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Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n</p>\n<p>\n  By Philip van Doorn \n</p>\n<p>\n  Among the largest U.S. companies, Amazon and Facebook have grown their cash flow rapidly, which helps investors play it safe. \n</p>\n<p>\n  If we're heading into a time of increased risk in the stock market, investors might be well-served by owning shares of companies that not only generate a lot of cash, but also grow that money rapidly. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Below are two lists of large companies that have shown the highest free-cash-flow growth rates over the past three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A rapid pace of economic growth is generally a good thing for stock investors. But we're in a period of unusually aggressive policies by the Federal Reserve to spur that growth. These policies have included a federal funds rate with a target range of zero to 0.25% and a continual increase in the central bank's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds. But with increasing inflation, the Fed may act sooner than previously expected to quell price increases -- and that could lead to an uncertain period for stocks. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read:Fed takes baby steps toward scaling back its bond purchases  \n</p>\n<p>\n  Three-year cash-flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  Many professional investors emphasize cash flow when analyzing companies. Earnings can be a tough nut because there are so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time noncash items that can affect a company's bottom line. A company can also book revenue while it is waiting to be paid -- this means it shows a profit for selling something even though the cash hasn't been received. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has explained the importance of cash flow in his annual letters to shareholders, including the 2020 letter , when he wrote that the company's insurance businesses had an important industry advantage: \"Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  To identify large, stable companies growing their cash flow most quickly, we looked at free cash flow data provided by FactSet and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures. It is money that can be deployed to expand the business, make acquisitions, buy back shares, raise dividends or for other corporate purposes. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A blind focus on the highest free-cash-flow CAGR would have the problem of highlighting companies that had unusually low cash flows for the beginning period. So for the three-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index  with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2017, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. We used calendar years because many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The largest company on the list of 50 was Apple Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(AAPL)$</a>, which had $52.91 billion in free cash flow in calendar 2017. The company's free cash flow increased to $80.22 billion in 2020, for a three-year CAGR of 14.9%. But Apple didn't make the top 10 list for 2003 -- it was ranked 14th. More about Apple below. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the 10 S&amp;P 500 companies from the list described above with the highest free-cash-flow CAGR for three years through 2020. The annual data is in millions of dollars: \n</p>\n<p>\n  You can scroll the table to see how each company's free cash flow increased or declined over the past three years. The CAGR calculation only uses the 2020 and 2017 year-end numbers. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon.com Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> was way out in front for three-year FCF CAGR through 2020 among the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 with the highest FCF at the end of 2017. You can see below that it ranked second on the five-year list. \n</p>\n<p>\n  For three years, Verizon Communications Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VZ\">$(VZ)$</a> ranked second, with CVS Health Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVS.AU\">$(CVS.AU)$</a> in third place. \n</p>\n<p>\n  CVS underlines the imperfection of any <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a>-point stock screen. The company made the three- and five-year lists because of the increase in cash flow from its transformative acquisition of Aetna in November 2018. After a few more years, it will be interesting to see how rapidly the combined company is able to grow its cash flow from a 2019 baseline. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After the five-year list, there are more comments about companies that made the top 10 for both periods. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Five-year cash flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  For the five-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2015, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. \n</p>\n<p>\n  During calendar 2015, Apple had the highest free cash flow of $63.37 billion among S&amp;P 500 companies. That's much higher than the company's $52.91 billion in FCF in 2017. It also explains why the company's five-year FCF CAGR through 2020 was only 4.8% and why its three-year CAGR was so much higher at 14.9%. This illustrates the importance of seeing the data for each year, even though the CAGR calculations only make use of the starting and ending data points. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the five-year CAGR winners, including the FCF figures for six years that you can see if you scroll the table: \n</p>\n<p>\n  Facebook Inc. (FB) is the five-year winner, increasing its free cash flow to $23.63 billion in 2020 from $6.08 billion in 2015 for a CAGR of 31.2%. The company was ranked 19th for three-year FCF CAGR. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon ranked second for five-year CAGR and was one of several companies making both the five- and three-year top-10 lists: \n</p>\n<p>\n  As explained above, any stock screen based on one element has its limits. It is very important to do your own research and form your own opinion before committing to any investment. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Don't miss: Amazon is a cheap stock for long-term investors. These numbers tell you why . \n</p>\n<p>\n  -Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  May 29, 2021 11:18 ET (15:18 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Amazon and Facebook as defensive plays? 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Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-05-29 23:18</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body><font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\nMW Amazon and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a> as defensive plays? Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n</p>\n<p>\n  By Philip van Doorn \n</p>\n<p>\n  Among the largest U.S. companies, Amazon and Facebook have grown their cash flow rapidly, which helps investors play it safe. \n</p>\n<p>\n  If we're heading into a time of increased risk in the stock market, investors might be well-served by owning shares of companies that not only generate a lot of cash, but also grow that money rapidly. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Below are two lists of large companies that have shown the highest free-cash-flow growth rates over the past three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A rapid pace of economic growth is generally a good thing for stock investors. But we're in a period of unusually aggressive policies by the Federal Reserve to spur that growth. These policies have included a federal funds rate with a target range of zero to 0.25% and a continual increase in the central bank's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds. But with increasing inflation, the Fed may act sooner than previously expected to quell price increases -- and that could lead to an uncertain period for stocks. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read:Fed takes baby steps toward scaling back its bond purchases  \n</p>\n<p>\n  Three-year cash-flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  Many professional investors emphasize cash flow when analyzing companies. Earnings can be a tough nut because there are so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time noncash items that can affect a company's bottom line. A company can also book revenue while it is waiting to be paid -- this means it shows a profit for selling something even though the cash hasn't been received. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has explained the importance of cash flow in his annual letters to shareholders, including the 2020 letter , when he wrote that the company's insurance businesses had an important industry advantage: \"Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  To identify large, stable companies growing their cash flow most quickly, we looked at free cash flow data provided by FactSet and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures. It is money that can be deployed to expand the business, make acquisitions, buy back shares, raise dividends or for other corporate purposes. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A blind focus on the highest free-cash-flow CAGR would have the problem of highlighting companies that had unusually low cash flows for the beginning period. So for the three-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index  with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2017, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. We used calendar years because many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The largest company on the list of 50 was Apple Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(AAPL)$</a>, which had $52.91 billion in free cash flow in calendar 2017. The company's free cash flow increased to $80.22 billion in 2020, for a three-year CAGR of 14.9%. But Apple didn't make the top 10 list for 2003 -- it was ranked 14th. More about Apple below. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the 10 S&amp;P 500 companies from the list described above with the highest free-cash-flow CAGR for three years through 2020. The annual data is in millions of dollars: \n</p>\n<p>\n  You can scroll the table to see how each company's free cash flow increased or declined over the past three years. The CAGR calculation only uses the 2020 and 2017 year-end numbers. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon.com Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> was way out in front for three-year FCF CAGR through 2020 among the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 with the highest FCF at the end of 2017. You can see below that it ranked second on the five-year list. \n</p>\n<p>\n  For three years, Verizon Communications Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VZ\">$(VZ)$</a> ranked second, with CVS Health Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVS.AU\">$(CVS.AU)$</a> in third place. \n</p>\n<p>\n  CVS underlines the imperfection of any <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a>-point stock screen. The company made the three- and five-year lists because of the increase in cash flow from its transformative acquisition of Aetna in November 2018. After a few more years, it will be interesting to see how rapidly the combined company is able to grow its cash flow from a 2019 baseline. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After the five-year list, there are more comments about companies that made the top 10 for both periods. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Five-year cash flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  For the five-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2015, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. \n</p>\n<p>\n  During calendar 2015, Apple had the highest free cash flow of $63.37 billion among S&amp;P 500 companies. That's much higher than the company's $52.91 billion in FCF in 2017. It also explains why the company's five-year FCF CAGR through 2020 was only 4.8% and why its three-year CAGR was so much higher at 14.9%. This illustrates the importance of seeing the data for each year, even though the CAGR calculations only make use of the starting and ending data points. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the five-year CAGR winners, including the FCF figures for six years that you can see if you scroll the table: \n</p>\n<p>\n  Facebook Inc. (FB) is the five-year winner, increasing its free cash flow to $23.63 billion in 2020 from $6.08 billion in 2015 for a CAGR of 31.2%. The company was ranked 19th for three-year FCF CAGR. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon ranked second for five-year CAGR and was one of several companies making both the five- and three-year top-10 lists: \n</p>\n<p>\n  As explained above, any stock screen based on one element has its limits. It is very important to do your own research and form your own opinion before committing to any investment. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Don't miss: Amazon is a cheap stock for long-term investors. These numbers tell you why . \n</p>\n<p>\n  -Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  May 29, 2021 11:18 ET (15:18 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09086":"华夏纳指-U","03086":"华夏纳指","INTC":"英特尔","GOOGL":"谷歌A","AAPL":"苹果","GOOG":"谷歌","AMZN":"亚马逊","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数"},"source_url":"http://dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2139248442","content_text":"MW Amazon and Facebook as defensive plays? Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n\n\n  By Philip van Doorn \n\n\n  Among the largest U.S. companies, Amazon and Facebook have grown their cash flow rapidly, which helps investors play it safe. \n\n\n  If we're heading into a time of increased risk in the stock market, investors might be well-served by owning shares of companies that not only generate a lot of cash, but also grow that money rapidly. \n\n\n  Below are two lists of large companies that have shown the highest free-cash-flow growth rates over the past three and five years. \n\n\n  A rapid pace of economic growth is generally a good thing for stock investors. But we're in a period of unusually aggressive policies by the Federal Reserve to spur that growth. These policies have included a federal funds rate with a target range of zero to 0.25% and a continual increase in the central bank's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds. But with increasing inflation, the Fed may act sooner than previously expected to quell price increases -- and that could lead to an uncertain period for stocks. \n\n\n  Read:Fed takes baby steps toward scaling back its bond purchases  \n\n\n  Three-year cash-flow winners \n\n\n  Many professional investors emphasize cash flow when analyzing companies. Earnings can be a tough nut because there are so many one-time noncash items that can affect a company's bottom line. A company can also book revenue while it is waiting to be paid -- this means it shows a profit for selling something even though the cash hasn't been received. \n\n\n  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has explained the importance of cash flow in his annual letters to shareholders, including the 2020 letter , when he wrote that the company's insurance businesses had an important industry advantage: \"Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers.\" \n\n\n  To identify large, stable companies growing their cash flow most quickly, we looked at free cash flow data provided by FactSet and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for three and five years. \n\n\n  A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures. It is money that can be deployed to expand the business, make acquisitions, buy back shares, raise dividends or for other corporate purposes. \n\n\n  A blind focus on the highest free-cash-flow CAGR would have the problem of highlighting companies that had unusually low cash flows for the beginning period. So for the three-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&P 500 Index  with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2017, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. We used calendar years because many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar. \n\n\n  The largest company on the list of 50 was Apple Inc. $(AAPL)$, which had $52.91 billion in free cash flow in calendar 2017. The company's free cash flow increased to $80.22 billion in 2020, for a three-year CAGR of 14.9%. But Apple didn't make the top 10 list for 2003 -- it was ranked 14th. More about Apple below. \n\n\n  Here are the 10 S&P 500 companies from the list described above with the highest free-cash-flow CAGR for three years through 2020. The annual data is in millions of dollars: \n\n\n  You can scroll the table to see how each company's free cash flow increased or declined over the past three years. The CAGR calculation only uses the 2020 and 2017 year-end numbers. \n\n\n  Amazon.com Inc. $(AMZN)$ was way out in front for three-year FCF CAGR through 2020 among the 50 companies in the S&P 500 with the highest FCF at the end of 2017. You can see below that it ranked second on the five-year list. \n\n\n  For three years, Verizon Communications Inc. $(VZ)$ ranked second, with CVS Health Corp. $(CVS.AU)$ in third place. \n\n\n  CVS underlines the imperfection of any one-point stock screen. The company made the three- and five-year lists because of the increase in cash flow from its transformative acquisition of Aetna in November 2018. After a few more years, it will be interesting to see how rapidly the combined company is able to grow its cash flow from a 2019 baseline. \n\n\n  After the five-year list, there are more comments about companies that made the top 10 for both periods. \n\n\n  Five-year cash flow winners \n\n\n  For the five-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&P 500 Index with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2015, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. \n\n\n  During calendar 2015, Apple had the highest free cash flow of $63.37 billion among S&P 500 companies. That's much higher than the company's $52.91 billion in FCF in 2017. It also explains why the company's five-year FCF CAGR through 2020 was only 4.8% and why its three-year CAGR was so much higher at 14.9%. This illustrates the importance of seeing the data for each year, even though the CAGR calculations only make use of the starting and ending data points. \n\n\n  Here are the five-year CAGR winners, including the FCF figures for six years that you can see if you scroll the table: \n\n\n  Facebook Inc. (FB) is the five-year winner, increasing its free cash flow to $23.63 billion in 2020 from $6.08 billion in 2015 for a CAGR of 31.2%. The company was ranked 19th for three-year FCF CAGR. \n\n\n  Amazon ranked second for five-year CAGR and was one of several companies making both the five- and three-year top-10 lists: \n\n\n  As explained above, any stock screen based on one element has its limits. It is very important to do your own research and form your own opinion before committing to any investment. \n\n\n  Don't miss: Amazon is a cheap stock for long-term investors. These numbers tell you why . \n\n\n  -Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n\n\n \n\n\n$(END)$ Dow Jones Newswires\n\n\n  May 29, 2021 11:18 ET (15:18 GMT)\n\n\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":86,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":134843288,"gmtCreate":1622217569344,"gmtModify":1704181799765,"author":{"id":"3571051291574870","authorId":"3571051291574870","authorIdStr":"3571051291574870","name":"smallb0sss","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/326ae33497fcaa7276c4d80c19242bfc","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571051291574870"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"def square","listText":"def square","text":"def square","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/134843288","repostId":"2138312488","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2138312488","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1622211900,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2138312488?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-28 22:25","market":"us","language":"en","title":"PayPal vs. Square -- which is the better stock to own now?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2138312488","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analys","content":"<p>Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analysts, on the whole, prefer PayPal.</p><p>PayPal and Square are well-known to investors as rapidly growing players in the payment-processing space. They don't compete directly in all areas, but there are enough similarities to make a meaningful pairing.</p><p>Where PayPal and Square fit in</p><p>PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) was spun off from eBay Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EBAY\">$(EBAY)$</a> in July 2015. Square was founded in 2009 by CEO Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey Jr. (a current board member), and went public in November 2015. Dorsey also serves as CEO of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWTR\">Twitter</a> Inc. (TWTR), which he co-founded in 2006.</p><p>PayPal said in its 2020 10-K filing  with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 13% of its revenue for the year came from customers on eBay's Marketplace platform. It also said that no other revenue source represented more than 10% of the whole.</p><p>PayPal makes it easy to do payments online through its secure digital wallet -- a user simply signs into their PayPal account to make a payment to the merchant from a bank account or credit card. The purchaser doesn't need to provide any financial information to the merchant.</p><p>During 2020, 93% of PayPal's revenue came from transactions, with the rest from \"other value-added services,\" a category that  has declined over the past two full years.</p><p>Square offers what it calls a \"cohesive commerce ecosystem,\" which includes hardware and software, to help merchants process point-of-sale transactions and online transactions. Square also has Cash App, which helps individual users, businesses and organizations transfer money or bitcoin  through the app or by email.</p><p>\"Customers can also use their stored funds to buy and sell bitcoin and equity investments within Cash App,\" according to Square's first-quarter 10-Q report .</p><p>Here's a comparison of quarterly and annual transaction volume for the two companies, with figures in millions:</p><p>PayPal has a much larger payment-processing business  than Square, and recently, its quarterly and annual transaction volumes have grown more rapidly.</p><p>Key metrics</p><p>Size, revenue and profit</p><p>Here is a comparison of the companies' market capitalizations and GAAP net revenue figures for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, under which Square's revenue from its bitcoin holdings has caused the company's total revenue to balloon. Here's Square's more detailed revenue breakdown:</p><p>This illustrates why an investor considering an individual stock has to take a closer look to form their own opinion.</p><p>Here's what Square had to say about its revenue reporting in its first-quarter shareholder letter :</p><p>We deduct bitcoin revenue because our role is to facilitate customers' access to bitcoin. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Therefore, we believe bitcoin gross profit better reflects the economic benefits as well as our performance from these transactions.</p><p>More from Square's shareholder letter:</p><p>While bitcoin revenue was $3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up approximately 11x year over year, bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of bitcoin revenue.</p><p>So Square's adjusted net revenue for the first quarter was $1.55 billion, increasing 44% from the year-earlier quarter.</p><p>Read:A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 crypto</p><p>Excitement for bitcoin caused the spike in revenue for Square, as its Cash App users participated in the eightfold increase in the cryptocurrency's price in dollars over the 12 months through March 31.</p><p>Here's a comparison of gross profits (earnings before operating expenses) and operating profits (earnings before interest and taxes)  for PayPal and Square for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>PayPal has the larger payment-processing business, by far, while Square is growing its profits more quickly. Despite Square's point that it derives a relatively small portion of its profits from bitcoin revenue, the massive amount of revenue from bitcoin transactions, including customers' trades through Cash App, show the potential of this type of customer activity.</p><p>Returns on common equity and invested capital</p><p>These returns can give some insight into how well a management team deploys capital:</p><p>Return on invested capital is earnings divided by combined debt and equity. It is a measure of capital allocation efficiency and can be useful when comparing companies that are similar. In this case, none of these numbers are bad -- both companies are still growing their businesses in a dynamic environment.</p><p>Earnings estimates to 2025</p><p>Here are the actual earnings-per-share results for 2020 with consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet going out to 2025:</p><p>Here are estimated annual percentage  increases in EPS based on the above, plus an estimated five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR):</p><p>That five-year CAGR for Square is bumped up by the expected EPS breakout in 2021. But if we run a four-year EPS CAGR from 2021 through 2025, the results are 21% for PayPal and 46% for Square. Both are impressive, but Square comes out on top if analysts' estimates are close to accurate. This helps explain the much higher forward price-to-earnings ratio for Square that you can see further down.</p><p>Cash flow</p><p>In the modern economy, many investors believe free cash flow -- remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures -- is a critically important measure. One reason for this is that so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time non-cash items can affect EPS. Another is that free cash flow can be deployed through business expansion, acquisitions, share buybacks dividends or other actions that will presumably be good for shareholders.</p><p>Square has had negative free cash flow <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FCF\">$(FCF)$</a> for two of the past four quarters, which isn't surprising, as the company emphasizes growing its business. So it may be most useful to look ahead. FactSet has consensus estimates for FCF per share going out to 2023:</p><p>Again, the analysts expect great things from both companies, especially Square.</p><p>Stock valuation and performance</p><p>Here are forward price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, along with total return figures:</p><p>Those are high valuations to expected earnings and sales. Then again, that has been par for the course for the most rapidly growing tech-oriented stocks over the past several years.</p><p>Wall Street's opinion</p><p>PayPal has more \"buy\" ratings among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet, but Square as the more aggressive price target:</p><p>Even though the analysts provide earnings estimates going many years out, their share-price targets are for 12 months, per tradition. This is where you need to think about what \"long term\" means to you as an investor. One year can be considered a short period for some long-term investors, who are looking to compound large gains over three- to five-year periods.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>PayPal vs. Square -- which is the better stock to own now?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nPayPal vs. Square -- which is the better stock to own now?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-05-28 22:25</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analysts, on the whole, prefer PayPal.</p><p>PayPal and Square are well-known to investors as rapidly growing players in the payment-processing space. They don't compete directly in all areas, but there are enough similarities to make a meaningful pairing.</p><p>Where PayPal and Square fit in</p><p>PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) was spun off from eBay Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EBAY\">$(EBAY)$</a> in July 2015. Square was founded in 2009 by CEO Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey Jr. (a current board member), and went public in November 2015. Dorsey also serves as CEO of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWTR\">Twitter</a> Inc. (TWTR), which he co-founded in 2006.</p><p>PayPal said in its 2020 10-K filing  with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 13% of its revenue for the year came from customers on eBay's Marketplace platform. It also said that no other revenue source represented more than 10% of the whole.