A comic book featuring a “flan cannon”, thermal underwear and “hairy” jam topped the overall UK book chart last week, in the run-up to World Book Day on 5 March. Bunny vs Monkey: Total Chaos!, an instalment of Jamie Smart’s bestselling series, is one of 13 World Book Day children’s books being sold for £1 in the UK for this year’s event, 10 of which make up the entirety of the most recent overall Top 10 book chart for the first time. Smart’s book came in at No 1, having sold 36,479 copies in the week to 28 February, according to the Bookseller. “It’s really amazing to see comics enjoying this boom in popularity right now,” said Smart. “They’re such a fun and immersive way to read a story, and can be really inspiring to help [children] start telling their own stories too.” For many children, “that visual reading is their way in”, said World Book Day executive director Fiona Hickley. “Generally, comic books are funny, and children get the reward of a laugh when they read those books.” Other books that are proving popular this year are “highly illustrated chapter books”, which are a “really good stepping stone between picture books and chapter books”, added Hickley. Coming in behind Bunny vs Monkey are Peppa Pig: One Big Family, published under the name of the titular hog, at No 2; Chaos at the Chocolate Factory, written by Sibéal Pounder and illustrated by Emily Jones, at No 3; and Pablo and Splash: The Castle Quest by Sheena Dempsey, at No 4. The World Book Day charity is selling a total of 16 books at a discounted price this year, with 12 available UK wide, one for sale in Wales only, and three available in the Republic of Ireland only. World Book Day is one of the main partners of the government’s national Year of Reading campaign for 2026, launched in response to a sharp decline in reading for pleasure among adults and children in recent years. “One in three children are saying that they don’t enjoy reading,” said Hickley. World Book Day’s response is “offering ch...

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In trading on Thursday, shares of Sotera Health Co (Symbol: SHC) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $15.32, changing hands as low as $15.14 per share. Sotera Health Co shares are currently trading off about 3.7% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of SHC shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Looking at the chart above, SHC's low point in its 52 week range is $9.53 per share, with $19.85 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $15.28. Click here to find out which 9 other stocks recently crossed below their 200 day moving average » Also see: The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

In trading on Thursday, shares of Reynolds Consumer Products Inc (Symbol: REYN) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $23.20, changing hands as low as $22.87 per share. Reynolds Consumer Products Inc shares are currently trading off about 1.9% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of REYN shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Looking at the chart above, REYN's low point in its 52 week range is $20.91 per share, with $26.25 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $22.94. Click here to find out which 9 other dividend stocks recently crossed below their 200 day moving average » Also see: The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

周四，多数海湾地区股市收高，但阿联酋股市再次下跌，延续了前一交易日（即周末伊朗对阿联酋发动导弹和无人机袭击导致暂停交易两天后，其交易所重新开放）的跌势。 重新开盘后，迪拜和阿布扎比交易所临时将证券的跌幅限制设定为5%，以试图降低波动性。 周四，以色列对德黑兰发动了另一波大规模打击，目标是其所谓的伊朗当局基础设施，此前伊朗的导弹曾迫使数百万以色列人冲进防空洞。 迪拜主要股指收盘下跌1.3%，盘中一度下跌4.2%，其中最大银行阿联酋国民银行和蓝筹开发商伊玛尔地产均下跌4.9%。 廉价航空公司阿拉伯航空下跌4.9%，但公用事业公司迪拜电力和水务局上涨5.3%。 XTB MENA分析师米拉德·阿扎尔表示，尽管市场可能仍对地区动态保持敏感，但迪拜的基本面强劲，可能支撑反弹。 阿布扎比指数下跌2.2%，其中阿布扎比第一银行下跌1.2%，阿尔达地产下跌5%。阿布扎比商业银行大跌4.7%。 沙特阿拉伯基准指数收盘上涨0.8%，拉吉赫银行上涨1.7%。 该沙特指数周线上涨0.6%。 Al Moammar信息系统公司与人工智能公司HUMAIN签订设计和建造数据中心的协议后，股价飙升10%，触及每日涨幅上限。 在全年净利润增长之后，ACWA电力和达拉保健公司分别上涨3.5%和6.1%。 沙特市场的反弹是在近期地缘政治紧张局势带来的初步冲击之后，由油价上涨推动的。阿扎尔表示，随着霍尔木兹海峡（一条重要的能源运输路线）持续中断，能源价格有望走强，在此支撑下，股市看起来将延续复苏势头。 油价飙升逾3%，由于战争引发了对中东石油和天然气供应长期中断的担忧，涨势得以延续。 然而，石油巨头沙特阿美的股价下跌了0.7%。 卡塔尔基准指数上涨1%，按资产计海湾地区最大银行卡塔尔国民银行上涨3.2%。 涨幅受到石化制造商卡塔尔工业下跌2.5%和卡塔尔铝业制造公司下跌7%的限制。 作为海湾地区最大的液化天然气生产国，卡塔尔周三宣布天然气出口遭遇不可抗力，消息人士称恢复正常生产可能需要至少一个月。 阿曼和科威特指数均上涨1.3%，而巴林指数下跌1.1%。 在海湾地区以外，埃及蓝筹股指数上涨2.3%，结束了连续四天的下跌，其中领涨的是商业国际银行，涨幅3.7%。 然而，埃及指数周跌幅达3.5%，创下自去年6月以来的最大单周跌幅。 责任编辑：张俊 SF065

