First profitable quarter in years, with net income of $162 million against a year-ago loss, and management lifted full-year revenue growth guidance. International COVID deliveries under the UK, Canada and Australia partnerships did the heavy lifting, while the melanoma vaccine with Merck cut recurrence or death risk.
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Moderna cleared $258.38, a fresh 52-week high and 5.11% above the peak it set on October 21. The $103.2 billion vaccine maker keeps resetting its own ceiling faster than two weeks at a time.
Duolingo closed up 26.8% at $162.31, the biggest move in a 383-stock priority universe that saw double-digit swings on both ends. Datadog, Vertiv, CVS and Quanta all gave up more than 12% in the same session.
Royal Caribbean is the standout at the open, up 7.56% to $301.81 and leading a 381-stock priority list. HSBC anchors the other end at -6.47%, a 14-point spread between the day's best and worst names.
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/26/26
- Cramer's bear case: a flood of IPOs and secondaries, $148B raised so far this year, drains the money that funds stocks
- Applied Materials down from $739 to $387: buy 25 shares now, add on the pattern, finish in the 200s
- Moderna after a parabolic move: let it come in before earnings, no buying parabolic charts
- Thermo Fisher CEO on a beat-and-raise, BlackBerry's turnaround, and CrowdStrike cyber worries on deck
The call that matters for holders here is supply: Cramer argues the equity and debt markets are nearly tapped out after Meta, Alphabet and SpaceX raisings, with Anthropic's S1 now in line. He stops short of calling a top while pushing for buybacks and takeovers over further deals, favoring staged buying in Applied Materials and patience on Moderna.
American Tower opened up 8.07%, the only move above 4% on the upside across a 385-name board. Bloom Energy is off 11.67%, with Moderna, Infosys, GE Aerospace and AT&T sliding too.
Moderna's 17.8% drop was the single biggest move at Tuesday's close, and four of the five worst performers were chip and photonics names. Spotify topped the winners.
A 14.31% slide to $205.67 takes roughly $12 billion off an $84.9 billion biotech in a single session, one of the sharpest single-day drops this name has seen. Keep an eye on whether the $240 open gets reclaimed.
Moderna just set a fresh 52-week high at $242.08, 2.36% above the peak it reached on October 15. A year ago the stock traded near $27.
General Motors shed 7.5% into the close, the worst showing across 387 priority names and nearly double the next-biggest decline. GoPro and Clover Health anchored the other end, each up more than 7.5%.
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