What a click-baity title. The article finishes with this:
> Still, Shopify is one of Canada’s best-performing stocks, having gained 135% this year as investors rewarded the company’s fast-growing sales and innovations in online checkout products
Words like this drive engagement. Many journalists also don't have statistical training.
I wrote a financial media literacy guide for precisely this reason:
> Extreme Language: Articles use extreme language to represent price movements, as these engage readers (e.g., meltdown, bloodbath, crash, massacre, topple), but are often statistically suspect
> Still, Shopify is one of Canada’s best-performing stocks, having gained 135% this year as investors rewarded the company’s fast-growing sales and innovations in online checkout products