The S&P 500 and Nasdaq registered record closing highs for a fourth session in a row on Thursday as technology shares extended their recent rally.
Market Snapshot
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 65.11 points, or 0.17%, to 38,647.1, the S&P 500 gained 12.71 points, or 0.23%, at 5,433.74 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 59.12 points, or 0.34%, to 17,667.56.
Market Movers
Tesla - Tesla stock rose 2.9%. Shareholders of the electric-vehicle company will finish voting Thursday on CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package. In a tweet late Wednesday, Musk said shareholders so far were voting to pass his pay package—which awards him about 300 million incentive-laden stock options—and another resolution to move Tesla’s legal home to Texas, by “wide margins.”
Separately, Tesla said it likely will raise the price of its Model 3 in Europe following new tariffs on electric vehicles made in China planned by the EU.
Apple - Apple stock was up 0.6%. Shares in the iPhone maker closed for a third day at a record high. It passed Microsoft as the most valuable company based on market capitalization, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Broadcom - Broadcom stock surged 12.3% after the semiconductor and software company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings topped analysts’ expectations and it announced a 10-for-1 stock split. Broadcom said the results were driven by strong demand for chips related to artificial intelligence and by VMware, which it acquired in late 2023. The company also boosted its fiscal-year revenue guidance.
GameStop - GameStop stock rose 14.4%, extending a wild ride for the videogame retailer after shares fell 17% on Wednesday. The company planned to hold its annual shareholders meeting Thursday, but servers crashed because of overwhelming interest in the livestream.
Signet Jewelers - Signet Jewelers stock was down 14.9% after the jewelry company’s earnings topped estimates but revenue fell in its fiscal first quarter and second-quarter guidance was short of expectations.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment - Dave & Buster’s Entertainment reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $588.1 million, down 1.5% from a year earlier and below Wall Street estimates of $615.9 million. Same-store sales fell a wider-than-expected 5.6%, marking the fifth-straight quarter of declining comparable-store sales. Shares tumbled 10.9%.
Torrid Holdings - Torrid Holdings, the clothing retailer, said improved traffic and “tightly controlling inventory levels” resulted in higher fiscal first-quarter profit. Shares closed up 0.8% after trading sharply lower in the session.
Oxford - Oxford Industries, the maker of the Tommy Bahama and Lilly Pulitzer fashion brands, cut its fiscal-year sales and profit outlook, saying consumers have “become more cautious than originally anticipated.” Shares rose 0.8%.
Generac - Generac stock fell 4.6% to $136.16. Shares of the standby-generator maker were downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Janney Montgomery Scott and the stock’s fair value estimate was raised to $154 from $126.
Kimberly-Clark - Kimberly-Clark stock rose 3.1% to $139.43 after receiving a double upgrade to Buy from Underperform at BofA Securities. Analysts also raised their price target on the maker of Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissue to $160 from $115.
Market News
Tesla Shareholders Approve CEO Musk's $56 Billion Pay, Company's Move to Texas
Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, the electric vehicle-maker said on Thursday, a big thumbs-up to his leadership and an enticement for keeping his focus on his biggest source of wealth.
Shareholders also approved a proposal to move the company's legal home to Texas from Delaware, Tesla said at its annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. They also approved other proposals including the re-election of two board members: Musk's brother Kimbal Musk and James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Shareholders did increase the level of investor control by passing proposals in favor of shortening board terms to one year and lowering voting requirements for proposals to a simple majority, despite board opposition to both.
Onstage at the meeting, Musk described himself as pathologically optimistic. "If I wasn't optimistic this wouldn't exist, this factory wouldn't exist," Musk said to applause. "But I do deliver in the end. That's the important thing."
Roaring Kitty Nearly Doubles GameStop Holdings to 9 Million Shares, Reddit Post Shows
Keith Gill, the stock influencer known as Roaring Kitty, updated his holding of GameStop on Thursday to show he now owns 9 million shares of the company, up from 5 million at the start of the week.
Gill's update, posted on Reddit after the close of trading, showed the value of his position at $262.1 million. That is 2.1% of GameStop's 426 million outstanding shares, according to a recent regulatory filing.
The update also showed he no longer holds the 120,000 June 21, $20 strike call options he had disclosed in his last update.
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