This has been grinding at current levels since February and hasn't challenged their 100-day moving average in 1.5 years. Yes, he gets that they're at a strategic crossroads between e-commerce and social media--and it's an interesting position--but it hasn't paid off.
Activist Elliott Mgt. buying a huge position is a strong endorsement of the new CEO. The CEO has raised forward guidance out there and he must be very confident to do that. This is impressive for a new CEO to do this.
It's a profitable company that's been slammed along with all tech stocks. They just replaced their chair-CEO is moving to executive chair and are bringing in a new CEO, a fintech veteran from Google. The move makes a lot of sense. Pinterest makes most of their money from digital ads but want to pivot into digital shopping.
No one is worried about megacap tech stocks and that's a worry. Snap, Twitter and Pinterest, also Lyft have slid around 25% from their highs, and these are buying opportunities in the coming months.
They have new management which knows how to monetize. We need more advertising names beside Meta and Alphabet.