What Happened?

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after software stocks extended their rally, carrying momentum from one of the sharpest sector reversals of 2026. 

The iShares Expanded Tech-Software ETF closed May up 21%, its best monthly performance since October 2001, after Snowflake's Q1 results and Dell's Q1 print over two consecutive evenings combined to break the "SaaSpocalypse" narrative that had driven enterprise software stocks 20-40% below their highs. Snowflake's revenue grew 34% to $1.39 billion, AI accounts jumped from 9,100 to 13,600 in a single quarter, and Dell confirmed $16.1 billion in AI server revenue (up 757%) against a $51.3 billion committed backlog. The combined message was that AI is accelerating enterprise software demand, not displacing it. 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's Computex keynote in Taipei framed agentic AI (autonomous systems executing tasks across enterprise infrastructure) as the defining platform shift ahead, directly validating the demand case for the software layer that governs, secures, and orchestrates those agents. ServiceNow rose 10%, bringing its two-session gain to 26% from the May 28 close of $108. Okta held its 30% post-earnings surge, with its identity platform increasingly positioned as infrastructure for enterprise AI agent deployment. MongoDB sustained its post-Q1 momentum after 25% revenue growth and a fourth consecutive quarter of Atlas growth at or above 29%. CrowdStrike held near its 52-week high of $731 ahead of its June 3 earnings.

The stock market overreacts to news, and big price drops can present good opportunities to buy high-quality stocks.

Among others, the following stocks were impacted:

• Cloud Monitoring company Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) jumped 6.5%. Is now the time to buy Nutanix? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
• Banking Software company nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) jumped 6.6%. Is now the time to buy nCino? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.
• Advertising Software company DoubleVerify (NYSE: DV) jumped 6.6%. Is now the time to buy DoubleVerify? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free.

Zooming In On DoubleVerify (DV)

DoubleVerify’s shares are quite volatile and have had 17 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.

The previous big move we wrote about was 17 days ago when the stock gained 4.9% on the news that President Trump's state visit to Beijing lifted market sentiment across tech, with the S&P hitting a record high above 7,500 for the first. 

While the Trump-Xi summit produced fewer concrete deals than investors had hoped for, the general mood around US-China trade relations shifted from confrontational to cautiously constructive and for a sector as globally exposed as software, that reduction in uncertainty was enough to drive buyers back in. 

Adding to the positive sentiment, Figma posted 46% revenue growth with early AI monetisation showing genuine traction, and ServiceNow announced a multi-year AI partnership with Experian. Each print reinforced the same thesis: that enterprise software companies are successfully embedding AI into their products and charging for it, rather than being disrupted by it a concern that had weighed heavily on the sector earlier in the year.

DoubleVerify is down 3.2% since the beginning of the year, and at $10.52 per share, it is trading 35.4% below its 52-week high of $16.27 from August 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of DoubleVerify’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at only $301.81.

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