The Motley Fool: IonQ stands out for real cloud distribution and credible hardware progress. Rigetti Computing is a riskier bet but could explode if execution clicks.

24/7 Wall Street: Opendoor Technologies ( NASDAQ:OPEN ) released its fourth-quarter earnings after the market closed on Thursday, and the stock jumped 7.5% the next day to close at $5.00 per share.

MarketBeat: Stock analysis is frequently peppered with sports metaphors, and with good reason; they fit. That's the case with Opendoor Technologies Inc. NASDAQ: OPEN.

Benzinga: Each week, Benzinga's Stock Whisper Index uses a combination of proprietary data and pattern recognition to showcase five stocks that are just under the surface and deserve attention.

The Motley Fool: D-Wave Quantum (QBTS 6.81%) may have just taken a critical step toward transforming from a speculative hardware player into a recurring revenue powerhouse. A Fortune 100 contract signals enterprise adoption, but insider selling and extreme valuation create tension.

The Motley Fool: UWM Holdings Corp. President and CEO Mat Ishbia sold 1,898,622 shares of Common Stock indirectly between Feb. 10 and Feb. 12, 2026, for a total value of approximately $9.0 million, based on weighted average pricing around $4.74 per share. The transaction reduced total holdings by 47.80%; direct holdings were unchanged at 279,989 shares.

The Motley Fool: In early February, AE Red Holdings, a director at Rediwre Corp, indirectly sold 1,435,492 shares of Common Stock for a transaction value of $14,493,970.55 at an average price of $10.10 per share. The sale was spread out between two days, taking place a week after another pair of sales were conducted.

The Motley Fool: Passive funds must hold shares of companies in proportions to the indexes they track. Some actively managed funds that have notable stakes in Rigetti Computing now are chasing short-term gains through algorithmic trading.

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The Motley Fool: Buying stocks that are under $30 per share can lead to significant growth if you make the right picks. Cipher Mining is at the forefront of the energy bottleneck that has plagued many tech giants.

The Motley Fool: The cloud-based enterprise software specialist saw both revenue and profitability erode in its fourth quarter. Both metrics missed the consensus analyst estimates.

The Motley Fool: Opendoor is cutting costs and accelerating its transaction times. The company is on track to achieve its profit targets.

The Motley Fool: SoFi is an online bank that targets younger customers. It has been growing briskly, in part by adding many services.

Business Wire: BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) (“Skillsoft” or the “Company”), the leading AI-native skills management platform built for the human + AI era, today announced that on February 18, 2026, the Talent and Compensation Committee of Skillsoft's Board of Directors made a grant of 25,000 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) of the Company's Class A common stock to David Koehn. The grant of RSUs was offered as a material inducement to Mr. Koehn's hiring as SVP, Product Management on January 5.

Business Wire: BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) (“Skillsoft” or the “Company”), the leading AI-native skills management platform built for the human + AI era, today announced that on February 18, 2026, the Talent and Compensation Committee of Skillsoft's Board of Directors (the “Committee”) made a grant of 95,000 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) of the Company's Class A common stock to Bernard Barbour. The grant of RSUs was offered as a material inducement to Mr. Barbour's hiring as Chief Techno.

GlobeNewsWire: NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Psyence Biomedical Ltd. (Nasdaq: PBM) (“Psyence BioMed” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company advancing nature-derived psilocybin and ibogaine therapies for unmet mental health needs, today announced that Psyence Labs Ltd., a leading developer and manufacturer of pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic compounds ("PsyLabs") has exercised its rights under a previously disclosed put option agreement (the "Put Option Agreement"), pursuant to which Psyence BioMed will make an equity investment in PsyLabs at a fair market value determined in accordance with the terms of the Put Option Agreement.

FXEmpire: Opendoor stock staged a bullish reversal after earnings, reclaiming key moving averages and strengthening the case for a breakout from consolidation toward higher resistance levels.

CNBC: Blue Owl, a direct lender specializing in loans to the software industry, said Wednesday it had sold $1.4 billion of its loans to institutional investors at 99.7% of par value. That means sophisticated players scrutinized the loans and the companies involved and felt comfortable paying nearly full price for the debt, a message that Blue Owl co-President Craig Packer sought to convey in interviews several times this week.

GlobeNewsWire: TORONTO, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. (“Xanadu”), a leading photonic quantum computing company, today announced that it will host an Analyst Day on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 9:00 am ET.

The Motley Fool: Parsifal Capital Management sold 4,770,561 AvePoint shares; the estimated transaction value was $65.90 million (based on average closing prices for the quarter). Meanwhile, the quarter-end AvePoint position value fell by $75.81 million, reflecting both trading and price movement.