BlackRock’s sudden write-down of a loan tied to an Amazon aggregator is reviving concerns about transparency and risk in the rapidly growing private credit market.

Until the conflict with Iran broke out, President Donald Trump was getting — by design or by chance — what he appeared to want in three pivotal financial markets: lower oil prices and Treasury yields, and a weaker dollar. The air strikes that the US and Israel launched over the weekend, and Iran’s counterattacks, are unraveling that. Crude prices have soared as war enveloped the Mideast, ramping up inflation concerns and complicating the Federal Reserve’s path to cutting interest rates again. Treasury yields have jumped as a result, counter to the administration’s stated wish for lower rates on the 10-year note — a benchmark for loans to companies and home-buyers. The greenback, meanwhile, has reclaimed its status as the ultimate haven asset , gaining against almost all world currencies. If that trend persists, it could make American exports less competitive and undermine Trump’s agenda of bolstering the manufacturing industry. US stocks have mostly held up this week. But the peril for the president is that a protracted war leaves energy prices elevated, weakening the investment outlook and consumer sentiment at a time when Democrats are focusing on the issue of affordability as they seek to retake Congress. “These unintended consequences pose a speed-brake on what Trump can achieve, particularly in a midterm year,” said Mina Krishnan , a portfolio manager at Schroder Investment. “The barometers he cares about are the S&P 500, gas prices and mortgage rates. He’s attributed his success to these metrics, which means he’s now tied to any failures.” It’s hardly the first time Trump has upended markets this term, and the reaction this week has been far more tempered than after his April rollout of steep tariffs. The big difference now, however, is that with the war he’s helped unleash, Wall Street is warning Trump may have a tough time containing the fallout . 2022 Scenario The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index has gained more than 1% this week, while 10-year yields are up rou...

Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet. Meta claimed it was blurring faces in images, but sources disputed that this blurring consistently worked, reports noted. The news prompted the U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, to investigate the matter. Now, the tech giant is facing a lawsuit in the United States, as well. In the newly filed complaint, plaintiffs Gina Bartone of New Jersey and Mateo Canu of California, represented by the public interest-focused Clarkson Law Firm, allege that Meta violated privacy laws and engaged in false advertising. The complaint alleges that the Meta AI smartglasses are advertised using promises like “designed for privacy, controlled by you,” and “built for your privacy,” which might not lead customers to assume their glasses’ footage, including intimate moments, was being watched by overseas workers. The plaintiffs believed Meta’s marketing and said they saw no disclaimer or information that contradicted the advertised privacy protections. The suit charges Meta and its glasses manufacturing partner Luxottica of America with conduct that violates consumer protection laws. Meta has not yet responded to TechCrunch’s request for comment. Clarkson Law Firm, which over the years has filed other major lawsuits against tech giants, including Apple, Google, and OpenAI, points to the scale of the issues at hand. In 2025, over seven million people bought Meta’s smartglasses, which means their footage is fed into a data pipeline for review, and they can’t opt out. Meta told the BBC that when people share content with Meta AI, it uses contractors to review the information to improve people’s experience with the glasses, which is explained in its privacy policy, a...

