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

Discover assets to sell or short now across stocks, crypto, ETFs, commodities, and forex, 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 RatioEvent RisksFinancial HealthAnnualized Historic VolatilityForecast Price and Initial Price
373
CAT.NYSE
Caterpillar (CAT)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-703(▼12)
SELL ALL-32.3%(+/-6.7%)1.2%36.5xHigh (77)45+/-31.2%$644.6($963.5)
372
SPCX.NASDAQ
SpaceX (SPCX)
StocksListing United States
Data 96d old
-569
SELL ALL-18.2%(+/-14.1%)0.0%—High (78)40—$131.7($161.0)
371
RKLB.NASDAQ
Rocket Lab USA (RKLB)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-555(▼202)
SELL ALL-45.2%(+/-6.2%)0.0%—Very High (93)51+/-78.9%$55.1($100.5)
370
1347.HKEX
Hua Hong Semiconductor (1347)
StocksHQ ChinaListing Hong Kong
Data 96d old
-502(▼168)
SELL ALL-35.5%(+/-8.6%)0.8%>300xVery High (91)58+/-64.3%HK$113.9(HK$178.0)
369
QBTS.NYSE
D-Wave Quantum (QBTS)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-461
SELL ALL-38.6%(+/-6.6%)0.0%—Very High (97)57—$13.83($22.5)
368
HIMS.NYSE
Hims & Hers Health (HIMS)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-449(▼228)
SELL ALL-36.6%(+/-7.9%)0.0%—Very High (85)47+/-77.3%$23.3($36.8)
367
SBUX.NASDAQ
Starbucks (SBUX)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-443(▲87)
SELL ALL-18.2%(+/-9.1%)1.7%38.3xModerate (55)29—$83.8($104.3)
366
W.NYSE
Wayfair (W)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-429(▼142)
SELL ALL-33.0%(+/-7.8%)0.0%—High (76)25+/-75.1%$63.3($94.5)
365
PWR.NYSE
Quanta Services (PWR)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-427(▼99)
SELL ALL-18.6%(+/-8.8%)0.1%88.7xVery High (81)37+/-33.9%$543.3($668.3)
364
SPCE.NYSE
Virgin Galactic (SPCE)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-401(▼265)
SELL ALL-49.1%(+/-17.6%)0.0%—Very High (100)23+/-551.0%$1.37($2.70)
363
LCID.NASDAQ
Lucid Group (LCID)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-386(▼172)
SELL ALL-38.9%(+/-11.3%)0.0%—Very High (98)21+/-341.0%$3.71($6.08)
362
AEHR.NASDAQ
Aehr Test Systems (AEHR)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-366
SELL ALL-40.1%(+/-18.1%)0.0%>300xVery High (91)48+/-94.3%$41.9($70.0)
361
RGTI.NASDAQ
Rigetti Computing (RGTI)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-354
SELL ALL-36.7%(+/-11.1%)0.0%—Very High (97)45+/-127.0%$11.36($17.94)
360
ARM.NASDAQ
Arm Holdings (ARM)
StocksHQ United KingdomListing United States
Data 97d old
-353(▼5)
SELL ALL-25.6%(+/-6.4%)0.0%>300xVery High (87)72+/-76.5%$234.6($315.3)
359
IWM.NYSEARCA
iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)
IndicesListing United States
Data 97d old
-352(▲80)
SELL ALL-11.2%(+/-4.9%)0.8%—Low (33)——$262.2($297.6)
358
BBAI.NYSE
BigBear.ai (BBAI)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-352(▼99)
SELL ALL-39.5%(+/-15.1%)0.0%—Very High (98)40+/-162.0%$2.14($3.53)
357
VIK.NYSE
Viking (VIK)
StocksHQ BMListing United States
Data 97d old
-334(▼49)
SELL ALL-17.9%(+/-10.6%)0.0%91.4xHigh (73)56+/-40.6%$82.7($100.7)
356
BROS.NYSE
Dutch Bros (BROS)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-319(▼12)
