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Shopify’s 2025 Surge: Can the E-Commerce Powerhouse Keep Soaring?

Shopify Stock Skyrockets on Holiday Hopes Despite Profit Squeeze – What’s Next for SHOP?

Shopify’s logo. The e-commerce platform has seen explosive growth in sales but faces questions about rising costs and rich valuation. Its stock is up ~60% in 2025, and the company is forecasting a strong holiday quarterreuters.comreuters.com. Sources: Reutersreuters.comreuters.comreuters.com; Reutersreuters.comreuters.com; Reutersnasdaq.comnasdaq.com; 24/7 Wall St247wallst.com247wallst.com; Finvizfinviz.comfinviz.com; Nasdaq/Zacksnasdaq.com; Benzingabenzinga.com; BetaKitbetakit.combetakit.com; Stockanalysisstockanalysis.com; Reutersreuters.comreuters.com.
4 November 2025
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Shopify Q3 2025 Earnings: 32% Sales Surge, Bold Holiday Forecast – Is This Growth Stock Unstoppable?

Shopify Q3 2025 Earnings: 32% Sales Surge, Bold Holiday Forecast – Is This Growth Stock Unstoppable?

Shopify delivered another quarter of rapid growth in Q3 2025, reinforcing its position as a top-performing e-commerce platform. Revenue for the quarter was $2.844 billion, a 32% jump year-over-year and comfortably ahead of analyst expectationsgurufocus.com. This acceleration in growth underscores robust merchant sales across Shopify’s platform. The company’s adjusted earnings per share of $0.28 met consensus estimatesgurufocus.com, reflecting solid profitability after a period of heavy investment in new services. Gross profit grew in tandem with revenue, reaching $1.39 billiongurufocus.com, as Shopify benefited from operational scale and past cost-cutting measuresnasdaq.com. Key commerce metrics all moved in the right direction. Gross merchandise volume – the total value of transactions Shopify facilitated for merchants – surged to $92.0 billion in Q3, up 32% year-over-yeargurufocus.com. This indicates both higher consumer spending through Shopify stores and the addition of more merchants to the platform. Shopify’s Monthly Recurring Revenue, a measure of subscription fees from merchants, climbed to $193 milliongurufocus.com. The healthy ~10% MRR growth signals that more merchants are joining or upgrading their Shopify plans, contributing to a growing base of steady subscription income.
4 November 2025
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Boqii (NASDAQ: BQ) Stock Explodes 462% on October 30: The Chinese Pet E-Commerce Craze Fueling the Surge

Boqii (NASDAQ: BQ) Stock Explodes 462% on October 30: The Chinese Pet E-Commerce Craze Fueling the Surge

Summary: Boqii Holding – a Shanghai-based online pet supplies retailer – saw its stock skyrocket on Oct. 30, 2025. Shares closed around $44.61 on Oct. 30 Investing after trading in the single digits days earlier. This sudden rally comes amid high trading volumes and news of the company’s expanding pet products ecosystem. Boqii has clarified the move Boqii, but investors are buzzing. Key facts: Boqii’s market cap hit roughly $142 million during the rally Stockanalysis, its 2024 revenue was ~CNY 468.9M with a net loss of CNY 54.97M Stockanalysis. Analysts were mostly bearish, warning the stock was already “above fair value” after the jump Investing. For context, China’s pet market is booming – predicted to exceed RMB 1.15 trillion by 2028 Made In China – and Boqii’s private label Yoken is forging new partnerships in pet-friendly travel and retail. On Oct. 30, 2025, Boqii’s stock closed at $44.61 Investing – a staggering +461.8% move from $7.95 the previous close. Intraday, shares peaked as high as $55.41 before settling. This follows a volatile October: on Oct. 2 the stock jumped +54.9% and on Oct. 7 it briefly spiked intraday before closing around $11.55 Investing Investing. In the days leading up to
30 October 2025
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MercadoLibre Stock Slides Amid Fintech Boom – Analysts Predict Big 2025 Comeback

MercadoLibre Stock Dips After Q3 Earnings Miss – Can Brazil Deal Ignite a Rally?

Key Facts: - Share Price: MELI trades around $2,290, about 20% up year-to-datets2.tech; market cap ≈$115–116Bnasdaq.com. - Q3 Results: Revenue ~$7.41B beat estimatesinvesting.com, but net income $421M fell short of forecastsreuters.com. - New Deals: In late Oct., MercadoLibre struck a partnership to sell Brazilian retailer Casas Bahia’s appliances on its platform from Nov. 2025ts2.tech. The company also entered Brazil’s online pharmacy market via a drugstore acquisitionreuters.com. - Analyst Views: Wall Street is largely bullish – 15 of 17 rate MELI a Buymarketbeat.com. 12-month consensus target ~ $2,800marketbeat.com. Benchmark and Wedbush reaffirmed Buynasdaq.comts2.tech. - Macro & Market Trends: Brazil’s inflation and 15% interest rate remain highreuters.com, while Argentina faces ~32% inflationreuters.com and currency swings. Latin America e-commerce is booming, but local economic volatility pressures short-term demandts2.techreuters.com. MercadoLibre has been volatile in October. After peaking near $2,500 in late September, the stock fell sharply on Oct. 15 amid tech-sector selloffts2.tech. By Oct. 27, MELI had “stabilized near $2,160” – still about 10–15% below its late-2024 hights2.techts2.tech. As of Oct. 28 close, shares were around $2,290stockinvest.usnasdaq.com, up roughly 20% so far in 2025ts2.tech. In after-hours trading on Oct. 29, the stock dipped ~1.6%investing.com. Overall, MELI’s price is still well below its all-time peak
29 October 2025
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Etsy Stock Plunges as CEO Quits – Depop Exec Takes Over to Revive Growth

Etsy Stock Plunges as CEO Quits – Depop Exec Takes Over to Revive Growth

Etsy’s CEO transition comes at a pivotal moment for the 18-year-old online marketplace. Josh Silverman has led Etsy since 2017, steering it through a period of rapid pandemic-era growth followed by recent turbulence. His departure, effective end of this year, was announced just ahead of Etsy’s Q3 earnings and caught many by surprise. The company simultaneously unveiled that Kruti Patel Goyal, its current President and Chief Growth Officer, will assume the CEO role on January 1, 2026 moneycontrol.com businessoffashion.com. Goyal will also join Etsy’s board upon taking over. Goyal is a familiar name to Etsy employees and sellers. She joined Etsy back in 2012 and held various leadership roles, including Head of Marketplace Integrity and Chief Product Officer businessoffashion.com. Notably, since late 2022 Goyal has been CEO of Depop, the youth-focused fashion resale app Etsy acquired for $1.6 billion in 2021. She spent nearly three years in London turning around Depop – which caters to Gen Z thrift shoppers – before Silverman asked her “to come back to Etsy at the beginning of this year” to help lead the core business businessoffashion.com. In early 2025 Etsy created a new Chief Growth Officer role for Goyal, effectively positioning her as Silverman’s
29 October 2025
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PayPal’s Big Move: Shop in ChatGPT with One-Click Checkout

PayPal’s Big Move: Shop in ChatGPT with One-Click Checkout

PayPal’s agreement with OpenAI will make its digital wallet the first payments option available in ChatGPT. As PayPal explained, consumers using ChatGPT’s chat interface will see product suggestions and offers and can click to pay with their PayPal account prnewswire.com. The checkout flow uses OpenAI’s new Instant Checkout feature, which was introduced at OpenAI’s recent DevDay, meaning the sale is finalized “in just a few taps,” according to PayPal prnewswire.com ts2.tech. Importantly, PayPal will provide its familiar buyer/seller protections to users who check out via ChatGPT tipranks.com prnewswire.com. In short, a user could ask ChatGPT for, say, a camera or shoes, receive options, and complete the purchase within ChatGPT – all secured by PayPal behind the scenes. PayPal CEO Alex Chriss told CNBC that the deal “means customer protections for users including package tracking and dispute resolution.” He explained: “We’ve got hundreds of millions of loyal PayPal wallet holders who now will be able to click the ‘Buy with PayPal’ button on ChatGPT and have a safe and secure checkout experience” tipranks.com. Those words underscore how PayPal aims to leverage its trust and scale: over 400 million people already use PayPal to shop worldwide, and giving them an in-chat checkout
28 October 2025
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MercadoLibre Stock Rebounds as Brazil Expansion Fuels 2025 Rally Hopes

MercadoLibre Stock Rebounds as Brazil Expansion Fuels 2025 Rally Hopes

MercadoLibre, Inc. – often dubbed the “Amazon of Latin America” – has seen its stock whipsaw in recent weeks amid broader market jitters. The share price plunged over 5% in one session on Oct. 15, tumbling to around $2,048 after nearing $2,500 in late September ts2.tech. That pullback put the stock roughly 10–15% below its 52-week high of ~$2,645 ts2.tech. As of Monday, Oct. 27, MercadoLibre’s stock has stabilized near $2,160 per share marketbeat.com – modestly above the mid-October lows. Even after the October drop, MELI remains up approximately 20% for the year to date ts2.tech, reflecting strong gains from earlier in 2025. Analysts say the recent volatility was driven less by any single company event and more by global factors – from rising interest rates to economic uncertainty in Latin America. When MercadoLibre did announce a major initiative in early October, the stock reaction was fairly muted ts2.tech. Instead, fears of macroeconomic headwinds and intense competition have weighed on sentiment ts2.tech. Notably, MercadoLibre’s home base of operations – Latin America – has seen slower growth and currency instability this year, which can erode the dollar value of its sales. As a result, some investors grew cautious, prompting the early-October
27 October 2025
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Linkage Global (LGCB) Stock Doubles on Funding Lifeline – Can the E-Commerce Underdog Sustain the Rally?

Linkage Global (LGCB) Stock Doubles on Funding Lifeline – Can the E-Commerce Underdog Sustain the Rally?

Linkage Global’s stock has been on a rollercoaster, catapulting upward in recent sessions. On Thursday Oct. 16, LGCB nearly doubled in pre-market action, reaching around $3 per share stockanalysis.com. This spike followed an after-hours leap the prior evening, catching traders’ attention as one of the top gainers on the market’s momentum radar chartmill.com. Such extreme volatility is not unprecedented for LGCB – just days earlier, the thinly traded stock had also spiked over 100% intraday to ~$3.33 before pulling back rttnews.com. The sudden rallies appear to be driven by speculative enthusiasm around the company’s recent financing announcements, rather than any big improvement in day-to-day business operations. Even after the latest surge, Linkage shares remain well below their 52-week high of roughly $6.83 stockanalysis.com. The 52-week low is about $1.22, hit amid heavy selling earlier this year stockanalysis.com.
16 October 2025
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Sea Limited (SE) Stock Tumbles Nearly 10% as Analysts Debate Shopee’s Growth vs. High Valuation

Sea Limited Stock’s Wild Ride: SE Surges 300% Then Plunges – What’s Next for Shopee’s Tech Giant?

