap of some ~$22 million. Yesterday, some $3.8 billion changed hands in BIRD — with the company's market cap ending the session at a still-small $148 million.

That means that the company turned over more than 25x its market cap in trading volume. Indeed, there were no other stocks with a market cap less than $1 billion that traded more than $1 billion yesterday — something of an outlier, to say the least.

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Two of the stocks that Allbirds out-traded were none other than the world's largest bank (JPMorgan), and America's largest oil company (Exxon Mobil), which only turned over $3 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively. And those weren't even particularly low-volume days for those two corporate giants — Allbirds' insane activity was way ahead of the average of the last 120 days for each.

Sole searching

Although this was perhaps more of a meme-stock story than an AI story, those two worlds are becoming to overlap, as retail traders have bought up anything adjacent to AI — particularly in the last couple of weeks as risk-on assets have ripped higher since geopolitical risks have (seemingly) abated and indices are back to all-time highs.

Of course, we've seen this movie before: remember Algorhythm Holdings, a former karaoke maker turned AI trucking logistics company, which obliterated the freight industry only a few months ago? Then there was the Long Island Iced Tea Corp., which, naturally, got into the blockchain.

Allbirds’ latest pivot, with a “long-term vision to become a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-native cloud solutions provider” which will be funded with its new $50 million convertible financing facility, is unlikely to concern neocloud leaders like CoreWeave, which is planning to spend $30 billion in 2026.

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Hims jumps after RFK Jr. announces FDA may loosen regulations for 12 peptides

Hims & Hers rose more than 13% on Wednesday and continued to rise in premarket trading on Thursday after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the Food and Drug Administration may ease restrictions on 12 peptides.

The move would allow compounding pharmacies to dispense the list of peptides, which have grown in popularity but are currently available only through suppliers who sell them for research purposes.

Hims and other consumer health companies have positioned themselves to begin selling peptides after getting the FDA nod.

Hims and other consumer health companies have positioned themselves to begin selling peptides after getting the FDA nod.

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