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Stocks to Sell or Short Now 1-Year Agentic AI Forecast Rankings

Discover stocks to sell or short now, ranked by the weakest outlooks in iPulse AI's 1-year agentic forecast. The highest-ranked sell and short candidates combine the weakest expected returns with the least attractive return-to-risk profiles, the strongest bearish AI Agent consensus, persistent downside forecast paths, and heavier event-risk pressure. For stocks, low Financial Health scores, weak profitability and cash generation, balance-sheet stress, and demanding valuations can add further evidence to the downside case. Use the table to identify vulnerable assets and potential short opportunities, then inspect the forecast, price target, risk, and supporting metrics behind every rank.

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Table Definitions

Definitions for every metric available in the Top Picks table.

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Editorial Category Rank
The selected asset’s position within this edition’s editorial category. This human-reviewed selection order is independent of its quantitative universe rank.
Asset Universe Rank
The asset’s quantitative rank within the analyzed asset universe for the selected scoring snapshot. Original published ranks are preserved when an editorial table shows only a subset of assets.
Asset Name
The ranked asset in this Top Picks view, including name, ticker, market category, and listing context where available.
Price Data Cutoff Date
The market price date used for this row. Recomputed ranking snapshots can use newer closes than the original deep-analysis batch.
Cross-Horizon Score
A governed 0-100 candidate score that combines the remaining one-year outlook with confirmed five-year direction, confidence, financial health, and risk. It supports editorial review and does not replace either horizon rating.
iPulse Score
iPulse AI Consensus Score combines expected return, risk-adjusted return, advisor agreement, and risk-pressure inputs into one ranked signal.
Consensus Rating
Consensus Rating is the plain-language buy, hold, or sell interpretation of the iPulse AI consensus score for the selected horizon.
Expected Return Including Dividends
Total compounded expected return over the full selected horizon, including reinvested annual net dividends when applicable.
Annualized Return
Annualized expected return expressed as a one-year-equivalent rate for the selected forecast horizon.
Net Dividend Contribution
Annualized net dividend contribution used by the scoring pipeline, estimated from historical cash-dividend events after tax assumptions and outlier filtering. When a legacy immutable snapshot omitted the input field, the page derives the contribution only from that snapshot’s frozen dividend-inclusive and price-only return outputs; it never substitutes current dividend data.
P/E Ratio
Trailing P/E ratio. For example, 21.7 means the market value is 21.7x trailing earnings.
Event Risks
The Event Risks column summarizes clustered consensus frictions and tail risks as Very Low (0-19), Low (20-39), Moderate (40-59), High (60-79), or Very High (80-100). The number is a relative pressure score, not a probability of loss or a complete measure of investment risk.
Financial Health
0-100 equity-only financial quality score using liquidity, leverage safety, profitability, cash generation, and operating trend.
Annualized Historic Volatility
Annualized historical price volatility from daily returns, used as a risk denominator in scoring.
Direction Agreement
Percentage of advisors whose predicted direction matches the consensus direction.
Grouped Voices
Vote-count summary across raw voices, distinct advisors, personas, models, and adjusted grouped votes.
Advisors
Number of distinct advisor identities contributing forecasts for this asset in the selected batch, mode, and horizon.
Forecast Price / Initial Price
Projected consensus price at the selected horizon, shown against the initial/latest close price used by the snapshot.
Detailed Methodology
Top Picks ranked assets and investment research metrics. Select an asset name or its row to open the asset report.
Asset Universe RankAsset NameiPulse ScoreConsensus RatingExpected Return Including DividendsNet Dividend ContributionP/E RatioAnnualized Historic VolatilityForecast Price and Initial Price
209
PLTR.NYSE
Palantir Technologies (PLTR)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-337(▼345)
SELL ALL-24.7%(+/-8.7%)0.0%185x+/-70.2%$117.2($155.7)
207
RKLB.NASDAQ
Rocket Lab USA (RKLB)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-312(▼479)
SELL ALL-25.1%(+/-9.8%)0.0%—+/-76.4%$53.9($71.9)
206
OKLO.NYSE
Oklo (OKLO)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-240
SELL ALL-19.7%(+/-9.1%)0.0%—+/-84.9%$43.9($54.7)
205
SPCE.NYSE
Virgin Galactic (SPCE)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-207(▼299)
SELL ALL-29.2%(+/-24.9%)0.0%—+/-560.0%$1.77($2.50)
204
LCID.NASDAQ
Lucid Group (LCID)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-198(▼242)
PARTIAL SELL-18.7%(+/-10.4%)0.0%—+/-350.0%$8.37($10.30)
203
CAT.NYSE
Caterpillar (CAT)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-170(▼252)
PARTIAL SELL-6.8%(+/-9.2%)1.2%34.2x+/-30.4%$634.6($688.7)
202
COST.NASDAQ
Costco Wholesale (COST)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-155(▼327)
PARTIAL SELL-3.6%(+/-4.7%)0.4%53.7x+/-22.0%$936.4($974.8)
200
005380.KRX
Hyundai Motor Co. (005380)
StocksListing South Korea
Data 202d old
-130(▼353)
PARTIAL SELL-6.6%(+/-11.2%)2.9%20.8x+/-35.4%₩474,185(₩522,000)
199
WMT.NYSE
Walmart (WMT)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-114(▼257)
PARTIAL SELL-3.9%(+/-7.9%)0.9%46.7x+/-30.2%$115.4($121.1)
198
ARM.NASDAQ
Arm Holdings (ARM)
StocksHQ United KingdomListing United States
Data 202d old
-106(▼291)
PARTIAL SELL-7.3%(+/-7.8%)0.0%150x+/-71.9%$120.4($129.8)
197
BROS.NYSE
Dutch Bros (BROS)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-104(▼312)
PARTIAL SELL-7.1%(+/-9.0%)0.0%83.5x+/-66.2%$47.3($50.9)
196
GS.NYSE
The Goldman Sachs Group (GS)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-102(▼223)
PARTIAL SELL-5.7%(+/-12.8%)1.8%14.3x+/-29.7%$750.5($809.5)
195
GE.NYSE
General Electric (GE)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-92(▼181)
PARTIAL SELL-6.6%(+/-5.1%)0.4%32.6x+/-218.0%$271.5($291.6)
194
005930.KRX
Samsung Electronics Co (005930)
StocksListing South Korea
Data 202d old
-81(▼360)
PARTIAL SELL-3.4%(+/-9.9%)1.5%21.6x+/-29.3%₩190,716(₩200,500)
193
BBAI.NYSE
BigBear.ai (BBAI)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-81(▼264)
PARTIAL SELL-10.6%(+/-16.3%)0.0%—+/-166.0%$3.33($3.73)
192
TSLA.NASDAQ
Tesla (TSLA)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-77(▼193)
PARTIAL SELL-7.3%(+/-13.0%)0.0%>300x+/-67.2%$352.5($380.3)
191
INTC.NASDAQ
Intel (INTC)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-67(▼273)
PARTIAL SELL-3.3%(+/-9.7%)1.3%33.8x+/-41.6%$44.1($46.2)
190
DE.NYSE
Deere & (DE)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-66(▼103)
PARTIAL SELL-4.2%(+/-15.4%)1.0%44.7x+/-30.2%$538.6($567.6)
189
LMT.NYSE
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-60(▼203)
PARTIAL SELL-1.6%(+/-8.2%)1.9%24.9x+/-23.6%$615.7($637.5)
186
PG.NYSE
The Procter & Gamble (PG)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-49(▼208)
PARTIAL SELL+0.2%(+/-4.9%)1.8%19.7x+/-18.9%$142.6($144.8)
184
SNOW.NYSE
Snowflake (SNOW)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-38(▼229)
PARTIAL SELL-1.6%(+/-7.4%)0.0%—+/-60.5%$172.6($175.4)
183
HOOD.NASDAQ
Robinhood Markets (HOOD)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-37(▼28)
PARTIAL SELL-4.7%(+/-16.7%)0.0%29.2x+/-73.9%$70.7($74.2)
182
FVRR.NYSE
Fiverr International (FVRR)
StocksHQ ILListing United States
Data 202d old
-34(▼198)
PARTIAL SELL-1.2%(+/-6.2%)0.0%11.0x+/-76.6%$10.07($10.20)
181
PLUG.NASDAQ
Plug Power (PLUG)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-33(▼278)
PARTIAL SELL-4.6%(+/-23.4%)0.0%—+/-88.6%$2.29($2.40)
180
NOW.NYSE
ServiceNow (NOW)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-32(▼348)
PARTIAL SELL-0.3%(+/-6.3%)0.0%65.2x+/-47.0%$112.9($113.3)
179
DDOG.NASDAQ
Datadog (DDOG)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-31(▼248)
PARTIAL SELL-0.8%(+/-6.8%)0.0%295x+/-58.8%$129.0($129.9)
178
MCD.NYSE
McDonald's (MCD)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-31(▼161)
PARTIAL SELL+0.9%(+/-4.5%)1.6%24.9x+/-20.4%$307.4($309.6)
177
CRWD.NASDAQ
CrowdStrike (CRWD)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-29(▼238)
PARTIAL SELL-1.0%(+/-8.1%)0.0%>300x+/-55.9%$423.8($428.2)
168
SOUN.NASDAQ
SoundHound AI (SOUN)
StocksListing United States
Data 202d old
-18(▼263)
PARTIAL SELL-1.1%(+/-15.7%)0.0%—+/-139.0%$6.81($6.88)

Questions and answers

Top Picks FAQ

How is iPulse AI Score calculated?

iPulse AI Score summarizes the selected horizon by combining expected return, advisor agreement, forecast dispersion, volatility, dividend support, economic guardrails, and a small event-risk pressure adjustment from clustered consensus frictions and tail risks. It is designed for transparent research prioritization, not investment advice.

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What are the best stocks to short now?

For the current 1-Year sell / short ranking, the #1 downside candidate is Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR). Expected return: -24.7%

Which stocks are the top sell or short candidates?

The current top 5 sell / short candidates are: 1. ServiceNow, Inc.; 2. McDonald's Corporation; 3. Datadog, Inc. (DDOG); 4. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD); 5. SoundHound AI Inc.

Which stock shows the weakest projected return?

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (SPCE) currently shows the weakest projected return in this sell / short ranking at -29.20% annualized.

Which stock has the highest dividend yield in this sell / short list?

Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd. (005380) has the highest annual net dividend yield in this sell / short ranking at 2.9%.

Which stock is the least volatile in this sell / short ranking?

The Procter & Gamble Company (PG) is currently the least volatile in this sell / short ranking at +18.90% annualized historical volatility.

Are sell and short rankings updated with new market information?

Yes. Rankings are refreshed as new scoring snapshots become available, so the page reflects the latest consensus state for the selected horizon and market segment.