{"id":627306,"date":"2026-09-25T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627306\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:56:09","slug":"stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-midday-akam-geni-ppli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627306\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks making the biggest moves midday: AKAM, GENI, PPLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Akamai Technologies \u2013 The cloud computing company gained 5% after announcing a seven-year contract and $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic on Thursday. Akamai also issued a warrant that gives Anthropic the right to buy up to roughly 5% of the company&#8217;s shares at an exercise price of $111.33 each. Atlas Energy Solutions \u2014 The oilfield and energy logistics stocks rallied 17% after the company said that two of its subsidiaries &#8220;executed separate cost reimbursement agreements with a leading frontier AI lab.&#8221; Genius Sports \u2014 The sports data and technology stock jumped 13% after JPMorgan initiated coverage with an overweight rating . The bank highlighted Genius&#8217; &#8220;scarce combo of diversified above-market growth, strong execution, improving profitability\/ [free cash flow], and attractive valuation.&#8221; Twilio \u2013 The cloud platform provider with a focus on marketing tumbled about 6%. HSBC slashed its rating to a sell equivalent. &#8220;We retain a premium for Twilio&#8217;s AI optionality, but see negative risk reward post recent rally,&#8221; wrote analyst Sameer Lam, adding the stock looks expensive compared to &#8220;better quality alternatives&#8221; like Microsoft and Salesforce. People Inc \u2013 Barry Diller&#8217;s company, which also owns &#8220;Food &amp; Wine&#8221; and &#8220;Southern Living&#8221; magazines, saw shares jump 10%. Late Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing people familiar, that MGM Resorts is weighing a bid to purchase the publishing giant. The news comes after People withdrew its proposal to buy the casino operator. MGM last traded lower by 2%. Scholastic \u2013 Shares for the publisher of children&#8217;s books slid 9% after the company posted a loss in the fiscal first quarter. Scholastic reported an adjusted loss of $3.63 per share, compared to the $2.52 per share loss in the year-ago period. Revenue of $216.8 million reflected a 4% decline from a year earlier. Costco Wholesale \u2014 Shares were up 2.7% after the company reported better-than-expected results for the fiscal fourth quarter. Costco earned an adjusted $6.60 per share on revenue of $95.72 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of $6.53 per share on revenue of $94.86 billion. Microsoft \u2014 The software giant&#8217;s shares perked up 3% after Microsoft rolled out a refreshed Copilot app in a bid to challenge Anthropic&#8217;s Claude and get more of its enterprise customers to pay for the tools. Meta Platforms \u2014 The owner of Facebook and WhatsApp tumbled more than 3% as traders cashed in on the stock&#8217;s recent rally. The stock is on track for a 12% weekly gain powered by the booming popularity of its consumer artificial intelligence product Muse. \u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Nick Wells and Darla Mercado contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Akamai Technologies \u2013 The cloud computing company gained 5%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[85766,283577,200756,941,114,357,937,3313,184,283503,85,46,20590,190,10809,142133,355,18993,283576,98490,939,283578,1760,7155,155781],"class_list":["post-627306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-akamai-technologies-inc","tag-atlas-energy-solutions-inc","tag-barry-diller","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-costco-wholesale-corp","tag-earnings","tag-economy","tag-genius-sports-limited","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-market-insider","tag-markets","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-mgm-resorts-international","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-nike-inc","tag-people-incorporated","tag-regwall-marketmovers","tag-salesforce-inc","tag-scholastic-corp","tag-stock-markets","tag-synopsys-inc","tag-twilio-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}