{"id":4421,"date":"2026-05-21T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-premarket-ibm-wmt-rklb-nvda\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:52:58","slug":"stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-premarket-ibm-wmt-rklb-nvda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-premarket-ibm-wmt-rklb-nvda\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: IBM, WMT, RKLB, NVDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<p><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ArticleBody-extraData\"><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ArticleBody-extraData\"><span hidden=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"xyz-data\">Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Quantum stocks \u2014 Shares of quantum computing companies soared following a Wall Street Journal report that the government plans to award $2 billion in grants to nine firms. The deal also included government equity stakes, the report said. Rigetti Computing jumped 15%, D-Wave Quantum surged 17%, and Quantum Computing rallied nearly 14%. IonQ gained 8%, IBM rose 6.5% and GlobalFoundries added 13%. Walmart \u2014 The mega retailer slipped 2% after it issued a worst-than-expected outlook for the full year and its current quarter. Walmart expects adjusted earnings per share to be between $2.75 and $2.85, lower than expectations of $2.91, according to LSEG. Its first quarter adjusted EPS was in line with expectations, while tis revenue topped estimates. Rocket Lab \u2014 The space company tumbled 6% after Space X filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to trade publicly on the Nasdaq. CNBC reported last week the company plans to kick off a roadshow to market the deal on June 8. Nvidia \u2014 The chip titan said revenue surged 85% year over year to $81.62 billion in the first quarter, exceeding the prediction of $78.86 billion from analysts polled by LSEG. Shares were little changed. Intuit \u2014 Shares sank 14% after the financial software company announced a 17% workforce cut. Intuit also missed analyst expectations for revenue in the third fiscal quarter, posting $8.56 billion against an LSEG consensus forecast of $8.61 billion. E.l.f. Beauty \u2014 The beauty retailer jumped 7% after beating Wall Street&#8217;s expectations on the top and bottom lines for the fourth fiscal quarter. E.l.f. said it planned to undo some of its tariff-related price increases, citing hardship for consumers facing higher gas prices. Star Bulk Carriers \u2014 Shares of the shipping firm added 3% after posting 56 cents in earnings per share, excluding items, on $281.2 million in revenue for the first quarter. Analysts surveyed by FactSet penciled in 47 cents a share and $225.9 million, respectively. \u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Alex Harring contributed reporting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Quantum stocks \u2014 Shares of quantum computing companies soared following a Wall Street Journal report that the government plans to award $2 billion in grants to nine firms. The deal also included government equity stakes, the report said. Rigetti Computing jumped 15%, D-Wave Quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[372,1262,371,373,748,559,2089,238,1743],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-biggest","tag-ibm","tag-making","tag-moves","tag-nvda","tag-premarket","tag-rklb","tag-stocks","tag-wmt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finznest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}