Although it’s essential to protect your investments, it’s equally important to remember that bear markets don’t last forever. While some began panic-selling, others have treated the downturn as an opportunity to buy assets at a discount. When the tide turns,
The Nasdaq Composite entered a bear market in Q1. One investor treating the pullback as a buying opportunity is billionaire Israel Englander of Millennium Management. He added to his shares of The Trade Desk, an industry leader gaining momentum in the programmatic advertising space.
Although analysts have been cutting price targets for growth stocks,
It wasn’t long ago Meta had a trillion dollar market capitalization. Zuckerberg’s empire spanned social media giants Facebook and Instagram, as well as Whatsapp and Oculus. Then TikTok came along and everything changed.
A few years ago the only platform that could claim a billion monthly active users was Facebook, but by January of this year TikTok had eclipsed this threshold and a full 3 billion users have installed the app.
If you listened to the mainstream financial news networks, you would be forgiven for thinking that a softening economy, higher inflation, and rising interest rates had crushed the consumer and that spending was on the verge of a titanic plunge. But if that’s all true why is Visa down by a small single digit percentage for the year while the S&P 500 is down almost 3x as much?
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Trivia: What AdTech platform grew by 41.2% during 2021?
Ding, ding, ding! The answer is #3, Alphabet, Google’s parent.
The growth rate seems truly astonishing and here’s why. It’s one thing for a small up-and-coming company to grow revenues by north of 40% annually.
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When Cathie Wood forecast that Tesla would rise to within spitting distance of becoming a trillion dollar company, its market cap was just 6% of that target. In 2018, the prediction seemed outlandish yet just 3 years later Tesla had reached a market capitalization of $1.2 trillion.
Now Cathie is out with another similarly wild prediction: Roku will rise by more than 9x and hit $605 by 2026.
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It’s no secret that Cathie Wood’s collection of ARK funds have had a horrendous 2022. Her ARKK flagship fund was down 53% year-to-date at the time of writing and traded in the mid-$30s as recently as June, down from a high of almost $100 per share at the start of the year.
But there’s light at the end of the tunnel for growth investors.
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