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>> The Stock Movers Report, your roundup of
companies making moves in the stock
market, harnessing the power of
Bloomberg data. Let's take a look at
some stocks on the move today. I'm
Nathan Hager joined by Bloomberg's Dan
Curtis. And the biggest move in stocks
this morning, very easy to see. Dan,
Oracle, good morning.
>> Good morning, Nathan. Oracle. That's
right. The the big AI name, ticker OCL,
shares are up 10% in the pre-market.
That's after the company's fiscal
threequarter results came in strong. The
infrastructure business, which is a read
through on AI demand, jumped 84% versus
the prior year. That's up more than the
79% that Wall Street estimated. It said
it delivered cloud capacity to customers
with at 90% at or ahead of the schedule.
So it's able to de it's able to deliver
a lot of where of what the demand is.
It's also predicting revenue for the
total fiscal year will be $90 billion
stronger than Wall Street estimates.
This is coming with heavy spending. The
company spent nearly $19 billion in
capex in the third quarter more than
expected but they are trying to calm
investors saying that the company is
maintaining its $50 billion capex plans
for the fiscal year. So they just seem
to be pushing some of that spending up
ahead. On the back of that, JP Morgan
raised uh Oracle to overweight with a
price target of $210 a share. Those
shares are uh 164 in the pre-market
right now.
>> Wow. Well, easily one of the biggest
earning stories of the week. We also got
a new um uh M&A story this morning in
the uh always exciting world of
uniforms.
>> That's right. Uh, Unif first, uh, ticker
UNF is up 10% as Cintis agrees to
acquire it for $310 a share in a cash
and stock deal. For every Unifer share,
uh, investors will receive $155 in cash
and just over three quarters of a Cintas
share. Cintas will fund the deal with a
cash and committed lines of credit. The
deal values unif.
The deal is expected to close in the
second half of this year. Cinta shares
on the other hand down about 2% in the
pre-market. That is ticker CTA.
>> Okay. Uh some uh moves around um private
credit as well this morning after uh
some news from JP Morgan.
>> That's right. So JP Morgan is out with
some more uh negative news around the
private market space, particularly
software as it restricts lending to some
private market funds. That's according
to a person familiar with the matter. It
has JP Morgan has also marked down some
of its software loans in its portfolio.
Shares of JP Morgan are down about
4/10en. Looking at other names like
Apollo down 6/10en of a percent, Aries
down 1%, Blue Owl down 1% and KKR
slightly positive uh up about 7/10 in
the pre-market. So, a little bit of a
mixed result to this. This comes amid
pressure to private markets which have
large exposure to software and software
has been on the back foot as AI pressure
uh continues. So definitely keeping an
eye on any updates from the private
markets. The stock movers report from
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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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