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Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) could highlight the launch of a lower-priced Lucid Gravity vehicle and share how tariffs impact the company when the electric vehicle company reports first-quarter financial results after the market closes on Tuesday.

Here is a look at analyst earnings estimates and key items to watch.

Earnings Estimates: Analysts expect Lucid to report first-quarter revenue of $250.0 million, up from $172.7 million in last year’s first quarter, according to data from Benzinga Pro.

The company has beaten analyst estimates for revenue in four straight quarters, beating estimates in only those four quarters out of the last ten quarters overall.

Analysts expect Lucid to report a loss of 23 cents per share in the quarter, an improvement from 30 cents per share in last year’s first quarter.

The company has beaten analyst estimates for earnings per share in two straight quarters and four of the last 10 quarters.

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Key Items to Watch: Lucid previously reported first-quarter deliveries of 3,199 vehicles, a company record and up 58% year over year.

The first quarter’s delivery momentum continued a strong 2024, which saw the company post four consecutive quarters of record deliveries.

The company’s guidance calls for the production of 20,000 vehicles in 2025. Analysts and investors will be looking to see if this guidance remains in place and if the company shares details on delivery guidance for 2025.

Lucid recently unveiled the 2026 Lucid Gravity SUV, a three-row electric vehicle that could better compete with Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and other EV SUV makers. The new version starts at $94,900 with a lower-priced model expected to start at $79,900 and hit the market later this year.

Investors and analysts will be looking for more commentary on the impact of tariffs on Lucid. Interim CEO Marc Winterhoff previously said the company will be affected by tariffs and is taking steps to lower the impact.

While tariffs could be negative for Lucid, one positive that could get traction in the earnings report and commentary is potential market share gains from rival Tesla.

Winteroff previously said that Lucid was seeing a sharp increase in orders for vehicles from former Tesla owners, which comes as some have grown tired of CEO Elon Musk’s push into politics. Tesla vehicles have also been the subject of increased vandalism.

LCID Price Action: Lucid stock is down 5.75 to $2.38 on Monday versus a 52-week trading range of $1.93 to $4.43. Lucid stock is down 21.3% year-to-date in 2025.

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Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ:RIVN) will likely focus on the future launch of its R2 vehicle when presenting first-quarter financial results after market close Tuesday.

Here are the earnings and revenue estimates, what analysts are saying ahead of the report and key items to watch.

Earnings Estimates: Analysts expect Rivian to report first-quarter revenue of $1.0 billion, down from $1.2 billion in last year’s first quarter according to data from Benzinga Pro.

Rivian beat the analyst estimate for revenue in the fourth quarter and has beaten analyst estimates in seven of the last 10 quarters.

Analysts expect Rivian to report a first-quarter loss of 76 cents per share, an improvement from a loss of $1.24 in last year’s first quarter.

Rivian beat the analyst estimate for earnings per share in the fourth quarter and has beaten analyst estimates in seven of the last 10 quarters.

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What Analysts Are Saying: Analysts have been lowering the price target on Rivian stock ahead of first-quarter financial results.

Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter downgraded the stock from Overweight to Neutral and lowered the price target from $19 to $13.

The analyst said Rivian’s outlook in the coming years is favorable, but it faces a short-term outlook that won’t excite investors and several potential negative headwinds.

Potter said Rivian has “no catalysts in 2025.”

“We struggle to identify upside catalysts in 2025. In 2026, investors can look forward to the R2 launch and (maybe) JV customer wins,” Potter said.

The analyst said the lower-priced R2 launch is vital to Rivian stock, but doesn’t launch until 2026.

While Rivian gets downgraded, Potter noted the stock is Piper’s favorite Neutral-rated stock in the sector.

“We like Rivian’s strategy, particularly self-reliance in electronics and software.”

Potter said along with Rivian having no catalysts in 2025, the company faces a potential “triple-whammy” of policy risk that could happen in 2025 or beyond.

There are three policy risks to consider: the Trump administration could pull Rivian’s Department of Energy loan funding; the $7,500 EV tax credit could be canceled; and CARB (California Air Resources Board) could lose the ability to regulate emissions, which could hurt credit revenue.

