During the three months ended March 31, 2022,  $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$‌has invested $89.5mil in publicly-traded marketable securities, that is about 20% of its Q1 2022 revenue. Let’s look at the top four entities its has invested in. It is interesting to note that in year 2021, PLTR has purchased $50.9mil of gold bars. May be as a hedging against inflation? 1) Fast Radius (FSRD)‌$Fast Radius, Inc.(FSRD)$‌ “Fast Radius is a cloud manufacturing company. The Fast Radius Cloud Manufacturing Platform provides an end-to-end solution for manufacturers to efficiently and sustainably design, make, and move parts. Just as cloud computing solved challenges of exponential increases in data use, c

No matter how good its software in analysing data, it cannot provide precise insight on how the macroeconomic will impact its business. After Q2 2022 quarter report released, are you getting more confident or concern on $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$‌? Some concerns: Due to the uncertainty toward the end of the year, PLTR is revisioning guidance down to $1.9 billion for 2022 revenue. PLTR generated $473 million in revenue in Q2 2022, while guidance for Q3 revenue is $474-475million, basically flat. Q2 2022 adjusted operating income was $108million, representing a margin of 23%, much lesser than $117million in Q2 2021 which was 31% margin. Q1 2022 adjusted operating margin was 26%. Guidance for Q3 2022 adjusted operating income of $54-55 millio

Buying or selling a home with a few clicks like on e-commerce website? Here you go,$Opendoor Technologies Inc(OPEN)$‌(OPEN). OPEN is a leading digital platform for residential real estate. By leveraging software, data science, product design and operations, it has rebuilt the service model for real estate and has made buying and selling possible on a mobile device. The raising inflation raising interest environment may not be good for real estate player like OPEN. However, OPEN has proven its business model. OPEN recorded the first GAAP profit in Q1 2022. Revenue growth of 590% from 747mil in Q1 2021 to 5.15bil in Q1 2022 or 35% growth from previous quarter. Contribution Margin (CM) was 6.4% in Q1 2022 versus 10.2% in Q1 2021. This was at the high

Once high flier was crashing into wall due to its weak guidance and slowing revenue growth. ‌$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$‌ Q2 2022 total revenue of $6.7 billion was down 19% sequentially and up 3% year-on-year. This is below the $8.1 billion outlook they have provided on the last earnings call. Q3 total revenue guidance is merely $5.9 billion. The weak revenue was largely due to the decline in Gaming. Some info from NVDA CFO on the earnings call: - Lower units and lower ASPs - Marco economics slowdown consumer demand - Pricing adjustment program with channel partner to prepare for new architecture launch Many articles argued the slowdown in NVDA gaming revenue has greatly related to the crypto winter as GPU is famously used in crypto mining. However, The C

What an impressive revenue growth of 70% from ‌$AMD(AMD)$‌ in Q2 2022! Though GAAP net income was down 37% from last year Q2,that was due to amortization of intangible assets associated with the Xilinx acquisition. Starting in the second quarter, AMD updated the financial segment reporting to align with the four strategic end markets: data center, client, gaming and embedded. Q2 revenue growth of each segment was improving, led by significant improvement in data center and embedded sales and operating margin. Data center revenue was contributed by strong demand for EPYC server processor by cloud and enterprise customers. Client segment revenue was led by strong adoption of Ryzen mobile processors in professional notebooks. AMD seem to have navi

 Having roller-coaster-like market now, fundamental analysis may not help, however, it is always good to have an idea how the companies have performed. Enphase Energy Inc ‌$Enphase Energy(ENPH)$‌and Solaredge Technologies Inc‌$SolarEdge(SEDG)$‌, the two leaders in energy technology are also the leading supplier of microinverter. Let’s have a quick comparison between the two with some data from their latest Q1 report. ENPH grew its revenue slower than SEDG but reported better gross margin and net margin. Furthermore ENPH is able to sustain its gross margin. ENPH’s GAAP gross margin was 40.1% in Q1’2022, 39.6% in Q4’2021 and 40.7% in Q1’2021. SEDG’s GAAP gross margin was 27.3% in Q1’2022, 29.1% in Q4’2021

‌‌$SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$‌ mission: “ to help our members achieve financial independence in order to realize their ambitions. More simply stated, to have enough money to do what they want.” In January 2022, SOFI received regulatory approval to become a bank holding company and to acquire Golden Pacific, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Golden Pacific Bank. Generally SOFI has three segments in its business. 1 - Lending Segment - under this segment, there are 3 products: - Student Loans. Primarily operate in the student loan refinance space, and later expanded into “in school” lending, - Personal Loans. Primarily originate personal loans for debt consolidation purposes and home improvement projects. - Home Loans. Historically offered agen

Recently Baird’s Tristan Gerra downgraded Nvidia from outperform to neutral slowdown in the consumer GPU demand. Subsequently, we also saw the downward trends in NVDA stock price. So is the whole semiconductor industry entering the winter? Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (‌$Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM)$‌,TSMC) as a leading foundry has released its Q1 report. The numbers are fantastic. Year-over-year, first quarter revenue increased 35.5% while net income and diluted EPS both increased 45.1%. Compared to fourth quarter 2021, first quarter results represented a 12.1% increase in revenue and a 22.0% increase in net income. Gross margin for the quarter was 55.6%, operating margin was 45.6%, and net profit margin was 41.3%. From

On January 31, 2022, ‌$Block(SQ)$‌SQ completed the acquisition of Afterpay Limited, a global “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) platform. The results of Afterpay have been equally allocated to the Square and Cash App segments as management has concluded that Afterpay's BNPL platform will contribute equally to both the Square and Cash App platforms. From the Q1 2022 shareholder letter, we can see that Afterpay has contributed to both Square and Cash App revenue and gross profit growth. However, exclude Afterpay, Cash App and Square gross profit still growing nicely, 17% and 31% respectively. The 204mil loss is largely related to Afterpay acquisition which includes: Afterpay-related transaction charges of $42 million of one-time deal and integration-relat

‌$Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM)$‌released 2022 Second Quarter Earnings on 17-July-2022, another excellent quarter. As we can see from the summary from TSM earning presentation, revenue, gross margin, operating margin and net profit margin were all better than previous quarter. Furthermore, they are guiding third quarter revenue to be a 11.2% sequential increase at the midpoint. TSM expecting the excess inventory in the semiconductor supply chain to take a few quarters to rebalance to a healthier level, likely through first half 2023. Though they observe softness in demand of consumer end market segments, other end market segments such as data center and automotive-related remain steady. They expect their capacity to remain tight through