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These Stocks Moved the Most Today: Meta Platforms, Salesforce, Snowflake, UiPath, Micron, Dollar General, Kroger, and More

Dec 04, 2025 05:52:00 -0500 by Mackenzie Tatananni | #Markets

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Key Points

Stocks wavered Thursday ahead of the release Friday of the personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, and the central bank’s decision on interest rates next week.

These stocks were making moves Thursday:

Meta Platforms gained 3.4%. The Facebook parent plans to cut up to 30% of its Metaverse budget, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Separately, the company was hit by an antitrust investigation from the European Union on Thursday, though a Meta representative told Barron’s that regulators’ claims were “baseless.”

Salesforce gained 3.7%. The software company beat analysts’ third-quarter earnings estimates, though revenue narrowly missed expectations. Salesforce highlighted its artificial-intelligence efforts, noting that annual recurring revenue from agentic products—programs that have the ability to take simple directions and complete multistep tasks—came in at $540 million, up $100 million from a quarter earlier.

Snowflake tumbled 11% as a third-quarter earnings beat was overshadowed by slowing product-revenue growth. The stock may well have been priced for perfection—it was up 72% for the year as of Wednesday’s close, meaning there was a high bar to clear.

UiPath surged 24% after the automation software maker beat Wall Street’s third-quarter earnings and revenue estimates, and guided for stronger-than-expected revenue for the current quarter. The “solid execution” is a sign that UiPath is well-positioned for the rise in demand for AI at large organizations, William Blair analyst Jake Roberge wrote in a research note.

Micron Technology declined 3.2%. The chip company said it would stop selling Crucial-branded consumer memory products at the end of February 2026.

Dollar General climbed 14%. The budget retailer posted better-than-expected earnings in its third quarter and boosted its outlook for the fiscal year. Dollar General guided for fiscal-year comparable sales growth of between 2.5% and 2.7%, up from a previous range of 2.1% to 2.6% growth.

Hormel Foods gained 3.8%. The owner of Skippy and Spam posted fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted earnings that topped analysts’ forecasts and logged higher sales, which slightly missed expectations. Hormel guided for fiscal-year adjusted earnings of $1.43 to $1.51 a share on sales of $12.2 billion to $12.5 billion. Analysts were looking for profit of $1.45 and sales of $12.43 billion.

Kroger declined 4.6%. The supermarket giant posted an operating loss of $1.5 billion in the third quarter, compared with a profit of $828 million in the same period last year. Sales came to $33.9 billion, missing Wall Street forecasts of $34.2 billion.

PVH tumbled 12%. The owner of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein forecast fourth-quarter earnings in the range of $3.20 to $3.35 a share, sharply below the $3.64 analysts had projected. PVH said it expects revenue to increase slightly to up low-single digits, compared with analyst estimates of 3.7% growth.

C3.ai rose 2.1% as a narrower-than-expected loss for the second quarter appeared to outweigh a 20% drop in revenue from the year-ago period. The stock has taken a battering this year, sinking 55% amid a series of earnings disappointments.

Science Applications International jumped 16% after fiscal third-quarter earnings topped analysts’ estimates and the company, which provides information technology, engineering and technical services to the U.S. government, raised fiscal 2026 profit guidance.

Earnings are expected after the closing bell Thursday from IT company Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Shares were up 2.9% ahead of the report.

Write to Mackenzie Tatananni at mackenzie.tatananni@barrons.com and George Glover at george.glover@dowjones.com