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BYND IPO BUBBLE?Fundamentals: Beyond Meat generated $30 million in losses just last year on revenue of $88 million, and it will need to continue investing in its operations in the near future. (The IPO raised about $1.5 billion for the company at the IPO's $25 a share price. Overvauled and in a bubble?? Now valued at about $5 billion based on investors' faith that the alternative meat market will boom, this is not a good enough reason to sustain these levels much longer. Careful if you go short this stock can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
NASDAQ:BYND
by TradeWithTyler
Picking a Buy Point for Uber (UBER)The IPO for Uber (UBER) has fallen out the bed. The company priced its IPO at $45, opened at $42, and closed at $41.57. UBER’s one-day total loss in value from the IPO price was apparently the largest in history. For a moment, UBER looked like it could stabilize around its poor first day. Unfortunately, the next trading day a major market sell-off helped take UBER down another 11.0% to close at $37.00. {Uber (UBER) is two days old and has managed to sink 17.8% from its IPO price. This 15-minute chart shows the current persistence of selling.} I believe retail investors have typically been left out of the big IPO cash machine of 2019 (like most successful IPOs). Yet, with 207M shares put out to market (180M from the company and 27M from selling stockholders), I strongly suspect too many retail investors got caught up in the UBER slide. First of all, valuation is a tenuous metric for UBER. TechCrunch provided great coverage of the UBER S1 filing which threw into question the $90-$100B valuation at the time, down from a peak of around $120B. UBER is now valued at a $62B market cap. Here are some choice quotes which undermined any justification for premium pricing for UBER: “…Those figures say show Uber’s growth slowing as it scaled. Still, at Uber’s revenue scale, growing 42 percent is impressive. However, the pace of deceleration from 2017’s over 100 percent figure could provide pause to some investors looking at Uber’s results from a growth perspective. And, when examined quarterly, the company’s revenue deceleration is even starker…a closer look at those quarterly results indicates that the company is growing at a rate much slower than that yearly total.” “The company’s operating losses decreased year over year from $4.1 billion to $3.1 billion. Improving net loss is a positive for Uber, but $3.1 billion is still a huge figure, particularly within the context of slowing growth.” In other words, UBER is NOT the kind of stock investors should rush to grant a premium. Still, UBER is now priced at 5.5x sales, just above the 5.1x for Grub Hub (GRUB) which competes directly with Uber Eats and also strongly relies upon a flexible labor force of non-professional drivers. {Grubhub (GRUB) is well off its all-time highs but has not (yet?) reversed the big breakout from July, 2017.} Based on this admittedly simplistic valuation exercise, I am going to hazard a guess that buying Uber around current levels is a good long-term bet assuming it proves to be a viable business. My preferred spot to buy UBER is around 5x sales or $33-$34 to account for more of the risk in the business and the stock. Technicals should help refine the entry point. For technicals, I lean on my framework of stepping aside while sellers are getting busy and jumping in when buyers show strong interest: “Anatomy of A Bottom: Do Not Argue With Sellers – Celebrate With Buyers.” In Uber’s case, buyers prove nothing until they are able to at least breach Monday’s gap down. In the absolute best case scenario, I would buy at $39.50 and stop out below $36. I will be much more interested in applying the technical framework if (once?) UBER breaks $36. I will likely be slow to speculate on UBER because I got caught up using options to generate a lower entry price on Lyft (LYFT). At $48.15/share Lyft is well below the $55 strike price of the last put I sold (October expiration). Lyft is currently valued at 5.4x sales, but I used GRUB for UBER’s valuation yardstick because of its extended trading history. {Lyft (LYFT) closed at a fresh all-time low after freshly breaking down last week.} Options are not yet available for UBER. When they are trading, I will reach for selling puts before next picking a spot to buy shares. Be careful out there! Full disclosure: short LYFT puts and long calls
NYSE:UBERLong
by drduru
Pinterest IPOI like Pinterest as a product, but I don't participate in this IPO. The main reason is the market doesn't like social networks IPOs: Twitter, Snapchat. My expectation is +30-40% in first trade day, maybe this will even hold strong at first quater, but then the financial result with estimates of -1.6 EPS will do the thing, -1.135 billion spending will make it move downwards. I don't like their lack of users in US... users growth Worldwide is very good, but if they are bots from India and Pakistan, Russia and other countries which pay 0.01 per year and only watch ads.. thats not good for business, only for manipulating User amount data.
NASDAQ:QQQ
by KholleKhokk
LYFT -- If you missed the short, couple places to reloadLYFT Continuing with my previous plan (The GAP), this stock is still going to make attempts at $50. Here are some places where I am looking for a reload of either a shorter term play and/or more of a positional play, IF, the move doesn't just continue down to the original target LO of $50. As much as I do not follow text book setups, sometimes they do match up my current thought process/strategy and this is one of those times...keeping it simple and staying patient.
NASDAQ:LYFTShort
by ProSTrades
$LYFT - daily chart & trading analysis$LYFT - has been an awesome ticker to day trade the last week since its IPO on the 29th. Hit the short side the first couple days and nailed the red to green on day 4. Tickers like these that are moving irrelevant to the market conditions have had the most luck in follow through. Today we had another nice selling off action, with an ORB short setup at the open, along with nice follow throughs on the bear flags. Easy trades are coming to an end with it trading in its range now. Waiting for a break of consolidation of either highs or lows for some more movement. $LYFT has also put the pressure on Uber to pick up their socks and continue their expansion to other regions (India & Asia), will be interesting to see how these two big dogs go head to head over this year. Earnings season is approaching next week. For me, this signifies the market will be a little stale this week and have less follow through / momo names on our scans that previous weeks & months. Nonetheless, just taking smarter & cleaner setups, dialed down risk a bit as well as amount of day trades taken daily. Going to be looking to get hungry and aggressive next week for the remainder of the month. Have a great day!
NASDAQ:LYFT
by BullsOnWallStreet
LYFT - $65 and the GAP Continuing with the IPO week for LYFT, here are a couple of new scenarios that may play out ... Its my belief based on the chart / price action, that this recent LO will determine what happens at the GAP, should price reach it: Either: A. The current LO is in place, then a revisit to the GAP (and fill) may show as a pivotal resistance point, temporarily. And then make a valid attempt at the IPO day HI. Or B. A new LO ($65 or less) would have the GAP play out (if it tests it) as resistance, before seeing declines to prices of $60 and $50.
NASDAQ:LYFT
by ProSTrades