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Rasi Bhadramani/iStock via Getty Images Nvidia's ( NVDA ) $4B supply-chain investment and multi-year InP bottlenecks at Coherent ( COHR ) and Lumentum Holdings ( LITE ) signal that photonics manufacturing, not GPUs, may limit AI scaling. Introduction Within roughly a 48-hour window , two developments reshaped the photonics backdrop surrounding Aeluma, Inc. ( ALMU ). First, Nvidia announced approximately $4 billion in strategic investments and supply arrangements tied to optical interconnect infrastructure for AI data centers. The agreements include $2 billion equity investments and multiyear purchase commitments with major photonics suppliers, including Coherent Corp. and Lumentum Holdings (NVDA - COHR and LITE investment) . One day later, at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Coherent’s CEO (Coherent Transcript from the Conference) delivered an unusually direct assessment of the industry’s materials bottleneck: “The industry is constrained on indium phosphide capacity… most likely constrained through next year… it could be years that the industry is constrained.” These remarks landed immediately after Nvidia’s supply-chain move, underscoring the urgency emerging across the sector. Coherent’s leadership also made a broader architectural point: “Physics demands that we switch to optical… the end state is almost every connection in the data center fully optical.” This is not incremental improvement — it is a structural shift in how AI infrastructure will be built and scaled. Taken together, commentary from Nvidia, Coherent, and Lumentum highlights two realities: Optical demand in AI infrastructure is inflecting upward. The III-V materials used to manufacture many optical devices — particularly indium phosphide — are increasingly supply-constrained. That combination creates a favorable backdrop for photonics architectures capable of delivering III-V-class performance while riding silicon manufacturing rails. That is precisely the direction Aelum...

Arjun Raghavan, the CEO of Partners Capital, a firm that manages $75 billion for families and foundations worldwide — and he says AI is the largest risk factor in markets right now. Arjun joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the technology and where he seeks the cracks and opportunities in private credit. (Source: Bloomberg)

Key Points An insider bought a sizeable chunk of The Trade Desk stock. Reports emerged of a potential groundbreaking partnership. This double dose of good news sent The Trade Desk stock soaring. 10 stocks we like better than The Trade Desk › Shares of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) stock roared out of the gate on Thursday, spiking as much as 30.7%. As of 10:56 a.m. ET, the stock was still up 18.4%. The catalyst that sent the adtech specialist higher was a combination of insider buying and a potential groundbreaking partnership. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » A potential turnaround? The first bit of good news was a report that The Trade Desk had held talks with OpenAI regarding a strategic partnership. The artificial intelligence (AI) start-up is looking to expand into advertising, relying on partnerships to place its ads. The Trade Desk was named as one of its potential partners. The second bit of good news was a record-breaking stock purchase by CEO Jeff Green. The chief executive bought 6 million shares of The Trade Desk stock at prices ranging between $23.49 and $25.08, according to a regulatory filing. That puts the value of the new stake at more than $151 million. This adds to Green's already sizable holdings. As recently as last year, he owned roughly 47 million shares, or roughly 48% of the company, putting his total stake at roughly $1.3 billion. There's an old Wall Street adage that suggests that while there are plenty of reasons to sell a stock, there's only one reason to buy -- the belief that the stock will rise from here. The Trade Desk stock has been pummeled recently as investors grew concerned about decelerating growth and the possibility that AI is having a negative impact on its adtech business. These fears have weighed on the stock, sending shares down 63% over th...

mohd izzuan With its Q4 2025 financials on Thursday, Altimmune ( ALT ) announced plans to begin a late-stage trial this year to test its lead asset, pemvidutide, in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a liver disorder. The global Phase 3 trial will be designed to evaluate multiple pemvidutide doses over 52 weeks using biopsy-based endpoints to support a potential accelerated approval, the weight-loss drug developer said. The announcement came after the U.S. FDA granted its Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the glucagon/GLP-1 dual receptor agonist as a treatment for MASH earlier this year, sending Altimmune ( ALT ) shares higher. The company also announced that initial results from its RECLAIM Phase 2 trial for pemvidutide against alcohol use disorder are expected in Q3 2026. “We have a number of important inflection points in 2026, most notably the upcoming initiation of our Phase 3 trial of pemvidutide in MASH, for which we are actively finalizing the study plan,” CEO Jerry Durso remarked. However, Altimmune ( ALT ) shares fell ~7% after the results, as the company reported a worse-than-feared loss for the quarter, driven by higher-than-expected R&D expenses. ALT’s GAAP loss per share reached $0.27, missing the analysts’ expectations by $0.03 in Q4, while its R&D costs reached $18.4M compared to $17.4M in the Bloomberg consensus. More on Altimmune Altimmune Outlook: Where Pemvidutide Phase 3 Is Heading In 2026 Altimmune: Why Breakthrough Status Isn't A 'Buy' Signal Just Yet Altimmune: Pemvidutide's 48-Week Data Confirms The Market's Smokescreen Altimmune prices $75M direct offering Altimmune gains on FDA breakthrough designation for MASH therapy

