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These Stocks Moved the Most Today: Intel, Oracle, CarMax, IBM, Lithium Americas, Jabil, Freeport, and More

Sep 25, 2025 05:36:00 -0400 by Joe Woelfel | #Technology

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Stocks fell Thursday, as the major U.S. stock market indexes hit their third straight day of losses together for the first time since the end of March.

These stocks made notable moves Thursday:

Intel rose 8.8% after Bloomberg reported the chip maker approached Apple to ask for an investment. The report, which cited people familiar with the matter, said the two tech giants also have discussed how to work more closely together. The talks have been at an early stage and may not lead to an agreement, the people told Bloomberg. Intel declined to comment to Barron’s about the report, while Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment. Apple was up 1.8%.

Oracle declined 5.6% to $291.33 after the database-software company sold $18 billion of new investment-grade bonds on Wednesday, up from initial guidance of $15 billion. Proceeds from the bonds have been earmarked for general corporate purposes, which could include spending on artificial-intelligence infrastructure. Separately, Rothschild analyst Alex Haissl issued a Sell rating on the stock with a $175 price target, arguing that investors have been “overestimating the value of Oracle’s contracted cloud revenue.”

U.S.-listed shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba fell 0.6%. The stock closed up 8.2% on Wednesday to $176.44, its highest close since Oct. 22, 2021, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Boosting the stock was an announcement that Alibaba would be opening new data centers abroad and hike spending on artificial intelligence.

CarMax sank 20% after the used-car seller reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter earnings. The company posted earnings of 64 cents a share, well below Wall Street’s consensus call for $1.04. Same-store retail unit sales fell 6.3% from a year earlier, short of analysts’s forecast for 1.1% growth.

International Business Machines gained 5.2%. HSBC said it had used quantum computers from IBM to predict the future behavior of financial markets. Researchers showed how an algorithm used to predict whether a bond trade would be filled saw a 34% reduction in errors compared with classical-only methods.

Opendoor Technologies climbed 10% to $9.09 after Jane Street, the quantitative trading firm, disclosed a stake of 5.9% in the online homebuying platform.

Consulting company Accenture reported fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of $3.03 a share, topping analysts’ expectations of $2.98. Revenue of $17.6 billion beat estimates of $17.4 billion. Bookings of $21.3 billion were up sequentially from $20.9 billion and up from $20.1 billion in the same period a year earlier. Bookings attributed to generative AI offerings rose to $1.8 billion from $1.5 billion in the previous quarter and $1 billion in the year-earlier period. Shares fell 2.7%.

Jabil fell 6.7%, even as the supplier of electronic parts beat fiscal fourth-quarter earnings estimates and issued a better-than-expected outlook for the current fiscal year.

Freeport-McMoRan tumbled 6.2% on Thursday, extending losses from Wednesday, when it closed down 17%. The company reduced its third-quarter sales estimates for copper and gold by 4% and 6%, respectively, due to a temporary suspension in mining operations and damage to infrastructure at a copper and gold mine in Indonesia.

Lithium Americas surged 23%. Shares of the Vancouver-based miner soared 96% on Wednesday on news the U.S. government was in negotiations to take a stake in the company. It was the stock’s largest one-day percentage increase on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The U.S. proposed an equity stake in Lithium Americas as a way to renegotiate a $2.3 billion Energy Department loan granted during the Biden administration.

Adhesives maker H.B. Fuller was down 3.9%. The company said it expects fiscal-year revenue to fall 2% to 3% on the heels of a 2.8% drop in third-quarter revenue. H.B. Fuller also anticipates fiscal-year adjusted earnings of $4.10 to $4.25 a share, with the top end of its range down from the $4.30 a share outlook the company issued in June.

Earnings reports were expected after the closing bell Thursday from Costco Wholesale and Concentrix.

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