Tesla, Broadcom, Apple, Signet, Torrid, Dave & Buster’s, and More Stock Market Movers

Tesla, Broadcom, Apple, Signet, Torrid, Dave & Buster’s, and More Stock Market Movers

Tesla

was rising 4.4%. Shareholders of the electric-vehicle company will finish voting Thursday on CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package. In a tweet late Wednesday, Musk said shareholders so far were voting to pass his pay package—which awards him about 300 million incentive-laden stock options—and another resolution to move

Tesla
’s

legal home to Texas, by “wide margins.”

Separately, Tesla said it likely will raise the price of its Model 3 in Europe following new tariffs on electric vehicles made in China planned by the EU.

Broadcom

surged 13% after the semiconductor and software company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings topped analysts’ expectations and it announced a 10-for-1 stock split.

Broadcom

said the results were driven by strong demand for chips related to artificial intelligence and by VMware, which it acquired in late 2023. The company also boosted its fiscal-year revenue guidance.

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Apple

was down 0.6% after shares in the iPhone maker closed for a second day at an all-time high, finishing Wednesday’s session up 2.9% at $213.07. It failed, however, to pass

Microsoft

as the most valuable company based on market capitalization at the end of the day, according to Dow Jones Market Data, though it did during intraday trading.

Signet Jewelers

was down 13% after the jewelry company’s earnings topped estimates but revenue fell in its fiscal first quarter and second-quarter guidance was short of expectations.

Dave & Buster’s Entertainment

Dave & Buster’s Entertainment

reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $588.1 million, down 1.5% from a year earlier and below Wall Street estimates of $615.9 million. Same-store sales fell a wider-than-expected 5.6%, marking the fifth-straight quarter of declining comparable-store sales. The stock was tumbling 10%.

Torrid Holdings
,

the clothing retailer, said improved traffic and “tightly controlling inventory levels” resulted in higher fiscal first-quarter profit. The stock fell 15%, however, after trading higher earlier in the session.

Oxford Industries
,

the maker of the Tommy Bahama and Lilly Pulitzer fashion brands, cut its fiscal-year sales and profit outlook, saying consumers have “become more cautious than originally anticipated.” Shares fell 1.1%.

Generac

fell 5.8% to $134.45. Shares of the standby-generator maker were downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Janney Montgomery Scott and the stock’s fair value estimate was raised to $154 from $126.

Kimberly-Clark

rose 2.9% to $139.15 after receiving a double upgrade to Buy from Underperform at BofA Securities. Analysts also raised their price target on the maker of Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissue to $160 from $115.

Earnings reports are expected after the closing bell Thursday from Adobe and RH.

Adobe

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was down 0.3% ahead of its report while RH declined 3.1%.

Write to Joe Woelfel at joseph.woelfel@barrons.com

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