What was once the world's largest company by market-cap has lost half a trillion dollars in value, in what feels like a split of a second.
Boy was that was fast.
Half a Trilly. Gone. Just like that.
So just to put things in perspective, for those of you who might not realize how much money that amounts to, there are only 13 companies on the planet worth over half a trillion dollars.
Apple lost half a trillion in value in just a few months.
Here it is making new 28-month lows today relative to the S&P500:
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The most significant insider transaction comes in a Form 4 filing by Blue Star Exploration Corp. and director Jerry Jones, owner of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.
Blue Star and Jones revealed a roughly $100 million purchase in Comstock Resources Inc $CRK.
We've had some great trades come out of this small-cap-focused column since we launched it back in 2020 and started rotating it with our flagship bottom-up scan, Under the Hood.
For the first year or so, we focused only on Russell 2000 stocks with a market cap between $1 and $2B.
That was fun, but we wanted to branch out a bit and allow some new stocks to find their way onto our list.
We expanded our universe to include some mid-caps.
To make the cut for our Minor Leaguers list now, a company must have a market cap between $1 and $4B.
And it doesn't have to be a Russell component — it can be any US-listed equity. With participation expanding around the globe, we want all those ADRs in our universe.
The same price and liquidity filters are applied. Then, as always, we sort by proximity to new highs in order to...
The stock market (as measured by the indexes) continues to trek higher, speculative fervor keeps building (as measured by what's happening in crypto), and these forces are combining to make it a dangerous environment to be caught short in.
And if you're short a name that already has a high short interest? Look out!
So naturally, today's trade is a play on punishing the stubborn shorts in a particular stock that look like they are on the verge of getting epically squeezed.
In today's Flow Show on Stock Market TV, me and Strazza get into why we love buying short-dated calls in Carvana $CVNA: