Oscar Health, Thoma Bravo & Verint, Apple: Trending Tickers

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Time now for some of today's trending tickers. We are watching Oscar Health, Verint Systems, and Apple. First up, Oscar Health shares plummeting today. Barclays initiating coverage of the stock with an underweight rating, citing policy risks that could impact the health insurance company's growth and margins. Raymond James also downgrading the stock to market perform from outperform, also citing policy risks. Says tariffs, expiring subsidies and funding cuts weigh on sentiment in the healthcare industry. Meanwhile, Verint Systems is soaring on the back of a Bloomberg report that buyout firm Thoma Bravo is in talks to acquire the company. Verint is a New York-based company that makes call center software, and according to its website, it's a leader in customer experience automation and serves about 10,000 blue chip customers in more than 175 countries. The company has been listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange since 2002, Nasdaq stock market. And finally, Apple getting an upgrade at Jeffries to hold from underperform and a price target raised to over $188 from $171. The firm saying that it believes strong third quarter earnings could, quote, keep the stock stable near term. Weak iPhone sales and problems developing artificial intelligence services has dragged on Apple stock this year. Shares are down about 15% since January. You can scan the QR code below to track the best and worst performing stocks with Yahoo Finance's Trending Tickers page.