Take a look at the businesses making headlines in noon buying and selling.

Meme shares — A gaggle of so-called meme shares skyrocketed Wednesday as retail traders jumped into speculative trades once more. Mattress Bathtub & Past rallied 38% to set off the pattern in morning buying and selling Wednesday. Shares of GameStop, the unique star of 2021′s meme-stock mania, climbed about 5%. AMC Leisure soared 15%.

Tesla — The EV maker gained greater than 2% after it registered with the state of Texas to increase its electric-vehicle manufacturing facility in Austin this yr. Individually, Goldman Sachs named Tesla a prime inventory choose for 2023.

Expedia — The journey firm’s inventory gained greater than 4% after Oppenheimer upgraded it to outperform from carry out. The Wall Road agency mentioned it believes Expedia shares are discounting macro headwinds.

Intuitive Surgical — The maker of robotic surgical programs noticed shares drop almost 5% after the corporate reported solely 369 placements of its da Vinci robotic within the fourth quarter, which was a 4% lower from the identical interval in 2021. It additionally issued downbeat income steerage that barely missed expectations, in line with FactSet.

Pool Corp — The swimming pool building firm added 5% after Deutsche Financial institution upgraded it to a purchase from a maintain score, saying that shares and earnings steerage ought to shock to the upside.

AbbVie — Shares of biopharmaceutical firm AbbVie shed greater than 1% after the CEO mentioned on the JPMorgan Healthcare Convention that it expects the lack of exclusivity of Humira, its drug for arthritis and psoriasis, to have an effect on the corporate’s efficiency within the close to time period, in line with a report from Bloomberg. The corporate doesn’t anticipate a decline in 2024 earnings, nonetheless.

Alphabet — Alphabet shares rose greater than 2% after Germany’s competitors regulator mentioned it plans to order a redesign of the choices Google affords customers for opting out of its cross-service consumer knowledge processing.

Levi Strauss — Shares slid about 3% after Citi downgraded the inventory to impartial from purchase. Regardless of saying the corporate has a robust model and long-term prospects, the agency mentioned it could really feel stress within the quick and medium time period as denim developments worsened.

Toll Brothers — The homebuilding inventory gained 3% following an improve to a purchase from a maintain score by analysts at Financial institution of America. The Wall Road agency mentioned that Toll Brothers’ valuation appears to be like enticing at these ranges.

 — CNBC’s Michelle Fox, Yun Li, Samantha Subin, Carmen Reinicke and Alex Harring contributed reporting.