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2021-07-06

Let's keep eyes on them and see.

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2021-07-01

Just wait and see

Didi spikes 16% on its first day of trading

2021-06-19

This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.

ASML: The Market Could Be Underestimating Its Potential

2021-06-10

There are too many already, need to focus!

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2021-06-10

Because they are young and willing to takes risk!

Why This Millennial Is Rage-Buying AMC and Crypto

2021-06-09

Nice too follow

The 10 Most Talked About Stocks on Reddit Today

2021-05-25

Nice signs!

NIO shares starts rising as renewed its key joint manufacturing agreements

2021-05-20

I wouldn't trust this non trustful thing...

Bitcoin briefly tops $40,000 as it struggles to recover from brutal sell-off

2021-05-18

The Bitcoin isn't worth anything...it is just waste the energy...

Tesla, Dogecoin And Bitcoin: Mysteries Untold

2021-05-14

Good topic...

A Big Opportunity In A Big Market

2021-05-14

Told a lot but no have much values..

Wall Street closes higher in 'buy the dip' session

2021-05-07

Split insurance part from Ant?

Ant In Talks With Chinese Authorities About Turning Its ‘Mutual-Aid’ Service Into A Regulated Business - WSJ

2021-05-04

interesting to buy some...

China's Ximalaya, Qiniu file for U.S. IPOs

2021-05-04

Need read it and think about it...

Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2021: Highlights and storylines

2021-05-04

I guess everyone is having your owned way of investing... Just listen to them and make your owned way...

A 10% drop or at least a pause could be looming for the S&P 500. Take shelter in these sectors, says veteran strategist

2021-05-01

Interesting...

NIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before

2021-05-01

nice

Amazon Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination

2021-05-01

Sounds not bad.

Europe's antitrust crackdown on Apple hints at what's coming for the company in the U.S.

2021-04-30

looks good

NIO Q1 2021 Earnings Report Preview: What to Look For

2021-04-26

Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...

Bitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?

