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JULY 14, 2024

SentinelOne went public via a traditional initial public offering (IPO) at $35 a share on June 30, 2021 but now trades at less than $20. BigBear.ai, like many other SPAC-backed companies, made some grand promises before its merger but missed those estimates by a mile. And with an enterprise value of $7.08

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

during the apex of the growth-stock rally in February 2021. It crashed and burned as rising interest rates rattled the housing market, throttled its growth, and drove investors toward more conservative investments. Most of that pressure can be attributed to soaring interest rates and a cooling housing market. billion $8.0

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The cruise line operator's revenue plunged in 2020 and 2021 as global travel ground to a halt during the pandemic, and it was forced to take on a lot more debt to stay solvent. Looking back at Carnival's slowdown and recovery In fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021 (which ended in November 2021), Carnival's revenue and number of passengers plummeted.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

It launched six Electron missions in 2021, nine missions in 2022, and 10 missions in 2023. Its adjusted gross margin also improved from negative 29% in 2021 to positive 28% in 2023 as it expanded its higher-margin space systems unit to reduce its dependence on its lower-margin launch services unit. With an enterprise value of $3.7

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APRIL 25, 2024

The maker of connected exercise bikes and treadmills flourished as brick-and-mortar gyms closed down, and that growth spurt coincided with the buying frenzy in growth and meme stocks throughout 2020 and 2021. At its peak, Peloton's enterprise value reached $47.2 Today, it trades at about $3 with an enterprise value of $2.7

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MARCH 13, 2024

That's still a near-four bagger gain in less than seven years, but the company lost its luster as its sales growth slowed down, it racked up steep losses, and rising interest rates popped its bubbly valuations. Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) minted a lot of millionaires in the first four years after its initial public offering (IPO) in October 2017.

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AUGUST 17, 2024

Block 's (NYSE: SQ) stock has shed three quarters of its value during the past three years. The fintech stock was a market darling in 2021, but its luster faded as growth cooled and rising interest rates hurt its valuations. That momentum continued in 2021 as its merchant-facing businesses stabilized.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

during the growth- and meme-stock rally in January 2021, but now trades at about $28. From 2021 to 2023, Lemonade's growth in customers, IFP, and GEP all decelerated as its adjusted gross margins contracted. With an enterprise value of $1.7 billion, Lemonade looks reasonably valued at 3.9

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Today you can buy all of Teladoc at an enterprise value barely above $3 billion. It's gone from a 151% year-over-year surge in revenue during the first quarter of 2021 when its stock was peaking to less than a 4% bump now. The erosion of Teladoc as a growth stock has been fierce.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

The bulls lost interest in the company as its growth slowed, it racked up losses, and rising interest rates compressed its valuation. Metric 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 GPV Growth (YOY) 17% 124% 61% 40% Revenue Growth (YOY) 24% 107% 60% 44% Data source: Toast. With an enterprise value of $7.4

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Its revenue plunged 73% in fiscal 2020 and declined 66% in fiscal 2021. That rising leverage made Carnival a risky stock to hold as interest rates rose, and its stock sank to a 30-year low of $6.38 Carnival's core business is recovering The pandemic severely disrupted Carnival's growth in fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Its stock collapsed as rising interest rates disrupted the real estate market and cast an unflattering light on its staggering losses. Its growth accelerated in 2021 as the housing market recovered but slowed again in 2022 and 2023 as inflation and rising interest rates drove away potential buyers and sellers. billion $8.0

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Over the past two years, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins shrank and it racked up steep losses. Metric 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Revenue $20.71B $19.69B $17.48B $14.56B Revenue Growth (4%) (5%) (11%) (17%) Adjusted EBITDA Margin* 41.8% It also still had $1.5

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

With the stock still down 60% from its record peak in 2021, can this recent rebound kick-start a sustained turnaround into 2025 and beyond? In the third quarter, revenue climbed by 11% year over year while adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.67 Let's explore whether Paycom stock could be a good addition to your portfolio right now.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Dutch Bros (NYSE: BROS) has taken investors on a wild ride since its initial public offering (IPO) in September 2021. Its stock was cut in half as its growth cooled off and rising interest rates compressed its valuations. Metric 2021 2022 2023 Q1 2024 Total revenue growth 52.1% during the apex of the growth stock rally on Nov.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Second, it notes the underperformance by the former safety & productivity solutions (SPS) businesses -- which include warehouse and workflow improvements, productivity solutions, and personal protective equipment (PPE) -- "all of which have declined at a double-digit rate since 2021." The first argument is powerful. Data by YCharts.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its business recovered throughout 2021 but slowed again in 2022 after it lapped its post-pandemic recovery. Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 Trips Growth (YOY) 28% (27%) 27% 19% 24% Gross Bookings Growth (YOY) 28% (11%) 56% 19% 18% Revenue Growth (YOY) 37% (14%) 57% 49% 18% Data source: Uber Technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

During its pre-merger presentation, SoundHound predicted that its revenue would rise from $13 million in 2020 to $20 million in 2021, and then grow to $28 million in 2022. It blamed that slowdown on the macro headwinds, which drove many of its enterprise customers to rein in their spending. million in Q2 2021. million this year.

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AUGUST 11, 2024

The company was spun off from XPO in 2021 under the logic that as separate companies, each one could make acquisitions in its own interest and allocate capital in the way that best suited it. It's now down 54% from its post-spinoff peak in the heady stock market of 2021. GXO currently has an enterprise value of $10.6

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

on March 1, 2021. A $2,000 investment at the listed IPO price would have briefly blossomed to nearly $7,000 before withering to $1,200. PubMatic's revenue rose 15% in 2019, then jumped 31% in 2020 and 53% in 2021. But at its peak, PubMatic's enterprise value hit $3.3 But today, PubMatic stock trades at about $12.

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MAY 9, 2024

Coinbase's revenue soared 514% in 2021 as stimulus checks, social media buzz, and a fear of missing out ( FOMO ) drove more investors into the cryptocurrency market. Coinbase's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin also turned positive again in 2023 as it aggressively cut costs.

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JUNE 25, 2024

billion, which equals roughly a quarter of MicroStrategy's enterprise value of $30 billion. But the impairment costs from those purchases caused it to turn unprofitable on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis in 2020, 2021, and 2022. By the end of April 2024, its Bitcoin holdings had swelled to $7.54

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JUNE 16, 2023

Therefore, a $1,000 investment in Chegg would have briefly blossomed to more than $9,000 before withering to about $800 today, Does the end of that roundtrip mean it's too late to buy Chegg's stock? That acceleration dazzled the bulls, and the buying frenzy in growth and meme stocks in early 2021 propelled Chegg's stock to its all-time high.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Could one of those stocks be BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) , the enterprise AI software company that went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in 2021? Those growth rates are tepid, but BigBear.ai's enterprise value of $537 million looks pretty cheap at three times this year's sales.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Moreover, these shares are more richly valued than Nvidia's in many ways: Valuation Metric AMD Nvidia Price to earnings (P/E) 183 72 Price to free cash flow (P/FCF) 183 80 Enterprise value to earnings before interest and taxes (EV/EBIT) 275 63 Data from Finviz and Morningstar, current as of 8/23/2024.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Should value-seeking investors pick up some shares of Coinbase today before the cryptocurrency market fully recovers? Its business is still shrinking sequentially Coinbase's revenue rose 545% in 2021 but declined 57% in 2022 and dropped 16% year over year in the first nine months of 2023.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Robinhood 's (NASDAQ: HOOD) stock has rallied roughly 60% over the past 12 months, but it still trades at less than half of its initial public offering (IPO) price of $38 from July 2021. By the end of 2021, its number of funded customers surged 81% to 22.7 billion in 2023 and exceeded its pandemic-era high in 2021. million 23.3

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JUNE 22, 2023

Rising interest rates also deflated its frothy valuations. At its peak, Lemonade had an enterprise value of $9.8 billion -- or 77 times the $128 million in revenue it would go on to generate in 2021. At its peak, Lemonade had an enterprise value of $9.8 But today, the share price is just $18.

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MAY 6, 2024

Over the next year, the company consistently reported negative adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) until it broke the streak in the third quarter of 2023. At around 50% platform gross margins and ARPU near $40, that's a four-year payback on each user before corporate costs.

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AUGUST 24, 2024

The fast-casual restaurant chain went public at $28, and it started trading at $52 before closing at a record high of $53 the following day. Metric 2021 2022 2023 Restaurant-level profit margin 12% 15% 17% Operating margin (40%) (41%) (21%) Net profit margin (45%) (41%) (19%) Adjusted EBITDA margin (19%) (11%) 0% Data source: Sweetgreen.

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MARCH 22, 2024

A $10,000 investment in its IPO would have grown to nearly $54,000 before shrinking back to $7,700. The stock lost its luster as growth cooled off and rising interest rates compressed its valuation. Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins also turned positive.

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

in November 2021. This was apparent in the company's latest earnings report, which was highlighted by weak sales. and are trading at 21 times the company's full-year consensus earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) estimate as an enterprise-value-to-forward- EBITDA ratio.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Therefore, a $10,000 investment in Pinterest's initial public offering (IPO) would have briefly blossomed to $46,921 before shrinking back to about $18,400. Pinterest's revenue rose 51% in 2019, 48% in 2020, and 52% in 2021. That was 21 times the revenue and 67 times the adjusted EBITDA it would generate in 2021.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Unfortunately, Beyond Meat's revenue only climbed 14% in 2021 and its net loss more than tripled. It also narrowed its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) loss from $278 million to $269 million. That debt inflates Beyond Meat's enterprise value to $1.56

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Still, the only year the segment exceeded the low end of the guidance since 2015 was 2021, thanks to the bounce-back from the pandemic-ravaged year of 2020. It then bought wound care business Acelity for a consideration of $6.7 billion in 2019 and sold its drug delivery business for $650 million. Image source: Getty Images.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Like many growth stocks that went public when the market was red-hot in early 2021, Coupang is a broken IPO. Period Revenue Growth (YOY) Q1 2021 74% Q2 2021 71% Q3 2021 48% Q4 2021 34% Q1 2022 22% Q2 2022 12% Q3 2023 10% Q4 2023 5% Q1 2024 13% Q2 2024 16% Q3 2024 21% Data source: Coupang. listed debut.

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JULY 29, 2024

during the apex of the meme stock rally in January 2021, but it now trades at about $22. But over the past three years, its growth in customers, in-force premiums (IFP), and gross earned premiums (GEP) all decelerated as its adjusted gross margins declined. With an enterprise value of $1.3 times this year's sales.

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