Sea Limited’s stock has been on a rollercoaster in 2025. After a brutal 2022–2023 downturn, SE staged a stunning comeback – by August 2025 the share price had more than quadrupled from its early-2024 lows, even briefly overtaking DBS Bank as Southeast Asia’s most valuable public companyfintechnews.sgfintechnews.sg. Optimism about Shopee’s profitability and a regional tech rebound propelled Sea’s stock to a 52-week high of ~$199 in early October. However, this week the momentum snapped: on October 15, SE plunged ~10% intraday, falling from about $184 in the morning to close at $163.42ts2.tech. This one-day drop erased weeks of gains and was “in line with a broader tech selloff,” as investors took profits on high-flying growth stocks amid jittery market sentimentts2.tech. Despite the pullback, Sea’s stock is still up roughly 80% in 2025 and trading well above its spring levelsts2.tech. The 52-week range of $92.50–$199.30 underscores how far it has climbed from last year’s pessimismts2.tech. Market watchers note that at these levels Sea’s valuation looks stretched – the stock trades around 94× trailing earningsts2.tech. That lofty valuation means big growth is already priced in, and any disappointment could hit the stock hard. Technically, traders are eyeing the $160 level as near-term
16 October 2025
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MercadoLibre (MELI) Stock Dips Amid Brazil Competition – Analysts Eye Long-Term Upside

MercadoLibre (MELI) Stock Dips Amid Brazil Competition – Analysts Eye Long-Term Upside

MercadoLibre’s stock opened near $2,181.92 on Oct. 15 but fell sharply into the afternoon. Reuters data show a midday price around $2,048.35 – about 5.1% lower than the previous closereuters.com. This continues a pullback from late-September highs when the stock briefly approached its 52-week peak. Trading volume has been elevated amid market jitters about Latin American growth. In October so far, MELI is down roughly 10–15% from its September peakstockanalysis.comreuters.com. Most of the recent price swings reflect broader volatility in tech and e-commerce stocks, especially in emerging markets. Notably, on Oct. 9 the company announced its Brazil pharma move, but the stock reaction was muted. Instead, analysts attribute the slide to concerns over competitive pressures and currency issues. For example, JPMorgan cited intensified Brazilian competition as a drag on marginsfinviz.com. Overall, MercadoLibre remains up modestly year-to-date, but below the highs of late 2024.
16 October 2025
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Sea Limited (SE) Stock Tumbles Nearly 10% as Analysts Debate Shopee’s Growth vs. High Valuation

Sea Limited (SE) Stock Tumbles Nearly 10% as Analysts Debate Shopee’s Growth vs. High Valuation

After a strong 2025 rally, Sea’s stock has been volatile this week. The shares opened Oct. 15 near $184 but slumped to a day’s low of about $162, settling at $163.42reuters.com. This ~10% one-day drop wiped out weeks of gains, in line with a broader tech selloff. Trading volume on Oct. 15 far exceeded recent averagesreuters.com. Over the past 52 weeks, SE stock traded between $92.50 and $199.30reuters.com, so even after this pullback the shares remain well above early-year lows. Market watchers point out the stock’s valuation is now stretched – at ~94x trailing EPSreuters.com – so even modest profit expectations are fully baked in. As of Oct. 15, institutional ownership was about 59.5%marketbeat.com, implying a lot of buy-side interest. Technical levels are notable: the stock briefly pierced its 52-week high in early Oct before easing. Many traders will watch if $160 holds as near-term support, while analysts debate if the pullback is a buying opportunity.
15 October 2025
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Walmart’s AI Shopping Shockwave: Stock Spikes 2% as ChatGPT Checkout Debuts and Tariff Storm Looms

Walmart’s AI Shopping Shockwave: Stock Spikes 2% as ChatGPT Checkout Debuts and Tariff Storm Looms

In short, Walmart’s move to integrate ChatGPT is being viewed as a game-changer for retail. CEO McMillon envisions a future where customers “simply chat and buy” and Walmart handles the rest corporate.walmart.com. That vision has excited investors – WMT’s stock is performing well and analysts see upside tipranks.com marketbeat.com – even as rising trade tariffs threaten margins. How things play out will depend on adoption of the new AI shopping tools and whether Walmart can contain costs. For now, experts say the stock’s fundamentals look solid: Walmart recently raised guidance and posted healthy sales gains tipranks.com, and analysts expect those trends to continue under this AI-driven strategy. Sources: Official Walmart press release corporate.walmart.com; Axios and NBC reporting axios.com axios.com; investing.com and TipRanks analysis za.investing.com tipranks.com; Retail Dive and TechSpace2 AI news retaildive.com ts2.tech. These sources provide the latest quotes, data and expert commentary on Walmart’s ChatGPT partnership, tariff impacts, stock ratings and forecasts tipranks.com marketbeat.com.
14 October 2025
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Pinterest Stock Takes on Gen Z: Is PINS the Next AI-Powered Shopping Juggernaut?

