Great day for SOFI with a $15 break
Likefolio guys actually released this yesterday lol:
I was too consumed in ESSC to do anything… wish I bought leaps. They think SOFI could double in 3 years (but they are very conservative)
Sadly I was consumed with essc too.
Good find! Congrats to those in it.
From a TA perspective, I’m curious if this news and bullish momentum puts SOFI “back on track” for the 6 month cycle swing play this has presented itself over the last year. April calls looked like it would be around where it could “peak” or begin to… Now that this news essentially changes (or adds to) the industry metrics SOFI is in, are we now looking at a new trend being established here altogether?
tldr; Are people looking for a new trend being established here or a continuation of prior trends as it falls back into historical support ranges again?
I wouldn’t aim this high with current market position. Should compare to other fintechs to get a reference:
AFRM
LC
ML
SQ
HOOD (although this dipped regardless of market news)
UPST
Interest talks by the fed, jobs report and anything remotely affecting inflation with good news is required to achieve this cycle again.
Interesting point, a difference from previous cycles this time is the catalyst event of having a preliminary approval for their bank charter approved. previous trends indicate that sofi could hit $25 in the short to medium term, but with growth stocks getting drawn down recently that also presents a pretty significant headwind.
on the original SOFI thread i posted this guy i found who called out the swing play pretty accurately: SOFI STOCK 5 DAYS AWAY FROM A BREAK OUT!!! | PRICE PREDICTION | TECHNICAL ANALYSIS$ SOFI - YouTube
but this 1-Yr trade and pattern was in pretty stable macro conditions. what i mean is Biden was in office, the fed was always threatening rate hikes, inflation was “transitory”. things have changed now. bank charter. rates are going up, most likely March, but could be earlier. also, a lot of insiders have sold their significant portions of their positions. student loan deferment is suppose to end in May.
like you stated, the pattern has just established very clear support and resistance ranges for me. this stock has traded over $20 at it’s peaks for weeks at a time so LEAPs above that price range look tasty. but IV is pretty high right now.
Just wanna keep $SOFI alive, it’s been good to me so far. With FY results scheduled for March 1, assuming the overall market continues it’s relative upward momentum (SPY opened at $430 Monday, closed at $441 today), we may be at the bottom of the pendulum now at the ~$11 mark. Sofi opened Monday at about $13, so it’s not directly correlating with SPY, but it may only be lagging behind. Last week SPY was at $445 when Sofi dipped under $15 and I have no negative news for them, only the positive of the bank charter, which should ostensibly raise future earnings predictions.
Previous estimates were based on student loan repayments resuming Jan 31, and we know that was extended to May. This may have some negative impact. I personally feel like it won’t be huge, given that they performed well since March 2020 when the Trump administration first paused student loan repayment, but I could be wrong.
Otherwise, sentiment for the company is strong on every analysis I’ve read; according to some articles the median analyst 1-year price target is $20. It was over $24.50 as recently as November, when SPY was in the $464 range.
Here’s the Seeking Alpha article that hits the high points of the Q3 earnings and Q4 estimates from last quarter: SoFi Technologies stock jumps 14% after Q3 (NASDAQ:SOFI) | Seeking Alpha
We have two threads on this ticker, and I posted my thoughts on the earlier one:
Everything is down right now, but good news for the future of SOFI: SoFi to Buy Banking-Infrastructure Firm Technisys for About $1.1 Billion - WSJ
buying a block of SOFI under $10 then selling CCs seems like a no brainer, what am I missing? What do support levels look like below $10?
I would sell csp’s first and than if assigned sell cc’s
https://twitter.com/EggPlatypus/status/1496534212589064192?s=20&t=UzdxbOta93OtN609JCJQ0g
Not in this but Platypus seems to be happy with SOFI at these levels
Thank you @hansolo and @internetkings for the alternative views on this, extremely helpful and seems like others have similar thoughts here. Could markets really drag SOFI below $9s? Anything is possible I suppose.
I am sure it can, maybe it will - I am going in on some 9.50 CSPS 2/25’s if someone wants to pay 25 for them -
Puts my average @ 9.25 should I get assigned
The $1.1B purchase of Technisys is an all stock transaction, and they are issuing 84M new shares. Their current outstanding is 807M shares. To the extent that the share price is down only 3% and the dilution is about 10%, I think this shows the market is looking at this transaction favorably. In fact, if markets were not down 2%, SOFI might have been in the green, even!
SOFI started moving after hours yesterday, there were a couple filings I saw. One was the CEO buying some shares (not a lot), the other was extremely long and I couldn’t figure out what changed in it. Maybe someone smarter than I would like to check it out and report back.