On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Novo Nordisk (NVO) shares rallied in trading today following the drugmaker getting US approval to sell a pill version of its blockbuster obesity shot Wegovy. Novo will start selling the pill in the US in early January, the company said in a statement Monday. It is approved to help people lose weight or maintain previous weight loss over the long term. The pill is crucial for Novo’s strategy to take on Eli Lilly, which has said its own oral obesity drug could be approved by March. That would give Novo a head start of just a few months.
- ServiceNow (NOW) has reached a deal to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal valued at $7.75 billion, representing its largest acquisition to date. The Santa Clara, California-based enterprise tech company will pay in cash for San Francisco-based Armis, according to a statement Tuesday that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. ServiceNow, which provides software that helps companies organize and automate their personnel and information technology operations, has become a dominant platform for enterprise workflow. In March, ServiceNow struck an agreement to buy the artificial intelligence firm Moveworks Inc. for $2.85 billion as part of its push into AI tools that can complete tasks without human supervision. Shares of the startup fell during trading on Tuesday.
- Sable (SOC) shares rose as much as 30% after the company said that the US Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration approved the firm’s Las Flores pipeline restart plan.