Five Stocks That Made News This Week: Zscaler, Hasbro, Lam Research, Meta and Moderna
Zscaler soared 23.0% this week as security stocks rallied and Hasbro 18.9% after raising its outlook, while Lam Research plunged 12.8% on a supply warning and Meta 9.4% on its AI spending.
**Zscaler (ZS)**, +23.0%: the security-software company had the biggest weekly gain in our coverage, mostly in two jumps. It jumped 7.8% on Wednesday, when PHP rushed out emergency fixes for two critical flaws in the language behind an estimated 70% of websites and security stocks rallied, Investing.com and TIKR reported. It added 7.3% on Friday after an Evercore ISI survey of resellers found security budgets firming into year-end, 24/7 Wall St reported. Full story on Friday’s security rally
**Hasbro (HAS)**, +18.9%: the toy and games maker had its best week in six years, Stocktwits reported, most of it from an 11.2% jump on Tuesday after its third-quarter results. Revenue rose 15%, Magic: The Gathering topped $600 million in a quarter for the first time, and Hasbro raised its 2026 outlook and doubled its share buyback target for the year, the company said in its results release.
**Lam Research (LRCX)**, -12.8%: almost all of the chip-equipment maker’s loss came on Thursday, when it plunged 11.8% after warning that short supplies of clean-room space and parts will keep limiting chipmakers into 2027. KLA and Applied Materials slid with it. Full story
**Meta (META)**, -9.4%: the social media company slid 7.0% on Thursday after reporting it spent $34.91 billion on data centers and equipment in the quarter, turning free cash flow negative, and unveiled nonvoting shares it could sell to raise money. Full story
**Moderna (MRNA)**, -8.2%: the vaccine maker gained almost 13% in the first three sessions of the week, then plunged 17.6% on Thursday when Phase 3 results for its melanoma vaccine with Merck appeared online two days early. The results showed a 42% cut in the risk of the cancer returning or death, below the 49% an earlier, smaller study had shown. Full story
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