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These Stocks Moved the Most Today: Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Netflix, Exxon, DexCom, Coinbase, Reddit, Newell Brands, and More

Oct 31, 2025 05:44:00 -0400 by Joe Woelfel | #Technology

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Key Points

Stocks rose Friday after solid earnings from tech giant Amazon helped boost sentiment. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.6%, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly dipped into the red before recovering later in the day.

These stocks moved Friday:

Amazon.com jumped 9.6% after posting third-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.95 a share, including investment gains from artificial-intelligence start-up Anthropic, and topping Wall Street expectations of $1.57. Revenue of $180.2 billion beat analysts’ expectations of $177.9 billion, and revenue at the company’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, rose 20% to $33 billion. Amazon anticipates fourth-quarter revenue of between $206 billion to $213 billion, up 10% to 13% from a year earlier. “We continue to see strong demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been focused on accelerating capacity,” said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.

Nvidia was down less than 0.1% after Amazon added to the wave of AI investment and chip maker Nvidia announced a series of deals with Korean companies.

Apple fell 0.4% as revenue jumped 8% from a year earlier to $102.5 billion and topped consensus but revenue from the tech giant’s iPhone business, up 6%, missed analysts’ expectations. Apple reported iPhone revenue of $49 billion, below calls for $50.1 billion. Fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $1.85 a share were higher than Wall Street consensus estimates of $1.78 and up from $1.64 a year earlier. Apple expects fiscal first-quarter total revenue to jump 10% to 12%, according to Chief Financial Officer Kevan Parekh, well ahead of Wall Street forecasts for an increase of 6%.

Meta Platforms fell 2.7% after declining 11% on Thursday as Wall Street questioned the Facebook and Instagram parent company’s aggressive spending plans on artificial intelligence. Meta lost $215 billion in market cap on Thursday, the tenth largest one-day market cap loss by a U.S. company on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Meta’s decline ended a nine-session winning streak for the stock.

Netflix gained 2.7% after Reuters reported the video streamer was exploring a bid for Warner Bros Discovery’s studio and streaming business. Netflix also said it would be splitting its stock 10-for-1 to “reset the market price of the company’s common stock to a range that will be more accessible to employees who participate” in Netflix’s stock option program. Warner Bros. rose 3.8%.

Chevron rose 2.7% after the energy giant posted better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and revenue even as profit declined on lower oil prices. The company’s oil and gas production in the third quarter surged 21% to a record 4.1 million barrels of oil equivalent a day, largely due to its acquisition of oil producer Hess and higher production in Kazakhstan.

Exxon Mobil declined 0.3%. The company reported adjusted earnings of $1.88 a share in the third quarter, better than analysts’ estimates of $1.82. Revenue of $85.3 billion fell short of Wall Street’s call for $86.5 billion. Exxon also announced a 4% increase in its dividend payout.

Roku gained 6.1% after swinging to a profit in the third quarter on a 17% jump in platform revenue and raising full-year guidance. The video-streaming company said it now expects revenue in 2025 of $4.69 billion, higher than a previous estimate of $4.65 billion. Roku also said it anticipates earning $50 million this year, up from a prior forecast of $20 million.

Strategy gained 5.9% after the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin reported third-quarter profit of $8.42 a share compared with a year-earlier loss of $1.72. The company said its Bitcoin holdings rose to 640,808 in the period.

Coinbase Global posted third-quarter earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations on higher transaction revenue. Revenue of $1.9 billion jumped 55% from the year-earlier period. Transaction revenue jumped 37% to $1 billion, and subscription and services revenue of $747 million rose 14%. Shares of the cryptocurrency exchange advanced 4.7%.

Western Digital rose 8.8% after the data-storage company reported fiscal first-quarter profit that more than doubled as revenue soared 27% to $2.82 billion. “As AI accelerates data creation, Western Digital’s continued innovation and operational discipline position us well to capture new opportunities and drive sustained shareholder value,” said CEO Irving Tan.

Reddit rose 7.5% after the social media company topped analysts’ expectations for both third-quarter earnings and revenue. Revenue in the period jumped 68% and ad revenue soared 74%. Daily active users rose 19% in the quarter to 116 million.

Cloudflare added 14% after the IT security company beat Wall Street’s earnings targets, reporting an adjusted profit of 27 cents a share as revenue climbed 31% from a year earlier to $562 million.

DexCom, a maker of continuous glucose monitoring systems, slumped 15% after interim CEO Jake Leach indicated on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday that 2026 revenue growth could miss analysts’ forecasts. While growth is expected to be “certainly in that double-digit range,” Leach said, “the top end of our range is probably slightly below where the Street is today for our base case.”

Newell Brands sank 28% after the maker of Sharpie pens and Yankee Candle reported third-quarter sales that missed Wall Street expectations and the company slashed its full-year outlook for earnings and sales. Price hikes the company instituted to offset tariffs left Newell Brands uncompetitive,”said Chief Executive Chris Peterson on the company’s earnings call Friday. “We price to recover the structural economics and competitors basically didn’t follow us during this period.”

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