Rockets and Duds: Week 10 – Feb 18, 2025

Last updated: 2025/02/26 at 12:29 AM

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How many years have you been searching for the Holy Grail of stock market investments? You bought cannabis companies, crypto companies, risky gold companies, while all the while the Holy Grail, or at least the Grail, was staring you right in the face! Grail Inc. soared 72% last week as the cancer-detection firm entered a pact with Quest Diagnostics to provide Grail’s early-detection test through the Quest online ordering system. The deal will make Grail’s products easy to buy and through a wide patient network. The stock is up 208% this year already.

Wondering how to improve your marriage? Maybe take a look at Hims & Hers products, which include sexual health products, to spice things up. Wondering how to REALLY improve your marriage? Maybe buy Hims & Hers stock. HIMS rose 42% last week as its controversial Super Bowl ad was seen as a driver of consumers seeking more information on the company’s products. Shares were also helped by the confirmation of RFK as the Health and Human Services Secretary. HIMS also sells weight-loss drugs, and RFK is seen as lenient towards regulation of these products. The stock is up 150% so far in 2025. We hope your spouse enjoyed Valentine’s Day.

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Boy, investors sure did a lot of ‘trading’ out of Trade Desk stock last week, with the stock down 32% on its first quarterly earnings miss in more than eight years. In a ‘that was really bad timing’ move, the company also announced on Friday that a Delaware court tossed out a claim from shareholders protesting CEO Jeff Green’s potential huge compensation package. Mr. Green could stand to earn $5 billion if certain share price targets are met. Shareholders clearly can’t be too happy here with the CEO in line to maybe make $5 billion while they lost more than $10 billion collectively in the stock’s decline last week.

Fluence Energy provides energy storage technology solutions. Shares fell 48% last week as the company lowered guidance The company has been attacked by short sellers in the past and has had accounting investigations by the SEC, so investors were already on edge here. Now down 66% over one year, last week it also got multiple broker downgrades and multiple new lawsuits were filed against the company.

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