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The bell hasn't rung, and the dividing line is already drawn. Everything getting paid this morning either raised its outlook or showed the market where corporate spending is actually landing. Everything getting sold cut a forecast or guided to the low end, no matter how the quarter itself looked.

And the largest move of the morning isn't an earnings story at all. It's a check someone wrote.

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MarketAxess (MKTX): +30%

Trading was halted after Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) agreed to buy the bond-trading platform for $167 a share in cash, valuing it at more than $5 billion and representing a roughly 33% premium to Wednesday's close. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. For a business that has spent years operating as the default plumbing of electronic fixed-income trading, an outright sale is the clearest verdict yet on what that plumbing is worth.

Baxter International (BAX): +14%

The medtech name popped after results came in well ahead of expectations and management raised its full-year guidance for both earnings and revenue growth. Baxter has spent a long stretch being treated as a broken turnaround story, and a quarter this clean forces a rethink of that framing.

Fortinet (FTNT): +12%

Strong second-quarter billings did the heavy lifting, pushing the cybersecurity name past estimates on both lines, and its third-quarter forecast landed comfortably above Wall Street. Billings are the leading indicator investors care about most in security software, which is why this one is getting rewarded rather than merely tolerated.

Microsoft (MSFT): +9%

Revenue topped estimates, and Azure growth of 43% at constant currency ran well ahead of what the street had modeled, with Azure revenue crossing $100 billion for the first time in fiscal 2026. That last detail is the one that matters: the market has been waiting for proof that AI capacity is converting into cloud revenue at scale, and this is the cleanest evidence it has been given.

Teladoc Health (TDOC): -20%

Second-quarter revenue fell short of expectations and the company lowered its full-year revenue guidance, a combination that leaves little room for interpretation. Teladoc has been trying to convince the market it still has a growth engine after the pandemic pull-forward, and cutting the guide argues the other side.

Meta Platforms (META): -10%

Earnings came in well short of estimates, and third-quarter revenue guidance ran to the low end of what analysts had modeled. A single miss is survivable, but pairing it with a soft forward outlook is what turns a bad quarter into a repricing.

Carvana (CVNA): -8%

Full-year earnings guidance came in below Wall Street's expectations, undershooting forecasts from both Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. The online used-car recovery has been priced as a straight line, and a guide that misses the more optimistic models is enough to break that assumption.

Sirius XM (SIRI): -7%

The satellite radio provider missed on earnings. Investors own this one for cash generation off a mature subscriber base, so anything that dents the profit line lands harder than the size of the miss suggests.

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SoFi Technologies (SOFI)

Retail chatter around SoFi has spiked hard this week after the company posted record quarterly revenue, raised its full-year outlook, and then watched the stock fall anyway. WallStreetBets mention volume surged several hundred percent in 24 hours, and the debate on Reddit and StockTwits has settled into one question: if the business keeps accelerating and the stock keeps sinking, which one is wrong?

The bear case circulating among retail traders is specific rather than vague. SoFi needs a meaningfully higher adjusted EBITDA margin in the back half of the year to hit its own full-year target, and its technology platform segment shrank year over year. Traders seem to be watching whether the stock stabilizes here or keeps drifting despite the numbers, which could make the next few sessions more informative than the print itself was.

✌️That’s it for today.