Ahead of what Bank of America predicts will be an earnings beat next week, its analysts have raised their Google price target to $210 from $200, thanks to stable Google Search ad spending growth. The FactSet consensus estimate is about $203; the stock is currently trading at about $185. The firm also raised its revenue and earnings-per-share expectations for Q2, to $81 billion and $2.21, respectively, up from $80 billion and $2.15.
Traders and Wall Street are waiting to see whether Palantir’s latest numbers after market close today will continue to beat expectations.
Commercial air taxi service may be on a slower path than investors previously thought.
Shares of Joby Aviation fell more than 9% on Monday morning amid a report from The National that the company’s UAE certification will be completed by the third quarter of next year. That’s a significant delay from Joby’s own projected timeline in February, when it said it planned to carry passengers in Dubai in “late 2025 or early 2026.”
Rival Archer Aviation, which also recently suffered a hit to its UAE certification timeline, fell more than 9%. Joby and Archer each are expected to report their earnings results later this week.
Also potentially causing some investor pullback is the planned IPO of Beta Technologies on Tuesday. Beta, a manufacturer of electric aircraft, received a $300 million investment from GE Aerospace in September.
Micron, the US memory chip specialist, is up more than 4% in early trading Monday after a report that Samsung Electronics was temporarily pausing new pricing on contracts for the latest version of ubiquitous short-term computer memory: Dynamic Random Access Memory, or DRAM. The chip giant wants to see where the market settles after a recent spike in spot prices for memory chips driven by the AI boom.
DRAM and memory chips of all sorts have pricing power because of how much demand is outpacing supply. Last week, South Korean memory chip behemoth SK Hynix said it had already “sold out” all of its 2026 production.
Such signs of ongoing AI-related demand for IT hardware also gave a lift to other data storage device makers, such as Seagate Technology Holdings and Western Digital. The duopoly dominate the hard disk drive market, and have ridden a boom in demand for the affordable data storage devices to gains of more than 200% in 2025.
DRAM and memory chips of all sorts have pricing power because of how much demand is outpacing supply. Last week, South Korean memory chip behemoth SK Hynix said it had already “sold out” all of its 2026 production.
Such signs of ongoing AI-related demand for IT hardware also gave a lift to other data storage device makers, such as Seagate Technology Holdings and Western Digital. The duopoly dominate the hard disk drive market, and have ridden a boom in demand for the affordable data storage devices to gains of more than 200% in 2025.
Nvidia is off to a hot start this week, up about 3% as of 9:40 a.m. ET, as the chip designer continues to be the beating heart at the center of two fresh AI deals announced on Monday morning.
IREN is going to be outfitting a Texas data center with Nvidia GPUs that will be purchased from Dell and utilized by Microsoft.
Amazon Web Services is providing OpenAI access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GPUs as part of a $38 billion deal for computing power.