SELL ALL-22.9%(+/-10.1%)0.0%107xHigh (79)44+/-65.5%$55.6($72.2)
355
PLUG.NASDAQ
Plug Power (PLUG)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-307(▲49)
SELL ALL-31.9%(+/-15.3%)0.0%—Very High (98)34+/-89.5%$1.80($2.64)
354
MU.NASDAQ
Micron Technology (MU)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-296(▲49)
SELL ALL-21.6%(+/-14.2%)0.3%13.2xHigh (78)67+/-50.6%$762.9($975.6)
353
IONQ.NYSE
IONQ (IONQ)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-287(▼226)
SELL ALL-28.8%(+/-12.2%)0.0%40.4xVery High (92)51+/-97.4%$35.0($49.1)
352
FIX.NYSE
Comfort Systems USA (FIX)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-287(▼23)
SELL ALL-18.0%(+/-12.8%)0.4%40.6xVery High (84)55+/-42.8%$1,423($1,741)
351
CAVA.NYSE
CAVA Group (CAVA)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-283(▲162)
SELL ALL-23.0%(+/-13.9%)0.0%160xHigh (75)55+/-59.4%$59.2($76.9)
350
INTC.NASDAQ
Intel (INTC)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-274(▼2)
SELL ALL-17.9%(+/-13.1%)1.2%—Very High (83)46+/-44.7%$97.6($120.4)
349
AMAT.NASDAQ
Applied Materials (AMAT)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-273(▼21)
SELL ALL-18.9%(+/-16.3%)0.6%49.9xHigh (71)68+/-43.6%$486.1($603.0)
348
SERV.NASDAQ
Serve Robotics (SERV)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-267
SELL ALL-32.6%(+/-22.1%)0.0%—Very High (95)56+/-182.0%$4.25($6.31)
347
SOUN.NASDAQ
SoundHound AI (SOUN)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-259(▼144)
SELL ALL-28.5%(+/-16.3%)0.0%—Very High (94)54+/-135.0%$4.68($6.55)
346
WMT.NYSE
Walmart (WMT)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-256(▼215)
SELL ALL-8.6%(+/-6.0%)0.8%42.9xModerate (49)37—$101.3($111.8)
345
ASML.AMS
ASML Holding (ASML)
StocksListing Netherlands
Data 96d old
-256(▼48)
SELL ALL-14.3%(+/-13.5%)0.8%55.9xVery High (82)68+/-34.3%€1,389(€1,634)
344
RHM.XETRA
Rheinmetall (RHM)
StocksListing Germany
Data 96d old
-251(▼311)
SELL ALL-14.4%(+/-11.7%)0.6%75.6xHigh (70)50—€930.5(€1,093)
343
NBIS.NASDAQ
Nebius Group (NBIS)
StocksHQ NetherlandsListing United States
Data 97d old
-249(▼95)
SELL ALL-23.6%(+/-18.6%)0.0%89.6xVery High (91)45+/-66.3%$164.7($215.6)
342
ALAB.NASDAQ
Astera Labs (ALAB)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-248(▼70)
SELL ALL-25.3%(+/-14.3%)0.0%207xVery High (93)81+/-93.7%$303.6($406.4)
341
USDJPY.FOREX
USD/JPY (USDJPY)
FOREX
Data 96d old
-247(▼36)
SELL ALL-4.7%(+/-5.9%)--—Low (32)—+/-8.1%¥153.5(¥161.2)
340
LRCX.NASDAQ
Lam Research (LRCX)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-244(▼6)
SELL ALL-19.5%(+/-16.8%)0.6%53.8xVery High (86)73+/-53.7%$281.1($351.4)
339
AMD.NASDAQ
AMD (AMD)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-243(▲112)
SELL ALL-19.1%(+/-14.3%)0.0%116xVery High (80)65+/-56.9%$418.9($517.8)
338
HWM.NYSE
Howmet Aerospace (HWM)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-234(▼27)
SELL ALL-11.1%(+/-9.1%)0.1%47.8xModerate (49)61+/-39.7%$240.1($270.4)
337
AAPL.NASDAQ
Apple (AAPL)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-230(▼70)
SELL ALL-8.6%(+/-5.1%)0.4%34.8xModerate (54)53—$281.2($308.6)
336
