Individual investors are always looking for hints as to where stocks are heading next. Some use fundamental analysis to look for strong earnings growth, reasonable valuations, and manageable debt loads. Others use technical analysis to spot trend reversals or gauge the strength of momentum in a particular security. However, it’s difficult for individual investors to perform fundamental and technical due diligence on an entire portfolio of stocks, let alone entire sectors or markets. Institutional investors, ...

RT Solana (@solana)The institutions are here.@0xMert_ on recent Solana institutional momentum 🏦 https://t.co/RjLtVoTY6C ...

Core Viewpoint - Li Lu, an investor known as "the Chinese Warren Buffett," has made a significant investment in PDD Holdings, owning 4,608,000 shares valued at nearly $500 million as of June 30 [1] Group 1: Stock Performance - PDD Holdings stock price decreased by 1.62% on August 14, but saw a pre-market increase of 1.18% on August 15 [2] - The stock had a trading volume of 5,151,744 shares on August 14, below its average of 6,113,639 shares [4] - Over the past year, PDD shares traded between $87.11 and $155.67, with a current market capitalization of $159.79 billion [4] Group 2: Financial Results - PDD's latest quarterly earnings reported earnings per share (EPS) of $1.37, which was below the consensus estimate of $2.25 [4] - Revenue for the quarter was $13.18 billion, significantly lower than the projected $103.37 billion [4] Group 3: Institutional Activity - The National Bank of Canada reduced its stake in PDD by selling 785,691 shares, a decrease of 73.4% [5] - Hollencrest Capital Management initiated a new position worth $26,000, while other firms opened positions ranging from $204,000 to $218,000 [6] - 3G Capital increased its holdings in PDD by 41.7%, now owning 425,000 shares, while divesting from Amazon [6] - Institutional investors and hedge funds collectively hold 39.83% of PDD's outstanding shares [6] Group 4: Analyst Opinions - Benchmark lowered its target price for PDD from $160 to $128 but maintained a "Buy" rating [7] - JPMorgan reduced its target from $125 to $105, assigning a "Neutral" rating [7] - Jefferies set a target price of $121 with a "Buy" rating [7]

Crypto people around me are planning to sell.Some are already offloading, particularly those for whom it's their 3rd cycle.It's not just my environment: the retail vs large investor holdings chart shows that retail is selling to whales/institutions.Btw, similar picture applies for ETH and BTC.My worry: Will the buying power of institutions, DATs, and other whales offset the selling by the retail crowd?Or will they run out of steam?Ideally, it's a multiyear process and a steady price increase will shake out ...

Industry Trend - El Salvador's new bitcoin law signals a shift from retail adoption to institutional investment [1]

Do you get a sense that retail is paying as much attention this time or is this the institutional wave. Yeah, I think it's definitely like a different market, more institutional. Like if you see, you know, you know, the biggest change from the last cycle is the the spot ETF, right.For the majors, like you had Bitcoin, ETH, and you have, you know, some hybrid uh fun, you know, private fund ETF for soul and other assets. That's definitely, you know, something in the market that that wasn't there like past cyc ...

read more about it herehttps://t.co/orLHTt0EuXThe Ether Machine (@TheEtherMachine):We are The Ether Machine.Today we launch the largest public vehicle ever built to own and manage ETH with over $1.5B in committed capital.This is Ethereum’s institutional chapter.Not passive. Not synthetic. Not outsourced.⬇️ ...