Retail investors talked up five hot stocks this week (Feb. 2 to Feb. 6) on X and Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets, driven by retail hype, earnings, AI buzz, and corporate news flow.
Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), spanning cryptocurrency, e-commerce, AI, cloud, software, data center, and semiconductors, reflected diverse investor interests.
Strategy
- MSTR was in focus this week with the company’s aggressive Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) strategy amid a sharp crypto downturn. Early in the week, it announced a purchase of 855 BTC for ~$75.3 million at an average price of $87,974, boosting its holdings toward 713,502 BTC. However, as Bitcoin plunged this week. This was followed by the fourth quarter earnings release, with a massive $12.4 billion net loss (or ~$42.93 per share), driven by mark-to-market Bitcoin declines, far worse than expectations and contributing to heavy stock selling.
- Most retail investors were mocking MSTR’s decline after the BTC sell-off and it earnings.
- The stock had a 52-week range of $104.16 to $457.22, trading around $105 to $107 per share, as of the publication of this article. It fell 67.13% over the year and declined by 72.10% over the last six months.
- MSTR had a weaker price trend in the short, medium, and long terms, with a poor value ranking, as per Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings.
Amazon.com
- AMZN’s fourth quarter 2025 earnings release saw strong revenue of $213.4 billion driven by solid holiday sales, robust AWS growth, and net income of $21.2 billion. However, it slightly missed EPS estimates at $1.95, and the big shocker was guidance for ~$200 billion in 2026 capital expenditures—up over 50% from 2025 levels—to fuel aggressive AI infrastructure, …