Stocks to Watch: Intel, Broadcom, and Inovio Pharmaceuticals

By Anna Isaac 

Here are some of the companies with shares expected to trade actively in Friday's session. Stock movements noted by ticker reflect movements during regular trading hours; premarket trading is specified separately.

American Express, Synchrony Financial, NextEra Energy and Air Products & Chemicals publish earnings today.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals: The drugmaker, along with Moderna and Novavax, said Thursday that it planned to develop a vaccine against the new respiratory virus originating in China. Inovio's shares rose 8.9% in off-hours trading.

Intel: Healthy demand for Intel's processors boosted sales for the company, according to its results, posted after markets closed Thursday. The chip maker benefited from a rise in personal-computer shipments and orders for chips to power data centers. Intel's shares rose nearly 6% in off-hours trading.

Broadcom: The company said Thursday that it had secured multiyear supply agreements with Apple Inc. to provide wireless components for Apple products into 2023. Its stock rose 2.3% in off-hours trading.

Discover: After reporting results following market close Thursday, the financial services company's shares fell nearly 7% in off-hours trading.

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January 24, 2020 05:46 ET (10:46 GMT)

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