AI Stocks Close
🔔 AI Stocks Close — Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Closes: SPX 7,723.05 (+0.60%) · Nasdaq 26,479.08 (+1.18%) · DJI 52,387.18 (+0.05%)
Day narrative: Semis ran for a third straight session on the Anthropic/Meta financing wave, dragging the Nasdaq up more than a percent while the Dow sat on its hands — Boeing's 10% faceplant ate nearly all of the blue-chip index's gains. Classic split tape: AI hardware up, energy and old-economy industrials down.
Sectors: Best Technology (+1.9%) · Worst Energy (−2.0%)
Movers:
• AMD +5.45% — expanded Meta AI infrastructure deal plus a $1B stake in Meta's equity offering
• SMCI +7.34% — AI server demand re-rating alongside the semi bounce
• AVGO +4.00% — BofA, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone lined up $63B to finance Broadcom XPUs for Anthropic
• BA −9.9% — 737 rate-47 target slips to early 2027, 2027 FCF guide of ~$3B well under consensus
• ORCL +3.55% — diversifying AI silicon beyond Nvidia with Google, Cerebras and SambaNova parts
• XYL −14.2% — cut full-year guidance, worst S&P performer
After-hours / Earnings:
• NXPI reported, −9.1% AH — auto/industrial semi guidance landed badly after a +3.1% day
• STX beat ($7.68 vs $7.43, rev $4.23B), −8.1% AH — record FCF wasn't enough after a monster run
• V beat ($3.48 adj, payments vol +9%, cross-border +14%), −1.7% AH — clean quarter, muted reaction
• HOOD mixed (adj $0.60 beat, GAAP $0.51 miss, rev $1.42B light), −3.5% AH
• TER reported, +0.2% AH — quiet after a +4.75% session
• BBAI reported, −3.8% AH — gave back part of a +10.9% day
Watchlist:
• MU $928.76 (+2.77% day, −0.62% AH)
• NVDA $217.94 (+0.90%, −0.14% AH)
• MSFT $531.33 (−0.24%, +0.25% AH)
• GOOGL $320.58 (+1.19%, +0.22% AH)
• META $620.19 (−1.64%, −0.21% AH)
• AMZN $253.10 (+1.61%, +0.09% AH)
• AAPL $347.10 (+0.93%, +0.07% AH)
• AMD $560.26 (+5.45%, +0.11% AH)
• TSLA $407.46 (+4.04%, −0.16% AH)
• PLTR $198.73 (−0.06%, flat AH)
• ARM $226.60 (+1.46%, −0.26% AH)
• SMCI $35.09 (+7.34%, −0.11% AH)
• ORCL $130.53 (+3.55%, flat AH)
• SOUN $4.37 (+3.07%, +0.18% AH)
• IONQ $32.95 (+7.12%, −0.18% AH)
• BBAI $2.35 (+10.85%, −3.83% AH)
• AVGO $342.33 (+4.00%, −0.38% AH)
• CRM $240.89 (−2.71%, −0.70% AH)
• ADBE $248.36 (−3.97%, −0.43% AH)
• IBM $250.25 (−1.26%, −0.10% AH)
• SNOW $337.42 (+0.74%, +0.10% AH)
• MDB $389.84 (+0.19%, −0.08% AH)
• NET $327.80 (−1.22%, +0.03% AH)
• CRWD $268.02 (+2.36%, +0.06% AH)
• TSM $436.87 (+2.95%, −0.08% AH)
• ASML $1,635.57 (+2.92%, −0.30% AH)
Macro:
• FOMC kicked off its two-day meeting; futures price ~90% odds of a hold at 3.75–4.00%, with December hike odds running hot
• Crude slid on Middle East de-escalation talk — the direct cause of energy's −2% day
• Durable goods showed rising new orders for computers and peripherals, another data point for the AI capex story
• Roughly half the S&P has reported Q3; 83% are beating per LSEG
• Anthropic IPO watch: the investor prospectus plus the $63B Broadcom financing SPV are now the single biggest sentiment driver in AI hardware. Still private — no ticker
Tomorrow: Fed decision at 2:00 PM ET, Chair Warsh presser at 2:30. Then the big one — Microsoft and Alphabet both report after the close (GOOGL 4:30 ET, MSFT call 5:30 ET). Also on deck: ADP, Ford, FedEx, GE Vernova, Etsy. Amazon lands Thursday.