Thursday of sectoral turn for investors, who turn to the large cap tech stocks after the debacle caused by the fears of effects of artificial intelligence or AI on software stocks. Without forgetting the employment data from last Wednesday leaves little expectation of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve (FED) until June. Which has led to a closing correction for the DOW JONES Ind Average, S&P 500 y NASDAQ 100 and -1.34% to 49,451 points, -1.55% to 6,833 points and -2.04% to 24,687 points respectively.
Analysts are analyzing the quarterly results of companies related to AI to determine which really is the most vulnerable sector.
In the corporate field, Robinhood Mkts Rg-A dreams of being the “financial superapp”. Although Wall Street is skeptical about it.
«First, we want to win with active traders,» he declared. Shiv Verma, Robinhood CFO following the company’s results on Wednesday. «Second, we want to gain market share. Third, we want to be global and institutional. We are making progress in all those aspects and… the situation is very different from five years ago.»
Bad news for Appleis that it is possible a delay in the long-awaited Siri update according to Yahoo Finance. The new Siri was planned to be released as part of an operating system update in Marchbut certain performances could be postponed due to testing problems, as reported to Bloomberg people familiar with the matter.
The launch of the revamped Siri, initially announced in June 2024, has been plagued by delays, raising concerns among investors about Apple’s artificial intelligence capabilities.
The analysts of Goldman Sachs Gr have been concerned about the electricity price inflation due to the demand for AI infrastructure and data centers in the USaccording to Yahoo Finance.
Electricity prices increased by 6.9% year-on-year until December 2025according to the bank, while the PCE inflation increased by 2.9% during the same period. On an annualized average, electricity prices increased by 6.8% from January 2022while the general inflation of the PCE increased by 3.4%.
The rapid inflation in electricity prices is mainly due to two key factors: the rapid construction of data centers, which require enormous amounts of energy to operate, and the surge in capital investment by utilities as they seek to increase energy supply to meet demand, «which will raise utility costs and therefore electricity prices.»
Among other economic data we had the January second-hand home sales of 3.91M compared to the expected 4.16M.
We also had 4-week public debt auction (T-Bill) with a performance of 3.630%a 8 weeks with the same performance already 30 years (T-Bond) at 4,750%.
Among the winning actions we have Seagate Hldgs (+5.87% to $431.17), Equinix REIT (+10.21% to $956.07) and Walmart (+3.78% to $133.64)
Seagate rises after announcing that it has celebrated privately negotiated exchange agreements with holders of exchangeable notes for a principal amount of 600 million dollarsaccording to Investing. The company will provide approximately $599.2 million in cash and common stock in exchange for the notes.
The exchanges involve the Seagate HDD Cayman 3.50% Exchangeable Senior Notes Due 2028. The number of common shares to be issued will be determined during one trading day beginning today. The transactions are expected to close on or about February 17, subject to customary closing conditions.
Equinix climbs after the fourth quarter results 2025 where postponed a big deal until the first quarter of 2026according to Investing.
Despite this setback, the company managed order records for 474 million dollarswhich represents an increase in 42% year-on-yearand increased his monthly recurring revenue in a 10% compared to the same period of the previous year. The company remains profitable with $1.07 billion in net income during the last twelve months.
The company exceeded 500,000 interconnections and reported that the stabilized asset income they grew a 6% year-on-year and announced a 10% increase in its quarterly dividend. This marks the ninth consecutive year of dividend increases, with a current yield of 2.16%. Equinix’s 2026 guidance exceeded market expectations, with continued operating leverage in the business and increased pricing power supporting an acceleration in demand.
Walmart goes up after being selected by Bernstein like one of retail shareholders to watchaccording to Investing.
Bernstein notes that buy-side investors have high expectations regarding the Walmart margin potentialforeseeing a margin of 7% in the US. for fiscal year 2030 and beyond. While the firm recognizes that it needs to generate more growth to justify its recent multiple expansion, they still see near-term upside potential as momentum continues to build. However, analysts expect a correction once e-commerce-driven profitability improvements slow, with the stock potentially stabilizing around 150 dollars. This fair value assumes that Walmart will increase its EPS at $5 in five years (approximately a 15% CAGR) with growth normalizing to high single digits thereafter.
Among the losing stocks we have AppLovin Rg-A (-19.68% to 366.91 dollars), C.H.Robinson Wld (-14.54% to $167.78) and Cisco Systems (-12.32% to 75.00 dollars)
Apploving falls after the fourth quarter results 2025 as we pointed out in the opening. The company registered some earnings of $3.24 per share about some revenue of $1.66 billion. Analysts surveyed had expected earnings per share of $2.93 and revenue of $1.6 billion.
C.H. Robinson falls before the fears of the impact of AI on the transport sector amid a rotation away from high-commission, labor-intensive business models that could be threatened by AI advances in the freight logistics sector as we recently saw in the software sector, according to Investing.
Cisco also falls after fourth quarter results as we indicated in the opening. The firm registered adjusted earnings per share of $1.04 about some revenue of $15.35 billionwhen the market had anticipated $1.02 in profits and $15.12 billion in revenue.
But what seems to weigh on investors’ minds are their forecasts for the whole year, which go through some earnings per share of between $3 and $3.08 and revenue of between $61.2 billion and $61.7 billion. Wall Street had predicted $3.12 per share in profits and $62.1 billion in revenue. For him current quarterCisco predicts adjusted earnings per share between $1.02 and $1.04 and some revenue between $15.4 billion and $15.6 billion. Analysts surveyed expected $1.03 per share and $15.18 billion in revenue.
Los Oil futures WTI caen one -2.72% at 62.87 dollars y Brent -2.67% at 67.55 dollars.
He Oro falls a -3.15% to $4,937 and the Plataand -10.86% to 74.81 dollars.
The pair EUR/USD falls a +0.01% a 1.1871.
Bitcoin falls a -3.24% to $65,673.
He US 10-year bond yield falls a -1.80% a 4.097 already 30 years -1.68% to 4,733.
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