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Hims & Hers CEO sells stock after menopause expansion announcement

Hims rose more than 15% on Wednesday after the company announced it would expand its offerings, before giving back some of those gains on Thursday.

J. Edward Moreno

Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum sold about $11 million in the company’s stock on Thursday, a day after the company’s announcement that it’s expanding into menopause and perimenopause treatments sent the company’s shares to an over two-month high.

Dudum sold 175,661 shares of the company on Thursday for about $62 a share, according to a regulatory filing. The sale was part of a pre-scheduled plan adopted in August 2024.

Hims rose more than 15% on Wednesday after the company’s announcement before giving back some of those gains on Thursday. Bullish retail investors speculated on Wednesday that the heavily shorted stock was undergoing a short squeeze. Dudum entertained the chatter, quoting one X post with a “👀” emoji.

In August, Dudum’s family trust sold 666,000 shares for about $50 each, making $33.5 million, marking the largest open-market insider sale of Hims stock since the company went public in 2021. (Dudum also riled up retail investors on X the day before that sale.)

A spokesperson for Hims did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hims stock has been volatile this year. The company has focused on growing its offerings, primarily through expanding into hormone treatments, now that its ability to sell copies of Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss shot has become limited after the shortage of name-brand doses eased.

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SpaceX gets a wave of bullish ratings from Wall Street analysts

SpaceX received more than a dozen positive analyst calls on Tuesday — including from major Wall Street banks — as they initiate coverage on Elon Musk’s space and AI company.

SpaceX went public on June 12 at a $2.2 trillion valuation, the largest debut in history. While the company hasn’t yet posted a profit, it seems to have convinced Wall Street that it will get there and grow its valuation on the way.

Of the at least 17 analysts that gave a rating on Tuesday, all but one gave it a “buy” or “outperform” rating. MoffettNathanson was "neutral."

The ratings come as SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 index, a benchmark tech-heavy basket of companies that underpins millions of portfolios. The inclusion adds built-in demand for the stock from index funds and ETFs.

Still, SpaceX fell more than 5% on Tuesday amid a broader sell-off, and is currently effectively flat from its opening price of $150 a share.

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Nike sinks to lowest level since 2014 after warning of “challenged” sales environment in Q4 report

Did Nike do it?

Investors had a mixed reaction after the global sports apparel company reported its fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday after the bell. Shares initially rose 5% as Nike beat out Wall Street expectations amid a hefty tariff refund bonus. However, the stock then sank to its lowest level since August 2014 in postmarket trading.

Here are the Q4 numbers:

  • Revenue of $11.0 billion (estimate: $10.8 billion).

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $0.20 (estimate: $0.12).

Ahead of this report, Nike warned that results would be flattered by a one-time tariff refund (now estimated at roughly $0.52 per share for the bottom line). That gave the company an extra cushion in snapping its streak of seven quarters of year-over-year profit declines.

Over the past year, the company had been punished by tariffs on imported goods, stagnant consumer spending, and increasing competition from other footwear brands like New Balance, Adidas, and Hoka.

Outgoing CFO Matthew Friend deemed it an “increasingly challenging operating environment, where sell-through remains challenged.”

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