Nvidia's second-quarter earnings report blew past estimates, and the company's own forecast was even more optimistic. A lot of tech companies were slipstreaming early Thursday.

Two well-known retailers, a chipmaker and a mobile payments company are set to report quarterly earnings after U.S. markets close on Thursday.

Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon.com, AppLovin, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Emerson Electric, Meta Platforms, Pinterest, Sea, Shopify, Target and Trip Advisor.

These five outstanding stocks come with big dividends and some big safety, making them ideal for worried investors looking to hedge or take the money and run to safe havens in what could be a rough autumn.

Executive Chair Kelcy Warren purchased 3 million common units of Energy Transfer within days of the company's announced $7.1 billion acquisition of Crestwood Equity Partners.

After markets close Wednesday, closely followed Nvidia reports quarterly results. Autodesk also reports late Wednesday, while two retail companies will report Thursday morning.

Tuesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Applied Materials, Bill, Catalyst Pharmaceutical, CVS Health, Elastic, Hawaiian Electric Industries and Walmart.

These seven outstanding stocks make sense for growth and income investors looking to add energy, as they are rated Buy, pay large and dependable dividends, and have solid upside to the posted price targets.

Arm has filed preliminarily for an IPO that owner Softbank hopes will value the company north of $60 billion and raise up to $10 billion in cash. Also, Elon Musk gets the New Yorker treatment.

Here is what analysts are looking for when these four firms report quarterly results on Wednesday morning.