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

172 tickers rated Sell
Ranks this page's recent reports by score.
Agilysys, Inc.
AGYS·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$113.80
Aug 23, 2026

Agilysys is a flawlessly executing, cash-printing tollbooth for the global hospitality modernization cycle, but an extreme valuation multiple and aggressive insider selling demand investors step aside until a macroeconomic pullback offers a rational entry point.

Score
73
Hawkins, Inc.
HWKN·Materials
C ★★Sell
Current$118.99
Aug 23, 2026

Hawkins is a phenomenally managed, cash-gushing water treatment monopoly protected by steep localized barriers to entry, but disciplined investors must aggressively avoid the stock until its violently inflated, perfection-demanding valuation multiple compresses back to historical reality.

Score
60
CoreCivic, Inc.
CXW·Industrials
C ★★Sell
Current$34.01
Aug 23, 2026

CoreCivic's radical balance sheet restructuring and aggressive share retirement program are financially brilliant, yet extreme insider dumping and the impending margin compression from its shift to an asset-light model suggest the market has fully priced in the best-case federal funding scenario.

Score
72
Under Armour, Inc.
Current$5.23
Aug 22, 2026

Under Armour trades at optically distressed revenue multiples and boasts a fortified balance sheet post-debt retirement, but investors must entirely avoid the stock as the brand faces a devastating, structural demand collapse in North America paired with an unproven, cash-burning executive pivot.

Score
35
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.
ACHC·Healthcare
F Avoid
Current$27.36
Aug 22, 2026

Acadia Healthcare operates in a highly defensive, structurally growing behavioral health sector, but an onslaught of DOJ investigations, crushing legal settlements, massive executive turnover, and a severely overvalued multiple render the stock exceptionally toxic.

Score
6
Bullish
BLSH·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$30.41
Aug 22, 2026

Bullish is orchestrating a visionary, high-margin transformation of global capital markets by merging an institutional crypto exchange with a legacy transfer agent, but exorbitant standalone valuations and massive impending shareholder dilution make the current entry price unjustifiable.

Score
60
Opendoor Technologies Inc.
OPEN·Real Estate
F Avoid
Current$3.53
Aug 22, 2026

Opendoor's AI-driven iBuying platform shows early signs of micro-margin stabilization, but accelerating cash burn, massive stock-based compensation dilution, and an exorbitant valuation premium relative to real estate peers make it uninvestable until structural, self-funded profitability is definitively proven.

Score
18
Ondas Inc.
ONDS·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$8.38
Aug 22, 2026

Ondas is rapidly assembling a formidable, Palantir-integrated U.S. autonomous defense prime with staggering revenue growth and a $757 million backlog, but investors should avoid the stock until the massive execution risks of integrating six simultaneous acquisitions and the brutal overhang of relentless equity dilution are fully resolved.

Score
69
Oruka Therapeutics, Inc.
ORKA·Healthcare
C ★★Sell
Current$104.86
Aug 22, 2026

Oruka Therapeutics is an exceptionally capitalized, high-velocity clinical biotech wielding potent half-life extension technology that could disrupt the massive psoriasis market, though its astronomical pre-revenue valuation demands absolute flawlessness against pharmaceutical titans.

Score
56
Relay Therapeutics, Inc.
RLAY·Healthcare
D Strong Sell
Current$19.70
Aug 21, 2026

Relay Therapeutics wields a revolutionary computational physics platform and an ironclad $911 million balance sheet to attack intractable cancers, but astronomical valuation multiples and deeply concerning insider selling demand absolute, uncompromising perfection from its impending binary breast cancer trials.

Score
54
CVR Energy, Inc.
CVI·Energy
C ★★Sell
Current$36.70
Aug 22, 2026

CVR Energy operates a highly efficient, cash-printing refinery and fertilizer complex in the Midwest, but its equity is uninvestable at current levels due to an unjustifiable 150% valuation premium over its peers and the persistent, lethal drag of unhedged regulatory compliance costs.

Score
57
QuantumScape Corporation
Current$5.88
Aug 21, 2026

QuantumScape boasts revolutionary solid-state battery IP and elite automaker backing, but its extreme pre-revenue valuation, heavy cash burn, and a commercialization timeline delayed until 2029 make it highly vulnerable to execution missteps and macroeconomic tightening.

Score
16
Atlanta Braves Holdings Inc
BATRA·Communication Services
C ★★Sell
Current$56.43
Aug 21, 2026

Atlanta Braves controls a premium sports asset and lucrative adjacent real estate, offering unique scarcity value, but investors must navigate severe operational cost inflation and near-term media rights transition risks.

Score
71
Evolution Metals & Technologies Corp.
EMAT·Materials
F Avoid
Current$2.88
Aug 21, 2026

Evolution Metals offers a compelling strategic narrative as the first U.S.-aligned rare earth magnet producer capitalizing on defense decoupling, but its severe working capital deficit, massive convertible debt dilution, and active going-concern warning render it fundamentally distressed.

Score
18
Mercury Systems, Inc.
MRCY·Industrials
F Avoid
Current$101.25
Aug 21, 2026

Mercury Systems boasts a massive $1.9 billion defense electronics backlog and an impenetrable regulatory moat, but acute execution failures, continuous GAAP net losses, collapsing free cash flow, and an extreme valuation premium render the stock an uninvestable value trap.

Score
19
Enliven Therapeutics, Inc.
ELVN·Healthcare
C ★★Sell
Current$59.39
Aug 20, 2026

Enliven possesses a highly differentiated, well-funded clinical pipeline targeting chronic myeloid leukemia, but its pre-revenue status triggers severe mechanical scoring penalties that mandate a cautious rating despite strong long-term oncology market potential.

Score
58
Genworth Financial, Inc.
GNW·Financials
C ★★Sell
Current$10.09
Aug 20, 2026

Genworth is a deeply discounted, capital-returning special situation trading well below the value of its mortgage insurance subsidiary, though investors must tolerate extreme psychological and actuarial risk tied to its toxic legacy long-term care liabilities.

Score
74
Fabrinet
FN·Technology
C ★★Sell
Current$454.55
Aug 20, 2026

Fabrinet is the undisputed, highly profitable tollbooth of the global AI optical interconnect revolution, trading at a deceptively vulnerable valuation premium, while aggressive insider liquidation, severe hyperscaler customer concentration, and complete free cash flow depletion make the stock too dangerous to hold through its capital-intensive expansion cycle.

Score
55
Dyne Therapeutics, Inc.
DYN·Healthcare
C ★★Sell
Current$26.41
Aug 20, 2026

Dyne possesses a potentially revolutionary, deeply-moated RNA delivery platform targeting massive unmet needs, but its current $5 billion valuation prices in absolute FDA perfection, exposing investors to catastrophic downside risk if the upcoming PDUFA date encounters any regulatory friction.

Score
72
TransAlta Corporation
TAC·Utilities
F Avoid
Current$12.71
Aug 20, 2026

TransAlta is attempting a costly, debt-fueled pivot toward contracted renewables and U.S. gas assets, but a catastrophic supply glut in its core Alberta market and severe equity dilution make it an uninvestable value trap.

Score
15
WPP plc
Current$26.40
Aug 19, 2026

WPP is a structurally impaired legacy advertising giant trading at distressed multiples, but the existential threat of AI disintermediation and catastrophic media rebate fraud allegations make it a textbook value trap.

Score
33
EquipmentShare.com Inc.
EQPT·Industrials
C ★★Sell
Current$19.54
Aug 19, 2026

EquipmentShare is aggressively disrupting the $84 billion analog rental industry with its sticky, high-margin T3 software ecosystem and explosive 39% growth, but investors must entirely avoid the equity due to extreme volatility stemming from unresolved related-party self-dealing lawsuits, heavy debt loads, and deeply alarming insider liquidation.

Score
73
GPGI, Inc.
GPGI·Industrials
F Avoid
Current$12.78
Aug 19, 2026

GPGI harbors an exceptional, high-margin metal payment card monopoly, but its equity has been rendered highly toxic by a debt-fueled, structurally conflicted acquisition of a cyclical industrial business fraught with accounting irregularities.

Score
6
MDU Resources Group, Inc.
MDU·Utilities
C ★★Sell
Current$20.55
Aug 18, 2026

MDU Resources is a highly resilient, pure-play infrastructure monopoly poised to capitalize on the explosive data center electrification super-cycle, though investors must accept capped near-term returns due to an exhausted premium valuation and the persistent shareholder dilution required to fund its massive $3.1 billion capital buildout.

Score
74