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At the midpoint of Didi’s expected selling price, the number of shares Uber holds could be worth about $1.94 billion.</p>\n<p>Didi sold all the shares it held in Uber last year for a gain of RMB 2.8 million ($427,417), according to its filing.</p>\n<p><b>Insiders will have control</b></p>\n<p>Following the trend of many recent IPOs, especially in the tech world, Didi will have a dual-class stock structure. Each Class A share (equal to four ADS) will have one vote, and each Class B share will have 10 votes.</p>\n<p>Founder and Chief Executive Will Wei Cheng, co-founder and President Jean Qing Liu and CEO of the international business group Stephen Jingshi Zhu, who all sit on the board, will own all issued and outstanding Class&nbsp;B ordinary shares. These shares will comprise 9.8% of the company’s total issued shares and 52% of the voting power immediately after the public offering.</p>\n<p>Cheng, 38, is also the chairman of the board. The former Alibaba and Alipay manager will have 6.5% equity in the company but 35.5% of the voting power after the IPO.</p>\n<p>Cheng brought on Liu two years after he founded Didi. She will have 1.6% equity in the company after the offering.</p>\n<p>The other top stakeholder in Didi besides its top executives, SoftBank and Uber is Tencent Holdings, which will have a 6.4% stake post-IPO.</p>\n<p><b>‘Darkest days’</b></p>\n<p>In summer 2018, two female passengers&nbsp;were killed&nbsp;by drivers on Didi’s Hitch platform. “These shook us to our core,” Cheng and Liu wrote in their founders’ letter under a section they called “Our darkest days.”</p>\n<p>They said the company changed how it onboarded drivers and expanded background checks, as well as redesigned its technology with safety in mind. Didi also established what it calls a “SWAT team” to respond to safety incidents. In places where it is allowed, the company has installed video cameras in its ride-hailing vehicles.</p>\n<p>The changes led to what the company said was “a massive drop in the number of criminal incidents per million rides on our platform as well as significant declines in the number of in-car disputes and traffic accidents.”</p>\n<p>The company says that although the number of incidents have gone down, safety remains a risk factor.</p>\n<p><b>Risk factors</b></p>\n<p>Other big risk factors for the company include the Chinese government’s recently stepped-up&nbsp;antitrust crackdown on tech companies, including Didi. In its filing, Didi said that while it has completed a self-inspection and has tried to correct or improve in certain areas, it can’t be sure the government will be satisfied with that.</p>\n<p>The company also said government regulators are concerned about driver income, pricing, and fairness to all platform participants, including riders and drivers. Like its biggest competitors, Didi treats its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. “Our business would be adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees, workers or quasi-employees,” Didi said in its filing.</p>\n<p>As for how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect Didi’s business, the company said its core platform’s gross transaction value fell 4.8% in 2020 compared with 2019. In China, its mobility business’ GTV decreased 6.6% in the same period, while international GTV actually rose 11.4%. Didi cited increasing coronavirus cases in certain parts of the world as continuing risk factors.</p>\n<p><b>Other businesses</b></p>\n<p>Didi says it has the world’s largest network of electric vehicles on its platform: 1 million, including hybrids, as of the end of last year. Those EVs account for nearly 40% of the electric vehicle miles traveled in China, the company said, citing a study it commissioned. Didi has designed an EV itself, called the D1. It also says it has built China’s largest charging network, with more than 30% market share of total public charging volume in the first quarter of 2021.</p>\n<p>As for autonomous vehicles, Didi says it has a team of more than 500 members working on Level 4 AVs for its fleet. The company said self-driving vehicles should help meet what it sees as increasing demand for ride-hailing services.</p>\n<p>“The global mobility market is expected to reach $16.4 trillion by 2040, by which time the penetration of shared mobility and electric vehicles is expected to have increased to 23.6% and 29.3%, respectively,” it said in its filing, citing research it commissioned.</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>Didi spikes 16% on its first day of trading</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\">\nDidi spikes 16% on its first day of trading\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-07-01 00:47</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Chinese ride-hailing giant&nbsp;Didi Global Inc.opened at $16.32&nbsp;each on Wednesday, about 16% higher than the company’s IPO price.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/85a8c96b377b4febacd7009170064bdc\" tg-width=\"1296\" tg-height=\"833\"></p>\n<p>The Chinese ride-hailing behemoth on Wednesday said it&nbsp;sold 316.8 million American depositary shares at $14 each, the top of its $13 to $14 price range. Four such shares represent one class A ordinary share.&nbsp;The company announced on Wednesday morning that it had increased the size of the deal; it had planned on offering 288 million shares.</p>\n<p>At $14 a share, Didi would have a $67 billion market capitalization. On a fully diluted basis, Didi’s valuation rises to about $73 billion</p>\n<p>The Beijing company has raised $4 billion in the offering. The shares will start trading on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DIDI.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan are the underwriters on the Didi offering.</p>\n<p>Didi provides a smartphone app that lets users connect with vehicles and taxis for hire. Founded in 2012, it operates in nearly 4,000 cities, counties, and towns across 16 countries,its prospectus said. It had more than 493 million annual active users as of March 31.</p>\n<p><b>Its relationship with Uber is complicated</b></p>\n<p>Comparisons between the world’s top two ride-hailing companies could become more frequent as Didi goes public in the United States.</p>\n<p>In its filing, Didi said it has hundreds of millions of riders in China and operates in 16 countries and nearly 4,000 cities. Besides ride hailing, its new services include intra-city freight, community group buying and food delivery.</p>\n<p>In its 2020 annual report, San Francisco-based Uber said that as of Dec. 31, 2020, it operated in 71 countries and about 10,000 cities. Uber offers rides, delivery and freight. Although it&nbsp;unloaded its autonomous-vehicle business&nbsp;last year, it has a partnership with self-driving company Aurora Technologies.</p>\n<p>One thing Didi has in common with Uber (and smaller rival Lyft) is that it has also been mostly unprofitable. But it did turn a profit in the first quarter, reporting net income of 5.49 billion rembini ($837 million) on revenue of RMB 42.16 billion ($6.44 billion), up from a loss of RMB 3.97 billion on sales of RMB 20.47 billion the year before. That profit was largely due to its investments.</p>\n<p>After a battle in which Didi and Uber lost a lot of money as they tried to undercut each other in China, Uber sold its Chinese business to Didi for $7 billion in 2016. Uber’s CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, wrote in a blog post announcing the deal: “Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to turn a profit there.”</p>\n<p>Uber retained a 12.8% stake in Didi, though, which will be reduced to a 12% stake after the IPO. That’s the second-largest stake in the company behind SoftBank Group’s 21.5% in equity ahead of the IPO. At the midpoint of Didi’s expected selling price, the number of shares Uber holds could be worth about $1.94 billion.</p>\n<p>Didi sold all the shares it held in Uber last year for a gain of RMB 2.8 million ($427,417), according to its filing.</p>\n<p><b>Insiders will have control</b></p>\n<p>Following the trend of many recent IPOs, especially in the tech world, Didi will have a dual-class stock structure. Each Class A share (equal to four ADS) will have one vote, and each Class B share will have 10 votes.</p>\n<p>Founder and Chief Executive Will Wei Cheng, co-founder and President Jean Qing Liu and CEO of the international business group Stephen Jingshi Zhu, who all sit on the board, will own all issued and outstanding Class&nbsp;B ordinary shares. These shares will comprise 9.8% of the company’s total issued shares and 52% of the voting power immediately after the public offering.</p>\n<p>Cheng, 38, is also the chairman of the board. The former Alibaba and Alipay manager will have 6.5% equity in the company but 35.5% of the voting power after the IPO.</p>\n<p>Cheng brought on Liu two years after he founded Didi. She will have 1.6% equity in the company after the offering.</p>\n<p>The other top stakeholder in Didi besides its top executives, SoftBank and Uber is Tencent Holdings, which will have a 6.4% stake post-IPO.</p>\n<p><b>‘Darkest days’</b></p>\n<p>In summer 2018, two female passengers&nbsp;were killed&nbsp;by drivers on Didi’s Hitch platform. “These shook us to our core,” Cheng and Liu wrote in their founders’ letter under a section they called “Our darkest days.”</p>\n<p>They said the company changed how it onboarded drivers and expanded background checks, as well as redesigned its technology with safety in mind. Didi also established what it calls a “SWAT team” to respond to safety incidents. In places where it is allowed, the company has installed video cameras in its ride-hailing vehicles.</p>\n<p>The changes led to what the company said was “a massive drop in the number of criminal incidents per million rides on our platform as well as significant declines in the number of in-car disputes and traffic accidents.”</p>\n<p>The company says that although the number of incidents have gone down, safety remains a risk factor.</p>\n<p><b>Risk factors</b></p>\n<p>Other big risk factors for the company include the Chinese government’s recently stepped-up&nbsp;antitrust crackdown on tech companies, including Didi. In its filing, Didi said that while it has completed a self-inspection and has tried to correct or improve in certain areas, it can’t be sure the government will be satisfied with that.</p>\n<p>The company also said government regulators are concerned about driver income, pricing, and fairness to all platform participants, including riders and drivers. Like its biggest competitors, Didi treats its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. “Our business would be adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees, workers or quasi-employees,” Didi said in its filing.</p>\n<p>As for how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect Didi’s business, the company said its core platform’s gross transaction value fell 4.8% in 2020 compared with 2019. In China, its mobility business’ GTV decreased 6.6% in the same period, while international GTV actually rose 11.4%. Didi cited increasing coronavirus cases in certain parts of the world as continuing risk factors.</p>\n<p><b>Other businesses</b></p>\n<p>Didi says it has the world’s largest network of electric vehicles on its platform: 1 million, including hybrids, as of the end of last year. Those EVs account for nearly 40% of the electric vehicle miles traveled in China, the company said, citing a study it commissioned. Didi has designed an EV itself, called the D1. It also says it has built China’s largest charging network, with more than 30% market share of total public charging volume in the first quarter of 2021.</p>\n<p>As for autonomous vehicles, Didi says it has a team of more than 500 members working on Level 4 AVs for its fleet. The company said self-driving vehicles should help meet what it sees as increasing demand for ride-hailing services.</p>\n<p>“The global mobility market is expected to reach $16.4 trillion by 2040, by which time the penetration of shared mobility and electric vehicles is expected to have increased to 23.6% and 29.3%, respectively,” it said in its filing, citing research it commissioned.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"DIDI":"滴滴(已退市)"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1123487269","content_text":"Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc.opened at $16.32 each on Wednesday, about 16% higher than the company’s IPO price.\n\nThe Chinese ride-hailing behemoth on Wednesday said it sold 316.8 million American depositary shares at $14 each, the top of its $13 to $14 price range. Four such shares represent one class A ordinary share. The company announced on Wednesday morning that it had increased the size of the deal; it had planned on offering 288 million shares.\nAt $14 a share, Didi would have a $67 billion market capitalization. On a fully diluted basis, Didi’s valuation rises to about $73 billion\nThe Beijing company has raised $4 billion in the offering. The shares will start trading on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DIDI.\nGoldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan are the underwriters on the Didi offering.\nDidi provides a smartphone app that lets users connect with vehicles and taxis for hire. Founded in 2012, it operates in nearly 4,000 cities, counties, and towns across 16 countries,its prospectus said. It had more than 493 million annual active users as of March 31.\nIts relationship with Uber is complicated\nComparisons between the world’s top two ride-hailing companies could become more frequent as Didi goes public in the United States.\nIn its filing, Didi said it has hundreds of millions of riders in China and operates in 16 countries and nearly 4,000 cities. Besides ride hailing, its new services include intra-city freight, community group buying and food delivery.\nIn its 2020 annual report, San Francisco-based Uber said that as of Dec. 31, 2020, it operated in 71 countries and about 10,000 cities. Uber offers rides, delivery and freight. Although it unloaded its autonomous-vehicle business last year, it has a partnership with self-driving company Aurora Technologies.\nOne thing Didi has in common with Uber (and smaller rival Lyft) is that it has also been mostly unprofitable. But it did turn a profit in the first quarter, reporting net income of 5.49 billion rembini ($837 million) on revenue of RMB 42.16 billion ($6.44 billion), up from a loss of RMB 3.97 billion on sales of RMB 20.47 billion the year before. That profit was largely due to its investments.\nAfter a battle in which Didi and Uber lost a lot of money as they tried to undercut each other in China, Uber sold its Chinese business to Didi for $7 billion in 2016. Uber’s CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, wrote in a blog post announcing the deal: “Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to turn a profit there.”\nUber retained a 12.8% stake in Didi, though, which will be reduced to a 12% stake after the IPO. That’s the second-largest stake in the company behind SoftBank Group’s 21.5% in equity ahead of the IPO. At the midpoint of Didi’s expected selling price, the number of shares Uber holds could be worth about $1.94 billion.\nDidi sold all the shares it held in Uber last year for a gain of RMB 2.8 million ($427,417), according to its filing.\nInsiders will have control\nFollowing the trend of many recent IPOs, especially in the tech world, Didi will have a dual-class stock structure. Each Class A share (equal to four ADS) will have one vote, and each Class B share will have 10 votes.\nFounder and Chief Executive Will Wei Cheng, co-founder and President Jean Qing Liu and CEO of the international business group Stephen Jingshi Zhu, who all sit on the board, will own all issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares. These shares will comprise 9.8% of the company’s total issued shares and 52% of the voting power immediately after the public offering.\nCheng, 38, is also the chairman of the board. The former Alibaba and Alipay manager will have 6.5% equity in the company but 35.5% of the voting power after the IPO.\nCheng brought on Liu two years after he founded Didi. She will have 1.6% equity in the company after the offering.\nThe other top stakeholder in Didi besides its top executives, SoftBank and Uber is Tencent Holdings, which will have a 6.4% stake post-IPO.\n‘Darkest days’\nIn summer 2018, two female passengers were killed by drivers on Didi’s Hitch platform. “These shook us to our core,” Cheng and Liu wrote in their founders’ letter under a section they called “Our darkest days.”\nThey said the company changed how it onboarded drivers and expanded background checks, as well as redesigned its technology with safety in mind. Didi also established what it calls a “SWAT team” to respond to safety incidents. In places where it is allowed, the company has installed video cameras in its ride-hailing vehicles.\nThe changes led to what the company said was “a massive drop in the number of criminal incidents per million rides on our platform as well as significant declines in the number of in-car disputes and traffic accidents.”\nThe company says that although the number of incidents have gone down, safety remains a risk factor.\nRisk factors\nOther big risk factors for the company include the Chinese government’s recently stepped-up antitrust crackdown on tech companies, including Didi. In its filing, Didi said that while it has completed a self-inspection and has tried to correct or improve in certain areas, it can’t be sure the government will be satisfied with that.\nThe company also said government regulators are concerned about driver income, pricing, and fairness to all platform participants, including riders and drivers. Like its biggest competitors, Didi treats its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. “Our business would be adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees, workers or quasi-employees,” Didi said in its filing.\nAs for how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect Didi’s business, the company said its core platform’s gross transaction value fell 4.8% in 2020 compared with 2019. In China, its mobility business’ GTV decreased 6.6% in the same period, while international GTV actually rose 11.4%. Didi cited increasing coronavirus cases in certain parts of the world as continuing risk factors.\nOther businesses\nDidi says it has the world’s largest network of electric vehicles on its platform: 1 million, including hybrids, as of the end of last year. Those EVs account for nearly 40% of the electric vehicle miles traveled in China, the company said, citing a study it commissioned. Didi has designed an EV itself, called the D1. It also says it has built China’s largest charging network, with more than 30% market share of total public charging volume in the first quarter of 2021.\nAs for autonomous vehicles, Didi says it has a team of more than 500 members working on Level 4 AVs for its fleet. The company said self-driving vehicles should help meet what it sees as increasing demand for ride-hailing services.\n“The global mobility market is expected to reach $16.4 trillion by 2040, by which time the penetration of shared mobility and electric vehicles is expected to have increased to 23.6% and 29.3%, respectively,” it said in its filing, citing research it commissioned.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":282,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":162606521,"gmtCreate":1624059806763,"gmtModify":1703827716207,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.&nbsp;","listText":"This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.&nbsp;","text":"This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/162606521","repostId":"1168762020","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1168762020","pubTimestamp":1623988654,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1168762020?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-18 11:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ASML: The Market Could Be Underestimating Its Potential","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1168762020","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nThe Semiconductor sector is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028.\nDUV lithogra","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>The Semiconductor sector is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028.</li>\n <li>DUV lithography is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 8.4% through 2025 with EUV lithography forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 12% through 2027.</li>\n <li>ASML holds a monopoly within EUV and faces very limited competition within DUV, both platforms absolutely vital for the semiconductor manufacturing process.</li>\n <li>A true innovator, ASML commands an outstanding position and growth outlook but the stock market has long since recognized the potential.</li>\n <li>Existing shareholders do well for themselves in just enjoying the ride, but there is little margin of safety left for prospective shareholders who might dip their toes into the water through dollar-cost averaging to benefit from the strong tailwinds powering ASML.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/44b5f81c309842f14fe1adffe3d6c9ca\" tg-width=\"768\" tg-height=\"432\"><span>MACRO PHOTO/iStock via Getty ImagesInvestment Thesis</span></p>\n<p>ASML Holding (ASML) commands a market position like no one else with not a competitor in sight for its most advanced technological platform, EUV lithography. Similarly, it faces very limited competition within DUV, both platforms vital for semiconductor manufacturing. The household names within the semiconductor industry belong to the manufacturers, but the machinery providers, such as ASML, command very strong moats through extensive technological knowledge and strong process knowledge leaving all potential competitors years behind if they should ever try to compete.</p>\n<p>It's hard to think of a better competitive situation, especially when operating in a sector forecasted to grow well above general GDP for many years to come. However, the market has long since recognized ASML's outstanding potential and potential journey, but still, it could be underestimating the potential.