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6/4/2021 12:06pm
Wall Street in Fives - Must Read Lists at Midday

Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these Top Fives, as compiled by the editors of The Fly. 


1. STOCK NEWS: 

  • Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (PSTH) SPAC confirmed that it is in talks with Vivendi (VIVHY) to acquire 10% of the outstanding ordinary shares of Universal Music Group, or UMG, for approximately $4B [more]
  • Broadcom (AVGO) reported better than expected Q2 results and provided upbeat Q3 guidance [more]
  • Square (SQ) considering making hardware wallet for bitcoin, CEO Jack Dorsey says [more]
  • AMC Entertainment's (AMC) directors recommending increase in company's share capital by 25M in 2022 [more]
  • Staples proposed to acquire ODP Corporation's (ODP) consumer business for $1B [more]


2. WALL STREET CALLS: 

  • BofA moves to No Rating on Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) amid "meme mania," terminates GameStop (GME) coverage [more]
  • Stifel upgrades Northrop Grumman (NOC) to Buy amid "still-elevated" global threats [more]
  • BofA upgrades Wells Fargo (WFC) to Buy amid "multi-year transformation" [more]
  • Workhorse Group (WKHS) downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform at Cowen [more]
  • Windtree Therapeutics (WINT) initiated with an Outperform rating, $8 price target at Oppenheimer [more]


3. AROUND THE WEB: 

  • Mudrick Capital no longer owns debt or equity in AMC Entertainment (AMC), CNBC says [more]
  • Kerrisdale reveals short position in Virgin Galactic (SPCE) [more]
  • Facebook (FB) will end special treatment of politicians on its platform, The Verge says [more]
  • Bristol-Myers (BMY) is being sued for $6.4B for allegedly dealying efforts to win FDA approval for Breyanzi [more]
  • ViacomCBS' (VIAC) Paramount Plus plans to roll out a $5 per month plan next week, The Verge reports [more]


4. MOVERS: 

  • Senseonics (SENS) gains after releasing results of its PROMISE study evaluating 180 day Eversense CGM System [more]
  • Targa Resources (TRGP) rises after news it will replace CoreLogic (CLGX) in S&P 400 at open on June 9 [more]
  • Fate Therapeutics (FATE) higher after reporting interim data from its Phase 1 study of FT516 [more]
  • Comstock Resources (CRK) falls after a 9M share block trade priced at $5.80 [more]
  • NGL Energy Partners (NGL) drops after reporting quarterly results [more]


5. EARNINGS: 

  • Asana (ASAN) rises after reporting upbeat quarterly results [more]
  • Sumo Logic (SUMO) higher after better than expected Q1 revenue [more]
  • Five Below (FIVE) gains after providing upbeat Q2 revenue guidance [more]
  • Lululemon (LULU) up after reporting better than expected quarterly results [more]
  • PagerDuty (PD) slips after Q1 report, FY22 guidance [more]


INDEXES: 

Near midday, the Dow was up 99.01, or 0.29%, to 34,676.05, the Nasdaq was up 188.37, or 1.38%, to 13,802.88, and the S&P 500 was up 27.93, or 0.67%, to 4,220.78.

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