Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these Top Fives, as compiled by the editors of The Fly.
1. STOCK NEWS:
- Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) SPAC confirmed that it is in talks with Vivendi (VIVHY) to acquire 10% of the outstanding ordinary shares of Universal Music Group, or UMG, for approximately $4B [more]
- Facebook (FB) has suspended former President Donald Trump from its platform for two years, adding that content by politicians will not receive special treatment [more]
- Square (SQ) considering making hardware wallet for bitcoin, CEO Jack Dorsey says [more]
- AMC Entertainment's (AMC) directors recommending increase in company's share capital by 25M in 2022 [more]
- Staples proposed to acquire ODP Corporation's (ODP) consumer business for $1B [more]
2. WALL STREET CALLS:
- BofA moves to No Rating on Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) amid "meme mania," terminates GameStop (GME) coverage [more]
- Stifel upgrades Northrop Grumman (NOC) to Buy amid "still-elevated" global threats [more]
- BofA upgrades Wells Fargo (WFC) to Buy amid "multi-year transformation" [more]
- Workhorse Group (WKHS) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Cowen [more]
- Windtree Therapeutics (WINT) initiated with an Outperform rating, $8 price target at Oppenheimer [more]
3. AROUND THE WEB:
- Mudrick Capital no longer owns debt or equity in AMC Entertainment (AMC), CNBC says [more]
- Kerrisdale reveals short position in Virgin Galactic (SPCE) [more]
- Bristol-Myers (BMY) is being sued for $6.4B for allegedly delaying efforts to win FDA approval for Breyanzi [more]
- ViacomCBS' (VIAC) Paramount Plus plans to roll out a $5 per month plan next week, The Verge reports [more]
- Walmart (WMT) is expanding its healthcare push to 16 more states, according to Insider [more]
4. MOVERS:
- Senseonics (SENS) gains after releasing results of its PROMISE study evaluating 180 day Eversense CGM System [more]
- Targa Resources (TRGP) rises after news it will replace CoreLogic (CLGX) in S&P 400 at open on June 9 [more]
- Fate Therapeutics (FATE) higher after reporting interim data from its Phase 1 study of FT516 [more]
- Comstock Resources (CRK) falls after a 9M share block trade priced at $5.80 [more]
- NGL Energy Partners (NGL) drops after reporting quarterly results [more]
5. EARNINGS:
- Asana (ASAN) rises after reporting upbeat quarterly results [more]
- Broadcom (AVGO) higher after reporting better than expected Q2 results [more]
- Five Below (FIVE) gains after providing upbeat Q2 revenue guidance [more]
- Lululemon (LULU) up after reporting better than expected quarterly results [more]
- PagerDuty (PD) slips after Q1 report, FY22 guidance [more]
INDEXES:
The Dow rose 179.35, or 0.52%, to 34,756.39, the Nasdaq gained 199.98, or 1.47%, to 13,814.49, and the S&P 500 advanced 37.04, or 0.88%, to 4,229.89.