</p><p>PayPal makes it easy to do payments online through its secure digital wallet -- a user simply signs into their PayPal account to make a payment to the merchant from a bank account or credit card. The purchaser doesn't need to provide any financial information to the merchant.</p><p>During 2020, 93% of PayPal's revenue came from transactions, with the rest from \"other value-added services,\" a category that  has declined over the past two full years.</p><p>Square offers what it calls a \"cohesive commerce ecosystem,\" which includes hardware and software, to help merchants process point-of-sale transactions and online transactions. Square also has Cash App, which helps individual users, businesses and organizations transfer money or bitcoin  through the app or by email.</p><p>\"Customers can also use their stored funds to buy and sell bitcoin and equity investments within Cash App,\" according to Square's first-quarter 10-Q report .</p><p>Here's a comparison of quarterly and annual transaction volume for the two companies, with figures in millions:</p><p>PayPal has a much larger payment-processing business  than Square, and recently, its quarterly and annual transaction volumes have grown more rapidly.</p><p>Key metrics</p><p>Size, revenue and profit</p><p>Here is a comparison of the companies' market capitalizations and GAAP net revenue figures for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, under which Square's revenue from its bitcoin holdings has caused the company's total revenue to balloon. Here's Square's more detailed revenue breakdown:</p><p>This illustrates why an investor considering an individual stock has to take a closer look to form their own opinion.</p><p>Here's what Square had to say about its revenue reporting in its first-quarter shareholder letter :</p><p>We deduct bitcoin revenue because our role is to facilitate customers' access to bitcoin. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Therefore, we believe bitcoin gross profit better reflects the economic benefits as well as our performance from these transactions.</p><p>More from Square's shareholder letter:</p><p>While bitcoin revenue was $3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up approximately 11x year over year, bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of bitcoin revenue.</p><p>So Square's adjusted net revenue for the first quarter was $1.55 billion, increasing 44% from the year-earlier quarter.</p><p>Read:A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 crypto</p><p>Excitement for bitcoin caused the spike in revenue for Square, as its Cash App users participated in the eightfold increase in the cryptocurrency's price in dollars over the 12 months through March 31.</p><p>Here's a comparison of gross profits (earnings before operating expenses) and operating profits (earnings before interest and taxes)  for PayPal and Square for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>PayPal has the larger payment-processing business, by far, while Square is growing its profits more quickly. Despite Square's point that it derives a relatively small portion of its profits from bitcoin revenue, the massive amount of revenue from bitcoin transactions, including customers' trades through Cash App, show the potential of this type of customer activity.</p><p>Returns on common equity and invested capital</p><p>These returns can give some insight into how well a management team deploys capital:</p><p>Return on invested capital is earnings divided by combined debt and equity. It is a measure of capital allocation efficiency and can be useful when comparing companies that are similar. In this case, none of these numbers are bad -- both companies are still growing their businesses in a dynamic environment.</p><p>Earnings estimates to 2025</p><p>Here are the actual earnings-per-share results for 2020 with consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet going out to 2025:</p><p>Here are estimated annual percentage  increases in EPS based on the above, plus an estimated five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR):</p><p>That five-year CAGR for Square is bumped up by the expected EPS breakout in 2021. But if we run a four-year EPS CAGR from 2021 through 2025, the results are 21% for PayPal and 46% for Square. Both are impressive, but Square comes out on top if analysts' estimates are close to accurate. This helps explain the much higher forward price-to-earnings ratio for Square that you can see further down.</p><p>Cash flow</p><p>In the modern economy, many investors believe free cash flow -- remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures -- is a critically important measure. One reason for this is that so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time non-cash items can affect EPS. Another is that free cash flow can be deployed through business expansion, acquisitions, share buybacks dividends or other actions that will presumably be good for shareholders.</p><p>Square has had negative free cash flow <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FCF\">$(FCF)$</a> for two of the past four quarters, which isn't surprising, as the company emphasizes growing its business. So it may be most useful to look ahead. FactSet has consensus estimates for FCF per share going out to 2023:</p><p>Again, the analysts expect great things from both companies, especially Square.</p><p>Stock valuation and performance</p><p>Here are forward price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, along with total return figures:</p><p>Those are high valuations to expected earnings and sales. Then again, that has been par for the course for the most rapidly growing tech-oriented stocks over the past several years.</p><p>Wall Street's opinion</p><p>PayPal has more \"buy\" ratings among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet, but Square as the more aggressive price target:</p><p>Even though the analysts provide earnings estimates going many years out, their share-price targets are for 12 months, per tradition. This is where you need to think about what \"long term\" means to you as an investor. One year can be considered a short period for some long-term investors, who are looking to compound large gains over three- to five-year periods.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SQ":"Block","TWTR":"Twitter","EBAY":"eBay","PYPL":"PayPal"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2138312488","content_text":"Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analysts, on the whole, prefer PayPal.PayPal and Square are well-known to investors as rapidly growing players in the payment-processing space. They don't compete directly in all areas, but there are enough similarities to make a meaningful pairing.Where PayPal and Square fit inPayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) was spun off from eBay Inc. $(EBAY)$ in July 2015. Square was founded in 2009 by CEO Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey Jr. (a current board member), and went public in November 2015. Dorsey also serves as CEO of Twitter Inc. (TWTR), which he co-founded in 2006.PayPal said in its 2020 10-K filing  with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 13% of its revenue for the year came from customers on eBay's Marketplace platform. It also said that no other revenue source represented more than 10% of the whole.PayPal makes it easy to do payments online through its secure digital wallet -- a user simply signs into their PayPal account to make a payment to the merchant from a bank account or credit card. The purchaser doesn't need to provide any financial information to the merchant.During 2020, 93% of PayPal's revenue came from transactions, with the rest from \"other value-added services,\" a category that  has declined over the past two full years.Square offers what it calls a \"cohesive commerce ecosystem,\" which includes hardware and software, to help merchants process point-of-sale transactions and online transactions. Square also has Cash App, which helps individual users, businesses and organizations transfer money or bitcoin  through the app or by email.\"Customers can also use their stored funds to buy and sell bitcoin and equity investments within Cash App,\" according to Square's first-quarter 10-Q report .Here's a comparison of quarterly and annual transaction volume for the two companies, with figures in millions:PayPal has a much larger payment-processing business  than Square, and recently, its quarterly and annual transaction volumes have grown more rapidly.Key metricsSize, revenue and profitHere is a comparison of the companies' market capitalizations and GAAP net revenue figures for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, under which Square's revenue from its bitcoin holdings has caused the company's total revenue to balloon. Here's Square's more detailed revenue breakdown:This illustrates why an investor considering an individual stock has to take a closer look to form their own opinion.Here's what Square had to say about its revenue reporting in its first-quarter shareholder letter :We deduct bitcoin revenue because our role is to facilitate customers' access to bitcoin. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Therefore, we believe bitcoin gross profit better reflects the economic benefits as well as our performance from these transactions.More from Square's shareholder letter:While bitcoin revenue was $3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up approximately 11x year over year, bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of bitcoin revenue.So Square's adjusted net revenue for the first quarter was $1.55 billion, increasing 44% from the year-earlier quarter.Read:A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 cryptoExcitement for bitcoin caused the spike in revenue for Square, as its Cash App users participated in the eightfold increase in the cryptocurrency's price in dollars over the 12 months through March 31.Here's a comparison of gross profits (earnings before operating expenses) and operating profits (earnings before interest and taxes)  for PayPal and Square for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:PayPal has the larger payment-processing business, by far, while Square is growing its profits more quickly. Despite Square's point that it derives a relatively small portion of its profits from bitcoin revenue, the massive amount of revenue from bitcoin transactions, including customers' trades through Cash App, show the potential of this type of customer activity.Returns on common equity and invested capitalThese returns can give some insight into how well a management team deploys capital:Return on invested capital is earnings divided by combined debt and equity. It is a measure of capital allocation efficiency and can be useful when comparing companies that are similar. In this case, none of these numbers are bad -- both companies are still growing their businesses in a dynamic environment.Earnings estimates to 2025Here are the actual earnings-per-share results for 2020 with consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet going out to 2025:Here are estimated annual percentage  increases in EPS based on the above, plus an estimated five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR):That five-year CAGR for Square is bumped up by the expected EPS breakout in 2021. But if we run a four-year EPS CAGR from 2021 through 2025, the results are 21% for PayPal and 46% for Square. Both are impressive, but Square comes out on top if analysts' estimates are close to accurate. This helps explain the much higher forward price-to-earnings ratio for Square that you can see further down.Cash flowIn the modern economy, many investors believe free cash flow -- remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures -- is a critically important measure. One reason for this is that so many one-time non-cash items can affect EPS. Another is that free cash flow can be deployed through business expansion, acquisitions, share buybacks dividends or other actions that will presumably be good for shareholders.Square has had negative free cash flow $(FCF)$ for two of the past four quarters, which isn't surprising, as the company emphasizes growing its business. So it may be most useful to look ahead. FactSet has consensus estimates for FCF per share going out to 2023:Again, the analysts expect great things from both companies, especially Square.Stock valuation and performanceHere are forward price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, along with total return figures:Those are high valuations to expected earnings and sales. Then again, that has been par for the course for the most rapidly growing tech-oriented stocks over the past several years.Wall Street's opinionPayPal has more \"buy\" ratings among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet, but Square as the more aggressive price target:Even though the analysts provide earnings estimates going many years out, their share-price targets are for 12 months, per tradition. This is where you need to think about what \"long term\" means to you as an investor. 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A spokeswoman for Amazon said the deal, which Selz announced on its website about a month ago, has been completed and nothing will change for Selz’s merchants or their customers.</p>\n<p>Founded in 2013, Selz serves as an online platform that helps small and medium-size companies launch and maintain their online businesses. The private company employs more than 30 people, according to data firm PitchBook. Previous backers include Macdoch Venture and Adcock Private Equity, PitchBook said.</p>\n<p>Amazon hasheightened its effortsto match fast-growing Shopify, which also aids small merchants in creating online shops. Last year, Amazon created a secret team named “Project Santos” to replicate part of Shopify’s business model, The Wall Street Journal reported in December.</p>\n<p>As the pandemic has made online shopping more popular, brick-and-mortar stores have invested more intotheir e-commerce presence. 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A spokeswoman for Amazon said the deal, which Selz announced on its website about a month ago, has been completed and nothing will change for Selz’s merchants or their customers.\nFounded in 2013, Selz serves as an online platform that helps small and medium-size companies launch and maintain their online businesses. The private company employs more than 30 people, according to data firm PitchBook. Previous backers include Macdoch Venture and Adcock Private Equity, PitchBook said.