This week, which stocks lagged or dragged? Weekly Winners column keeps up with market trends, helping Tigers sort out the week's hottest sectors, stock winners and important news.
Below are top 10 S&P 500 stock gainers for the week ended Feb. 14:
Super Micro Computer jumped 32.1% this week after giving an aggressive long-term revenue outlook and saying it “believes” it will meet a Nasdaq Inc. deadline to file audited financial results.
Sales will be $40 billion in the fiscal year ending in June 2026, the company said Tuesday in a statement, which also provided preliminary fiscal second-quarter results. Analysts, on average, estimated $30.7 billion for fiscal 2026, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
San Jose, California-based Super Micro has seen an explosion in demand for servers containing high-powered chips needed to run artificial intelligence workloads. Last week, the company said it had reached full production availability for products containing Nvidia Corp.’s new Blackwell B200 chips.
Intel shares jumped 23.6% this week on speculation of a deal with TSMC. Intel could collaborate with TSMC to potentially spin off its foundry business into a new U.S.-based chipmaking entity, Baird analysts said.
On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration wants artificial intelligence chips to be designed and manufactured domestically.
Additionally, the release of preliminary benchmarks for its new Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, which showed promising performance against competitors.
CVS Health shares surged 21.9% this week after the health insurance and pharmacy giant reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.
CVS reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.19 on revenue of $97.71 billion. Analysts polled by Visible Alpha expected adjusted EPS of $0.91 on revenue of $96.89 billion.1
Looking ahead to 2025, CVS said it expects adjusted EPS between $5.75 to $6.00, up from the $5.42 it registered in 2024. Analysts were looking for $5.90.
Airbnb shares jumped 19.6% this week as the vacation home rentals company beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter results, boosted by strong international travel demand.
Travel companies have been helped by healthy demand in Asia, especially from Chinese consumers visiting destinations in Southeast Asia.
Airbnb said that nights booked by outbound Chinese tourists rose 25% in the fourth quarter. It also saw a 30% growth in nights booked for domestic travel in Latin America, led by Brazil, compared to last year. First-time bookers in the region grew by nearly 15% sequentially.
Casino operator MGM Resorts International beat fourth-quarter profit and revenue estimates, aided by strength from more bookings across its properties. Shares of the Las Vegas, Nevada-based company jumped 17% this week.
The company also said it expects its jointly-owned online sports-betting service, BetMGM, to be profitable this year.
On an adjusted basis, MGM earned 45 cents per share for the quarter ended December 31, ahead of analysts' estimates of 30 cents per share, according to LSEG compiled data.
Caesars Entertainment shares also jumped 11.3% this week, while Wynn jumped 10.2%.
Molson Coors shares surged 11.2% this week as the brewer reported better-than-expected sales and earnings.
Net sales in the latest quarter declined 2%, a smaller drop than analysts expected. Gavin Hattersley, the company's chief executive, said last year Molson Coors kept a large part of its big market-share gains from 2023, when a Bud Light boycott boosted sales of Miller Lite and Coors Light.
Consumers weren’t as price sensitive last quarter as they were over the summer, he added.
T-Mobile said it will launch its satellite-to-cell service, powered by SpaceX's Starlink, in July for $15 a month, as the U.S. wireless carrier aims to eliminate mobile dead zones and extend connectivity to remote areas.
Shares of T-Mobile jumped 10% this week.
The move could mark a pivotal shift in mobile connectivity, bridging the gap between traditional cell networks and satellite technology to ensure seamless coverage anywhere on Earth.
DuPont stock rose 9.9% this week as the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. The company’s outlook for 2025 helped, too.
The materials technology company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.13 from sales of $3.1 billion. DuPont affirmed fourth-quarter guidance given in November. Then, DuPont expected to earn about 98 cents a share in the fourth quarter from sales of $3.1 billion. Those numbers matched Wall Street estimates.
DuPont sandbagged a little. It produced bottom-line earnings better than guidance.
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