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Welcome to Ben Carney's Website

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Welcome to my personal website, I am going to use this to conduct some personal single stock / econ analysis to keep my skills sharp and maybe a rant or two. This is not professional financial advice.

9/25/2023 - Insta-Cart? More like Insta-Shit!

Last week we had the instacart IPO which was priced at $30.00 rose to a peak of $39.90 then crashed back to inital IPO price. You wanna know why? Very simply look at their capital structure and the answer is extremely obvious. Their convertable preferred stock. Jesus it's 95% of their entire capitalzation and ridiculous.