Josh Brown Says Rocket Companies (RKT) an ‘Obvious’ Buy for Rate Cut Environment

Fahad Saleem

Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 8:48 AM 5 min read

We recently published a list of 10 Stocks to Watch as Trade Wars Begin. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Rocket Companies Inc (NYSE:RKT) stands against other stocks to watch as trade wars begin.

Bill Strazzullo, Bell Curve Trading chief market strategist, said in a latest program on CNBC that the market isn’t done going down and urged investors not to buy every dip and wait for real opportunities. The analyst made some specific predictions about the market bottom:

“Still think it’s not over. I think you know probably across the board it’s another 15% to go to the downside. Look, the top wasn’t that difficult to call. It really wasn’t. And I think the bottom, typically on these major trends when they roll over, they do the same thing. They mean revert to fair value, which is a fancy way of saying that the market should drop down to where most of the trade activity has taken place on the major trend, which is the rally off the March 2020 lows.”

Strazzullo thinks the S&P 500 could fall to 4,500 to 4,100 before seeing a bottom. He repeatedly said during the interview that the market’s gains from the pandemic days are “tapped out.”

“The key driver here was the rally off the March 2020 lows in the height of the pandemic when we knew we were going to get historic monetary and fiscal stimulus. If you knew that, that was the right trend, you could have known months in advance when the market was going to top out. I gave the targets months in advance. If you missed this fundamentally or technically, you were asleep at the switch.”

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Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 27

Josh Brown, CEO at Ritholtz Wealth Management, said in a recent program on CNBC that he’s buying mortgage, real estate, and personal finance services company Rocket Companies Inc (NYSE:RKT) shares. The analyst believes the company is set to benefit from potential interest rate cuts.