Today is Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

The Early Bird Index today is 82.95.

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Applied Digital $APLD ( ▼ 3.0% ), which builds and operates digital infrastructure for AI, jumped 3.92% in after-hours trading on Monday after posting good financial earnings results.

Financials: Applied Digital reported earnings of 4 cents per share in the past quarter and revenue of $258.7 million. Both were better than expected.

Powering the Story: Revenue in the period surged 407% (wow!) year-over-year.

Early Bird’s Nest Egg Gains: This type of revenue growth is not sustainable forever. The more plausible path is still rapid growth, but at a much lower percentage rate as the revenue base scales and lumpy contract-related revenue fades.

Final Thoughts: It’s a small comeback for Applied Digital. The stock had been down 6% this year.

Notable Earnings Today: PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Visa (NYSE: V), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), UPS (NYSE: UPS), Ford Motor (NYSE: F), Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), Enphase Energy (Nasdaq: ENPH), GSK (NYSE: GSK), Caesars Entertainment (Nasdaq: CZR), Seagate Technology (Nasdaq: STX), Hilton (NYSE: HLT), Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW), Avis Budget (Nasdaq: CAR), Cheesecake Factory (Nasdaq: CAKE), KLA (Nasdaq: KLAC), HF Sinclair (NYSE: DINO), Corning (NYSE: GLW), Mondelez International (Nasdaq: MDLZ), NXP Semiconductors (Nasdaq: NXPI), Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE: RCL), JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU), Sherwin-Williams (NYSE: SHW), Teradyne (Nasdaq: TER), Hubbell (NYSE: HUBB), Waste Management (NYSE: WM), Commvault Systems (Nasdaq: CVLT), Skyworks (Nasdaq: SWKS), Arch Capital (Nasdaq: ACGL), American Tower (NYSE; AMT), AXIS Capital (NYSE: AXS), BXP (NYSE: BXP), Centene (NYSE: CNC), CoStar Group (Nasdaq; CSGP), Crane (NYSE: CR),DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE), Ecolab (NYSE: ECL), Extra Space Storage (NYSE: EXR), FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE), IQVIA (NYSE: IQV), Manhattan Associates (Nasdaq: MANH), Omnicom (Nasdaq: OMC), PACCAR (Nasdaq: PCAR), PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG), Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO), S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), STAG Industrial (NYSE: STAG), Unum Group (NYSE: UNM), Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC).

Notable IPOs Today: Ionic Digital Inc. Class A Common Stock (Nasdaq: IOND), Catalyst Acquisition Corp. Units (Nasdaq: CATLU).

Notable Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns Ending Today: Arctic7 (StartEngine), The Pizza Resistance (Honeycomb Credit), Nebraska Roadside (Honeycomb Credit), Spice Dept. (Crowdcube).

Notable Economic Events Today: ADP Employment Change Weekly (8:15 a.m. ET), Goods Trade Balance (8:30 a.m. ET), Retail Inventories Excluding Autos (8:30 a.m. ET), S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index (9:00 a.m. ET), CB Consumer Confidence (10:00 a.m. ET), API Weekly Crude Oil Stock (4:30 p.m. ET).

Technology company Cadence Design Systems $CDNS ( ▲ 3.79% ) jumped 3.51% in after-hours trading on Monday after reporting mixed financial earnings results.

Financials: Cadence Design reported earnings of $2.11 per share in the past quarter, which were better than expected. Revenue was $1.58 billion, which was in-line.

Final Thoughts: The company’s backlog reached a record $8.1 billion in the quarter. And Cadence Design’s stock was already up 9% in 2026.

The price of the cryptocurrency XRP $XRP ( ▼ 5.07% ) fell over 4% on Monday, part of a decline of over 7% since last week.

Final Thoughts: XRP is down about 42% in 2026.

Over $1 Trillion Lost: SpaceX has now lost the equivalent of a full Tesla in market capitalization (CNBC)

Chipped: SK Hynix Slumps Below US IPO Price as Mega-Listings Turn Sour (Bloomberg)

Ethereum Momentum: Bitmine keeps buying Ether as ETH outperforms Bitcoin (Cointelegraph)

On Top: Apple Reclaims Title as the World’s Most Valuable Public Company (New York Times)

Being CEO Is Not What It’s Cracked Up To Be: Cracker Barrel CEO steps down a year after logo debacle (Associated Press)

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