</p>\n<p><b>Introduction</b></p>\n<p>I recently wrote an article concerning how youcan’t own too much semiconductor exposure. Having decomposed the value chain for semiconductor manufacturing, I received a number of questions concerning ASML in the comment sections and decided to conduct this follow-up. I’ve selected ASML due to its unique marketplace position and potential.</p>\n<p>Personally I have exposure to the manufacturing level of the semiconductor value chain through shares in both Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), but venturing further back into the value chain, and investors can be allowed to invest in a broader manner into the industry, as the suppliers of machinery and software obtain a broader exposure to most of the manufacturers making it immensely interesting as you can adopt the mantra of “I don’t really mind who wins, as long as they are racing”. As such, potential exposure upstream in the value chain carries great interest.</p>\n<p><b>The Marketplace and Value Drivers For Years To Come</b></p>\n<p>For ASML followers it’s no surprise at this point, but ASML is dominant within the product offering that will drive its revenue for the coming decade, EUV (Extreme ultraviolet lithography) technology. My personal take is that it is hard to find a company in a similarly advantageous competitive position anywhere in any industry. ASML provides equipment for lithography, the art of printing the chip features via light sources, in several light spectrums with its most advanced being EUV which is the next-gen to DUV (deep ultraviolet lithography). For DUV there are competitors albeit ASML has a massive market share above 85%. The difference between DUV and EUV is that EUV operates at a light wavelength almost 15 times smaller than DUV (13.5nm compared to 193nm).</p>\n<p>Actually, the semiconductor manufacturers for the leading edge chips such as 5nm and soon to be 3nm are deeply dependent on the EUV machinery. Without it, it simply wouldn’t be possible. That sounds like a pretty good bargain for those who can manufacture these machines, but there is only one company that is able to do it, and that is ASML. For every generation of new EUV machinery, its yield becomes better with higher throughput and reduced downtime issues, meaning that ASML is effectively lightyears ahead of anyone who would try to pick up the gauntlet and challenge their dominant position.</p>\n<p>This is an industry where everything is about process knowledge. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) is able to produce 5nm chips because it was able to produce 7nm, and it will be able to produce 3nm because it can produce 5nm and has done that a million times over which is also why it was so detrimental to Intel Corp (INTC) that it had to acknowledge its persistent issues with the 7nm technology.</p>\n<p>Quite simply, there is no 3nm if you can’t do the 5nm, as also discussed in my previous article. Same goes for ASML as a competitor would be years and years behind ASML if they entered the EUV space as they would struggle with the same issues that have plagued ASML in its early days of EUV more than a decade ago. I’ve included a number of illustrations from their most recent investor day which took place in November 2018, with the next one to take place in September 2021.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/edaa6b5a77f99726bbae61b032b9c208\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 6.</span></p>\n<p>The picture above clearly illustrates the process knowledge having been picked up by ASML throughout its EUV lifetime. This has also translated into better EUV machinery for each new generation as also evident by its productivity improvements. Again, I can’t imagine a more favourable competitive situation for a company, given how much time and capital it would require for a competitor to adopt the EUV technology.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/85913766aea721e218e976e4f73349e5\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"362\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 16.</span></p>\n<p>Semiconductor manufacturing is a cutthroat business with heavy R&amp;D spend (it took ASML €6 billion in R&amp;D spend to invent EUV) driving chip improvements according to Moore’s law, meaning that ASML is already working on the next-gen technology, referred to as High NA-EUV. High NA-EUV is still some time away, with the timeline below being slightly outdated, but its technology will significantly improve the EUV platform and power the industry beyond this decade. It takes time to develop the technology, improve yield and reduce downtime, but there is still plenty of opportunities for EUV in terms of marketplace expansion and margin improvement.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7709f0f76b1619a31b32fc3330134005\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 21.</span></p>\n<p>ASML itself has laid out the expected path in terms of optimised margins through both add-ons facing the buyer side and upstream cost reductions facing their suppliers creating a sweet spot for the company effectively striving to achieve the same profitability profile as for its more mature DUV platform.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/809661531ad423f613fb44c26e0b3352\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"353\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 25.</span></p>\n<p>If that wasn’t good enough, then add the fact that the semiconductor industry in general is expected to outpace general GDP for at least until 2028 with a CAGR of 8.6%. Recentcommunicationsby Taiwan Semiconductor, Intel and Samsung Electronics Company (OTC:SSNLF) shows the strength and growth potential for the sector with their combined CAPEX expectations going beyond $200 billion for the coming decade, with a significant chunk of that within the coming years.</p>\n<p>As can be seen in the illustration above, ASML expects increased customer value through upgrades, with their roadmap for DUV serving as an example in terms of how the revenue base could expand over the coming years for EUV as is the case for DUV via what the company has labelled installed base management.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d8ef7940a4b888c50159e5b9db4c0634\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"362\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, DUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 10.</span></p>\n<p>There is of course always the possibility of a serious contender entering the marketplace in order to try and challenge ASML, but companies have tried to enter the space when the technology was in its infancy having given up, meaning the prime threat would be the emergence of a new lithography technology arriving and doing to EUV what EUV did to DUV. Possible sure, likely, not so much. Just to hammer down the point, I’ve inserted a paragraph from ASML’s own description of how lithography plays its role.</p>\n<blockquote>\n “\n <i>Lithography is a driving force in the creation of more powerful, faster and cheaper chips. The manufacturing of chips becomes increasingly complex as semiconductor feature sizes shrink, while the imperative to mass produce at the right cost remains. Our holistic lithography product portfolio helps to optimize production and enable affordable shrink by integrating lithography systems with computational modeling, as well as metrology and inspection solutions. A lithography system is essentially a projection system. Light is projected through a blueprint of the pattern that will be printed (known as a ‘mask’ or ‘reticle’). With the pattern encoded in the light, the system’s optics shrink and focus the pattern onto a photosensitive silicon wafer. After the pattern is printed, the system moves the wafer slightly and makes another copy on the wafer. This process is repeated until the wafer is covered in patterns, completing one layer of the wafer’s chips. To make an entire microchip, this process is repeated layer after layer, stacking the patterns to create an integrated circuit (IC). The simplest chips have around 10 layers, while the most complex can have over 150 layers. The size of the features to be printed varies depending on the layer, which means that different types of lithography systems are used for different layers – our latest-generation EUV systems for the most critical layers with the smallest features to ArF, KrF, and i-line DUV systems for less critical layers with larger features.</i>”\n <i>ASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.</i>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fa32572971943844c4e71ddfc77559d6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"547\"><span>ASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.</span></p>\n<p>I believe most investors are familiar with confirmation bias, and if they aren’t, they should grab a book and educate themselves. Having read through this section, it can easily sound as if I as the author is suffering from confirmation bias given how strongly I’ve advocated for ASML’s position and competitive power. However, I’ve striven towards identifying situations that could severely impact ASML and being honest I can’t find it. There are of course the risks associated with geopolitical tension, which also showed itself in the stock price back in 2016, the risk of supply chain disruption as is currently transpiring across the industry and competition for talent. These are touched upon by the company itself in their annual report 2020 p. 21 and no industry comes without potential risks.</p>\n<p>So, to sum it all up:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>ASML has pioneered EUV lithography, with no competitors in sight</li>\n <li>EUV will enable the continuation of Moore’s Law and will drive long term value for ASML and its customers well into this decade</li>\n <li>The semiconductor sector forecasted to grow at CAGR of 8.6% through 2028, outpacing general GDP with ASML being a key supplier to the manufacturers (foundries)</li>\n <li>Strong industry CAPEX driving demand for ASML offerings</li>\n <li>The path forward for expanding EUV business in terms of installed base management, margins improvement and manufacturer dependency on EUV machinery for leading edge chips</li>\n <li>ASML is a crucial player for leading edge chip manufacturing</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Sounds pretty good to me.</p>\n<p>The Financial Performance and Development</p>\n<p>ASML is doing well for itself as evident by the illustration below.</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Strong revenue growth</li>\n <li>Strong margin expansion</li>\n <li>Strong improvement in free cash flow</li>\n <li>Impressive operational improvements strengthening its moat through increased R&amp;D spend and IP portfolio</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7900753b1857ac9ad6fc705b9baad563\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"414\"><span>Annual Report 2020, p 7.</span></p>\n<p>This was followed by a strong Q1-2021 performance with mouth-watering financials on both top and bottom line. However, for their Q2-2021 performance they are guiding for slightly lower revenue expansion at €4.1 billion with a gross margin of 49%, which is still above the long term average but closer to it. There is however no denying that the company is thriving in the current environment.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/60ea4dedde41a918bd9e1fd307a9531f\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"356\"><span>ASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 14.</span></p>\n<p>An interesting detail is the development within the installed base management as illustrated earlier in the article. The company is delivering on its promise with a strong development within this segment growing 29% YoY from 2019 to 2020, well beyond the total growth of 18%.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c6966dcaf747d226d5de580187d4d3ad\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"357\"><span>ASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 8.</span></p>\n<p>The more interesting question however is whether the market estimates are underestimating the potential for ASML. An immensely hard question, but if we give it a look, I personally at least see the possibility of that being the case.</p>\n<p>Are Analyst Consensus Estimates Under- or Over-Estimating ASML’s Potential?</p>\n<p>ASML is well-covered by analysts offering estimates all the way through 2028, but with coverage waning once we go beyond 2025 which is the last year covered by more than one analyst. The current estimates show a revenue CAGR development of 11.1% from 2020 to 2028, but if we remove 2021, which shows stellar growth, the CAGR is 6.5%.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9adf4cebbce28dc7433186b5bd0827e8\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"377\"><span>Author's Own Creation, Source Seeking Alpha.</span></p>\n<p>Remember the sector as a whole is forecasted to exhibit growth at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028. These are all estimates which carry great uncertainty with no one able to reliably predict the future. However, it is worth noticing that revenue estimates for ASML are below the sector as a whole if the massive jump from 2020 to 2021 is left out of the equation. Average revenue growth from 2026 to 2028 is currently estimated to be 3.5%.</p>\n<p>Considering some of the arguments in favour of why ASML’s outlook could be even more positive:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>General semiconductor industry CAGR 2020-2028 forecasted at 8.6%.</li>\n <li>DUV CAGR 2020-2025forecastedat 8.4%, it is still ASML’s largest product category.</li>\n <li>EUV CAGR 2020-2027forecastedat 12%.</li>\n <li>ASML is a linchpin player to solve chip shortage through technology advancement and its machines define the performance of every electrical gadget we utilise in our daily lives.</li>\n <li>ASML shows progress in its plan to widen the ecosystem for its machinery through \"Installed Base Management\" increasing the total addressable market by upwards of double digits percentage as 2018 sales were 20% installed base management and 2025 estimate is 50%.</li>\n <li>ASML dominates the DUV immersion segment, the part of DUV with high margins as its two solecompetitorsin DUV, Nikon and Canon lack the means and capabilities.</li>\n <li>As the market transitions to EUV, the demand for DUV willfollowas the chip stacking process benefits from both systems through its manufacturing.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This is without mentioning the potential price increases that could trickle down towards its customers as they could be fighting over ASML’s capacity due to its strong market position of 85% in DUV and monopoly within EUV while also bringing High NA-EUV to market by mid of this decade. Customers today pay roughly $130-150 million for EUV machines, while DUV machines come in at around $100 million. The largest hindrance to ASML overdelivering is its current capacity constraint in terms of ability to deliver EUV systems which is capped somewhere between 40 and 50 systems a year, with the company of course striving to expand that capacity constraint as demand builds up over the years. On the other hand, this could also be a driver for price increases as ASML strives to expand capacity.</p>\n<p>I will not try to construct an even bolder revenue guidance as it’s a cheap shot and frankly, no one has the capacity to accurately forecast if the current expectations will stand or whether they are too positive or negative. I just want to highlight that with everything going on and ASML’s market position in mind, I don’t consider it unreasonable that the company will do even better than currently anticipated.</p>\n<p><b>Valuation</b></p>\n<p>The stock price is an inch away from its 52-week high and has been on a tear since the beginning of 2020, really taking off since October 2020 from which it has doubled since.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/472c0e2f540c1d4ee2a7bbaec09379c0\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"453\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>Market cap has exploded with all other parameters left in its wake having seen a significant expansion in price-earnings ratio despite a strong improvement in EPS and revenue. The stock market has long since recognised the story and potential of ASML with the Wall Street analyst target currently at $722 per share. Fair to say, there is no margin of safety if the analysts are correct in the predictions. Interestingly, out of the 30 analysts offering a price target, the percentage who are very bullish hasn’t been higher since 2016 with 56% stating a very bullish opinion. There is a mental exercise in staying cautious in terms of believing in such statements, not least because the stock has only known one direction for the last couple of years – upwards.</p>\n<p>The significance of the expansion in typical ratios is evident when considered over a five-year horizon as shown below. Both P/E and P/S have expanded massively standing at 55 and 15.7 respectively. However, the company is in a very different place compared to three years ago.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c691d4662a793b5de150add67a3a4e11\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"419\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>Revenue is growing significantly faster than previously with gross margin and free cash flow also having improved. Due to this positive development, ASML is also returning plenty of capital to its shareholders with a share buyback program of €10 billion for 2021, which unfortunately only translates to a reduction of 0.5% of the current float.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7341584d3ba7b1db51e1eef3c4bdaccd\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"436\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>The strong belief in ASML going forward is also clearly illustrated by the estimates for the coming years, which throughout the most recent years has been steadily climbing due to the company’s strong portfolio and market dominance.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b262aeeb8d75114dbc3e45bf9464c830\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"419\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>With all that said, I believe that current shareholders do well for themselves in holding on to their existing shares as this company has a great outlook. I’ve had my eyes on ASML for the last year, and I’m extremely sad to say I never got around to looking into it properly, but only looked it at from afar and concluded that the stock might be due for a good pullback at one point. Little did I know.</p>\n<p>As Peter Lynch famously said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves,” as would also be true for someone like me who didn’t act in time. I’m still massively fascinated by ASML’s outlook and potential journey, but at the current price, I remain hesitant about the prospects and the lack of margin of safety.</p>\n<p>There is a lot of potential for ASML to grow into its valuation, and if one is to add that current levels, I’d say dollar-cost averaging is a prudent strategy for the current price, while reserving the possibility to back up the truck for a full load if we see a pullback before end of 2021.</p>\n<p>As can be seen below, it is not uncommon for ASML to experience a 10% setback once or twice a year.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ad90b51964870f5475b596fe16f63317\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"403\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p><b>Conclusion</b></p>\n<p>ASML is dominant within its two main offerings, the DUV and EUV lithography. Its market is backed by incredibly strong tailwinds as all our gadgets, electrical cars, 5G, datacentres, cloud servers, etc. are heavily reliant on the technology platform offered by ASML. A true innovator with no real competition in sight, feeding machinery and tools to an industry expected to grow at CAGR 8.6% through 2028 with potentially even stronger growth for both its DUV and EUV platforms while also expecting margin expansion.</p>\n<p>There is little evil to be said about ASML, but unfortunately, the stock market has long since recognised its amazing story and potential. With such a strong outlook in sight, existing shareholders do well for themselves in holding onto their shares and just enjoy the journey ahead, but for the prospective shareholders, there appears to be a little margin of safety with the market cap having expanded significantly recently and the stock trading just an inch shy of its 52 week high.</p>\n<p>As Peter Lynch said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” The exact fallacy I’ve fallen victim to as I’ve looked at ASML from afar for quite a while. Despite the recent expansion in market cap and multiples, there could be made a case for current estimates underestimating ASML’s true potential, but any forecast extending 5-10 years into the future comes with extreme uncertainty and guesstimation. As I’ve shown, ASML’s share price is prone to setbacks once or twice a year allowing dollar-cost averaging to serve as a method to acquire exposure to the company slowly building a position along the way.</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>ASML: The Market Could Be Underestimating Its Potential</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; 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Similarly, it faces very limited competition within DUV, both platforms vital for semiconductor manufacturing. The household names within the semiconductor industry belong to the manufacturers, but the machinery providers, such as ASML, command very strong moats through extensive technological knowledge and strong process knowledge leaving all potential competitors years behind if they should ever try to compete.\nIt's hard to think of a better competitive situation, especially when operating in a sector forecasted to grow well above general GDP for many years to come. However, the market has long since recognized ASML's outstanding potential and potential journey, but still, it could be underestimating the potential.