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Kyndryl Sovereignty Solutioning combined with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud capabilities helps customers strengthen choice, control and resilience

, /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced an expansion of its sovereignty solutioning through new capabilities and services with Microsoft. The collaboration combines Kyndryl Sovereignty Solutioning with Microsoft Sovereign Cloud capabilities to help customers design, build and operate cloud architectures that align with evolving data residency and operational requirements while maintaining flexibility and innovation.

The capabilities support the full spectrum of Microsoft's sovereign cloud approach, including public cloud capabilities and private cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure Local, enabling architectures that meet evolving data residency and operational requirements. Together, Kyndryl and Microsoft help organizations address sovereignty across data and operational domains, translating regulatory frameworks into practical, scalable architectures that support modernization, AI‑enabled use cases and long‑term compliance.

Governments and highly regulated industries are navigating geopolitical uncertainty, expanding data localization preferences and increasingly complex IT environments. As sovereignty becomes a design principle for IT strategies, organizations need trusted partners to translate regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, DORA and NIS2 into practical architectures. The joint capabilities combine Kyndryl's advisory, engineering and operational expertise with Microsoft's sovereign cloud offerings to address these needs.

"Kyndryl understands the reality of sovereignty through our firsthand experience with government expectations in Europe, and our strategic alliance with Microsoft brings together complementary strengths to help customers operationalize sovereignty in a practical, scalable way," said Giovanni Carraro, Global Strategic Alliances Leader, Kyndryl. "By collaborating with Microsoft, we can help customers align their sovereignty goals with real-world architectures, thus balancing control, resilience and performance across hybrid and distributed environments."

"Kyndryl's deep expertise in designing and operating complex, regulated environments complements Microsoft's comprehensive sovereign cloud capabilities, including controls designed to support data residency requirements, access governance and regulatory compliance," said Ihab Foudeh, EMEA Enterprise Partner Solutions General Manager, Microsoft. "Together, we are helping organizations adopt cloud services in ways that respect their local requirements while still enabling modernization and innovation."

Customers can leverage Kyndryl's Sovereignty Readiness Assessment to evaluate their current posture across data, operational and technical domains, identify gaps and dependencies and develop a phased roadmap. Kyndryl will support implementation and ongoing operations using sovereignty-ready architectures that incorporate Microsoft Sovereign Cloud capabilities, including public cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, and sovereign private cloud solutions using Azure Local in connected and disconnected deployment models designed to support varying levels of data residency, operational independence and jurisdictional control as needed.

This complementary, unified approach supports sensitive and regulated workloads, including AI-enabled use cases, with a focus on data governance and model locality.

Kyndryl brings deep experience managing mission-critical systems end-to-end and can help customers integrate Microsoft's sovereign public cloud capabilities alongside private cloud solutions, regional providers and on-premises infrastructure. This enables organizations to maintain flexibility and choice while operating under sovereignty constraints with appropriate controls and visibility. For example, governments and organizations in highly regulated industries such as financial services can leverage these capabilities to support workloads requiring strict data residency, enhanced auditability and controlled operational access within national or regional boundaries.

Learn more about Kyndryl Sovereignty services.

About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services offering advisory, implementation and managed services to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Owl Capital Inc. ("Blue Owl") (NYSE: OWL), a leading alternative asset manager, today announced that funds managed by Blue Owl have successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of Sila Realty Trust, Inc. ("Sila" or "the Company"), a net lease real estate investment trust with a strategic focus on investing in the growing and resilient healthcare sector.

"The acquisition of Sila and its differentiated, scaled portfolio of high-quality healthcare assets with strong tenants and well-structured long-term leases will further expand Blue Owl's core net lease strategy," said Marc Zahr, Co-President and Global Head of Real Assets at Blue Owl. "This transaction builds on the firm's experience investing across the healthcare landscape and represents an opportunity to capitalize on the strong supply and demand fundamentals in the healthcare real estate sector while delivering compelling value for investors and the communities these facilities serve."

At Sila's Special Meeting of Stockholders held on June 26, 2026, more than 98% of votes were cast in favor of approving the merger agreement. Upon closing of the transaction, Sila's common stock ceased trading and will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, and Sila's common stockholders received $30.38 per share in cash, representing an approximately 19% premium over the closing share price on April 17, 2026, the last full trading day prior to the transaction announcement.

The completion of the transaction marks an important milestone for Blue Owl's Real Assets platform and reflects the firm's continued focus on expanding its presence across essential real estate sectors. As part of Blue Owl's Real Assets platform, the Sila portfolio will benefit from the firm's institutional scale, investment expertise and long-standing relationships across the real estate market, creating a strong foundation for continued growth and long-term value creation.

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BofA Securities served as Sila's exclusive financial advisor. Hogan Lovells US LLP served as the Company's legal counsel.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. acted as lead financial advisor to Blue Owl and Truist Securities, Inc. also acted as financial advisor and Newmark Group, Inc. served as real estate advisor. Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to Blue Owl. Dechert LLP served as legal advisor to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Truist Securities, Inc.

About Blue Owl

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. With $315 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets and GP Strategic Capital. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1,390 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-owl-capital.

About Sila Realty Trust, Inc.

Sila Realty Trust, Inc., headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is a net lease real estate investment trust with a strategic focus on investing in the growing and resilient healthcare sector. The Company invests in high quality healthcare facilities along the continuum of care in the pursuit of generating predictable, durable, and growing income streams. Sila's portfolio comprises high quality tenants in geographically diverse facilities, which are positioned to capitalize on the dynamic delivery of healthcare to patients. As of March 31, 2026, the Company owned 137 real estate properties and three undeveloped land parcels, located in 65 markets across the United States.

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Key Takeaways Charles River is supported by RMS strength, broader CRADL adoption and focused portfolio actions.CRL completed CDMO and Cell Solutions divestitures and repurchased $200M of stock in Q1 2026.CRL faces soft biopharma demand and foreign exchange headwinds that may weigh on 2026 results. Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (CRL - Free Report) is well-poised to grow in the coming quarters owing to the strength of its Research Models and Services (“RMS”) business and broader CRADL adoption. Strategic deals continue to broaden its capabilities while streamlining its portfolio. The company maintains a solid financial position, which is also highly encouraging. Yet, persistent soft biopharma demand trends and adverse currency swings may hurt Charles River’s results of operations.

Over the past year, this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock has rallied 44.6% compared with the industry’s 9.6% rise and the S&P 500 composite’s 23% growth.

The renowned, non-clinical global drug development company has a market capitalization of $10.87 billion. Charles River has an earnings yield of 4.9%, which compares favorably with the industry’s 4.1% yield. It surpassed estimates in each of the trailing four quarters, delivering an average earnings surprise of 9.31%.

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Upsides for CRL StockRMS Prospects Seem Bright: Charles River continues to maintain its position as a global leader in the production and sale of widely used research models. Small research models remain a cost-effective tool for biomedical research, supporting the company’s ability to implement pricing actions across geographies over time.

In the first quarter of 2026, management highlighted continued demand for small models in China from mid-tier biotech and CRO clients and emphasized that RMS results can vary from quarter to quarter based on the timing of large-model shipments. Charles River’s CRADL model also continues to appeal to clients seeking flexible vivarium space without having to build internal infrastructure, with its value proposition becoming even more attractive as clients prioritize capital efficiency.

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Strategic Deals Drive Growth: Charles River is reshaping its portfolio to focus on areas where it has differentiated scientific capabilities. The company completed the previously announced divestiture of its contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and Cell Solutions businesses on May 6, 2026.  CRL continues to use collaborations and selective acquisitions to broaden its capabilities across the discovery-to-development continuum while maintaining a more focused go-forward portfolio.

Its strategic collaborations within its CDMO, including partnerships with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, are aimed at advancing novel oncology research and development. In 2025, Charles River participated in several collaborations, including those with Toxys, X-Chem and the Francis Crick Institute, among others.

A Stable Solvency Structure: Charles River exited the first quarter of 2026 with cash and cash equivalents of $191.8 million, and no short-term debt payable on its balance sheet. The company continues to balance investment, shareholder returns and funding needs. Charles River also repurchased $200 million of stock under the $1.0 billion authorization, leaving $800 million remaining at quarter-end. 

Factors Affecting Charles RiverBiopharma Demand Remains Soft: Charles River continues to face a cautious spending environment, particularly among global biopharmaceutical and biotechnology clients within the DSA segment, as customers reassess budgets, reprioritize drug pipelines and manage cost structures. While management characterized the biopharma demand environment as stabilizing, spending levels are yet to return to prior norms.

First-quarter 2026 organic revenues declined 1.5%, reflecting pressure in RMS and discovery services. Management also noted that revenues from small and mid-sized biotech clients dropped during the quarter due to the lagged impact of softer DSA bookings in mid-2025, highlighting that improved funding conditions do not translate into revenues immediately.

Foreign Exchange Can Obscure Underlying Trends: Foreign currency translation increased Charles River’s reported first-quarter 2026 revenues by 2.8%, partially masking the underlying organic decline. Management also lowered its 2026 reported revenue outlook by approximately 50 basis points due to updated foreign exchange assumptions. Given the company’s sizable international footprint, foreign exchange volatility can create discrepancies between reported and organic performance and make period-to-period comparisons more challenging.

CRL Stock Estimate TrendThe Zacks Consensus Estimate for CRL’s 2026 earnings has increased 1 cent to $11.05 in the past 30 days.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company’s 2026 revenues is pegged at $3.83 billion, suggesting a 4.5% decrease from the year-ago reported number.

Key PicksSome better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space are Globus Medical (GMED - Free Report) , Align Technology (ALGN - Free Report) and Integra LifeSciences (IART - Free Report) .

Globus Medical has an earnings yield of 5.9% compared to the industry’s negative 3.5% yield. Its earnings surpassed estimates in each of the trailing four quarters, with the average surprise being 26.3%. GMED shares have rallied 27.8% against the industry’s 10.9% decline over the past year.

GMED carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) at present. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

Align Technology, carrying a Zacks Rank #2, has an estimated long-term earnings growth rate of 10.3% compared with the industry’s 5.5% growth. Shares of the company have dipped 15.3% against the industry’s 9.1% growth. ALGN’s earnings outpaced estimates in three of the trailing four quarters and missed on one occasion, the average surprise being 7.8%.

Integra LifeSciences, carrying a Zacks Rank #2, has an earnings yield of 13.6% against the industry’s negative 3.5% yield. Its earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the trailing four quarters, with the average surprise being 16.7%. IART shares have rallied 33.3% against the industry’s 10.9% decline over the past year.