EURUSD.FOREX
EUR/USD (EURUSD)
FOREX
Data 96d old
-227(▼5)
SELL ALL-3.4%(+/-3.2%)--—Very Low (1)—+/-8.7%$1.10($1.14)
335
CSCO.NASDAQ
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-224(▼24)
SELL ALL-10.7%(+/-11.4%)2.1%34.3xModerate (50)51+/-26.0%$98.6($112.7)
334
WULF.NASDAQ
TeraWulf (WULF)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-220
SELL ALL-23.9%(+/-17.3%)0.0%—Very High (96)26+/-102.0%$16.12($21.2)
333
KLAC.NASDAQ
KLA-Tencor (KLAC)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-216(▼26)
SELL ALL-15.6%(+/-13.3%)0.7%5.87xHigh (77)69+/-51.3%$197.4($235.6)
332
BESI.AMS
BE Semiconductor Industries (BESI)
StocksListing Netherlands
Data 96d old
-211(▲71)
SELL ALL-15.2%(+/-16.0%)1.7%92.4xVery High (92)66+/-46.7%€227.8(€273.1)
331
DDOG.NASDAQ
Datadog (DDOG)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-210(▲7)
SELL ALL-14.4%(+/-10.5%)0.0%>300xHigh (75)55+/-59.9%$222.9($260.4)
330
COST.NASDAQ
Costco Wholesale (COST)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-190(▼49)
PARTIAL SELL-4.9%(+/-4.8%)0.4%51.2xModerate (46)46+/-22.0%$901.9($951.7)
329
CRWV.NASDAQ
CoreWeave (CRWV)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-188
PARTIAL SELL-22.3%(+/-20.8%)0.0%—Very High (91)23+/-113.0%$63.5($81.8)
328
GBPUSD.FOREX
GBP/USD (GBPUSD)
FOREX
Data 95d old
-181(▲111)
PARTIAL SELL-2.2%(+/-3.0%)--—Very Low (0)—+/-9.5%$1.30($1.33)
327
NET.NYSE
Cloudflare (NET)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-179(▼146)
PARTIAL SELL-14.9%(+/-12.1%)0.0%—Very High (81)41+/-67.6%$206.3($242.4)
326
SNOW.NYSE
Snowflake (SNOW)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-164(▲96)
PARTIAL SELL-13.5%(+/-12.6%)0.0%—High (74)35+/-62.6%$225.0($260.2)
325
CRDO.NASDAQ
Credo Technology (CRDO)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-160
PARTIAL SELL-17.6%(+/-17.4%)0.0%98.7xVery High (87)84+/-82.0%$199.3($241.9)
324
PLTR.NYSE
Palantir Technologies (PLTR)
StocksListing United States
Data 97d old
-149(▲9)
PARTIAL SELL-14.1%(+/-14.9%)0.0%86.0xVery High (86)84+/-69.7%$111.1($129.3)

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 assets to short now?

For the current 1-Year sell / short ranking, the #1 downside candidate is Caterpillar Inc.. Expected return: -33.1%

Which assets are the top sell or short candidates?

The current top 5 sell / short candidates are: 1. British Pound / US Dollar (GBPUSD); 2. Euro / US Dollar (EURUSD); 3. US Dollar / Japanese Yen (USDJPY); 4. Costco Wholesale Corporation; 5. Apple Inc. (AAPL).

Which asset shows the weakest projected return?

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (SPCE) currently shows the weakest projected return in this sell / short ranking at -49.10% annualized.

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

Dividend yield data is not available for every ranked asset. When present, the table shows annual net dividend yield for direct comparison.

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

US Dollar / Japanese Yen (USDJPY) is currently the least volatile in this sell / short ranking at +8.09% 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.