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At a glance
- $ABNB today+11.7%last $189.99
- 52-week range1.8% below high$110.81 – $193.45
- Coverage7 this week15 in 30 days · 2.0× its usual pace
- Sector scannerCalmConsumer Discretionary
What it means
- What to watch: Strong spending is great for sales; whether it is profitable depends on how much discounting it took to get there.
- How the stock is trading: $ABNB +11.67% in the latest session.
- Timing: Weekend news: the change beside it is Friday's, and Monday's open is the first session that gets a say. Market holidays are not detected.
Where the stock stands
$ABNB last changed hands at $189.99, +11.67% on the session, 1.8% below its 52-week high of $193.45 and 71% above its low of $110.81 — within a tenth of its 52-week high. Over the year it has ranged 75% from low to high: a wide band, so a several-percent week is just a week. These are latest-session quotes, not live prices — the live tape is on the $ABNB page.
How much coverage it is getting
Wook has logged 15 stories on $ABNB in the last 30 days, 7 of them this week. At its 30-day pace you would expect about 4 a week, so this week is running well ahead of normal — something has the newsroom's attention. Across those stories the wording ran 27% bullish, 66% neutral and 7% bearish — mostly headline writers keeping a straight face. This one reads bullish, so it sits with a sizeable part of the run. 5 came from Fortune; the rest came from other outlets, so this is a story more than one newsroom is chasing. 12 related stories from the same name or desk are listed beside this one.
The bigger picture
Retail is a balancing act between shoppers' wallets and the company's margins: wages, credit and confidence drive the first, and discounting to win them can eat the second. On Wook's supply-chain scanner, Consumer Discretionary reads calm today — no unusual stress in the filings and disclosures it watches. The scanner equivalent of a quiet night shift.
What to watch next
The $ABNB page has the full chart, the filings and the valuation model behind every figure here. Want the facts without the spin? Read how two or three outlets frame the same story — where they agree is the news, where they differ is the angle. And Wook AI, up top, will happily do the math — how far $ABNB sits from its high, or how this week's coverage stacks up.
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