Stocks move premarket as IonQ, Worthington and Maplebear rise
Premarket stocks move as Worthington, IonQ and others react to fresh news See which names climbed or slipped, from earnings beats to activist buzz
Several stocks moved in premarket trading on Wednesday as investors reacted to company updates and news reports. Worthington Enterprises rose after the industrial manufacturer reported quarterly results above estimates and issued a stronger outlook, including higher demand tied to data center cooling tanks.
IonQ climbed after saying it tested a realtime quantum error decoder, a development the company said could support quantum error correction without slowing operations. The gain lifted other quantum computing names as well, including Rigetti Computing and DWave Quantum.
Other movers included KB Home, which fell after giving a weakerthanexpected delivery outlook, Six Flags Entertainment, which rose following a report that an activist investor wants the company to consider a sale, and Maplebear, which gained after announcing a partnership allowing customers to use Meta's AI agent Muse on its grocery platform.