$EQR Equity Residential Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $EQR Equity Residential Tape Reports — 1 podcast mention across 1 podcast (30 days), latest 2026-08-14 10:54 UTC.
Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. It's good to have you here on this Friday, August 14th. I'm Julie Morgan. We begin with some changes to the S&P 500 next week. Reddit will replace AvalonBay Communities in the S&P 500 effective prior to the opening of trading on Tuesday, August 18th. Reddit shares are up about 12% on the news in premarket trading. AvalonBay Communities is being acquired by Equity Residential in a deal expected to be completed soon pending final conditions. After the merger, the combined company will be renamed Vivmark Residential and will remain in the S&P 500. Additionally, Sun Communities will replace Webster Financial in the S&P MidCap 400 effective prior to the opening of trading on Thursday, August 20th. Webster is being acquired by another entity in a deal expected to be completed soon. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company on Thursday said global sales of the Pokémon Pokéopia game have surpassed 5 million units across the physical and digital versions, just over 4 months after it was released on March 5th of this year. Shares of Nintendo rose as much as 7.5% in Tokyo on Friday, on course for their third weekly gain. That would be the longest winning streak since November, when the stock began to drop. The game is available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 system. Separately, a Reuters report showed that Nintendo said it would launch the Switch and Switch 2 in Indonesia in December. It would be the first official console launch in the country. Applied Materials is down 5% in premarket action after falling 2.5% on Thursday. Shares are down even after AMAT reported fiscal third-quarter results and guidance that topped Wall Street's forecast, suggesting investors wanted more. But to give you some perspective, shares have gained nearly 98% year-to-date. For the period ending July 26, Applied Materials said it earned an adjusted $3.50 per share as revenue rose 25% year over year to come in at $9.12 billion. Included in that was a 30% hike in semiconductor systems sales to $7.04 billion, while Applied Global Services revenue rose 11% to $1.78 billion. Analysts had expected the company to earn an adjusted $3.42 per share on $9.02 billion in revenue.
Julie Morgan — Wall Street Breakfast · Upvoted into the S&P · 2026-08-14