\nAmazon hasheightened its effortsto match fast-growing Shopify, which also aids small merchants in creating online shops. Last year, Amazon created a secret team named “Project Santos” to replicate part of Shopify’s business model, The Wall Street Journal reported in December.\nAs the pandemic has made online shopping more popular, brick-and-mortar stores have invested more intotheir e-commerce presence. 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Forty-eight S&P 500 companies are scheduled","content":"<p>The stock market is closed for&nbsp;Presidents Day on Monday. Forty-eight&nbsp;S&amp;P 500&nbsp;companies are scheduled to report during the rest of the week.</p><p>CVS Health,Devon Energy,Occidental Petroleum,Palantir Technologies,and&nbsp;Vornado Realty Trust&nbsp;will be Tuesday’s highlights, followed by&nbsp;Analog Devices,Baidu,Hilton Worldwide Holdings,and&nbsp;Shopifyon Wednesday.Applied Materials,Marriott International,Newmont,Roku,and&nbsp;Walmart&nbsp;report on Thursday. Finally,Deerecloses out the week on Friday.</p><p>The economic-data calendar this week includes Wednesday’s January retail sales from the Census Bureau. Forecasts are for a 1.3% rise from December, when consumer spending slipped 0.7%. The&nbsp;Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports the producer price index for January on Wednesday. On average, economists expect a 0.4% month-over-month rise, or 0.2% when excluding volatile food and energy components.</p><p>Also Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee will release the minutes from its late-January meeting. And on Friday,&nbsp;IHS Markitwill publish its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers’ indexes for February.</p><p><b>Monday 2/15</b></p><p>Stock and bond markets areclosed in observance of Presidents Day.</p><p><b>Tuesday 2/16</b></p><p>Agilent Technologies,CVS Health, Devon Energy,Ecolab,Occidental Petroleum, Palantir Technologies, Vornado Realty Trust, andZoetisrelease earnings.</p><p><b>The Federal Reserve Bank of New York</b>&nbsp;releases its Empire State Manufacturing Survey for February. Consensus estimate is for an eight reading, higher than January’s 3.5 figure. January’s reading was the lowest since June, as the region’s manufacturing sector is still growing, but at a sluggish rate.</p><p><b>Wednesday 2/17</b></p><p><b>The Census Bureau</b>&nbsp;reports retail sales data for January. Expectations are for a 1.3% month-over-month rise in consumer spending after a 0.7% decline in December. Excluding autos, sales are seen gaining 1.4%.</p><p>Analog Devices, Baidu,Garmin,Henry Schein,Hilton Worldwide Holdings,Pioneer Natural Resources,Synopsys,Shopify, andTwilioannounce quarterly results.</p><p><b>The Federal Open Market Committee</b>&nbsp;releases the minutes from its late-January monetary-policy meeting.</p><p><b>The National Association of Home Builders</b>&nbsp;releases its NAHB/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for February. Economists forecast an 82 reading, one point lower than January’s 83 figure. The index is down slightly from its all-time high of 90 set in November. Demand remains strong in the housing market, but home builders are concerned about rising material costs, especially lumber prices, which have risen more than threefold since last April.</p><p><b>The Bureau of Labor Statistics</b>&nbsp;releases the producer price index for January. Expectations are for a 0.4% month-over-month rise, just a tick above December’s gain. The core PPI, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, is seen gaining 0.2%, roughly even with the December data.</p><p><b>Thursday 2/18</b></p><p>Applied Materials, Cabot Oil &amp; Gas, LKQ, Marriott International, Newmont, Roku,Southern Co., Walmart, andWaste Managementreport earnings.</p><p><b>The Census Bureau</b>&nbsp;reports new-residential-construction data for January. Economists forecast a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.65 million housing starts, just below the December’s 1.67 million. The December figure was the highest annual rate of housing starts since the 2006-07 housing market bubble.</p><p><b>Friday 2/19</b></p><p>Deere hosts a conference call to discuss quarterly results.</p><p><b>IHS Markit</b>&nbsp;reports both its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers’ indexes for February. Consensus estimates are for a 59 reading for the Manufacturing PMI and a 57.8 reading for the Services PMI. 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Forty-eight S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report during the rest of the week.CVS Health,Devon Energy,Occidental Petroleum,Palantir Technologies,and Vornado Realty Trust will be Tuesday’s highlights, followed by Analog Devices,Baidu,Hilton Worldwide Holdings,and Shopifyon Wednesday.Applied Materials,Marriott International,Newmont,Roku,and Walmart report on Thursday. Finally,Deerecloses out the week on Friday.The economic-data calendar this week includes Wednesday’s January retail sales from the Census Bureau. Forecasts are for a 1.3% rise from December, when consumer spending slipped 0.7%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports the producer price index for January on Wednesday. On average, economists expect a 0.4% month-over-month rise, or 0.2% when excluding volatile food and energy components.Also Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee will release the minutes from its late-January meeting. And on Friday, IHS Markitwill publish its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers’ indexes for February.Monday 2/15Stock and bond markets areclosed in observance of Presidents Day.Tuesday 2/16Agilent Technologies,CVS Health, Devon Energy,Ecolab,Occidental Petroleum, Palantir Technologies, Vornado Realty Trust, andZoetisrelease earnings.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York releases its Empire State Manufacturing Survey for February. Consensus estimate is for an eight reading, higher than January’s 3.5 figure. January’s reading was the lowest since June, as the region’s manufacturing sector is still growing, but at a sluggish rate.Wednesday 2/17The Census Bureau reports retail sales data for January. Expectations are for a 1.3% month-over-month rise in consumer spending after a 0.7% decline in December. Excluding autos, sales are seen gaining 1.4%.Analog Devices, Baidu,Garmin,Henry Schein,Hilton Worldwide Holdings,Pioneer Natural Resources,Synopsys,Shopify, andTwilioannounce quarterly results.The Federal Open Market Committee releases the minutes from its late-January monetary-policy meeting.The National Association of Home Builders releases its NAHB/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for February. Economists forecast an 82 reading, one point lower than January’s 83 figure. The index is down slightly from its all-time high of 90 set in November. Demand remains strong in the housing market, but home builders are concerned about rising material costs, especially lumber prices, which have risen more than threefold since last April.The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the producer price index for January. Expectations are for a 0.4% month-over-month rise, just a tick above December’s gain. The core PPI, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, is seen gaining 0.2%, roughly even with the December data.Thursday 2/18Applied Materials, Cabot Oil & Gas, LKQ, Marriott International, Newmont, Roku,Southern Co., Walmart, andWaste Managementreport earnings.The Census Bureau reports new-residential-construction data for January. Economists forecast a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.65 million housing starts, just below the December’s 1.67 million. The December figure was the highest annual rate of housing starts since the 2006-07 housing market bubble.Friday 2/19Deere hosts a conference call to discuss quarterly results.IHS Markit reports both its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers’ indexes for February. Consensus estimates are for a 59 reading for the Manufacturing PMI and a 57.8 reading for the Services PMI. 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However, earnings decreased 13.21%, resulting in a loss of $84.10 million. In Q2, GameStop brought in $942.00 million in sales but lost $96.90 million in earnings.","content":"<html><body><p>During Q3, <strong>GameStop</strong> (NYSE:GME) brought in sales totaling $1.00 billion. However, earnings decreased 13.21%, resulting in a loss of $84.10 million. In Q2, GameStop brought in $942.00 million in sales but lost $96.90 million in earnings.</p>\n<h3>What Is ROCE?</h3>\n<p>Return on Capital Employed is a measure of yearly pre-tax profit relative to capital employed by a business. Changes in earnings and sales indicate shifts in a company's ROCE. A higher ROCE is generally representative of successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. A low or negative ROCE suggests the opposite. 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If the company is generating high profits with its current level of capital, some of that money can be reinvested in more capital which will generally lead to higher returns and earnings per share growth.</p>\n<p>For GameStop, the return on capital employed ratio shows the current amount of assets may not actually be helping the company achieve higher returns, a note many investors will take into account when making long-term financial decisions.</p>\n<h3>Q3 Earnings Recap</h3>\n<p>GameStop reported Q3 earnings per share at $-0.53/share, which beat analyst predictions of $-0.85/share.</p>\n</body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站"},"source_url":"https://www.benzinga.com/node/19639105","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2110075000","content_text":"During Q3, GameStop (NYSE:GME) brought in sales totaling $1.00 billion. However, earnings decreased 13.21%, resulting in a loss of $84.10 million. In Q2, GameStop brought in $942.00 million in sales but lost $96.90 million in earnings.\nWhat Is ROCE?\nReturn on Capital Employed is a measure of yearly pre-tax profit relative to capital employed by a business. Changes in earnings and sales indicate shifts in a company's ROCE. A higher ROCE is generally representative of successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. A low or negative ROCE suggests the opposite. In Q3, GameStop posted an ROCE of -0.25%.\nKeep in mind, while ROCE is a good measure of a company's recent performance, it is not a highly reliable predictor of a company's earnings or sales in the near future.\nROCE is an important metric for the comparison of similar companies. A relatively high ROCE shows GameStop is potentially operating at a higher level of efficiency than other companies in its industry. 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The company is inviting investors to ask and upvote questions that they would like addressed on their earnings call.</p>\n<p>The Q&amp;A platform is open for use starting today, and retail and institutional shareholders will be able to submit and upvote questions to management.</p>\n<p>Interested traders and investors can submit questions to the Palantir team ahead of earnings here.</p>\n<p><strong>Top Subjects</strong>: Some of the top-voted questions on the shareholder Q&amp;A platform right now? Here they are, lightly edited:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\r\n\tWith the partnership recently announced with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a>, I believe sales at the Enterprise level will increase greatly. Will Foundry be the main software used? And finally does Palantir have plans to create a more scaled-down version to serve small- to medium-sized businesses?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhile the IBM announcement is great, their public cloud share is miniscule. Can you commit to expanding managed offerings to other public cloud providers such as <strong>Microsoft Corporation </strong>(NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure, <strong>Amazon.com, Inc.</strong> (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS, and Google <strong>Alphabet Inc Class A</strong> (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhen does Palantir expect to achieve a level where it can repeatedly and continually achieve profitability?&lt;\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhich two or three things should long-term investors focus on most to track Palantir’s progress towards long-term growth targets?\r\n\t</li>\n</ul>\r\n\r\nPalantir says the Q&amp;A platform will remain open until 24 hours before the earnings call.\r\n\r\n<p><em>Photo courtesy: Cory Doctorow via Flickr.</em></p>\n</body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Palantir's Q&A Platform For Investors Is Open All Weekend Ahead Of Q4 Earnings On Tuesday</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nPalantir's Q&A Platform For Investors Is Open All Weekend Ahead Of Q4 Earnings On Tuesday\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/d08bf7808052c0ca9deb4e944cae32aa);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Benzinga </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-02-13 21:31</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body><p>Big-data analytics company <strong>Palantir Technologies Inc</strong> (NYSE:PLTR) is scheduled to release fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 16, and the Denver-based company wants to hear from shareholders.</p>\n<p><strong>What Happened</strong>: Palantir opened a shareholder Q&amp;A platform to be used in its upcoming earnings call. The company is inviting investors to ask and upvote questions that they would like addressed on their earnings call.</p>\n<p>The Q&amp;A platform is open for use starting today, and retail and institutional shareholders will be able to submit and upvote questions to management.</p>\n<p>Interested traders and investors can submit questions to the Palantir team ahead of earnings here.</p>\n<p><strong>Top Subjects</strong>: Some of the top-voted questions on the shareholder Q&amp;A platform right now? Here they are, lightly edited:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\r\n\tWith the partnership recently announced with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a>, I believe sales at the Enterprise level will increase greatly. Will Foundry be the main software used? And finally does Palantir have plans to create a more scaled-down version to serve small- to medium-sized businesses?