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  • Okta Shares Surge In After-Hour Trading Following Earnings Release

    Okta Shares Surge In After-Hour Trading Following Earnings Release

    Following the release of its fiscal Q3 2025 earnings report, Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) shares experienced a notable surge on the US stock charts. During after-hours trading, shares climbed 15.53%, reaching $94.40. The surge was fueled by its robust financial performance, including a Non-GAAP net income of $121 million—an impressive increase from the $79 million recorded during the same period last year. Okta’s revenue also rose significantly by $14 million, reaching $665 million, reflecting the success of its strategic initiatives.

    Key Investments Drive Success

    Okta’s focus on its partner ecosystem, public sector vertical, and large customer base has been pivotal in driving top-line growth. Each sector has made significant contributions as a result of these focused efforts, enhancing the company’s standing as a pioneer in identity security solutions. Additionally, since companies of all sizes depend more and more on Okta to update their identity infrastructure, the company’s commitment to innovation has struck a chord with them.

    Increasing Identity Security Recognition

    Building on the success of its 2024 Identity 25 report, Okta recently launched the 2025 Identity 25 nominations. This initiative celebrates individuals advancing identity security, privacy, and innovation across academia, public service, private enterprise, and nonprofits. The annual list honors those pioneering transformative solutions in digital identity management, safety, and user empowerment.

    The Identity 25 acknowledges the challenges posed by emerging technologies such as generative AI and evolving cybersecurity threats. From zero-trust protocol innovators to privacy policy advocates, the program highlights leaders shaping the future of identity security.

    Global Nominations for Broader Impact

    To expand inclusivity, Okta is accepting public nominations for the 2025 Identity 25 until December 6, 2024. The selected nominees will be announced in March 2025. By requesting submissions from all across the world, Okta hopes to raise the bar established by the first list and encourage cooperation and creativity. The program demonstrates Okta’s dedication to promoting developments in digital identity, enabling creative thinkers to tackle urgent issues in a globalized society.

  • Early Morning Vibes: 4 Stocks We Like for Tuesday Trading

    Early Morning Vibes: 4 Stocks We Like for Tuesday Trading

    Major US stock indices fell 1.3-1.5% on the first day of trading in 2021.

    The broad market S&P 500 index fell 1.48% to 3700.65 points, the industrial Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.25% to 30223.89 points, and the technological NASDAQ dropped 1.47% 12698.45 points.
     

    Despite the general optimistic sentiment of investors regarding the recovery of the global economy after the coronavirus pandemic, the indices declined.

    At the start of the new year, investors focused on the same issue that has dominated the markets for much of 2020: the coronavirus pandemic. Many expect economic activity to accelerate later this year as communities are vaccinated, and organizations reopened. At the same time, there is an understanding that the path to economic recovery will be long and uneven.

    Recent news on the coronavirus situation paints a bleak picture. In the United States, the number of hospitalizations on Sunday reached a record high. In several countries in Europe, governments are extending quarantine restrictions designed to slow the spread of infection.

    The difficulty in dealing with the pandemic means that many companies will be vulnerable to financial risks in the short term.

    The experts noted growing nervousness over the results of the second round of elections to the U.S. Senate in Georgia. The outcome of the vote will determine whether the Republicans will retain control of the Senate. According to investors in prediction markets, the likelihood of a GOP victory has diminished in the past few days, potentially signaling a tense battle for Senate seats.

    Corporate Highlights

    Coca-Cola shares lost 3.8%. RBC Capital Markets has downgraded their rating from “above sector” to “par with the sector.” The bank’s analysts believe that the pandemic will continue to restrict public events and consumer access to restaurants, negatively affecting demand for Coca-Cola products.

    Airline stocks, which were also seriously affected by the coronavirus, also declined on Monday. In particular, American Airlines shares fell 4.1%, while Delta Air Lines shares fell 3.7%.

    Hotel chain shares were also down, with Hilton Worldwide Holdings down 3.4%, while Marriott International shed 5.4%.

