The stock market finished in the green territory on Friday, albeit muted trading persisted over the lack of catalysts to fuel investing appetite.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq led gains among Wall Street’s benchmark indices, finishing up by 0.52 percent. Meanwhile, both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 ended the week eking out 0.08-percent gains.
Ten companies mirrored the broader market optimism, finishing the week with modest gains. In this article, we have identified today’s top performers and detailed the reasons behind their gains.
To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with $2 billion in market capitalization and $5 million in trading volume.
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10. Roblox Corp. (NYSE:RBLX)
Shares of Roblox Corp. grew by 5.59 percent on Friday to end at $61.16 apiece as investors bought up shares in the company following its adoption of an AI model that would enable 3D creation.
In a statement, RBLX said it now offers what it calls the Cube 3D, a foundational AI model that can be used to generate 3D objects and environments from simple text prompts.
“Cube will underpin many of the AI tools we will develop in the years to come, including highly complex scene-generation tools. It will ultimately be a multimodal model, trained on text, images, video, and other types of input—and will integrate with our existing AI creation tools,” RBLX said.
“We invest in infrastructure to support AI at every stage of the creation cycle…We envision a future where developers will give their users new ways to create by enabling AI in their experiences. This puts the power of AI in the hands of more than 85 million daily active users as part of their gameplay,” it added.
9. Hims & Hers Health Inc. (NYSE:HIMS)
Hims & Hers rallied by 5.72 percent on Friday to finish at $34.75 apiece as investors loaded up on its shares despite the lack of catalysts to boost investing appetite.
However, its shares noticeably traded sideways based on the generally muted movement in its five-day historical price, as investors appeared to have already priced in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) earlier announcement that the best-selling Wegovy and Ozempic drugs—which HIMS has been making knock-off versions of and which significantly propelled its sales to new heights—is already back in sufficient supply.
Further adding to sideways trading was Bank of America’s outlook for the company, raising its price target by $1 to $22 apiece, a figure that is 37 percent lower than its latest closing price. In addition, Bank of America also assigned an “underperform” rating on HIMS.
Last month, HIMS saw a spike in sales from the Super Bowl event, but investors started to cast doubt that it would sustain momentum due to the FDA’s exclusion of the Wegovy and Ozempic from the shortage list.
8. Roku Inc. (NASDAQ:ROKU)
Roku Inc. extended its winning streak for a third straight day on Friday, adding 6.06 percent to finish at $78.29 each as investors cheered the company’s partnership with Monster Jam to add its FAST channel to its platform.
Under the agreement, ROKU will bring Monster Jam trucks, stunts, and races for free to millions of households across the US.
The Monster Jam channel will feature a vast selection of content from 20 years of its TV shows, including the current season with full event replays, behind-the-scenes access, and exclusive interviews with champion drivers.
Meanwhile, ROKU recently earned a “buy” rating from Guggenheim Securities, saying that it believes the company will exit the year “at its strongest” level amid expectations of continued improvements.
“Specifically, we believe actions including improved focus on monetization-based operating metrics, broadening third-party partnerships, and expanding revenue-generating offerings while incrementally focusing on profitability and free cash flow generation are driving a more valuable enterprise,” it said.
7. Reddit Inc. (NYSE:RDDT)
Reddit shares rose by 6.39 percent on Friday to finish at $115.7 each as investors cheered news of a positive rating and outlook for the company.
On Friday, analysts from Needham maintained their buy rating and $220 price target for RDDT despite the stock’s significant decline in the prior trading day following comments from Redburn analysts saying that its sustainability is a “gift” from Google.
Google made changes to its algorithm that led RDDT to nearly double its size in the past 18 months. However, Redburn believed that most of its users looking for answers to specific questions do not convert to RDDT log-in users, who are ultimately much more valuable.
“There is clear evidence that the boost to traffic and visibility from these changes is hitting a ceiling,” the analysts said, adding that “what Google giveth, it will taketh away.”
6. Rivian Automotive Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN)
Rivian Automotive saw its share prices increase by 6.62 percent on Friday to finish at $11.60 apiece as investors appeared to have bargain-hunted from Thursday’s dip.
The momentum was achieved despite a recent downgrade from investment firm Piper Sandler, which gave the company a new rating of “neutral” from “overweight” previously. It also cut its price target to $13 from $19.