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhile the IBM announcement is great, their public cloud share is miniscule. Can you commit to expanding managed offerings to other public cloud providers such as <strong>Microsoft Corporation </strong>(NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure, <strong>Amazon.com, Inc.</strong> (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS, and Google <strong>Alphabet Inc Class A</strong> (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhen does Palantir expect to achieve a level where it can repeatedly and continually achieve profitability?&lt;\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhich two or three things should long-term investors focus on most to track Palantir’s progress towards long-term growth targets?\r\n\t</li>\n</ul>\r\n\r\nPalantir says the Q&amp;A platform will remain open until 24 hours before the earnings call.\r\n\r\n<p><em>Photo courtesy: Cory Doctorow via Flickr.</em></p>\n</body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软","GOOGL":"谷歌A","AMZN":"亚马逊","PLTR":"Palantir Technologies Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.benzinga.com/node/19621164","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2111718072","content_text":"Big-data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) is scheduled to release fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 16, and the Denver-based company wants to hear from shareholders.\nWhat Happened: Palantir opened a shareholder Q&A platform to be used in its upcoming earnings call. 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Demand remains strong in the housing market, but home builders are concerned about rising material costs, especially lumber prices, which have risen more than threefold since last April.</p><p><b>The Bureau of Labor Statistics</b>&nbsp;releases the producer price index for January. Expectations are for a 0.4% month-over-month rise, just a tick above December’s gain. The core PPI, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, is seen gaining 0.2%, roughly even with the December data.</p><p><b>Thursday 2/18</b></p><p>Applied Materials, Cabot Oil &amp; Gas, LKQ, Marriott International, Newmont, Roku,Southern Co., Walmart, andWaste Managementreport earnings.</p><p><b>The Census Bureau</b>&nbsp;reports new-residential-construction data for January. Economists forecast a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.65 million housing starts, just below the December’s 1.67 million. 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Forty-eight S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report during the rest of the week.CVS Health,Devon Energy,Occidental Petroleum,Palantir ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/roku-walmart-palantir-and-other-stocks-to-watch-this-week-51613242647?mod=hp_LEAD_1_B_4\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"WMT":"沃尔玛","ROKU":"Roku Inc","PLTR":"Palantir Technologies Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/roku-walmart-palantir-and-other-stocks-to-watch-this-week-51613242647?mod=hp_LEAD_1_B_4","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1142017479","content_text":"The stock market is closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Forty-eight S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report during the rest of the week.CVS Health,Devon Energy,Occidental Petroleum,Palantir Technologies,and Vornado Realty Trust will be Tuesday’s highlights, followed by Analog Devices,Baidu,Hilton Worldwide Holdings,and Shopifyon Wednesday.Applied Materials,Marriott International,Newmont,Roku,and Walmart report on Thursday. Finally,Deerecloses out the week on Friday.The economic-data calendar this week includes Wednesday’s January retail sales from the Census Bureau. Forecasts are for a 1.3% rise from December, when consumer spending slipped 0.7%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports the producer price index for January on Wednesday. On average, economists expect a 0.4% month-over-month rise, or 0.2% when excluding volatile food and energy components.Also Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee will release the minutes from its late-January meeting. And on Friday, IHS Markitwill publish its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers’ indexes for February.Monday 2/15Stock and bond markets areclosed in observance of Presidents Day.Tuesday 2/16Agilent Technologies,CVS Health, Devon Energy,Ecolab,Occidental Petroleum, Palantir Technologies, Vornado Realty Trust, andZoetisrelease earnings.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York releases its Empire State Manufacturing Survey for February. Consensus estimate is for an eight reading, higher than January’s 3.5 figure. January’s reading was the lowest since June, as the region’s manufacturing sector is still growing, but at a sluggish rate.Wednesday 2/17The Census Bureau reports retail sales data for January. Expectations are for a 1.3% month-over-month rise in consumer spending after a 0.7% decline in December. Excluding autos, sales are seen gaining 1.4%.Analog Devices, Baidu,Garmin,Henry Schein,Hilton Worldwide Holdings,Pioneer Natural Resources,Synopsys,Shopify, andTwilioannounce quarterly results.The Federal Open Market Committee releases the minutes from its late-January monetary-policy meeting.The National Association of Home Builders releases its NAHB/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for February. Economists forecast an 82 reading, one point lower than January’s 83 figure. The index is down slightly from its all-time high of 90 set in November. Demand remains strong in the housing market, but home builders are concerned about rising material costs, especially lumber prices, which have risen more than threefold since last April.The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the producer price index for January. Expectations are for a 0.4% month-over-month rise, just a tick above December’s gain. The core PPI, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, is seen gaining 0.2%, roughly even with the December data.Thursday 2/18Applied Materials, Cabot Oil & Gas, LKQ, Marriott International, Newmont, Roku,Southern Co., Walmart, andWaste Managementreport earnings.The Census Bureau reports new-residential-construction data for January. Economists forecast a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.65 million housing starts, just below the December’s 1.67 million. The December figure was the highest annual rate of housing starts since the 2006-07 housing market bubble.Friday 2/19Deere hosts a conference call to discuss quarterly results.IHS Markit reports both its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers’ indexes for February. Consensus estimates are for a 59 reading for the Manufacturing PMI and a 57.8 reading for the Services PMI. 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However, earnings decreased 13.21%, resulting in a loss of $84.10 million. In Q2, GameStop brought in $942.00 million in sales but lost $96.90 million in earnings.</p>\n<h3>What Is ROCE?</h3>\n<p>Return on Capital Employed is a measure of yearly pre-tax profit relative to capital employed by a business. Changes in earnings and sales indicate shifts in a company's ROCE. A higher ROCE is generally representative of successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. A low or negative ROCE suggests the opposite. In Q3, GameStop posted an ROCE of -0.25%.</p>\n<p>Keep in mind, while ROCE is a good measure of a company's recent performance, it is not a highly reliable predictor of a company's earnings or sales in the near future.</p>\n<p>ROCE is an important metric for the comparison of similar companies. A relatively high ROCE shows GameStop is potentially operating at a higher level of efficiency than other companies in its industry. If the company is generating high profits with its current level of capital, some of that money can be reinvested in more capital which will generally lead to higher returns and earnings per share growth.</p>\n<p>For GameStop, the return on capital employed ratio shows the current amount of assets may not actually be helping the company achieve higher returns, a note many investors will take into account when making long-term financial decisions.</p>\n<h3>Q3 Earnings Recap</h3>\n<p>GameStop reported Q3 earnings per share at $-0.53/share, which beat analyst predictions of $-0.85/share.</p>\n</body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站"},"source_url":"https://www.benzinga.com/node/19639105","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2110075000","content_text":"During Q3, GameStop (NYSE:GME) brought in sales totaling $1.00 billion. However, earnings decreased 13.21%, resulting in a loss of $84.10 million. In Q2, GameStop brought in $942.00 million in sales but lost $96.90 million in earnings.\nWhat Is ROCE?\nReturn on Capital Employed is a measure of yearly pre-tax profit relative to capital employed by a business. Changes in earnings and sales indicate shifts in a company's ROCE. A higher ROCE is generally representative of successful growth of a company and is a sign of higher earnings per share in the future. A low or negative ROCE suggests the opposite. In Q3, GameStop posted an ROCE of -0.25%.\nKeep in mind, while ROCE is a good measure of a company's recent performance, it is not a highly reliable predictor of a company's earnings or sales in the near future.\nROCE is an important metric for the comparison of similar companies. A relatively high ROCE shows GameStop is potentially operating at a higher level of efficiency than other companies in its industry. 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Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n</p>\n<p>\n  By Philip van Doorn \n</p>\n<p>\n  Among the largest U.S. companies, Amazon and Facebook have grown their cash flow rapidly, which helps investors play it safe. \n</p>\n<p>\n  If we're heading into a time of increased risk in the stock market, investors might be well-served by owning shares of companies that not only generate a lot of cash, but also grow that money rapidly. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Below are two lists of large companies that have shown the highest free-cash-flow growth rates over the past three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A rapid pace of economic growth is generally a good thing for stock investors. But we're in a period of unusually aggressive policies by the Federal Reserve to spur that growth. These policies have included a federal funds rate with a target range of zero to 0.25% and a continual increase in the central bank's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds. But with increasing inflation, the Fed may act sooner than previously expected to quell price increases -- and that could lead to an uncertain period for stocks. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read:Fed takes baby steps toward scaling back its bond purchases  \n</p>\n<p>\n  Three-year cash-flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  Many professional investors emphasize cash flow when analyzing companies. Earnings can be a tough nut because there are so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time noncash items that can affect a company's bottom line. A company can also book revenue while it is waiting to be paid -- this means it shows a profit for selling something even though the cash hasn't been received. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has explained the importance of cash flow in his annual letters to shareholders, including the 2020 letter , when he wrote that the company's insurance businesses had an important industry advantage: \"Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  To identify large, stable companies growing their cash flow most quickly, we looked at free cash flow data provided by FactSet and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures. It is money that can be deployed to expand the business, make acquisitions, buy back shares, raise dividends or for other corporate purposes. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A blind focus on the highest free-cash-flow CAGR would have the problem of highlighting companies that had unusually low cash flows for the beginning period. So for the three-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index  with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2017, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. We used calendar years because many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The largest company on the list of 50 was Apple Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(AAPL)$</a>, which had $52.91 billion in free cash flow in calendar 2017. The company's free cash flow increased to $80.22 billion in 2020, for a three-year CAGR of 14.9%. But Apple didn't make the top 10 list for 2003 -- it was ranked 14th. More about Apple below. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the 10 S&amp;P 500 companies from the list described above with the highest free-cash-flow CAGR for three years through 2020. The annual data is in millions of dollars: \n</p>\n<p>\n  You can scroll the table to see how each company's free cash flow increased or declined over the past three years. The CAGR calculation only uses the 2020 and 2017 year-end numbers. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon.com Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> was way out in front for three-year FCF CAGR through 2020 among the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 with the highest FCF at the end of 2017. You can see below that it ranked second on the five-year list. \n</p>\n<p>\n  For three years, Verizon Communications Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VZ\">$(VZ)$</a> ranked second, with CVS Health Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVS.AU\">$(CVS.AU)$</a> in third place. \n</p>\n<p>\n  CVS underlines the imperfection of any <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a>-point stock screen. The company made the three- and five-year lists because of the increase in cash flow from its transformative acquisition of Aetna in November 2018. After a few more years, it will be interesting to see how rapidly the combined company is able to grow its cash flow from a 2019 baseline. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After the five-year list, there are more comments about companies that made the top 10 for both periods. