Better Home & Finance stock doubles after investor behind Opendoor rally calls it the 'Shopify of mortgages'

Better Home & Finance (BETR) stock more than doubled early Monday after activist investor Eric Jackson called the company "the Shopify of mortgages" in a post on X, announcing a strong bullish take on the real estate company. Better Home, which opened for trading at $33.50, traded as high as $73 in the wake of Jackson's announcement before giving up some of those gains and settling around $60 at noon ET on Monday. Jackson said in the post that his hedge fund, EMJ Capital, has a long position in the stock ...