Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.
On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Walt Disney (DIS) reported sales and profit that beat estimates in the first quarter of its fiscal year, boosted by a record $10 billion in revenue from the division that includes parks and cruises.Earnings per share in the period were $1.63, beating the average analyst estimate of $1.56.The bulk of the company’s profits in the quarter were delivered by the parks and cruises unit led by Josh D’Amaro, a candidate to succeed Bob Iger as chief executive officer when Iger steps down this year.
- Tesla’s (TSLA) European sales slump carried over into the new year, with registrations plummeting in two of the region’s leading markets for battery-electric vehicles.The carmaker’s French sales fell 42% last month to just 661 cars, the lowest in more than three years, the country’s auto association known as PFA said Sunday. In Norway — a lonely market in Europe where Tesla fared well last year — registrations plunged 88% in January.
- Oracle (ORCL) plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion this year through a combination of debt and equity sales to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity, reflecting the scale of financing needed to feed AI’s growth. Oracle is raising money to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from the company’s largest cloud customers, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Nvidia Corp., OpenAI, TikTok Inc. and xAI Corp., the company said in a statement Sunday.
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