The day after earnings, SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) opened just shy of $13. In the two weeks since, it’s tumbled to $8 for a roughly -40% thrashing. Such a move in a year would be terrible. We just saw it in nine trading days. And now, SOFI stock is in the single digits for the first
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Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), a digital asset technology company that mines cryptocurrencies, has a Beta (5Y Monthly) of 4.64. This figure is not only extreme, but too risky. Source: Pixels Hunter / Shutterstock A stock that moves precisely in tandem with broader stock market volatility has a Beta of 1. This means that MARA
Falling below $100 per share, PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) is back at price levels not seen since March 2020. In other words, PYPL stock has given back its pandemic era gains. Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com You may think that this is an overreaction. That the markets are pricing in external uncertainties, along with some company-specific issues, too much
Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV) has finally started to bounce. CLOV stock has climbed about 50% above its lows in recent weeks. Since the stock was over $10 last year, a rally from $2 to just over $3 is hardly a huge comeback. Still, it’s better than continuing to make new lows. Source: Shutterstock So is
The activist investor who famously bet on the Gamestop (NYSE:GME) short squeeze is now going after Bed, Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY). Ryan Cohen turned $76 million of GME stock into $1.9 billion by last August. It was a squeeze built on small traders organized at Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets. Now, he has put $150 million into BBBY
With the market in correction mode and investors abandoning growth stocks in droves due to inflation fears, there are many beaten-down stocks right now, particularly in the tech sector. But history shows what looks like “the sum of all fears” nearly always turns out, in the long run, not to be a very big deal.
Greenwich-based hedge fund Hudson Bay Capital Management was the largest shareholder of Vinco Ventures (NASDAQ:BBIG) as of Dec. 31. It owned the equivalent of 15.13 million shares of BBIG stock. Source: vincoventures.com If you are a limited partner of the hedge fund, you can thank your lucky stars that BBIG only represents a tiny portion
We’re barely through two months of the year, and already 2022 is proving to be a very difficult year for investors. Supercharged inflation, war in Europe, sky-high energy prices, constrained supply chains, a global semiconductor shortage and tightening monetary policy have created a vortex of bad conditions for markets around the world. Stocks to sell
Block, Inc. (NYSE:SQ), which used to be called Square, has now closed the acquisition of AfterPay, the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Australian company. The bottom line is that there are better places to put your money than in SQ stock. Source: Sergei Elagin / Shutterstock.com This all-share deal has led to significant stock dilution.
Retail interest in GameStop (NYSE:GME) soared last year after the WallStreetBets Reddit group, whose members numbered in the millions, provoked a speculative buying frenzy. GME stock shot up from less than $20 a share to an all-time high of $483 in just over two weeks as meme-stock mania took hold. Source: Shutterstock Since that high,
In the wake of Lucid’s (NASDAQ:LCID) fourth-quarter results, reported on Feb. 28, Wall Street and the media seem to be very focused on the reduction in the automaker’s production guidance. Conversely, I’m much more interested in another metric that’s tremendously more important for the long-term outlook of LCID stock: demand. Source: Around the World Photos
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) stock, formerly known as CenturyLink, is not going to be worth investors’ capital. This is despite recent earnings which provide some reason for optimism. Some investors might want to show Lumen Technologies some optimism and invest their capital. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com But take a long-term view on this stock and
Boeing (NYSE:BA) stock effectively symbolizes the strength of U.S. diplomatic influence and its military prowess. However, the thorns of interconnectivity raise big questions for the company. Source: vaalaa / Shutterstock.com As you know, the Biden administration along with western allies have imposed severe sanctions on Russia following its decision to invade Ukraine. Due to the
Easily my least favorite stock to cover, Vinco Ventures (NASDAQ:BBIG) is the bane of my existence. While some companies can be rather obfuscating regarding what they actually do, Vinco really takes the cake. It’s a self-inflicted stun grenade — or flashbang to use special operator parlance — one that leaves BBIG stock staggering in a
Stockholm-based Spotify (NYSE:SPOT) features music on its platform and disseminates the audio to its users and attempts to monetize through premium subscription fees and advertising. SPOT stock was a sensible investment when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, but the circumstances have changed since then. Source: Kaspars Grinvalds / Shutterstock.com For one thing, many of
Does the world really need another electric vehicle (EV) start-up? This is the question which California-headquartered Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ:MULN) — and really, anyone considering investing in MULN stock — will need to answer. Source: Shutterstock It’s going to be difficult for Mullen to justify its existence, as there are plenty of EV manufacturers already and
With DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG) continuing to face very tough competition that’s severely undermining its profitability and also about to deal with an important, near-term hurdle, the outlook for DKNG stock remains poor. Source: Lori Butcher / Shutterstock.com Given the intense competition that DraftKings is facing, I’m unsure if the company will ever be profitable. DraftKings is facing
Evidence strongly indicates that the Chinese government is continuing to intentionally harm Alibaba (NYSE:BABA). Meanwhile, the company’s recently released third-quarter results for BABA stock were uninspiring. Source: Nopparat Khokthong / Shutterstock.com Its cloud business, after existing many years, is still losing money. Given all of these points, I remain bearish on BABA stock. Indeed, I
Much like its corporate name, sentiment about Block (NYSE:SQ), formerly Square, seems to change at the drop of a hat. Before, the crowd was avoiding SQ stock in droves. Source: Sergei Elagin / Shutterstock.com Partially due to the cycling out of tech, but mostly due to growing bearishness about its prospects, shares in the fintech
Embattled theatre chain operator AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) stock has picked up in the past month. A lot had to do with its somewhat encouraging preliminary fourth-quarter results. Source: Helen89 / Shutterstock.com It’s now released its final fourth-quarter earnings results, which are nothing to feel joyful about despite showing progress. AMC stock continues to trade at