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A raised forecast is the loudest signal in premarket this morning. A server maker is leading the gainers after lifting its outlook and pulling two hardware rivals up with it. A rocket company’s blowout quarter and a merger tease are giving the space trade a lift, and a card issuer is quietly climbing on steady profit growth.

The losers share a theme: good enough isn’t cutting it. A streaming giant is sliding on a quarter that merely matched expectations, a surgical robotics leader failed to impress, and a diagnostics name is paying for the narrowest of revenue misses.

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Super Micro Computer (SMCI): +13%

The server maker is ripping higher after sharply raising its fiscal first-quarter revenue outlook. The lift is spilling over to rivals Dell Technologies (DELL) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), up 7% and 5%, suggesting investors see Super Micro’s raise as a read on data center demand across the group, not just one company’s quarter.

SpaceX (SPCX): +9%

Elon Musk’s rocket company posted a 161% jump in third-quarter revenue, and Musk stacked a bigger headline on top: SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA) have formed special committees to discuss a merger. Tesla is up 1%, and the blowout is lifting the rest of the space trade, with Firefly Aerospace (FLY) up 4%, AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) up almost 1%, and Rocket Lab (RKLB) up 2%. When the sector’s biggest name grows revenue that fast, investors seem willing to bid up everyone flying in its slipstream.

Capital One Financial (COF): +4%

The lender and credit card issuer is climbing after third-quarter profit rose from a year ago. Steady year-over-year earnings growth is the kind of result investors want from a big consumer lender, and the market is handing it a modest reward.

Netflix (NFLX): -7%

The streaming giant’s third-quarter revenue landed right in line with Wall Street’s expectations, and the stock is sliding anyway. Sales grew on membership gains and the price increase from March, but for a stock priced for upside, simply matching the forecast isn’t giving investors a reason to stay.

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG): -7%

The medical robotics leader is sliding after its third-quarter results failed to impress investors. For a market leader, solid isn’t always enough, and a drop this size says expectations heading into the print were set above what Intuitive delivered.

Danaher Corporation (DHR): -3%

The life sciences and diagnostics company missed revenue estimates by the slimmest of margins, and that sliver is outweighing an earnings beat and a raised full-year profit outlook. The reaction shows where investors’ attention is: top-line growth is the number the market wants, and even a near miss is getting punished.

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Meta Platforms (META)

Meta reports earnings after the bell tonight, and retail traders are split right down the middle. On r/wallstreetbets, the ticker saw a surge in mentions from users in the past day, with “earnings,” “calls,” and “puts” the words most attached to it, while StockTwits bulls are pointing to the company’s new Muse AI agent and bears are bracing for another round of heavier AI spending.

Back in April, Meta raised its 2026 capital spending forecast to as much as $145 billion, and the stock fell more than 6% after hours on the news. Shares now sit roughly 11% below their 52-week high heading into the print, so tonight’s spending guidance could be the moment that either eases those worries or deepens them.

✌️That’s it for today.