Beyond Meat's lockup period expired Tuesday, and the subsequent sell-off serves as the latest reminder that technical factors can overshadow promising performance. Lockup periods keep pre-IPO insiders from selling shares usually for months after a company's public offering. The plant-based-meat company beat third-quarter expectations Monday afternoon, but early investors' profit-taking dwarfed the positive report. Beyond Meat's stock closed at more than 320% its IPO price Monday, making a...

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