TLDR
- IonQ jumped about 11%-12% after announcing a real-time quantum error-correction breakthrough.
- Worthington Enterprises surged roughly 15% after stronger quarterly results and rising data-center cooling demand.
- Super Micro and Dell gained as AI infrastructure stocks remained supported.
- Six Flags rose after reports that activist investor Jana Partners wants the company to explore a sale.
- Sandisk, AMD, Broadcom and Qualcomm slipped as investors took profits following recent chip-sector gains.
U.S. stock futures were little changed Wednesday as investors watched oil prices below $100 and assessed fresh developments in the U.S.-Iran conflict.
Several individual stocks were moving sharply before the opening bell, led by IonQ and Worthington Enterprises on company-specific news.
IonQ and Worthington Surge
IonQ jumped about 11%-12% after announcing what it described as a breakthrough in real-time quantum error correction.
The company said it developed and tested an end-to-end decoder running on a standard CPU. Testing covered simulations of up to 408 logical qubits and more than 31.5 million quantum operations.
IonQ said the technology could help fault-tolerant quantum systems scale without requiring an equally large increase in classical computing resources. The announcement gave the stock one of the strongest premarket moves Wednesday.
Worthington Enterprises climbed around 15% after reporting first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $343.9 million, up 13.2% from a year earlier.
The company also reported higher adjusted EBITDA, stronger cash flow and growing demand for engineered tanks used in liquid-cooling systems for data centers. AI infrastructure growth has increased demand for cooling equipment as data centers consume more power.
Super Micro and Six Flags Rise
Super Micro Computer gained about 1%, while Dell Technologies also moved higher.
The gains suggested continued investor interest in AI server and infrastructure stocks even as some semiconductor names pulled back.
Six Flags rose about 1% following a Wall Street Journal report that Jana Partners is pushing the theme-park operator to explore a possible sale.
Neither Jana nor Six Flags had publicly confirmed the talks in the reports cited.
Sandisk and Chip Stocks Pull Back
Sandisk, AMD, Broadcom and Qualcomm all slipped in premarket trading as investors took some profits following recent semiconductor gains.
Memory and chip stocks have rallied strongly as AI infrastructure spending boosts demand for processors, networking equipment and storage.
Mining stocks were also under pressure as gold extended its recent decline. Freeport-McMoRan fell about 1.4%, while Newmont dropped around 1.8%.
Elsewhere, InnovAge fell roughly 8% after investors affiliated with private-equity firms priced a secondary offering of 10 million shares at $9.25 each.
Voyager Technologies dropped about 6% after announcing plans to issue $350 million of convertible senior notes due in 2032.
Wednesday’s early moves show investors continuing to favor company-specific AI, quantum and infrastructure catalysts while taking profits in some of the market’s recent semiconductor winners.
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