FAANG stocks are investor darlings. Four of them are considered sexy — they have cool products, brainiac CEOs or California-style innovation. But one is not like the others. And herein lies an opportunity for astute investors.
The masses love Apple’s AAPL, iPhones, and hardly anyone cares about Google’s GOOG, GOOGL, Facebook FB, is getting a massive amount of criticism from Russians using its platform to influence the U.S. election. The Russians also used Google’s platform, but not many care. Original productions at Netflix NFLX, gain a lot of attention, while the extraordinary performance of Google’s YouTube is ignored. Finally, consumers spread their love for Amazon AMZN, as they increasingly buy products online, though they use Google search more often than they buy from Amazon.
In short, there is no love for Google.
Let’s break down this stock, which has risen 7% or 8% (depending on share class) since Sept. 25. Of the FAANG stocks, only Netflix has done better, at 10%.
Chart
Please click here for an annotated chart of Google. Note the following from the chart.
• The price is beginning to break out.
• RSI (relative strength index) shows there is more room to run.
• The rally is on low volume and for this reason poses risk.
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