Pinterest Stock Takes on Gen Z: Is PINS the Next AI-Powered Shopping Juggernaut?

Pinterest, Inc. is a visual search and discovery platform launched in 2010investor.pinterestinc.com. Users browse and save image-based “Pins” on topics from fashion and home decor to recipes and travel, often linking to products or content. The site’s tagline – “where people discover new ideas, plan and shop” – reflects its e-commerce focus. Pinterest has over half a billion MAUs globallyinvestor.pinterestinc.com; two-thirds of users are women, and more than 50% now are Gen Zinvestor.pinterestinc.com. Crucially, Pinterest is free to users and monetizes almost exclusively through ads. Advertisers buy Promoted Pins, search ads, shopping and video ads targeted to Pinterest’s highly engaged audience. As one analysis notes, Pinterest’s “primary revenue source is advertising, including Promoted Pins and Shopping Ads”iide.co. The company leverages AI and personalization to match products to users’ intent. Pinterest also integrates shopping tools and affiliate links so users can purchase directly from Pins, blending inspiration with e-commerce. Pinterest’s stock trades on NYSE under “PINS.” On Oct 10, 2025, it closed at $30.40investing.com. This is near the midpoint of its 52-week rangeinvesting.com. The stock has been volatile: after reaching ~high-$30s in September, it pulled back in early Oct. For example, it slipped ~5% over the past weekinvesting.com. This late-September peak
11 October 2025
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Shopify’s 2025 Surge: Can the E-Commerce Powerhouse Keep Soaring?

Shopify’s 2025 Surge: Can the E-Commerce Powerhouse Keep Soaring?

In the detailed analysis below, we’ll explore Shopify’s recent performance, strategic moves, competitive comparison, and outlook in depth. Rocketing Off the 2022 Lows: Shopify’s share price has seen dramatic swings over the past five years. During the pandemic e-commerce boom, SHOP surged to an all-time high of ~$169 in November 2021macrotrends.net. Valuations hit stratospheric levels. The tide turned in 2022 as rising interest rates and a post-COVID demand shift deflated tech stocks – Shopify plummeted nearly 80% from its peak, even briefly dipping under $30 by late 2022. This gut-wrenching drop reset expectations and valuations across the SaaS sector.
5 October 2025
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Opendoor Stock Surges on Shopify COO Move – Will AI Magic Keep It Rising?

Opendoor Stock Surges on Shopify COO Move – Will AI Magic Keep It Rising?

Opendoor makes money by buying homes with an algorithmic price offer and reselling them to consumers or investors. Its strength is a large proprietary dataset and instant-offer platform, but it carries risks. After struggling to generate cash flow early on, Opendoor is emphasizing profitability: it achieved positive adjusted EBITDA in Q2 Mlq and promises to get to breakeven by 2026. In Q2 the gross profit per home sold was $128M/4,299 ≈ $30k on average; earlier quarters had similar per-home profits. At the end of Q2, inventory of unsold homes was ~$1.5B Mlq, which it will need to unload. Opendoor also pointed to tight expense control, and it has cut staff and lowered capex guidance as margins improve 247Wallst. The company’s 2025 full-year revenue is now expected around $5–6B, with profitability hinging on cost cuts and any rebound in home sales. Founder Eric Wu and investor Keith Rabois are pushing an “AI-first” strategy to improve pricing and operations – a long-term opportunity, but one that requires upfront investment and carries execution risk. In addition to the CEO shake-up, a few other recent items stand out. In mid-June 2025 Opendoor agreed to settle a 2022 investor lawsuit for $39 million Reuters. The
3 October 2025
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Tech Titans Clash: AI Superclusters, $4 Trillion Milestone & Prime Day Records (July 14 2025)

