ARK Invest (ARKK) was a darling of Wall Street for several years. It focused on disruptive technologies and its promise to outperform the market attracted enormous interest. Then interest rates rose and growth stocks fell out of favor. Since then, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)(BRK.B) has been slowly but surely overtaking ARK Invest,
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Those who invested in Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) during its IPO in early 2006 have seen its share price soar by nearly 3,500%. It’s too late to get on the rocket ship, but what stock could be the next Chipotle?
Portillo’s is a regional fast-casual chain with which few are familiar,
Each investor has their reasons for investing in select stocks. While some invest based on technicals, fundamental research, or macroeconomic factors, others focus on “shadow investing”. With this strategy, you follow in the footsteps of expert, high-net-worth investors — like Stanley Druckenmiller.
After three decades as a successful hedge fund manager,
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The big killer to any portfolio is too much exposure to a single stock that plummets. It’s the type of thing that looks oh-so-obvious in hindsight because it’s clear after the fact that you bought into a story, not fundamentals.
There have been lots of “stories” in recent years:
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When Bill Gates met Warren Buffett for the first time, Gates tried to convince the Sage of Omaha of the merits of investing in technology. As the story goes, Buffett would re-direct the conversation towards everyday consumer habits, like chewing gum and eating ice-cream. Those behaviors would continue, in Buffett’s view, and so those businesses would be good ones for the long-term.
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I found something interesting sniffing around the latest Duquesne Family Office 13F filings. Former Soros protege, Stanley Druckenmiller tripled his stake in Datadog, a SaaS monitoring and analytics platform.
Why would a billionaire be buying a high growth stock in a rising interest rate environment?
The first clue lies in the DDOG share price.
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Not even Warren Buffett can claim a perfect track record. Over the course of the past century, almost no investors have emerged unscathed. Whether legends like Jesse Livermore or titans like Carl Icahn, all have suffered tremendous losses at different times.
But a rare few have had scintillating performances, growing in every market condition,
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The past few weeks have been difficult for Amazon investors. After the company announced slowing revenue growth and weaker-than-expected financial guidance, the stock price plummeted.
Although investors were likely troubled by Amazon’s poor quarterly results, they may have missed one of the most important figures in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Few companies have disrupted the tourism industry like Airbnb (ABNB). Last year, the vacation home rental company generated almost $6 billion in revenue from 300 million bookings, representing a 73% year-on-year increase. So, it’s no wonder that in early 2021,
