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Dell Rises, AppLovin Falls, Dollar Tree Drops After Jefferies Downgrade

Oct 07, 20254 min
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On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Dell (DELL) shares rise after the company roughly doubled its growth estimates for sales and profit for the next two years, citing demand for artificial intelligence products.
- AppLovin (APP) shares fall after news that the Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing AppLovin Corp.'s data-collection practices, according to people familiar with the matter.
- Dollar Tree (DLTR) shares fall after Jefferies downgraded the discount retailer to underperform from hold.

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Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

The Stock Movers Report, your roundup of companies making moves in the stock market, harnessing the power of Bloomberg Data.

Speaker 3

Let's bring in Christina Quino and take a look at some stocks on the move today. Paulsweni here with Scarlett Foo and of course our Christina Quino does this for us on a daily basis. And Christine, I look at Dell and the shares are at the Hyacins May of twenty twenty four last year.

Speaker 1

Yeah, absolutely, Scarlet, I mean that's getting definitely a windfall from that deal. So Dell shares dig or d LL shares now up just two point six percent, though, so prying some of those strong opening gains. And so you can kind of get a sense that, Okay, now we've gotten the news of their improved long term financial framework, investors are maybe starting to question what's the catch, right?

And you know, the catch is that there is some concern that the cost of rolling out the equipment is going to be expensive, and so the question for investors is what's going to happen to profit margins? And so Chief operating Officer Jeff Clark is meant to be reinforcing at their investor event today that you know, the air server business is facing mid single digit operating margins, but even our Bloomberg Intelligence analysts are saying that they will

still need to show improvement on those server margins. Operating scale and buybacks will help, but that's something that investors are looking for at the moment with this monster deal.

Speaker 2

What's going on with app love It at.

Speaker 1

Loven so app love and shares to her app those

are up at the moment. They're rebounding now more than six point seven percent currently, but they did fall fourteen percent yesterday, and that is because just before the close, Bloomberg News exclusively reported that there are sources saying the Securities Exchange Commission has been probing the company for its data collection practices, and so the agency specifically looking into allegations that app love and violated platform partners service agreements

to push more targeted advertising to customers. App Levin did decline to comment. They say that it's generally not speaking on any potential regulatory matters. So getting a bit of a rebound after that big drop yesterday, but watch the space for more developments in that case.

Speaker 3

Okay, and Christine. We're also looking at Dollar Tree in the retail space.

Speaker 1

Absolutely Scarl's a Dollar Tree ticker DLTR. Those chares not doing so well at the moment, down two point nine percent, and I'm seeing on the Bloomberg that that is the fifth straight day of declines. There. We did see a pair of analyst cuts to start the WII for Dollar Tree. Jeffrey's downgraded the retailer to underperform from hold. Analysts are citing inflation management decisions and terariffs as some of the reasons why it is now a more complex environment for

Dollar Tree. They're also citing specifically rising competitive intensity and a disadvantage from Walmart because of course the big box retailer very much competing in terms of low prices. And then of course we also got Bernstein cutting their part start for Dollar Tree to one hundred from one hundred and nine. Still maintaining our.

Speaker 2

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