Stocks Making the Biggest Moves Yesterday: F5, Vertiv, Oracle, Alphabet and Sandisk
F5 plunged 20.4% on its forecast, Vertiv soared 16.5% and Oracle 10.7% on Wednesday, and Alphabet plunged 10.8% after hours, as of 5:53 p.m. ET, after its search revenue missed.
**F5 (FFIV)**, -20.4%: The maker of software and hardware that keeps big websites and apps running was the worst stock in the S&P 500 after it forecast revenue growth of only 8% to 9% for its new fiscal year and a lower gross margin as memory and storage parts cost more, according to its earnings call, and Piper Sandler cut the stock to Neutral, TipRanks reported. Full story
**Vertiv (VRT)**, +16.5%: The maker of power and cooling equipment for data centers was the best stock in the S&P 500 and had its best day since February after its organic orders more than doubled and it raised its 2026 sales forecast to $14.45 billion to $14.85 billion, its results release showed. Full story
**Oracle (ORCL)**, +10.7%: The database and cloud company had its best day since May after its investor day set a fiscal 2030 revenue target of $225 billion or more and capped new money from bond and share sales at $20 billion from fiscal 2027 through fiscal 2030, investingLive and Yahoo Finance reported. Full story
**Alphabet (GOOGL)**, -10.8% after hours: Google’s parent plunged in late trading after third-quarter revenue of $127.58 billion came in just under the $128.22 billion analysts expected and search revenue missed, SiliconANGLE reported, even though Google Cloud sales more than doubled to $30.71 billion. The move is as of 5:53 p.m. ET. Full story
**Sandisk (SNDK)**, +7.7%: The flash-memory maker led a rally in memory stocks after South Korea’s SK hynix posted its first quarter with more than 100 trillion won in revenue and said demand for memory will outrun supply through 2030, its results release said. FXStreet tied the memory rally to the report, and Micron (MU) jumped 5.9%. Full story
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