At a time when most stocks are falling and very few are rallying, one way investors can make money isby shorting stocks. Even though the market — amid fears of continued high inflation, rising interest rates and slowing growth — has thrown out much of the bathwater (along with some babies), there’s still some dirty water remaining. In other words, there are still many highly overvalued companies that will have trouble staying afloat, giving investors a multitude of good stocks to short.
A number of Cathie Wood’s favorites and former favorites, for example, continue to generate rising losses and have excessive valuations.
And although most pandemic-era darlings have cratered, some are still way too expensive. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies have tumbled and are likely to sink much further. The stocks of firms whose business rely, partially or completely, on cryptos will probably plunge during the rest of this year.
Palantir (PLTR)
Despite all the accolades for tech and analytics companyPalantir(NYSE:PLTR), the company continues to be unprofitable. Its loss from operations in the first quarter came in at a steep$39 million, while its operating margin was -9%. Moreover, Palantir provided Q2 revenue guidance that was below analysts’ mean outlook.
Another negative development for Palantir was the decision by Cathie Wood, once a big cheerleader for PLTR stock,to sell all of her firm’s sharesof the company. Meanwhile,RBC Capitallowered its ratingon the name to“underperform” from “sector perform” in the wake of the company’s Q1 results. The firm was unhappy with the company’s guidance and reported that the company’s growth rate fell “for the fourth consecutive quarter” in Q1,Seeking Alphareported. Finally, RBC is not sure if Palantir will meet its 30% year-over-year revenue growth guidance for 2022.
Despite all of these issues and the fact that Palantir’s share price sounds low (it was trading around $7.82 on the afternoon of June 14),the shares still have a rather high trailingprice-revenue ratioof 9.6.
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