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CoreWeave stock is among today’s weakest performers. Why is CRWV stock falling? According to Bloomberg, Meta’s internal "Meta Compute" initiative could include selling access to AI models hosted on Meta infrastructure as well as raw computing capacity, a model described as similar to neocloud companies like CoreWeave. Meta’s plans remain in development and could change, and a company spokesperson declined to comment.

The report is a direct overhang for CoreWeave because the company’s business is built around selling high-performance GPU cloud capacity for AI workloads. CoreWeave operates as an AI infrastructure provider, offering cloud access to GPU clusters and data centers designed to support demanding AI workloads.

Meta Could Pressure AI Compute PricingInvestors may be selling CRWV on fears that Meta could become a powerful competitor in the same market. Unlike smaller AI cloud providers, Meta already owns massive data-center infrastructure, AI chips, models and developer relationships. If Meta begins renting unused compute, it could increase supply, pressure GPU rental pricing and weaken CoreWeave’s scarcity premium.

That matters because CoreWeave trades as a high-growth AI infrastructure play. Any sign that hyperscalers may flood the market with competing compute could compress CRWV’s multiple, even if AI demand remains strong.

CoreWeave Technical Levels To WatchFrom a trend perspective, CRWV is still in a repair phase: it’s trading 13.4% below its 20-day SMA and 18.2% below its 50-day SMA, which tells you recent rallies have struggled to stick. It’s also 9.9% below the 100-day SMA and 10.9% below the 200-day SMA, keeping the longer-term posture tilted defensive even after the earlier golden cross in May.

MACD is the cleaner momentum read right now, and it’s below its signal line with a negative histogram, which points to upside pressure fading versus the prior upswing. In plain term, MACD vs. the signal line helps gauge whether momentum is building or cooling, and this setup says buyers still need to prove they can regain control.

The 20-day SMA sitting below the 50-day SMA adds to the near-term bearish structure, even though the 50-day SMA remains above the 200-day SMA (the golden cross from May). Zooming out, the stock is still down 42.60% over the past 12 months, so bulls generally want to see a base form before expecting a sustained trend reversal.

Key Resistance: $91.00 — a nearby round-number area where rebounds can stall before the stock can work back toward its short-term moving averages Key Support: $87.00 — a nearby pivot zone where buyers may try to defend the recent range and prevent a deeper slide toward the lower end of the 52-week band What Is CoreWeave and Its Business Model?CoreWeave is a modern cloud infrastructure company that offers Nvidia GPUs and other essential AI hardware with optimized efficiency to handle the most demanding AI training and inference workloads. Its cloud platform supports the development and use of foundational large language models and the delivery of next-generation AI applications to satisfy the growing demand for AI around the world.

In practice, that puts the company in the middle of the AI compute buildout, where customers care about access to high-end GPUs, uptime, and the ability to scale quickly. For the stock, that means sentiment can swing hard with changes in AI spending expectations and broader risk appetite for high-growth infrastructure plays.

CoreWeave Stock Price Activity TodayCRWV Stock Price Activity: CoreWeave shares were trading lower by 10.55% to $89.04 at the time of publication on Wednesday, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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Key Takeaways Equinor increased its ownership in Fram, Mulder, Gronngylt and Grosbeak through an asset swap with Var Energi.The deal boosts near-term production while expanding Equinor's future development pipeline on the NCS.Peon will advance as a subsea tie-back to Gjoa, leveraging existing infrastructure to lower development costs. Equinor ASA (EQNR - Free Report) has strengthened its portfolio on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) through a strategic asset swap with Var Energi, reinforcing its long-term production and value creation strategy. Subject to customary approvals, the carve-out and operatorship transfer will take effect upon transaction closing, with Equinor operating the assets until that time.

Under the agreement, Equinor transferred a 32.5% interest and operatorship in the Peon gas discovery while retaining significant ownership. In return, the company acquired a 5% stake in the producing Fram field, increasing its ownership to 50%. It acquired a 40% interest across the Mulder and Gronngylt discoveries, which raised its stakes in those assets to 85%.

EQNR expanded its presence in the Grosbeak prospect by securing a 15% stake in the PL090JS discovery, increasing its total to 36% and a 10% stake in the PL925 discovery, raising its ownership to 76%. These acquisitions enhance Equinor's position in the highly prospective Troll-Fram area and increase its exposure to producing and near-development assets.

The transaction improves the quality of Equinor's asset portfolio by exchanging a portion of a single undeveloped project for a diversified mix of producing assets and development opportunities. The additional stake in the Fram field is expected to support near-term production and cash flow generation, while increased ownership in the Mulder, Gronngylt and Grosbeak discoveries expands the company's future development pipeline. These assets also benefit from their proximity to existing infrastructure, enabling lower cost development, faster commercialization and improved capital efficiency.

The transaction also accelerates the development of the Peon gas discovery, one of the largest undeveloped gas discoveries on the NCS, with estimated recoverable resources of 105-195 million barrels of oil equivalent. Located approximately 60 kilometers from the Gjoa field, Peon is slated for development as a subsea tie-back to the established Gjoa platform. By processing the extracted gas at the Karsto plant, EQNR is expected to successfully reduce emissions, cut development costs and extend the lifecycle of existing facilities.

The asset swap aligns with Equinor's broader strategy of optimizing its NCS portfolio through disciplined capital allocation and asset management. By increasing its exposure to high-quality producing assets while accelerating low-cost tie-back developments, EQNR is strengthening its business model and improving its production outlook, ultimately enhancing its appeal to investors.

Equinor currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

With Brent crude prices trading above the $70-per-barrel mark and West Texas Intermediate (“WTI”) crude prices trading around the $70-per-barrel mark, according to oilprice.com, upstream players like W&T Offshore, Inc. (WTI - Free Report) and integrated players like Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. (VIST - Free Report) , Aker BP ASA (AKRBY - Free Report) and EQNR, all of which have a presence in upstream operations, are benefiting from the elevated crude pricing environment. WTI and VIST currently carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) each, while AKRBY sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

W&T Offshore has a strong offshore footprint in the Gulf of America, which spans approximately 605,000 acres and supports a large reserve base. WTI's 1P and 2P reserves provide 20 years’ production potential and resource longevity.

Vista operates 205,600 acres in Argentina's premier shale basin, the Vaca Muerta. Supported by this massive footprint, VIST expects to achieve a production rate of 200 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2030.

Aker BP extracts oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf, serving as operator for the Alvheim, Edvard Grieg/Ivar Aasen, Valhall, Skarv, and Ula field centers, and as a partner in the Johan Sverdrup field. AKRBY strengthened its exploration portfolio across the Norwegian Continental Shelf by acquiring a 19% interest in several high-potential licenses, including Grosbeak, Swisher, Toppand and Rover.

Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) plan to sell spare computing power is less a bold expansion than an admission, that the company has built so much AI capacity it now needs somewhere to put the surplus.

The Facebook and Instagram owner has spent heavily on data centres and chips to chase its artificial intelligence ambitions, a spree that has repeatedly unsettled investors worried about where the returns will come from.

Selling access to that infrastructure reframes the question.

Excess compute that would otherwise sit idle becomes a revenue line, and the capital budget that spooked the market starts to look less like a bet and more like a hedge.

It also drops Meta into direct competition with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the three companies that dominate cloud infrastructure and treat it as a core profit engine rather than an afterthought.

That is the awkward part of the strategy.

Meta would be entering a mature, margin-sensitive market as the newest and least proven vendor, pitching capacity to customers who may also be rivals or wary of feeding a social media giant their AI workloads.

The move borrows directly from Amazon's origin story, where internal infrastructure built for the retail business was rented out and became the industry's most profitable cloud operation.

Whether Meta can repeat that trick is unproven because renting compute is a service business with support, reliability and enterprise sales demands that differ sharply from running social networks.

Still, the logic is hard to fault.

If the AI arms race forces hyperscalers to over-build to avoid being caught short, monetising the overhang is the rational response, and it gives Meta a partial answer to the capex critics.

The signal to watch is pricing, because a company sitting on surplus capacity has every incentive to undercut, and that could squeeze the incumbents' fattest margins.

Enables faster rollout of new features and a more seamless experience for millions of users July 01, 2026 09:00 ET  | Source: Kyivstar Group Ltd

KYIV, Ukraine and NEW YORK, July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kyivstar Group Ltd. (“Kyivstar”) (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), the parent company of JSC Kyivstar, Ukraine’s leading digital operator and part of VEON Group (Nasdaq: VEON), today announced in partnership with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, that Uklon, Ukraine’s leading ride-hailing service and part of Kyivstar’s digital ecosystem, has integrated the Visa Acceptance Platform into its application.

The launch of the new platform will strengthen Uklon’s payment infrastructure in Ukraine and deliver a faster, more seamless payment experience for millions of riders. The platform has already successfully launched in the Uklon app, enabling seamless in-app transactions, instant refunds, and transaction cancellations.

“Integrating the Visa Acceptance Platform represents a significant step forward in modernizing Uklon’s payment capabilities,” said Mykola Solomiichuk, Chief Financial Officer of Uklon. “This partnership enables us to deliver the fast, reliable payment experience our users expect while further establishing our robust, resilient and secure digital mobility ecosystem serving millions across Ukraine.”

Kyivstar President Oleksandr Komarov stated, “Strengthening digital payment infrastructure is essential to advancing Ukraine’s digital economy and expanding access to innovative services. Uklon’s integration with the Visa Acceptance Platform demonstrates our commitment to leveraging technology partnerships that enhance the user experience, drive growth across our digital ecosystem, and reinforce Ukraine’s position as a hub for digital innovation.”

“Visa Acceptance Platform aims to provide our partners around the globe with resilient, robust, and secure architecture that fuels innovation and growth,” said Tetiana Chorna, Visa Vice President, Country Manager for Ukraine. “We are pleased to support Uklon in the expansion of its digital mobility services by offering solutions that streamline payments for millions of riders across Ukraine.”

The integration builds on Uklon’s ongoing transformation into a comprehensive urban mobility and digital services ecosystem, which today spans ride-hailing, delivery, advertising, and intercity travel. Strengthening Uklon’s payments infrastructure is expected to support continued growth across Kyivstar’s digital service offerings and reinforce payments as a key driver of user engagement.

The collaboration underscores Visa’s ongoing commitment to enabling secure, fast, and innovative digital payments while supporting the growth of smart mobility in Ukraine.

About Uklon

Uklon is a technology company that developed the eponymous mobile application. Founded in Kyiv in 2010, Uklon started as a ride-hailing platform and has evolved into a multi-service digital ecosystem integrating ride-hailing, Uklon Delivery, Uklon Ads, and the Uklon Travel bus ticket booking service. As of June 2026, the Uklon service is available in 27 cities across Ukraine and at the Bukovel tourist complex. The company also operates in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

In April 2025, Uklon was acquired by JSC Kyivstar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), whose shares are traded on the U.S. stock exchange Nasdaq and which is a part of the VEON Group.

