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Opendoor Technologies jumps on reported “Trump Homes” plan from developers, positive signals on mortgage loan growth

Opendoor Technologies is surging on Tuesday on a double dose of good news: a report that mortgage loan growth is soaring and a potential plan to boost US housing supply.

Speaking on CNBC, Rocket Companies CEO Varun Krishna said his firm is “on track to produce the highest mortgage loan volume and the highest gain on sale in four years.”

Separately, Bloomberg reports that US developers are pursuing a “Trump Homes” plan to build up to 1 million homes (or $250 billion in housing) in a bid to make homeownership more accessible. Shares of Lennar and Taylor Morrison, which are both said to be involved with this program, are up on this report.

The Trump Homes plan is being discussed by developers, and Bloomberg reports that “the administration is not actively considering the plan, a White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.”

A more active real estate market is music to the ears of Opendoor bulls. Following its Q3 earnings report, new CEO Kaz Nejatian indicated that his plan to turn around the online real estate company involved a high-volume strategy: buying more homes faster, and quickly flipping them for a small profit. The company has significantly expanded its homebuying footprint to include the entire Lower 48 states.

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Chipotle beats Q4 estimates, but sinks on underwhelming full-year guidance

Chipotle reported earnings results that beat Wall Street estimates, but gave underwhelming full-year guidance.

For the last three months of 2025, Chipotle reported:

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $0.25, compared to the $0.24 analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.

  • Revenue of $3 billion, a bit higher than the $2.9 billion the Street was penciling in.

  • A comparable-store sales decline of 2.5%, less than the 2.9% decline the Street was expecting.

For the full year in 2026, Chipotle expects:

  • Comparable-store sales to be flat, compared to the 1.7% growth analysts were expecting.

Chipotle has struggled to spark sales over the past year and has previously cited strained consumers as a major headwind. The company fell more than 9% in after-hours trading shortly after the report was released.

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Take-Two raises its net bookings outlook, reaffirms November release for “Grand Theft Auto 6”

“Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-Two reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday. Its shares climbed about 4% in after-hours trading.

The company posted net bookings, or the amount customers spent on its products, of $1.76 billion, up 28% from the same quarter last year. Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.58 billion. In November, Take-Two guided for Q3 net bookings of between $1.55 billion and $1.6 billion.

Take-Two hiked its full-year bookings outlook to between $6.65 billion and $6.7 billion, up from a range of $6.4 billion to $6.5 billion. The new outlook compares to Wall Street’s $6.47 billion estimate. The gaming giant trimmed its full-year net loss guidance to between $369 million and $338 million (prior guidance: between $414 million and $349 million).

In its last quarter, Take-Two pushed back the planned release date of “Grand Theft Auto 6” from May 2026 to November 19, 2026. The company reaffirmed that date in Tuesday’s report. The game’s last trailer came in May 2025.

Shares of Take-Two and other major gaming companies have been sinking since late last week as investors react to early showcases of Google’s Project Genie, which allows users to generate interactive, “playable” worlds with a text or image prompt. As of Tuesday’s close, Take-Two has shed nearly $6 billion in market cap since Project Genie was released.

Analysts have called the market reaction unjustified, saying that the tool doesn’t allow for meaningful interactivity or replay-ability. According to mBank analyst Piotr Poniatowski, Project Genie is — at the moment — essentially a “one-minute-long walking simulator generator.”

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