Palm is an individual stock, kind of like buying a home from a flip this house episode that used bleach water to clean mold covered walls and later discovered that there’s still mold and the foundation is cracked. Perhaps that would be Enron…
QQQ on the other hand, is the cream of the NASDAQ crop, like the best neighborhoods of San Diego. It’s still completely toasted. They aren’t companies that failed, they’re still the best, they’re just worth 1/3rd of what they were in the dot com bubble.