VF Corporation (VFC) Climbs 10.8% on Rate Cut Hopes

We recently published 10 Big Names Crushing the Market. VF Corporation (NYSE:VFC) is one of the best-performing stocks on Friday.

VF Corporation grew its share prices by 10.80 percent on Friday to end at $16.21 apiece as investor sentiment was generally buoyed by hopes of another interest rate cut for December.

The stock mirrored a broader market optimism, rallying alongside its consumer counterparts, after Federal Reserve Bank of New York President and CEO John Williams’ comments, saying that he believes monetary policy for December would be “modestly restrictive” amid weak labor market data.

“I view monetary policy as being modestly restrictive, although somewhat less so than before our recent actions,” Williams said in his speech in Santiago, Chile.

“Therefore, I still see room for a further adjustment in the near term to the target range for the federal funds rate to move the stance of policy closer to the range of neutral, thereby maintaining the balance between the achievement of our two goals,” he noted.

Williams comments renewed hopes after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell already signaled earlier that a rate cut in December was not guaranteed.

In other recent developments, VF Corporation (NYSE:VFC) announced strong earnings performance in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. Net income soared by 264 percent to $189.76 million from $52.18 million in the same period last year. Revenues grew by 3.7 percent to $2.8 billion from $2.7 billion year-on-year.

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