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Sean Udall Names His 3 Favorite SPACs On 'PreMarket Prep'
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 11:37am | 432Special purpose acquisition companies have become a group trade, Quantum Trading Strategies CIO Sean Udall said Wednesday on Benzinga's YouTube show "PreMarket Prep." Once a few of the SPACs bounce, "you are going to get a bounce in 40-50 of them," Udall said...
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Tech Strategist: Twitter Is The Main Beneficiary Of Facebook's Privacy Scandal
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 8:00am | 787Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) started 2018 with roughly the same valuation, but vastly different sentiments. Both companies started 2018 at around $18 billion in market cap, but a lot has occurred in the social media realm since then. First there was the infamous Kylie Jenner...
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Snap Vs. Twitter: Who Will Thrive In 2018?
Thursday, January 4, 2018 - 5:03pm | 793Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) entered 2018 with similar valuations, but vastly different sentiments. Snap started the year with an $18-billion valuation, and was one of the most anticipated yet disappointing IPOs of 2017. Twitter shares fluctuated wildly in 2016 on merger...
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Strategist Breaks Down A Stagnant Tech M&A Scene
Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 1:23pm | 738If you ask Sean Udall, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO)’s acquisition of BroadSoft Inc (NASDAQ: BSFT) was a long time coming — both for the pairing and for the markets. “Probably the most surprising thing actually this whole year is how quiet M&A has been, specifically M...
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Tech Expert Sean Udall Predicts No Major Earnings Misses, Q4 Rotation
Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 12:15pm | 681You’d be hard-pressed to find an investor betting against NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), whose stock trades up 171 percent year over year. The firm has 21 Buy ratings against 11 Holds and just three Sells. But contrarian Sean Udall has been short Nvidia all year and hopes it breaks a $204...
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Snap Within A Penny Of IPO Price; Is It Code Red For This Social Media Platform?
Friday, June 16, 2017 - 11:40am | 490Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) has seen significant downward pressure since reaching its early lifetime high shortly after its initial public offering on March 2. The social media company began its run in the publicly traded stock markets at $17.00 and climbed to $29.44 in its early days. Since then, the...
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The Bullish Case For Cybersecurity In 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017 - 4:26pm | 460For the second consecutive year, the PureFunds ISE Cyber Security ETF (NYSE: HACK) lagged the S&P 500 in 2016. However, a number of market analysts believe that the two-year consolidation period for cybersecurity stocks may have finally come to an end. Left's Perspective Notable short seller...
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4 Election-Proof Stocks: Biotech And Software Take The Lead
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 4:22pm | 617Sean Udall, CIO of Quantum Trading Strategies, was a guest in Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep show in early 2016 and predicted an S&P 500 index around 2,350 to 2,450 when most traders were calling for an S&P 500 around 1,450 to 1,600. “I stand by the call [...] I think we got a...
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Get More Bullish? Here's Why The S&P Could Hit 2,450
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 11:38am | 367Sean Udall, the CIO of Quantum Trading Strategies and tech stocks expert, joined Benzinga's PreMarket Prep last week, where he explained his bullish thesis for the overall market. Udall has a 2,450 target on the S&P 500 index which implies continued upside from its current level...
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A Huge Twitter Bull Makes His Case
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 3:51pm | 539Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR)'s fall from grace has been well-documented. It was only one month ago that the stock dropped to an all-time low of $14.02, and Wall Street sentiment seems to be getting more and more bearish every day. Despite that negativity, Quantum Trading Strategies CIO Sean Udall...
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What The Twitter-NFL Partnership Means For Twitter
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 9:00am | 829On Tuesday, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) won the NFL sweepstakes, officially partnering for the right to stream 10 Thursday night games next season. Twitter reportedly paid about $10 million for the package, although interestingly, the NFL admitted that they were not the highest bidder, suggesting...
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Analysts At Odds With Market Over Fitbit
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 3:47pm | 367With the company set to release its Q4 earnings on February 1, Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT) shares have plummeted since the launch of its new Blaze product. Clearly, the market is punishing Fitbit’s stock, but you wouldn’t know it by reading what analysts have to say. Here’s how several...
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Investors, Get Your Pencils Ready: 2016 Holds Big Tests For Twitter
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 3:36pm | 428Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) has recently fallen out of favor with many investors, having lost almost 60 percent of its value since April. However, there's hope on the horizon. Jack Dorsey's company could see significant growth this year on the heels of the 2016 Olympics and a presidential...
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Why FANG Stocks Are In A Bubble
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 1:11pm | 512Four of the most popular stocks of 2015 are off to a rough start in 2016, and one analyst thinks it's because they're in a bubble. Sean Udall, the CIO of Quantum Trading Strategies, was a guest on Wednesday's of PreMarket Prep, where he continued his bearish sentiment on Facebook...
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The Tech Stock Strategist Talks Twitter, Alibaba
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 9:25am | 669Sean Udall was recently a guest on #PreMarket Prep, a daily trading idea radio show hosted by Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick. Udall, Chief Investment Officer at Quantum Trading Strategies and a leading authority on technology stocks, went over a few hot stocks including Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR...