In the battleground for growth stocks, the bulls lately haven’t put up much of a fight. High-growth stocks have been getting crushed.
A typical drawdown in quality names has been 40% to 50% over the past decade or so. Sometimes more and sometimes less, but that’s not really the point. The current correction has been a different animal.
Whether it’s a revenue-less, loss-generating SPAC or an actual high-quality growth company, the stocks have been getting buried.
Snap (SNAP) – Get Snap, Inc. Class A Report was down 70% at its recent low. Roku (ROKU) – Get Roku, Inc. Class A Report is down about 80%. Fastly (FSLY) – Get Fastly, Inc. Class A Report is down 85%. Twilio (TWLO) – Get Twilio, Inc. Class A Report, PayPal (PYPL) – Get PayPal Holdings, Inc. Report and Shopify (SHOP) – Get Shopify, Inc. Class A Report are down 64% to 66%.
That pain has been inflicted on Ark…