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Nike's Trajectory Improves, CoreWeave Jumps, US Takes Lithium Americas Stake

Sep 30, 20253 min
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On this episode of Stock Movers:

  •  Nike (NKE)'s wholesale business and strength in North America powered the company’s latest quarterly sales above Wall Street’s expectations, showing that turnaround efforts at the world’s largest sportswear company are starting to deliver results. Sales fell 1% on a currency-neutral basis in the company’s most-recent quarter, a smaller drop than investors anticipated, according to a statement. Revenue in the period was $11.7 billion, higher than the $11 billion projected by analysts. Nike shares rose 0.9% 4:35 p.m. in extended New York trading. The stock has dropped 7.8% so far this year through Tuesday’s close.
  • CoreWeave (CRWV) shares rallied today after it signed a deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with as much as $14.2 billion worth of computing power, underscoring the massive costs of developing and running advanced AI models. “They loved our infrastructure in earlier contracts and came back for more,” Chief Executive Officer Michael Intrator said in an interview. As part of the agreement, CoreWeave will provide the social media giant access to Nvidia Corp.’s latest GB300 systems, he said. Meta didn’t provide comment. CoreWeave shares jumped as much as 15.9% after markets opened in New York. Meta shares declined as much as 1.9%.
  • The US government agreed to acquire a stake in Lithium Americas (LAC) according to US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. The deal is the Trump administration’s latest effort to speed development of a domestic supply chain to counter China’s dominance over metals critical to defense, automaking and consumer electronics. In July, the US Defense Department announced a $400 million equity investment in MP Materials Corp. to fund a major new plant making rare-earth magnets.

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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

I'm Jim Stataveech along with Carol Masser. Let's take a look at some stocks on the move today. We're joined by Bloomberg News Acuties reporter Natala Kenny j Bitch watching Nike in the after hours.

Speaker 4

Yes, guys, I'm looking at shares of Nike. The tickers and key E shares are currently up by zero point eight percent and they climbed by as much as four percent. So basically, results came better than expected. We see strength in wholesale business North America segment. Overall revenue came at eleven point seven billion dollars and also expected eleven billion dollars. Meanwhile, sales fell by one percent on a currency adjusted neutral basis.

And overall these reports, these results underscore that efforts to restructure business are kind of doing well. We see that Nike is clearing out old inventories and also working with wholesale segment overall.

Speaker 1

Yeah, we talked to our Putam Goyle to Bloomberg Intelligence and very pleased in terms of what we got from the company today, Core we this was one in the regular trade that also rallied in today's.

Speaker 4

Exactly, so the stock finished the day by eleven point seven percent. Of course, it was huge news today Core We've agreed to supply computing power to meta platforms worth of fourteen point two billion dollars, and of course, as a part of this agreement, Core with will provide access to the latest n videas chips. Bloomberg Intelligence analysts are saying that this is a very good development as it kind of eases a little bit reliance on big customers.

We know that Microsoft accounts for about seventy percent of its revenue and customers. However, many analysts also emphasize that it's also a matter of debt, metal of leverage, because yes, the company has all these contracts, but now it's a matter of financing. Overall, the stock is up by almost two hundred and fifty percent since it's ipl.

Speaker 1

And we're gonna just mention Lynthium America's because the US of government agreed to acquire a stake in the company. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright saying on Bloomberg TV, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada. And so we did see this one in the aftermarket tim moving higher.

Speaker 3

Yeah, ticker for that is lac up in the after hours. Yeah, so definitely see triple digit moves last week closed up close to one hundred percent, up more than ninety percent so far this year.

Speaker 2

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