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You know that feeling when your favorite restaurant suddenly gets a Michelin star while the fancy place down the street loses theirs? That's basically what happened in the stock world this week, except instead of food critics, we're talking about Wall Street analysts shuffling their rankings like a deck of cards. The big headline? DoorDash just got upgraded from "neutral" to "strong" – which in Wall Street speak means "hey, maybe this food delivery thing isn't just a pandemic fad after ...
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Well, well, well. After two years of being Tesla's biggest cheerleader on Wall Street, Morgan Stanley just pulled a classic "it's not you, it's me" move. Analyst Andrew Percoco downgraded Tesla from "buy" to "hold" on Monday, and TSLA stock promptly threw a 4% tantrum in response. Here's the tea: Percoco still thinks Tesla is doing cool stuff (hello, robot cars and humanoid workers), but he's basically saying the stock price got a little too excited about itself. Think of it ...
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While everyone's obsessing over AI and whether ChatGPT will steal their job, there's a quiet revolution happening in the most unlikely place: dollar stores. Specifically, Dollar General just handed Nvidia its lunch money with a 74% gain in 2025, making the chip giant's "measly" 36% look like amateur hour. Yeah, you read that right. The place where you buy off-brand cereal and questionable phone chargers is absolutely demolishing the supposed king of tech. It's like watching your grandma beat a Formula ...
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Well, well, well. Another week, another batch of Wall Street analysts playing musical chairs with their stock ratings. This time around, we've got some interesting plot twists that might make you do a double-take at your portfolio. The Big Headlines: DoorDash Up, Microsoft Down In what feels like a bizarro world moment, DoorDash (DASH) just got bumped up from "neutral" to "strong" while Microsoft (MSFT) took a tumble from "strong" to "neutral." Yes, you read that right – the food delivery app ...
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Remember when your biggest relationship drama was choosing between two people who both wanted to take you to prom? Well, Warner Bros. Discovery is living that dream right now, except instead of corsages, we're talking about $72 billion deals. Here's the tea: Netflix swooped in last week with what they thought was a smooth move, offering to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $72 billion. Classic Netflix – they probably sent the offer via DM thinking they had it in the bag. But ...
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Remember when investing in AI was basically like playing a video game with cheat codes? Just buy Nvidia, sprinkle in some Microsoft and Amazon, maybe throw in a wild card like Super Micro, and boom – you're basically printing money. Nvidia alone shot up over 1,100% since early 2023. It was almost too easy. Well, plot twist: the game developers just patched that exploit. While retail investors are still mashing the same buttons expecting infinite lives, the big tech companies are quietly ...
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Well, well, well. Netflix just pulled off the streaming equivalent of buying the entire candy store – and then some. They've officially snagged Warner Bros and HBO Max from Warner Bros Discovery for a cool $82.7 billion. That's not a typo. That's "buy a small country" money. Here's the deal: Netflix beat out Paramount and Comcast in what was basically a billionaire bidding war. They're paying $27.75 per share – $23.25 in cold hard cash and $4.50 in Netflix stock. It's ...
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Remember when Warren Buffett—the guy who supposedly never makes mistakes—bought Ulta Beauty stock and then dumped it faster than a bad Tinder date? Yeah, well, that stock just jumped 13% in a single day, and somewhere in Omaha, the Oracle is probably face-palming. Here's the tea: Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA) in Q2 2024, held it for about six months (which is like a nanosecond in Buffett time), and then sold the whole position by Q4. That's gotta ...
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