Why D-Wave Quantum Inc. (QBTS) Skyrocketed This Week

We recently published a list of These 10 Stocks Moved the Market This Week, Here’s Why. In this article, we are going to take a look at where D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) stands against other stocks that moved the market this week.

The stock market edged lower week-on-week, as cautious investors repositioned their portfolios ahead of the United States and China’s high-stakes negotiations on trade policies that have for months dented global economies.

On a week-on-week basis, the Dow Jones was down by 0.16 percent, the S&P 500 dropped 0.47 percent, while the Nasdaq dipped by 0.27 percent.

Beyond the major indices, 10 companies bucked a wider market decline, with gains skyrocketing in just a week’s trading.

To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with a $2-billion market capitalization and $5-million trading volume.

The stocks were chosen based on the highest percentage increase in closing prices on May 9 as against their prices a week earlier, or on May 2.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS)

Shares of D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) surged by 40.2 percent week-on-week to end at $11.09 last Friday, versus the $7.91 finish a week earlier after its earnings soared in the first quarter of the year.

On Thursday, D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) said that its revenues expanded by 508 percent to $15 million from $2.465 million in the same period last year, primarily driven by the sale of a quantum computing system during the period.

Albeit still in the red, the higher figures helped narrow the company’s net loss by 69 percent to $5.421 million from $17.312 million year-on-year.

“The first quarter of 2025 was arguably the most significant in D-Wave’s history, especially in terms of our unique ability to deliver quantum value today to our customers and the scientific community,” said D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) CEO Alan Baratz.

“We recognized revenue on our first Advantage system sale to a major research institution, moved an additional customer application into commercial production, and became the first to demonstrate quantum supremacy over classical computing on a useful real-world problem. The end result was a record revenue and gross profit quarter,” he underscored.

Overall, QBTS ranks 3rd on our list of stocks that moved the market this week. While we acknowledge the potential of QBTS as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than QBTS but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.