Here are other recent analyst ratings on Rivian and their price targets:

• JPMorgan: Maintained Underweight rating, lowered price target from $11 to $10
• Baird: Maintained Neutral rating, lowered price target from $16 to $14
• Goldman Sachs: Maintained Neutral rating, lowered price target from $14 to $12
• UBS: Maintained Neutral rating, lowered price target from $14 to $12
• Mizuho: Maintained Neutral rating, lowered price target from $11 to $10

Key Items to Watch: Analysts could ask questions about Rivian’s recent addition to the board of directors. The appointment of Coherent Corp co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez as a board member could signal a larger focus on AI.

Investors and analysts could be looking for more commentary on Rivian’s technology and AI, which could be underappreciated given its current lower vehicle production than other competitors.

Rivian previously announced 8,640 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter, which was down 36.4% year-over-year. The company has reaffirmed its full-year 2025 delivery guidance of a range of 46,000 to 51,000 vehicles.

Analysts and investors will want to see this guidance maintained and would also love more color on an early look at 2026 delivery estimates with the R2 scheduled for deliveries in the first half of 2026.

Rivian previously announced it was opening up its delivery van orders to customers outside of early investor and partner Amazon.com Inc. The company recently announced it has signed a deal with meal kit company HelloFresh for 70 Rivian vans to be added to its commercial vehicle fleet.

The electric vehicle company will likely be asked to comment on the impact tariffs and the new White House administration could have on upcoming production and deliveries. Rivian produces the majority of its vehicles in the United States, but it could be impacted by the end of tax credits for electric vehicles.

In recent interviews, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has shown confidence in the R2 launch and called for the EV sector to have more vehicles under the $50,000 price point. The R2 is expected to have a starting price of around $45,000.

Scaringe will likely share his belief that this vehicle launch is critical for Rivian’s financial future and for the EV sector at large.

RIVN Price Action: Rivian stock is down 1.9% to $13.56 on Monday versus a 52-week trading range of $9.25 to $18.86. Rivian stock is up 2.8% year-to-date in 2025 and up 31.8% over the last year.

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Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on ARM Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM).

And retail traders should know.

We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don’t know. But when something this big happens with ARM, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.

So how do we know what these investors just did?

Today, Benzinga‘s options scanner spotted 28 uncommon options trades for ARM Holdings.

This isn’t normal.

The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 32% bullish and 67%, bearish.

Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 7 are puts, for a total amount of $549,230, and 21 are calls, for a total amount of $12,788,070.

Expected Price Movements

Based on the trading activity, it appears that the significant investors are aiming for a price territory stretching from $115.0 to $200.0 for ARM Holdings over the recent three months.

Insights into Volume & Open Interest

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for ARM Holdings options trades today is 2057.64 with a total volume of 17,652.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for ARM Holdings’s big money trades within a strike price range of $115.0 to $200.0 over the last 30 days.

ARM Holdings 30-Day Option Volume & Interest Snapshot

Significant Options Trades Detected:

Symbol	PUT/CALL	Trade Type	Sentiment	Exp. Date	Ask	Bid	Price	Strike Price	Total Trade Price	Open Interest	Volume
ARM	CALL	TRADE	BULLISH	06/17/27	$46.1	$43.45	$45.7	$125.00	$9.9M	23	2.1K
ARM	CALL	TRADE	BEARISH	09/19/25	$13.45	$13.0	$13.0	$135.00	$1.3M	576	1.0K
ARM	CALL	TRADE	BEARISH	06/17/27	$44.5	$44.35	$44.35	$125.00	$443.5K	23	2.3K
ARM	CALL	TRADE	BULLISH	06/17/27	$48.75	$47.3	$48.75	$115.00	$243.7K	11.8K	50
ARM	PUT	SWEEP	BEARISH	09/19/25	$13.7	$13.4	$13.7	$115.00	$179.4K	1.6K	510

About ARM Holdings

Arm Holdings is the intellectual property owner and developer of the ARM architecture, which is used in 99% of the world’s smartphone CPU cores, and it also has high market share in other battery-powered devices like wearables, tablets, or sensors. Arm licenses its architecture for a fee, offering different types of licenses depending on the flexibility the customer needs. Customers like Apple or Qualcomm buy architectural licenses, which allow them to modify the architecture and add or delete instructions to tailor the chips to their specific needs. Other clients directly buy off-the-shelf designs from Arm. Both off-the-shelf and architectural customers pay a royalty fee per chip shipped.

