Whitney Tilson

Ahead of the Benzinga Trading Summit on June 20, Benzinga sat down with Chris Camillo, one of the prolific educators headlining the inaugural event. BZ: What would you have changed about your early trading strategies, knowing what you know now? CC: My trading strategy hasn’t changed much over...

Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND) shares rocketed higher by another 20 percent on Monday and are now up 66 percent from last Thursday’s closing price. Despite a better-than-expected earnings report last Thursday, the 500-percent rally off of Beyond Meat’s $25 IPO price in just over a month...

Former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep morning show on Monday and discussed the difference between speculating in cryptocurrencies and speculating in cannabis stocks. Wait For The Bust Tilson said cannabis legalization is a real long-term trend that’s...

Former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep morning show on Monday and discussed his bearish call on Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) earlier this year. On March 4, Tilson predicted Tesla shares would fall below $100 by the end of 2019. At the time, the stock was...

Whitney Tilson joined Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep morning show on Monday and he had some advice for traders considering red-hot IPO Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND), which is now up more than 500 percent from its IPO price in a little over a month. “I’m not super familiar with the...

Two high-profile short sellers are making a friendly bet for charity on whether or not Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) will turn a profit in any quarter of 2019. Tesla bear and former Kase Capital Management hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson has bet Citron Research founder Andrew Left and a group of other...

After making a controversial call earlier this week that Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares will trade below $100 by the end of 2019, former Kase Capital Management hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson followed up on his prediction with several additional points in his Tuesday newsletter. The Domino...

Wall Street is full of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) bears, but former Kase Capital Management hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson is one of the most aggressive. After getting burned in the past betting against the electric vehicle maker, Tilson made a bold call on Monday that Tesla...

Aphria Inc (NYSE: APHA) fell 20 percent Monday after the stock was named as a short target by a presenter at the Kase Short Selling Conference. Quintessential Capital founder Gabriel Grego named Aphria as a top short idea, and said his call has nothing to do with his outlook for cannabis stocks in...

Ivan Feinseth, chief investment officer at Tigress Financial, joined Benzinga’s Premarket Prep trading show on Wednesday morning. Feinseth discussed the extreme volatility among marijuana stocks in recent months and whether or not cannabis share prices are out of control. 'It's A Bit...

Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, perhaps best known for his short thesis on Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE: LL), has decided to call it quits. Tilson's hedge fund, Kase Capital, will be closing shop after offering investors a disappointing return profile, the Wall Street Journal reported....

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has soared more than 8 percent since the November 8 presidential election, but not all fund managers are convinced the rally is here to stay. Whitney Tilson, founder of the hedge fund Kase Capital, counts himself as a skeptic and thinks the creation of $1.6 trillion...

Whitney Tilson moved two stocks on Tuesday with his long-short views on the pair, with Wingstop Inc (NASDAQ: WING) finding itself on the wrong side of his equation, while Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE: LL) was back in favor. At the Robin Hood Conference, Tilson, who runs the hedge fund...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) can be an extremely useful and tradable tool for investors, but only if you follow the right people. Here’s a look at 10 hedge fund managers that have the potential for market-moving tweets. 1. Carl Icahn - @Carl_C_Icahn Icahn is the founder and majority...

Whitney Tilson is long Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS). "The financial sector has been hit the hardest by the Brexit vote," Tilson wrote in an email, "so today I'm adding to the only financial stock I own (unless you count Berkshire), which is Goldman Sachs. At the current...