Zillow: Burning Down The House

 | Nov 03, 2021 03:31PM ET

One of today’s train wrecks is Zillow (NASDAQ:Z), which I only found out recently decided that no one knew more about real estate data than they did, so they would become the world’s biggest house-flippers. Well, that’s not working out so great. 

I always like to look at where stocks like this peaked, to see if there was any clue. The top price was only nine months ago, back on Feb. 16, when it peaked at $208.11. Well, it has lost about two-thirds of its market cap in that span of time. And this shooting star was the ringing bell marking the top: