shares of vertiv holdings jumped by more than a quarter after the digitalinfrastructure supplier reported secondquarter results and raised its fullyear outlook the stock climbed 272 to 3374 a share in morning trading so far this year shares are up 146 the columbus ohiobased company makes various tools ranging from power distribution to thermal management used by data center operators chief executive giordano albertazzi touted the potential for artificial intelligence to accelerate the companys growth for the second quarter vertiv reported sales of 173 billion up 24 from last year and above the 162 billion expected by analysts according to factset the companys earnings came to 832 million or 22 cents a share up from 203 million or 5 cents a share a year ago adjusted earnings of 46 cents a share topped the 29 cents expected by analysts momentum clearly accelerated in the second quarter as vertiv continues to strengthen performance chairman dave cote said the company raised its fullyear sales outlook to a range of 671 billion to 691 billion up from previous outlook for sales of 645 billion to 66 billion vertiv is targeting fullyear adjusted earnings of 154 a share to 164 a share up from 122 a share to 132 a share vertiv also raised its adjusted free cash flow outlook for the year to 525 million to 575 million up from 300 million to 400 million previously write to will feuer at willfeuerwsjcom