LikeFolio Weekly Roundup

Market fear is high. Here's what you need to know. Also, In a slew of big earnings reactions, 2 caught our attention...check out opportuniti

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Megan Brantley
November 07, 2025

Here’s a breakdown of the biggest takeaways from the LikeFolio research desk through Thursday, Nov. 6:

Summary

Fear is high and Gen Z is Struggling, here are 3 stocks to watch 

Gen Z’s financial engine has hit turbulence, and the ripple-effects are arriving in an already jittery market. 

As younger consumers retrench, companies that once rode the wave of Zoomer spending are now facing sharp downside risk. 

Clever investors are hunting for the survivors. 

Here are three stocks that look like babies thrown out with the bathwater: Stocks that Can Win in a Fearful Market.

Tesla (TSLA) – Musk’s Pay Package Approved

Shareholders voted overwhelmingly this week to approve Elon Musk’s record-setting compensation package, valued at nearly $1 trillion if all performance milestones are achieved. 

The approval gives Tesla’s CEO the green light to continue his AI, robotics, and autonomous vehicle push without governance overhang. The plan ties payouts to massive growth targets, including market-cap and profitability milestones that would require sustained global expansion and successful robotaxi deployment. 

Bottom line: the vote shows strong investor confidence and places even greater pressure on execution – an area where Musk thrives. 

Amazon – Major AI-Cloud Deal Amplifies Long-Term Growth Engine

Amazon continues to expand its domination, as expected. The company just keeps quietly winning, and the stock is reflective — up 10% over the past month and 14% on the year. 

What’s not to like? 

This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with OpenAI to provide cloud computing infrastructure powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The scale of this deal highlights how deeply entrenched AWS remains in enterprise AI growth, even as rivals fight for market share. 

Earlier in the week, Amazon also experienced a brief U.S. service outage affecting over 6,000 users before operations normalized; a small blip in an otherwise dominant week. With AI infrastructure, logistics, and retail firing in tandem, Amazon continues to be one of the market’s most consistent long-term winners.

Bitcoin: Yes, We’re Still Bullish

Like it or not, Bitcoin is still considered a "risk-on" play by most of Wall St.  It makes sense.. volatility is high and utility has yet to be cemented in the corridors of power.

Our Bitcoin thesis? Unchanged. It's a superior store of value to gold and will eventually be priced as such (currently about 1/15th the value of gold).  But the ride getting there will be bumpy and sometimes scary.

Swan play?  

Buying more bitcoin every...single...day.

Stock Spotlight: A Double-down Opportunity and a Proof-of-Thesis $DASH $LMND

Markets spent the week in a full-blown risk-off mode. High-growth names, smaller caps, and richly valued leaders all took heavy hits as uncertainty piled up from every direction: the Supreme Court’s tariff hearing, election season volatility, a prolonged government shutdown, and renewed labor-market weakness.

Several names in our MegaTrends portfolio moved lower as investors stepped back from risk. That does not change our conviction. We continue to hold exposure where consumer sentiment and major macro tailwinds remain strong. The disruptive nature of many companies on our list means those stocks rarely move in a straight line. Pullbacks born of fear and headline noise often clear the path for stronger rebounds.

Two companies stood out to us this week: one, a rare double-down opportunity, and another a proof of thesis:

DoorDash (DASH) Pullback Looks Enticing

DoorDash (DASH) reported Q3 revenue of $3.45 billion, up 27% YoY and ahead of estimates, though earnings of $0.55 per share missed expectations of $0.69. Total orders rose 21% to 776 million, confirming resilient demand even as consumers remain cautious. 

The company’s stock fell 9% after management guided for “several hundred million dollars” in additional investment next year to build out its global tech platform and support the newly acquired Deliveroo business. 

While that spending will weigh on near-term profitability, it reflects a long-term expansion strategy built on logistics innovation and international scale. With core operations profitable and adjusted EBITDA guidance still strong, we see this selloff as opportunity-driven fear rather than fundamental weakness. 

Consumers are still calling on DoorDash at a growing speed, and that gives us conviction.

Lemonade (LMND) Keeps Proving it’s a Disruptor

Lemonade (LMND), the AI-powered digital insurer we added to the MegaTrends portfolio in July, surged after reporting one of its strongest quarters to date. 

Revenue rose 42% YoY to $194.5 million, and net losses narrowed from $0.95 to $0.51 per share. 

Most impressively, the company’s net loss ratio improved to 64%, from 69% last quarter and 81% a year ago. 

For context, most insurers spend years trying to shave off a single point in loss ratio through pricing tweaks, manual reviews, and reinsurance adjustments. Lemonade’s six-month swing shows its AI models are making those same refinements automatically, policy by policy, based on real outcomes. 

The system learns which customers present higher risk, adjusts pricing in real time, and flags questionable claims before they reach human review. Lemonade’s AI now prices policies, detects fraud, and settles claims with minimal human involvement, learning and improving with every interaction. 

The result is faster payouts, lower costs, and more accurate risk assessment, which directly expands profitability as the platform scales.

This is one of the BEST examples of what companies can do who effectively leverage AI in legacy industries ripe for disruption.

We think this is still early innings.