    Tesla, meanwhile, gained 3.4%. The electric vehicle maker said it delivered a record 499,550 vehicles last year, just slightly below its target of 500,000.

    Amid a massive sell-off in shares, gold prices jumped 2.7% to $ 1,944.70 per troy ounce, the most significant percentage gain since April. Precious metal quotes usually receive support when market volatility increases.

    An additional source of joy in the market was the latest data on the manufacturing sector’s state. According to surveys of purchasing managers, factories in Asia and Europe increased their output at the end of the year. In December, there was a substantial rise in activity.

    Today Top Movers

    ‎Jaguar Health Inc (JAGX) share price ascended 30.90% to $2.33 during early morning ‎trading session on Tuesday.‎ ‎

    Zosano Pharma Corp (ZSAN), a Biotechnology company, increased about 78.60% ‎at ‎‎$1.04 in pre-market trading Tuesday after declaring that the company requested a Type A meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review resubmission plans for Qtrypta new drug application. ‎

    Naked Brand Group Ltd (NAKD) stock surged 14.83% at $0.25 in the pre-market trading today.

    Broadway Fin Cp (BYFC) jumped over 46.88% at $2.82 in pre-market ‎trading on Tuesday after the company and CFBanc Corporation revealed receipt of regulatory approvals for the merger.

    Top Upgrades & Downgrades


    Needham turned bullish on Merit Medical Systems Inc. (MMSI), upgrading the stock to “Buy” and assigning a $65.0 price target, representing potential upside of 18.69% from Monday’s close.
     

    DocuSign Inc. (DOCU) has won the favor of Piper Sandler’s equity research team. The firm upgraded the shares from Neutral to Overweight and moved their price target to $300.
     

    Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS) received an upgrade from analysts at KeyBanc, who also set their one-year price target on the stock to $155.0. They changed their rating on CDNS to Overweight from Sector Weight in a recently issued research note.
     

    Earlier Sunday Piper Sandler reduced its rating on Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) stock to Neutral from Overweight.
     

    Piper Sandler analysts reduced their investment ratings, saying in research reports covered by the media that its rating for Rapid7 Inc. (RPD) has been changed to Neutral from Overweight and the new price target is set at $95.
     

    Analysts at Piper Sandler downgraded Okta Inc. (OKTA)’s stock to Neutral from Overweight on Tuesday.

    Latest Insider Activity

    ReneSola Ltd (SOL) CFO SHAH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT announced the sale of shares taking place on Dec 31 at $11.90 for some 26,000 shares. The total came to more than $0.31 million.
     

    ACM Research Inc. (ACMR) Wang Jian sold on Dec 30 a total 84,386 shares at $78.00 on average. The insider’s sale generated proceeds of almost $2.53 million.
     

    Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment Company (HOFV) Director Lichter Stuart declared the purchase of shares taking place on Dec 29 at $1.40 for some 10,813,774 shares. The transaction amount was around $15.14 million.
     

    Beyond Air Inc. (XAIR) CEO, Chairman Lisi Steven A. bought on Dec 31 a total 929 shares at $5.28 on average. The purchase cost the insider an estimated $203,280.

    Important Earnings

    Top US earnings releases scheduled for today include Cal-Maine Foods Inc. (NASDAQ:CALM). It will announce its Nov 2020 financial results. The company is expected to report earnings of -$0.08 per share from revenues of $333.49M in the three-month period.

  • 20 Trending Stocks In Software – Infrastructure Industry You Should Be Holding Now

    20 Trending Stocks In Software – Infrastructure Industry You Should Be Holding Now

    In today’s world, we are observing the fast digital transformation that affects all life areas including business, healthcare, manufacturing, and entertainment. Software is ubiquitous and the software industry is considered to be an important industry as the new technologies are evolving with time.  The software industry has made progress rapidly. The global information technology is on pace to reach $5.2 trillion in 2020.

    There are various trends this industry is adapting to keep pace with the fast-moving technological world.  Cloud computing and artificial intelligence is now dominating the technological world today. There are various other trends such as machine learning, blockchain, and edge computing has a major impact on this industry beyond our imagination.

