Stocks open Wednesday in the red
DoubleVerify tumbles 38% after cutting Q2 and full-year guidance
DoubleVerify Holdings, a digital advertising measurement company with a $5.5 billion market value (as of Tuesday anyway), is down 38% premarket Wednesday after cutting its second-quarter and full year revenue and adjusted EBITDA forecasts.
“We are adjusting our full-year 2024 guidance ranges to 17% revenue growth, and 31% adjusted EBITDA margins at the midpoints primarily due to uneven spending patterns among select large advertisers,” DoubleVerify said in reporting its latest quarter’s results postmarket Tuesday.
Wells, Keybanc and Capital One all downgraded DoubleVerify in reaction.
DoubleVerify is trading near $19 in premarket trading, down from $30.57 at Tuesday’s close, showing the greatest percentage decline of any stock in the S&P 1500 Index, comprised of the S&P 500, MidCap 400 and SmallCap 600.
— Scott Schnipper
Wednesday’s biggest premarket movers include Lyft, Uber, Rivian and more
Here are the stocks making headlines before the bell:
- Lyft – Shares of the ride-hailing company rose 5% after first-quarter results showed faster-than-expected growth. Lyft reported $1.28 billion in revenue, above the StreetAccount consensus of $1.16 billion. Total bookings also topped expectations.
- Uber Technologies — The ride-hailing giant slid 7% after reporting mixed first-quarter results. The company’s overall revenue exceeded expectations, coming in at $10.13 billion versus an LSEG estimate of $10.11 billion. Booking revenue, however, totaled $37.65 billion. That’s below a StreetAccount forecast of $37.93 billion.
- Reddit – The social media company rose 11% after its first quarterly report beat expectations. Reddit reported a loss of $8.19 per share on $243 million of revenue, while FactSet analysts were expecting a loss of $8.75 per share on $214 million of revenue.
For the full list, read here.
— Jesse Pound
Intel shares dip after chipmaker lowers guidance on U.S. Commerce Department notice
Shares of Intel slid 2.6% after the chipmaker updated its second-quarter outlook on a U.S. Commerce Department notice from Tuesday that said it was revoking certain licenses for exports of consumer-related items to a customer in China.
Intel said it expects revenue to come out below the midpoint of its original range of $12.5 billion to $13.5 billion, according to a regulatory filing. This is the second time the company has lowered its quarterly guidance in less than two weeks, as the company previously lowered its range on April 25, per Bespoke Investment Group.
For the full year, Intel still expects its revenue and earnings per share to grow year-over-year compared to 2023, according to FactSet.
— Jesse Pound
Uber shares fall on weaker-than-expected bookings revenue
Uber slid 6% after the ride-hailing giant reported mixed first-quarter results.
The company’s overall revenue exceeded expectations, coming in at $10.13 billion versus an LSEG estimate of $10.11 billion. Booking revenue, however, totaled $37.65 billion. That’s below a StreetAccount forecast of $37.93 billion.
UBER falls
European markets slightly higher
European markets were slightly higher in early deals Wednesday, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 index trading up 0.3%.
The U.K.’s FTSE 100 index was 0.4% higher at 8,346, Germany’s DAX up 0.5% at 18,527, France’s CAC 0.9% higher at 8,150 and Italy’s FTSE MIB down 0.2% at 34,161.
UOB first-quarter net profit falls less than expected, helped by fee income
Singapore’s United Overseas Bank posted a first-quarter net profit of 1.47 billion Singapore dollars ($1.08 billion), a 2% fall compared to the same period last year. This however, beat the mean estimate of SG$1.43 billion from analysts polled by LSEG.
Net interest income, a key profitability indicator, eased to 2%, mainly due to lower net interest margins compared with a year ago.
However, UOB highlighted that net fee income grew 5% year over year to SG$580 million, driven by loan-related, wealth management and credit card fees.
The bank, which is Southeast Asia’s third largest, also said its integration with Citigroup’s businesses was “progressing well,” and said it will complete the integration in Vietnam in 2025.
Last year, UOB acquired Citi’s consumer businesses in four ASEAN markets.
Nintendo shares slide after results and announcement of new Switch console
Shares of Japanese video game company Nintendo slipped almost 4% after the company announced its fourth-quarter results. The company will also announce the successor to its flagship Switch console this fiscal year, according to a Google-translated post on X from the company which quotes Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa.
For the fiscal year ended March 2025, Nintendo forecast net sales of 1.35 trillion yen ($8.72 billion) and net profit of 300 billion yen, representing a 39% year-on-year fall in net profit. That was much lower than what analysts had forecast, according to LSEG estimates.
Nintendo’s fourth-quarter results largely beat analysts expectations, except on revenue. It recorded 277.1 billion Japanese yen in sales versus the 280.6 billion yen expected.
Read the full results story here.
— Lim Hui Jie, Arjun Kharpal
Bears have one real level left to defend, BTIG says
Pessimistic investors essentially have just one key level left before bulls have total control of the stock market, according to BTIG Research.
Bulls are “clearly in control” with the S&P 500 above its downtrend and 50-day moving average, said Jonathan Krinsky, the firm’s chief market technician. Now, market bears have only one number left the keep the broad index below: a 76.4% retracement of the S&P 500’s recent decline, which in this case sits around 5,191.
“Bulls clearly have the ball here,” Krinsky wrote to clients.
— Alex Harring
Coffee customers flocking to Dutch Bros shops
Dutch Bros shares are soaring on strong Q1 results. Same-store sales jumped 10% – the largest rise since the fourth quarter of 2021. CEO Christine Barone pointed out that the coffee chain saw “a healthy combination of ticket expansion and traffic.” That’s a stark contrast to coffee giant Starbucks, which last week reported a 7% drop in transactions during its latest quarter that sent the stock tumbling.
Dutch Bros also raised its full-year guidance and announced it’s working with restaurant technology firm Olo to bring mobile ordering to the Dutch Bros app. Shares of Olo are spiking higher on the news.
—Kate Rogers, Robert Hum
Stocks making the biggest moves after hours
These are some of the stocks making notable after-hour moves:
- Reddit — The social media stock popped more than 12% following a better-than-expected quarterly earnings in its first report since the company went public.
- Lyft — The ride-share company advanced 6% after first-quarter sales and earnings beat analysts’ estimates.
- Sonos — The audio product maker tumbled more than 3% after reporting a wider loss than Wall Street expected.
See the full list here.
— Alex Harring
Stock futures are little changed
Futures tied to the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 all traded near flat shortly after 6 p.m. ET.
— Alex Harring
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