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Earnings season is sorting winners from losers in real time this morning, and the spread is wide. A long-suffering home goods retailer is staging one of the biggest premarket moves in months, while a streaming name that has run almost entirely on its profitability story is getting punished for guiding margins lower.

The bigger story, though, is brewing inside the AI infrastructure trade. A new report questioning whether one of the biggest AI customers can actually fund its own ambitions is rippling through the names that have ridden that spending wave the hardest. When the demand side of the AI thesis gets challenged, even by a single headline, the supply side feels it.

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Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY): +28.9%

The home goods retailer turned in higher revenue and a narrower-than-expected loss in its Q1 report. After years of being the punchline of retail, a clean beat is enough to send the stock screaming higher.

Sanmina (SANM): +7.9%

The electronics manufacturer expects next quarter to be better than what the market was expecting and also announced a $600 million buyback. Strong outlook plus returning cash to shareholders is a combination investors usually like, so the stock tends to get bought quickly.

LendingClub (LC): +7.5%

The digital marketplace bank topped expectations on revenue, earnings, and net interest margin. In a stretch where investors are nervous about consumer credit, a fintech lender showing margin expansion is exactly the signal the market wanted.

General Motors (GM): +1.4%

GM blew past first-quarter earnings expectations and raised full-year guidance. In an industry where every legacy automaker is being asked to defend its margin profile, beating and raising is the cleanest possible answer.

Rambus (RMBS): -17.3%

The chip stock reported operating margins well below where they sat a year ago. In a sector where investors are paying premium multiples, any sign of margin slippage gets punished hard.

Spotify (SPOT): -11.8%

Spotify guided current-quarter operating income below what the street was looking for. Revenue was fine, but in a name that has run on the profitability story, soft margin guidance is the kind of crack that triggers a fast repricing.

Oracle (ORCL): -6.6%

Oracle is sliding on a Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI has missed its own user and revenue targets, raising questions about whether the company can sustain its enormous AI spending commitments. That's bad news for the entire AI infrastructure trade. NVIDIA and AMD are also lower on the same story.

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SoFi Technologies (SOFI) - 1.6% (Pre-Market)

SoFi reports first-quarter earnings tomorrow morning, and chatter across r/wallstreetbets and StockTwits has been building all week around two intertwined narratives: a possible short squeeze setup and a potential bounce-back catalyst for a stock that's down nearly 29% year-to-date. Retail traders are pointing to the company's four-for-four earnings beat track record in 2025 as a reason to position bullish into the print.

The hangover from a Muddy Waters short-seller report earlier this year still lingers, and Wall Street has a Hold consensus heading in. This print could either confirm the bear case or hand bulls the cleanest counterpoint they've had in months.

✌️That’s it for today.