Cathie Wood didn’t do a lot of trading last week, but the co-founder, CEO, and widely followed stock picker at Ark Invest changed her tune coming out of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, adding to 10 of her existing positions.
What is she buying? Some of the more interesting purchases for Ark Invest on Tuesday were UiPath (NYSE: PATH), Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD). Wood thinks this is a good time to add to these stakes. Let’s take a closer look.
1. UiPath
Timing is everything when it comes to robotics. The same can be said about timing and robotics stocks. Wood added more UiPath to her portfolio on Tuesday. The provider of software solutions for robotics and automation reports its fiscal first-quarter results after the market close on Wednesday.
The stock has been a market laggard this year, down 25% so far in the 2024 calendar year. Analysts are holding out for marginal improvement on the adjusted bottom line with a 15% increase in revenue for this week’s report. This is half the 31% top-line jump it posted in its previous financial update.
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The bad news is that UiPath is slowing after posting accelerating revenue growth through all four quarters of fiscal 2024. The good news is that it’s hard not to be bullish on the future of robotics. The pandemic helped shine a light on a manpower shortage that could’ve been easier to survive if there were more automation in the workplace. Rising labor costs should also bring more enterprises to UiPath’s door.
Investors will be hoping for another beat out of UiPath on both ends of the income statement shortly after Wednesday’s closing bell. It has trounced adjusted earnings profit targets over the past year. You should also keep an eye on UiPath’s dollar-based net retention rate. It’s a great metric that shows how much returning customers are spending on a platform over the past year compared to the previous 12-month period. It was 119% in March, meaning that returning customers are spending 19% more on average than they were a year earlier. The stock has declined in…
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