For more than a decade, Lululemon has been one of retail’s great success stories. Its yoga pants became a cultural phenomenon, its stores a lifestyle hub, and its stock a compounding machine.
But shares have lost nearly 40% in the past year, their steepest drop since 2008, as tariffs, slowing demand, and new rivals pressure the business.
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In the second quarter of 2025, Ken Griffin’s Citadel Advisors sharply reduced its holding in Palantir Technologies, selling nearly half of its position.
The move raised about $75 million in cash and followed a familiar pattern for Griffin, who has been building and trimming his Palantir stake in waves since 2021.
This latest sale has investors wondering: why would one of Wall Street’s most sophisticated fund managers cut exposure to a stock riding the artificial intelligence boom?
SoFi Technologies has evolved far beyond its origins as a student loan refinancer. Today, it’s a full-fledged digital financial platform offering everything from brokerage accounts to mortgages, all through a single app.
That simplicity and accessibility have made SoFi a go-to brand for Millennials and Gen Z, who increasingly prefer managing their finances entirely online.
Uber controls as much as 75% of the U.S. ridesharing market, while Lyft holds roughly 25%.
This dominance creates a powerful network effect, more riders attract more drivers, which in turn attracts even more riders. That feedback loop makes Uber’s position extremely difficult to challenge.
Ackman prefers companies with natural barriers to entry,
In the second quarter, Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital added another 900,000+ shares of Alphabet Class A (NASDAQ: GOOGL).
Combined with its Class C (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares, Alphabet now makes up about 21% of Pershing Square’s portfolio, one of the fund’s biggest bets.
So what makes Alphabet such a perfect Ackman stock,
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Over the past year, CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) have become two of the hottest names in AI infrastructure.
Both run massive GPU cloud platforms that power artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, and both stocks have exploded. CoreWeave is up more than 230%, while Nebius has surged over 500%.
When billionaire investor Bill Ackman adds to a position quarter after quarter, investors pay attention.In Q2, his fund Pershing Square bought another 156,000 shares of Brookfield Corporation (NYSE: BN), extending a buying streak that’s now five quarters long.
Brookfield isn’t your typical conglomerate. It’s a $70 billion global powerhouse with interests spanning renewable energy,
Nvidia didn’t just ride the AI wave, it built the surfboard thanks to the graphics processing unit that evolved from powering video games to becoming the computational engine of the AI revolution.
Today, roughly 92% of all AI data center processing runs on Nvidia chips, according to IoT Analytics. That kind of market share is virtually unheard of in hardware.
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Lately, billionaire Philippe Laffont has been making bold moves. During the second quarter, Laffont sold part of his Amazon stake, trimming it by about 5% and turned his attention to a name most retail investors barely know, CoreWeave, a company that sits at the center of the AI infrastructure explosion.
Laffont slightly reduced Amazon after strong gains,
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Over the past decade, the S&P 500 has rocketed more than 4x but Realty Income, a mere 2x and change. Not disastrous, you’d still have more than doubled your money, but far from spectacular. Yet this may be exactly where the story gets interesting.
After years of lagging, the company known as “The Monthly Dividend Company” could be sitting at an inflection point,
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