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Fintech Focus For April 28, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 6:45pm | 2055Quote To Start The Day: "People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."...
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Three Unusual Stocks That Are Surfing The E-Commerce Wave
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 12:55pm | 966Pandemic or no pandemic, e-commerce is a megatrend as physical retail is ceding ground to its digital counterpart. Although our minds go directly to companies like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), there are all kinds of companies who are riding this trend. Here are three companies that are doing a...
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Snap And Pinterest Are Soaring In Front Of Facebook's Nose
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 11:52am | 851Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) and Pinterest Inc (NYSE: PINS) had a very successful year. Records were beaten during the pandemic-embodied 2020, with a solid perspective ahead for the upcoming period. Unlike Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), which could potentially feel a damaging impact of Apple Inc...
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3 Tips To Make Money In The Stock Market
Friday, May 22, 2020 - 1:20pm | 1053In February, financial markets experienced a historic liquidation that paralleled the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Alongside the introduction of global lockdowns, brokerage account openings rose rapidly as sheltered market participants searched for ways to maintain engagement with...
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Pinterest Tumbles Nearly 5% On Reports Of Facebook Releasing Rival App
Friday, February 14, 2020 - 1:11am | 365The shares of Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS) tumbled in Thursday's trade as The Information reported that social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) had launched a competing app. What Happened Facebook's "New Product Experimentation" team developed the app called "Hobbi...
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Pinterest Is The Low Profile Winner Among Social Media Stocks
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 9:12am | 1019Pinterest Inc (NYSE: PINS), the not-quite social network, is a fast-growing and nearly profitable platform for online image searches. And its stock price is up 44% since its successful IPO debut in April IPO. And we've seen such success stories quite rarely throughout this year that by no...
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Tuesday's Market Minute: Say No To IPOs?
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 9:26am | 398WeWork yesterday announced that it was filing to withdraw its IPO after major issues with valuation and governance were revealed to the public. With this move, they lose out on $6B in loans they would've received if they'd raised at least $3B in an IPO this year. Its valuation has been...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Nordstrom, Pinterest, Take-Two Interactive And More
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 3:24pm | 494This weekend's Barron's cover story offers reasons why investors should not panic about the trade war. Another featured article suggests five cheap stocks to ride out the trade war. Also, the prospects for a retailer, a video game maker and a social media play. This weekend's Barron...
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Bulls And Bears Of The Week: Boeing, Disney, Ford, Intel And More
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 3:16pm | 837Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included auto and entertainment giants with strong prospects. Bearish calls included leaders in aerospace and semiconductors and a recent IPO. The escalation of the trade war with China overhung...
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The Early Sentiment On Pinterest's IPO
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 4:53pm | 891One of the most anticipated IPOs of the last few years, shares of Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS) debuted on Wall Street Thursday morning. After an expected initial range for the shares of $15 to $17, the offering for 75 million shares priced at $19 per share. The issue opened at $23.75, up about 25...
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Pinterest IPO: What You Need To Know
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 5:34pm | 455The basket of social media stocks will expand Thursday as Pinterest, Inc. joins the ranks of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) and others. The IPO Pinterest will issue 75 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "PINS," according to the firm’s...
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IPO Outlook For The Week: Pinterest, Zoom, Biotechs, Minerals And Catastrophe Insurance
Sunday, April 14, 2019 - 9:53am | 540For a more comprehensive IPO calendar, check out the offering in Benzinga Cloud. The IPO dates below are expected but not confirmed. Brainsway Ltd (BWAY) will issue 2.5 million shares at $11.94 Wednesday on the Nasdaq. The offering represents about 23.1 percent of outstanding shares and is expected...
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Recode Editor: Uber, Lyft's Business 'Tough Going From A Financial Point Of View'
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 2:45pm | 724Ridesharing giant Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) is going public this week at an estimated valuation of at least $20 billion. This is just weeks before the anticipated IPO of larger competitor Uber, which is valued at around $120 billion. Palantir ($41 billion valuation), Airbnb ($31 billion valuation) and...
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Report: Pinterest Eyeing IPO This Year
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 11:47am | 337Pinterest, the social media platform that allows users to "pin" images or videos to their boards, is aiming for an initial public offering in 2019, according to The Wall Street Journal. What Happened Pinterest confidentially submitted paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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A Look At IPOs So Far In 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 3:19pm | 656The first half of 2018 brought Dropbox Inc (NASDAQ: DBX), Spotify Technology SA (NYSE: SPOT) and 118 other market newbies raising an aggregate $35.2 billion — the most since 2014. Bettors on the young blood generally made off nicely, as the average IPO traded 22 percent above its...