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First off, I’ll admit it may sound foolish to be bearish on Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ:COST) stock. But my bearishness isn’t built around any issues with the company’s underlying business. Source: ARTYOORAN / Shutterstock.com Mainly, because there are not too many. The membership-based discount retailer keeps reporting strong results. It thrived during the pandemic. It’s still

Shares of up-and-coming luxury EV producer Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) shed over 15% of their value in the past month. LCID stock slid roughly 14% earlier this month after the release of underwhelming fourth-quarter earnings report. Source: Around the World Photos / Shutterstock.com A lot was riding on that earnings report. The start-up has been the

Upstart Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:UPST) is an artificial intelligence (AI) -powered lending platform that seeks to upend traditional bank underwriting practices. In a good way. Upstart’s use of AI and machine learning offers big advantages to lenders. Consumers like it, too. Riding a wave of massive growth in revenue, UPST stock surged through much of 2021.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB), which will soon change its symbol to META, has cratered over 38% based on a less than 0.05% drop in its daily active users (DAUs). Something is off with that. FB stock is probably undervalued and is now clearly a bargain. This article will look into why. Source: Blue Planet Studio /

Many marketers say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s media company, is putting that axiom to the test. The firm is set to merge with Digital World Acquisition (NASDAQ:DWAC), enabling Truth Social’s shares to be traded by the public. Source: mundissima / Shutterstock Truth Social’s first order of business

Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) came public amid a lot of expectations. Bulls pitched SKLZ stock as the combination of gambling and e-sports. This seemed like a can’t miss prospect given the powerful uptrend that both those sectors are enjoying. Source: Dennis Diatel / Shutterstock.com However, Skillz’ investors have seen their luck run dry. Shares have collapsed over

Among the most famous social media platforms in the world, TikTok has amassed nearly 80 million users in the U.S. alone. Expanding out the scope to the rest of the world, the video-sharing service commands a monthly active user base of 1 billion. Invariably, the community will feature a wide variety of subject matter, including

Shares of Covid-19 vaccine play Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) may have seen a small upward bounce after its earnings released earlier this week. That does not mean NVAX stock is out of the woods yet. Source: vovidzha / Shutterstock.com With internal and extraneous factors weighing it down, NVAX stock is now a pale shadow of its old

EVgo, Inc. (NASDAQ:EVGO) operates a direct current (DC) fast-charging network for electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States. The focus is on fast chargers, which gives it a different business strategy than its competitors. Is this a smart move to gain an economic moat in the race towards electrification of mobility? It might be reflected

Editor’s Note: This article is regularly updated to bring you relevant, up-to-date information. It’s that time in earnings season when we’re getting down near the bottom of the barrel. With 95% of S&P 500 companies having reported results for the fourth quarter of 2021,  the season for earnings reports is coming to a conclusion. We’re

Digital World Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:DWAC) has been on a steady rise recently due to the launch of the Truth Social network. DWAC is merging with Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG). The companies expect to complete the merger in the first quarter of this year, at which point DWAC shareholders will become shareholders of TMTG.

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) stock is up 4.4% for 2022, mainly thanks to a stellar earnings release. The company said it earned $185 million, $1.74 per fully diluted share, on revenue of $1.3 billion for the December quarter, the second of its 2022 fiscal year. Net income was up 20% over the previous year, and

Based in Singapore, Sea Limited (NYSE:SE) operates e-commerce websites for countries in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Plus, the company offers online video games in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Therefore, international tech market investors might consider a position in SE stock. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com Just as a Bollywood movie is typically rife with action and

The chickens appear to have finally come home to roost for AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) stock. Source: Helen89 / Shutterstock.com For a year now, exasperated short-sellers have thrown up their arms in frustration and analysts have screamed themselves blue in the face that shares of the Leawood, Kansas-based company are overvalued beyond all logic and the stock’s

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) stock is making the same moves to disrupt finance it was making a year ago. But the cheers of the investing crowd have turned to jeers. Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com Stock in the online bank, broker and wholesaler are down 27% since 2022 began. This despite a small bounce from the purchase

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is benefiting from a secular trend in e-commerce and the public cloud. These on-going changes in technology, social life, and business are geared towards becoming more efficient, supporting cloud adoption, and increasing eCommerce penetration. These trends should be a boon to Amazon for the foreseeable future but the future of AMZN stock is more

When it comes to stocks to buy with enormous long-term upside potential, few look more compelling than QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) stock. Source: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com As the leading solid-state battery maker, QS is developing a new generation of batteries. These next-gen batteries will enable electric vehicles to drive thousands of miles on a single charge.

Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) has started rising off of its trough price of $477.32 which it hit on Jan. 25. Since then COST stock has been on a run and is likely to soon turn positive for the year. Source: ilzesgimene / Shutterstock.com As of Feb. 28, the stock is up to $511.92, which was

What more can we say about energy stocks at this point? Despite the carnage in growth stocks, the volatility in cryptocurrencies and the weakness in the broader stock market, the energy sector continues to perform incredibly well. Over the past month, there’s hardly one sector in positive territory; Aside from energy stocks, obviously. In fact, the

Several years ago, when the Cloud was hot, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) stock was at the heart of an acronym called FANG. Source: Koshiro K / Shutterstock.com Facebook. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Netflix. Google. Later Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) made it FAANG. Now Facebook is Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB), Google is Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), so MAAAN? Not only is the acronym ridiculous, but

Is this the year that Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) finally turns things around? After a sizable rally in the first third of the year, INTC stock finished 2021 in a tepid fashion. 2022 has been much worse thus far. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com The world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer has been struggling to right its

Now down to the mid-$20s per share, if you don’t own it yet, you may have an urge to “buy the dip” with Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID). After all, the EV maker is charging ahead with its production ramp-up plans. A speedy recovery for LCID stock is just around the corner, right? Source: T. Schneider / Shutterstock

The mobile games platform continues to leak oil as we move into March. Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) is down 59% in 2022. Yet the eight analysts covering SKLZ stock give it a median price target of $12, 225% higher than where it’s currently trading. Source: NYCStock / Shutterstock.com Have analysts lost their minds? Maybe. In March 2021,

When stock markets rise, investors ignore political and regulatory risks in China. In the last year, U.S. regulators grew increasingly skeptical of allowing China-based firms to continue listing on the exchange. Since December 2021, worries intensified for Nio (NYSE:NIO). The macro headwinds are overshadowing the relatively attractive valuation for NIO stock. Source: Andy Feng /

This is my first time writing about Asana (NYSE:ASAN). The software-as-a-service (SaaS) workflow management company operates in a competitive sector. However, Asana is holding its own on the top line. Revenue continues to show steady growth on both a quarterly and year-over-year basis. Despite that, ASAN stock is down 62% from its 52-week high of

If there were any doubt interest rates were going to be hiked by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the latest inflation number puts those thoughts to bed. U.S. consumer prices rose by 7% in 2021, the largest 12-month gain since April 1982. Rising prices from America’s top consumer brands are expected to carry well into 2022. 

After the recent Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) deal announcement, Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) stockholders should’ve breathed a sigh of relief. The past few months have been terrible for Activision Blizzard. Corporate scandals and delays in some of its major gaming titles have haunted the company. To make matters worse, its active user base growth has slowed over the

The best ideas come from solving common problems. No, that’s not the driving principle behind Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND). Rather, it’s the leading quote for the first commercial for UNTUCKit, the apparel maker that specializes in clothes designed to be worn untucked. I must admit that I laughed off both businesses. However, the declining valuation of

On Feb. 1, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) announced that its board approved a stock split that would see shareholders receive 20 shares of GOOG stock for every share currently held. Alphabet’s shares jumped on the news.  Source: turtix / Shutterstock.com While there have been several high-profile stock splits in recent years, it is hard to know

Real estate tech company Opendoor (NASDAQ:OPEN) has fallen out of favor with investors. Speculative high growth stocks have gotten caught up in a broad-based market sell-off. Moreover, its competitor in Zillow’s (NASDAQ:ZG) recent exit from iBuying also had a negative impact on the sector. Nevertheless, the recent sell-off presents a long-term buying opportunity for a