Restaurant management software specialist Toast (NYSE:TOST) — which provides software and hardware solutions to help restaurants streamline their operations and improve guest experiences — saw its market value pop on Wednesday. Earlier, Redburn Atlantic upgraded its assessment of the company, citing “underappreciated pricing power.” Additionally, restaurant sector sales point to possibly improving conditions in the industry, contributing to bullishness in TOST stock.According to a Seeking Alpha report, Redb ...

Does Toast (TOST -1.89%) have any rocket fuel left in its tanks?The restaurant management software expert's stock has gained 26% in less than three months, leaving the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index far behind with an 8% gain over the same period. Moreover, the company isn't profitable and many investors shy away from its growth-oriented management style.Yet, I keep recommending Toast's stock to anyone who might listen. And I won't stop now, because this modest jump looks like the beginning of a long-term ...

In 2011, three friends founded Toast (TOST 5.12%) in the hopes of modernizing the restaurant industry with cloud-based, scalable technology solutions. In 2015, roughly 1,000 restaurants were using the company's products. But as of the third quarter of 2023, 99,000 restaurant locations were using Toast -- nearly a 100x increase in just eight years.This level of growth is a testament to what Toast has built. It's not the only company working in the space, but its ability to attract new customers (6,500 net ne ...

Restaurant-technology company Toast (TOST 5.12%) is unprofitable, and it's not even close to breaking even. Through the first three quarters of 2023, the company reported a net loss of $210 million on $2.8 billion in revenue.On top of this, Toast lost $762 million in 2021 and 2022 combined. In short, the business has lost roughly $1 billion in less than three years.In isolation, Toast's net losses make it look like a bad investment idea. But investing isn't about what's already happened; it's about what hap ...

From their late-2021 pinnacle to the current trough, Toast (TOST -4.18%) shares have taken a dizzying 74% price plunge. But this doesn't look like a downward spiral to me. Rather, I'd call it a runway for savvy investors. Let's see how the restaurant management software expert's steep drop appears to be a wide-open buying window.What does Toast do?Think of Toast as the Swiss Army knife for restaurateurs: From taking orders to crunching numbers, it's got nearly everything covered. Its cloud-based software co ...

SasaJo/iStock via Getty ImagesIntroduction and Investment Thesis Toast (NYSE:TOST) is an all-in-one cloud-based platform that powers the restaurant industry. Although the company operates in a large TAM with an innovative product portfolio, the company has seen its revenue growth slowdown in 2023. While the management has pointed to overall macroeconomic headwinds, the company has taken active measures to improve overall profitability. While the stock has severely underperformed the S&P 500 and the Nasd ...

Toast (TOST -3.81%) has been a public company for less than three years. The company priced its September 2021 initial public offering (IPO) at $40 a share, and the stock surged by more than 50% on its first day of trading.But investors who held on have seen the share price fall well below that IPO price, selling at less than half that level. While hot IPOs often garner a lot of attention after the initial surge, investors should take a rational approach to the business and valuation.Taking a step back from ...

Toast Inc (NYSE: TOST) has already gained 35% over the past two months but a Goldman Sachs analyst is convinced it’s not done pleasing its shareholders just yet.Toast stock could climb another 25%Copy link to sectionWilliam Nance upgraded the payments company for restaurants this morning to “buy”. His $24 price objective suggests another 25% upside from here. The analyst turned bullish on Toast stock because “the market is not accounting for what we expect to be materially better profitability trends in 202 ...

Since going public at $40 per share in September 2021, Toast's (TOST 1.26%) stock price has significantly underperformed the market. It has declined over 50% from its IPO valuation, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.18%) index gained 6% in the same span. In its first year as a public company, Toast's share price fell as much as 70% in 2022 amid a volatile market environment -- especially for high-growth stocks with minimal profits -- and stayed down while many other beaten-down stocks soared.But one shareholder's ...

Cathie Wood gained legions of followers when her ARK Invest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) skyrocketed in the early pandemic bull market. Focused on growth and innovation, those same ETFs started a steep decline even before the stock market fell into a bear market in 2022.But Wood didn't change her investing thesis during this time and still sees disruptive tech as the key to unlocking tremendous returns over time. Many of her ETFs beat the market in 2023 and are likely to continue moving higher in this bulli ...