Trending Tickers: $WBTN Expands Disney Partnership, $WDAY to Acquire Sana, $FORD Plans Capital Raise
This week, several stocks caught investors’ attention, driven by significant developments and market momentum. Here’s the breakdown of this week’s trending stocks:
WEBTOON ($WBTN) Expands Disney Partnership
WEBTOON Entertainment ($WBTN), a global leader in mobile-format comics with over 155 million monthly active users, is expanding its relationship with The Walt Disney Company ($DIS) through a new digital comics initiative. The companies have signed a non-binding term sheet to launch a platform featuring over 35,000 titles from across Disney’s portfolio, including Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and 20th Century Studios.
This platform will, for the first time, combine decades of archived and current comic runs from across Disney’s brands into one subscription-based digital hub. Built and operated by WEBTOON, it will serve as an expansion of Marvel Unlimited and include both vertical-scroll and traditional formats. Additionally, select content will be accessible to Disney+ subscribers through the Disney+ Perks program at no extra cost.
WEBTOON will also integrate select titles into its Korean and Japanese platforms and include its own Originals as part of the new offering. This move marks a significant scaling-up of Disney’s digital comics presence globally, while deepening WEBTOON’s foothold in licensed IP.
As part of the broader collaboration, Disney is also planning to acquire a 2% equity stake in WEBTOON Entertainment. Both the platform and equity deal remain subject to definitive agreements and customary conditions.
Stock Price Reaction
$WBTN shares jumped 39% on the announcement. $DIS closed slightly higher.
Workday ($WDAY) to Acquire AI Startup Sana
Workday Inc. ($WDAY) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sana, a Stockholm-based AI company known for its enterprise learning and agent platforms. The $1.1 billion deal is expected to close in Q4 of Workday’s fiscal 2026.
Founded in 2016, Sana builds AI-native tools like Sana Learn and Sana Agents, which have served over one million users across global enterprises. The company’s platform enables no-code creation of AI agents for automating internal workflows and an AI-driven learning system for reskilling employees.
Workday, which serves over 11,000 organizations globally with its enterprise software suite for HR and finance, plans to use Sana’s technology to create a new “front door” for work—an AI-powered hub where knowledge, data, and action come together.
According to Workday, integrating Sana will allow it to deliver proactive, personalized, and intelligent workplace experiences by combining Sana’s agent technology with Workday’s contextual data on people and money.
Sana’s tools will continue as standalone products while also enhancing Workday Learning and Talent Optimization, offering organizations hyper-personalized learning, performance automation, and internal mobility at scale.
The move follows growing enterprise demand for generative AI-based tools to support productivity and upskilling in sectors like AI infrastructure, manufacturing, and legal services.
Stock Price Reaction
$WDAY shares rose 7.2% following the announcement, reflecting investor optimism over Workday’s deeper AI push.
Forward Industries ($FORD) Plans Major Capital Raise to Fuel Solana Strategy
Forward Industries ($FORD), a longtime design firm now repositioning itself as a Solana-focused treasury company, has filed for a $4 billion at-the-market (ATM) equity offering program to support its digital asset strategy.
The program allows $FORD to raise capital over time and deploy it toward general corporate purposes. According to the company, this includes working capital, income-generating assets, and further expansion of its Solana (SOL) token holdings.
Chairman Kyle Samani framed the move as a continuation of Forward’s shift into crypto-based treasury management, highlighting the company’s recent acquisition of over 6.8 million SOL tokens and its ambition to scale further.
Cantor Fitzgerald is the sales agent for the ATM offering, which was filed under an automatic shelf registration that became effective September 17. There is no obligation to sell a specific amount of shares, and transactions will be made under Rule 415 “at the market” conditions.
Forward Industries, originally known for producing medical and tech accessories, has pivoted to become what it calls the “leading Solana treasury company.”
Stock Price Reaction
$FORD shares fell 10% following the announcement of the ATM program.
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