We recently published a list of 10 Stocks Everyone’s Talking About as Trump Softens His Tone on China. In this article, we are going to take a look at where HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) stands against other stocks everyone’s talking about as Trump softens his tone on China.
Investors are desperately looking for signs of a market bottom after going through massive volatility and losses. 3Fourteen Research’s Warren Pies said in a latest program on CNBC that we are getting “close” to a market bottom based on his technical analysis. The analyst talked about key indicators he’s looking for:
“I do think that the White House is trying to deescalate the situation. One of the markers we’ve seen is that Peter Navarro hasn’t been on TV since April 13th, and that’s corresponding with this equity rally. Setting that aside, though, I think that a bottom, a confirmed bottom, has two components. You need to see washed out sentiment and positioning. We measured that in a number of ways: we measured it in inverse ETFs for retail, we measured it for vault targeting for institutions, and CTAs for trend followers. Across all those metrics, sentiment is depressed. That’s phase one of a bottom. Then, you look for technical confirmation. Philosophically, we’re always going to be late because of that ordering.”
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A team of software developers gathered around a monitor discussing a new CRM platform.
HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS)
Number of Hedge Funds Investors: 63
Doug Clinton, Intelligent Alpha founder, said in a latest program on CNBC that just like the “vibe coding” trend is creating its effects in the tech industry, “vibe marketing” could help HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) in the coming months:
“You look at a HubSpot, you know, I think that that’s a name where they are obviously building AI tools for their users. We’ve had this phenomena of vibe coding in the software side for developers, and I think this idea of vibe marketing where people who maybe they’re not designers, they’re not expert creatives, they can go and use some of these AI tools and create really compelling ads. I mean, they look professional. I think companies like HubSpot could benefit from that. We might start to see some inflection in their numbers in the back half of the year.”
TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. Focus Growth Strategy stated the following regarding HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:
“Among the wide variety of Information Technology companies, we prefer critical system providers, specialized component designers, systems that improve productivity or efficiency for their clients, and others that are growing their shares of corporate IT budgets. Another addition to the sector was HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS), a cloud-based customer relationship management platform provider. Its execution has been stellar, with a best-in-class software product driven by a robust innovation engine, a unified underlying data architecture platform, and a focus on the small-to-mid business market where we see high potential for productivity improvements from Generative AI innovation, They subsequently reported a strong third quarter earnings report was highlighted by billings growth and the new business backlog has accelerated. HubSpot added 10,000 net new customers in the quarter.”
Overall, HUBS ranks 9th on our list of stocks everyone’s talking about as Trump softens his tone on China. While we acknowledge the potential of HUBS, our conviction lies in the belief that under the radar AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than HUBS but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
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