🥳Our 25th Newsletter Edition!

Today, we look at all of our stock picks from the newsletter

Welcome to the 25th edition of our newsletter! We’re mixing it up a little today, and looking at all the stocks that we’ve mentioned in our newsletter. Before we get to that, though, we have to get to our weekly updates.

1. Our Cava post broke our record for the most viewed post at 120 views, as well as our highest open rate ever. Thank you so much for the support, it’s so motivating to see the positive response to what I consider to be the best writing piece I’ve made yet. Thank you!

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That’s all the updates for today, let’s get to the story.

We’ve been around for about 2 years, and have written 25 posts on Substack alone, so I wanted to mix it up a little. I think it is important to look at how our stock reports have done and be transparent with our readers, so I’m excited to show you how the performance of these specific stocks. There are some wins and losses, but the returns are pretty exciting, considering it is widely known that picking good individual stocks is extremely difficult.

🚨Disclaimer: before we start, do not consider this as financial advice of any form. Make sure to consult your financial advisor or do your own additional research before you invest in any stock, crypto, or startup mentioned in this newsletter. Thank you!

One last note - all of the price UPDATES were as of 1:00 PM ET, July 14th, 2023.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far!

Stocks

Tesla

Type: Buy

Price per share and date at the time of recommendation: April 1st, 2020, $32 (adjusted for stock split)

Price now: $281.38

Gains: 779%

Shift4 Payments

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: July 24th, 2020, $35.40

Price now: $67.13

Gains: 90%

Sundial Growers

Type: Sell Short

Price and date at the time of recommendation: February 17th, 2021, $20.80

Price now: $1.40

Gains: 93%

Deliveroo

Type: Sell Short (Now covered)

Price and date at the time of recommendation: April 1st, 2021, $370.29

Price now: $153.63

Gains: 58.39%

Coursera

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: April 5th, 2021, $45.78

Price now: $13.59

Losses: 70%

Poshmark

Type: Sell Short

Price and date at the time of recommendation: April 5th, 2021, $43.89

Price now: $17.90 (acquired by Naver Corp, this was the last closing price)

Gains: 59%

CRISPR Therapeutics

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: April 5th, 2021, $119.41

Price now: $59

Losses: 51%

Lending Tree

Type: Sell Short

Price and date at the time of recommendation: April 9th, 2021, $227.55

Price now: $26.56

Gains: 88%

GM

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: April 9th, 2021, $60.16

Price now: $40.50

Losses: 33%

Lordstown Motors

Type: Sell Short

Price and date of recommendation: April 20th, 2021, $150.30 (adjusted for reverse stock split)

Price now: $2.62 (Lordstown is actually now bankrupt, a short sale can’t get much better than this!)

Gains: 99% - This is the highest return possible for a short sale!

Cricut

Type: Buy

Price and date of recommendation: April 20th, 2021, $20.00

Price now: $12.39

Losses: 39%

WeWork

Type: Sell Short

Price and date at the time of recommendation: June 16th, 2021, $12.05

Price now: $0.28

Gains: 98%

BarkBox

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: June 16th, 2021, $10.64

Price now: $1.41

Losses 87%

monday.com

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: July 16th, 2021, $198.68

Price now: $174.56

Losses: 12%

SoFi

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: December 19th, 2021, $11.22

Price now: $9.08

Losses: 19%

Brilliant Earth

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: December 19th, 2021, $15.16

Price now: $3.94

Losses: 74%

Freshpet

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: December 19th, 2021, $93.13

Price now: $65.91

Losses: 29%

C3.ai

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: December 19th, 2021, $31.81

Price now: $37.23

Gains: 17%

Blue Apron

Type: Sell Short

Price and date at the time of recommendation: December 19th, 2021, $90.72 (adjusted for reverse stock split)

Price now: $5.18

Gains: 94%

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services

Type: Buy

Price and date at the time of recommendation: December 19th, 2021, $50.96

Price now: $12.74

Losses: 75% (not including dividends)

If you had invested $50 into each of our recommendations, or $1,000 total, it would now be worth $1,765.00. This represents a 76.5% increase overall between all of our recommendations, beating the S&P 500’s increase of 61% over that same time frame (since our first recommendation).

Well, that wraps it up for today! Look out for some exciting things coming soon, and if you would like to help out with the newsletter, please consider sharing this with a friend or colleague that isn’t already reading this. Thank you!