Having examined the options trading patterns of ARM Holdings, our attention now turns directly to the company. This shift allows us to delve into its present market position and performance

Present Market Standing of ARM Holdings

• With a trading volume of 1,128,375, the price of ARM is down by -1.74%, reaching $121.13.
• Current RSI values indicate that the stock is may be overbought.
• Next earnings report is scheduled for 2 days from now.

What The Experts Say On ARM Holdings

In the last month, 4 experts released ratings on this stock with an average target price of $146.0.

Unusual Options Activity Detected: Smart Money on the Move

Benzinga Edge’s Unusual Options board spots potential market movers before they happen. See what positions big money is taking on your favorite stocks. Click here for access.
* Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from UBS keeps a Buy rating on ARM Holdings with a target price of $165.
* Consistent in their evaluation, an analyst from B of A Securities keeps a Buy rating on ARM Holdings with a target price of $144.
* An analyst from Wells Fargo has decided to maintain their Overweight rating on ARM Holdings, which currently sits at a price target of $150.
* Maintaining their stance, an analyst from Barclays continues to hold a Overweight rating for ARM Holdings, targeting a price of $125.

Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.

If you want to stay updated on the latest options trades for ARM Holdings, Benzinga Pro gives you real-time options trades alerts.

No gainer in today’s Pre-market session.

Losers

Symbol	Name	Price	Change ($)	Change (%)	Volume
(NYSE:XLE)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Energy Select Sector	80.9700	-1.010	-1.24	228.7K
(NYSE:XLC)	The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund	96.2390	-1.181	-1.22	9.5K
(NYSE:XLK)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Technology	214.7500	-1.860	-0.86	50.3K
(NYSE:XLF)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Financial	49.3400	-0.420	-0.85	309.2K
(NYSE:XLY)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Consumer Discretionary	199.9500	-1.480	-0.74	16.4K
(NYSE:XLU)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Utilities	79.3700	-0.380	-0.48	3.1K
(NYSE:XLP)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Consumer Staples	81.1894	-0.371	-0.46	1.3K
(NYSE:XLI)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Industrial	134.0200	-0.560	-0.42	6.2K
(NYSE:XLV)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Health Care	138.0400	-0.490	-0.36	7.0K
(NYSE:XLB)	Materials Select Sector SPDR	84.7000	-0.230	-0.28	1.1K
(NYSE:XLRE)	Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (The)	41.8700	-0.060	-0.15	5.4K

Pulled from Benzinga Pro data this sector movers alert provides traders with a compiled way to read macro-level market trends. Investors garner a particular interest in sector movers to better determine sectors that are over- or under-performing to make better investing decisions on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or individual tickers in those sectors.

For more information on sector movers, click here.

Celsius Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CELH) is scheduled to report its first-quarter results on Tuesday, May 6, before market open.

According to JPMorgan, material negative earnings revisions seem to be in the company’s rearview.

The Celsius Holdings Thesis: Analyst Andrea Teixeira maintained an Overweight rating, while raising the price target from $39 to $44.

The Celsius Holdings Thesis: The company is likely to report sales and earnings at $338 million and 19 cents per share, short of consensus of $343 million and 20 cents per share, Teixeira said in the note.

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Celsius Holdings’ sales trends are recovering, “inflecting back to positive growth in some recent periods,” she added.

The company is witnessing energy category acceleration, while most staples categories are seeing softening consumption trends, the analyst stated.

The acquisition of Alani Nu, which closed on April 1, 2025, is expected to become accretive from the second quarter, Teixeira said. “With that, our 2025E revenue/EPS/EBITDA move to $2.2B (+64% YOY), $0.95 (+37.7% YOY), and $453M (+77.2% YOY) and our 2026E revenue/EPS/EBITDA move to $2.8B (+27.7% YOY), $1.29 (+35.7% YOY), and $600M (+32.5% YOY),” she further wrote.

CELH Price Action: Shares of Celsius Holdings had risen by 1.72% to $35.47 at the time of publication on Friday.

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Gainers

Symbol	Name	Price	Change ($)	Change (%)	Volume
(NYSE:XLF)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Financial	49.53	0.78	1.60	341.6K
(NYSE:XLB)	Materials Select Sector SPDR	84.68	1.16	1.38	4.1K
(NYSE:XLY)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Consumer Discretionary	200.93	2.58	1.30	16.9K
(NYSE:XLI)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Industrial	133.85	1.64	1.24	7.9K
(NYSE:XLV)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Health Care	138.11	1.47	1.07	8.5K
(NYSE:XLK)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Technology	215.28	2.23	1.04	31.1K
(NYSE:XLE)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Energy Select Sector	81.55	0.75	0.92	55.9K
(NYSE:XLC)	The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund	96.75	0.82	0.85	30.0K
(NYSE:XLU)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Utilities	79.74	0.61	0.77	13.1K
(NYSE:XLP)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Consumer Staples	81.58	0.46	0.56	41.2K
(NYSE:XLRE)	Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (The)	41.52	0.10	0.24	864

No loser in today’s Pre-market session.

Pulled from Benzinga Pro data the above sector movers alert assists traders in understanding macro-level trends and market variations. Traders will look for sector movers providing information on sectors that are over- or under-performing, deriving these results into investing decisions on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or individual tickers in those sectors.

To read more about sector movers, click here.

As of May 2, 2025, three stocks in the communication services sector could be flashing a real warning to investors who value momentum as a key criteria in their trading decisions.

The RSI is a momentum indicator, which compares a stock’s strength on days when prices go up to its strength on days when prices go down. When compared to a stock’s price action, it can give traders a better sense of how a stock may perform in the short term. An asset is typically considered overbought when the RSI is above 70, according to Benzinga Pro.

Here’s the latest list of major overbought players in this sector.

QuinStreet Inc (NASDAQ:QNST)

• QuinStreet will report financial results for its third quarter after the market closes on Wednesday, May 7. The company’s stock jumped around 8% over the past five days and has a 52-week high of $26.27.
• RSI Value: 70.4                                
• QNST Price Action: Shares of QuinStreet jumped 6.8% to close at $18.71 on Thursday.
• Edge Stock Ratings: 42.13 Momentum score with Value at 46.15.

Emerald Holding Inc (NYSE:EEX)

• On May 1, Emerald Holding reported better-than-expected first-quarter financial results and issued FY25 sales guidance with its midpoint above estimates. Hervé Sedky, Emerald’s President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Our strong first-quarter performance underscores the meaningful progress we’ve made in executing our strategy and delivering value to both our customers and shareholders.” The company’s stock gained around 18% over the past five days and has a 52-week high of $6.74.
• RSI Value: 78
• EEX Price Action: Shares of Emerald Holding gained 15% to close at $4.52 on Thursday.

HUYA Inc – ADR (NYSE:HUYA)

• HUYA will report its first quarter unaudited financial results on Tuesday, May 13, before the opening bell. The company’s stock gained around 15% over the past month and has a 52-week high of $6.84.
• RSI Value: 70.3
• HUYA Price Action: Shares of HUYA gained 1.6% to close at $3.82 on Thursday.

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In the world of social media apps, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) dominates with Facebook and Instagram, which have about three billion users daily.

The company’s newest platform, Threads, is also gaining subscribers fast.

What Happened: Threads, a potential rival to platforms like X and Bluesky, had 275 million monthly users back in October. By December, it had 300 million monthly active users.

Meta ended the fourth quarter with 320 million Threads monthly users.

On Wednesday, Zuckerberg shared that Threads had hit 350 million monthly users, adding 30 million users in the first quarter, as reported by TechCrunch.

The growth of 30 million outpaced a 20 million user gain in the fourth quarter.

Zuckerberg said Threads “continues to be on track to become our next major social app.”

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Why It’s Important: While Threads has grown in size, it still is relatively small compared to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday that X has 600 million monthly users.

Bluesky, a decentralized X alternative, has 35 million monthly users, according to the report.

