Is IonQ Stock a Buy?

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) presents the ultimate high-risk, high-reward proposition in technology investing. The stock's 61% surge year-to-date reflects growing excitement about quantum computing's commercial potential, but here's the sobering reality: at 292 times trailing sales, IonQ trades at a valuation that makes the dot-com excesses of the late 1990s look restrained.For context, IBM (NYSE: IBM), the leader in quantum computing, has just enabled the world's first quantum algorithmic trading with HSBC, trading at just four times sales. Either IonQ revolutionizes computing as we know it, or shareholders face catastrophic losses when reality collides with fantasy valuations.Image source: Getty Images.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool