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News On Rivian

Rivian needs money again. The stock dropped on the opening today, a tuesday, then stabilized and then dropped again towards the closing. A drop of 18% in one day is pretty crazy and the timing happened after previous snippets of good news. Managament is well aware of the importance good news just prior to the announcement of these type of share offerings. What good news? Well last week Rivian raised delivery projections for this year after its second quarter numbers exceeded expectations. They also recently came out with a new R2 model , an all-electric SUV with a lower price tag. Last year Rivian lost $432 million dollars on 42,277 vehicle deliveries or $10,200 per vehicle. A new question. Why even try to outsmart what's going to happen next? In a way it was kind of sneaky for management to flood the market with additional shares when the stock was trading on an upward blip. Also consider this. Offering new shares in some ways is a sign of weakness. What happened the next day, ...
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Roku Jumped in Anticipation Of A Good Earnings Report

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Only to fall again. Look at this five and thirty day chart. ................................................... Yet thats only part of the story. Look at it's year to date chart. How bad was their earnings report? Do you think their pain and suffering is all now behind them? The stock is down 38% on the year. All I know is that they still seem to be making a pile of money. On a different note and in a different industry a stock named "First Solar" was stuck in neutral a few months back because interest rates where to seemingly high and companies in that industry were cutting back on the size and number of projects they were working on. Since that time and for whatever reason the stock in on fire. Both Boeing and Caterpillar also crashed last week on earning report releases. There seemed to be a hint of danger present in both companies releases. It's almost as if there was a domino effect. Next question? Why is Netflix gettng beat up? Look at it's chart. Is ...
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Caterpillar - It's First Quarter Earnings Report And Traders Are Staying Away. A Read Which Might Be A Good Reference Point Going Forward.

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Boeing rallied yesterday on the release of it's earnings report only then to tank. Caterpillar is tanking this morning in the premarkets. Let's begin with it's 5 day and 30 day chart. ... The world needs to be rebuilt and Caterpillar is there to help. It's growing, it's got a good reputation, it's not laying off employees and it's doing just fine. If it misses a beat on it's earnings report so what? Life goes on. Then there are those pesky analyst who are known to offer a convoluted spin on things. If you like Caterpillar just buy it on the dips and put it away. So the markets will be opening on the commentary by the companies C.E.O of "sales about flat". Phrasing it that way is a recipe for short term disaster. ..... The two printouts above show some of the early morning action in one Put series and in One Call series. What happened the next day? A slight rebound with next to no traders trying to capitalize on a rebound. What does this tell ...
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