Three Hidden-Gem Stocks Flying Under the Radar While Everyone Fights Over $DKNG and $FLUT
Managed futures, regional gaming, and an Appalachian coal play nobody asked for — but everybody needs to know about
Ticker Ratings
Everyone's obsessing over $DKNG and $FLUT spiking on Senate sports-bet legislation, or $NCLH popping on Iran ceasefire hopes. Cool. Meanwhile, three tickers are sitting in the corner of the room like the smartest kid at the party who nobody's talking to yet.
First up: $DBMF — the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF. CNBC's ETF Edge segment highlighted that managed futures strategies gained nearly 22% in 2022 while the S&P fell 18%, and the category is now pulling in serious flows — DBMF alone has absorbed over $1 billion in inflows this year. With the market in what Jeffrey Gundlach is calling a 'revaluation phase' and VIX staying weirdly suppressed under 30, systematic trend-following exposure is criminally underowned by retail. Under $10B AUM, off most people's radar, and structurally built for exactly the kind of chaos we're living through.
Next: $RSI — Rush Street Interactive, flagged by Investor's Business Daily in their daily market rundown as one to watch. It's a digital gaming and online casino operator focused on regulated US and Latin American markets — not sports betting, which means the Senate's prediction-market ban bill is not a headwind, it's a sideshow. With the Russell 2000 outperforming at +2.3% on the relief rally and small-cap sentiment improving, RSI's niche positioning in iGaming (not sportsbook) makes it a cleaner play than the headline names everyone's already crowded into.
Finally: $CEIX — CONSOL Energy, an Appalachian coal and natural gas producer that nobody under 40 wants to admit they find interesting. With Qatar's LNG facilities potentially offline for up to 5 years per Bloomberg's energy coverage, US domestic energy producers with export optionality are quietly becoming geopolitical assets. CEIX ships met coal internationally and has been quietly generating free cash flow while the cool kids argue about solar. Sometimes the boring trade is the right trade — and right now, 'boring' is producing barrels and buybacks.
The market's screaming about Iran one minute and rallying 600 Dow points the next — the real alpha is in the names nobody's fighting over yet.