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The market is grading on execution this morning, and the failures are brutal. A rare disease biotech is losing nearly half its value on a late-stage trial miss, and a data storage name is sliding on a forward-looking metric that came in a hair light.

On the other side, software is having its best day in months, led by a data cloud name that beat and raised hard enough to lift its entire sector. A cybersecurity IPO is finally getting rewarded for a stronger outlook, and a pet retailer and a power infrastructure builder are both being paid for clean beats.

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Snowflake (SNOW): +20%

The data cloud name is ripping after a quarter that cleared the bar on both lines, paired with a raised full-year product revenue outlook. The move is big enough to drag the rest of software along with it. After a year of the market questioning whether AI eats software, this is the kind of print bulls have been waiting for.

Petco (WOOF): +6%

The pet retailer is jumping after profitability came in well ahead of expectations, and the beat holds up even after stripping out a one-time tariff benefit. That distinction matters: the market is paying for a margin improvement that looks earned, not gifted.

Netskope (NTSK): +4%

The cybersecurity name is popping after guiding full-year revenue above what the Street had penciled in, with a narrower expected loss to match. For a recent IPO that has spent most of its public life under pressure, an outlook that beats is exactly the reset the stock needed.

Argan (AGX): +2%

The engineering and construction firm is climbing after a quarter that blew past estimates on both earnings and revenue. Argan builds power infrastructure, and a beat of this size reads as another data point that the buildout behind the grid is running hot.

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE): -44%

The rare disease biotech is getting cut nearly in half after its Phase 3 trial for an Angelman syndrome treatment missed its primary endpoint. Management called the result disappointing, said it will reevaluate the program, and announced significant cost cuts. When a lead asset stumbles at the final hurdle, the market reprices the whole pipeline at once.

NetApp (NTAP): -3%

The data infrastructure company is sliding after deferred revenue came in a hair below consensus, even as gross margin beat. In an AI storage trade this crowded, a slight miss on a forward-looking metric is enough to send holders for the exit.

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Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ)

The rental car company is back in the Reddit crosshairs as r/wallstreetbets traders revive the short-squeeze thesis that lit the stock up after its August earnings beat. The setup they keep pointing to is short interest above 30% of the float on a stock trading near $2.

The fundamentals are messier than the meme: shares are down roughly 50% this year, Susquehanna just cut its price target to $2.50 with a Neutral rating, and a securities class action lead-plaintiff deadline lands on September 22. Whether this turns into another squeeze or just another round of chatter may depend on whether Labor Day travel demand shows up in the next set of numbers.

✌️That’s it for today.