It looked really bad.
Last year, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) upgraded shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to a buy rating, mere hours before the electric-car maker announced its 2016 secondary offering in May. Goldman was one of the lead book runners in the deal, and exercised all of its underwriter options to max out the secondary offering.
The timing looked awfully suspicious on Goldman’s part. Goldman’s upgrade pushed shares higher, benefiting the offering’s pricing and translating into Goldman collecting more; the underwriting discount was $1.78 per share and all underwriters in that deal collectively earned about $19 million thanks to the full exercise of underwriter options, according to the prospectus.
At the time, Goldman told MarketWatch, “Our research is independent. We followed all of our standard policies and procedures with respect to our research publication on Wednesday.” The timing of the two announcements was ultimately probably a coincidence, but the optics could not have been worse.
Hot Gold Stocks To Invest In Right Now: GRAVITY Co. Ltd.(GRVY)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Shares of Gravity Co., LTD. (ADR) (NASDAQ: GRVY) were down 13 percent to $49.03 following Q3 results. Gravity posted Q3 earnings of $0.34 per share on sales of $20.76 million.
- [By Peter Graham]
While small cap gaming stocks Gravity Co. LTD (NASDAQ: GRVY), Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ: INSE) and SPYR Inc (OTCQB: SPYR) may not be well know to investors, their games are well known to gamers.
- [By Lisa Levin]
Gravity Co., LTD. (ADR) (NASDAQ: GRVY) shares shot up 111 percent to $9.61 after the company reported Q3 results. GRAVITY reported Q3 earnings of $0.74 per share on sales of $13.143 million.
Hot Gold Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Lands' End, Inc.(LE)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lee Jackson]
Adirector at Lands End Inc. (NASDAQ: LE) also wasbuying stock last week. That director bought a total of 10,500 shares at prices that ranged from $14.97 to $15.17 per share. The total for the trade was set at $200,000.
- [By WWW.GURUFOCUS.COM]
For the details of Bruce Berkowitz’s stock buys and sells, go to www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?GuruName=Bruce+Berkowitz
These are the top 5 holdings of Bruce BerkowitzThe St. Joe Co (JOE) – 25,484,557 shares, 48.67% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 4.44%Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD) – 28,864,348 shares, 26.05% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 0.18%Seritage Growth Properties (SRG) – 3,807,150 shares, 16.27% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 3.82%Lands’ End Inc (LE) – 2,855,900 shares, 4.33% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 12.86%Sears Canada Inc (SRSCQ) – 21,562,974 shares, 1.76% of the total portfolio. Sh
- [By Monica Gerson]
Lands’ End, Inc. (NASDAQ: LE) is estimated to report its quarterly earnings at $0.02 per share on revenue of $293.24 million.
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Hot Gold Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Gold Standard Ventures Corporation(GSV)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Sara Cornell]
The management team member who garners the most attention right now is Dave Mathewson, VP, Head of Exploration. Dave is a geologist with more than 35 years’ experience in the gold exploration space, and specifically, in Nevada. He is credited with a number of notable discoveries for Newmont Mining Corp (NYSE: NEM), and later went on to Gold Standard Ventures Corp (NYSE: GSV) helping take that company from a start-up to a now $481 million market cap.
Hot Gold Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Globus Maritime Limited(GLBS)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Wayne Duggan]
DryShips isn’t the only shipping stock that has skyrocketed this month; the following stocks’ shares are all up between 320 and 720 percent since November 2:
Diana Containerships Inc (NASDAQ: DCIX). Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA). Globus Maritime Ltd (NASDAQ: GLBS). Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SINO).
One of the primary reasons for the extreme moves in DryShips and other shipping stocks is a combination of large short positions in the stocks and extremely low share counts. DryShips in particular lowered its share count from around 672 million to only around 1 million via a series of reverse stock-splits throughout the year. The splits were intended to allow the stock to maintain its Nasdaq listing after it had lost more than 98 percent of its value in the first 10 months of 2016.
- [By Lisa Levin]
Globus Maritime Ltd (NASDAQ: GLBS) shares shot up 177 percent to $13.67 after gaining 72.73 percent on Tuesday. Globus Maritime is up 175.9 percent since Election Day.
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Neovasc Inc (US) (NASDAQ: NVCN) rose 17.3 percent to $2.65 in pre-market trading after the company reported the close of its $75 million transaction with Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX).
aTyr Pharma Inc (NASDAQ: LIFE) shares rose 12.3 percent to $4.10 in pre-market trading after the company disclosed 'promising' signals in myopathies with Resolaris in exploratory trials.
Globus Maritime Ltd (NASDAQ: GLBS) shares rose 10.1 percent to $6.90 in pre-market trading after climbing 5.03 percent on Monday.
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: AUPH) shares rose 9.9 percent to $3.00 in pre-market trading. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals appointed Lorin Jeffry “Jeff” Randall to its board and Chairman of the Audit Committee.
Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ: ORIG) shares rose 8.7 percent to $2.89 in pre-market trading after surging 19.82 percent on Monday.
Full House Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLL) shares rose 5.1 percent to $2.08 in pre-market trading after declining 1.98 percent on Monday.
Seadrill Ltd (NYSE: SDRL) rose 5.1 percent to $4.13 in pre-market trading after surging 3.15 percent on Monday.
Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) rose 5.1 percent to $7.60 in pre-market trading after declining 5.37 percent on Monday.
Arbutus Biopharma Corp (NASDAQ: ABUS) rose 5.1 percent to $3.10 in pre-market trading. Arbutus issued additional data from its ARB-1467 Phase II
Hot Gold Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Pacific Mercantile Bancorp(PMBC)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Shares of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp (NASDAQ: PMBC) were down 24 percent to $5.78. Pacific Mercantile Bancorp reported a Q3 loss of $30.5 million on revenue of $10.2 million for its third quarter.
Hot Gold Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Insulet Corporation(PODD)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Brian Feroldi]
Shares of Insulet Corporation(NASDAQ:PODD), a medical device company primarily focused on diabetes,rose by as much as 11% in afternoon trading on Friday.
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows MannKind Corporation peaking in 2014 before falling below the more steady performance of diabetes or insulin stocks like large cap Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) and small cap Insulet Corporation (NASDAQ: PODD):
- [By Peter Graham]
A long term performance chart shows MannKind Corporation having once been a highflyerwhile the performance of large cap insulin and diabetes stockNovo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) has fallen off and small cap Insulet Corporation (NASDAQ: PODD) has actually performed better:
