S&P Global Ratings on Aug. 21 downgraded Leslie’s Inc. (Nasdaq: LESL) to CCC-, from CCC, retaining a negative outlook, after the company said earlier this month that it has “begun exploring strategic alternatives” with certain stakeholders. S&P believes the alternatives could include an exchange that the agency would consider “distressed.” S&P also downgraded the company’s term loan due March 2028, a constituent of the Morningstar LSTA US Leveraged Loan Index, to CCC-, from CCC. S&P projects a 7
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Nvidia (NVDA) delivered a strong quarter, beating Wall Street expectations and offering a stronger-than-expected outlook. But with the AI trade already priced for near-perfection, even another blowout may not be enough to move investors. Seaport Research Partners senior analyst Jay Goldberg joins Josh Lipton on Asking for a Trend to explain why Nvidia’s impressive results could ultimately be a “nobody is going to care” moment for the stock.

JPMorgan downgraded Intuit stock due to disappointing full-year guidance. The firm also trimmed its price target on INTU shares rather aggressively to $331.

On August 13, 2026, CNBC reported that SK hynix Inc. (NASDAQ:SKHY) is spending $720 billion on what it calls the largest network of memory factories in the world. This buildout is so large that South Korea’s president is urging both SK Hynix and rival Samsung to add capacity even faster under a national plan to […]

Dollar Tree has had a good 2026 compared with a number of other retailers, but it is facing some of the same challenges that have tripped up peers.

During the August 24 Mad Money episode, a caller noted that they bought Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) at a cost basis of $93 per share and asked whether to pyramid down into the position now that the stock has dropped. Jim Cramer responded: Okay, I’ve been wrong on the price of Intel when I started to […]

Mailchimp will be a separate reportable segment starting in fiscal 2027.
IREN Stock Under Pressure Ahead of Earnings Despite $4 Billion Revenue Target

The Wall Street Journal reported on August 14, 2026, that PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is in talks to sell itself to a group including Stripe and private equity firm Advent International after Stripe and Advent’s initial July offer of $60.50 a share was rejected as too low, with the two sides now negotiating a higher […]

The provider of optical packaging and precision manufacturing services reported a notable insider sale as shares fell post-earnings.

TJX beat estimates, raised guidance, and expanded margins, yet the stock shed 11% in a month while its closest rival surged 34% year to date. The split between what the business delivered and what investors did next tells a complicated story about where the risk actually sits.

Palantir just staged one of the sharpest recoveries in enterprise software, but the stock still sits below where the year began and trades at a valuation that makes most analysts nervous. The math on what to do next is trickier than it looks.

Trade Desk stock has spent a year bleeding out while a direct competitor surged nearly 50%, and the two trajectories together reveal something specific about where the sell decision actually stands.
Tesla’s China team told Tencent Tech that the Shanghai data center facility is running normally and that related hiring is accelerating, CNEVPost reported.

Insider disposed of shares at $35.29 each through a non-discretionary transaction tied to restricted stock unit vesting, maintaining an 83,882-share direct stake worth $3.2 million.

Nuclear stocks are reversing hard today even as NuScale announced a real operational win, and the gap between improving fundamentals and falling share prices points to something more unsettling happening beneath the surface.
Healthcare stocks declined Wednesday afternoon, with the NYSE Healthcare Index falling 1.1% and the

The medical device specialist was the victim of a cyberattack.

The insider disposed of roughly $160,000 in equity as Symbotic's stock fell 13% over the trailing 12 months.

Sean Jack Buckley executed a pre-planned sale under Rule 10b5-1, reducing his direct stake by 5% while retaining 87,213 shares worth $3.38 million.

Lucid unveiled what it calls America's most powerful three-row crossover on the same day its stock extended a brutal year-to-date slide, and investors appear to be reading the fine print of today's announcements very differently than management intended.

DKS misses Q2 earnings estimates as Foot Locker weakness, promotional pressure and higher costs force a sharp cut to its fiscal 2026 outlook.

Shares of medical-device maker Boston Scientific are down 4.5% Wednesday on concerns that a cyber-attack against the company could hurt near-term revenue. The incident, which Boston Scientific said it detected Tuesday, caused a network outage and disruption to operations, including the ability to process and ship orders, a spokeswoman said. Evercore ISI analysts noted that a similar cyberattack against medical-device maker Stryker in March took about three weeks for the company to recover from.

Teng exercised 1,000 stock options before the sale under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan established in February, retaining 138,049 shares worth $44 million.

Many investors say this was their biggest mistake.
Intuit Shares Tumble as 2027 Outlook Falls Well Below Expectations


