How to buy and short Endeavor shares
Endeavor Group Holdings, a holding company for several talent and media agencies, onboarded Elon Musk as a board member ahead of its 2021 IPO. Read on to discover how to trade Endeavor shares.
How to trade Endeavor shares
Trading Endeavor stock means that you’re taking a position on the company’s share price, whether it’ll rise or fall, without having direct ownership of the underlying. You’d ‘buy’ (go long) if you think that the share price will rise and you’d ‘sell’ (go short) if your prediction is that it’ll fall.
We enable you to trade Endeavor shares in these steps:
- Create an account or log in
- Search for ‘Endeavor’ on our trading platform
- Select ‘buy’ to go long or ‘sell’ to go short in the deal ticket
- Set your position size and take steps to manage your risk
- Open and monitor your position
With us, you’ll trade Endeavor shares using leveraged derivatives such as CFDs.
Using leverage when trading means that you only need a small deposit, known as margin, to open your positions, while getting full exposure. Leverage increases both your possible profits and losses to the full value of the trade, so it’s important to take steps to manage your risk properly.
Learn more about the impact of leverage on your trading
How to short Endeavor shares
You can short Endeavor shares via CFD trading with us. Short-selling means that you’re taking a ‘selling’ position (going short) on a company’s shares in an effort to make a profit from a falling share price.
With us, you can short-sell in these steps:
- Create an account or log in
- Search for ‘Endeavor’ on our platform
- Select ‘sell’ in the deal ticket
- Choose your position size
- Open and monitor your position
Naturally, the share price could go either way – therefore, you’d incur a loss if it rises when you’re short-selling. But if your prediction that it’ll fall is correct, you’d make a profit.
As you’d be using CFDs when short-selling, you’d be trading with leverage. So, you’d need to commit an initial deposit to get full exposure to your selected position size of Endeavor shares. But remember, when trading with leverage, both possible profits and losses are increased to the full value of your trade.
How to close your Endeavor position
You can close your Endeavor trading position if you want to limit potential losses or secure possible profits. Here’s how:
- Log in and go to your share trading account
- Go to the positions tab and select ‘Endeavor’
- Select ‘sell’ in the deal ticket
- Choose your position size
- Close your position
A brief history of Endeavor
Endeavor Group Holdings was formed in its 2009 merger with the William Morris Agency. Over the years, the company has made a several acquisitions. It reached a valuation of $10.3 billion on the New York Stock Exchange on 29 April 2021 in its listing. This came after its 2019 initial public offering (IPO) plans didn’t take off.
Endeavor’s second attempt at an IPO came with Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla, as a board member.
What’s the Endeavor business model?
Endeavor’s business model involves making money from client fees, subscriptions, licence fees, media rights sales, data streaming fees, ticket sales and more.
Endeavor share price: how to analyse Endeavor share price
You can analyse Endeavor shares in one of two ways – technical or fundamental analysis – but a combination of the two is generally more effective.
- Technical analysis consists of chart patterns, technical indicators and historical price action that is useful in predicting future price movements
- Fundamental analysis takes elements such as a company’s net revenue, profit and loss statements, as well as wider macroeconomic factors into consideration – these can help you determine likely share price movements
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