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By Kuldip K. Ambastha and Anil K. Ambastha After reporting earnings results for the first quarter of its 2020 fiscal year ended August 31, 2019, the shares of FedEx (FDX), a package-delivery company, dropped by 12.9% on September 18. This drop is its biggest one-day percentage drop since the global financial crisis of 2008 and …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha Snap Inc. (SNAP), a social media technology company with smartphone camera application Snapchat as its flagship offering, had its stock price drop by -43.1% per share on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (See past coverage if needed: “What Caught Our Attention in the Investment World? – Week of April 20-24, 2020; By …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha Sprinklr, Inc. (CXM), an American Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology company offering a customer experience management platform (CEMP), had its stock price increase by +21.2% for the trading day of Thursday, April 7, 2022. Sprinklr impressed Wall Street with its most recent quarterly and yearly results on several fronts – earnings, sales, revenues, …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha The stock of GoodRx Holdings, Inc. (GDRX), a digital healthcare platform operator, dropped by -38.9% for the trading day of Tuesday, March 1, 2022. GoodRx was founded in 2011 and went public in 2020 – thus, the company’s stock has a short history of being publicly traded. The stock price dropped …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha The stock of Twitter, Inc. (TWTR), a microblogging and social networking technology (tech) platform, delivered negative returns for each day of this past trading week, as the table here shows. On Monday, November 29, 2021, Jack Dorsey announced that he would step down as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter. …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha In this past trading week, Sweetgreen Inc. (SG), a fast-casual restaurant chain, was revealed to be going public via an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This IPO was announced in a Form S-1 document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stating that …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) is an online brokerage firm offering many investment products at a zero commission per trade for retail investors. Robinhood went public in the past trading week on NASDAQ, with the first day of trading for its stock being Thursday, July 29, 2021. Shares were initially priced at …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha On Wednesday, June 23, 2021, U.S. Supreme Court rulings (on Collins vs. Yellen, 19-422; Yellen vs. Collins, 19-563; and Mnuchin vs. Yellen, 19-563) led to Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae, FNMA) having a -32.1% loss and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac, FMCC) having a -36.8% loss. Fannie Mae …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha UiPath Inc. (PATH) was founded in Romania, is now headquartered in New York City, and is a global software platform company focused on robotic process automation. The company’s IPO date was Wednesday, April 21, 2021, during this past trading week. The IPO reference price was $56.00 per share, for 23,890,777 Class …

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By Kuldip K. Ambastha QuantumScape Corporation (QS) is a leading corporation in the development of lithium-metal batteries to be used in electric vehicles. The corporation seeks to change the landscape of energy storage and make a path towards sustainable energy for the world. Prominent investors in the company include Bill Gates plus Khosla Ventures. The …

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