Why Bill Ackman Bet $2.3 Billion That the Market Is Dead Wrong
In early 2025, billionaire investor Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, revealed a substantial new position in Uber Technologies. By January, Pershing Square had accumulated 30.3 million Uber shares, a ~1.4% stake worth about $2.3 billion.
Ackman described Uber as “one of the best-managed and highest-quality businesses in the world,” yet still “available at a massive discount to its intrinsic value.”
So is he right about Uber or will the bet flop?
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Will NVIDIA Be Knocked Off Its Perch By Quantum?
Earlier this month, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang seemingly dashed the hopes of speculative tech investors banking on quantum computing to become the next big thing in the ever-advancing race for faster and faster computer processing. Huang, speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show, stated his view that practical quantum computers were still about two decades away,
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Will Markets Go Up Now That Trump Is President?
Donald Trump was the first president in modern U.S. history to take office without holding a prior public office or serving in the military. This non-traditional path to the White House came with a distinctly corporate approach to economic and fiscal policy, one that both excited and unnerved investors in equal measure.
Key Points
- Trump’s focus on tax cuts,
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2 Stocks Buffett Is Snapping Up
Warren Buffett appeared to take a hard look at the market last year and decided he wanted to sell shares in plenty of companies, including Apple, Bank of America, and Charter Communications. His holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, even sold every share (nearly 4 million) in Floor & Decor Holdings. Overall, Buffett unloaded $133 billion in shares in 2024.
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1 Under-the-Radar Pharma Stock with 90% Upside?
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller has been making large changes to his portfolio recently, leaving retail investors struggling to keep up with what the famous stock picker is thinking.
One of the smaller holdings in Druckenmiller’s portfolio that makes for interesting examination is ARS Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SPRY).
Druckenmiller’s 536,900 shares of SPRY are currently valued at around $7 million.
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DoorDash’s Soaring Stock: A Smart Buy or a Bubble Waiting to Burst?
Gig economy food delivery service DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) has been running hot for most of the last year, gaining over 75 percent in the last 12 months. Such large increases, though, often leave stocks susceptible to corrections that bring their prices back down to earth. We examine DoorDash’s performance and valuation to see whether the stock is a buy,
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Has The Golden Age For Twilio Started?
Twilio is one of those companies that not many individuals know much about but which is used widely by over 300,000 businesses.
It essentially powers SMS communications so let’s say you’re a Dell or Shopify or Toyota and want to message your own audiences, you would sign up to Twilio to engage with them.
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US: Wall Street ends sharply lower on mounting concerns over economy, tariffs
US stocks tumbled on Friday (Feb 21), extending their sell-off in the wake of dour economic reports and closing the book on a holiday-shortened week fraught with new tariff threats and worries of softening consumer demand.
All three major US stock indexes moved decisively lower on the heels of the data, and continued their slide into afternoon trading.
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