Sell-rated reports Includes Sell, Strong Sell, and Avoid-rated reports — all stocks our analysis flags as best avoided.

248 tickers rated Sell
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IPG Photonics Corporation
IPGP·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$85.79
Aug 18, 2026

IPG Photonics remains a premier, cash-rich technological innovator successfully diversifying into high-margin medical and defense markets, but severe cyclical headwinds and punishing geopolitical restructuring costs render its current valuation mathematically uninvestable in the near term.

Score
58
Rigetti Computing, Inc.
RGTI·Technology
F Avoid
Current$18.80
Aug 18, 2026

Rigetti's funded superconducting quantum platform could benefit from sovereign defense spending, but extreme valuation, hardware lumpiness and insider selling make it unsuitable for fundamental investors.

Score
33
Icahn Enterprises L.P.
IEP·Energy
F Avoid
Current$7.42
Aug 17, 2026

Icahn Enterprises operates as a highly leveraged, distressed yield trap trading at an unjustifiable 100% premium to a rapidly plunging net asset value, masking severe liquidity and operational risks behind a dilutive, unsustainable dividend.

Score
1
Kodiak Sciences Inc.
KOD·Healthcare
F Avoid
Current$41.36
Aug 17, 2026

Kodiak's validated biopolymer retina platform could transform the $12B anti-VEGF market, but an imminent cash cliff and going-concern warning favor staying sidelined until recapitalization.

Score
16
Novanta Inc.
NOVT·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$166.58
Aug 17, 2026

Novanta is a top-tier, oligopolistic provider of mission-critical medical and robotics technology that is rapidly compounding cash flows via brilliant M&A, though investors must currently exit the stock due to a severe valuation premium that leaves zero room for integration missteps.

Score
66
QXO, Inc.
QXO·Industrials
D ★Strong Sell
Current$14.51
Aug 16, 2026

QXO is an incredibly ambitious, management-led roll-up poised to dominate the $800 billion building materials market, but extreme valuation multiples, severe equity dilution, and the towering integration risks of $28 billion in recent acquisitions demand a steep margin of safety not currently offered.

Score
52
JBS N.V.
JBS·Consumer Staples
F Avoid
Current$13.65
Aug 16, 2026

JBS commands unmatched global scale as the world's premier protein producer, but investors must entirely avoid the stock as a severe U.S. cattle shortage and billion-dollar interest expenses actively destroy cash flow under the permanent, unchallengeable shadow of absolute Batista family control.

Score
30
Clear Secure, Inc.
YOU·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$45.67
Aug 16, 2026

CLEAR is a highly profitable identity verification monopoly generating massive free cash flow through automated operating leverage, but aggressive financial engineering and impending displacement risks from free federal digital ID initiatives make its long-term durability highly suspect.

Score
72
Spyre Therapeutics, Inc.
SYRE·Healthcare
F Avoid
Current$104.09
Aug 15, 2026

Spyre Therapeutics possesses a highly promising IBD pipeline with extended half-life antibodies, but its staggering $9.18B pre-revenue market cap, heavy insider selling, and substantial clinical risk make the current valuation uninvestable.

Score
35
GRAIL, Inc.
GRAL·Healthcare
F Avoid
Current$68.94
Aug 15, 2026

GRAIL pioneered the multi-cancer early detection market and controls an unprecedented clinical data moat, but investors must avoid the stock entirely due to severe structural cash burn, inevitable dilution, and a high-profile clinical trial endpoint failure.

Score
32
Bending Spoons S.p.A.
BSP·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$39.11
Aug 15, 2026

Bending Spoons possesses a highly profitable M&A software roll-up model, yet organic growth is virtually stagnant at 3% and leverage constraints risk throttling the primary driver of its extreme valuation premium.

Score
55
Performance Food Group Company
PFGC·Consumer Staples
C ★★Sell
Current$113.96
Aug 15, 2026

Performance Food Group is a fundamentally superior, cash-gushing logistics behemoth commanding massive market share, but investors must aggressively sell the stock today as extreme overvaluation, zero dividend yield, and rising debt levels completely eliminate any margin of safety against an impending restaurant traffic slowdown.

Score
67