Official website: https://uklon.com.ua

About Kyivstar Group Ltd.

Kyivstar Group Ltd. (“Kyivstar”) is a Nasdaq-listed holding company that operates JSC Kyivstar, Ukraine’s leading digital operator and the first Ukrainian company to list on a U.S. stock exchange. Kyivstar’s companies provide a broad range of connectivity and digital services, including mobile and fixed-line voice and data, ride-hailing, e-health, digital TV, and enterprise solutions such as Big Data, cloud, and cybersecurity.

For more information, please visit https://investors.kyivstar.ua.

Nasdaq tickers: KYIV; KYIVW

About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at visa.com.ua.

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This press release contains “forward-looking statements,” as the phrase is defined in Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to, among other things, the launch and integration of the Visa Acceptance Platform into Uklon application. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and performance to differ materially from those expressed by such statements, including risks relating to Uklon’s integration with the Visa Acceptance Platform, among others discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” included in Kyivstar Group’s annual report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 16, 2026, as amended and supplemented from time to time, and in any other subsequent filings with the SEC by Kyivstar Group. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this release and Kyivstar disclaims any obligation to update them, except as required by applicable laws. 

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Goldman Sachs logo appears in this illustration taken December 1, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

CompaniesJuly 1 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs' (GS.N), opens new tab private credit fund said on Wednesday that investors sought to repurchase roughly 3.24% of its total shares in ​the second quarter, extending its streak of lower redemptions ‌compared to most of the other players of the private credit industry.

The bank's fund, GS Credit, once again outperformed the sector that has been grappling with ​elevated redemption requests, driven by investor fears that AI could ​weaken the earnings of software companies and their ability ⁠to repay loans.

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Goldman said second-quarter repurchase requests ​were below its 5% quarterly repurchase cap and were fulfilled in ​full.

Business development companies (BDCs) typically channel investor capital into private loans, making them a key part of the private credit industry.

"Across the largest non-traded BDC managers ​reporting second quarter activity to date, peer repurchase requests have ​generally ranged from approximately 10% to nearly 17% of shares outstanding," Goldman said ‌in ⁠a letter to shareholders.

The Goldman fund generated roughly $275 million of gross inflows during the second quarter, it said.

Several analysts and technology companies have argued that concerns about AI's impact on the software sector are ​overblown, saying established ​companies have businesses, ⁠proprietary data and customer relationships that will be difficult to displace.

"We continue to believe that incumbency ​moats — mission-critical workflows, proprietary data, deep domain expertise, ​regulatory complexity, ⁠and customer trust — remain powerful sources of defensibility," Goldman said.

Reuters reported in April, citing a source, that a large share of the ⁠fund's ​investors came through Goldman's private wealth channels, ​where clients have been long-term investors in private credit and are better positioned to ​endure illiquidity.

Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli

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ToplinePlayStation manufacturer Sony announced the company would no longer release new games on physical discs starting in January 2028, shifting all sales to digital platforms in an effort to “adapt to consumer trends,” marking the end of a physical media era for one of the bestselling game console manufacturers.

The company said this change would not impact games that were already released.

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Key FactsIn a blog post published on Wednesday, Sony’s senior director Sid Shuman said the move will “align more closely with how most of our community prefers to access and play games today.”

Physical sales of new games have been falling in recent years—physical software made up only 3% of Sony’s revenue in 2024, according to the company’s 2025 corporate report.

The news comes days after Rockstar began preorders for their highly anticipated “Grand Theft Auto VI,” which is currently slated for release in November without a physical disc inside its physical release.

Sony said the shift to digital sales will not impact older games already released, or upcoming games being released before January 2028.

Analysts Predict ‘Watershed Moment’ For Games IndustryPiers Harding-Rolls, an analyst at Ampere Analysis, called Sony’s announcement a “watershed moment” for the industry in a post on social media. According to Ampere’s data, Sony’s sales of digital games have replaced their sales for physical games. In 2013, digital sales made up only 13% of the company’s full game sales. But 12 years later this trend was reversed—digital sales made up 80% of all full games Sony sold last year, according to the firm’s data. Harding-Rolls later predicted Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 6 console, which does not have an official release date yet, will not include a physical disc drive on its standard version. In response to the news, Mat Piscatella, a games industry analyst at Circana, said in a Bluesky post “physical video games will last only as long as the console manufacturers allow them to.” Piscatella linked to data from his own firm that found consumers spent $1.6 billion on new physical games in the last 12-month period ending in May—down from a peak of $11.5 billion in 2009.

TangentThe news did not immediately impact GameStop stock price after markets opened on Wednesday morning. In March, GameStop reported a 14% revenue drop in its most recent fourth quarter as consumers migrated to digital downloads for games.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include additional context from Guggenheim’s analyst note.

ServiceNow stock is surging to new heights today. What’s behind NOW gains? What Is Driving ServiceNow’s AI-Powered Offerings?ServiceNow and Accenture rolled out two offerings: managed security services built on the ServiceNow AI Platform and an Accenture AI-powered automation solution designed to reduce the cost and complexity of modernizing enterprise risk and security operations.

The companies tied the push to a faster threat cycle—saying AI has compressed the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation from months to hours—and pointed to U.S. data breach costs hitting $10.22 million per incident in 2025, up 9%.

Why Guggenheim Turned Bullish on ServiceNowCritical Price Levels To Watch For NOW StockThe premarket pop is happening inside a still-damaged longer-term chart: the stock is down 50.94% over the past 12 months and is trading 22.5% below its 200-day SMA ($133.66), which keeps the bigger trend cautious until price can reclaim that long average.

Near term, the setup is more constructive, with shares trading above the 50-day SMA ($99.90) and the 100-day SMA ($102.76), while sitting basically on top of the 20-day SMA ($103.78)—a spot that often decides whether a bounce turns into follow-through or fades back into chop.

RSI is the cleaner momentum read right now at 48.10, which is neutral and suggests the move isn’t "stretched" yet; in plain English, RSI helps gauge whether buying or selling has become overheated.

The mixed moving-average backdrop explains the two-way trade: the 20-day SMA is above the 50-day SMA (bullish), but the death cross from August 2025 (50-day below 200-day) still argues rallies may need repeated confirmation.

Key Resistance: $111.00 — a nearby round-number area where rebounds can stall Key Support: $85.50 — a prior demand zone that sits above the 52-week low area ($81.24) How ServiceNow Automates Business ProcessesServiceNow provides software solutions to structure and automate various business processes via a SaaS delivery model, with a core focus on IT workflows for enterprise customers. It started in IT service management and has expanded its workflow automation into customer service, HR service delivery, and security operations.

That backdrop matters for today’s news because security and risk modernization is a natural extension of the company’s "single platform" pitch—using the same workflow and automation logic to replace older, fragmented tools.

Pairing with Accenture also speaks to how these platforms get adopted in large enterprises, where implementation and managed services can be as important as the software itself.

ServiceNow Earnings Preview for July 2026Looking further out, the next major catalyst for the stock arrives with the July 22, 2026 (estimated) earnings report.

EPS Estimate: 76 cents (Down from 82 cents YoY) Revenue Estimate: $3.93 billion (Up from $3.21 billion YoY) Valuation: P/E of 59.1x (Indicates premium valuation relative to peers) Analyst Consensus & Recent Actions: The stock carries a Buy rating with an average price target of $138.21. Recent analyst moves include:

Guggenheim: Upgraded to Buy (Target $125.00) (July 1) BTIG: Buy (Maintains Target to $150.00) (June 29) Benchmark: Buy (Raises Target to $130.00) (June 15) What Would $1,000 Invested In NOW Be Worth?A $1,000 investment in ServiceNow on July 1, 2021, would have been worth $911 on June 30, 2026—a total return of -8.9% over the period. The stake swung between $627 and more than $2,000, ending well below its 2025 peak.

The ride included a deep drawdown, with the position hitting its period low on October 14, 2022, and a maximum drawdown of -64.5% along the way. Momentum later reversed, culminating in a period high on January 28, 2025, before the investment finished the five-year window at $911 on June 30, 2026.

On an annualized basis, ServiceNow returned -1.9% over the holding period, lagging the S&P 500’s 11.7% annualized return and the Nasdaq 100’s 15.8%. Among the listed peers, Meta Platforms, Inc. was the standout, posting a 106.2% annualized return over the same timeframe.

Today, SERVICENOW, INC. has a market capitalization of about $107.6 billion. The stock’s current P/E ratio is 59.1.

ServiceNow Benzinga Edge Rankings ExplainedBelow is the Benzinga Edge scorecard for ServiceNow, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses compared to the broader market:

The Verdict: ServiceNow’s Benzinga Edge signal reveals a growth-heavy profile with weak momentum and weak value, meaning the bull case leans on execution and continued demand rather than "cheap" pricing. For longer-term trend followers, the key technical tell is whether the stock can build above the $111.00 area and start working back toward its 200-day moving average.

NOW Stock Price Movement Wednesday MorningNOW Stock Price Activity: ServiceNow shares were up 3.45% at $102.71 on Wednesday, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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Portage, Michigan, July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stryker (NYSE: SYK) will host a webcast at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on Thursday, July 30, 2026, to discuss its second quarter 2026 financial results.  The live webcast can be accessed at Stryker - Events & Presentations.  An archive of the webcast will also be available at Stryker’s website beginning approximately two hours after the live call ends.

An accompanying press release that includes summary financial information for the second quarter will be issued at approximately 4:05 p.m. (Eastern time) and available at Stryker - Press Releases on the day of the webcast.

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On January 1, 2026, we published The 3 Best Dividend Aristocrats to Buy in 2026, naming Aflac (NYSE: AFL | AFL Price Prediction), Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW), and Nordson (NASDAQ: NDSN) as the three most compelling names on the Aristocrat roster. Six months later, the scorecard shows two winners and one clear laggard. The S&P 500 has returned 9.5% year to date, providing a firm benchmark. One pick has crushed it, one has kept pace on total return, and one has pulled back hard. The Aristocrat thesis, however, holds across all three: each has raised its payout again in 2026, proving that the income compounding continues even when price action does not.

Here are the halftime scores, counting down from poorest performer to best.

3. Lowe’s Lowe’s earned the original nod on the strength of its home-improvement scale, its Total Home strategy, and a more than 60-year streak of dividend raises that qualifies it as a Dividend King. That thesis has run into a wall of housing softness. Shares closed at $220.49 on June 30, 2026, down 8.6% year to date. The dividend, however, keeps climbing. Lowe’s raised the quarterly payout from $1.20 to $1.25 with the July 22, 2026, ex-date, pushing the run rate to $4.80 per share annually for a 2.3% yield.

