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Stocks making big moves yesterday: HighPeak Energy, Zscaler, Halliburton, Viasat, and CrowdStrike

StockStory - StockStory - Thu May 28, 8:00AM CDT
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Check out the companies making headlines yesterday:

HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK): Oil and gas producer HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK) fell by 3% on Wednesday after WTI crude collapsed 4.7% to $92.94 on Iran-US peace deal progress. See our full article here.

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Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS): Cloud security platform Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) fell by 31.5% on Wednesday after the company reported its fiscal Q3 2026 results in a classic case of a clean beat being overwhelmed by a pair of disclosures buried below the headline numbers. See our full article here.

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Halliburton (NYSE:HAL): Oilfield services company Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) fell by 3.8% on Wednesday after WTI crude oil plunged on Iran-US peace deal progress and renewed hopes for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. See our full article here.

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Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT): Global satellite communications provider Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT) rose by 4.2% on Wednesday after the company, along with Intelsat General Communications, secured a major contract from the U.S. Space Force. See our full article here.

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CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD): Cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) fell by 4% on Wednesday after peer, Zscaler, reported fiscal Q3 2026 earnings the prior evening, which featured a top-and-bottom-line beat but clouded by rising memory, storage, and processor costs, as well as turnover in its sales department. See our full article here.

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