Seven nations and the British government will boycott the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics in protest at the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes, organisers have confirmed. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said that the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine would not be sending athletes or officials to the ceremony on Friday night. Other countries – including Great Britain – have said they will not be sending athletic representation due to the imminent start of competition. Currently the IPC estimates fewer than 60% of the competing countries will send a full delegation to the event in the 2,000-year-old Arena di Verona. The UK government also confirmed there would be no representatives attending the event and reiterated its opposition to Russian athletes competing under their own flag. “We have been clear that the Russian and Belarusian states should not be represented in international sport while the barbaric full-scale invasion of Ukraine is ongoing.” But it did say in a statement that the minister for sport, Stephanie Peacock, would be in Cortina “purely to support our inspirational ParalympicsGB athletes”. Andrew Parsons, the president of the IPC, was forced on the eve of the Games to defend the decision to allow Russian athletes to compete under their own flag for the first time since 2014. Russia and Belarus were banned from the 2022 Paralympics after the invasion of Ukraine,. At the same time, there is mounting uncertainty over the participation of nations caught up in the conflict launched by the US and Israel against Iran last weekend. “Our clear focus remains on supporting all stakeholders arriving and preparing to deliver the best Paralympic Winter Games,” Parsons said. “We are collaborating with Milano Cortina and ensuring this event continues to serve as a platform to drive social change for the world’s 1.3 billion persons with disability.” Parsons defended the decision taken by the IPC g...

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Key points: Synopsys shares are very cheap compared to its biggest competitor after a sell-off in software stocks this year The electronic design automation software leader holds a 41% market share. Nvidia is buying shares of the stock, alongside the company itself. I am a buyer of Synopsys (SNPS) , a casualty of the recent software meltdown. The selling is overdone when considering its leading market position, software contract backlog and cheap valuation. Synopsys makes electronic design automation (EDA) software for creating complex silicon chips and transistors used in everything from data centers to automobiles. It's customers include Nvidia and Tesla. The more complex the chips, the more you need Synopsys because it allows customers to get to market faster with greater accuracy. That's why they call what Synopsys makes "mission critical software." Synopsys was founded 40 years ago in North Carolina by semiconductor industry pioneer Aart de Geus. The company eventually moved to Silicon Valley, establishing the Electronic Design Automation market and going public in 1992. De Gues passed the CEO baton to Sassine Ghazi three years ago and became executive chair. Over the last 20 years, the stock has returned nearly 16% annually, topping the S & P 500's 11% return. But the shares have hit some turbulence recently. AI threat The shares are down more than 32% from a one-year high, including a 7% pullback this year alone as it gets caught up in the software rout based on fears artificial intelligence will replace some of the industry's functions. A proxy for the industry's sell-off — the iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF (IGV) — is down 18% this year, led by companies such as TurboTax maker Intuit and HR software provider Workday. Share of those two companies have each lost nearly a third of their value on the fear tools by Anthropic's Claude or other AI models will replace their business. Even Microsoft has not been immune, with the shares down 16% this year on the ...

(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — This makes no sense. These companies practically do the same thing for the same customers: Target (TGT) was supposed to be the sexy, up-and-coming growth story and Walmart (WMT) was supposed to be its older, less glamorous cousin. I guess the Walmart folks didn't get the memo because they didn't seem to stick to the plot. Over the last year, we've seen Walmart rocket 36% higher vs Target's gain of 7%. Over three years, it's been 41% annualized vs minus 7% a year. Over the last five years, WMT did 26.33% annualized (I know!) vs TGT's minus 4% a year. The 10 year number is 22% vs 7%. These stocks do not even belong in the same stadium. So, eventually, shareholders and board directors get sick and tired of being sick and tired and they shake things up. This is one of the benefits of the research we do into the Best Stocks in the Market. I haven't looked at Target in half a decade, but now the data demands that I do. It hit the list on Tuesday, and we need to know why. I don't fully trust this company yet, but the trend has my attention. Sean wanted to write it up for our Thursday focus piece this week and so here we are. Target shareholders, welcome back to the Land of the Living. Best Stock Spotlight: Target Corp. (TGT) Sean — Target reported earnings on Tuesday and the stock gapped higher 7% making it the best day for Target since post-liberation day last year. Target had a slight miss on revenue expectations but beat on EPS. Fourth quarter net sales were $30.5 billion, down 1.5% year over year, with Food & Beverage, Beauty, and Toys showing growth, while non-merchandise sales grew over 25%, with membership revenue more than doubling year over year. Target has certainly had its struggles. Prior to this post earnings bounce, the stock was in a 68% drawdown, which is worse than its GFC drawdown of 64% below highs. Following the post-Covid binge in...