Operationally, the business has executed. Lowe’s beat consensus estimates in each of the past six quarters, including adjusted EPS of $3.03 versus a $2.97 estimate for the quarter reported May 20, 2026, on revenue of $23.08 billion, up 10.3% year over year. Comps have now been positive for four consecutive quarters. The stock is being punished by macro concerns, not on execution, and analysts have a $263.73 average price target. Lowe’s earns its spot from here as a rate-sensitive rebound candidate whose dividend keeps compounding while investors wait.

2. Aflac Aflac was the income anchor of the original three: steady supplemental-insurance cash flows in Japan and the United States, a fortress balance sheet, and 43 consecutive years of dividend increases. That anchor has held. Shares closed most recently at $117.25, up 6.3% since the start of the year, not far off the benchmark. Late last year, the board raised the quarterly payout 5.2% to $0.61, delivering a 2.1% current yield.

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The earnings scorecard is mixed. Q1 2026 adjusted EPS came in at $1.75, missing the $1.80 estimate, though revenue of $4.35 billion beat and rose 25.9% year over year. Yen weakness cost $0.02 of EPS at a 156.87 average rate, but Japan pretax margin expanded to 35.0% from 31.8% and buybacks retired 5.9% of the share count. At a 14x forward multiple with a 0.61 beta, Aflac remains a low-volatility income holding. It keeps its spot.

1. Nordson Nordson was the clear growth leader among the three picks, chosen for its precision-dispensing niche, the Ascend Strategy, and semiconductor exposure. It has delivered. Shares closed at $301.69 on June 30, up 25.5% year to date, more than doubling the S&P 500 return. The quarterly dividend was raised to $0.82 from $0.78, extending a 25-plus-year Aristocrat streak.

The Q2 fiscal 2026 report, delivered May 20, was a record: adjusted EPS of $2.86 on revenue of $740.85M, up 8.5% year over year, with 7% organic growth across all three segments and backlog up 18%. Advanced Technology Solutions grew 10.1%, aided by the semiconductor inflection and electronics dispense demand. Management raised full-year guidance to $2.93 billion to $3.01 billion in sales and $11.30 to $11.80 in adjusted EPS. CEO Sundaram Nagarajan called it “a strong first half of fiscal 2026, highlighted by record performance and ongoing momentum across our end markets.” At 26x forward earnings, the multiple has expanded, but with analysts targeting $319.12 and free cash flow conversion at 119%, Nordson still earns the top spot into the back half of the year.

The Halftime Verdict The January call landed. Nordson is the clear winner, more than doubling the S&P 500’s advance on record operating results and raised guidance. Aflac kept pace and kept raising. Lowe’s is the one to defend, but its earnings still beat, its comps went positive for a fourth straight quarter, and its dividend just went up again. That is the Aristocrat promise in action: the income compounds through the cycle, and Nordson’s precision-dispensing story remains the sharpest offensive weapon in this three-stock portfolio heading into the second half.

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FuelCell stock is challenging resistance. Why are FCEL shares at highs? The Fit Energy DealThe deal represents a major step in FuelCell’s pivot toward the AI data center power market, a segment where the company says more than 80% of its 1.5-gigawatt proposal pipeline is now concentrated.

The EXIM FinancingCritically, the financing is structured as a loan guarantee through EXIM’s program, making it non-dilutive—providing capital without a share sale, which had been a persistent concern among investors.

Analyst Consensus & Recent ActionsThe stock carries a Hold rating with an average price target of $22.00. Recent analyst moves include:

B. Riley Securities: Upgraded to Buy (Raises Target to $32.00) (June 29) UBS: Neutral (Raises Target to $22.00) (June 26) Jefferies: Upgraded to Buy (Raises Target to $24.00) (June 26) FuelCell Shares Shoot HigherFCEL Price Action: At the time of publication, FuelCell shares are trading 3.42% higher at $37.24, according to data from Benzinga Pro.

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Simplifying label-free imaging analysis for more confident real-time cell analysis

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the launch of Agilent xCELLigence RTCA eSight AI, a new AI-powered software module that simplifies label-free imaging analysis by reducing manual cell segmentation steps and parameter tuning and supporting more consistent results. The software upgrade enhances the unique dual-readout capabilities of the Agilent xCELLigence RTCA eSight instrument with AI-driven cell imaging analysis, enabling researchers to gain imaging and impedance insights from the same cells in the same experiment with greater speed and confidence. This streamlined, integrated approach is expected to provide biopharma researchers with a more complete view of cell behavior while reducing variability across users and conditions.

"By making advanced AI-powered image analysis accessible to more labs, we're enabling more consistent, reproducible insights that help accelerate discovery and translational research." — Knut Wintergerst, vice president and general manager, Agilent

Share Traditional cell segmentation workflows rely on time-consuming and subjective manual setup and analysis steps that increase variability, error and rework, slowing experimental timelines while also requiring a higher level of experimental expertise to achieve consistent results. As biopharma research increasingly demands more complex experiments, higher throughput and greater consistency, integrated workflows are key to efficient scientific progress. AI-driven imaging analysis can help reduce variability across users while decreasing time spent on manual analysis.

By replacing subjective, user-influenced thresholding and manual parameter tuning with a one-click approach, the new module delivers standardized analysis across skill levels, experiments and datasets. eSight imaging AI analysis is designed to ensure confident, reliable performance across users, cell types and assay conditions, providing the robustness and accuracy essential for real-world science and users with varying levels of imaging expertise.

The new module is expected to reduce time spent on manual analysis, rework and training while supporting broader application of label-free imaging workflows, specifically within drug discovery and in high-throughput biopharma research.

"The AI analysis module for xCELLigence RTCA eSight has substantially reduced the time our users spend for image analysis," said Carole Perrot, Ph.D., core facility director at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. "Its automated, consistent performance across a variety of cell types and experimental conditions has improved workflow efficiency while helping ensure reproducible results. As a shared resource supporting multiple research projects, the xCELLigence is without a doubt one of our best instruments as it simplifies complex analyses and makes advanced imaging more accessible to our users."

Knut Wintergerst, vice president and general manager of the Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets Group at Agilent, added, "With xCELLigence RTCA eSight Software 1.5.0, Agilent is bringing the same straightforward, objective analysis customers have long valued in impedance-based measurements to label-free live cell imaging. By making advanced AI-powered image analysis accessible to more labs, we’re enabling more consistent, reproducible insights that help accelerate discovery and translational research."

By simplifying label-free imaging analysis within an integrated imaging and impedance workflow, eSight AI helps researchers reduce complexity, gain more confident biological insights and accelerate the path from experiment to interpretation.

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MIAMI, July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wrap Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WRAP) (“WRAP” or the “Company”), a global leader in Non-Lethal Response™ (“NLR”) and public safety technology at https://www.wrap.com, today announced that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (“UMBC”), https://umbc.edu/, has purchased BolaWrap® devices and NLR training as part of its initial deployment of non-lethal capabilities for campus safety and security. 

“Our priority is to support a safe campus environment while giving officers additional tools that align with responsible, measured response,” states Lt. Col. Ed McDermott of UMBC. “BolaWrap provides a non-lethal capability that may help officers intervene earlier, reduce escalation, and create opportunities for safer resolutions when circumstances allow.” 

The deployment supports UMBC’s ongoing commitment to maintaining a safe, secure, and welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.  

“UMBC public safety officers are expected to learn proper deployment, policy alignment, and scenario-based application of the BolaWrap device as part of a complete, non-lethal system,” states Jared Novick, WRAP President. “This may enhance their existing response protocols and reinforces responsible, disciplined use in real-world campus safety scenarios.” 

For higher education environments, Non-Lethal Response tools may provide a meaningful capability for incidents involving behavioral escalation, crisis response, welfare checks, disorderly conduct, or other encounters where officers may benefit from additional time and distance. WRAP believes the deployment at UMBC may further demonstrate the relevance of its Non-Lethal Response ecosystem beyond traditional municipal law enforcement and into adjacent markets such as universities, healthcare systems, transportation, critical infrastructure, and security. 

The UMBC purchase also builds on WRAP’s broader strategy to expand adoption of its public safety portfolio across organizations seeking safer, scalable, and policy-aligned response capabilities. In addition to BolaWrap, WRAP’s ecosystem includes Wrap Reality immersive training, WrapTactics™ learning management system, WrapVision™ body-worn camera and evidence management solutions, and additional public safety technologies designed to support safer outcomes for officers, subjects, and communities. 

About Wrap Technologies, Inc. 

Wrap Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WRAP) a global leader in innovative public safety technologies and non-lethal tools, delivering cutting-edge technology with exceptional people to address the complex, modern day challenges facing public safety organizations. 

WRAP’s complete public safety portfolio includes the non-lethal BolaWrap® 150 device, Wrap Reality® immersive training platform, WrapVision™ body-worn camera system, WrapTactics™ training programs, and next-generation C-UAS solutions like PAN-DA and the 1KC Kinetic Anti-Drone Cassette, all of which supports the Company's mission to provide safer, scalable, and cost-effective technologies for public safety, defense, and critical infrastructure markets.  

With a growing demand for non-lethal tools and techniques to create time, distance and tactical advantage in non-criminal calls, Wrap's BolaWrap® 150 incorporates a multi-sensory distraction of sight and sound as a first response, followed by a non-lethal restraint if further escalation is required. This approach reduces the risk of injury to officers, subjects, and the community.   

Wrap's BolaWrap® 150 solution is intended to provide law enforcement with a safer choice for nearly every phase of a critical incident. This innovative, patented device deploys a multi-sensory, cognitive disruption to expand the pre-escalation period and gives officers the advantage and critical time to manage non-compliant subjects before resorting to higher-force options. The BolaWrap® 150 is not pain-based compliance. It does not shoot, strike, shock, or incapacitate, instead, it helps officers strategically operate pre-escalation on the force continuum, reducing the risk of injury to both officers and subjects. Used by over 1,000 agencies across the U.S. and in 60 countries, BolaWrap® is backed by training certified by the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST), reinforcing Wrap's commitment to public safety through cutting-edge technology and expert training. 

WrapReality™ VR is a fully immersive training simulator to enhance decision-making under stress. 

As a comprehensive public safety training platform, it provides first responders with realistic, interactive scenarios that reflect the evolving challenges of modern law enforcement. By offering a growing library of real-world situations, WrapReality™ is intended to equip officers with the skills and confidence to navigate high stakes encounters effectively, which we believe leads to safer outcomes for both responders and the communities they serve. 

WrapVision is an all-new body-worn camera and evidence management system built for efficiency. 