    Let take a quick look at the top 20 trending companies which are following new trends to compete in the market:

    ACI Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: ACIW)

    ACI Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: ACIW) shares were trading up 2.55% at $27.95 at the time of writing on Monday. ACI Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: ACIW) share price went from a low point around $20.03 to briefly over $39.37 in the past 52 weeks, though shares have since pulled back to $27.95. ACIW market cap has remained high, hitting $3.20B at the time of writing, giving it a price-to-sales ratio of more than 2.

    ACI Worldwide Inc. (ACIW) disclosed that it has entered into a strategic partnership with GOLDPoint Systems for installment and specialty lenders. The companies will facilitate debit card loan payments and disbursement of loan proceeds for GOLDPoint Systems’ customers through the integration of the ACI Speedpay solution into the GOLDPoint platform. If we look at the recent analyst rating ACIW, Compass Point initiated coverage on ACIW shares with a Buy rating and a $35.43 price target, which implies room for 7.48% upside momentum this year.

    Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE)

    Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) last closed at $486.47, in a 52-week range of $255.13 to $536.88. Analysts have a consensus price target of $552.77. Adobe announced the appointment of Melanie Boulden to its board of directors, effective Oct. 5, 2020. The addition of Boulden expands Adobe’s board of directors from 10 to 11 members. This company has a total market capitalization of $243.37 billion.

    Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM)

    Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) stock soar by 0.45% to $109.10. The most recent rating by Needham, on July 22, 2020, is at a Buy. Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) disclosed earlier that it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020 evaluation. Forrester evaluated 15 vendors and their Zero Trust security platforms based on 19 criteria, ranking their current offering, strategy, and market presence.

    BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB)

    BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB) Shares headed rising, higher as much as 1.35%. The most recent rating by TD Securities, on April 01, 2020, is at a Hold.BlackBerry Limited has revealed BlackBerry® Protect Mobile, a new mobile threat defense (MTD) solution that extends the powerful AI-based security in BlackBerry® Protect to mobile devices. Looking at its profitability, it has a current ratio of $2.58 billion.

    Box Inc. (NYSE: BOX)

    Box Inc. (NYSE: BOX) rose 0.70% after gaining more than $0.12 on Monday. Box Inc. (BOX) has disclosed that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has issued Box an Authority to Operate (ATO). The VA can leverage Box’s cloud content management platform to modernize its technical infrastructure and drive new ways to work in the cloud. This company market capitalization has remained high, hitting $2.76 billion at the time of writing.

    CleanSpark Inc. (NASDAQ: CLSK)

    CleanSpark Inc. (CLSK) last closed at $12.20, in a 52-week range of $0.97 to $15.14. CleanSpark Inc. (CLSK) earlier disclosed that it is entering the Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station space through its recently acquired, wholly-owned subsidiary GridFabric, LLC. GridFabric is an OpenADR (Automatic Demand Response) communications compliance and certification company.

    CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (CRWD)

    CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (CRWD) stock soar by 3.58% to $144.88. The most recent rating by Goldman, on October 05, 2020, is at a Buy. CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has earlier disclosed that it has completed its acquisition of Preempt Security, a leading provider of Zero Trust, and conditional access technology for real-time access control and threat prevention.

    Dropbox Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX)

    Dropbox Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX) shares headed rising, higher as much as 1.72%. The most recent rating by BofA Securities, on July 31, 2020, is at a Neutral. Dropbox Inc. (DBX) CEO and co-founder Drew Houston earlier, said that COVID has accelerated a shift to distributed work that we have been talking about for some time, and these new ways of working will not simply go away when the pandemic is over.

    FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE)

    FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE) rose 2.22% after gaining more than $0.27 on Monday. FireEye Inc. (FEYE)  earlier disclosed Mandiant® Advantage: Threat Intelligence the first SaaS-based offering by Mandiant Solutions to combine its Threat Intelligence with data from the frontlines of its industry-leading cyber incident response engagements, delivered through an easy-to-use management platform.

    Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ: FTNT)

    Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) last closed at $119.09, in a 52-week range of $70.20 to $151.95. Analysts have a consensus price target of $139.50. Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) has launched its new free Information Security Awareness and Training service for organizations looking to educate employees about the increasing risks of cyberattacks. This company has a market capitalization of $19.91 billion at the time of writing.

    GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY)

    GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) stock soar by 2.57% to $77.09. The most recent rating by Raymond James, on August 06, 2020, is at a Strong buy. GoDaddy Inc. (GDDY) has disclosed that customers can now sell their products on Instagram and Facebook through Websites + Marketing Ecommerce, further expanding the opportunity for them to find new customers and grow sales. As an official Facebook Marketing Partner, GoDaddy is one of the early adopters of Facebook’s Business Extension.

    Limelight Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW)

    Limelight Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: LLNW) Shares headed falling, lower as much as -1.79%. The most recent rating by Truist, on September 18, 2020, is at a Buy. Limelight Networks Inc. (LLNW) will report financial results for the third quarter of 2020 on Thursday, October 22, 2020. This company has a total market capitalization of $695.37 million at the time of writing.

    Micro Focus International plc (NYSE: MFGP)

    Micro Focus International plc (NYSE: MFGP) rose 7.48% after gaining more than $0.24 on Monday. Micro Focus International plc (MFGP) share price went from a low point around $3.11 to briefly over $16.49 in the past 52 weeks, though shares have since pulled back to $3.55. MFGP market cap has remained high, hitting $1.16 B at the time of writing.

    Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)

    Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) last closed at $210.38, in a 52-week range of $132.52 to $232.86. Analysts have a consensus price target of $229.83. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Microsoft Corp. is to build a data center hub in Greece as it invests in cloud services infrastructure in the country, a boon to an economy weakened by a decade-long debt crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.

    Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET)

    Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET) stock soar by 2.66% to $42.86. The most recent rating by Needham, on August 07, 2020, is at a Buy. Cloudflare Inc. (NET) has launched Cloudflare Radar, a free public tool that lets anyone view global traffic and security trends across the Internet as they happen. This company has a total market capitalization of $13.19 billion.

    NortonLifeLock Inc. (NASDAQ: NLOK)

    NortonLifeLock Inc. (NASDAQ: NLOK) shares headed rising, higher as much as 4.67%. The most recent rating by Argus, on August 21, 2020, is at a Buy. NortonLifeLock Inc. (NLOK) share price went from a low point around $13.06 to briefly over $24.40 in the past 52 weeks, though shares have since pulled back to $21.69. NLOK market cap has remained high, hitting $12.81 Billion at the time of writing.

    Nutanix Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX)

    Nutanix Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX) fall -0.99% after losing more than -$0.22 on Monday. Nutanix Inc. (NTNX) earlier disclosed the release of the first cloud-agnostic multi-database management solution. Era 2.0 extends the Nutanix database management solution across clouds and clusters to simplify operations, with increased scale and reduced costs for IT and database teams.

    Okta Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA)

    Okta Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) last closed at $227.26, in a 52-week range of $88.66 to $231.29. Analysts have a consensus price target of $222.74. Okta Inc. (OKTA) has disclosed it will webcast the Keynote and Investor/Analyst Q&A sessions of Showcase 2020.

    Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL)

    Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) stock soar by 1.24% to $59.56. The most recent rating by RBC Capital Mkts, on September 21, 2020, is at an Outperform. Paytronix Systems, Inc., the most advanced digital guest experience platform and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced the integration of Paytronix Order & Delivery with Oracle MICROS Simphony POS.

    Anaplan Inc. (NYSE: PLAN)

    Anaplan Inc. (NYSE: PLAN) Shares headed falling, lower as much as -1.04%. The most recent rating by Needham, on August 27, 2020, is at a Buy. Anaplan Inc. (PLAN) market capitalization has remained high, hitting $8.85 billion at the time of writing.