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Five-year cash flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  For the five-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2015, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. \n</p>\n<p>\n  During calendar 2015, Apple had the highest free cash flow of $63.37 billion among S&amp;P 500 companies. That's much higher than the company's $52.91 billion in FCF in 2017. It also explains why the company's five-year FCF CAGR through 2020 was only 4.8% and why its three-year CAGR was so much higher at 14.9%. This illustrates the importance of seeing the data for each year, even though the CAGR calculations only make use of the starting and ending data points. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the five-year CAGR winners, including the FCF figures for six years that you can see if you scroll the table: \n</p>\n<p>\n  Facebook Inc. (FB) is the five-year winner, increasing its free cash flow to $23.63 billion in 2020 from $6.08 billion in 2015 for a CAGR of 31.2%. The company was ranked 19th for three-year FCF CAGR. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon ranked second for five-year CAGR and was one of several companies making both the five- and three-year top-10 lists: \n</p>\n<p>\n  As explained above, any stock screen based on one element has its limits. It is very important to do your own research and form your own opinion before committing to any investment. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Don't miss: Amazon is a cheap stock for long-term investors. These numbers tell you why . \n</p>\n<p>\n  -Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  May 29, 2021 11:18 ET (15:18 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Amazon and Facebook as defensive plays? Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAmazon and Facebook as defensive plays? Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-05-29 23:18</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body><font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\nMW Amazon and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a> as defensive plays? Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n</p>\n<p>\n  By Philip van Doorn \n</p>\n<p>\n  Among the largest U.S. companies, Amazon and Facebook have grown their cash flow rapidly, which helps investors play it safe. \n</p>\n<p>\n  If we're heading into a time of increased risk in the stock market, investors might be well-served by owning shares of companies that not only generate a lot of cash, but also grow that money rapidly. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Below are two lists of large companies that have shown the highest free-cash-flow growth rates over the past three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A rapid pace of economic growth is generally a good thing for stock investors. But we're in a period of unusually aggressive policies by the Federal Reserve to spur that growth. These policies have included a federal funds rate with a target range of zero to 0.25% and a continual increase in the central bank's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds. But with increasing inflation, the Fed may act sooner than previously expected to quell price increases -- and that could lead to an uncertain period for stocks. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read:Fed takes baby steps toward scaling back its bond purchases  \n</p>\n<p>\n  Three-year cash-flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  Many professional investors emphasize cash flow when analyzing companies. Earnings can be a tough nut because there are so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time noncash items that can affect a company's bottom line. A company can also book revenue while it is waiting to be paid -- this means it shows a profit for selling something even though the cash hasn't been received. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has explained the importance of cash flow in his annual letters to shareholders, including the 2020 letter , when he wrote that the company's insurance businesses had an important industry advantage: \"Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  To identify large, stable companies growing their cash flow most quickly, we looked at free cash flow data provided by FactSet and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for three and five years. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures. It is money that can be deployed to expand the business, make acquisitions, buy back shares, raise dividends or for other corporate purposes. \n</p>\n<p>\n  A blind focus on the highest free-cash-flow CAGR would have the problem of highlighting companies that had unusually low cash flows for the beginning period. So for the three-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index  with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2017, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. We used calendar years because many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The largest company on the list of 50 was Apple Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(AAPL)$</a>, which had $52.91 billion in free cash flow in calendar 2017. The company's free cash flow increased to $80.22 billion in 2020, for a three-year CAGR of 14.9%. But Apple didn't make the top 10 list for 2003 -- it was ranked 14th. More about Apple below. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the 10 S&amp;P 500 companies from the list described above with the highest free-cash-flow CAGR for three years through 2020. The annual data is in millions of dollars: \n</p>\n<p>\n  You can scroll the table to see how each company's free cash flow increased or declined over the past three years. The CAGR calculation only uses the 2020 and 2017 year-end numbers. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon.com Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> was way out in front for three-year FCF CAGR through 2020 among the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 with the highest FCF at the end of 2017. You can see below that it ranked second on the five-year list. \n</p>\n<p>\n  For three years, Verizon Communications Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VZ\">$(VZ)$</a> ranked second, with CVS Health Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVS.AU\">$(CVS.AU)$</a> in third place. \n</p>\n<p>\n  CVS underlines the imperfection of any <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a>-point stock screen. The company made the three- and five-year lists because of the increase in cash flow from its transformative acquisition of Aetna in November 2018. After a few more years, it will be interesting to see how rapidly the combined company is able to grow its cash flow from a 2019 baseline. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After the five-year list, there are more comments about companies that made the top 10 for both periods. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Five-year cash flow winners \n</p>\n<p>\n  For the five-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&amp;P 500 Index with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2015, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. \n</p>\n<p>\n  During calendar 2015, Apple had the highest free cash flow of $63.37 billion among S&amp;P 500 companies. That's much higher than the company's $52.91 billion in FCF in 2017. It also explains why the company's five-year FCF CAGR through 2020 was only 4.8% and why its three-year CAGR was so much higher at 14.9%. This illustrates the importance of seeing the data for each year, even though the CAGR calculations only make use of the starting and ending data points. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here are the five-year CAGR winners, including the FCF figures for six years that you can see if you scroll the table: \n</p>\n<p>\n  Facebook Inc. (FB) is the five-year winner, increasing its free cash flow to $23.63 billion in 2020 from $6.08 billion in 2015 for a CAGR of 31.2%. The company was ranked 19th for three-year FCF CAGR. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Amazon ranked second for five-year CAGR and was one of several companies making both the five- and three-year top-10 lists: \n</p>\n<p>\n  As explained above, any stock screen based on one element has its limits. It is very important to do your own research and form your own opinion before committing to any investment. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Don't miss: Amazon is a cheap stock for long-term investors. These numbers tell you why . \n</p>\n<p>\n  -Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  May 29, 2021 11:18 ET (15:18 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09086":"华夏纳指-U","03086":"华夏纳指","INTC":"英特尔","GOOGL":"谷歌A","AAPL":"苹果","GOOG":"谷歌","AMZN":"亚马逊","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数"},"source_url":"http://dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2139248442","content_text":"MW Amazon and Facebook as defensive plays? Yes, along with these other stocks that are cash-flow winners\n\n\n  By Philip van Doorn \n\n\n  Among the largest U.S. companies, Amazon and Facebook have grown their cash flow rapidly, which helps investors play it safe. \n\n\n  If we're heading into a time of increased risk in the stock market, investors might be well-served by owning shares of companies that not only generate a lot of cash, but also grow that money rapidly. \n\n\n  Below are two lists of large companies that have shown the highest free-cash-flow growth rates over the past three and five years. \n\n\n  A rapid pace of economic growth is generally a good thing for stock investors. But we're in a period of unusually aggressive policies by the Federal Reserve to spur that growth. These policies have included a federal funds rate with a target range of zero to 0.25% and a continual increase in the central bank's holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds. But with increasing inflation, the Fed may act sooner than previously expected to quell price increases -- and that could lead to an uncertain period for stocks. \n\n\n  Read:Fed takes baby steps toward scaling back its bond purchases  \n\n\n  Three-year cash-flow winners \n\n\n  Many professional investors emphasize cash flow when analyzing companies. Earnings can be a tough nut because there are so many one-time noncash items that can affect a company's bottom line. A company can also book revenue while it is waiting to be paid -- this means it shows a profit for selling something even though the cash hasn't been received. \n\n\n  Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has explained the importance of cash flow in his annual letters to shareholders, including the 2020 letter , when he wrote that the company's insurance businesses had an important industry advantage: \"Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers.\" \n\n\n  To identify large, stable companies growing their cash flow most quickly, we looked at free cash flow data provided by FactSet and compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for three and five years. \n\n\n  A company's free cash flow is its remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures. It is money that can be deployed to expand the business, make acquisitions, buy back shares, raise dividends or for other corporate purposes. \n\n\n  A blind focus on the highest free-cash-flow CAGR would have the problem of highlighting companies that had unusually low cash flows for the beginning period. So for the three-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&P 500 Index  with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2017, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. We used calendar years because many companies have fiscal years that don't match the calendar. \n\n\n  The largest company on the list of 50 was Apple Inc. $(AAPL)$, which had $52.91 billion in free cash flow in calendar 2017. The company's free cash flow increased to $80.22 billion in 2020, for a three-year CAGR of 14.9%. But Apple didn't make the top 10 list for 2003 -- it was ranked 14th. More about Apple below. \n\n\n  Here are the 10 S&P 500 companies from the list described above with the highest free-cash-flow CAGR for three years through 2020. The annual data is in millions of dollars: \n\n\n  You can scroll the table to see how each company's free cash flow increased or declined over the past three years. The CAGR calculation only uses the 2020 and 2017 year-end numbers. \n\n\n  Amazon.com Inc. $(AMZN)$ was way out in front for three-year FCF CAGR through 2020 among the 50 companies in the S&P 500 with the highest FCF at the end of 2017. You can see below that it ranked second on the five-year list. \n\n\n  For three years, Verizon Communications Inc. $(VZ)$ ranked second, with CVS Health Corp. $(CVS.AU)$ in third place. \n\n\n  CVS underlines the imperfection of any one-point stock screen. The company made the three- and five-year lists because of the increase in cash flow from its transformative acquisition of Aetna in November 2018. After a few more years, it will be interesting to see how rapidly the combined company is able to grow its cash flow from a 2019 baseline. \n\n\n  After the five-year list, there are more comments about companies that made the top 10 for both periods. \n\n\n  Five-year cash flow winners \n\n\n  For the five-year free-cash-flow CAGR ranking we began with the 50 companies in the S&P 500 Index with the highest free cash flow for calendar 2015, and then ranked them by FCF CAGR for three years through 2020. \n\n\n  During calendar 2015, Apple had the highest free cash flow of $63.37 billion among S&P 500 companies. That's much higher than the company's $52.91 billion in FCF in 2017. It also explains why the company's five-year FCF CAGR through 2020 was only 4.8% and why its three-year CAGR was so much higher at 14.9%. This illustrates the importance of seeing the data for each year, even though the CAGR calculations only make use of the starting and ending data points. \n\n\n  Here are the five-year CAGR winners, including the FCF figures for six years that you can see if you scroll the table: \n\n\n  Facebook Inc. (FB) is the five-year winner, increasing its free cash flow to $23.63 billion in 2020 from $6.08 billion in 2015 for a CAGR of 31.2%. The company was ranked 19th for three-year FCF CAGR. \n\n\n  Amazon ranked second for five-year CAGR and was one of several companies making both the five- and three-year top-10 lists: \n\n\n  As explained above, any stock screen based on one element has its limits. It is very important to do your own research and form your own opinion before committing to any investment. \n\n\n  Don't miss: Amazon is a cheap stock for long-term investors. These numbers tell you why . \n\n\n  -Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n\n\n \n\n\n$(END)$ Dow Jones Newswires\n\n\n  May 29, 2021 11:18 ET (15:18 GMT)\n\n\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":86,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":134843288,"gmtCreate":1622217569344,"gmtModify":1704181799765,"author":{"id":"3571051291574870","authorId":"3571051291574870","authorIdStr":"3571051291574870","name":"smallb0sss","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/326ae33497fcaa7276c4d80c19242bfc","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3571051291574870"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"def square","listText":"def square","text":"def square","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/134843288","repostId":"2138312488","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2138312488","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1622211900,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2138312488?