Check out the companies making the biggest moves in the midday trading: Cardinal Health – Health-Care Services Company shares added 3%, touching on the highest ever high. Cardinal Health has increased its full-year guidance, increasing adjusted earnings from $8.05 to $8.15 per share, between $8.15 and $8.20 per share. Datadog – Cloud Security Company has advanced over 3% after upgrading to Wolfe Research’s outperform. Analyst Alex Zukin pointed to growing confidence in short-term growth opportunities for artificial intelligence. Boeing – The plane’s maker lost nearly 5% after the crash of the 11-year-old Air India Boeing Dreamliner on Thursday. The plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad, India. The cause of the crash is not immediately clear. Shares in other airlines also fell, with United losing more than 3%, while Delta passing 2%. Oracle – Cloud computing stock has skyrocketed by almost 14%. CEO Safra Catz said cloud infrastructure revenues will increase by more than 70% in fiscal year 2026. In the fourth quarter, adjusted earnings of $1.70 per share exceeded the $1.64 per share expected by analysts voted by LSEG. Revenue was $15.9 billion against a consensus estimate of $15.6 billion. GameStop – Meme stock and video game retailer sunk 20% after announcing it. CUREVAC – The shares of the clinical-stage biotech company rose 38% after German BioNTech agreed to acquire it in a $1.25 billion all-stock deal. Voyager Technologies – Space Technology Stock rose 4%. Voyager closed the first day of Wednesday’s trading at $56.48. This exceeded the initial public offering price of $31 by more than 82%. Chime Financial – The online banking service provider priced its first public offering at $27 per share on Wednesday, valued Chime at $11.6 billion. The shares are set to begin trading on Thursday under Tickerchim. CNBC’s Jesse Pound, Sarah Min, Alex Harring and Michelle Fox contributed the report.