Threads continues to grow and is part of the Meta family that includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta said Wednesday that 3.4 billion people use one of its apps daily, or over 40% of the world’s population.

Investors will continue to monitor the quarterly growth of Threads as it could help make Meta more valuable with more monetization opportunities down the road.

META Price Action: Meta stock is up 4.7% to $574.87 on Thursday versus a 52-week trading range of $432.28 to $740.89. Meta stock is down 4.1% year-to-date in 2025.

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Gainers

Symbol	Name	Price	Change ($)	Change (%)	Volume
(NYSE:XLK)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Technology	214.7393	4.769	2.27	117.5K
(NYSE:XLC)	The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund	96.4700	1.030	1.07	5.2K
(NYSE:XLY)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Consumer Discretionary	198.6000	1.340	0.67	4.7K
(NYSE:XLRE)	Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (The)	41.4500	0.150	0.36	1.2K
(NYSE:XLI)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Industrial	131.3800	0.160	0.12	3.4K
(NYSE:XLU)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Utilities	78.9300	0.030	0.03	10.2K

Losers

Symbol	Name	Price	Change ($)	Change (%)	Volume
(NYSE:XLE)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Energy Select Sector	79.75	-0.75	-0.94	225.6K
(NYSE:XLV)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Health Care	139.67	-0.80	-0.57	13.6K
(NYSE:XLB)	Materials Select Sector SPDR	83.42	-0.47	-0.57	17.3K
(NYSE:XLP)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Consumer Staples	81.44	-0.39	-0.48	57.5K
(NYSE:XLF)	SPDR Select Sector Fund – Financial	48.66	-0.10	-0.21	389.1K

Pulled from Benzinga Pro data the above sector movers alert assists traders in understanding macro-level trends and market variations. Traders will look for sector movers providing information on sectors that are over- or under-performing, deriving these results into investing decisions on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) or individual tickers in those sectors.

To read more about sector movers, click here.

The U.S. economy contracted for the first time in three years at the beginning of 2025 as a surge of imports ahead of Trump’s tariffs pulled GDP negative in the first quarter. 

The Details: Gross domestic product declined by 0.3% on an annualized basis during the January–March period. The reading fell short of analyst expectations, which had forecast a modest slowdown to 0.4% growth.

On the jobs front, Automatic Data Processing Inc. reported that private employers added only 62,000 jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations of 108,000. 

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Expert Ideas: Most economists agree that first-quarter GDP was “clouded” by a rush of imports as businesses increased inventories ahead of the implementation of Trump’s tariff policies. 

Jason Furman, professor of economics at Harvard University, highlighted that while GDP contracted, core GDP was up 3% at an annualized rate. 

Real GDP fell at a 0.3% annual rate in Q1.

The underlying numbers are very extreme–with an enormous increase in imports and inventories.

My preferred measure of “core GDP” a better signal, up at a 3.0% annual rate (see next) pic.twitter.com/oSJ7KBNqsa

— Jason Furman (@jasonfurman) April 30, 2025

Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank, cautioned that the first quarter GDP “says less than usual about the economy’s trajectory” and pointed instead to April’s ADP employment report as a more accurate barometer of economic conditions. 

April’s ADP private payrolls data came in well-below expectations and was the weakest monthly increase since July 2024.

“Between the GDP report, April’s ADP report, and a pullback in business and consumer surveys last month, the economy is losing momentum and risks to the economic outlook are increasing,” Adams said. 

Jeffrey Roach, chief economist for LPL Financial, said the GDP report builds anticipation ahead of Friday’s payroll numbers as the “trajectory for growth hinges on the health of the labor market.”

Roach expressed the belief that the economy and U.S. consumer remain strong and that most of the economic turbulence is related to Trump’s tariff policies. 

“A successful resolution to global trade policy would likely remove most of the volatility and uncertainty currently experienced by businesses and consumers,” Roach said.  

Markets React: All three major indexes are in the red in Wednesday’s midday trading as they attempt to recover from steep declines following the GDP and ADP employment reports. The S&P 500, tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY), was down 0.55% and the Nasdaq 100, tracked by the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ), was down 1.29%.

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