16 Best 52-Week Low Stocks To Buy Now According to Short Sellers

6. The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD)

Short Interest as % of Shares Outstanding: 2.30%

The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) is a leading provider of cloud-based programmatic advertising technology, enabling advertisers and agencies to manage digital ad campaigns across multiple channels, including display, video, audio, and connected TV. Its AI-driven platform empowers marketers with real-time data, audience insights, and automated bidding tools to optimize ad performance and maximize return on investment.

Despite a decent calendar 2024, the stock price performance was hit by a disappointing announcement of Q4 results in February 2025 – the company’s results fell short of management guidance for the first time in 33 quarters. The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) stumbled due to a series of small execution missteps such as a slower rollout of the Kokai platform, internal execution issues, client-facing teams becoming complicated with overlap between agency and brand teams as well as an overall complex organizational structure which had become too complex. It is reassuring, however, that the management team recognizes its own faults and is already taking precise steps to reinvent itself. Management has implemented significant organizational changes, including the largest reorganization in company history, streamlining client-facing teams, and dividing engineering into nearly 100 scrum teams for more effective shipping and collaboration. The company plans to move 100% of clients to the Kokai platform during this calendar year and is increasing resource allocation on brands, with joint business plans growing 50% faster than the rest of the business. The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) is a long-term outperformer of the broader market, which explains the reluctance of short sellers to bet against the company; having a long-term winner trading at a 52-week is a bullish signal from a contrarian perspective.