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Investing.com -- DraftKings Inc (NASDAQ:DKNG) reported first quarter results that exceeded profit expectations but maintained full-year guidance below analyst estimates, sending shares down 1.9% in after-hours trading Thursday.

↘️ Airbnb (ABNB): The short-term rental company raised its full-year outlook, as strong global travel demand helped offset an influx in cancellations around the Iran war. The stock slipped about 1.7% afterhours.

Investing.com -- Block Inc (NYSE:XYZ) reported first-quarter results that exceeded profit expectations, sending shares up 8.4% in after-hours trading Thursday as the company raised its full-year outlook.

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Thompson will give an overview of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.’s Q1 results, and Stefan will provide financial details and the outlook for 2026. Before we begin, I would like to remind you to review Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.’s Safe Harbor statement. On today's call, management will make forward-looking statements.

Investing.com -- Warner Music Group Corp. (NASDAQ:WMG) reported second-quarter results that exceeded analyst expectations, with shares climbing 3.9% in after-hours trading Thursday following the announcement of a film partnership with Paramount Pictures.

Guidance upgrades are generally among the most bullish announcements a company can make, signaling that the outlook is even better than previously expected.

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) opened 2026 with first-quarter results that highlighted faster growth in cloud infrastructure services and continued demand for its security portfolio, alongside a major new long-term customer commitment tied to AI infrastructure. Landmark cloud deal underscores AI

Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) executives told investors on the company’s fiscal third-quarter 2026 earnings call that they are seeing stable credit performance and an unusually supportive funding environment, while continuing to push product initiatives such as the Affirm Card, app-based shopping features, a

Axcelis Technologies (NASDAQ:ACLS) reported first-quarter 2026 results that came in “slightly above our expectations,” according to President and CEO Russell Low, as the company pointed to strength in its customer support and installed base business and a meaningful uptick in memory demand. The com

Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB) executives said the company started 2026 with momentum across demand, product improvements, and international expansion, while acknowledging an approximate 100 basis point headwind to nights and seats booked from conflict in the Middle East. First-quarter results and demand tre

Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) reported first-quarter 2026 results that management said were in line with expectations, citing “robust demand” across its data center and CATV businesses and continued progress expanding manufacturing capacity. Founder, Chairman and CEO Dr. Thompson Lin said th

Scott H. Keeney: Q1 represented an exceptional quarter for nLIGHT, Inc. with total revenue, gross margin, and adjusted EBITDA comfortably beating our expectations. Product gross margins were a record 44%, an increase from 33% in the same quarter a year ago, and our adjusted EBITDA was a record $14 million in the quarter. The expansion in our gross margins and the record adjusted EBITDA demonstrate the leverage that is inherent in our model and reinforces our commitment to growing the business profitably.

Investing.com -- MercadoLibre Inc (NASDAQ:MELI) reported first quarter results that missed earnings expectations despite strong revenue growth, sending shares down 7.2% in after-hours trading Thursday.

Investing.com -- Airbnb Inc (NASDAQ:ABNB) reported first quarter results that beat revenue expectations but fell short on earnings, as the home-sharing platform navigated geopolitical headwinds while posting strong top-line growth.

Most of us learned to size up companies the same way. Revenue, earnings, the line on a chart that goes up and to the right. That mental shortcut has served retail investors fine for a generation. It just stopped working. The biggest piece of the U.S. stock market is now a single chipmaker whose ...

Investing.com -- Opendoor Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:OPEN) reported a wider-than-expected loss for the first quarter despite revenue exceeding analyst estimates, sending shares down 2.1% in after-hours trading Thursday.

Energy drink company Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) reported Q1 CY2026 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 26.9% year on year to $2.35 billion. Its GAAP profit of $0.58 per share was 10.2% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

The financial sector has been weak while the rest of the market rallies — something that happened before the last big bear markets.

SK Hynix is being aggressively courted by big global tech firms with offers to invest in its new production lines and fund purchases of pricey manufacturing tools as they rush to secure memory chips, people familiar with the matter said. The offers, unprecedented in ‌the global memory chip industry, underscore the severity of the component's scarcity around the world, as chipmakers struggle to keep pace with surging demand amid an artificial intelligence boom. ‌Memory chips are critical parts in AI data centers, smartphones, PCs and other areas. The firm's customers have been proposing a range of offers to the South Korean chipmaker, including investing in dedicated memory production lines, six people said.

Nvidia will invest up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN, as part ‌of a broader deal to deploy up to ‌5 gigawatts of infrastructure to keep up with soaring artificial intelligence ​demand. The tie-up, announced on Thursday, underscores the hunger for computing power amid surging adoption of AI, as frontier model developers and Big Tech firms funnel billions to secure ‌capacity. • Shares of ⁠IREN were up around 9% in extended trading.

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Rocket Companies (RKT) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended March 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

The number of new addresses appearing on the XRP network has dropped from 18,000 a day in December to 2,700 a day on May 7, as per Glassnode data. The figure hitting an 18-month low represents a decline of 85% during the period. Monthly active XRP supply has also sunk from 7.45 ...

Those who live and die by the staying power of the AI boom might soon have a pure-play way to gain exposure to the data center category. Last week, Blackstone filed to debut a brand new data center REIT, the Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust ($BXDC). The fresh listing will open up the private ...

Block (XYZ) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +25.68% and -0.81%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

MercadoLibre (MELI) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -6.26% and +4.85%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Innodata Inc (INOD) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +229.41% and +17.82%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

The energy-drink maker said international sales were up almost 45% for the quarter at over $1 billion, and now make up about 45% of its total revenue.