# Professor Aswath Damodaran offers insight into the recent stock performances of Uber and Beyond Meat in response to the expiration of their IPO lockups and initial earnings reports

1 Faculty News November 9, 2019 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/public-market-rituals-spell-pain-for-uber-and-beyond-meat-stocks-1.1345568) -- “'If you are a trader, you can try to take advantage of the price drop, but the drop is \[typically\] small and short-selling costs tend to be large' New York University professor [Aswath Damodaran](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) said in an interview."

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