Key Points Record-breaking gross margins highlight superior brand equity and operational efficiency. Explosive triple-digit growth potential in Asia-Pacific offsets stabilizing Western markets. Shares trade at a significant discount to historical multiples despite double-digit growth forecasts. 10 stocks we like better than On Holding › The recent dip in On Holding (NYSE: ONON) shares following its 2026 guidance may be a great gift for long-term investors. Wall Street was disappointed in a conservative revenue outlook, but the underlying fundamentals tell a story of a premium brand in its prime. Revenue growth continues to compound at a 20%+ rate, margins are higher than expected, and the value looks too good to pass up. I dig into everything you need to know, including how currencies complicate analyzing the business, in this video. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » *Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of March 4, 2026. The video was published on March 5, 2026. Should you buy stock in On Holding right now? Before you buy stock in On Holding, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and On Holding wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $532,066!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $1,122,072!* Now, it’s worth noting Stock Advisor’s total average return is 960% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 193% for the S&P 500. Don't miss the latest top 10 list, available with Stock Advisor, and join an inv...

Stratasys (SSYS 9.29%) stock tumbled 12.6% through 11:05 a.m. Thursday despite beating on top and bottom lines in its Q4 earnings report. Wall Street analysts forecast the 3D printing company would earn $0.06 per share, adjusted for one-time items, on quarterly sales of $139.3 million. In fact, Stratasys earned $0.07 per share on sales of $140 million. But the real news was a bit worse than that. Stratasys Q4 earnings Although Stratasys "beat earnings" and reported $0.07 in non-GAAP profit, its actual net earnings calculated under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) showed not a beat, not even a profit, but a loss -- $0.22 per share for the quarter. Similarly, sales that exceeded expectations were still down 7% year over year. For the full year, Stratasys reported a 4% decline in sales to $551.1 million and a net loss of $1.28 per share. CEO Dr. Yoav Zeif boasted of "solid cash flow generation" for the quarter and the year, but the company did not say how much it spent on capital investment in either period. Until the company publishes a cash flow statement, it's hard to say for certain... but such capex may have been large enough to erase the positive cash flow and result in negative free cash flow for Stratasys. Expand NASDAQ : SSYS Stratasys Today's Change ( -9.29 %) $ -0.91 Current Price $ 8.89 Key Data Points Market Cap $833M Day's Range $ 8.18 - $ 8.90 52wk Range $ 8.12 - $ 12.81 Volume 1.8M Avg Vol 972K Gross Margin 42.70 % Is Stratasys stock a sell? Turning to guidance, Stratasys forecast sales to resume growing in 2026. Management expects full-year revenue to grow to about $570 million, up 3.4% from 2025. The company does not expect to become profitable in 2026, but hopes to continue shrinking its losses, this time to no worse than $0.95 per share (and potentially as low as $0.76). Still unprofitable and with the FCF situation murky, Stratasys stock remains a sell for me.

JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Broadcom ( AVGO ) posted stellar revenue and earnings numbers on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 4. Shares rose 7% by the following morning, bucking the bearish reaction to rival NVIDIA’s ( NVDA ) quarterly report the previous week. It was a welcome and arguably needed relief for shareholders, given AVGO’s material drawdown from the December high above $410. Today, with Q1 2026 numbers in hand, I am upgrading Broadcom to a "B uy." I had a "H old" rating on the stock back in November , and AVGO had dipped 17% before Wednesday night’s quarterly update. I’ll offer a refreshed valuation and provide an updated look at the technicals. AVGO Falls From Its December High Stockcharts.com In March, Broadcom reported a solid set of quarterly results. Fiscal Q1 non-GAAP EPS of $2.05 topped the Wall Street consensus forecast of $2.02, while revenue of $19.3 billion (up a strong 29% from the same period last year) was a $170 million beat. The company issued Q2 revenue guidance of $22 billion (versus the street consensus of $20.4 billion) and adjusted EBITDA guidance of 68% of projected revenue. The stock initially slipped, but shares soared by the following morning in what was a flat tape. The options market had priced in a 7.2% earnings-related stock price swing based on the at-the-money straddle expiring this week, and implied volatility was elevated at 57% coming into the Q1 print. Shares of the now $1.6 trillion market cap Semiconductors industry company within the Information Technology sector carry a low short interest of 0.8%, with a dividend ex-date ahead. Looking back on the quarter that was, Broadcom’s double beat and guide above expectations was a welcome relief for investors. What’s more, the earnings call was particularly encouraging. CEO Hock Tan and other executives addressed investor concerns regarding competition and customer insourcing, which helped AVGO lift from a modest loss in the after-hours session to a notable ...

