Biogen is one of the top-notch firms in the biotech space. With sales of over $12.7B in 2019, the stock has been very generous to investors in the past. In fact, it is one of only five companies mentioned in Christopher W. Mayer’s book “100-Baggers” that have returned 100 to 1 in under six years.…
Ryanair Stock, Unlike Its Planes, Can Fly Again Soon
Few industries have been hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions than the airlines. Flight numbers and passenger traffic have been significantly reduced in Europe and the U.S. since March. Even low-cost carriers like Ryanair were not spared. Ryanair’s passenger traffic plunged by 99.5% in May and is still down 64% in September. Apparently nobody…
General Mills Bearish Elliott Wave Cycle Spells Trouble
The last time we wrote about General Mills stock was over a year and a half ago. Following a bullish reversal Elliott Wave analysis helped us correctly predict in late-December 2018, the stock was trading above $51 a share in late-March 2019. It was a 33% recovery, whose structure, however, didn’t look quite as anticipated.…
Fortinet Is Strong, but The Stock Can Slide 40% Anyway
Fortinet Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions to large and small businesses and enterprises. The company went public on the NASDAQ exchange in late-2009. Great timing, as it allowed it to enjoy the phenomenal post-crisis bull market. In fact, by July 2020, FTNT stock was up 794% since its IPO, easily beating the S&P 500’s return over…
NIU Stock, Down 18% This Week, Can Fall Further
E-scooters have been all the rage in the past couple of years. Much friendlier to the environment and often more convenient as an urban transportation option than cars, electric scooters were quick to gain popularity. Niu Technologies, a Chinese manufacturer, has been bearing the fruits of this trend. The company’s ADS trade on the NASDAQ…
Barry Callebaut Can Drop 25% as Fourth Wave Unfolds
Barry Callebaut AG is one of the largest cocoa processors and chocolate manufacturers in the world. Formed by the 1996 merger of Callebaut and Cacao Barry, the company produces over two million tonnes of cocoa and chocolate per year. Barry Callebaut went public on the SIX Swiss Exchange in 1998 and has been quite rewarding to investors ever since.…
Elliott Wave Correction to Drag DraftKings Down 50%
DraftKings, the popular digital sports entertainment and gaming company, went public in April, 2020. It wasn’t a normal IPO, though. The company instead merged with a blank-check company, Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., which listed in 2019 at $10 a share. Less than six full months later now, DKNG trades near $57 a share, down from…
Alteryx: Can We Trust the Pre-Market Enthusiasm?
Alteryx Inc., a self-service data analytics software provider, saw its shares soar 28% in pre-market trading today. The surge was caused by the better-than-expected Q3 revenue guidance the company issued yesterday. Apparently, the news that AYX was going to make $13-15 million more in quarterly sales than anticipated was enough for investors to boost its…
LKQ Shows How An Elliott Wave Cycle Should Look
LKQ Corporation is an auto parts provider, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chicago, IL. Investors who bought LKQ stock at the IPO price in 2003 and held until 2018 would have multiplied their money by almost 25. On the other hand, those who bought in January 2018 are still under water as the stock…
Qualys Stock to Fall Another 40% as Bears Persist
Qualys Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, CA, provides cloud security and compliance solutions. Given the fast-growing sector the company operates in, it is no surprise that its stock has also been quite hot. At least until recently. Qualys went public at $12 a share in September 2012. Despite a couple of…
Electronic Arts Can Lose 50% in Elliott Wave Correction
Electronic Arts hasn’t been able to reach a new all-time high since July 2018, when it climbed to $151.26. However, the stock came close to that last month after the coronavirus panic in March was quickly forgotten. Currently near $127 a share, Electronic Arts holds a rather high valuation at 29 times its expected fiscal…
Buffett’s DaVita Stock Looks Like a Bull Trap
Formerly known as DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., DaVita Inc. provides kidney dialysis services for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure or end stage renal disease. It was founded in 1994 and went public a year later. As of this writing DaVita’s market cap is close to $10.7 billion. The interesting part is that it is…
London Stock Exchange Stock Needs a Breather
Stock exchanges are the places where the shares of publicly traded companies change hands. But sometimes we forget that the exchanges themselves are operated by a company, as well. Usually, those companies are also public with their stocks trading on the exchange, too. That is exactly the case with the London Stock Exchange Group plc.…
Yum! Stock to Form a Base Near $75 a Share
The coronavirus selloff hit the restaurant industry hard. With stores closing to prevent the virus from spreading, the stocks of McDonald’s, Starbucks, Dunkin and the like all came crashing down. Yum! Brands wasn’t spared either. YUM stock has been losing ground since the summer of 2019, but it was the COVID-19 crisis that really scared…
Intel ‘s Troubles Fit in its Elliott Wave Correction
2020 is shaping up as a year to forget for Intel shareholders. The stock is down over 20% year-to-date. First, the coronavirus selloff caused a 35% plunge down to less than $44 a share. And just when it seemed INTC was recovering, the company announced it will delay its 7nm products until late 2022 or…
