The Trading Day · Friday, August 28, 2026

The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours.

Wednesday's five-print evening — the one this page spent all of yesterday's edition unpacking — got its answer in Thursday's daylight, and the answer was emphatic. IGV closed +7.74%, the biggest software day of the year by this page's own tracking, with CRM +22.58% and CRWD +20.50% both paid again at scale on top of their after-hours gains, and Synopsys — which had only shrugged −1.0% Wednesday night — flipped into a +11.67% regular session. Nvidia added +8.74% to 227.98 in its first daylight session after the print, though ten of eleven sectors closed red and tech alone, XLK +2.34%, carried the index to a second QQQ close above its 50-day.

The Morning 10

The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours.

  1. 1 Beat-and-Raise Gets Sold: Rubrik, Autodesk and Marvell All Punished After Hours
  2. 2 Elastic Is Paid +20.9% While Workday Shrugs — the Bar Moved, It Didn't Close
  3. 3 Thursday's Own Lesson: After-Hours Is Not the Verdict — SNPS Flipped a Shrug Into +11.67%
  4. 4 Nvidia's First Daylight Session: +8.74% to 227.98 While Ten of Eleven Sectors Closed Red
  5. 5 Marvell's Record Data-Center Revenue, Sold Anyway — Semis Get No Beat-Grace Either
  6. 6 IREN's Smaller-Than-Feared Loss and $4B Contracted ARR Still Sold −8.4%
  7. 7 USDJPY Sits Exactly on the 159.5 Tripwire as Asia Splits and Futures Fade
  8. 8 IEF's Weekly Close Against 93.04 Is Today's Third-Test Verdict
  9. 9 Today's Stack: the Warsh Keynote, INTU and ZM's Print-Record Windows, and Chart Pick Day
  10. 10 The Index Family Reads a Claudeforce Day: AEI +6.81%, HALO Sat It Out Flat

Print-record cards of the day

  • MRVL — Marvell: EPS beats 8/10 · revenue 9/10 · reactions 4 up / 2 flat / 4 down · next print 2026-12-01
  • ADSK — Autodesk: EPS beats 10/10 · revenue 10/10 · reactions 4 up / 3 flat / 3 down · next print 2026-11-24
  • WDAY — Workday: EPS beats 10/10 · revenue 10/10 · reactions 1 up / 3 flat / 6 down · next print 2026-11-24
  • ESTC — Elastic: EPS beats 10/10 · revenue 10/10 · reactions 4 up / 1 flat / 5 down · next print 2026-11-19
  • IREN — IREN: EPS beats 4/10 · revenue 3/10 · reactions 5 up / 2 flat / 3 down · next print 2026-12-01

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