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A Travel Tech Name Surges 18% Before the Bell

AI is reshaping the losers list today. A single announcement about memory efficiency from one of the biggest players in tech sent an entire sector tumbling, dragging chipmakers and adjacent names down before the bell. That kind of ripple effect is a reminder of how quickly a thesis can shift when the underlying demand assumption gets challenged.

On the other side, companies that beat and raised are getting rewarded cleanly. Guidance that clears the bar is the story, not the quarter itself. Meanwhile, names tied to geopolitical uncertainty are taking collateral damage, whether from the metals market, or the ongoing cost pressures of operating across conflict zones.

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🚀 Pre-Market Movers

The Biggest Gainers, Ranked

Kodiak Sciences (KOD): +50%

The biotech is surging on late-stage trial data for its experimental drug targeting diabetic retinopathy, a common and serious complication of diabetes that can lead to vision loss. Strong efficacy results from a Phase 3 trial are exactly the kind of catalyst that re-rates a clinical-stage company overnight, and that's what's happening here.

Navan (NAVN): +18%

The travel tech company is soaring after telling investors to expect a strong 2027, with full-year revenue guidance that came in well ahead of what the Street was modeling. A beat on fourth-quarter earnings added to the momentum.

Equitable Holdings (EQH): +2%

Equitable Holdings and Corebridge Financial are merging in an all-stock deal that would value the combined business at $22 billion. Insurance consolidation at this scale tends to generate real cost and distribution synergies, and the market is treating this one as a credible combination.

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The Biggest Losers, Ranked

MillerKnoll (MLKN): -20%

The office furniture maker is getting punished on a combination of weaker earnings and a warning about its future outlook. The conflict in the Middle East is expected to shave millions off fourth-quarter results, as minimal expected shipments to the region and elevated logistics costs pile up. When a company misses on execution and then tells investors the next quarter will be worse, the market doesn't give the benefit of the doubt.

Worthington Steel (WS): -15%

The steel processor reported a sharp earnings decline from the year-ago period, and there was little in the report to explain away the miss. In an environment where investors are already nervous about industrial demand, a clean disappointment like this one doesn't get a pass.

Qualcomm (QCOM): -2%

Google's new AI model claims to reduce the amount of memory required to run large language models, and that is not welcome news for the memory chip complex. Bernstein downgraded the chipmaker to market perform from outperform, pointing to memory headwinds hitting the broader chip sector. When an analyst cuts his rating, the stock pays for it.

Adobe (ADBE): -1.4%

William Blair stepped down to market perform from outperform, and the reasoning is blunt: the firm says it's genuinely unclear at this point whether Adobe is an AI winner or an AI casualty. That kind of uncertainty from a longtime bull is rarely a good sign.

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👀 What We’re Watching

Here’s One Ticker That’s Trending Today

Tesla (TSLA)

The Q1 delivery report is coming, and retail traders across Reddit are bracing for it. Discussion on r/stocks, r/wallstreetbets, and r/investing has been running hot around whether Tesla will post a third consecutive year of delivery declines, with prediction markets currently pricing roughly a 63% probability that the company delivers fewer than 350,000 vehicles for the quarter.

UBS cut its delivery estimate to around 345,000 units last week, below the Street consensus, citing soft demand in the U.S. and Europe. The number drops in early April, and for a stock already down sharply year-to-date, a miss could accelerate the narrative that the core automotive business is shrinking while investors wait on autonomous and robotics bets that have yet to arrive. Whether the data lands as a relief or a confirmation of the bear case could set the tone for the stock heading into spring.

✌️That’s it for today.

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