Whitney Tilson

Controversial and influential Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk was recently named Time Magazine’s "Person of the Year" for 2021. The award is a tremendous honor for Musk, but some long-time Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) investors may still have nightmares about the time...

A former hedge fund manager is speaking out against the SPAC taking Donald Trump’s media company public. What Happened: Whitney Tilson issued an update on Digital World Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: DWAC), the SPAC that announced a merger with Trump Media & Technology. “To be clear...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shares have shrugged off a massive outage of multiple Facebook platforms and damning whistleblower testimony in Washington this week and are now up 2.5% from Monday’s closing price. But while Facebook shareholders may have avoided any major fallout from the...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE: SPCE) shares have taken a beating this week after founder Sir Richard Branson completed his journey to space over the weekend. The stock initially traded higher on Monday morning before Virgin announced a new $500 million share offering, which sent the stock into...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) and GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) are the two highest-profile examples of stocks adopted by retail traders that have soared in 2021 — even while the underlying companies were on the brink of financial disaster. GameStop and AMC have both taken...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded lower by 1.7% on Wednesday after the U.S. Consumer Price Index rose 4.2% in the month of April, its largest increase since September 2008. April’s inflation increase exceeded consensus economist estimates of 3.6%. Fed Not Alarmed: Federal...

Americans have until May 17 to file their 2020 taxes after the tax deadline was bumped back to provide more financial flexibility for taxpayers struggling through the pandemic. Unfortunately, many retail traders may end up paying far more in capital gains taxes than they need to this tax season....

The pandemic has ushered in a new generation of retail stock market speculators. FOMO traders and gamblers have flooded into the market in an effort to get rich quick, and coordinated buying efforts by Reddit's WallStreetBets community and other social media groups have sent the stock prices of...

Roughly nine months after the company officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Hertz Global Holdings Inc (OTC:HTGZQ) announced a plan to re-emerge from bankruptcy this week. Like most bankruptcy restructuring plans, the news wasn't good for common stock shareholders, and former hedge fund...

GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) shares closed at $101.74 Friday after the stock surged from under $45 on Wednesday to as high as $184.68 on Thursday. Some traders may see the extreme volatility in GameStop as chaotic and unbelievable, but former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson said Friday that...

A growing number of investors and analysts are becoming concerned about the stock market’s steep valuations and the frothy trading in a number of tech stocks. Just because the market has a stretched valuation doesn’t mean it can’t go higher — and it doesn’t mean...

Bitcoin prices pulled back from their all-time highs above $23,000 on Friday, but the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTC: GBTC) traded higher by 1.7% on investor optimism that the huge 2020 bitcoin rally will spill over into 2021. Former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson predicted the bursting of the...

Electric vehicle stocks were outperforming the broader market Monday. The gains are being led by U.S.-listed, China-based EV manufacturers Nio Inc – ADR (NYSE: NIO), Xpeng Inc – ADR (NYSE: XPEV) and Li Auto Inc. (NASDAQ: LI). Nio Recovers From Citron Crash: Nio shares, which...

Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) shares have stabilized somewhat in the past two weeks following a major September swoon. A Hindenburg Research report accusing Nikola of being “an intricate fraud built on dozens of lies” and the resignation of chairman Trevor Milton triggered the sell-...

An extremely difficult week for Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) investors became even worse Wednesday, with the stock down more than 10% midday. The move comes after co-founder Trevor Milton stepped down from his role as chairman earlier this week following accusations by short seller Hindenburg...