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Bloomberg Audio Studios. Podcasts,

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radio, news.

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>> The Stock Movers Report, your roundup of

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companies making moves in the stock

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market, harnessing the power of

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Bloomberg data. Let's take a look at

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some stocks on the move today. I'm

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Nathan Hager joined by Bloomberg's Dan

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Curtis. And the biggest move in stocks

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this morning, very easy to see. Dan,

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Oracle, good morning.

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>> Good morning, Nathan. Oracle. That's

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right. The the big AI name, ticker OCL,

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shares are up 10% in the pre-market.

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That's after the company's fiscal

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threequarter results came in strong. The

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infrastructure business, which is a read

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through on AI demand, jumped 84% versus

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the prior year. That's up more than the

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79% that Wall Street estimated. It said

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it delivered cloud capacity to customers

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with at 90% at or ahead of the schedule.

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So it's able to de it's able to deliver

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a lot of where of what the demand is.

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It's also predicting revenue for the

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total fiscal year will be $90 billion

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stronger than Wall Street estimates.

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This is coming with heavy spending. The

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company spent nearly $19 billion in

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capex in the third quarter more than

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expected but they are trying to calm

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investors saying that the company is

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maintaining its $50 billion capex plans

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for the fiscal year. So they just seem

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to be pushing some of that spending up

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ahead. On the back of that, JP Morgan

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raised uh Oracle to overweight with a

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price target of $210 a share. Those

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shares are uh 164 in the pre-market

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right now.

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>> Wow. Well, easily one of the biggest

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earning stories of the week. We also got

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a new um uh M&A story this morning in

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the uh always exciting world of

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uniforms.

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>> That's right. Uh, Unif first, uh, ticker

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UNF is up 10% as Cintis agrees to

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acquire it for $310 a share in a cash

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and stock deal. For every Unifer share,

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uh, investors will receive $155 in cash

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and just over three quarters of a Cintas

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share. Cintas will fund the deal with a

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cash and committed lines of credit. The

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deal values unif.

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The deal is expected to close in the

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second half of this year. Cinta shares

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on the other hand down about 2% in the

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pre-market. That is ticker CTA.

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>> Okay. Uh some uh moves around um private

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credit as well this morning after uh

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some news from JP Morgan.

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>> That's right. So JP Morgan is out with

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some more uh negative news around the

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private market space, particularly

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software as it restricts lending to some

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private market funds. That's according

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to a person familiar with the matter. It

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has JP Morgan has also marked down some

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of its software loans in its portfolio.

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Shares of JP Morgan are down about

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4/10en. Looking at other names like

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Apollo down 6/10en of a percent, Aries

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down 1%, Blue Owl down 1% and KKR

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slightly positive uh up about 7/10 in

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the pre-market. So, a little bit of a

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mixed result to this. This comes amid

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pressure to private markets which have

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large exposure to software and software

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has been on the back foot as AI pressure

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uh continues. So definitely keeping an

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eye on any updates from the private

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Interactive Summary

The report covers major stock movements, including Oracle's 10% surge on strong fiscal Q3 results, driven by an 84% jump in its AI-related infrastructure business and a positive revenue outlook. JP Morgan upgraded Oracle to overweight. Additionally, Unifirst shares rose 10% following its acquisition by Cintas for $310 per share. Finally, JP Morgan's negative news regarding private credit, particularly in the software sector, led to restrictions on lending and markdowns of some software loans, impacting several private market funds.

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