Designed for efficiency, security, and transparency to meet the rigorous demands of modern law enforcement, WrapVision captures, stores, and helps manage digital evidence, ensuring operational security, regulatory compliance, and enhanced video picture quality and field of view. 

The WrapVision camera, powered by IONODES, boasts streamlined cloud integration and final North American assembly, with a critical made-in-America roadmap projected for early 2026. This track helps ensure data integrity and helps eliminate critical concerns over unauthorized access or foreign surveillance risks. 

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WRAP, the Wrap logo, BolaWrap®, Non-Lethal Response™, WrapReality™, Wrap Training Academy, and Non-Lethal Response™ are trademarks of WRAP Technologies, Inc., some of which are registered in the U.S. and abroad. All other trade names used herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective holders. 

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This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expect," "anticipate," "should", "believe", "target", "project", "goals", "estimate", "potential", "predict", "may", "will", "could", "intend", and variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Moreover, forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond the Company's control and include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the expected benefits and performance of the agreement with University of Maryland, Baltimore County Police Department, the Company's planned future products, technologies, integration, intended product designs and expected benefits therefrom, expected market opportunities and outcomes related to Wrap's products to increase officer and public safety. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to: the Company's ability to maintain compliance with the Nasdaq Capital Market's listing standards; the Company's ability to successfully implement training programs for the use of its products; the Company's ability to manufacture and produce products for its customers; the Company's ability to develop sales for its products; the market acceptance of existing and future products; the availability of funding to continue to finance operations; the complexity, expense and time associated with sales to law enforcement and government entities; the lengthy evaluation and sales cycle for the Company's product solutions; product defects; litigation risks from alleged product-related injuries; risks of government regulations; the impact resulting from geopolitical conflicts and any resulting sanctions; the ability to obtain export licenses for counties outside of the United States; the ability to obtain patents and defend intellectual property against competitors; the impact of competitive products and solutions; and the Company's ability to maintain and enhance its brand, as well as other risk factors mentioned in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this release and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or changes in its expectations. 

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Key Takeaways BWXT's commercial nuclear segment is emerging as a key growth driver alongside its U.S. Navy business.BWXT's Commercial Operations revenues jumped 121% in Q1 2026, supported by broad-based nuclear demand.BWXT expanded its U.S. manufacturing footprint as Commercial Operations backlog reached nearly $1.72 billion. BWX Technologies (BWXT - Free Report) has long been recognized as the primary supplier of nuclear reactors and fuel for the U.S. Navy. While this government business continues to provide stable, long-term revenues, the company's commercial nuclear segment is emerging as an increasingly important growth engine.

Governments across North America and Europe are extending the operating lives of existing reactors while supporting the development of next-generation nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors ("SMRs") and advanced microreactors. These projects require specialized nuclear components, precision manufacturing, fuel handling systems, and engineering expertise — areas where BWXT has built decades of experience.

In April 2026, BWXT announced the acquisition of Precision Components Group, LLC. This marks BWXT’s first step in establishing a U.S. commercial nuclear component manufacturing footprint to support future new reactor builds and aftermarket.

During the first quarter of 2026, Commercial Operations revenues surged 121% year over year to $283.6 million, driven by strong demand for commercial nuclear components, field services, fuel and fuel-handling products, medical isotope sales, and contributions from Kinectrics.

BWXT reported a Commercial Operations book-to-bill ratio of 1.0 during the quarter, reflecting steady bookings from commercial nuclear components and field services. Kinectrics generated a book-to-bill ratio above 1.0, indicating that new orders continued to outpace revenue recognition.

Commercial Operations continues to build a robust backlog, providing strong visibility into future revenue growth. As of March 31, 2026, BWXT's Commercial Operations backlog reached nearly $1.72 billion, reflecting sustained demand for commercial nuclear components, engineering and field services, fuel handling solutions, and medical isotope products.

Nuclear Companies Positioned for the Commercial ExpansionBWX Technologies is not alone in benefiting from the renewed interest in commercial nuclear energy. Several companies are capitalizing on this long-term industry trend.

Cameco (CCJ - Free Report) continues expanding its uranium production and benefits from increasing global demand for nuclear fuel as utilities secure long-term supply contracts.

NuScale Power (SMR - Free Report) is focused on commercializing SMRs, targeting utilities, industrial customers, and data centers seeking reliable carbon-free electricity.

BWXT Stock’s Earnings EstimatesThe Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2026 earnings per share indicates an increase of 14.76% year over year.

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BWXT Stock Trades at a DiscountIn terms of valuation, BWXT’s forward 12-month price-to-sales (P/S) is 4.5X, a discount to the industry’s average of 12.98X.

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BWXT Stock’s Price PerformanceIn the past six months, shares of the company have risen 12.6% compared with the industry’s 13.8% growth.

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BWXT’s Zacks RankThe company currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
 

Key Takeaways IonQ ended Q1 2026 with about $3.1B in cash and investments, supporting multi-year investments. IONQ's remaining performance obligations rose to $470M, improving multi-quarter revenue visibility. IONQ reaffirmed a $310-$330M adjusted EBITDA loss outlook, backed by strong liquidity to fund plans. IonQ (IONQ - Free Report) exited the first quarter of 2026 with approximately $3.1 billion in cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and investments. This is one of the strongest balance sheets in the quantum computing industry. This substantial liquidity supports multi-year investment needs and reduces near-term financing risk.

A notable indicator of revenue visibility is the continued expansion of remaining performance obligations, which increased to $470 million (as of March 31, 2026) from $370 million at the end of 2025. While the timing of revenue recognition remains contingent on project execution and customer deployments, the expanding contracted backlog reduces reliance on an early-stage proposal pipeline and offers greater multi-quarter revenue visibility.

For 2026, management reaffirmed its adjusted EBITDA loss guidance of $310 million to $330 million. Coupled with a first-quarter adjusted EBITDA loss of $96.8 million, this implies continued elevated cash burn. Given IonQ's exceptionally strong liquidity position, the company appears well positioned to fund this investment cycle internally without facing meaningful near-term financing risk.

Peer UpdateQuantum Computing (QUBT - Free Report) or QCi ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents and investments of about $1.4 billion, underscoring a substantial liquidity position despite the acquisitions of Luminar Semiconductor (“LSI”) and NuCrypt. QCi’s financial strength is further reflected in its total assets of about $1.6 billion and stockholders' equity of approximately $1.6 billion. Meanwhile, total liabilities accounted for $23.4 million, much lower than the cash level.

Rigetti (RGTI - Free Report) exited the first quarter of 2026 with cash, cash equivalents and short-term available-for-sale investments of $418.2 million. The company ended the quarter with no debt on its balance sheet, underscoring a solid solvency position. This means Rigetti has ample liquidity to fund its operations and roadmap execution without near-term financing pressure. 

IONQ’s Price PerformanceOver the past year, IONQ’s shares have gained 32.8% compared with the industry’s 252.5% growth. 

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Expensive ValuationIonQ currently trades at a forward 12-month price-to-sales (P/S) of 59.44X compared with the industry median of 4.45X.

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IONQ Stock Estimate TrendIn the past 30 days, its loss per share estimate for 2026 has remained unchanged at $2.26.

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IonQ currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell). 

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 29: Comcast announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate media company, pending regulatory and board approvals. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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When Brian Roberts announced on June 29 that Comcast would spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate public company, an analyst asked the question behind the transaction: was this a step toward a sale?

His answer was two words: “Absolutely not.”

Pay less attention to the denial than to the admission beside it. Co-CEO Mike Cavanagh told analysts the company had “changed our mind” about whether broadband and media still belonged under one roof.

That is the more useful piece of information. The people who built a 15-year convergence bet were acknowledging that its logic no longer held.

The Convergence Bet Comes UndoneComcast bought NBCUniversal more than 15 years ago on a simple theory: own the pipe into the living room and the programming that travels through it, and you sit on both ends of the relationship with the viewer.

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That theory held while the cable wire was the gatekeeper. Streaming dissolved it.

Once any studio can reach a television over the open internet, owning the wire no longer confers the same advantage over owning the content, and the two businesses no longer share the same reason to sit together.

The market had already reached this verdict. Comcast shares had fallen about 32% over the year, to roughly $23 in the days before the announcement, down from the mid-$30s last summer. Investors had been valuing the company at a discount to the sum of its parts.

Comcast is keeping the word “converged” for the part that still works, describing its broadband-and-mobile network as the largest converged platform in the country.

The convergence that failed was the holding-company kind, distribution married to content. The kind that survives lives inside the wires.

A Script Warner Bros. Already RanComcast had already rehearsed the move with Versant, the cable-network separation that pulled slower-growth linear assets away from the rest of NBCUniversal.

The fuller template was set by Warner Bros. Discovery. It reorganized into two divisions in December 2024, then announced a full tax-free split into two public companies in June 2025, with David Zaslav describing each as built to succeed on its own terms.

The framing was standalone strength, not sale preparation.

Within months the company had a buyer and then a fight over it.

Netflix agreed on December 4 to buy the Warner Bros. studio, HBO and HBO Max, the content jewel, taken only after the linear networks were carved off, at an enterprise value of about $82.7 billion.

Paramount Skydance came over the top with a hostile all-cash offer, raised it to $31 a share with a personal financing guarantee from Larry Ellison, and won the contest in February at roughly $110 billion. Netflix, which had held the board’s recommendation, declined to match.

The Justice Department cleared the antitrust review in June, and the transaction is set to close this quarter.

Read the arc plainly: split into two, sell it as independence, deny any deal, and within a year there is an auction.

Comcast has just finished the first step using the same language. The denial is not the data point. The script is.

Why NBCUniversal Does Not Cleave As CleanlyThe flexibility Comcast keeps invoking is already being read as a deal signal. The sharper question is not whether the pieces draw buyers but which ones, because the Warner Bros. ending does not transfer cleanly to NBCUniversal.

Netflix could buy Warner Bros. because Warner Bros. had already been separated from its cable networks. NBCUniversal is being spun off whole: Universal’s studios, Peacock, NBC, Telemundo, major sports rights, Sky and theme parks, all in one company.

A content buyer that wants the studio and the streamer may not want a capital-heavy theme-park business, a broadcast network with FCC licenses or the linear exposure Netflix tried to avoid. For a clean sale of the jewel, NBCUniversal would most likely have to split a second time.

The behavior on the call already points that way. Comcast is keeping up to 19.9% of NBCUniversal to sell down over time.

Cavanagh matched the denial with his own “Definitely not,” then in the same answer claimed the freedom to go after “adjacent businesses where we have the right to play,” a denial of being a seller and an announcement of being a buyer, one sentence apart.