Tech Titans Clash: AI Superclusters, $4 Trillion Milestone & Prime Day Records (July 14 2025)

The tech world was abuzz on July 14, 2025, as industry giants unveiled ambitious AI investments, posted record-shattering sales, and grappled with regulatory challenges. From Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., Big Tech’s biggest players – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia, and more – made headlines with bold moves in artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and policy. Here’s your comprehensive roundup of the day’s major tech developments. Meta’s AI Power Play: CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to spend “hundreds of billions” on massive AI supercomputing data centers as part of a new “Superintelligence Labs” division reuters.com reuters.com. The first mega-cluster comes online in 2026, with another scaling up to 5 gigawatts later – and “just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” Zuckerberg boasted on Threads reuters.com. Justifying the enormous spend, he pointed to Meta’s robust ad profits: “We have the capital from our business to do this,” he said reuters.com. Investors seemed reassured – Meta’s stock ticked up ~1% on the news reuters.com – but analysts note the payoff could take time. “At this scale, the investment is more oriented to the long-term competition to have the leading AI model,” one analyst remarked, cautioning it may
15 July 2025
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Tech News Roundup – July 8, 2025: iOS 26 Redesign, Prime Day Record Deals, Galaxy Unpacked, and AI’s Global Surge

Tech News Roundup – July 8, 2025: iOS 26 Redesign, Prime Day Record Deals, Galaxy Unpacked, and AI’s Global Surge

Apple scaled back the Liquid Glass UI in iOS 26 beta, significantly reducing transparency to improve readability ahead of the September 2025 final release. Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11 with record-low prices on AirPods Pro 2 (as low as $149 in the US and €199 in Spain) and other Apple gear, MacBook Air with M4, and iPad Air. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9 will debut foldables Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 (with a possible Z Fold 7 Ultra), plus One UI 8 security upgrades and the KEEP per-app data encryption architecture. Microsoft Edge with
8 July 2025
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War-Fueled E-Commerce Boom: Inside Ukraine’s Online Shopping Surge in 2025

War-Fueled E-Commerce Boom: Inside Ukraine’s Online Shopping Surge in 2025

Ukraine’s e-commerce sector has shown remarkable resilience and growth despite the war’s disruptions. In 2024, online retail sales in Ukraine were estimated at nearly ₴239 billion – a significant rise that surpassed pre-war levels. This represents roughly $4 billion in transactions in 2024, about one-third higher than 2023’s total. Industry analysts note that around 16% of all purchases by Ukrainians are now made online, and the number of online shoppers exceeded 11 million people in 2024. After an initial collapse in early 2022, the e-commerce market rebounded quickly. By late 2023 it had recovered to around the 2020 turnover level and is projected to exceed the record pandemic-driven 2021 level in 2024. In short, Ukraine’s war-torn economy has seen online commerce become a lifeline, driving a new digital retail boom in 2025. Several factors underpin these trends in consumer behavior and market dynamics:
14 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ: AXON) slides 30% since August—AI revenue soars 700%
    July 1, 2026, 10:40 PM EDT. Semiconductor stocks tied to AI kept climbing in 2026, with iShares Semiconductor ETF doubling, but AI software names went the other way. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF dropped 16%, trailing the S&P 500. Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ: AXON), the police tech company behind TASERs and AI tools, is off 30% since August 2025. Yet Axon posted 34% revenue growth last quarter, driven by net revenue retention of 125% and higher full-year guidance of 30-32% growth. The company also saw AI product revenue surge over 700%, helped by Draft One for automatic bodycam report writing and Axon Assistant for real-time voice translation. Axon's numbers and new AI offerings put it on some investors' watchlists after the recent selloff.
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