In this episode, Scott Becker covers five key stories, including the top five companies by market cap, standout stocks from Friday’s trading, struggling retail stocks, and more.
Chapter 1: What are the top stories being discussed today?
this is scott becker with the becker private business podcast i want to bring to you this morning five stories that we're watching this morning uh hope you find this interesting we hope you enjoy it as much as we do so the first thing is the markets rallied just really well on friday uh that's going to be a short-lived rally that's about a rally that is as long as the beers chicago bears dynasty from 1985 that lasts just one year
Chapter 2: Which companies are the largest by market cap?
But the good news is after the market starting out low this morning, they're about flat now. So hopefully not too bad a day today. Second, the five largest companies by market cap, we watch this regularly. Apple, number one. Nvidia has rallied recently. It's in the number two spot. Microsoft, number three. Amazon, number four. And then Alphabet, Google, number five.
Chapter 3: What stocks had significant gains on Friday?
Third, I'll talk about five stocks that really advanced on Friday. Some of these are falling again today, but generally these are five that knocked it out of the park Friday, all more than 10% gains. And those include Astera Labs. Tempus AI, Avis, the rental car company, it seems like forever since that's been up.
SoundTown, which is regularly up and down, but around 30, down about 35, 40% this year. And finally, Peloton, we talk about it often, but those are all stocks that gained more than 10% Friday. Peloton's again down today. Four, even though a great day in the markets on Friday, a great rally. Here are three of sort of the retail and apparel stocks that fell. Gap,
Macy's and Under Armour all got crushed on Friday. Fifth story we're following, we'll talk about just very briefly, and this is a thank you to our listeners. And quite frankly, anybody that gets to this point in the podcast, even though it's short, we will send you a $25 Amazon gift certificate if you're the first person to text me.
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