What Happened?
Shares of work management platform monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) fell 5.3% in the afternoon session after JPMorgan downgraded the company to a Neutral rating.
StreetInsider reported that the bank lowered its rating on the company in a research note. A downgrade to a Neutral rating typically indicates that an analyst expects the stock to perform in line with the broader market or industry peers over a given time horizon, rather than outperform them.
Rating downgrades from major financial institutions can influence market sentiment and lead to selling pressure among investors.
After the initial drop, the shares shed some of the losses and rose to $76.18, down 3.6% from the previous close.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
monday.com’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 48 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 1 day ago when the stock dropped 5.3% on the news that a deepening Treasury selloff and higher oil prices pushed the benchmark 10-year yield to 5.218%, reinforcing expectations of further Federal Reserve rate hikes. Morningstar reported that stocks slid and technology shares led early declines as the week began, a week that also includes key jobs data. A Treasury selloff means investors are selling U.S. government bonds. When bond prices fall, their yields, or the return investors receive, rise.
Higher yields tend to weigh heavily on technology and software stocks. Much of the value of these companies is based on profits expected many years into the future. When investors can earn more than 5% on relatively safe government bonds, those distant earnings become less attractive in comparison, which can lower the prices investors are willing to pay for growth stocks. Rising oil prices add to the pressure because they can push inflation higher.
Persistent inflation could lead the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates, increasing borrowing costs for businesses and consumers. The upcoming jobs report may give investors more clues about the Fed's next steps.
monday.com is down 46.9% since the beginning of the year, and at $76.18 per share, it is trading 62.9% below its 52-week high of $205.24 from October 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of monday.com’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at only $232.10.
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