The analysts ended the call on the one soft question: whether each smaller company keeps the scale it needs with content partners and distributors. For NBCUniversal, that question lands hardest on the sports rights, whose escalating cost rests on the balance sheet it is about to lose.

The convergence era is not ending with one sale. It is ending with a sequence of separations that make sales easier to imagine, even when companies insist that is not the plan.

The old argument joined distribution to content. The new one prices them separately.

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THOMASVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (Nasdaq: ODFL) announced today that it plans to release its second quarter 2026 financial results before opening of trading on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. The Company will also hold a conference call to discuss its financial results and outlook at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

An online, real-time webcast of Old Dominion’s quarterly conference call will be available at ir.odfl.com on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The online replay will be available at approximately 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) and continue for 30 days. A telephonic replay of the call can be accessed starting at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) and will be available through August 5, 2026, at 1-855-669-9658, access code 8521187.

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is one of the largest North American LTL motor carriers and provides regional, inter-regional and national LTL services through a single integrated, union-free organization. Our service offerings, which include expedited transportation, are provided through an expansive network of service centers located throughout the continental United States. Through strategic alliances, we also provide LTL services throughout North America. In addition to our core LTL services, we offer a range of value-added services including container drayage, truckload brokerage and supply chain consulting.

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MSC Industrial (MSM - Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.43 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.28 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.08 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.

This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +12.10%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this distributor of industrial tools and supplies would post earnings of $0.84 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.82, delivering a surprise of -2.38%.

Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates three times.

MSC Industrial, which belongs to the Zacks Industrial Services industry, posted revenues of $1.05 billion for the quarter ended May 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.74%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $971.15 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates three times over the last four quarters.

The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.

MSC Industrial shares have added about 41.4% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 9.6%.

What's Next for MSC Industrial?While MSC Industrial has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?

There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.

Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.

Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for MSC Industrial was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $1.29 on $1.05 billion in revenues for the coming quarter and $4.36 on $3.95 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.

Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Industrial Services is currently in the bottom 22% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.

Hudson Technologies (HDSN - Free Report) , another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2026.

This refrigerant services company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.17 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -26.1%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.

Hudson Technologies' revenues are expected to be $73.66 million, up 1.1% from the year-ago quarter.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Revvity, Inc. (NYSE: RVTY) announced that its Revvity Signals Software business has joined Anthropic's directory for Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, enabling scientists to access Signals AI capabilities and connected R&D knowledge through Claude, including Claude Science, Anthropic’s new AI workbench for scientific research.

As organizations increasingly adopt artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, the challenge is ensuring AI models have access to trusted scientific data, context and knowledge. Through the Signals MCP connector, Claude can securely access information through Signals' intelligence layer, helping researchers search, understand and act on complex R&D data using natural language.

"Signals AI was designed to help scientists transform connected R&D data into understanding, decisions and action," said Kevin Willoe, president of Revvity Signals Software. "By joining Anthropic's MCP ecosystem, we're extending the reach of our Signals AI beyond our Signals One platform and enabling researchers to combine Claude's reasoning capabilities with the governed data, ontology-driven scientific context and trusted knowledge managed across the entire Revvity Signals offering."

The integration complements the recently launched Signals AI native agentic framework, which embeds AI capabilities across the Signals One™ platform. Signals AI brings leading large language model (LLM) capabilities directly into the Signals platform, while the Signals MCP connector enables scientists who choose to work in Claude to securely access their connected R&D data and scientific context from Signals. By connecting Claude to the Revvity Signals platform, scientists can access organizational knowledge, experimental data and scientific context through natural language interactions while maintaining traceability and scientific precision.

About Revvity

At Revvity, “impossible” is inspiration, and “can’t be done” is a call to action. Revvity provides health science solutions, technologies, expertise, and services that deliver complete workflows from discovery to development, and diagnosis to cure. Revvity is revolutionizing what’s possible in healthcare, with specialized focus areas in translational multi-omics technologies, biomarker identification, imaging, prediction, screening, detection and diagnosis, informatics and more.

With 2025 revenue of $2.9 billion and approximately 11,000 employees, Revvity serves customers across pharmaceutical and biotech, diagnostic labs, academia and governments. It is part of the S&P 500 index and has customers in more than 160 countries.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE: OWL) ("Blue Owl") today announced it will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026 on Thursday, July 30, 2026 before market open. Blue Owl invites all interested persons to its webcast / conference call at 10 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss its results.

Conference Call Information:

The conference call will be broadcast live on the Shareholders section of Blue Owl's website at www.blueowl.com.

Participants are also invited to access the conference call by dialing one of the following numbers:

Domestic (Toll Free): +1 (888) 330-2454

International: +1 (240) 789-2714

Conference ID: 4153114

All callers will need to enter the Conference ID followed by the # sign and reference "Blue Owl Capital" once connected with the operator. All callers are asked to dial in 10-15 minutes prior to the call so that name and company information can be collected.

Replay Information:

An archived replay will be available via a webcast link located on the Shareholders section of Blue Owl's website.

About Blue Owl Capital Inc.

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®.

With $315 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets, and GP Strategic Capital. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1,390 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com. 

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Continued ASV acceleration and expanding product capabilities highlight FactSet's strong execution and momentum

NORWALK, Conn., July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FactSet (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a leading global data and AI solutions provider to the financial markets, today announced results for its third quarter fiscal 2026 ended May 31, 2026.

Q3 2026 Highlights Accelerating growth: GAAP revenues grew 6.4% year over year to $622.9 million, with organic revenues up 7.0%. Organic ASV reached $2,485.6 million, up 7.1% year over year.Commercial excellence: Enterprise relationships deepened, with Q3 renewals extending in length by 30% on average and annual ASV retention remaining above 95%.AI momentum: More than 90% of FactSet's Top 50 clients now use four or more AI products. New partnerships with Google Cloud, Finster AI, and TIFIN.AI, alongside FactSet's MCP server, are broadening adoption of AI-ready solutions, positioning FactSet as the trusted partner powering next-generation financial workflows.Leadership strengthened: Joshua B. Warren appointed as Chief Financial Officer, bringing deep experience across asset management, financial technology, and capital markets.Strong capital returns: FactSet returned more than $243 million to shareholders in Q3, while marking its twenty-seventh consecutive year of dividend increases. Fiscal year-to-date, total capital returned reached $629 million.
"FactSet's strong third quarter results reflect solid execution against our strategic priorities and continued demand for our differentiated content, analytics, and workflow solutions. Clients are choosing FactSet to power critical workflows and informed decision-making, driving a robust pipeline and accelerating enterprise contracts.

"Across regions and firm types, clients are expanding their relationships with FactSet and actively adopting our AI solutions, reinforcing our confidence in FactSet's sustained growth and long-term value." - Sanoke Viswanathan, CEO

Key Financial Measures*

(Condensed and Unaudited)Three Months Ended  May 31, (Results in thousands, except per share data) 2026   2025 ChangeRevenues$622,918  $585,520 6.4%Organic revenues$622,866  $582,224 7.0%Operating income$166,301  $194,155 (14.3)%Adjusted operating income$211,752  $215,313 (1.7)%Operating margin 26.7%  33.2% Adjusted operating margin 34.0%  36.8% Net income$126,718  $148,542 (14.7)%Adjusted net income$163,769  $163,921 (0.1)%Adjusted EBITDA$220,165  $235,915 (6.7)%Diluted EPS$3.50  $3.87 (9.6)%Adjusted diluted EPS$4.53  $4.27 6.1%          * See reconciliation of U.S. GAAP to adjusted key financial measures in the back of this press release.

Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Highlights

GAAP revenues increased 6.4% or $37.4 million to $622.9 million compared with $585.5 million in the prior year period.Organic revenues grew 7.0% year over year to $622.9 million. Growth in GAAP and organic revenues this quarter was driven by institutional buy-side and wealth management clients.Annual Subscription Value ("ASV") was $2,484.3 million at May 31, 2026.Organic ASV was $2,485.6 million at May 31, 2026, up 7.1% or $165.0 million year over year. Over the last three months, organic ASV increased $35.4 million.GAAP operating margin was 26.7% compared with 33.2% in the prior year period, primarily due to higher employee compensation costs, including one-time charges and CEO compensation costs not incurred in the prior year.Adjusted operating margin, which excludes acquisition-related intangible asset amortization and non-recurring items, was 34.0% compared with 36.8% in the prior year period, mainly due to higher compensation and technology-related expenses.GAAP diluted EPS was $3.50 compared with $3.87 for the same period in fiscal 2025, mainly driven by higher operating expenses including non-recurring items, partially offset by growth in revenues and a 6% lower share count.Adjusted diluted EPS increased 6.1% to $4.53 compared with $4.27 in the prior year period, driven by growth in revenues and a lower share count.Net cash provided by operating activities was $284.5 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, an increase of 12.1% compared with the prior year period.Free cash flow was $254.0 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, an increase of 11.1% compared with the prior year period.GAAP effective tax rate increased to 17.8% compared with 17.5% for the prior year period primarily due to the limitation on the deductibility of executive compensation.
Operational Highlights – Third Quarter Fiscal 2026

FactSet appointed Joshua B. Warren as Chief Financial Officer, effective April 13, 2026. Warren most recently served as CFO of Envestnet and previously held senior strategy roles at BlackRock.FactSet's Commercial Excellence initiatives continued to deepen client relationships. In Q3, enterprise renewals extended in length by 30% on average and annual ASV retention remained above 95%.Client adoption continued to broaden. As of quarter end, 90%+ of the Top 50 clients use four or more FactSet AI products.FactSet advanced its AI partnership ecosystem through Google Cloud, Finster AI, and TIFIN.AI, extending AI-enabled workflows across investment banking, wealth management, and enterprise financial intelligence.FactSet strengthened its portfolio and private markets workflow capabilities through partnerships with J.P. Morgan and Valutico, giving clients more integrated tools for whole portfolio analytics and private capital valuation.FactSet returned $243.4 million to shareholders in Q3, including $203.1 million in share repurchases and $40.3 million in dividends. Fiscal year-to-date, the Company has deployed $628.7 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. FactSet also increased its quarterly dividend by $0.06 to $1.16 per share, marking the twenty-seventh consecutive year the Company has increased dividends on a stock split-adjusted basis. Annual Subscription Value (ASV)

ASV at any given point in time represents the forward-looking revenues for the next 12 months from all subscription services currently supplied to clients. Organic ASV at any point in time equals our ASV excluding ASV from acquisitions and the comparable impact of dispositions and discontinued lines of business effected within the last 12 months and the impact of foreign currency movements.

ASV was $2,484.3 million at May 31, 2026, compared with $2,335.1 million at May 31, 2025. Organic ASV was $2,485.6 million at May 31, 2026, up $165.0 million from the prior year, for a growth rate of 7.1%. Organic ASV increased $35.4 million over the last three months.

Segment Revenues and ASV

(Results in millions)May 31, 2026
ASVMay 31, 2025
ASVMay 31, 2026
Organic ASV Organic ASV
GrowthQ3 FY26
Revenues Q3 FY25
RevenuesOrganic Revenues GrowthAmericas$1,621.0$1,513.1$1,621.07.2%$407.2$380.57.0%EMEA$608.1$581.9$608.75.6%$152.0$145.75.3%APAC$255.2$240.1$255.910.0%$63.7$59.310.5%
Share Repurchase Program

FactSet repurchased 926,370 shares of its common stock for $203.1 million at an average price of $219.21 during the third quarter of fiscal 2026 under the Company’s share repurchase program. As of May 31, 2026, $494.0 million remained available for share repurchases under this program.

Annual Business Outlook

FactSet reaffirms its outlook for fiscal 2026 provided on March 31, 2026. The following forward-looking statements reflect FactSet's expectations as of today's date. Given the risk factors, uncertainties, and assumptions discussed below, actual results may differ materially. FactSet does not intend to update its forward-looking statements prior to its next quarterly results announcement.

Reaffirmed Fiscal 2026 Expectations:

MetricFiscal 2026 GuidanceOrganic ASV growth$130 million - $160 millionGAAP revenues$2,450 million - $2,470 millionGAAP operating margin29.5% - 31.0%Adjusted operating margin34.0% - 35.5%Annual effective tax rate18.0% - 19.0%GAAP diluted EPS$14.85 - $15.35Adjusted diluted EPS$17.25 - $17.75
Adjusted operating margin and adjusted diluted EPS guidance do not include certain effects of any non-recurring benefits or charges that may arise in fiscal 2026. Please see the back of this press release for a reconciliation of GAAP to adjusted metrics.

Conference Call

Third Quarter 2026 Conference Call Details

Please register for the conference call using the above link in advance of the call start time. Upon registration, you will receive dial-in information and a unique access PIN. The earnings presentation will be available on FactSet’s Investor Relations website at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on July 1, 2026, 30 minutes before the earnings call begins.

A replay will be available on the Investor Relations website after 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 1, 2026, and will remain accessible through July 1, 2027. A transcript of the earnings call will be available via FactSet CallStreet.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements based on management's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events, trends, contingencies, and circumstances, industries in which FactSet operates and the beliefs and assumptions of management. All statements that address expectations, guidance, outlook or projections about the future, including statements about the Company's strategy, product development, revenues, future financial results, anticipated growth, market position, subscriptions, expected expenditures or investments, trends in FactSet’s business and financial results, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words like "may," "might," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "intends," "projects," "indicates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue," the negative of those terms, and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, outcomes, events, or actions and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Many factors, including those discussed more fully elsewhere in this release and in FactSet's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly its latest annual report on Form 10-K, including Item 1A, Risk Factors, and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as well as others, could cause results, performance, achievements, or activities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Accordingly, the Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. FactSet assumes no duty to and does not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which it is made, except as required by applicable law. Future results could differ materially from historical performance.

About Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company reports its financial results in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company also refers to and presents certain additional non-GAAP financial measures. These measures include: organic revenues, adjusted operating margin, adjusted operating income, adjusted net income, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted diluted EPS, and free cash flow. The Company has included reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP at the back of this release.

FactSet uses these non-GAAP financial measures both in presenting its results to stockholders and the investment community and in its internal evaluation and management of the business. The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors because they permit investors to view the Company’s performance using the same tools that management uses to gauge progress in achieving its goals. Investors may benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing the Company’s performance and when planning, forecasting and analyzing future periods, and such measures may also facilitate comparisons to historical performance. The Company believes that organic revenues, adjusted operating margin, adjusted operating income, adjusted net income, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted diluted EPS help to fully reflect the underlying economic performance of FactSet. The Company believes that free cash flow is useful to investors because it is an indication of cash flow that may be available to pay debt obligations, make strategic acquisitions and investments, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and strengthen the balance sheet. The presentation of this non-GAAP financial information should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. We are not able to provide reconciliations of certain forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to comparable GAAP measures because certain items required for such reconciliations are outside of our control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted without unreasonable effort.

About FactSet

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) supercharges financial intelligence, offering enterprise data and information solutions that power our clients to maximize their potential. Our cutting-edge digital platform seamlessly integrates proprietary financial data, client datasets, third-party sources, and flexible technology to deliver tailored solutions across the buy-side, sell-side, wealth management, private equity, and corporate sectors. With over 47 years of expertise, offices in 19 countries, and extensive multi-asset class coverage, we leverage advanced data connectivity alongside AI and next-generation tools to streamline workflows, drive productivity, and enable smarter, faster decision-making. Serving more than 9,100 global clients and over 247,000 individual users, FactSet is a member of the S&P 500 dedicated to innovation and long-term client success. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

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Consolidated Statements of Income (Unaudited)      Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended May 31, May 31,(In thousands, except per share data) 2026  2025   2026   2025 Revenues$622,918 $585,520  $1,841,558  $1,724,847 Operating expenses      Cost of services 312,190  280,729   896,848   809,112 Selling, general and administrative 144,427  110,636   401,377   344,753 Total operating expenses 456,617  391,365   1,298,225   1,153,865        Operating income 166,301  194,155   543,333   570,982        Other income (expense), net      Interest income 642  1,509   2,622   4,483 Interest expense (13,839) (15,122)  (40,286)  (43,438)Other income (expense), net 1,017  (594)  (324)  (20)Total other income (expense), net (12,180) (14,207)  (37,988)  (38,975)       Income before income taxes 154,121  179,948   505,345   532,007        Provision for income taxes 27,403  31,406   92,991   88,583 Net income$126,718 $148,542  $412,354  $443,424        Basic earnings per common share$3.51 $3.92  $11.20  $11.68 Diluted earnings per common share$3.50 $3.87  $11.16  $11.53        Basic weighted average common shares 36,122  37,907   36,819   37,976 Diluted weighted average common shares 36,191  38,344   36,957   38,457  Certain prior year figures have been conformed to the current year's presentation.

Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)       (In thousands)May 31, 2026August 31, 2025ASSETS  Cash and cash equivalents$288,114$337,651Investments 16,122 17,445Accounts receivable, net of reserves of $14,305 at May 31, 2026 and $13,789 at August 31, 2025 289,990 270,684Prepaid taxes 58,325 33,600Prepaid expenses and other current assets 74,968 70,379Total current assets 727,519 729,759   Property, equipment and leasehold improvements, net 82,319 85,203Goodwill 1,283,377 1,284,708Intangible assets, net 1,868,418 1,916,102Deferred tax assets 41,945 61,226Lease right-of-use assets, net 119,364 121,776Other assets 69,055 105,498TOTAL ASSETS$4,191,997$4,304,272   LIABILITIES  Accounts payable and accrued expenses$163,982$135,262Current debt 499,159 —Current lease liabilities 33,963 33,145Accrued compensation 137,431 130,596Deferred revenues 183,494 167,852Current taxes payable 5,182 13,041Dividends payable 41,500 41,410Total current liabilities 1,064,711 521,306   Long-term debt 890,542 1,368,260Deferred tax liabilities 13,040 14,902Taxes payable 41,315 45,095Long-term lease liabilities 146,978 157,104Other liabilities 3,121 11,192TOTAL LIABILITIES$2,159,707$2,117,859   STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY  TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY$2,032,290$2,186,413   TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY$4,191,997$4,304,272 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)  Nine Months Ended May 31,(In thousands) 2026  2025 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES  Net income$412,354 $443,424 Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities  Depreciation and amortization 133,708  114,972 Amortization of lease right-of-use assets 24,269  23,152 Stock-based compensation expense 61,541  47,154 Deferred income taxes 20,808  3,154 Other, net 14,436  7,428 Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions  Accounts receivable (24,376) (41,492)Prepaid expenses and other assets (3,759) 6,699 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 22,793  (49,717)Accrued compensation 7,541  3,789 Deferred revenues 15,030  4,955 Taxes payable, net of prepaid taxes (36,320) (19,108)Lease liabilities, net (30,533) (30,250)Net cash provided by operating activities 617,492  514,160    CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES  Purchases of property, equipment, leasehold improvements and capitalized internal-use software (87,319) (74,840)Acquisition of businesses, net of cash and cash equivalents acquired —  (348,255)Purchases of investments (18,086) (4,433)Proceeds from maturity or sale of investments 36,050  58,155 Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (69,355) (369,373)   CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES  Proceeds from debt 95,000  803,410 Repayments of debt (75,000) (742,500)Dividend payments (122,684) (118,329)Proceeds from employee stock plans 27,534  72,616 Repurchases of common stock (506,000) (193,838)Deferred acquisition consideration (16,176) (4,699)Other financing activities (6,418) (15,987)Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (603,744) (199,327)   Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (1,678) 1,966 Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash (57,285) (52,574)Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period 351,695  422,979 Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period$294,410 $370,405    Reconciliation of total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash:  Cash and cash equivalents$288,114 $356,361 Restricted cash included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets 5,296  6,522 Restricted cash included in Other assets 1,000  7,522 Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$294,410 $370,405  Certain prior year figures have been conformed to the current year's presentation.

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP Results to Adjusted Financial Measures

Organic Revenues

Organic revenues exclude the current year impact of revenues from acquisitions and the comparable impact of dispositions and discontinued lines of business, effected within the past 12 months and the current year impact of foreign currency movements. The table below provides a reconciliation of revenues to organic revenues:

(Unaudited)Three Months Ended  May 31, (In thousands) 2026  2025 ChangeRevenues$622,918 $585,520 6.4%Disposition revenues —  (3,296) Currency impact (52) —  Organic revenues$622,866 $582,224 7.0%
Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The table below provides a reconciliation of operating income, operating margin, net income and diluted EPS to adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net income, EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, and adjusted diluted EPS.

Adjusted operating income and margin, adjusted net income, and adjusted diluted earnings per share exclude acquisition-related intangible asset amortization and non-recurring items. EBITDA represents earnings before interest expense, provision for income taxes and depreciation and amortization expense, while adjusted EBITDA further excludes non-recurring non-cash expenses.