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-28 22:25","market":"us","language":"en","title":"PayPal vs. Square -- which is the better stock to own now?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2138312488","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analys","content":"<p>Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analysts, on the whole, prefer PayPal.</p><p>PayPal and Square are well-known to investors as rapidly growing players in the payment-processing space. They don't compete directly in all areas, but there are enough similarities to make a meaningful pairing.</p><p>Where PayPal and Square fit in</p><p>PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) was spun off from eBay Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EBAY\">$(EBAY)$</a> in July 2015. Square was founded in 2009 by CEO Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey Jr. (a current board member), and went public in November 2015. Dorsey also serves as CEO of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWTR\">Twitter</a> Inc. (TWTR), which he co-founded in 2006.</p><p>PayPal said in its 2020 10-K filing  with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 13% of its revenue for the year came from customers on eBay's Marketplace platform. It also said that no other revenue source represented more than 10% of the whole.</p><p>PayPal makes it easy to do payments online through its secure digital wallet -- a user simply signs into their PayPal account to make a payment to the merchant from a bank account or credit card. The purchaser doesn't need to provide any financial information to the merchant.</p><p>During 2020, 93% of PayPal's revenue came from transactions, with the rest from \"other value-added services,\" a category that  has declined over the past two full years.</p><p>Square offers what it calls a \"cohesive commerce ecosystem,\" which includes hardware and software, to help merchants process point-of-sale transactions and online transactions. Square also has Cash App, which helps individual users, businesses and organizations transfer money or bitcoin  through the app or by email.</p><p>\"Customers can also use their stored funds to buy and sell bitcoin and equity investments within Cash App,\" according to Square's first-quarter 10-Q report .</p><p>Here's a comparison of quarterly and annual transaction volume for the two companies, with figures in millions:</p><p>PayPal has a much larger payment-processing business  than Square, and recently, its quarterly and annual transaction volumes have grown more rapidly.</p><p>Key metrics</p><p>Size, revenue and profit</p><p>Here is a comparison of the companies' market capitalizations and GAAP net revenue figures for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, under which Square's revenue from its bitcoin holdings has caused the company's total revenue to balloon. Here's Square's more detailed revenue breakdown:</p><p>This illustrates why an investor considering an individual stock has to take a closer look to form their own opinion.</p><p>Here's what Square had to say about its revenue reporting in its first-quarter shareholder letter :</p><p>We deduct bitcoin revenue because our role is to facilitate customers' access to bitcoin. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Therefore, we believe bitcoin gross profit better reflects the economic benefits as well as our performance from these transactions.</p><p>More from Square's shareholder letter:</p><p>While bitcoin revenue was $3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up approximately 11x year over year, bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of bitcoin revenue.</p><p>So Square's adjusted net revenue for the first quarter was $1.55 billion, increasing 44% from the year-earlier quarter.</p><p>Read:A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 crypto</p><p>Excitement for bitcoin caused the spike in revenue for Square, as its Cash App users participated in the eightfold increase in the cryptocurrency's price in dollars over the 12 months through March 31.</p><p>Here's a comparison of gross profits (earnings before operating expenses) and operating profits (earnings before interest and taxes)  for PayPal and Square for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>PayPal has the larger payment-processing business, by far, while Square is growing its profits more quickly. Despite Square's point that it derives a relatively small portion of its profits from bitcoin revenue, the massive amount of revenue from bitcoin transactions, including customers' trades through Cash App, show the potential of this type of customer activity.</p><p>Returns on common equity and invested capital</p><p>These returns can give some insight into how well a management team deploys capital:</p><p>Return on invested capital is earnings divided by combined debt and equity. It is a measure of capital allocation efficiency and can be useful when comparing companies that are similar. In this case, none of these numbers are bad -- both companies are still growing their businesses in a dynamic environment.</p><p>Earnings estimates to 2025</p><p>Here are the actual earnings-per-share results for 2020 with consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet going out to 2025:</p><p>Here are estimated annual percentage  increases in EPS based on the above, plus an estimated five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR):</p><p>That five-year CAGR for Square is bumped up by the expected EPS breakout in 2021. But if we run a four-year EPS CAGR from 2021 through 2025, the results are 21% for PayPal and 46% for Square. Both are impressive, but Square comes out on top if analysts' estimates are close to accurate. This helps explain the much higher forward price-to-earnings ratio for Square that you can see further down.</p><p>Cash flow</p><p>In the modern economy, many investors believe free cash flow -- remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures -- is a critically important measure. One reason for this is that so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time non-cash items can affect EPS. Another is that free cash flow can be deployed through business expansion, acquisitions, share buybacks dividends or other actions that will presumably be good for shareholders.</p><p>Square has had negative free cash flow <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FCF\">$(FCF)$</a> for two of the past four quarters, which isn't surprising, as the company emphasizes growing its business. So it may be most useful to look ahead. FactSet has consensus estimates for FCF per share going out to 2023:</p><p>Again, the analysts expect great things from both companies, especially Square.</p><p>Stock valuation and performance</p><p>Here are forward price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, along with total return figures:</p><p>Those are high valuations to expected earnings and sales. Then again, that has been par for the course for the most rapidly growing tech-oriented stocks over the past several years.</p><p>Wall Street's opinion</p><p>PayPal has more \"buy\" ratings among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet, but Square as the more aggressive price target:</p><p>Even though the analysts provide earnings estimates going many years out, their share-price targets are for 12 months, per tradition. This is where you need to think about what \"long term\" means to you as an investor. One year can be considered a short period for some long-term investors, who are looking to compound large gains over three- to five-year periods.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>PayPal vs. Square -- which is the better stock to own now?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nPayPal vs. Square -- which is the better stock to own now?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-05-28 22:25</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analysts, on the whole, prefer PayPal.</p><p>PayPal and Square are well-known to investors as rapidly growing players in the payment-processing space. They don't compete directly in all areas, but there are enough similarities to make a meaningful pairing.</p><p>Where PayPal and Square fit in</p><p>PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) was spun off from eBay Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/EBAY\">$(EBAY)$</a> in July 2015. Square was founded in 2009 by CEO Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey Jr. (a current board member), and went public in November 2015. Dorsey also serves as CEO of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWTR\">Twitter</a> Inc. (TWTR), which he co-founded in 2006.</p><p>PayPal said in its 2020 10-K filing  with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 13% of its revenue for the year came from customers on eBay's Marketplace platform. It also said that no other revenue source represented more than 10% of the whole.</p><p>PayPal makes it easy to do payments online through its secure digital wallet -- a user simply signs into their PayPal account to make a payment to the merchant from a bank account or credit card. The purchaser doesn't need to provide any financial information to the merchant.</p><p>During 2020, 93% of PayPal's revenue came from transactions, with the rest from \"other value-added services,\" a category that  has declined over the past two full years.</p><p>Square offers what it calls a \"cohesive commerce ecosystem,\" which includes hardware and software, to help merchants process point-of-sale transactions and online transactions. Square also has Cash App, which helps individual users, businesses and organizations transfer money or bitcoin  through the app or by email.</p><p>\"Customers can also use their stored funds to buy and sell bitcoin and equity investments within Cash App,\" according to Square's first-quarter 10-Q report .</p><p>Here's a comparison of quarterly and annual transaction volume for the two companies, with figures in millions:</p><p>PayPal has a much larger payment-processing business  than Square, and recently, its quarterly and annual transaction volumes have grown more rapidly.</p><p>Key metrics</p><p>Size, revenue and profit</p><p>Here is a comparison of the companies' market capitalizations and GAAP net revenue figures for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, under which Square's revenue from its bitcoin holdings has caused the company's total revenue to balloon. Here's Square's more detailed revenue breakdown:</p><p>This illustrates why an investor considering an individual stock has to take a closer look to form their own opinion.</p><p>Here's what Square had to say about its revenue reporting in its first-quarter shareholder letter :</p><p>We deduct bitcoin revenue because our role is to facilitate customers' access to bitcoin. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Therefore, we believe bitcoin gross profit better reflects the economic benefits as well as our performance from these transactions.</p><p>More from Square's shareholder letter:</p><p>While bitcoin revenue was $3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up approximately 11x year over year, bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of bitcoin revenue.</p><p>So Square's adjusted net revenue for the first quarter was $1.55 billion, increasing 44% from the year-earlier quarter.</p><p>Read:A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 crypto</p><p>Excitement for bitcoin caused the spike in revenue for Square, as its Cash App users participated in the eightfold increase in the cryptocurrency's price in dollars over the 12 months through March 31.</p><p>Here's a comparison of gross profits (earnings before operating expenses) and operating profits (earnings before interest and taxes)  for PayPal and Square for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:</p><p>PayPal has the larger payment-processing business, by far, while Square is growing its profits more quickly. Despite Square's point that it derives a relatively small portion of its profits from bitcoin revenue, the massive amount of revenue from bitcoin transactions, including customers' trades through Cash App, show the potential of this type of customer activity.</p><p>Returns on common equity and invested capital</p><p>These returns can give some insight into how well a management team deploys capital:</p><p>Return on invested capital is earnings divided by combined debt and equity. It is a measure of capital allocation efficiency and can be useful when comparing companies that are similar. In this case, none of these numbers are bad -- both companies are still growing their businesses in a dynamic environment.</p><p>Earnings estimates to 2025</p><p>Here are the actual earnings-per-share results for 2020 with consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet going out to 2025:</p><p>Here are estimated annual percentage  increases in EPS based on the above, plus an estimated five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR):</p><p>That five-year CAGR for Square is bumped up by the expected EPS breakout in 2021. But if we run a four-year EPS CAGR from 2021 through 2025, the results are 21% for PayPal and 46% for Square. Both are impressive, but Square comes out on top if analysts' estimates are close to accurate. This helps explain the much higher forward price-to-earnings ratio for Square that you can see further down.</p><p>Cash flow</p><p>In the modern economy, many investors believe free cash flow -- remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures -- is a critically important measure. One reason for this is that so many <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-time non-cash items can affect EPS. Another is that free cash flow can be deployed through business expansion, acquisitions, share buybacks dividends or other actions that will presumably be good for shareholders.