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AppLovin (APP) holders have been through a rough stretch. The shares lost 54% over the past year, while the S&P 500 gained 16.8%. A $10,000 holding from a year ago is now worth about $4,560. In September, law firms began announcing a securities class action over what AppLovin told investors. For you, the bigger issue is a business problem, not the legal fight. So what is the biggest risk for AppLovin stock from here.
Granahan Investment Management, an investment management company, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter for its “Small Cap Core Growth Strategy”. The letter can be downloaded here. Equity markets strongly rebounded in Q2, with small-cap growth stocks significantly outperforming large-cap indexes. The strategy returned 46.7% in the quarter compared to 25.7% for the Russell 2000 Growth […]
AppLovin buyers are wading back in after a brutal year-long selloff, but ad tech peers are barely flinching, and the reasons behind that split reveal a high-stakes debate about whether the bleeding has truly stopped.
Investing.com -- SimilarWeb Ltd (NYSE:SMWB) shares fell over 7% Thursday following the company's announcement that Michael Akkerman will become Chief Executive Officer, effective November 2, 2026.
TEL AVIV, Israel, September 24, 2026--Similarweb Ltd. (NYSE: SMWB), a leading digital data and analytics company, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Michael Akkerman as Chief Executive Officer, effective November 2, 2026. Mr. Akkerman succeeds Founder and CEO Or Offer, who, as previously announced in May 2026, is stepping down after close to two decades leading the Company.
The number that should worry a holder of AppLovin (APP) stock is its revenue growth. Revenue rose 53% from a year earlier in the fiscal second quarter of 2026. That was the third quarter in a row of slower growth. The pace is still fast. But the stock is priced for growth to stay fast, which is why the slowdown matters.
Digital Turbine (APPS) has drawn fresh attention after recent share price swings. The stock closed at US$10.84, with returns down over the past month but higher over the past 3 months and year. Digital Turbine’s recent pullback, with a 1-day share price return of down 4.75% and a 30-day share price return of down 11.44%, comes after a strong rebound that includes a 90-day share price return of 25.90% and a year-to-date share price return of 126.78%. The 1-year total shareholder return of...
AppLovin (APP) has climbed 6.2% over the last five trading days while the S&P 500 slipped 1.1%. With the stock about 55% below its 52-week high, a week like that pulls in bottom hunters. But next week is the wrong question. What matters to your money is what holding AppLovin does every time the market moves, because it travels far further than the index, and furthest on the way down.
AppLovin (APP) grows revenue faster than any peer and earns the group's highest operating margin. It also carries the highest earnings multiple, and the premium is thin: 25.5 times earnings, against 24.9 for Meta Platforms (META), which grows at less than half AppLovin's pace. What holds the multiple up is a belief about where the growth comes from.
AppLovin (APP) stock trades at $312.01, at about 43% of its 52-week high, after a 44.6% fall over the past three months. After the June quarter, the market treated one light quarter of model improvement as the growth engine breaking, though year-over-year revenue growth had already slowed in each of the last three quarters. One number argues the operating business kept getting more profitable straight through it: an operating margin of 77.4% over the trailing twelve months, up from 69.6% a year
AppLovin (APP) stock has lost about 55% since mid-December 2025, falling to $305 by September 9, 2026, while the S&P 500 gained 12.5%. The business did not shrink: second-quarter revenue grew 53% year over year. A single report cannot account for a nine-month slide, but the August one shows why growth that fast is hard to price. It arrives in steps the company cannot schedule.
Ad-tech is fracturing along a fault line that has nothing to do with today's news cycle, and understanding why two names are surging while two sit frozen requires a closer look at where each business actually sits inside the advertising chain.
AppLovin (APP) has fallen about 43.9% over the trailing three months and sits roughly 57% below its 52-week high, at about $313.58 a share. Even after a drop that size, the advertising platform is priced at about 23.2 times its trailing adjusted earnings. That figure is on every screen, and it is the one that tells you least about what you are buying.
While known for gaming, the company's fastest growth is happening elsewhere. Its consumer vertical is quietly becoming a second engine, with advertiser spend already setting records. This segment finished the second quarter 28% above fourth quarter 2025 levels.
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