Netflix shares rose Tuesday, trading at $77.33, up $1.31, or 1.72 percent, offering a modest bounce for a stock that has fallen sharply this year and remains not far from levels last seen before 2025, even as the company prepares to report second-quarter earnings later this month.

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Tuesday's gain comes after a difficult stretch for Netflix stock, which closed at $76.05 on Monday following a 2.06 percent decline, according to Yahoo Finance. The stock is down roughly 21 percent so far in 2026 and has fallen approximately 42 percent from its high last summer, according to a Motley Fool analysis published this week, marking one of the steepest pullbacks among major media and technology companies over the past year.

Much of Netflix's volatility this year traces back to a high-profile, ultimately abandoned effort to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming operations. Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery had entered into a definitive agreement valuing the media company at $27.75 per share, structured as a combination of cash and Netflix stock and later amended to an all-cash transaction, with a total enterprise value of approximately $82.7 billion. The deal was designed to combine Warner Bros.' extensive film and television library, including HBO and HBO Max, with Netflix's global streaming platform.

That agreement unraveled in February after rival bidder Paramount........

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