</p><p>Square has had negative free cash flow <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FCF\">$(FCF)$</a> for two of the past four quarters, which isn't surprising, as the company emphasizes growing its business. So it may be most useful to look ahead. FactSet has consensus estimates for FCF per share going out to 2023:</p><p>Again, the analysts expect great things from both companies, especially Square.</p><p>Stock valuation and performance</p><p>Here are forward price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, along with total return figures:</p><p>Those are high valuations to expected earnings and sales. Then again, that has been par for the course for the most rapidly growing tech-oriented stocks over the past several years.</p><p>Wall Street's opinion</p><p>PayPal has more \"buy\" ratings among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet, but Square as the more aggressive price target:</p><p>Even though the analysts provide earnings estimates going many years out, their share-price targets are for 12 months, per tradition. This is where you need to think about what \"long term\" means to you as an investor. One year can be considered a short period for some long-term investors, who are looking to compound large gains over three- to five-year periods.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SQ":"Block","TWTR":"Twitter","EBAY":"eBay","PYPL":"PayPal"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2138312488","content_text":"Square has been a better long-term stock-market performer and it is growing more quickly. But analysts, on the whole, prefer PayPal.PayPal and Square are well-known to investors as rapidly growing players in the payment-processing space. They don't compete directly in all areas, but there are enough similarities to make a meaningful pairing.Where PayPal and Square fit inPayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) was spun off from eBay Inc. $(EBAY)$ in July 2015. Square was founded in 2009 by CEO Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey Jr. (a current board member), and went public in November 2015. Dorsey also serves as CEO of Twitter Inc. (TWTR), which he co-founded in 2006.PayPal said in its 2020 10-K filing  with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 13% of its revenue for the year came from customers on eBay's Marketplace platform. It also said that no other revenue source represented more than 10% of the whole.PayPal makes it easy to do payments online through its secure digital wallet -- a user simply signs into their PayPal account to make a payment to the merchant from a bank account or credit card. The purchaser doesn't need to provide any financial information to the merchant.During 2020, 93% of PayPal's revenue came from transactions, with the rest from \"other value-added services,\" a category that  has declined over the past two full years.Square offers what it calls a \"cohesive commerce ecosystem,\" which includes hardware and software, to help merchants process point-of-sale transactions and online transactions. Square also has Cash App, which helps individual users, businesses and organizations transfer money or bitcoin  through the app or by email.\"Customers can also use their stored funds to buy and sell bitcoin and equity investments within Cash App,\" according to Square's first-quarter 10-Q report .Here's a comparison of quarterly and annual transaction volume for the two companies, with figures in millions:PayPal has a much larger payment-processing business  than Square, and recently, its quarterly and annual transaction volumes have grown more rapidly.Key metricsSize, revenue and profitHere is a comparison of the companies' market capitalizations and GAAP net revenue figures for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, under which Square's revenue from its bitcoin holdings has caused the company's total revenue to balloon. Here's Square's more detailed revenue breakdown:This illustrates why an investor considering an individual stock has to take a closer look to form their own opinion.Here's what Square had to say about its revenue reporting in its first-quarter shareholder letter :We deduct bitcoin revenue because our role is to facilitate customers' access to bitcoin. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Therefore, we believe bitcoin gross profit better reflects the economic benefits as well as our performance from these transactions.More from Square's shareholder letter:While bitcoin revenue was $3.51 billion in the first quarter of 2021, up approximately 11x year over year, bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of bitcoin revenue.So Square's adjusted net revenue for the first quarter was $1.55 billion, increasing 44% from the year-earlier quarter.Read:A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 cryptoExcitement for bitcoin caused the spike in revenue for Square, as its Cash App users participated in the eightfold increase in the cryptocurrency's price in dollars over the 12 months through March 31.Here's a comparison of gross profits (earnings before operating expenses) and operating profits (earnings before interest and taxes)  for PayPal and Square for the first quarters of 2021 and 2020:PayPal has the larger payment-processing business, by far, while Square is growing its profits more quickly. Despite Square's point that it derives a relatively small portion of its profits from bitcoin revenue, the massive amount of revenue from bitcoin transactions, including customers' trades through Cash App, show the potential of this type of customer activity.Returns on common equity and invested capitalThese returns can give some insight into how well a management team deploys capital:Return on invested capital is earnings divided by combined debt and equity. It is a measure of capital allocation efficiency and can be useful when comparing companies that are similar. In this case, none of these numbers are bad -- both companies are still growing their businesses in a dynamic environment.Earnings estimates to 2025Here are the actual earnings-per-share results for 2020 with consensus estimates among analysts polled by FactSet going out to 2025:Here are estimated annual percentage  increases in EPS based on the above, plus an estimated five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR):That five-year CAGR for Square is bumped up by the expected EPS breakout in 2021. But if we run a four-year EPS CAGR from 2021 through 2025, the results are 21% for PayPal and 46% for Square. Both are impressive, but Square comes out on top if analysts' estimates are close to accurate. This helps explain the much higher forward price-to-earnings ratio for Square that you can see further down.Cash flowIn the modern economy, many investors believe free cash flow -- remaining cash flow after planned capital expenditures -- is a critically important measure. One reason for this is that so many one-time non-cash items can affect EPS. Another is that free cash flow can be deployed through business expansion, acquisitions, share buybacks dividends or other actions that will presumably be good for shareholders.Square has had negative free cash flow $(FCF)$ for two of the past four quarters, which isn't surprising, as the company emphasizes growing its business. So it may be most useful to look ahead. FactSet has consensus estimates for FCF per share going out to 2023:Again, the analysts expect great things from both companies, especially Square.Stock valuation and performanceHere are forward price-to-earnings and price-to-sales ratios based on consensus estimates for the next 12 months, along with total return figures:Those are high valuations to expected earnings and sales. Then again, that has been par for the course for the most rapidly growing tech-oriented stocks over the past several years.Wall Street's opinionPayPal has more \"buy\" ratings among Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet, but Square as the more aggressive price target:Even though the analysts provide earnings estimates going many years out, their share-price targets are for 12 months, per tradition. This is where you need to think about what \"long term\" means to you as an investor. 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A spokeswoman for Amazon said the deal, which Selz announced on its website about a month ago, has been completed and nothing will change for Selz’s merchants or their customers.</p>\n<p>Founded in 2013, Selz serves as an online platform that helps small and medium-size companies launch and maintain their online businesses. The private company employs more than 30 people, according to data firm PitchBook. Previous backers include Macdoch Venture and Adcock Private Equity, PitchBook said.</p>\n<p>Amazon hasheightened its effortsto match fast-growing Shopify, which also aids small merchants in creating online shops. Last year, Amazon created a secret team named “Project Santos” to replicate part of Shopify’s business model, The Wall Street Journal reported in December.</p>\n<p>As the pandemic has made online shopping more popular, brick-and-mortar stores have invested more intotheir e-commerce presence. 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The company is inviting investors to ask and upvote questions that they would like addressed on their earnings call.</p>\n<p>The Q&amp;A platform is open for use starting today, and retail and institutional shareholders will be able to submit and upvote questions to management.</p>\n<p>Interested traders and investors can submit questions to the Palantir team ahead of earnings here.</p>\n<p><strong>Top Subjects</strong>: Some of the top-voted questions on the shareholder Q&amp;A platform right now? Here they are, lightly edited:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\r\n\tWith the partnership recently announced with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a>, I believe sales at the Enterprise level will increase greatly. Will Foundry be the main software used? And finally does Palantir have plans to create a more scaled-down version to serve small- to medium-sized businesses?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhile the IBM announcement is great, their public cloud share is miniscule. Can you commit to expanding managed offerings to other public cloud providers such as <strong>Microsoft Corporation </strong>(NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure, <strong>Amazon.com, Inc.</strong> (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS, and Google <strong>Alphabet Inc Class A</strong> (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhen does Palantir expect to achieve a level where it can repeatedly and continually achieve profitability?&lt;\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhich two or three things should long-term investors focus on most to track Palantir’s progress towards long-term growth targets?\r\n\t</li>\n</ul>\r\n\r\nPalantir says the Q&amp;A platform will remain open until 24 hours before the earnings call.\r\n\r\n<p><em>Photo courtesy: Cory Doctorow via Flickr.</em></p>\n</body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Palantir's Q&A Platform For Investors Is Open All Weekend Ahead Of Q4 Earnings On Tuesday</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nPalantir's Q&A Platform For Investors Is Open All Weekend Ahead Of Q4 Earnings On Tuesday\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/d08bf7808052c0ca9deb4e944cae32aa);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Benzinga </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-02-13 21:31</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body><p>Big-data analytics company <strong>Palantir Technologies Inc</strong> (NYSE:PLTR) is scheduled to release fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 16, and the Denver-based company wants to hear from shareholders.</p>\n<p><strong>What Happened</strong>: Palantir opened a shareholder Q&amp;A platform to be used in its upcoming earnings call. The company is inviting investors to ask and upvote questions that they would like addressed on their earnings call.</p>\n<p>The Q&amp;A platform is open for use starting today, and retail and institutional shareholders will be able to submit and upvote questions to management.</p>\n<p>Interested traders and investors can submit questions to the Palantir team ahead of earnings here.</p>\n<p><strong>Top Subjects</strong>: Some of the top-voted questions on the shareholder Q&amp;A platform right now? Here they are, lightly edited:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\r\n\tWith the partnership recently announced with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/IBM\">IBM</a>, I believe sales at the Enterprise level will increase greatly. Will Foundry be the main software used? And finally does Palantir have plans to create a more scaled-down version to serve small- to medium-sized businesses?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhile the IBM announcement is great, their public cloud share is miniscule. Can you commit to expanding managed offerings to other public cloud providers such as <strong>Microsoft Corporation </strong>(NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure, <strong>Amazon.com, Inc.</strong> (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS, and Google <strong>Alphabet Inc Class A</strong> (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud?\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhen does Palantir expect to achieve a level where it can repeatedly and continually achieve profitability?&lt;\r\n\t</li>\n<li>\r\n\tWhich two or three things should long-term investors focus on most to track Palantir’s progress towards long-term growth targets?\r\n\t</li>\n</ul>\r\n\r\nPalantir says the Q&amp;A platform will remain open until 24 hours before the earnings call.\r\n\r\n<p><em>Photo courtesy: Cory Doctorow via Flickr.</em></p>\n</body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软","GOOGL":"谷歌A","AMZN":"亚马逊","PLTR":"Palantir Technologies Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.benzinga.com/node/19621164","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2111718072","content_text":"Big-data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) is scheduled to release fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 16, and the Denver-based company wants to hear from shareholders.\nWhat Happened: Palantir opened a shareholder Q&A platform to be used in its upcoming earnings call. 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