Stock futures were rising Thursday on the first trading day of 2025 following a stellar 2024 in which the S&P 500 rose 23% and posted its second-straight yearly gain of more than 20%.

These stocks were poised to make moves Thursday:

Tesla Motors was up 1.3% in premarket trading ahead of fourth-quarter deliveries from the electric-vehicle maker. Tesla has to deliver about 515,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter for its full-year total to eclipse the 1.81 million cars the company shipped in 2023. The company delivered 484,507 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2023, its best quarter ever. Tesla shares closed out 2024 up nearly 63%, with most of the gains coming after Donald Trump's victory in the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said a Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday that killed one person and left at least seven others injured was "unrelated to the vehicle itself." Musk added that "all vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion."

Crypto shares jumped as Bitcoin breaks $96,000, with MicroStrategy jumping 6%, MARA Holdings, Coinbase Global, Inc. and Riot Platforms rising Over 4%.

Quantum computing stock shined in premarket trading. Sealsq jumped 20%; Rigetti Computing rose 6%; D-Wave Systems Inc. rose 5%; Quantum Computing rose 3%.

Palantir Technologies Inc. rose 1.2% in premarket trading. The software company finished 2024 as the top stock in the S&P 500, rising 340% as it leaned heavily into artificial intelligence. Vistra, the electricity and power-generation company, rose 258% last year, making it the second-best performer in the index. Rounding out the top three was Nvidia, the leading maker of AI chips, which jumped 171%. Vistra rose 1.2% in premarket trading and NVIDIA was up 1%.

Walgreens Boots Alliance finished 2024 as the worst stock in the S&P 500 after falling 64%. Walgreens has struggled for years and announced plans to close 1,200 stores in the fall. The stock received a boost in mid-December following a report that said private-equity firm Sycamore Partners was interested in buying the pharmacy chain. Walgreens was rising 0.6% in premarket trading.

U.S.-listed shares of NIO Inc. were up 1% after the Chinese electric-vehicle maker said its total vehicle sales in December rose 73% to 31,138 units, boosting total sales in 2024 by 39% to 221,970 units. Li Auto was up 0.6% after sales in December jumped to a record 58,513 vehicles, pushing full-year sales to 500,508. XPeng declined 1.7% even as sales in December surged 82% to 36,695. BYD, China's top domestic EV maker, sold 514,809 vehicles in December, boosting 2024 sales by 41% to 4.3 million vehicles.

SoFi Technologies Inc. declined 2.2% after analysts at Keefe Bruyette downgraded shares of the fintech company to Underperform from Market Perform but raised their price target to $8. from $7. The stock's valuation has "become overstretched across a wide matrix of multiples," even if Sofi is successful at achieving its "ambitious" long-term targets," the analysts said, according to the Fly. The stock gained more than 50% last year.