With excellent momentum leaving 2024 and entering 2025, management expects another year of strong growth. The full-year outlook calls for adjusted diluted earnings per share of $11.50 to $13.50, representing an 8.3% to 27% increase on 2024's figure of $10.61.

Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms helped lead most U.S. stocks higher on Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, as four out of every five stocks in the index climbed.

Wall Street are pointing mostly higher in premarket trading while more corporate earnings poured in a day after the Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark lending rate alone