Netflix Stock News

January 2022 will still go down as a turbulent and loss-ridden month for stocks, but at least it ended on a high note. A relatively quiet news weekend followed by little in the way of fresh economic data gave investors little to go on Monday, but the session was pockmarked by a host of individual relief rallies. SEE MORE The 15 Best Growth Stocks to Buy for 2022 Most notable was the S&P 500''s seventh-largest holding, Tesla ( TSLA ), which popped 10.7% thanks to Credit Suisse analysts, who upgraded the stock to Outperform after it lost 20% in January. "With the market disproportionately punishing growth stocks in the past month, we believe an attractive entry point has emerged for Tesla," said CS analysts, adding that Tesla checks off a number of boxes: attractive growth story, disruption, decarbonization and more. Netflix ( NFLX , +11.1%), Moderna ( MRNA , +6.2%), PayPal ( PYPL , +5.2%) and Nvidia ( NVDA , +7.2%) were among other recently beat-up stocks that closed the month with a rebound.

Over the past couple of years, the hedge-fund manager made two complex trades, one presaging the economys swift shutdown and the other its fevered reopening.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently picked up $20 million worth of NFLX stock. As a result, shares of NFLX stock are up over 8% today.

US Futures Start The Week With More Wild Swing In Another Volatile, Illiquid Session After a rollercoaster week that ended just barely higher following a late meltup on Friday, overnight volatile US stock futures swung to start the week, with Nasdaq 100 futures leading gains after rallying on Friday, before turning red and threatening to fizzle a global equity rally amid persistent worries over the Federal Reserve’s plan to hike interest rates this year. Emini S&P futures were down 0.5% or 21 points to 4401, after rising as high as 4437 and dropping as low as 4395 in another extremely illiquid session where China being offline for the week due to Lunar New Year did not help; Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Dow futures were lower 0.7%. Technology stocks led gains on the Stoxx Europe 600. Meanwhile, the dollar fell and oil rallied. As investors reconcile to a hawkish U.S. central bank coupled with strong earnings, the expensive parts of the U.S. stock market are undergoing a valuation re-rating along with the bond markets.

Netflix (NFLX) and Spotify (SPOT) were upgraded to buy at Citi, as the investment firm notes subscriber-based stocks have come under …

The small-cap Russell 2000 fell into bear-market territory Thursday as Lucy yanked the ol'' football away from Charlie Brown yet again. For the fourth consecutive day, what markets did in the morning looked nothing like how they finished. Today''s session started off cheerily enough on the back of a pair of positive economic releases. The Commerce Department''s Bureau of Economic Analysis said U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) swelled by an annualized 6.9% quarter-over-quarter, smashing expectations for 5.5% expansion. SEE MORE The Pros’ Picks: 22 Top Stocks to Invest In for 2022 Contributing most to Q4''s growth was a sharp rise in business inventories and consumer spending, especially in services. Also encouraging were initial jobless claims for the week ended Jan. 22, which declined to 260,000 from an upwardly revised 290,000 the week prior, coming in under estimates for 265,000. "The first decline so far this year in seasonally adjusted new jobless claims is a welcome sign after three consecutive gains," says Bankrate.com Senior Economic Analyst Mark Hamrick.

Netflix recently added billionaire Bill Ackman to its list of top-20 shareholders. How does the rest of Wall Street feel about NFLX stock?

TSLA and INTC fell despite better-than-expected earnings, weighed down by supply worries. MCD dropped on an earnings miss. NFLX rose on an investment from Pershing Square.

Ackman Buys 3.1 Million Netflix Shares With $1.25 Billion Profit From Massive Treasury Short A few days ago we pointed out that one of the event risks in a sliding market is distressed M&A in which cash-rich buyers scoop up beaten down assets, and of which we have already seen two examples: Microsoft''s acquisition of a deeply depressed Activision and more recently, last week''s acquisition of Kohl''s by a consortium of buyers. Distressed M&A #2: Consortium Led by Acacia Research Bids Roughly $9 Billion for Kohl’s: WSJ As the bid(en)less market crashes, cash-heavy buyers will scoop up deals — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 22, 2022 But it''s not just strategics that are finding good deals: financial buyers are also jumping in, as a tweet from Bill Ackman late on Wednesday showed. The billionaire investor behind Pershing Square took the novel path of announcing on twitter that he had purchased "purchased more than 3.1m shares of @netflix which makes us a top-20 holder." Ackman, who also linked to a brief letter to investors laying out his thinking behind the purchase, said that "I have long admired Reed Hastings and the remarkable company he and his team have built.

Netflix (NFLX) has jumped 4% postmarket following the release of an investor letter from Pershing Square saying it''s been buying the company''s stock since Friday, its first stake…

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman on Wednesday said his firm has purchased more than 3.1 million shares of Netflix Inc. , making it a top-20 holder. "The opportunity to acquire Netflix at an attractive valuation emerged when investors reacted negatively to the recent quarter''s subscriber growth and management''s short-term guidance. Netflix''s substantial stock price decline was further exacerbated by recent market volatility," said Ackman, who is chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management. He announced the investment on his Twitter account and in a press release. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Ensemble Capital, an investment management firm, published its fourth-quarter 2021 investor letter a copy of which can be downloaded here.

NEW YORK , Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for IBM, AXP, XOM, NFLX, and NVAX. … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Investors sentiments about Netflix (NFLX) failed to soften over the weekend as they sent the streaming TV giant''s shares down more than 6%, Monday.

Netflix (NFLX) lost more than a fifth of its value on Friday, dragged down by disappointing subscription numbers. Has it fallen enough to become a buy?