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

172 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 is a heavily capitalized pioneer in superconducting quantum architecture poised to benefit from massive sovereign defense funding, yet its astronomically detached valuation, unpredictable hardware lumpiness, and aggressive insider liquidation render the equity structurally toxic for fundamental investors.

Score
33
RXO, Inc.
RXO·Industrials
F Avoid
Current$23.52
Aug 18, 2026

RXO boasts a premier digital brokerage platform poised to capture massive spot market upside when the freight cycle turns, but suffocating debt, severe valuation premiums, and terrifying new legal liabilities make it an uninvestable proposition at current prices.

Score
32
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
TFS Financial Corporation
TFSL·Financials
F Avoid
Current$17.64
Aug 17, 2026

TFS Financial boasts a fortress balance sheet and a highly subsidized 6.41% dividend yield, but its extreme 49x forward valuation and total reliance on ongoing regulatory approval for its artificial dividend waiver create an unjustifiable risk profile for new capital.

Score
43
Kodiak Sciences Inc.
KOD·Healthcare
F Avoid
Current$41.36
Aug 17, 2026

Kodiak Sciences wields a clinically validated, highly disruptive biopolymer retina platform that could legitimately transform the $12B anti-VEGF market, but an imminent cash cliff and a formalized going-concern warning force investors to stay completely sidelined until the balance sheet is thoroughly recapitalized.

Score
16
Hub Group, Inc.
HUBG·Industrials
F Avoid
Current$40.26
Aug 17, 2026

Hub Group is facing a severe crisis characterized by a massive $77 million accounting restatement, the departure of key executives, and looming Nasdaq delisting risks, rendering the stock highly speculative and uninvestable until financial integrity and internal controls are fully restored.

Score
5
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
Perimeter Solutions, Inc.
PRM·Materials
C ★★Sell
Current$33.79
Aug 16, 2026

Perimeter Solutions operates an untouchable, cash-rich monopoly in mission-critical fire safety with powerful secular climate tailwinds, but public investors must violently reject the stock due to a hostile, private-equity-style insider fee structure that permanently structurally guarantees massive shareholder dilution.

Score
65
PriceSmart, Inc.
PSMT·Consumer Staples
C ★★Sell
Current$179.82
Aug 15, 2026

PriceSmart is an impeccably managed, cash-rich regional monopoly capitalizing heavily on Latin American omnichannel growth, but severe valuation euphoria and structural foreign exchange illiquidity currently render the stock far too dangerous for new capital deployment.

Score
68
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
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
LGND·Healthcare
C ★★Sell
Current$293.27
Aug 15, 2026

Ligand is executing a flawless, high-margin biotech royalty aggregator model bolstered by the brilliant $739 million XOMA acquisition, but the stock's massive 146% run has pushed valuations into dangerously overextended territory, prompting heavy insider selling and erasing all margin of safety.

Score
61
NewAmsterdam Pharma Company N.V.
NAMS·Healthcare
F Avoid
Current$26.67
Aug 15, 2026

NewAmsterdam Pharma possesses a highly promising, potentially disruptive oral CETP inhibitor with massive peak sales potential in the cardiovascular space, but extreme pre-commercial valuation multiples and total dependence on upcoming binary clinical outcomes demand an Avoid rating until the PREVAIL trial results definitively de-risk the investment.

Score
40
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
Starwood Property Trust, Inc.
STWD·Real Estate
C ★★Sell
Current$16.35
Aug 14, 2026

Starwood Property Trust offers a massive double-digit dividend backed by a deeply diversified asset base, yet critical shortfalls in distributable earnings coverage and a persistent $1.9 billion non-accrual overhang necessitate a highly cautious stance.

Score
68
Ormat Technologies, Inc.
ORA·Utilities
C ★★Sell
Current$113.52
Aug 14, 2026

Ormat is a high-quality, pure-play geothermal leader benefiting from immense AI data center power demand, but its current extreme valuation multiples and emerging existential competition from next-generation EGS rivals like Fervo Energy make the risk/reward profile distinctly unfavorable.

Score
68
Lumen Technologies, Inc.
LUMN·Communication Services
C ★★Sell
Current$6.48
Aug 14, 2026

Lumen is attempting a high-wire transformation from legacy telecom to a digital platform via massive AI-driven fiber deals, but secular revenue declines and a staggering debt load keep the execution risk dangerously high.

Score
57
Circle Internet Group, Inc.
CRCL·Financials
F Avoid
Current$75.38
Aug 14, 2026

Circle successfully built the world's premier compliant digital dollar, but its exorbitant valuation ignores the existential threat of yield-sharing consortiums and the impending destruction of its reserve income engine via Federal Reserve rate cuts.

Score
36
CAVA Group, Inc.
CAVA·Consumer Discretionary
C ★★Sell
Current$71.91
Aug 14, 2026

CAVA is executing flawlessly with exceptional traffic-driven growth and robust unit economics, but its astronomical valuation prices in decades of perfection, leaving shares acutely vulnerable to any margin or growth hiccups.

Score
68