Movers & Shakers: First Republic Bank’s stock selloff continues despite $30 billion bank boost, and Baidu shares lifted after winning driverless robotaxi permit

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These were some of the biggest movers and shakers in premarket Friday trading:

Stock gainers

  • FedEx Corp.’s stock
    FDX,
    +4.48%

    jumped almost 12% after beating analyst estimates in its fiscal third-quarter earnings. The shipping firm also lifted its profit forecast for the full fiscal year, increasing its earnings-per-share guidance to $14.40 from $13.80.

  • American depositary receipts (ADRs) of China’s Baidu Inc.
    BIDU,
    +3.80%

    rose 4.8% after winning a permit to provide a fully driverless robotaxi services in Beijing. On Thursday, analyst’s described the selloff as an “overreaction” to its answer to ChatGPT.

  • Enzo Biochem Inc. shares ENZ soared 66% premarket after the company announced late Thursday that it will sell its clinical laboratory unit to Labcorp.

  • Histogen Inc.’s stock
    HSTO,
    -3.65%

    rose 33% after the biotech company announced it was issued a new U.S. patent that covers its portfolio of anti-inflammatory caspase inhibitors, including CTS-2090.

Stock decliners

  • First Republic Bank‘s stock
    FRC,
    +9.98%

    was down 9% in premarket trading. The stock closed 9% up on Thursday after a consortium of big banks including Bank of America Corp.
    BAC,
    +1.68%
    ,
    Citigroup Inc.
    C,
    +1.78%
    ,
    and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    JPM,
    +1.94%

    and others agreed to make uninsured deposits totaling $30 billion to prop up the struggling bank. Among other regional bank, shares of PacWest Bancorp
    PACW,
    +0.70%

    lost 6% and of Western Alliance Bancorp shed 3%.

  • Credit Suisse Group AG ADRs
    CS,

    fell over 4%, finishing off a rough week for the Swiss lender after resorting to asking for a $54 billion lifeline from the Swiss central bank. The ADRs had tumbled 18.8% this week through Thursday.

  • The U.S.-listed shares of XPeng Inc.
    XPEV,
    +2.84%

    slid nearly 3% after the China-based EV maker reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss, revenue that missed expectations and provided a downbeat first-quarter outlook.

  • ThermoGenesis Holdings Inc.’s stock
    THMO,
    +43.20%

    fell more than 18% premarket, reversing a two-day rally where shares were up over 30% after the cell-processing services company moved to raise roughly $3 million through the sale of stock.

  • Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.’s stock
    SRPT,
    +2.89%

    sank 18% premarket following a Thursday selloff sparked by an unexpected Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meeting for Sarepta’s investigational gene therapy for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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