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These Stocks Moved the Most Today: Oracle, Nvidia, Metsera, Pfizer, Kenvue, Tesla, Anywhere Real Estate, and More

Sep 22, 2025 06:03:00 -0400 by Joe Woelfel | #Technology

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Stocks climbed on Monday, building on record highs set by the three major U.S. stock market indexes last week.

These stocks made moves:

Oracle gained 6.3% after a senior White House official said a joint venture would be formed to manage a U.S. version of TikTok. The venture will be owned by a mix of U.S. and global companies that are already invested in ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, and newcomers that include Oracle, which will keep providing cloud services for the app.

Oracle announced it would promote Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to the role of co-CEOs; the current chief executive, Safra Catz, become executive vice chair of the board. Magouyrk previously served as president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the company’s AI cloud provider. Sicilia was president of Oracle Industries, which provides enterprise customers cloud applications embedded with AI, such as AI agents.

Nvidia jumped 4% after announcing plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The partnership “enables OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers with Nvidia systems representing millions of GPUs for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure,” the companies said in a statement. The first phase is projected to come online during the second half of 2026 using Nvidia’s upcoming Vera Rubin platform. Nvidia’s investment in OpenAI will be done as each gigawatt is deployed.

Class A shares of Fox Corp. rose 2.7%. President Donald Trump said Rupert Murdoch and son Lachlan Murdoch were probably going to be part of the investor group forming to own TikTok. Lachlan Murdoch is chair of News Corp, the owner of Barron’s publisher Dow Jones, and also serves executive chair and CEO of Fox Corp. Rupert Murdoch is chairman emeritus of News Corp and Fox.

Crypto exchange Coinbase Global fell 3.1%, mirroring a drop in the price of Bitcoin. The world’s largest crypto has declined 2.9% over the past 24 hours. Coinbase often reacts to changes in crypto prices and market sentiment, and shares have more than doubled in value over the past 12 months. Bitcoin-buyer Strategy was down 2.6%.

Teradyne surged 13% to $135.18. Susquehanna analysts reiterated a Positive rating and hiked their price target to $200 from $133, arguing that the maker of semiconductor test equipment had the potential to gain further market share.

Metsera soared 61% to $54.01 after Pfizer agreed to buy the maker of weight-loss drugs for $7.3 billion. As part of agreement, Pfizer would pay Metsera $47.50 a share in cash, and a further $22.50 if certain performance milestones were met. Pfizer shares were flat.

Kenvue was down 7.5%. President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement later Monday linking autism in children to Tylenol use during pregnancy, according to multiple reports. Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, has said it believes “there is no causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism.”

Tesla was up 1.9% to $434.21. Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter boosted his price target on the stock to $500 from $400 following a trip to China. Competition is increasing among electronic vehicle makers, but with respect to “real world” artificial intelligence, Tesla is the leader, he said. “Bottom line: Tesla remains our top idea for investing in autonomous vehicles and robotics,” Potter wrote.

Premier, a provider of healthcare improvement solutions, rose 9.7% to $28.25 after reaching an agreement to be acquired by investment firm Patient Square Capital for $28.25 a share in cash, or about $2.6 billion.

Anywhere Real Estate soared 46% to $10.29. Real-estate brokerage Compass said it would acquire its smaller rival, which owns Century 21 and Coldwell Banker, in an all-stock deal that values Anywhere at $13.01 a share based on the 30-day volume-weighted average price of Compass. Shares of Compass, meanwhile, sank 16%.

Firefly Aerospace, the developer of rockets and orbital vehicles, rose 9.6% ahead of its second-quarter earnings report, which is scheduled after the closing bell Monday. Firefly went public in August.

Reports are also expected later in the week from Micron Technology, Costco Wholesale, Accenture, AutoZone, Jabil, Cintas, Thor Industries, Worthington Enterprises, KB Home, TD Synnex, CarMax, Concentrix, H.B. Fuller, and BlackBerry.

Write to Joe Woelfel at joseph.woelfel@barrons.com and Mackenzie Tatananni at mackenzie.tatananni@barrons.com