TSLA, PLTR, IREN and More: 5 Stocks That Dominated Investor Buzz This Week – IREN (NASDAQ:IREN), Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD)

Retail investors talked about five hot stocks this week (Nov. 3-7) on X and Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets, driven by earnings, retail hype, AI buzz and the flood of business news.

The shares, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR), IREN Ltd. (nasda:iran), Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), which spans automotive, technology, AI, cybersecurity and cryptocurrency, reflected diverse retail interests.

Tesla

• Tesla dominated headlines with its annual shareholder meeting this week, where investors overwhelmingly (75% in favor) approved of the CEO Elon Musk‘s groundbreaking $1 trillion performance-based compensation package. Tesla also introduced software updates such as FSD 14.1.5 and 2025.38.8, while European sales in markets such as Britain and Germany halved due to the competition, and a Cybertruck recall affected 6,197 units due to light bar issues.

• Some retail investors were skeptical of the ambitious bets on Tesla’s stock.

• As of this article’s publication, the stock had a 52-week range of $214.25 to $488.54 and was trading around $451 to $453 per share. It rose 17.57% year-to-date and 50.18% for the year.

• While this stock had a solid quality ranking, Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings showed that it had a stronger price trend in the short, medium and long term. Additional performance details are available here.

Palantir Technologies

• Palantir Technologies announced its third-quarter earnings results after the market closed on November 3. It exceeded expectations with revenue of $1.18 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $0.21, driven by 122% commercial growth in the US and rising adoption of the AI ​​Platform (AIP). Major events included Michael Burry‘s Scion Capital reveals a massive short via put options on 5 million shares in its 13F filing for the third quarter, fueling bearish talk, and early board member Alex Moore sold $4.1 million worth of shares on November 6.

• Private investors were seen mocking Burry’s take on PLTR.

• As of this article’s publication, the stock had a 52-week range of $53.55 to $207.52 and was trading around $76 to $178 per share. It rose 132.81% year-to-date and 213.26% for the year.

• Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings showed that the stock had stronger price performance in the short, medium and long term, with a poor value position. Additional performance details are available here.

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IREN

• IREN dominated headlines with a groundbreaking $9.7 billion multi-year GPU cloud services contract announced on November 3 with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), which provides access to NVIDIA GB300 GPUs through IREN’s 2.91 GW renewable data centers. The company reported first-quarter 2026 earnings on November 6, reporting revenue of $240.3 million and adjusted earnings per share of $1.08.

• Investors appreciated IREN’s first-quarter results, but also recognized that markets were still trying to price the stock.

• As of this article’s publication, the stock has had a 52-week range of $5.12 to $76.87 and is trading around $68 to $69 per share. It rose 540.15% YTD and 497.32% for the year.

• According to Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankingsit maintained a stronger price trend in the short, medium and long term with a strong growth position. Additional performance details are available here.

Strategy

• Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced on November 3 the purchase of an additional 397 BTC for $45.6 million at an average price of $114,771 per coin, increasing its total holdings to 641,205 BTC with a value of approximately $47.5 billion. The Q3 2025 earnings transcript, released on November 4, highlighted a balance sheet transformation that saw digital assets under fair value accounting rise from $7 billion to $73 billion on an annualized basis, alongside net income of $2.8 billion and operating income of $3.9 billion.

• Retail investors were joking about the Michael Saylorled company, linking it to the stock market bubble.

• As of this article’s publication, the stock had a 52-week range of $231.51 to $542.99 and was trading around $236 to $238 per share. It fell 20.94% year-to-date and 12.41% for the year.

• The stock had weaker price performance in the short, medium and long term, with a poor value position, said Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings. Other performance details are available here.

Advanced micro devices

• AMD reported blockbuster third-quarter earnings on November 4, with record revenue of $9.25 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.20, fueled by data center sales of $4.3 billion, client/gaming revenues of $4.0 billion and record free cash flow of $1.53 billion. Anticipation is building for the November 11 Analyst Day where the Zen 6/7 CPU and MI500 GPU roadmaps will be unveiled, with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley raising their price targets based on AI momentum.

• Investors were looking forward to AMD’s analyst day scheduled for next week.

• As of this article’s publication, the stock had a 52-week range of $76.48 to $267.08 and was trading around $237 to $239 per share. It was up 97.05% since the beginning of the year, but up 58.66% for the year.

• It maintains a stronger price trend in the short, medium and long term, with a strong Quality Score Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings. Additional performance details are available here.

The retail focus combined a meme-based narrative with earnings outlooks and company news, while the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq witnessed largely negative market action during the week.

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