On July 9, Rackspace Technology fell 10.49% in regular trading, trading at $4.591/share, with turnover of $74.33 million. The decline was triggered by the company's preliminary Q2 fiscal results, which significantly missed analyst expectations.
Rackspace disclosed that it expects a Q2 adjusted loss of between $0.08 and $0.11 per share, widening substantially from a loss of $0.06 in the year-ago period. Two analysts polled by FactSet had expected a loss of approximately $0.06, making the guidance a significant downside miss. Revenue is also expected to decline. The company simultaneously announced an AI growth acceleration strategy, a partnership with Palantir for regulated enterprise AI frameworks, and plans to scale AI compute capacity to 15MW by end of 2027 and 30MW by end of 2028.
The stock had previously rallied over 30% following the signing of a definitive 30MW AI compute deployment agreement with AMD, and had been in a multi-day rebound from oversold levels before this earnings warning interrupted the recovery. Sector peers CoreWeave rose 3.78% and Applied Digital gained 4.29%, highlighting Rackspace's divergence from broader sector strength.
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