{"id":8906,"date":"2025-11-06T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:21:02","slug":"what-beaten-down-tech-stock-is-cathie-wood-buying-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=8906","title":{"rendered":"What Beaten-Down Tech Stock is Cathie Wood Buying Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>Wall Street panic sold this stock last week, while Wood swooped in for more than $17 million of shares.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">Ark Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood is generally considered a growth stock investor, not a value investor. Yet last week, she headed to the bargain bin to pick up shares of a company that just about everyone else was panic selling.<\/p>\n<p>Wood&#8217;s Ark Invest added some $17.2 million in shares of streaming giant <strong>Netflix<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker-mention inline-flex items-center font-bold\" data-id=\"204654\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nasdaq\/nflx\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\">NFLX<\/a> <span class=\"ml-1 text-red-900\">0.13%<\/span>)<\/span> to its <strong>Ark Next Generation Internet ETF<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker-mention inline-flex items-center font-bold\" data-id=\"317477\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nysemkt\/arkw\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\">ARKW<\/a> <span class=\"ml-1 text-red-900\">4.22%<\/span>)<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/types-of-stocks\/growth-stocks\/growth-etf\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\">That exchange-traded fund (ETF)<\/a> is focused on companies that Ark believes will benefit from disruptive technologies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/information-technology\/cloud-stocks\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\">the cloud<\/a>, mobile computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and similar technologies. <\/p>\n<section class=\"shadow-card mb-[40px] border border-gray-300\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-wrap place-content-between\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full place-items-center lg:w-3\/4\">\n<div class=\"py-4 pr-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full place-items-center lg:w-1\/4\">\n<div class=\"h-full w-5\/6 px-4 py-2.5 lg:text-right bg-red-200\">Today&#8217;s Change<\/p>\n<p>(<!-- -->-0.13<!-- -->%) $<!-- -->-1.44<\/p>\n<p>Current Price<\/p>\n<p>$<!-- -->1097.02<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-wrap overflow-hidden transition-all duration-300 h-0\">\n<div class=\"w-full p-2 lg:w-1\/4 lg:p-4\">\n<h3 class=\"text-gray-1100 text-md my-[22px] leading-snug font-bold uppercase\">Key Data Points<\/h3>\n<div class=\"text-gray-1100 my-[14px] grid grid-cols-2 text-sm\">Market Cap<\/p>\n<p>$465B<\/p>\n<p>Day&#8217;s Range<\/p>\n<p>$<!-- -->1085.13<!-- --> &#8211; $<!-- -->1103.70<\/p>\n<p>52wk Range<\/p>\n<p>$<!-- -->779.94<!-- --> &#8211; $<!-- -->1341.15<\/p>\n<p>Volume<\/p>\n<p>3.6M<\/p>\n<p>Avg Vol<\/p>\n<p>3.5M<\/p>\n<p>Gross Margin<\/p>\n<p>48.02<!-- -->%<\/p>\n<p>Dividend Yield<\/p>\n<p>N\/A<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The ETF&#8217;s share price has doubled over the past 52 weeks and is up about 65% year to date (since Jan. 1, 2025).<\/p>\n<p>But Wood is primarily known for buying stocks that are rising rapidly. Think <strong>Tesla<\/strong>, <strong>Nvidia<\/strong>, and <strong>Palantir<\/strong>, all of which are holdings in the Next Generation Internet ETF.<\/p>\n<p>Yet last week, Netflix&#8217;s share price plummeted 10% in a day after it reported its third-quarter financial results. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A sign that reads Buy the Dip.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762467659_413_\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: Getty Images.\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"my-6 text-2xl font-bold\">A disappointing quarter<\/h2>\n<p>Why the beatdown?<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, the company missed on earnings: Wall Street expected earnings of $6.97 a share for the quarter, but they came in more than a dollar lower, at $5.87 a share.  That earnings per share figure is also lower than the first quarter and the second quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, investors were looking for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/o\/operating-margin\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\">operating margin<\/a> for the quarter of more than 31%, but the company reported a margin of 28%. And management&#8217;s guidance for fourth-quarter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/basics\/revenue-vs-profit\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\">revenue<\/a> is growth of 16.7%, slower than the 17.2% of Q3. That suggested to some that Netflix&#8217;s growth is decelerating.<\/p>\n<p>And in fact, the stock has been falling gradually for about four months. As of this writing, it&#8217;s down almost 18% from the all-time high it hit on June 30 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>But Wood seems to have discounted the earnings miss, given that it was largely due to a one-time $619 million charge to resolve a tax dispute in Brazil.  Without that unusual expense, the Q3 financials would have looked a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Other investors look at Netflix&#8217;s valuation and see problems. And in fact, trading at a price-to-forward earnings ratio of around 47, the stock is significantly pricier than the rest of the market (the <strong>Nasdaq-100<\/strong> index trades at a P\/E ratio of around 33).<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/v\/valuation\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\">high valuations<\/a> have never been an obstacle to investment for Wood and Ark Invest. The company says it has an investment horizon of seven-plus years, not a few quarters into the future. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The front of Netflix's headquarters in Los Gatos, Cal.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"348\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762467660_471_\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: Netflix.\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"my-6 text-2xl font-bold\">New revenue streams<\/h2>\n<p>In addition, some Netflix sellers may have missed an important revenue source that is growing rapidly at the streamer. In 2022 Netflix introduced an ad-driven subscription tier to its streaming platform. Just about three years later, that revenue source is building.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said that ad revenue for 2025 is on pace to double that of 2024. He also said the company&#8217;s rate of ad deals with corporate buyers is accelerating. And this year, it will add interactive ads.\u00a0Overall, revenue for the third quarter rose a healthy 17%, to $11.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps Wood is on to something with her recent Netflix purchase. And perhaps she saw the mass selling that occurred in the wake of the earnings release as a classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/b\/buy-the-dip\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\">buy-the-dip<\/a> moment for a company that may well fit Ark&#8217;s penchant for companies that are disrupting and innovating.<\/p>\n<p>After all, while ARKW is up just 57% over the past five years, about half the gain of the <strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker-mention inline-flex items-center font-bold\" data-id=\"220472\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/snpindex\/^gspc\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\">^GSPC<\/a> <span class=\"ml-1 text-red-900\">1.12%<\/span>)<\/span> over that time, its price has quadrupled over the past three years, far outpacing the S&amp;P 500&#8217;s 76% gain in that period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2025\/11\/03\/what-beaten-down-tech-stock-is-cathie-wood-buying\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street panic sold this stock last week, while Wood swooped in for more than $17 million of shares. Ark Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood is generally considered a growth stock investor, not a value investor. Yet last week, she headed to the bargain bin to pick up shares of a company that just &#8230; <a title=\"What Beaten-Down Tech Stock is Cathie Wood Buying Now?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=8906\" aria-label=\"Read more about What Beaten-Down Tech Stock is Cathie Wood Buying Now?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/What-Beaten-Down-Tech-Stock-is-Cathie-Wood-Buying-Now.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}