That bell marks the end of regulation. Quantics building products, bringing the closing

bell with the New York Stock Exchange, Huntington Bank shares, doing the honors at the NASDAQ.

And wow, stocks staging a comeback earlier in the session as the major averages close right

about, yeah, right at the highs of the day for the S&P. Certainly, that's the scorecard on Wall Street,

but winners stay late.

Welcome to closing about overtime. I'm John Ford with Morgan Brennan.

Well, nearly every sector is in the green today, although communication services is sharply

lower, thanks in part to a sell-off and shares of Alphabet. That's following a sales miss

and massive AI spending plan. But investors now awaiting a trio of big earnings, Qualcomm, arm holdings,

and Ford. We will have instant analysis of all of those numbers as soon as they are out. And

Ford's CEO will join us for a first on CNBC interview before he discusses the results with

analysts on the call. Well, I'm just going to interrupt right here.

Qualcomm numbers are out already. So why wait? Let's get straight to Christina Parks and

Avelas with those. Christina. Yeah, it's another strong quarter for Qualcomm. Gap EPS,

earnings per share at $3.41 on revenues of $11.67 billion. That's the biggest revenue beat since November 2020.

Beats driven by their handset, their IOT, as well as their auto business.

For Q2, the outlook, the midpoints that they're providing is $2.80 EPS on revenues of $10.6 billion,

I should say, both also higher than what the street was anticipating.

John and I were just on a call with the CEO and CFO just moments ago, and they said end customer

demand in China for premium tier continues to expand, and that the increase in sales was because

of demand and not because of pull through because of tariffs, something that we heard from Intel

and their reasoning as to why they saw a sales bump, so maybe a dig at them.

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