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Image source: The Motley Fool. Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS President and CEO — Eric Thomas Greager Incoming CEO — Chad E. Lundberg Chief Financial Officer — Chad L. Kalmakoff Senior Vice President, Capital Markets and Public Affairs — Brian Ector Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] TAKEAWAYS Eagle Ford Sale -- Company completed the Eagle Ford disposition in December, marking a shift to a focused Canadian oil producer. -- Company completed the Eagle Ford disposition in December, marking a shift to a focused Canadian oil producer. Annual Production -- Canadian portfolio delivered 65,500 BOE per day, representing 6% organic growth. -- Canadian portfolio delivered 65,500 BOE per day, representing 6% organic growth. Duvernay Output -- Fourth-quarter Duvernay production increased 46% to 10,600 BOE per day. -- Fourth-quarter Duvernay production increased 46% to 10,600 BOE per day. 2026 Production Guidance -- Management maintained annual guidance of 67,000-69,000 BOE per day, indicating 3%-5% forecasted organic growth. -- Management maintained annual guidance of 67,000-69,000 BOE per day, indicating 3%-5% forecasted organic growth. Capital Program -- Planned $550 million-$625 million capital investment for 2026, with details of segment allocations provided by management. -- Planned $550 million-$625 million capital investment for 2026, with details of segment allocations provided by management. Duvernay Drilling Plans -- 12 wells to be brought onstream in 2026, up 50% from the previous year. -- 12 wells to be brought onstream in 2026, up 50% from the previous year. Heavy Oil Development -- 91 heavy oil wells scheduled for completion in 2026, with active expansion in Northeast Alberta. -- 91 heavy oil wells scheduled for completion in 2026, with active expansion in Northeast Alberta. Free Cash Flow -- $270 million generated in 2025, including $76 million in Q4; fourth-quarter result was reduced by $35 million in nonrec...

In trading on Wednesday, shares of Bilibili Inc (Symbol: BILI) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $21.11, changing hands as low as $20.90 per share. Bilibili Inc shares are currently trading off about 2% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of BILI shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Looking at the chart above, BILI's low point in its 52 week range is $8.23 per share, with $30.44 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $21.20. Click here to find out which 9 other stocks recently crossed below their 200 day moving average » Also see: The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

onurdongel/E+ via Getty Images Shares of H2O America ( HTO ) have moved up to the higher end of the recent trading range as the move prompted management to issue some stock. Such practice is exactly in line with the past, as I concluded last September that growth came at a price. Having delivered on an impressive topline sales growth and delivered on a strong dividend track record, it was this combination and the associated capital expenditures required that led to continued dilution. This trend and some additional M&A were not going to alter this dynamic anytime soon, leaving me unimpressed with growth on a per-share basis. More Equity Gets Sold Early in March, H2O America announced a very substantial equity issuance with 11.5 million shares sold at $53 per share, which means that the company will see gross proceeds of around $610 million from the offering. Technically, some of these shares are sold in forward sale agreements, but given that this mostly reflects timing issuance, for the simple math of it, I treat them as current sales. This deal is in part meant to pay for the pending Quadvest acquisition, although that stock issuance will continue even if the acquisition does not close. About The Results Just a week ago, H2O announced its 2025 results, a year in which operating revenues rose by about 7% to just over $800 million. GAAP operating profits rose by 4% to $177 million, translating into non-GAAP earnings of $102 million, with GAAP earnings up five cents to $2.92 per share based on a share tally of 36 million shares. That, for one, shows the extent of the dilution, with the share count seen up nearly a third. Adjusted earnings were reported at $2.99 per share, with the company seeing 2026 earnings advance to $3.08-$3.18 per share, which, of course, was ahead of the substantial equity issuance announced early in March. Note that net debt is reported at $1.95 billion at the end of the year, this being a massive sum in relation to about $293 million in EBITD...