Reddit Inc. is a social media platform that hosts more than 100,000 active communities, or subreddits, organized around myriad topics. Reddit went public in March 2024 at $34 per share. The company's mission is to 'empower communities and make their knowledge accessible to everyone.' The community ecosystem is organically built upon shared interests, information passions, and trust. Reddit's business model is to offer advertisers access to this unique and engaged audience. Reddit does not require that users disclose their identities. The company is global, though only about 19% of revenue is generated outside the U.S. The company has over 2,500 employees.

As of the end of last week, the S&P 500 was up 16% in six weeks; the Nasdaq 100 had skyrocketed over 26% in six weeks; and the Nasdaq Composite had jumped 25% in six weeks. No doubt, the stock market is on fire. Insiders, meanwhile, are neutral. Those two scenarios can certainly co-exist, suggesting the assumptions that an imminent correction is not likely but that stocks also are not cheap. Looking at the numbers in the weekly insider-sentiment data from Vickers Stock Research, the NYSE Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is 4.88 on a scale where neutral territory runs from 2.00 to 6.00. The Nasdaq ratio is 5.57, and the Total (all exchanges) ratio is 5.23. Drilling down to insider sentiment at the sector level, long-term activity has turned neutral in many sectors, with moves that are both positive and negative in direction. On the positive side, Communication Services is now recording a neutral Eight-Week Sell/Buy Ratio of 5.4, improved from a bearish reading of 6.1 last week and markedly improved from the highly bearish reading of 17.7 only four weeks ago. On the flipside, four sectors have moved from bullish to neutral this week, including Consumer Discretionary, Industrial, Materials, and Real Estate. With most sectors now reporting neutral readings across the eight-week scale, the remaining outliers on the bullish side include Consumer Staples, Financial, Healthcare, and Utilities, while the only bearish sector remains Information Technology. This week, analysts at Vickers highlighted insider transactions of interest at Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) and Comfort Systems USA Inc. (NYSE: FIX).

To date, 2026 has been a volatile year for stocks. The major indices started the year by moving higher, but that changed with the onset of the war with Iran on February 28. As oil prices began to climb rapidly, stock prices fell inversely. The Mag7 were out, but now seem to be back in (or at least most of them). AI was in and remains in. Of note, this is President Trump's second year in office, and typically, the second year of a presidency is weak for stocks. Meanwhile, inflation is slowly-and-steadily inching higher again and interest rates haven't budged since the Federal Reserve's last rate cut in December. In 1Q26, the S&P 500 fell 4.3%. In the Argus universe of more than 500 public companies, the average share-price decline was 0.3%, and the median decline was 2%. The following stocks are the top-10 and the bottom-five performers from the Argus universe during 1Q. Among the winners, we note that five are from Information Technology, two from Materials, two from Energy, and one from Healthcare. Why do we study past performance? We want to know which stocks weathered the storms that were presented, the mix of sector performance, and the emergence of new names in the performance derby.

Reddit Inc. is a social media platform that hosts more than 100,000 active communities or subreddits, organized around myriad topics. Reddit went public in March 2024 at $34 per share. The company's mission is to 'empower communities and make their knowledge accessible to everyone.' The community ecosystem is organically built upon shared interests, information passions, and trust. Reddit's business model is to offer advertisers access to this unique and engaged audience. Reddit does not require that users disclose their identities. The company is global, though only about 19% of revenue is generated outside the U.S. The company has over 2,500 employees.