\nIntroduction\nI recently wrote an article concerning how youcan’t own too much semiconductor exposure. Having decomposed the value chain for semiconductor manufacturing, I received a number of questions concerning ASML in the comment sections and decided to conduct this follow-up. I’ve selected ASML due to its unique marketplace position and potential.\nPersonally I have exposure to the manufacturing level of the semiconductor value chain through shares in both Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), but venturing further back into the value chain, and investors can be allowed to invest in a broader manner into the industry, as the suppliers of machinery and software obtain a broader exposure to most of the manufacturers making it immensely interesting as you can adopt the mantra of “I don’t really mind who wins, as long as they are racing”. As such, potential exposure upstream in the value chain carries great interest.\nThe Marketplace and Value Drivers For Years To Come\nFor ASML followers it’s no surprise at this point, but ASML is dominant within the product offering that will drive its revenue for the coming decade, EUV (Extreme ultraviolet lithography) technology. My personal take is that it is hard to find a company in a similarly advantageous competitive position anywhere in any industry. ASML provides equipment for lithography, the art of printing the chip features via light sources, in several light spectrums with its most advanced being EUV which is the next-gen to DUV (deep ultraviolet lithography). For DUV there are competitors albeit ASML has a massive market share above 85%. The difference between DUV and EUV is that EUV operates at a light wavelength almost 15 times smaller than DUV (13.5nm compared to 193nm).\nActually, the semiconductor manufacturers for the leading edge chips such as 5nm and soon to be 3nm are deeply dependent on the EUV machinery. Without it, it simply wouldn’t be possible. That sounds like a pretty good bargain for those who can manufacture these machines, but there is only one company that is able to do it, and that is ASML. For every generation of new EUV machinery, its yield becomes better with higher throughput and reduced downtime issues, meaning that ASML is effectively lightyears ahead of anyone who would try to pick up the gauntlet and challenge their dominant position.\nThis is an industry where everything is about process knowledge. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) is able to produce 5nm chips because it was able to produce 7nm, and it will be able to produce 3nm because it can produce 5nm and has done that a million times over which is also why it was so detrimental to Intel Corp (INTC) that it had to acknowledge its persistent issues with the 7nm technology.\nQuite simply, there is no 3nm if you can’t do the 5nm, as also discussed in my previous article. Same goes for ASML as a competitor would be years and years behind ASML if they entered the EUV space as they would struggle with the same issues that have plagued ASML in its early days of EUV more than a decade ago. I’ve included a number of illustrations from their most recent investor day which took place in November 2018, with the next one to take place in September 2021.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 6.\nThe picture above clearly illustrates the process knowledge having been picked up by ASML throughout its EUV lifetime. This has also translated into better EUV machinery for each new generation as also evident by its productivity improvements. Again, I can’t imagine a more favourable competitive situation for a company, given how much time and capital it would require for a competitor to adopt the EUV technology.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 16.\nSemiconductor manufacturing is a cutthroat business with heavy R&D spend (it took ASML €6 billion in R&D spend to invent EUV) driving chip improvements according to Moore’s law, meaning that ASML is already working on the next-gen technology, referred to as High NA-EUV. High NA-EUV is still some time away, with the timeline below being slightly outdated, but its technology will significantly improve the EUV platform and power the industry beyond this decade. It takes time to develop the technology, improve yield and reduce downtime, but there is still plenty of opportunities for EUV in terms of marketplace expansion and margin improvement.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 21.\nASML itself has laid out the expected path in terms of optimised margins through both add-ons facing the buyer side and upstream cost reductions facing their suppliers creating a sweet spot for the company effectively striving to achieve the same profitability profile as for its more mature DUV platform.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 25.\nIf that wasn’t good enough, then add the fact that the semiconductor industry in general is expected to outpace general GDP for at least until 2028 with a CAGR of 8.6%. Recentcommunicationsby Taiwan Semiconductor, Intel and Samsung Electronics Company (OTC:SSNLF) shows the strength and growth potential for the sector with their combined CAPEX expectations going beyond $200 billion for the coming decade, with a significant chunk of that within the coming years.\nAs can be seen in the illustration above, ASML expects increased customer value through upgrades, with their roadmap for DUV serving as an example in terms of how the revenue base could expand over the coming years for EUV as is the case for DUV via what the company has labelled installed base management.\nASML Investor Day 2018, DUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 10.\nThere is of course always the possibility of a serious contender entering the marketplace in order to try and challenge ASML, but companies have tried to enter the space when the technology was in its infancy having given up, meaning the prime threat would be the emergence of a new lithography technology arriving and doing to EUV what EUV did to DUV. Possible sure, likely, not so much. Just to hammer down the point, I’ve inserted a paragraph from ASML’s own description of how lithography plays its role.\n\n “\n Lithography is a driving force in the creation of more powerful, faster and cheaper chips. The manufacturing of chips becomes increasingly complex as semiconductor feature sizes shrink, while the imperative to mass produce at the right cost remains. Our holistic lithography product portfolio helps to optimize production and enable affordable shrink by integrating lithography systems with computational modeling, as well as metrology and inspection solutions. A lithography system is essentially a projection system. Light is projected through a blueprint of the pattern that will be printed (known as a ‘mask’ or ‘reticle’). With the pattern encoded in the light, the system’s optics shrink and focus the pattern onto a photosensitive silicon wafer. After the pattern is printed, the system moves the wafer slightly and makes another copy on the wafer. This process is repeated until the wafer is covered in patterns, completing one layer of the wafer’s chips. To make an entire microchip, this process is repeated layer after layer, stacking the patterns to create an integrated circuit (IC). The simplest chips have around 10 layers, while the most complex can have over 150 layers. The size of the features to be printed varies depending on the layer, which means that different types of lithography systems are used for different layers – our latest-generation EUV systems for the most critical layers with the smallest features to ArF, KrF, and i-line DUV systems for less critical layers with larger features.”\n ASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.\n\nASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.\nI believe most investors are familiar with confirmation bias, and if they aren’t, they should grab a book and educate themselves. Having read through this section, it can easily sound as if I as the author is suffering from confirmation bias given how strongly I’ve advocated for ASML’s position and competitive power. However, I’ve striven towards identifying situations that could severely impact ASML and being honest I can’t find it. There are of course the risks associated with geopolitical tension, which also showed itself in the stock price back in 2016, the risk of supply chain disruption as is currently transpiring across the industry and competition for talent. These are touched upon by the company itself in their annual report 2020 p. 21 and no industry comes without potential risks.\nSo, to sum it all up:\n\nASML has pioneered EUV lithography, with no competitors in sight\nEUV will enable the continuation of Moore’s Law and will drive long term value for ASML and its customers well into this decade\nThe semiconductor sector forecasted to grow at CAGR of 8.6% through 2028, outpacing general GDP with ASML being a key supplier to the manufacturers (foundries)\nStrong industry CAPEX driving demand for ASML offerings\nThe path forward for expanding EUV business in terms of installed base management, margins improvement and manufacturer dependency on EUV machinery for leading edge chips\nASML is a crucial player for leading edge chip manufacturing\n\nSounds pretty good to me.\nThe Financial Performance and Development\nASML is doing well for itself as evident by the illustration below.\n\nStrong revenue growth\nStrong margin expansion\nStrong improvement in free cash flow\nImpressive operational improvements strengthening its moat through increased R&D spend and IP portfolio\n\nAnnual Report 2020, p 7.\nThis was followed by a strong Q1-2021 performance with mouth-watering financials on both top and bottom line. However, for their Q2-2021 performance they are guiding for slightly lower revenue expansion at €4.1 billion with a gross margin of 49%, which is still above the long term average but closer to it. There is however no denying that the company is thriving in the current environment.\nASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 14.\nAn interesting detail is the development within the installed base management as illustrated earlier in the article. The company is delivering on its promise with a strong development within this segment growing 29% YoY from 2019 to 2020, well beyond the total growth of 18%.\nASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 8.\nThe more interesting question however is whether the market estimates are underestimating the potential for ASML. An immensely hard question, but if we give it a look, I personally at least see the possibility of that being the case.\nAre Analyst Consensus Estimates Under- or Over-Estimating ASML’s Potential?\nASML is well-covered by analysts offering estimates all the way through 2028, but with coverage waning once we go beyond 2025 which is the last year covered by more than one analyst. The current estimates show a revenue CAGR development of 11.1% from 2020 to 2028, but if we remove 2021, which shows stellar growth, the CAGR is 6.5%.\nAuthor's Own Creation, Source Seeking Alpha.\nRemember the sector as a whole is forecasted to exhibit growth at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028. These are all estimates which carry great uncertainty with no one able to reliably predict the future. However, it is worth noticing that revenue estimates for ASML are below the sector as a whole if the massive jump from 2020 to 2021 is left out of the equation. Average revenue growth from 2026 to 2028 is currently estimated to be 3.5%.\nConsidering some of the arguments in favour of why ASML’s outlook could be even more positive:\n\nGeneral semiconductor industry CAGR 2020-2028 forecasted at 8.6%.\nDUV CAGR 2020-2025forecastedat 8.4%, it is still ASML’s largest product category.\nEUV CAGR 2020-2027forecastedat 12%.\nASML is a linchpin player to solve chip shortage through technology advancement and its machines define the performance of every electrical gadget we utilise in our daily lives.\nASML shows progress in its plan to widen the ecosystem for its machinery through \"Installed Base Management\" increasing the total addressable market by upwards of double digits percentage as 2018 sales were 20% installed base management and 2025 estimate is 50%.\nASML dominates the DUV immersion segment, the part of DUV with high margins as its two solecompetitorsin DUV, Nikon and Canon lack the means and capabilities.\nAs the market transitions to EUV, the demand for DUV willfollowas the chip stacking process benefits from both systems through its manufacturing.\n\nThis is without mentioning the potential price increases that could trickle down towards its customers as they could be fighting over ASML’s capacity due to its strong market position of 85% in DUV and monopoly within EUV while also bringing High NA-EUV to market by mid of this decade. Customers today pay roughly $130-150 million for EUV machines, while DUV machines come in at around $100 million. The largest hindrance to ASML overdelivering is its current capacity constraint in terms of ability to deliver EUV systems which is capped somewhere between 40 and 50 systems a year, with the company of course striving to expand that capacity constraint as demand builds up over the years. On the other hand, this could also be a driver for price increases as ASML strives to expand capacity.\nI will not try to construct an even bolder revenue guidance as it’s a cheap shot and frankly, no one has the capacity to accurately forecast if the current expectations will stand or whether they are too positive or negative. I just want to highlight that with everything going on and ASML’s market position in mind, I don’t consider it unreasonable that the company will do even better than currently anticipated.\nValuation\nThe stock price is an inch away from its 52-week high and has been on a tear since the beginning of 2020, really taking off since October 2020 from which it has doubled since.\nData by YCharts\nMarket cap has exploded with all other parameters left in its wake having seen a significant expansion in price-earnings ratio despite a strong improvement in EPS and revenue. The stock market has long since recognised the story and potential of ASML with the Wall Street analyst target currently at $722 per share. Fair to say, there is no margin of safety if the analysts are correct in the predictions. Interestingly, out of the 30 analysts offering a price target, the percentage who are very bullish hasn’t been higher since 2016 with 56% stating a very bullish opinion. There is a mental exercise in staying cautious in terms of believing in such statements, not least because the stock has only known one direction for the last couple of years – upwards.\nThe significance of the expansion in typical ratios is evident when considered over a five-year horizon as shown below. Both P/E and P/S have expanded massively standing at 55 and 15.7 respectively. However, the company is in a very different place compared to three years ago.\nData by YCharts\nRevenue is growing significantly faster than previously with gross margin and free cash flow also having improved. Due to this positive development, ASML is also returning plenty of capital to its shareholders with a share buyback program of €10 billion for 2021, which unfortunately only translates to a reduction of 0.5% of the current float.\nData by YCharts\nThe strong belief in ASML going forward is also clearly illustrated by the estimates for the coming years, which throughout the most recent years has been steadily climbing due to the company’s strong portfolio and market dominance.\nData by YCharts\nWith all that said, I believe that current shareholders do well for themselves in holding on to their existing shares as this company has a great outlook. I’ve had my eyes on ASML for the last year, and I’m extremely sad to say I never got around to looking into it properly, but only looked it at from afar and concluded that the stock might be due for a good pullback at one point. Little did I know.\nAs Peter Lynch famously said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves,” as would also be true for someone like me who didn’t act in time. I’m still massively fascinated by ASML’s outlook and potential journey, but at the current price, I remain hesitant about the prospects and the lack of margin of safety.\nThere is a lot of potential for ASML to grow into its valuation, and if one is to add that current levels, I’d say dollar-cost averaging is a prudent strategy for the current price, while reserving the possibility to back up the truck for a full load if we see a pullback before end of 2021.\nAs can be seen below, it is not uncommon for ASML to experience a 10% setback once or twice a year.\nData by YCharts\nConclusion\nASML is dominant within its two main offerings, the DUV and EUV lithography. Its market is backed by incredibly strong tailwinds as all our gadgets, electrical cars, 5G, datacentres, cloud servers, etc. are heavily reliant on the technology platform offered by ASML. A true innovator with no real competition in sight, feeding machinery and tools to an industry expected to grow at CAGR 8.6% through 2028 with potentially even stronger growth for both its DUV and EUV platforms while also expecting margin expansion.\nThere is little evil to be said about ASML, but unfortunately, the stock market has long since recognised its amazing story and potential. With such a strong outlook in sight, existing shareholders do well for themselves in holding onto their shares and just enjoy the journey ahead, but for the prospective shareholders, there appears to be a little margin of safety with the market cap having expanded significantly recently and the stock trading just an inch shy of its 52 week high.\nAs Peter Lynch said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” The exact fallacy I’ve fallen victim to as I’ve looked at ASML from afar for quite a while. Despite the recent expansion in market cap and multiples, there could be made a case for current estimates underestimating ASML’s true potential, but any forecast extending 5-10 years into the future comes with extreme uncertainty and guesstimation. 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If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that ","content":"<p>Karl Marx would have loved Reddit. If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that everyone should get in on trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency. Not to get rich—though that’s a nice side benefit—but to strike back at the investor class. “It’s worthwhile running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money,” Marxwrote. I’m right there with you, Karl.</p>\n<p>Working-class millennials have been denied the chance to build generational wealth over the course of our professional careers. Many of us are risking what little we have left as a way of raging against a machine we feel is rigged against us. And we’re following in Marx’s footsteps.</p>\n<p>After a friend died in 1864, Marx received £820 in a bequest, his biographerrecounts. That comes out to roughly $151,500 today after adjusting for inflation and applying current conversion rates. Marx used a portion of his inheritance to become a financial speculator, often engaging in the same sort of penny-stock bubble schemes that the notorious WallStreetBets sub-Reddit has been accused of engaging in this year. “[Stocks] are springing up like mushrooms this year,” Marx wrote in a letter to his uncle, bragging that he had already made £400 from speculation. He added that many of his investments were typically “forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse.”</p>\n<p>Marx’s trading stories are difficult to substantiate, but millennials’ love of meme stocks is very real. I’ve already made more this year from trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency than I have as a professional writer. I’ve come to look at the meme stock boom as millennials’ chance to finally build wealth. But if not, we’re content with making the investors largely responsible for our financial woes feel a bit of the pain they’ve inflicted on us. Short-sellers are losing their shirts to the tune of$4.5 billionon meme stocks so far.</p>\n<p>As a 34-year-old American, almost every generational stereotype applies to me. HuffPost’s Michael Hobbessummed upmillennials’ financial situation best in 2017: “My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.”</p>\n<p>Perhaps because we’re the only American generation to live through two major recessions and two wars in our coming-up years, we’re the first generation to be financially worse off than our parents, despite beingbetter educatedon average. We paid for it, too. A year of college that cost $10,000 for boomers set millennials back more than $15,000 on average in inflation-adjusted dollars, according toBloomberg. Millennials of color, particularly Black millennials, have it worse. They graduated witheven more student debtthan their white classmates, arefar less likelyto be hired in white-collar professions, and their households earnjust 60%of what their white coworkers make.</p>\n<p>Millennials’ high-priced educations haven’t bought us much job security. A 2018 Gallup studycalledmillennials the “job-hopping generation.” Maybe, but not by choice. A 2019University of Chicago studyfound millennials actually long for a stable career. It should come as little surprise, then, that a generation plagued with job insecurity and mounting debt is leading the“baby bust.”The birth rate is at its lowest inthree decades. There may not be enough working-age Americans to care for the nation’s swelling senior population. Boomers effectively climbed the class ladder, then took a saw and cut off the rungs below them. (And they still ask us when we’ll give them grandchildren!)</p>\n<p>If all that doesn’t make meme stocks and cryptocurrency more appealing, at least it might help explain why some of us just don’t care any more about playing it safe. I’ll be the first to admit that investing in meme stocks isn’t a sustainable way to build wealth. A lot more of us will get hurt than get rich. But I’m not primarily investing to make money: I want the investors who crashed the economy and got bailed out in my senior year of college—thustorpedoingmy career earning potential—to feel at least a little bit of the hardship they put my generation through. And given thepredominantly millennialcomposition of /r/WallStreetBets, I know I’m not the only rage-driven investor.