6 Quick Stories 4-8-26

This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. We're going to take you through a few different stories here. Hopefully you find this interesting. First, Molina Healthcare down about 57% over the last year. It's been a tough stretch for Medicaid managed care. Molina is one of the leaders in Medicaid managed care and struggling. Second company that we're watching, Lucid Motors down nearly 60% over the last year. Only about 3,000 vehicles delivered in the first quarter. Those are horrendous numbers and it's really hard to build a car company in that way. They're not doing nearly as bad this year year to date, but over the last 52 weeks down 60% year to date. Third already a story that's already been covered plenty. Huge positive news on the rescue this past weekend of a U.S. airman. We view that it's just great news. Fourth, you've got the Masters coming up this weekend without Tiger Woods who is struggling with his driving, meaning physically his vehicle driving and without Phil Mickelson. It's a little bit less exciting, but again the Masters, sort of like the final four, always ends up being interested. So interesting. So we'll see how that goes. But again, those are four of the stories so far. We've got Molina, Molina here at healthcare, Lucid Motors, who's got big relief with the rescue of the U.S. airman. Simply amazing. And then the Masters coming up this weekend and again without Tiger, without Phil, not as exciting, but always there ends up being real excitement. A couple other quick notes. We're excited for our next June 22nd Becker Business Media webinar. We'll cover deal trends, 2026 across private equity venture capital, healthcare business services and more. AI use cases and CFO leadership, so we're excited for that. We're also very excited at the Becker's Healthcare Annual Meeting to interview Mark Cuban at the annual meeting in the Chief Pharmacy Officer Summit. That event is fully sold out. Again, a ton going on in the world. We'll continue to keep covering what's going with Iran and what's going on with the war effort. Simply fascinating. And at least as of Monday, the markets were still up some this week. We'll see if it continues that way over the rest of the weeks of disaster. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity podcast. Thank you so much for joining us.