 Three Months Ended  May 31, (in thousands, except per share data) 2026  2025 % ChangeOperating income$166,301 $194,155 (14.3)%Intangible asset amortization 18,981  19,182  Restructuring/severance 19,629  —  CEO compensation costs(1) 4,322  —  Business disposition, acquisitions and related costs 1,769  1,976  Client bankruptcy charges 750  —  Adjusted operating income$211,752 $215,313 (1.7)%Operating margin 26.7% 33.2% Adjusted operating margin(2) 34.0% 36.8% Net income$126,718 $148,542 (14.7)%Intangible asset amortization 14,534  13,943  Restructuring/severance 15,030  —  CEO compensation costs(1) 3,309  —  Business disposition, acquisitions and related costs 1,355  1,436  Impairment within Other assets(3) 2,297  —  Client bankruptcy charges 574  —  Non-operating income from business disposition (48) —  Adjusted net income(4)$163,769 $163,921 (0.1)%Net income 126,718  148,542 (14.7)%Interest expense 13,839  15,122  Income taxes 27,403  31,406  Depreciation and amortization expense 45,869  40,845  EBITDA$213,829 $235,915 (9.4)%Non-recurring non-cash expenses(5) 6,336  —  Adjusted EBITDA$220,165 $235,915 (6.7)%Diluted EPS$3.50 $3.87 (9.6)%Intangible asset amortization 0.40  0.36  Restructuring/severance 0.42  —  CEO compensation costs(1) 0.09  —  Business disposition, acquisitions and related costs 0.04  0.04  Impairment within Other assets(3) 0.06  —  Client bankruptcy charges 0.02  —  Non-operating income from business disposition 0.00  —  Adjusted diluted EPS(4)$4.53 $4.27 6.1%Weighted average common shares (diluted) 36,191  38,344  (1) Related to the recognition, over their respective service periods, of one-time make-whole cash and equity awards issued to our CEO.
(2) Adjusted operating margin is calculated as Adjusted operating income divided by Revenues.
(3) Related to the impairment of an equity investment.
(4) For purposes of calculating Adjusted net income and Adjusted diluted EPS, all adjustments for the three months ended May 31, 2026 and May 31, 2025 were taxed at an adjusted tax rate of 23.4% and 27.3%, respectively.
(5) Primarily related to the impairment of an equity investment and the recognition, over their respective service periods, of one-time equity awards issued to our CEO.
Business Outlook Operating Margin, Net Income and Diluted EPS 

(Unaudited)  Figures may not foot due to roundingAnnual Fiscal 2026 Guidance(In millions, except per share data)Low end of rangeHigh end of rangeRevenues$2,450 $2,470 Operating income$760 $729 Operating margin 31.0% 29.5%   Intangible asset amortization 75  75 CEO compensation 25  25 Discrete items 10  12 Adjusted operating income$870 $840 Adjusted operating margin(a) 35.5% 34.0%   Net income$582 $555 Intangible asset amortization 60  60 CEO compensation 20  20 Discrete items 8  10 Adjusted net income$670 $645    Diluted earnings per common share$15.35 $14.85 Intangible asset amortization 1.63  1.63 CEO compensation 0.54  0.54 Discrete items 0.23  0.23 Adjusted diluted earnings per common share$17.75 $17.25 (a)   Adjusted operating margin is calculated as Adjusted operating income divided by Revenues.
Free Cash Flow 

Cash flows provided by operating activities have been reduced by purchases of property, equipment, leasehold improvements and capitalized internal-use software to report non-GAAP free cash flow.

(Unaudited)Three Months Ended  May 31, (In thousands) 2026  2025 ChangeNet Cash Provided for Operating Activities$284,520 $253,833 12.1%Less: purchases of property, equipment, leasehold improvements and capitalized internal-use software (30,475) (25,230)20.8%Free Cash Flow$254,045 $228,603 11.1%
Organic ASV

The following table presents the calculation of organic ASV.

(In millions)As of May 31, 2026As reported ASV$2,484.3 Impact from foreign currency movements 1.3 Organic ASV$2,485.6 Organic ASV annual growth rate(a) 7.1%(a) For comparability purposes, in calculating the organic ASV annual growth rate, the prior year excludes ASV from dispositions completed in the last 12 months.

Wall Street has not been kind to Sweetgreen (SG +3.04%). Shares of the restaurant chain have fared poorly over the past year. The stock is down nearly 40% in the last 12 months as of June 26.

Despite that, it's showing signs of a recovery. Year to date, shares have rebounded 35% through June 26. Even so, the stock remains well below the 52-week high of $16.70 reached last July.

So does it make sense to buy shares now? Answering that question requires digging deeper into the company.

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Sweetgreen's struggles Sweetgreen's stock fell on hard times as persistent inflation put pressure on consumer wallets, making its pricey menu items no longer an option for many. This is evident in the company's fiscal first-quarter results (ended March 29). Restaurants that have been open at least 13 months experienced an 11% drop in foot traffic compared to a year ago.

Fewer customers translated into a 3% year-over-year decline in Q1 sales to $161.5 million. Sweetgreen mitigated the damage by leaning into its loyalty program customers. Q1 revenue from its digital channel, where the company lumps loyalty program sales, totaled $62.8 million, up substantially from $53 million in the prior year.

While Sweetgreen's digital sales were a bright spot, the company's struggles with profitability only worsened in the face of declining customer numbers. Its Q1 operating loss of $34.3 million was an increase from the previous year's loss of $28.5 million. It exited the quarter with net income of $125.8 million compared to a net loss of $25 million in 2025 because it sold its ambitious kitchen automation business, Infinite Kitchen, to reduce costs and focus on core operations.

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Sweetgreen's rebound efforts The company is now pivoting to cheaper menu items to attract value-conscious consumers. As part of this initiative, it added wraps to the menu in May, and early tests showed it improved customer acquisition.

It's also working to strengthen kitchen operations to enable faster throughput and improve operational efficiency, which should reduce costs. The company's efforts contributed to share price gains this year.

If Sweetgreen succeeds in driving customer growth, it will have a runway for business expansion. At the end of 2025, it operated 281 restaurants across 24 states, giving it plenty of additional states to expand into. The company opened four locations in Q1 and expects to reach about 13 this year. That's significantly less than the 35 restaurants opened in 2025, but the reduction is intentional to manage costs.

Sweetgreen's efforts to strengthen its business and grow its customer base are promising, although I bought its stock because I like the food. As famed investor Peter Lynch recommended, invest in what you know. I also believe in the company's mission to provide nutritious cuisine and support sustainable farming practices.

The success it's having with digital sales and the loyalty program demonstrates the company knows how to retain customers. Its menu changes show it can adapt to shifting macroeconomics and consumer struggles with inflation. These are all encouraging signs of Sweetgreen's potential recovery and make it a worthwhile consumer stock to consider.

U.S. Department of Energy Approves Final Safety Analysis for Oklo's Groves Isotope Test Reactor, Advancing the Project Toward Operational Authorization Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO) (“Oklo”), an advanced nuclear technology company, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) for Oklo Isotopes’ Groves Isotope Test Reactor in Texas under DOE’s Reactor Pilot Program (RPP).

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Oklo's Isotopes Test Reactor (Image: Oklo)

The DSA is the facility’s final safety basis grounded on a detailed technical analysis of potential hazards, safety controls, and operating requirements needed to support safe startup. The DSA approval follows DOE’s approval of the Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA), which established the facility’s preliminary safety basis during design and construction.

With both the PDSA and DSA approved, Groves moves from the documentation phase into DOE’s final pre-startup review. The remaining steps are DOE’s readiness review and startup approval. Following startup approval, the facility will be authorized to receive and load nuclear fuel, conduct startup testing, and proceed toward first criticality, the point at which a reactor achieves a controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Oklo is targeting first criticality for Groves in July 2026.

“When the Administration issued its Executive Order calling for multiple advanced reactors to go critical outside the national laboratories, it challenged the industry to demonstrate a new way forward,” said Oklo co-founder and CEO Jacob DeWitte. “Groves is that demonstration. It is the first advanced reactor project to receive approval of its Documented Safety Analysis that is on privately owned land, with wholly commercially sourced fuel, equipment, and systems delivered by the private sector. And with full, enduring civil construction, and operations led entirely by a private-sector team under DOE oversight. This is a truly representative facility of future commercial facilities that Oklo intends to build and operate.”

“With approval of both the Preliminary and Documented Safety Analyses, Groves now moves into the final phase before startup, including readiness review, fuel loading, and criticality,” DeWitte added. “Less than a year after breaking ground, Groves is advancing toward criticality and demonstrating that advanced nuclear can move from an open field to deployment on a commercial timeline and with a commercially representative facility. DOE demonstrated remarkable capabilities to review and reach this milestone for a facility of this type, and for a facility outside of a national laboratory on this timescale. As the first project of this nature to achieve this milestone under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program, Groves provides a blueprint for how the United States can accelerate advanced reactor deployment while maintaining a rigorous, practical safety process.”

Groves supports the development of Oklo’s isotope business and helps establish a stronger domestic supply chain for critical isotopes used in cancer diagnosis and treatment, advanced manufacturing, scientific research, space exploration, and national security applications. Many important isotopes are currently sourced from overseas suppliers or produced in aging facilities, creating supply risks for U.S. hospitals, industry, researchers, and government users.

By starting with a pilot facility, Oklo’s isotopes business has developed operating procedures, evaluated reactor system performance, will validate production processes, and build dependable domestic isotope production at commercial scale in the US.

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, affordable energy at global scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical isotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert used nuclear fuel into clean energy. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.

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This press release includes statements that express Oklo’s opinions, expectations, objectives, beliefs, plans, intentions, strategies, assumptions, forecasts or projections regarding future events or future results and therefore are, or may be deemed to be, “forward-looking statements.” The words “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “continue,” “might,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “goal,” “would,” “commit,” or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology, and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. They appear in a number of places throughout this press release and include statements regarding our intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies and the markets in which Oklo operates. Such forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties.

As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, the actual results or performance of Oklo may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The following important risk factors could affect Oklo’s future results and cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements: risks related to the development and deployment of Oklo’s powerhouses, fuel fabrication and fuel recycling facilities, and radioisotope production activities; the risk that Oklo is pursuing an emerging market with no commercial project operating and regulatory uncertainties; risks related to acquisitions, divestitures, or joint ventures we may engage in; the need for financing to construct plants, which remain subject to market, financial, political, and legal conditions; risks related to an inability to raise additional capital to support our business and sustain our growth on favorable terms; the effects of competition; risks related to accessing high-assay low-enriched uranium, plutonium, and other fuels (including recycled fuels) at acceptable costs and under acceptable timelines; risks related to our supply chain; risks related to power purchase agreements; risks related to human capital; risks related to our intellectual property; risks related to cybersecurity and data privacy; changes in applicable laws or regulations, including tariffs; the outcome of any government and regulatory proceedings and investigations and inquiries; and the other factors set forth in our documents we have filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties of the other documents filed by Oklo from time to time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on Oklo. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting Oklo will be those that Oklo has anticipated. Oklo undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this presentation, except as may be required by law.

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