</p>\n<p>There’s plenty to be mad about. Like we saw withGameStop,workers organizing to make the stock market pay out in our favor results in strict blowback. After Redditors speculated GameStop shares through the roof in late January, mobile trading app Robinhood not only restricted trading, but evenreportedlysold investors’ GameStop shares without their consent. (Robinhooddeniesforced-selling occurred.) When it came to light that Robinhood had afinancial relationshipwith firms that help route its customers’ orders, it made a lot of newbie investors like me even more jaded about the markets.</p>\n<p>In March, when New York City opened movie theaters, I decided to buy AMC shares on a lark for $7 apiece. As of early June, my investment has appreciated in value by more than 550%. That could evaporate, but I’m taking a lesson from GameStop. Its stock is still trading at more than $250 per share despite starting the year under $20. I plan on continuing to hold my AMC shares in hopes the value will increase even more. When it’s finally time, I’ll sell half and re-invest my profits in cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>When that happens, I’ll be far from the only millennial betting big on crypto. According to Business Insider, my generation ischiefly responsiblefor the sudden rise of cryptocurrency in 2021, in which both blue-chip digital currencies like Ethereum, as well as joke cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, are thriving. Ethereum’s price has gone from $730.97 per coin on Jan. 1 to a peak of over $4,000 in May. Dogecoin hasappreciatedby more than 21,000% since its inception as a meme in 2013. (I’m still kicking myself for selling my Dogecoin when it was trading for less than 10 cents, even though I still made thousands in profit). Millennials’ commitment to crypto is now forcing the giants to play along: In March,Morgan Stanleybecame thefirst bankto offer Bitcoin funds to its wealthy clients. And as if on cue, now that the workers have made a little money in the rigged casino, U.S. regulators are reportedly preparing a “crackdown” on cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>Millennials went through childhood being told we had to work hard to have financial security. Then we were told we had to shackle ourselves with debt to get a college degree that would get us a good job. Then we were told that only a lucky few actually build wealth from their jobs and that to have true financial success, we should invest. And then when we invested, we were told we were doing it wrong. I get the message. Millennials aren’t meant to win. Financial security isn’t for us. So if we can make a few grand by speculating penny stocks to the moon and hurt a few smug hedge fund vultures in the process, we’ll settle for that.</p>\n<p><b>Corrections &amp; Amplifications</b>: Citadel Securities is a market-maker that provides services for Robinhood, not a hedge fund. 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If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that everyone should get in on trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency. Not to get rich—though that’s a ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-im-still-rage-buying-meme-stocks-51623165336\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线","GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust","COIN":"Coinbase Global, Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-im-still-rage-buying-meme-stocks-51623165336","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1188697627","content_text":"Karl Marx would have loved Reddit. If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that everyone should get in on trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency. Not to get rich—though that’s a nice side benefit—but to strike back at the investor class. “It’s worthwhile running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money,” Marxwrote. I’m right there with you, Karl.\nWorking-class millennials have been denied the chance to build generational wealth over the course of our professional careers. Many of us are risking what little we have left as a way of raging against a machine we feel is rigged against us. And we’re following in Marx’s footsteps.\nAfter a friend died in 1864, Marx received £820 in a bequest, his biographerrecounts. That comes out to roughly $151,500 today after adjusting for inflation and applying current conversion rates. Marx used a portion of his inheritance to become a financial speculator, often engaging in the same sort of penny-stock bubble schemes that the notorious WallStreetBets sub-Reddit has been accused of engaging in this year. “[Stocks] are springing up like mushrooms this year,” Marx wrote in a letter to his uncle, bragging that he had already made £400 from speculation. He added that many of his investments were typically “forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse.”\nMarx’s trading stories are difficult to substantiate, but millennials’ love of meme stocks is very real. I’ve already made more this year from trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency than I have as a professional writer. I’ve come to look at the meme stock boom as millennials’ chance to finally build wealth. But if not, we’re content with making the investors largely responsible for our financial woes feel a bit of the pain they’ve inflicted on us. Short-sellers are losing their shirts to the tune of$4.5 billionon meme stocks so far.\nAs a 34-year-old American, almost every generational stereotype applies to me. HuffPost’s Michael Hobbessummed upmillennials’ financial situation best in 2017: “My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.”\nPerhaps because we’re the only American generation to live through two major recessions and two wars in our coming-up years, we’re the first generation to be financially worse off than our parents, despite beingbetter educatedon average. We paid for it, too. A year of college that cost $10,000 for boomers set millennials back more than $15,000 on average in inflation-adjusted dollars, according toBloomberg. Millennials of color, particularly Black millennials, have it worse. They graduated witheven more student debtthan their white classmates, arefar less likelyto be hired in white-collar professions, and their households earnjust 60%of what their white coworkers make.\nMillennials’ high-priced educations haven’t bought us much job security. A 2018 Gallup studycalledmillennials the “job-hopping generation.” Maybe, but not by choice. A 2019University of Chicago studyfound millennials actually long for a stable career. It should come as little surprise, then, that a generation plagued with job insecurity and mounting debt is leading the“baby bust.”The birth rate is at its lowest inthree decades. There may not be enough working-age Americans to care for the nation’s swelling senior population. Boomers effectively climbed the class ladder, then took a saw and cut off the rungs below them. (And they still ask us when we’ll give them grandchildren!)\nIf all that doesn’t make meme stocks and cryptocurrency more appealing, at least it might help explain why some of us just don’t care any more about playing it safe. I’ll be the first to admit that investing in meme stocks isn’t a sustainable way to build wealth. A lot more of us will get hurt than get rich. But I’m not primarily investing to make money: I want the investors who crashed the economy and got bailed out in my senior year of college—thustorpedoingmy career earning potential—to feel at least a little bit of the hardship they put my generation through. And given thepredominantly millennialcomposition of /r/WallStreetBets, I know I’m not the only rage-driven investor.\nThere’s plenty to be mad about. Like we saw withGameStop,workers organizing to make the stock market pay out in our favor results in strict blowback. After Redditors speculated GameStop shares through the roof in late January, mobile trading app Robinhood not only restricted trading, but evenreportedlysold investors’ GameStop shares without their consent. (Robinhooddeniesforced-selling occurred.) When it came to light that Robinhood had afinancial relationshipwith firms that help route its customers’ orders, it made a lot of newbie investors like me even more jaded about the markets.\nIn March, when New York City opened movie theaters, I decided to buy AMC shares on a lark for $7 apiece. As of early June, my investment has appreciated in value by more than 550%. That could evaporate, but I’m taking a lesson from GameStop. Its stock is still trading at more than $250 per share despite starting the year under $20. I plan on continuing to hold my AMC shares in hopes the value will increase even more. When it’s finally time, I’ll sell half and re-invest my profits in cryptocurrency.\nWhen that happens, I’ll be far from the only millennial betting big on crypto. According to Business Insider, my generation ischiefly responsiblefor the sudden rise of cryptocurrency in 2021, in which both blue-chip digital currencies like Ethereum, as well as joke cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, are thriving. Ethereum’s price has gone from $730.97 per coin on Jan. 1 to a peak of over $4,000 in May. Dogecoin hasappreciatedby more than 21,000% since its inception as a meme in 2013. (I’m still kicking myself for selling my Dogecoin when it was trading for less than 10 cents, even though I still made thousands in profit). Millennials’ commitment to crypto is now forcing the giants to play along: In March,Morgan Stanleybecame thefirst bankto offer Bitcoin funds to its wealthy clients. And as if on cue, now that the workers have made a little money in the rigged casino, U.S. regulators are reportedly preparing a “crackdown” on cryptocurrency.\nMillennials went through childhood being told we had to work hard to have financial security. Then we were told we had to shackle ourselves with debt to get a college degree that would get us a good job. Then we were told that only a lucky few actually build wealth from their jobs and that to have true financial success, we should invest. And then when we invested, we were told we were doing it wrong. I get the message. Millennials aren’t meant to win. Financial security isn’t for us. So if we can make a few grand by speculating penny stocks to the moon and hurt a few smug hedge fund vultures in the process, we’ll settle for that.\nCorrections & Amplifications: Citadel Securities is a market-maker that provides services for Robinhood, not a hedge fund. An earlier version of this commentary incorrectly reported that a subsidiary of Citadel Securities held a short position in GameStop.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":208,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":189048662,"gmtCreate":1623236052656,"gmtModify":1704198957567,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nice too follow","listText":"Nice too follow","text":"Nice too follow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/189048662","repostId":"1154263782","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1154263782","pubTimestamp":1623204460,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1154263782?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-09 10:07","market":"us","language":"en","title":"The 10 Most Talked About Stocks on Reddit Today","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1154263782","media":"investorplace","summary":"Reddit continues to be the home of meme stocks and with the recent rally surrounding those, it’s worth looking in and seeing what traders on the subreddit are talking about.WallStreetBets in particular is one of the most popular subreddits where users collect to talk about their stock picks. That’s no different on Tuesday with there being plenty of chatter to look into.Let’s see the most talked-about stockson Reddit WallStreetBets today below.","content":"<p>Reddit continues to be the home of meme stocks and with the recent rally surrounding those, it’s worth looking in and seeing what traders on the subreddit are talking about.</p><p>WallStreetBets in particular is one of the most popular subreddits where users collect to talk about their stock picks. That’s no different on Tuesday with there being plenty of chatter to look into.</p><p>Let’s see the&nbsp;most talked-about stockson Reddit WallStreetBets today below.</p><p>Most Talked About Reddit Stocks Today</p><ol><li><b>Clover Health</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>CLOV</u></b>) takes the top spot on the list with more than 2,000 mentions over the last four hours. The stock is sitting 76% higher as of this writing.</li><li><b>BlackBerry</b>(NYSE:<b><u>BB</u></b>) is up next with the stock getting close to 1,000 mentions as of Tuesday afternoon. The stock is currently down slightly today.</li><li><b>GameStop</b>(NYSE:<b><u>GME</u></b>) is always a Reddit favorite with just over 800 mentions on WSB. Shares are up 5.5% right now.</li><li><b>AMC Entertainment</b>(NYSE:<b><u>AMC</u></b>) secures its sport on the list with more than 560 mentions. The stock is down 1.6% as of this writing.</li><li><b>Clean Energy Fuels</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>CLNE</u></b>) joins the list with close to 400 mentions Tuesday afternoon. It’s also down 6.3%% at that same time.</li><li><b>Wendy’s</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>WEN</u></b>) is a new favorite of Reddit with more than 250 mentions. The stock is up 18.4% as of this writing.</li><li><b>WorkHorse</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>WKHS</u></b>) stock is getting talked about today with about 230 mentions. The shares are up 16.6% as of Tuesday afternoon.</li><li><b>Academy Sports &amp; Outdoors</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>ASO</u></b>) is also on the list with about 120 mentions. The stock is up 2.8% as of this writing.</li><li><b>Tilray</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TLRY</u></b>) is just past 100 mentions with its place on the list. Shares are up close to 1% right now.</li><li><b>Nokia</b>(NYSE:<b><u>NOK</u></b>) is the final entry on the list with just under 100 mentions. The stock is down slightly at the moment.</li></ol><p></p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","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>The 10 Most Talked About Stocks on Reddit Today</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\">\nThe 10 Most Talked About Stocks on Reddit Today\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-09 10:07 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/06/the-10-most-talked-about-stocks-on-reddit-today/><strong>investorplace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Reddit continues to be the home of meme stocks and with the recent rally surrounding those, it’s worth looking in and seeing what traders on the subreddit are talking about.WallStreetBets in ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/06/the-10-most-talked-about-stocks-on-reddit-today/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"ASO":"Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.","AMC":"AMC院线","WEN":"温蒂汉堡","WKHS":"Workhorse Group, Inc.","BB":"黑莓","CLNE":"Clean Energy Fuels Corp","GME":"游戏驿站","CLOV":"Clover Health Corp","TLRY":"Tilray Inc.","NOK":"诺基亚"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/06/the-10-most-talked-about-stocks-on-reddit-today/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1154263782","content_text":"Reddit continues to be the home of meme stocks and with the recent rally surrounding those, it’s worth looking in and seeing what traders on the subreddit are talking about.WallStreetBets in particular is one of the most popular subreddits where users collect to talk about their stock picks. That’s no different on Tuesday with there being plenty of chatter to look into.Let’s see the most talked-about stockson Reddit WallStreetBets today below.Most Talked About Reddit Stocks TodayClover Health(NASDAQ:CLOV) takes the top spot on the list with more than 2,000 mentions over the last four hours. The stock is sitting 76% higher as of this writing.BlackBerry(NYSE:BB) is up next with the stock getting close to 1,000 mentions as of Tuesday afternoon. The stock is currently down slightly today.GameStop(NYSE:GME) is always a Reddit favorite with just over 800 mentions on WSB. Shares are up 5.5% right now.AMC Entertainment(NYSE:AMC) secures its sport on the list with more than 560 mentions. The stock is down 1.6% as of this writing.Clean Energy Fuels(NASDAQ:CLNE) joins the list with close to 400 mentions Tuesday afternoon. It’s also down 6.3%% at that same time.Wendy’s(NASDAQ:WEN) is a new favorite of Reddit with more than 250 mentions. The stock is up 18.4% as of this writing.WorkHorse(NASDAQ:WKHS) stock is getting talked about today with about 230 mentions. The shares are up 16.6% as of Tuesday afternoon.Academy Sports & Outdoors(NASDAQ:ASO) is also on the list with about 120 mentions. The stock is up 2.8% as of this writing.Tilray(NASDAQ:TLRY) is just past 100 mentions with its place on the list. Shares are up close to 1% right now.Nokia(NYSE:NOK) is the final entry on the list with just under 100 mentions. 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NIO holds a 49% stake in this JV.</p><p>Under the agreement, JAC will continue manufacturing NIO’s ES8, ES6, EC6, and ET7 models, as well as other models in its pipeline, until May 2024.</p><p>Furthermore, JAC will increase its annual production capacity to 240,000 units to satisfy the rising demand for NIO vehicles. While NIO will take responsibility for vehicle development, engineering, supply chain, quality management, and manufacturing processes, Jianglai will be in charge of parts assembly and operations management.</p><p>Significantly, the new agreement will enable NIO to benefit from economies of scale and future improvements in manufacturing processes.</p><p>On May 13, Citigroup analyst&nbsp;Jeff Chung&nbsp;reiterated a Hold rating on the stock with a $57.60 price target (69.1% upside potential).</p><p>Commenting after interacting with NIO management, Chung noted that the shortage of chips was a key constraint for vehicle production in May but management sees the situation improving in June or July.</p><p>Consensus among analysts is that NIO is a Moderate Buy based on 7 Buys and 3 Holds. 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(NIO) has renewed its manufacturing agreements with Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC) and Jianglai Advanced ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nio-renews-key-joint-manufacturing-134312432.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"NIO":"蔚来"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nio-renews-key-joint-manufacturing-134312432.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2137537153","content_text":"Today NIO shares starts rising as renewed its key joint manufacturing agreements.NIO Inc. (NIO) has renewed its manufacturing agreements with Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC) and Jianglai Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Jianglai) for the joint manufacture of NIO vehicles and associated fee arrangements.JAC, a state-owned vehicle manufacturer, presently manufactures NIO vehicles at its Hefei JAC-NIO plant, which was specifically set up for NIO vehicles.Jianglai is a joint venture between NIO and JAC for operations management. NIO holds a 49% stake in this JV.Under the agreement, JAC will continue manufacturing NIO’s ES8, ES6, EC6, and ET7 models, as well as other models in its pipeline, until May 2024.Furthermore, JAC will increase its annual production capacity to 240,000 units to satisfy the rising demand for NIO vehicles. While NIO will take responsibility for vehicle development, engineering, supply chain, quality management, and manufacturing processes, Jianglai will be in charge of parts assembly and operations management.Significantly, the new agreement will enable NIO to benefit from economies of scale and future improvements in manufacturing processes.On May 13, Citigroup analyst Jeff Chung reiterated a Hold rating on the stock with a $57.60 price target (69.1% upside potential).Commenting after interacting with NIO management, Chung noted that the shortage of chips was a key constraint for vehicle production in May but management sees the situation improving in June or July.Consensus among analysts is that NIO is a Moderate Buy based on 7 Buys and 3 Holds. 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It was last up 2.6% at a price of $39,980.\nSome of bitcoin’s younger alternatives also attempted a comeback Thursday, with ether up 2.2% at $2,676 and litecoin rising 3% to $209.\nIt comes after a brutal plunge for cryptocurrency markets. On Wednesday, bitcoin dived 30% to nearly $30,000 at one point, before paring some of those losses later in the session. The entire crypto market lost hundreds of billions of dollars of value in a single day.\nThe move lower was likely driven by mixed signals from Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who came out as a believer in bitcoin earlier this year — and a regulatory clampdown on the market in China.\nOn May 12, Musk said his electric car firm had suspended vehicle purchases with bitcoin due to environmental concerns over the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin uses more energy than entire countries like Argentina and Ukraine, according to Cambridge University researchers. This is due the energy-intensive “mining” process which releases new bitcoins into circulation.\nEarlier this week, Musk suggested Tesla may have sold his bitcoin holdings, only to later clarify that the firm had “not sold any bitcoin.” On Wednesday, he tweeted the “diamond hands” emoji, implying that the electric vehicle maker would not shed any of its bitcoin.\nAlso weighing on bitcoin’s price Wednesday was the news that China had banned financial institutions and payment firms from providing cryptocurrency-related services, reiterating its tough stance on digital currencies.\n“If you look at the history of bull markets, a correction of this size, between 30-40% of bitcoin price, tends to be part of the bull market,” Alyse Killeen, founder and managing partner of bitcoin-focused venture capital firm Stillmark Capital, told CNBC Wednesday.\nInstitutional investors jumping ship?\nBitcoin investors say the cryptocurrency has become a kind of “digital gold,” providing protection from rising inflation as central banks around the world print money to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus crisis. They say that this has led to increased buying from institutional and corporate investors.\nHowever, in a note to clients this week, analysts at JPMorgan said institutional investors were dumping bitcoin in favor of gold, reversing the trend that’s played out over the last two quarters.\n“I did talk to friends in the institutional bitcoin buy and custody space … and what I heard from them is that folks aren’t selling,” Killeen said.\n“What you saw was newer buyers were exiting and long-term holders were accumulating or ’hodling,′ and that’s what we have historically seen at these more significant drawdowns in bull markets,” she added.\nMeanwhile, there have been various signs of froth in crypto market lately. Dogecoin, a meme-inspired digital currency, saw a stunning rally earlier this year, propelled by supportive comments from Musk and other celebrities like Mark Cuban and Gene Simmons.\nCrypto skeptics would argue that all digital assets are in a speculative bubble. In a closely-watched fund manager survey, Bank of America found “long bitcoin” was the most crowded trade. According to the firm, 75% of fund managers said the cryptocurrency was in bubble territory.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":150,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":194093732,"gmtCreate":1621323646226,"gmtModify":1704355769810,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"The Bitcoin isn't&nbsp; worth anything...it is just waste the energy...&nbsp;","listText":"The Bitcoin isn't&nbsp; worth anything...it is just waste the energy...&nbsp;","text":"The Bitcoin isn't worth anything...it is just waste the energy...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/194093732","repostId":"1170122575","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1170122575","pubTimestamp":1621323334,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1170122575?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-18 15:35","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Tesla, Dogecoin And Bitcoin: Mysteries Untold","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1170122575","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nSome of Elon Musk's and Tesla's moves on Dogecoin and Bitcoin are mysterious.\nThere is howe","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Some of Elon Musk's and Tesla's moves on Dogecoin and Bitcoin are mysterious.</li>\n <li>There is however potential for a development which could impact the share price strongly.</li>\n <li>It's also a mystery why Tesla doesn't make this development happen immediately.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bc9d852829462e30593e6d12c81f674\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1024\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images News via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>There's been a lot of action around Tesla (TSLA), Elon Musk, and cryptocurrencies lately. In my view, the action so far is a mystery which will, in due time, reveal yet another hype angle for Tesla. That is a development which can be used to push the stock higher. In this case, the development might even actually create value for Tesla very rapidly.</p>\n<p>You see, Elon Musk and Tesla have been on the news due to their involvement with cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Dogecoin (DOGE-USD).</p>\n<p>The serious part of this involvement has been Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment into Bitcoin, while Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin seems more \"for fun.\" However, that too has been changing as of late, with Elon actually claiming to be working with Dogecoin developers to improve transaction efficiency - implyingserious interest in using the cryptocurrency seriously.</p>\n<p>Both the involvement with Bitcoin and Dogecoin have created some strange mysteries, which I will explore in this article. Be prepared, this is going to be a very long article, though filled with rare findings.</p>\n<p><b>Tesla Buys Bitcoin, Then Drops It</b></p>\n<p>In Q1 2021, Tesla bought Bitcoin. The&nbsp;2020 10-K&nbsp;was the first SEC filing acknowledging the acquisition, though Elon Musk tweeted about it earlier.</p>\n<blockquote>\n In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity. As part of the policy, which was duly approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we may invest a portion of such cash in certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future. Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time orlongterm. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.\n</blockquote>\n<p>An interesting part of this risk disclosure goes as follows:</p>\n<blockquote>\n Moreover, digital assets are currently considered indefinite-lived intangible assets under applicable accounting rules, meaning that any decrease in their fair values below our carrying values for such assets at any time subsequent to their acquisition will require us to recognize impairment charges, whereas we may make no upward revisions for any market price increases until a sale, which may adversely affect our operating results in any period in which such impairment occurs. Moreover, there is no guarantee that future changes in GAAP will not require us to change the way we account for digital assets held by us.\n</blockquote>\n<p>This means that if Bitcoin trades down below Tesla’s cost basis, Tesla will recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. However, if it trades up, Tesla cannot recognize the unrealized gain. It can only recognize a gain when it sells, which it partially did during Q1 2021, leading to such realized gain.</p>\n<p>In its most&nbsp;recent 10-Q, Tesla clarified when it would recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. The criteria is very strict, impossibly strict – Tesla will use the lowest market price since acquiring Bitcoin to assume an impairment on the position (italics emphasis is mine):</p>\n<blockquote>\n We determine the fair value of our bitcoin on a nonrecurring basis in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, based on quoted prices on the activeexchange(s)thatwe have determined is its principal market for bitcoin (Level 1 inputs). We perform an analysis each quarter to identify whether events or changes in circumstances, principally decreases in the quoted prices on active exchanges, indicate that it is more likely than not that our digital assets are impaired.\n <i>In determining if an impairment has occurred, we consider the lowest market price of one bitcoin quoted on the active exchange since acquiring the bitcoin. If the then current carrying value of a digital asset exceeds the fair value so determined, an impairment loss has occurred with respect to those digital assets in the amount equal to the difference between their carrying values and the price determined</i>.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, while Tesla realized a $128 million gain from selling Bitcoin during Q1 2021, it also recorded a $27 millionimpairment. That is, Bitcoin must have, very temporarily, traded below Tesla’s cost basis. This led to an impairment even as Tesla’s fair market value for the Bitcoin it still holds then stood at $2.48 billion.</p>\n<blockquote>\n Note 3 – Digital Assets, NetDuring the three months ended March 31, 2021, we purchased and received $1.50 billion of Bitcoin. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, we recorded $27 million of impairment losses on bitcoin. We also realized gains of $128 million through sales during the three months ended March 31, 2021. Such gains are presented net of impairment losses in Restructuring and other in the consolidated statement of operations. As of March 31, 2021, the carrying value of our Bitcoin held was $1.33 billion, which reflects cumulative impairments of $27 million. The fair market value of bitcoin held as of March 31, 2021,was$2.48 billion.\n</blockquote>\n<p><b>A Matter Of Curiosity - Tesla's Bitcoin Cost Basis</b></p>\n<p>Based on the available data, we can try to guess Tesla’s cost basis, as well as the price it sold Bitcoin at. Consider the following:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Tesla acquired $1.5 billion in Bitcoin.</li>\n <li>Tesla impaired this acquisition by $0.027 billion.</li>\n <li>Tesla had $1.33 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ (End Of Quarter), on a cost basis.</li>\n <li>Thus, Tesla had $1.357 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ, on a cost basis + the impairment.</li>\n <li>So, Tesla sold $0.143 billion in bitcoin ($1.5 billion at inception - $1.357 billion held at EOQ if we exclude theimpairment).</li>\n <li>Tesla sold these $0.143 billion in bitcoin at a gain of $0.128 billion. So, it sold that bitcoin amount for $0.271 billion, an 89.5% gain.</li>\n <li>Tesla’s EOQ Bitcoin at market value was $2.48 billion.</li>\n <li>And Bitcoin stood at ~$58,874 at EOQ (this is not exact, so it will introduce some error).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>So:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Tesla’s cost basis per Bitcoin is the (bitcoin+impairment on a cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ. That’s $1.357/$2.48 * $58,874 = $32,214 (there will be a bit of error due to the Bitcoin price considered for EOQ).</li>\n <li>Tesla’s current (impaired) cost basis per bitcoin is (bitcoin at cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ = $31,574.</li>\n <li>Tesla sold bitcoin at an 89.5% gain over the original cost basis, so it sold around $32,214 * 1.895 = $61,050.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Anyway, this is mostly a curiosity.</p>\n<p><b>The First Mystery</b></p>\n<p>Fast forward to two days ago, and Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin in payment but didn’t sell its existing Bitcoin hoard, as&nbsp;tweeted by Elon Musk:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c83a81967e914d8b174d80aa1df31be9\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"675\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>As we can immediately understand, the environmental excuse given was already widely known well before Tesla even started accepting Bitcoin. For instance, I already had written about it in my Bitcoin Series (which I highly recommend reading in its entirety), both a long time ago (four years ago, \"Bitcoin Series #4 - The Bitcoin Arms Race\"), and in more detail recently (\"Bitcoin Series #8 - Bitcoin Is Not The Future\"). So had many others, even earlier.</p>\n<p>The excuse for dropping Bitcoin acceptance is thus something of a mystery. It is so for several reasons, namely...</p>\n<p><b>Because (Bitcoin Only) Moving To Sustainable Energy Is Nearly Impossible</b></p>\n<p>The Tesla claim regarding a transition to more sustainable energy is a red herring. Why? Because electricity is fungible. Even a company contracting power exclusively from renewable sources (as is<i>en vogue</i>) isn’t really just using renewable sources. The company only makes the rest of electricity usage have a dirtier mix, because of not having access to those renewable sources the company is contracting away.</p>\n<p>The only time this isn’t false is when renewables are injecting so much energy into the grid (due to wind, solar, and little electricity demand) that electricity prices go negative. At that point, it can be said that there’s excess electricity in the grid, and any taker isn’t making it dirtier. But crypto mining isn’t an intermittent activity, while these events are reasonably rare and intermittent.</p>\n<p>This idea has been put forth in some misleading ways. For instance, there’s been some widespread quoting of&nbsp;a study&nbsp;stating 76% of mining operators “use renewable energysources.” However, to qualify as “using renewable sources” just takes some renewable energy being present in the electricity generation mix. Of course, nearly all electricity pools have some renewable sources, so nearly everyone can claim to use some renewable energy. That 24% couldn’t claim any use of renewable energy is more of a surprise.</p>\n<p>The same study does say that 39% of energy consumed comes from renewable sources, which is a more relevant statistic. But this statistic also suffers from the same problem I described before:Electricityis fungible. Unless the electricity is being wasted or generation was built on purpose to mine cryptocurrencies, then mining is displacing other uses and thus making other uses dirtier, which is the same as being dirty itself. Finally, I could also nitpick and say that even building renewable energy sources consumes energy and creates CO2, but that would be going too far.</p>\n<p>It was not a coincidence that the closure of a single huge coal mine in China temporarily&nbsp;wiped out one-third of all Bitcoin mining. And of course, that’s not the only coal-powered generation being used to mine Bitcoin. That alone ought to be enough for people to question any number looking like \"76%renewables.\"</p>\n<p>Also, saying that fueling EVs or launching rockets consumes energy and creates CO2 is another red herring (this one lobbied at Elon Musk for dropping Bitcoin). This is so because these are useful activities. It’s like breathing, it creates CO2 but no one is going to criticize that since it’s useful (unlike nearly all cryptocurrency activity).</p>\n<p>A final misconception is that banking consumes a lot of energy itself. Or gold mining. A direct comparison is often made, which makes no sense. The only viable comparison is comparing the energy use of a single transaction. It’s in that regard that Bitcoin is now up to 1.18 million times less efficient than something like the Visa network. Per transaction.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/97a2aac9e0372ecd87939d0b05434a64\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"271\"><span>Source:Digiconomist.net</span></p>\n<p>Mind you, that’s for each Bitcoin transaction, and nearly all those transactions are speculative in nature – not useful.</p>\n<p>Because a 100x or 1000x improvement wouldn't change things.</p>\n<p>There's also a claim about moving to a more efficient cryptocurrency. The problem here is: Improvingon Bitcoin by 100x or 1000x (lower than 1%, as stated per Elon) would still fall far from solving the problem. It would just make the resulting cryptocurrency be&nbsp;1,000x to 10,000x worse than the VISA network(instead of 1,000,000x worse).</p>\n<p>I must, however, say that there are a couple of cryptocurrencies which might be efficient enough to rival with the VISA network, though I didn’t go over the implications for their security and thus won’t name them. These cryptocurrencies don't include Dogecoin (and the current Dogecoin power consumption will increase aggressively to follow the market capitalization).</p>\n<p>Anyway, Musk is right in recognizing the Bitcoin impact and stopping its use. However, just holding Bitcoin is, arguably, contributing to this state of affairs. And Tesla continued to hold its Bitcoin.</p>\n<p>Elon Musk is a bit wrong in saying that a transitiontowardmore sustainable energy sources would solve the problem, though, for the reasons stated – unless the entire world transitioned to such sources, Bitcoin would still be making the world much dirtier than it would otherwise be. He’s also wrong in thinking that improving things by 100x (or 1000x) would be enough to come close to solving the underlying problem.</p>\n<p>Thus, these claims to stop accepting Bitcoin are somewhat mysterious.</p>\n<p><b>But The Real Mystery Is ...</b></p>\n<p>The main problemis -Musk knew already! So why did Tesla buy Bitcoin and started accepting it? And after buying, why did it stop accepting it? It couldn't have been Bitcoin's energy intensity ... Because Elon Musk knew, and commented on, Bitcoin’s energy intensity as far back as February 2019.</p>\n<p>Hence, the reason stated for dropping Bitcoin isn’t likely to be the true reason. And neither was there much concern about this energy intensity when adopting Bitcoin. So, there’s likely a hidden motive both for dropping usage. Here's what Elon Musk had to say on Bitcoin back in February 2019 (bold highlight is mine):</p>\n<blockquote>\n One of the downsides of crypto is that, computationally, it's quite energy intensive. So there have to be some kind of constraints on the creation of crypto.\n <b>But it's very energy intensive to create the incremental Bitcoin at this point</b>.\n</blockquote>\n<p><i>Source:ARKInvest Podcast with Elon Musk</i></p>\n<p>Thus, if the reasons stated for dropping Bitcoin are invalid, it becomes genuinely valid to wonder what the real reasons might be. Those are a mystery.</p>\n<p><b>Why Dogecoin?</b></p>\n<p>First, what is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency started by Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus as something of a meme joke on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.</p>\n<p>The Dogecoin was Jackson Palmer’s idea (who also acquired the&nbsp;Dogecoin.com&nbsp;domain, and created Dogecoin’s overall image and marketing), and the coding was done by Billy Marcus.</p>\n<p>Dogecoin is a source code fork of Luckycoin, which was a source code fork of Junkcoin, which was a source code fork of Litecoin, which was a source code fork of Bitcoin.</p>\n<p>Being a “source code fork” (or codebase fork, or just codebase copy) means developers copied the original code, changed some parameters or sometimes functionality, and then reset the blockchain starting from block 0. Since Luckycoin was open-source software, Billy Marcus took that code, altered some parameters and name fields and UI elements, and Doge was created.</p>\n<p>According to Billy Marcus, the whole work took around three hours, though Billy Marcus had prior experience in creating another Bitcoin source fork cryptocurrency (Bells):</p>\n<blockquote>\n It took about three hours to make, with the bulk of that time making alterations to the client to make the text Comic Sans and some custom graphics and wording for different pieces of the UI.\n</blockquote>\n<p>There were several large changes to the Bitcoin/Litecoin origins:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Target block time was reduced to 60 seconds, meaning transactions are committed faster (10x faster than Bitcoin, whose block target time is 10 minutes). Still, this is far from where it should be for instant transaction commits.</li>\n <li>Supply was uncapped. Though there was a cap initially set at 100 billion Dogecoins, a change removed the cap. This means Dogecoin is an “inflationary” cryptocurrency. The block reward is now set at 10,000 Dogecoin and will stay there forever (unless the protocol is again changed). As supply expands, though, a fixed block reward means the growth rate slowly declines.</li>\n <li>Dogecoin adopted the Litecoin POW (Proof Of Work) algorithm, Scrypt, which is much more memory intensive than SHA256 and less prone to be mined with ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) as a result (at least not the same ASICs as Bitcoin).</li>\n <li>Dogecoin adopted merged mining with other scrypt-based cryptocurrencies, mainly Litecoin. This allowed Dogecoin to be secured by work performed to mine another cryptocurrency at a time when its network’s hashrate was low and risked becoming unsafe.</li>\n <li>Dogecoin adopted a 1 Dogecoin per Kb fixed transaction fee, making it cheaper to transact on the Dogecoin network. 10x more frequent blocks and a similar maximum block size (1 Mb) also means it’s much cheaper to commit transactions on Doge.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Although Dogecoin took some compromises so as to provide higher transaction efficiency and speed, in practice these compromises are creating technical problems (this is interesting because recent Elon Muskproposals- like reducing block times - would make said problems more relevant still). As it is, the very quick block generation time is leading to most nodes not getting a synchronized blockchain, and thus making transaction confirmations slower and potentially less safe. Anyway, Dogecoin development is now showered with money and things might improve.</p>\n<p>A curiosity, the Dogecoin network is even more reliant on block rewards compared to fees than the Bitcoin network.</p>\n<ul>\n <li>At $0.50/Dogecoin, with 10,000 Dogecoins awarded per minute, this generates $7.2 million in block rewards per day or $2.63 billion per year. The estimated fees per day are just $40,000, thus representing only $14.6 million per year or 0.56% of the value of the block rewards.</li>\n <li>The Bitcoin network generates 144 blocks per day, and each rewards 6.25 Bitcoins. At $50,000/Bitcoin, this translates to $45 million per day or $16.43 billion per year. As for transaction fees, it generates an estimated $7.05 million per day or $2.57 billion per year. Transaction fees thus represent 15.7% of the value of the block rewards.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This might lose some significance in the sense that Dogecoin is inflationary and the block rewards will keep on being generated at the current pace forever.</p>\n<p>Another interesting fact about Dogecoin is that Dogecoin, launched as a joke on the proliferation of all kinds of altcoins, wasn’t pre-mined. That is, the founders didn’t try to take a large financial advantage of their own creation.</p>\n<p>Also, over time the founders didn’t accumulate significant amounts of Dogecoin. And at least Billy Marcus famously sold all his Dogecoin (plus other cryptocurrencies) to buy a used Honda Civic. In short, the Dogecoin founders didn’t have a large economic interest in Dogecoin, and both left the project rather early.</p>\n<p>However, while the Dogecoin community is painted as fun and uninterested on the “get rich quick” side of things that’s prevalent in cryptocurrencies, there’s evidence to the contrary.