Piper Sandler said RIVN does not have any upside catalyst to boost trading this year until it launches the R2 vehicle in the first half of 2026.
Additionally, Piper Sandler expects lower deliveries for RIVN in 2025, at only between 46,000 and 51,000 units, or a decrease from the 51,579 deliveries reported last year.
Meanwhile, RIVN was said to have held off the production line at its factory in Illinois for about a month in the second semester of the year to prepare for the start of production of its new vehicles.
5. Wayfair Inc. (NYSE:W)
Shares of Wayfair increased by 6.69 percent on Friday to end at $33.66 each as investors appeared to have bargain-hunted after the company touched an all-time low in the past trading days of the week.
On Tuesday, Wayfair hit its lowest 52-week level of $29.68 and continued to trade sideways towards the end of the week.
Wayfair, an online retailer of furniture, decorations, and outdoor items, is currently offering a Cyberweek sale, where select items are put on sale.
The week-long promotion could be a strategy for the company to bolster its sales, especially as it was expected to take a beating from US President Donald Trump’s tariff war with various countries.
Prior to Trump’s return to the White House, an analyst already warned last year that Wayfair, as well as Best Buy and Five Below, would be especially at risk from the tariffs which could result in a plunge in earnings performance.
4. Peloton Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ:PTON)
Peloton Interactive rose by 6.75 percent on Friday to end at $6.96 apiece as investors repositioned portfolios amid a mostly muted trading week for the company.
Despite the sideways trading, PTON finished in the green territory, helped by an optimistic outlook from Canaccord, which gave the company a “buy” rating from “hold” previously, citing progress in rebounding to profitability coupled with its strong position in the fitness industry.
It also gave the company a $10 price target, representing a 43.7-percent upside from its latest stock price.
According to Canaccord, PTON is well-positioned for future growth, supported by a loyal member base of 6 million.
For the full year 2025, Canaccord expects PTON to achieve between $300 million and $350 million in adjusted EBITDA, a significant jump from the $3.5 million in the full year 2024.
Additionally, it sees revenues to inflect next year with new initiatives to be supported by subscriber growth by 2027.
3. Tempus AI (NASDAQ:TEM)
Tempus AI extended its winning streak for a third straight day on Friday to finish at $51.35 each on the back of bullish outlooks for the company.
Cathie Wood, co-founder and CEO of Ark Invest, for instance, included TEM in her portfolio of AI stocks.
Earlier this month, TEM announced the acquisition of Deep 6 AI, a leading AI-powered precision research platform for healthcare organizations and life sciences companies.
Deep 6 AI enables healthcare organizations to de-risk clinical trials, accelerate recruitment, and generate real-world evidence (RWE) with speed and precision. Its AI-powered software matches patients to clinical trials by mining real-time structured and unstructured electronic medical record (EMR) data across a broad ecosystem, which includes academic medical centers, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Centers, and NCI Community Oncology Research Programs.
2. Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI)
Super Micro rallied by 7.80 percent on Friday to close at $42.15 each as investor sentiment was fueled by the company’s announcement of a new optimized storage server for high-performance software-defined storage workloads.
According to SMCI, it closely partnered with Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Weka to develop the project which it expects will “allow customers to benefit from NVDA’s innovations in both CPUs and DPUs.”
The server uses an NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip with 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores which enable high-performance I/O for software-defined storage workloads.
“We have demonstrated that the system can fully unleash the system’s PCIe Gen5 performance SSD bandwidth with linear scalability. Supermicro continues to bring to market the most advanced and optimized storage solutions available,” SMCI said.
1. New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:NFE)
New Fortress extended its winning streak for a third day on Friday, adding 7.92 percent to finish at $11.17 each, in line with the broader market and news that it was planning to develop a 1,000-acre data center in Ireland.
The new data center was on top of the planned 630-acre power plant and a 120-megawatt battery energy storage system as part of the Shannon Technology and Energy Park project.
Apart from Ireland, NFE was also looking to kick off the construction of a $1.1-billion liquefied natural gas plant at the Mexican port of Altamira in the middle of the year. The project was in partnership with state utility CFE.
So far, NFE said it had spent $625 million on the project, mainly on the procurement of the liquefaction modules. Construction of the modules is now more than 50 percent complete.
NFE said Texas-based contractor Kiewit is building the modules and will ship them to Altamira next year.
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