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August 27, 2026 (Thu)

Salesforce surges 22.6%, cloud stocks rally in tandem

Today's Market

The Nasdaq closed +1.6%, the S&P 500 +0.7% and the Dow +0.2% on August 27. Salesforce, which reported after the close on August 26, was the day's largest single-stock gain at 22.6%, while the index gain itself came from Nvidia (NVDA) +8.7%, which reported the same evening.

 CrowdStrike (CRWD) +20.5%, Zscaler (ZS) +10.0% — cloud and security SaaS names rallied in tandem, while Moderna (MRNA) -4.6% was the only decliner among the day's top movers

 The advance was concentrated in technology and every other sector fell; advancers led decliners only 281 to 218, thin against the size of the index gain

 Treasury yields were flat across all three tenors, leaving earnings rather than rates as the driver, while crude rose 1.6%; VIX fell 4.6% to 14.51 and sentiment moved from neutral to greed

 Michigan consumer sentiment on the 28th, then next week's September 1 JOLTS openings report, are the successive macro checkpoints

Market Data
S&P 500
7,730.99

▲0.72%
NASDAQ
26,541.35

▲1.57%
DOW
53,569.44

▲0.20%
VIX
14.51

▼4.60%
Sector Heat Map
SPY benchmark + 11 GICS sectors · 1-day
S&P 500 SPY
+0.66%
Technology XLK
+3.16%
Comm. Svcs XLC
−1.07%
Cons. Discr. XLY
−1.09%
Cons. Staples XLP
−1.38%
Energy XLE
−0.22%
Financials XLF
−0.65%
Health Care XLV
−1.13%
Industrials XLI
−0.85%
Materials XLB
−0.82%
Real Estate XLRE
−0.95%
Utilities XLU
−0.76%
Today's Focus

Salesforce: the earnings beat and the raised guidance were the catalysts

Salesforce beat quarterly expectations and lifted its full-year revenue outlook on top of that, making it the day's largest single-stock gain

 The results came alongside an expanded AI partnership with Anthropic

 Other software gainers the same day: Palo Alto Networks +12.8%, Atlassian +10.2%, ServiceNow +10.0%

 Broadcom's September 2 earnings (EPS est $3.24) are the next read on AI chip demand

Nvidia: from a dip right after the release to a next-day surge

Nvidia's Q2 results beat expectations, yet the stock slipped right after the release before recovering later in the same after-hours session and closing +8.7% on August 27

 On top of that, the Amazon-Nvidia plan to deploy more GPUs in 2027-2028, disclosed on August 26, extended visibility on AI demand

 Nvidia's forecast lifted the semiconductor sector 1.9%, and European chip names gained too

 Europe's broad index still fell, on French fiscal and election risk and an energy drag

Inside the Ticker

NVIDIA — High Margins Built by Price and Product Mix

NVIDIA NVDA | $227.98 | 1D +8.7% 1W +5.1% 1M +20.0% 3M +6.5%
Income statement flow

For the quarter ended July 26, 2026, gross profit and operating income expanded sharply on higher revenue and average selling prices (ASP)

 The margin came from pricing and product mix, not cost reduction

 Revenue $96,221M (YoY +105.9%) grew faster than cost of sales $24,079M (YoY +86.8%), for a 75.0% gross margin

 Operating margin 66.2% — operating expenses $8,408M (YoY +55.3%) grew far more slowly than revenue, so most of the gross margin carried down to the operating line

 The 62.0% net margin can also be read at face value

 Net income $59,688M (YoY +125.9%); other non-operating income $7,773M is small next to operating income $63,734M

 Taxes $11,819M (YoY +147.1%) — growing faster than operating income (YoY +124.1%), i.e. the effective tax rate moved up

 Single-segment concentration is the main risk; whether demand holds is the question

 Compute & Networking 91.8%, Graphics 8.2% — the segment split is end-use diversification, not price diversification, so it does little to buffer an ASP decline

 Bull case: if demand for AI data-center accelerators persists, pricing and mix hold and high margins can continue

 Bear case: if supply expansion presses ASP down, margins revert. These margins are cyclically elevated; mean reversion is structural, but its timing is unknowable

Next Week

ALL TIMES EASTERN (ET)

 Tue 9/1 JOLTs (Job Openings)

 Wed 9/2 ADP Private Employment

 Wed 9/2 AVGO earnings | EPS est $3.24

 Thu 9/3 Jobless Claims

 Thu 9/3 Trade Balance

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