</p>\n<p>Nowhere is that evidence clearer than in the way Dogecoin’s development froze in time once the initial enthusiasm died down. And sure enough, you can expect said development to wake up again now that Dogecoin is worth tens of billions of dollars (below, Github statistics).</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/db4422b6cbfadbfe9808861359c61f18\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"369\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>When Did Elon Start Being Involved With Dogecoin?</b></p>\n<p>For many, it might seem like Elon Musk’s involvement with Bitcoin is something very recent. Charts like this, along with recent participation on the Dogecoin mania, make it seem so:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ee9ad6869ec5ea4c63f084cec082c3a3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"373\"><span>Source:Galaxy Digital Research,Cryptowat.ch</span></p>\n<p>Yet, Elon Musk has actually been tweeting on Dogecoin for a very long time. Some might remember him being \"elected Dogecoin’s CEO”&nbsp;as far back as April 2, 2019&nbsp;(of note, Elon Musk&nbsp;provided an email address for \"access codes\"):</p>\n<p>What fewer willrememberisthatthere’s indirect indication that he had been following the project earlier. If not, how would one explain the coincidence of him addressing Jackson Palmer, one of Dogecoin’s founders,back in Sept. 17, 2018? That’s nearly three years ago:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5b6a129d60fe7732aef70e46ab535284\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"192\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Moreover, this reference is strange, because Jackson Palmer wasn’t the technical lead on Dogecoin. Billy Marcus was. It was the modern equivalent of asking for technical help from Steve Jobs on a hardware issue, instead of asking it from Steve Wozniak. Jackson Palmer did help, though.</p>\n<p>Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin was thus more or less a constant at least since 2018, if not earlier. And it endured through the years, as constant references can be seen over and over. For instance,on March 3, 2020, he again said Dogecoin was the best cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>This, by itself, would already constitute a mystery. But a lot of other things make the mystery be denser. For instance, if Tesla has an interest in cryptocurrency, why get involved with an existing one instead of launching its own? Remember:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>We saw, exactly from Dogecoin’s launch, that it’s very easy to come up with a Dogecoin equivalent. It took Billy Marcus three hours to set it up.</li>\n <li>We know, from Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, that such a Teslacoin would gather instant recognition.</li>\n <li>We also know that it’s incredibly profitable to launch a cryptocurrency, especially if you pre-mine it (something the Dogecoin founders didn’t do). Tesla is known to take advantage of profitable opportunities - like the instance with battery changes and EV credits, or the instance with selling something it didn't have (Full Self-Driving) since October 2016. How can Tesla pass on the opportunity to mint billions of dollars out of thin air?</li>\n <li>The cryptocurrency space is&nbsp;worth $2.3 trillion in aggregate. Bitcoin is worth roughly 40% of that. Dogecoin has a near-$70 billion market cap. A Teslacoin would easily be larger than Dogecoin and could even compete with Bitcoin in time (since it would be technically better from a late launch while having massive community support).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>All in all, these considerations make it unlikely for Tesla to get involved with a cryptocurrency “built by others” like Dogecoin. It makes it doubly unlikely when this currency, just six months ago, had a mere $323 million market capitalization (it’s $68 billion right now, 210x higher). Especially when Tesla could replicate the entire thing in a matter of hours (for the technical side of it) and days (for the community and participation side of it). All while retaining control and enjoying massive rewards.</p>\n<p>Hence, there’s the mystery: Why go through the trouble of supporting Dogecoin (or Bitcoin, for that matter) when the alternative is so obviously better for Tesla and Elon Musk alike?</p>\n<p>Were Tesla to launch its own Teslacoin, and it's not farfetched to think it could have a $100 billion or more market cap. Were Tesla to pre-mine an amount similar to what Satoshi Nakamoto \"pre-mined\" on Bitcoin, and it could hold 5% of this. On $100 billion, that would be $5 billion made from pure air, and it could then also try to get a cut on transaction revenues, etc., by design. $5 billion is relevant, but much more relevant would be the hype around such an endeavor. Plus this is at a $100 billion market cap, but it could also be multiples of that.</p>\n<p><b>Adding To The Mystery</b></p>\n<p>Small tidbits emerge which add to the Dogecoin/Tesla mystery. For instance, back in that first public contact between Elon Musk and Jackson Palmer in Sept. 17, 2018, both were on friendly terms.</p>\n<p>Why is it then, that just a couple of days ago, Jackson Palmer emerged from a self-imposed seclusion exclusively to label Elon Musk&nbsp;a self-absorbed grifter? What happened in between Sept. 17, 2018, and yesterday, for Jackson Palmer’s opinion to change so drastically?</p>\n<p>This happened immediately after Elon Musk tweeted he was working with Dogecoin developers (independent from the founders) on Dogecoin transaction efficiency.</p>\n<p>So, was this just Jackson Palmer’s evaluation of Elon Musk’s public persona during this time, or did something happen backstage, between the two, that the public isn’t aware of?</p>\n<p><b>Final Notes</b></p>\n<p>Although the article speaks of something Tesla can take advantage of, and which would have a large positive impact on the stock price, I label itbearish.</p>\n<p>I label it bearish on valuation. Tesla trades as if will be the most profitable carmaker in the world. Indeed, it trades as if it will be as profitable as several of the largest carmakers in the world put together. This is unlikely to happen. Quite the contrary, competition in the EV space is only set to intensify. Taking advantage of cryptocurrency wouldn't change that enough.</p>\n<p>However, it's easy to see that no matter what the underlying value for Tesla might be (and there would be a lot of value), the stock would get pumped crazily. It's been pumped on robotaxis and other things that don't exist - it's not a surprise that it would be pumped on something Tesla can easily deliver...</p>\n<p>The mysteries do remain, though:</p>\n<ol>\n <li>We don't know why Tesla gave as a reason to dump Bitcoin its energy intensity when Elon already knew about this in 2019.</li>\n <li>We don't know about the extent of the involvement with Dogecoin, because Elon had contacts with one founder in 2018 before he ever talked about Dogecoin, and because they had an obvious falling out in the meantime which no one knows the reasonfor.</li>\n <li>It's also a mystery why Tesla doesn't simply launch its own cryptocurrency (which is an obvious thing to do).</li>\n</ol>\n<p><b>Addendum</b></p>\n<p>There are a couple more useful observations I want to make.</p>\n<p><b>Billy Marcus’ Opinion On Cryptocurrency</b></p>\n<p>Billy Marcus, one of Dogecoin's founders, strikes me as a very realistic and fair person. Hence, I'd like to reproduce his opinion on cryptocurrencies here:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8627a5e885b6de8fdd6063633d0f948\" tg-width=\"567\" tg-height=\"303\"><span>Dogecoin's Concentration</span></p>\n<p>Most opinions out there,including Elon Musk's, have Dogecoin as being extremely concentrated. However, I&nbsp;came across a study, linked to by Billy Marcus, which seems to dispel this notion a lot. It seems most of the top holders are basically exchange wallets (which aggregate the positions of many individual investors).</p>\n<p>This does mean that Dogecoin is sort of GameStop (GME) cryptocurrency equivalent, given the intense retail participation, especially through Robinhood. This also makes it likely Dogecoin will end the same way GameStop did.</p>\n<p><b>Elon Musk Catfished On Dogecoin</b></p>\n<p>This is just another interesting curiosity. It does show that the Dogecoin community has its share of greedy not-so-innocent actors.</p>\n<p>In a somewhat-unknown episode Musk fell victim to some such actors, through&nbsp;a catfishing effort. Obviously, the effort was to try and make Musk express himself about Dogecoin, so as to promote Dogecoin.</p>\n<p><b>Conclusion</b></p>\n<p>To me, it's a mystery why Tesla really stopped accepting Bitcoin (while continuing to hold it). The reason stated was already known by Musk before Tesla even bought Bitcoin. Elon Musk's involvement with Dogecoin also is a mystery, since it seems to backdate current events by a lot. Finally, it's a mystery why Tesla doesn't launch its own cryptocurrency instead of going around promoting other people's.</p>\n<p>Given Elon Musk’s interest in cryptocurrency space and the lack of any technical difficulty, I think it’s a natural step for Tesla to launch its own cryptocurrency. If this is done while the cryptocurrency fever lasts, it could serve as yet another way to drive the stock higher. Given Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, it wouldn’t be very surprising for adoption worldwide to be massive, and for it to generate significant gains for Tesla. The gains could run into the billions of dollars and be recurring, depending on how it’s structured and how long the cryptocurrency euphoria lasts.</p>\n<p>Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin, given the ease with which Tesla can replicate and outdo Dogecoin, is really strange.Therelikely are unseen connections to Dogecoin which haven’t come to public knowledge. This is something of an unknown unknown and a potential source of liability.</p>\n<p>I think over time, Dogecoin will suffer a massive crash (80-90%+), much like the rest of the cryptocurrency space. An exception to this would be for Tesla to, somehow, adopt Dogecoin as its own cryptocurrency. This would be very strange, since Tesla would be foregoing the extreme gains which would be available to it if, instead, it launched its own cryptocurrency. Tesla's cryptocurrency could very easily be technically much more advanced than Dogecoin.</p>\n<p>In short, cryptocurrencies are an opportunity for Tesla even if I disagree with their value. I think overall, cryptocurrencies are just a large pyramid with little practical use. However, it’s clear that Tesla can exploit this euphoria, can do it quickly, and can gain several, possibly many, billions of dollars from milking this irrational euphoria.</p>\n<p>The opportunity doesn’t lie in Tesla accepting existing cryptocurrencies, investing in existing cryptocurrencies or adopting Dogecoin. The opportunity lies in Tesla launching its own cryptocurrency (after pre-mining it a bit…). If this happens:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Tesla will make money out of thin air. $5 billion. $10 billion. It depends on how high the Teslacoin market cap goes, on how much Tesla pre-mines, and if the protocol includes a way for Tesla to get a slice of ongoing transactions using its cryptocurrency.</li>\n <li>Tesla stock will be hyped, possibly strongly. It's not hard to envision the stock market believing Tesla will dominate the cryptocurrency market. And the cryptocurrency market is presently a $2-$2.5 trillion market. It's not peanuts. 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In my view, the action so far is a mystery which will, in due time, reveal yet another hype angle for Tesla. That is a development which can be used to push the stock higher. In this case, the development might even actually create value for Tesla very rapidly.\nYou see, Elon Musk and Tesla have been on the news due to their involvement with cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Dogecoin (DOGE-USD).\nThe serious part of this involvement has been Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment into Bitcoin, while Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin seems more \"for fun.\" However, that too has been changing as of late, with Elon actually claiming to be working with Dogecoin developers to improve transaction efficiency - implyingserious interest in using the cryptocurrency seriously.\nBoth the involvement with Bitcoin and Dogecoin have created some strange mysteries, which I will explore in this article. Be prepared, this is going to be a very long article, though filled with rare findings.\nTesla Buys Bitcoin, Then Drops It\nIn Q1 2021, Tesla bought Bitcoin. The 2020 10-K was the first SEC filing acknowledging the acquisition, though Elon Musk tweeted about it earlier.\n\n In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity. As part of the policy, which was duly approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we may invest a portion of such cash in certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future. Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time orlongterm. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.\n\nAn interesting part of this risk disclosure goes as follows:\n\n Moreover, digital assets are currently considered indefinite-lived intangible assets under applicable accounting rules, meaning that any decrease in their fair values below our carrying values for such assets at any time subsequent to their acquisition will require us to recognize impairment charges, whereas we may make no upward revisions for any market price increases until a sale, which may adversely affect our operating results in any period in which such impairment occurs. Moreover, there is no guarantee that future changes in GAAP will not require us to change the way we account for digital assets held by us.\n\nThis means that if Bitcoin trades down below Tesla’s cost basis, Tesla will recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. However, if it trades up, Tesla cannot recognize the unrealized gain. It can only recognize a gain when it sells, which it partially did during Q1 2021, leading to such realized gain.\nIn its most recent 10-Q, Tesla clarified when it would recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. The criteria is very strict, impossibly strict – Tesla will use the lowest market price since acquiring Bitcoin to assume an impairment on the position (italics emphasis is mine):\n\n We determine the fair value of our bitcoin on a nonrecurring basis in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, based on quoted prices on the activeexchange(s)thatwe have determined is its principal market for bitcoin (Level 1 inputs). We perform an analysis each quarter to identify whether events or changes in circumstances, principally decreases in the quoted prices on active exchanges, indicate that it is more likely than not that our digital assets are impaired.\n In determining if an impairment has occurred, we consider the lowest market price of one bitcoin quoted on the active exchange since acquiring the bitcoin. If the then current carrying value of a digital asset exceeds the fair value so determined, an impairment loss has occurred with respect to those digital assets in the amount equal to the difference between their carrying values and the price determined.\n\nIndeed, while Tesla realized a $128 million gain from selling Bitcoin during Q1 2021, it also recorded a $27 millionimpairment. That is, Bitcoin must have, very temporarily, traded below Tesla’s cost basis. This led to an impairment even as Tesla’s fair market value for the Bitcoin it still holds then stood at $2.48 billion.\n\n Note 3 – Digital Assets, NetDuring the three months ended March 31, 2021, we purchased and received $1.50 billion of Bitcoin. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, we recorded $27 million of impairment losses on bitcoin. We also realized gains of $128 million through sales during the three months ended March 31, 2021. Such gains are presented net of impairment losses in Restructuring and other in the consolidated statement of operations. As of March 31, 2021, the carrying value of our Bitcoin held was $1.33 billion, which reflects cumulative impairments of $27 million. The fair market value of bitcoin held as of March 31, 2021,was$2.48 billion.\n\nA Matter Of Curiosity - Tesla's Bitcoin Cost Basis\nBased on the available data, we can try to guess Tesla’s cost basis, as well as the price it sold Bitcoin at. Consider the following:\n\nTesla acquired $1.5 billion in Bitcoin.\nTesla impaired this acquisition by $0.027 billion.\nTesla had $1.33 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ (End Of Quarter), on a cost basis.\nThus, Tesla had $1.357 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ, on a cost basis + the impairment.\nSo, Tesla sold $0.143 billion in bitcoin ($1.5 billion at inception - $1.357 billion held at EOQ if we exclude theimpairment).\nTesla sold these $0.143 billion in bitcoin at a gain of $0.128 billion. So, it sold that bitcoin amount for $0.271 billion, an 89.5% gain.\nTesla’s EOQ Bitcoin at market value was $2.48 billion.\nAnd Bitcoin stood at ~$58,874 at EOQ (this is not exact, so it will introduce some error).\n\nSo:\n\nTesla’s cost basis per Bitcoin is the (bitcoin+impairment on a cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ. That’s $1.357/$2.48 * $58,874 = $32,214 (there will be a bit of error due to the Bitcoin price considered for EOQ).\nTesla’s current (impaired) cost basis per bitcoin is (bitcoin at cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ = $31,574.\nTesla sold bitcoin at an 89.5% gain over the original cost basis, so it sold around $32,214 * 1.895 = $61,050.\n\nAnyway, this is mostly a curiosity.\nThe First Mystery\nFast forward to two days ago, and Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin in payment but didn’t sell its existing Bitcoin hoard, as tweeted by Elon Musk:\n\nAs we can immediately understand, the environmental excuse given was already widely known well before Tesla even started accepting Bitcoin. For instance, I already had written about it in my Bitcoin Series (which I highly recommend reading in its entirety), both a long time ago (four years ago, \"Bitcoin Series #4 - The Bitcoin Arms Race\"), and in more detail recently (\"Bitcoin Series #8 - Bitcoin Is Not The Future\"). So had many others, even earlier.\nThe excuse for dropping Bitcoin acceptance is thus something of a mystery. It is so for several reasons, namely...\nBecause (Bitcoin Only) Moving To Sustainable Energy Is Nearly Impossible\nThe Tesla claim regarding a transition to more sustainable energy is a red herring. Why? Because electricity is fungible. Even a company contracting power exclusively from renewable sources (as isen vogue) isn’t really just using renewable sources. The company only makes the rest of electricity usage have a dirtier mix, because of not having access to those renewable sources the company is contracting away.\nThe only time this isn’t false is when renewables are injecting so much energy into the grid (due to wind, solar, and little electricity demand) that electricity prices go negative. At that point, it can be said that there’s excess electricity in the grid, and any taker isn’t making it dirtier. But crypto mining isn’t an intermittent activity, while these events are reasonably rare and intermittent.\nThis idea has been put forth in some misleading ways. For instance, there’s been some widespread quoting of a study stating 76% of mining operators “use renewable energysources.” However, to qualify as “using renewable sources” just takes some renewable energy being present in the electricity generation mix. Of course, nearly all electricity pools have some renewable sources, so nearly everyone can claim to use some renewable energy. That 24% couldn’t claim any use of renewable energy is more of a surprise.\nThe same study does say that 39% of energy consumed comes from renewable sources, which is a more relevant statistic. But this statistic also suffers from the same problem I described before:Electricityis fungible. Unless the electricity is being wasted or generation was built on purpose to mine cryptocurrencies, then mining is displacing other uses and thus making other uses dirtier, which is the same as being dirty itself. Finally, I could also nitpick and say that even building renewable energy sources consumes energy and creates CO2, but that would be going too far.\nIt was not a coincidence that the closure of a single huge coal mine in China temporarily wiped out one-third of all Bitcoin mining. And of course, that’s not the only coal-powered generation being used to mine Bitcoin. That alone ought to be enough for people to question any number looking like \"76%renewables.\"\nAlso, saying that fueling EVs or launching rockets consumes energy and creates CO2 is another red herring (this one lobbied at Elon Musk for dropping Bitcoin). This is so because these are useful activities. It’s like breathing, it creates CO2 but no one is going to criticize that since it’s useful (unlike nearly all cryptocurrency activity).\nA final misconception is that banking consumes a lot of energy itself. Or gold mining. A direct comparison is often made, which makes no sense. The only viable comparison is comparing the energy use of a single transaction. It’s in that regard that Bitcoin is now up to 1.18 million times less efficient than something like the Visa network. Per transaction.\nSource:Digiconomist.net\nMind you, that’s for each Bitcoin transaction, and nearly all those transactions are speculative in nature – not useful.\nBecause a 100x or 1000x improvement wouldn't change things.\nThere's also a claim about moving to a more efficient cryptocurrency. The problem here is: Improvingon Bitcoin by 100x or 1000x (lower than 1%, as stated per Elon) would still fall far from solving the problem. It would just make the resulting cryptocurrency be 1,000x to 10,000x worse than the VISA network(instead of 1,000,000x worse).\nI must, however, say that there are a couple of cryptocurrencies which might be efficient enough to rival with the VISA network, though I didn’t go over the implications for their security and thus won’t name them. These cryptocurrencies don't include Dogecoin (and the current Dogecoin power consumption will increase aggressively to follow the market capitalization).\nAnyway, Musk is right in recognizing the Bitcoin impact and stopping its use. However, just holding Bitcoin is, arguably, contributing to this state of affairs. And Tesla continued to hold its Bitcoin.\nElon Musk is a bit wrong in saying that a transitiontowardmore sustainable energy sources would solve the problem, though, for the reasons stated – unless the entire world transitioned to such sources, Bitcoin would still be making the world much dirtier than it would otherwise be. He’s also wrong in thinking that improving things by 100x (or 1000x) would be enough to come close to solving the underlying problem.\nThus, these claims to stop accepting Bitcoin are somewhat mysterious.\nBut The Real Mystery Is ...\nThe main problemis -Musk knew already! So why did Tesla buy Bitcoin and started accepting it? And after buying, why did it stop accepting it? It couldn't have been Bitcoin's energy intensity ... Because Elon Musk knew, and commented on, Bitcoin’s energy intensity as far back as February 2019.\nHence, the reason stated for dropping Bitcoin isn’t likely to be the true reason. And neither was there much concern about this energy intensity when adopting Bitcoin. So, there’s likely a hidden motive both for dropping usage. Here's what Elon Musk had to say on Bitcoin back in February 2019 (bold highlight is mine):\n\n One of the downsides of crypto is that, computationally, it's quite energy intensive. So there have to be some kind of constraints on the creation of crypto.\n But it's very energy intensive to create the incremental Bitcoin at this point.\n\nSource:ARKInvest Podcast with Elon Musk\nThus, if the reasons stated for dropping Bitcoin are invalid, it becomes genuinely valid to wonder what the real reasons might be. Those are a mystery.\nWhy Dogecoin?\nFirst, what is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency started by Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus as something of a meme joke on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.\nThe Dogecoin was Jackson Palmer’s idea (who also acquired the Dogecoin.com domain, and created Dogecoin’s overall image and marketing), and the coding was done by Billy Marcus.\nDogecoin is a source code fork of Luckycoin, which was a source code fork of Junkcoin, which was a source code fork of Litecoin, which was a source code fork of Bitcoin.\nBeing a “source code fork” (or codebase fork, or just codebase copy) means developers copied the original code, changed some parameters or sometimes functionality, and then reset the blockchain starting from block 0. Since Luckycoin was open-source software, Billy Marcus took that code, altered some parameters and name fields and UI elements, and Doge was created.\nAccording to Billy Marcus, the whole work took around three hours, though Billy Marcus had prior experience in creating another Bitcoin source fork cryptocurrency (Bells):\n\n It took about three hours to make, with the bulk of that time making alterations to the client to make the text Comic Sans and some custom graphics and wording for different pieces of the UI.\n\nThere were several large changes to the Bitcoin/Litecoin origins:\n\nTarget block time was reduced to 60 seconds, meaning transactions are committed faster (10x faster than Bitcoin, whose block target time is 10 minutes). Still, this is far from where it should be for instant transaction commits.\nSupply was uncapped. Though there was a cap initially set at 100 billion Dogecoins, a change removed the cap. This means Dogecoin is an “inflationary” cryptocurrency. The block reward is now set at 10,000 Dogecoin and will stay there forever (unless the protocol is again changed). As supply expands, though, a fixed block reward means the growth rate slowly declines.\nDogecoin adopted the Litecoin POW (Proof Of Work) algorithm, Scrypt, which is much more memory intensive than SHA256 and less prone to be mined with ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) as a result (at least not the same ASICs as Bitcoin).\nDogecoin adopted merged mining with other scrypt-based cryptocurrencies, mainly Litecoin. This allowed Dogecoin to be secured by work performed to mine another cryptocurrency at a time when its network’s hashrate was low and risked becoming unsafe.\nDogecoin adopted a 1 Dogecoin per Kb fixed transaction fee, making it cheaper to transact on the Dogecoin network. 10x more frequent blocks and a similar maximum block size (1 Mb) also means it’s much cheaper to commit transactions on Doge.\n\nAlthough Dogecoin took some compromises so as to provide higher transaction efficiency and speed, in practice these compromises are creating technical problems (this is interesting because recent Elon Muskproposals- like reducing block times - would make said problems more relevant still). As it is, the very quick block generation time is leading to most nodes not getting a synchronized blockchain, and thus making transaction confirmations slower and potentially less safe. Anyway, Dogecoin development is now showered with money and things might improve.\nA curiosity, the Dogecoin network is even more reliant on block rewards compared to fees than the Bitcoin network.\n\nAt $0.50/Dogecoin, with 10,000 Dogecoins awarded per minute, this generates $7.2 million in block rewards per day or $2.63 billion per year. The estimated fees per day are just $40,000, thus representing only $14.6 million per year or 0.56% of the value of the block rewards.\nThe Bitcoin network generates 144 blocks per day, and each rewards 6.25 Bitcoins. At $50,000/Bitcoin, this translates to $45 million per day or $16.43 billion per year. As for transaction fees, it generates an estimated $7.05 million per day or $2.57 billion per year. Transaction fees thus represent 15.7% of the value of the block rewards.\n\nThis might lose some significance in the sense that Dogecoin is inflationary and the block rewards will keep on being generated at the current pace forever.\nAnother interesting fact about Dogecoin is that Dogecoin, launched as a joke on the proliferation of all kinds of altcoins, wasn’t pre-mined. That is, the founders didn’t try to take a large financial advantage of their own creation.\nAlso, over time the founders didn’t accumulate significant amounts of Dogecoin. And at least Billy Marcus famously sold all his Dogecoin (plus other cryptocurrencies) to buy a used Honda Civic. In short, the Dogecoin founders didn’t have a large economic interest in Dogecoin, and both left the project rather early.\nHowever, while the Dogecoin community is painted as fun and uninterested on the “get rich quick” side of things that’s prevalent in cryptocurrencies, there’s evidence to the contrary.\nNowhere is that evidence clearer than in the way Dogecoin’s development froze in time once the initial enthusiasm died down. And sure enough, you can expect said development to wake up again now that Dogecoin is worth tens of billions of dollars (below, Github statistics).\n\nWhen Did Elon Start Being Involved With Dogecoin?\nFor many, it might seem like Elon Musk’s involvement with Bitcoin is something very recent. Charts like this, along with recent participation on the Dogecoin mania, make it seem so:\nSource:Galaxy Digital Research,Cryptowat.ch\nYet, Elon Musk has actually been tweeting on Dogecoin for a very long time. Some might remember him being \"elected Dogecoin’s CEO” as far back as April 2, 2019 (of note, Elon Musk provided an email address for \"access codes\"):\nWhat fewer willrememberisthatthere’s indirect indication that he had been following the project earlier. If not, how would one explain the coincidence of him addressing Jackson Palmer, one of Dogecoin’s founders,back in Sept. 17, 2018? That’s nearly three years ago:\n\nMoreover, this reference is strange, because Jackson Palmer wasn’t the technical lead on Dogecoin. Billy Marcus was. It was the modern equivalent of asking for technical help from Steve Jobs on a hardware issue, instead of asking it from Steve Wozniak. Jackson Palmer did help, though.\nElon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin was thus more or less a constant at least since 2018, if not earlier. And it endured through the years, as constant references can be seen over and over. For instance,on March 3, 2020, he again said Dogecoin was the best cryptocurrency.\nThis, by itself, would already constitute a mystery. But a lot of other things make the mystery be denser. For instance, if Tesla has an interest in cryptocurrency, why get involved with an existing one instead of launching its own? Remember:\n\nWe saw, exactly from Dogecoin’s launch, that it’s very easy to come up with a Dogecoin equivalent. It took Billy Marcus three hours to set it up.\nWe know, from Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, that such a Teslacoin would gather instant recognition.\nWe also know that it’s incredibly profitable to launch a cryptocurrency, especially if you pre-mine it (something the Dogecoin founders didn’t do). Tesla is known to take advantage of profitable opportunities - like the instance with battery changes and EV credits, or the instance with selling something it didn't have (Full Self-Driving) since October 2016. How can Tesla pass on the opportunity to mint billions of dollars out of thin air?\nThe cryptocurrency space is worth $2.3 trillion in aggregate. Bitcoin is worth roughly 40% of that. Dogecoin has a near-$70 billion market cap. A Teslacoin would easily be larger than Dogecoin and could even compete with Bitcoin in time (since it would be technically better from a late launch while having massive community support).\n\nAll in all, these considerations make it unlikely for Tesla to get involved with a cryptocurrency “built by others” like Dogecoin. It makes it doubly unlikely when this currency, just six months ago, had a mere $323 million market capitalization (it’s $68 billion right now, 210x higher). Especially when Tesla could replicate the entire thing in a matter of hours (for the technical side of it) and days (for the community and participation side of it). All while retaining control and enjoying massive rewards.\nHence, there’s the mystery: Why go through the trouble of supporting Dogecoin (or Bitcoin, for that matter) when the alternative is so obviously better for Tesla and Elon Musk alike?\nWere Tesla to launch its own Teslacoin, and it's not farfetched to think it could have a $100 billion or more market cap. Were Tesla to pre-mine an amount similar to what Satoshi Nakamoto \"pre-mined\" on Bitcoin, and it could hold 5% of this. On $100 billion, that would be $5 billion made from pure air, and it could then also try to get a cut on transaction revenues, etc., by design. $5 billion is relevant, but much more relevant would be the hype around such an endeavor. Plus this is at a $100 billion market cap, but it could also be multiples of that.\nAdding To The Mystery\nSmall tidbits emerge which add to the Dogecoin/Tesla mystery. For instance, back in that first public contact between Elon Musk and Jackson Palmer in Sept. 17, 2018, both were on friendly terms.\nWhy is it then, that just a couple of days ago, Jackson Palmer emerged from a self-imposed seclusion exclusively to label Elon Musk a self-absorbed grifter? What happened in between Sept. 17, 2018, and yesterday, for Jackson Palmer’s opinion to change so drastically?\nThis happened immediately after Elon Musk tweeted he was working with Dogecoin developers (independent from the founders) on Dogecoin transaction efficiency.\nSo, was this just Jackson Palmer’s evaluation of Elon Musk’s public persona during this time, or did something happen backstage, between the two, that the public isn’t aware of?\nFinal Notes\nAlthough the article speaks of something Tesla can take advantage of, and which would have a large positive impact on the stock price, I label itbearish.\nI label it bearish on valuation. Tesla trades as if will be the most profitable carmaker in the world. Indeed, it trades as if it will be as profitable as several of the largest carmakers in the world put together. This is unlikely to happen. Quite the contrary, competition in the EV space is only set to intensify. Taking advantage of cryptocurrency wouldn't change that enough.\nHowever, it's easy to see that no matter what the underlying value for Tesla might be (and there would be a lot of value), the stock would get pumped crazily. It's been pumped on robotaxis and other things that don't exist - it's not a surprise that it would be pumped on something Tesla can easily deliver...\nThe mysteries do remain, though:\n\nWe don't know why Tesla gave as a reason to dump Bitcoin its energy intensity when Elon already knew about this in 2019.\nWe don't know about the extent of the involvement with Dogecoin, because Elon had contacts with one founder in 2018 before he ever talked about Dogecoin, and because they had an obvious falling out in the meantime which no one knows the reasonfor.\nIt's also a mystery why Tesla doesn't simply launch its own cryptocurrency (which is an obvious thing to do).\n\nAddendum\nThere are a couple more useful observations I want to make.\nBilly Marcus’ Opinion On Cryptocurrency\nBilly Marcus, one of Dogecoin's founders, strikes me as a very realistic and fair person. Hence, I'd like to reproduce his opinion on cryptocurrencies here:\nDogecoin's Concentration\nMost opinions out there,including Elon Musk's, have Dogecoin as being extremely concentrated. However, I came across a study, linked to by Billy Marcus, which seems to dispel this notion a lot. It seems most of the top holders are basically exchange wallets (which aggregate the positions of many individual investors).\nThis does mean that Dogecoin is sort of GameStop (GME) cryptocurrency equivalent, given the intense retail participation, especially through Robinhood. This also makes it likely Dogecoin will end the same way GameStop did.\nElon Musk Catfished On Dogecoin\nThis is just another interesting curiosity. It does show that the Dogecoin community has its share of greedy not-so-innocent actors.\nIn a somewhat-unknown episode Musk fell victim to some such actors, through a catfishing effort. Obviously, the effort was to try and make Musk express himself about Dogecoin, so as to promote Dogecoin.\nConclusion\nTo me, it's a mystery why Tesla really stopped accepting Bitcoin (while continuing to hold it). The reason stated was already known by Musk before Tesla even bought Bitcoin. Elon Musk's involvement with Dogecoin also is a mystery, since it seems to backdate current events by a lot. Finally, it's a mystery why Tesla doesn't launch its own cryptocurrency instead of going around promoting other people's.\nGiven Elon Musk’s interest in cryptocurrency space and the lack of any technical difficulty, I think it’s a natural step for Tesla to launch its own cryptocurrency. If this is done while the cryptocurrency fever lasts, it could serve as yet another way to drive the stock higher. Given Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, it wouldn’t be very surprising for adoption worldwide to be massive, and for it to generate significant gains for Tesla. The gains could run into the billions of dollars and be recurring, depending on how it’s structured and how long the cryptocurrency euphoria lasts.\nElon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin, given the ease with which Tesla can replicate and outdo Dogecoin, is really strange.Therelikely are unseen connections to Dogecoin which haven’t come to public knowledge. This is something of an unknown unknown and a potential source of liability.\nI think over time, Dogecoin will suffer a massive crash (80-90%+), much like the rest of the cryptocurrency space. An exception to this would be for Tesla to, somehow, adopt Dogecoin as its own cryptocurrency. This would be very strange, since Tesla would be foregoing the extreme gains which would be available to it if, instead, it launched its own cryptocurrency. Tesla's cryptocurrency could very easily be technically much more advanced than Dogecoin.\nIn short, cryptocurrencies are an opportunity for Tesla even if I disagree with their value. I think overall, cryptocurrencies are just a large pyramid with little practical use. However, it’s clear that Tesla can exploit this euphoria, can do it quickly, and can gain several, possibly many, billions of dollars from milking this irrational euphoria.\nThe opportunity doesn’t lie in Tesla accepting existing cryptocurrencies, investing in existing cryptocurrencies or adopting Dogecoin. The opportunity lies in Tesla launching its own cryptocurrency (after pre-mining it a bit…). If this happens:\n\nTesla will make money out of thin air. $5 billion. $10 billion. It depends on how high the Teslacoin market cap goes, on how much Tesla pre-mines, and if the protocol includes a way for Tesla to get a slice of ongoing transactions using its cryptocurrency.\nTesla stock will be hyped, possibly strongly. It's not hard to envision the stock market believing Tesla will dominate the cryptocurrency market. And the cryptocurrency market is presently a $2-$2.5 trillion market. It's not peanuts. 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It's easy to become a Seeking Alpha contributor and earn money for your best investment ideas. Active contributors also get free access to SA Premium.</p><p><b>Overview</b></p><p>Telos (TLS) is a cybersecurity play, which has exposure on both sides of the market, government and commercial. With the last two big cyberattacks which involved U.S. companies, namely the SolarWinds attack and Colonial Pipeline attack, we can clearly see how cybersecurity will be one of the future big trends that, if taken at the right time, offers big opportunity with big gains.</p><p>Telos stock has rallied 42.67% since the IPO in 2020, outperforming the 15.3% rise in the S&amp;P 500 over the same time period.</p><p>I believe that the 25% correction in Telos stock from its 52-Week high offers a good opportunity to take a position in this cybersecurity company.</p><p><b>Long Term: Sector Outlook Overview</b></p><p>The pandemic made the digitalization process accelerate at a very fast pace and, if from one side the digitalization process brings a lot of benefits, it also brings big risks with it, namely the cyber-risk. In 2020 many companies were \"forced\" to become more digital and for time-constraints reasons everything was done without taking into account possible mistakes along the road. These mistakes, however, didn't pass unnoticed.</p><p>The cyber-attacks in 2020 increased at the same pace as the digitalization transformation, especially malware and ransomware type of attacks. But why should we worry about cyber risk? A cyber-attack could lead to business interruption events: for instance, the last one involved the Colonial Pipeline, which represent not only a monetary cost for the company (whichincreased by 72%in the last 5 years) but also a reputational one.</p><p>Thelatest reportpublished by Allianz (the Allianz Risk Barometer report 2021) has found that the most important global and business risks for 2021 are: business interruption (top 1), pandemic outbreak (top 2), and cyber incidents (top 3). If we consider the business interruption as a consequence of a cyber-attack, we can clearly visualize how the cyber threat is the most important risk for businesses, not only in 2021 but especially in the years to come.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a6e3117e4d5051a7e658c17f734e107e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"586\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Agcs.allianz.com</span></p><p>Among different kinds of cyber-attacks, malware and ransomware are those which are spreading faster than others. Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third, (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is an example of ransomware attack). Once hit by such attacks, companies tend to pay what a ransom attacker demand; however, this is only the direct cost associated with the attack and we should not forget about all the indirect costs associated with it, which are much bigger.</p><p>Emsisoft, a company specialized in anti-malware solutions, estimated that in 2020 the ransom demand (i.e. the direct cost) representedonly 6%of the total cost in which companies incurred to deal with the cyber-attack. Finally, we must take into account that companies' willingness to pay attackers increases the number and the complexity of cyber-attacks.</p><p>In thelatest research(the Market Research Report - 2021), conducted by Fortune Business Insights, the global cyber security market size for 2020 is estimated to be around $153.16 billion and it is expected to be worth $366.10 billion in 2028 (CAGR of 12%). However, I believe that the market can be much bigger, driven by the fact that cybersecurity will become a critical element, especially in a world in which everything tends to be digital. Nonetheless, as stated by the company, Telos sees a total addressable market at$80 billion.</p><p><b>Company Products Overview</b></p><p>Telos is a cybersecurity company that offers software-based security solutions to U.S. federal government (e.g., Department of Defence, Central Intelligence Agency, etc.) and enterprises (e.g., Amazon (AMZN), Citigroup (CITI), Microsoft(MSFT), etc.). The company was founded in 1969 and its mission is to focus on the needs of its customers. In fact, Telos puts always customer needs at first place, which means offering solutions or improvements required by its clients. Telos's ability to be a customer-centric organization can be clearly seen through the numbers, since 85% of Telos revenues are recurring (and approximately 50% of total revenue comes from segments with no or limited competition).</p><p>The company offers different solution, among others:</p><ol><li><b>Telos Xacta:</b>is a solution that embodies two main functions: first, to continuously manage the cyber risk (security assessment for instance); and second, to help organizations manage security compliance. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0c4d0337daeb5f6d1476c5006b87b257\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"287\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Telos.comThe product is very appreciated by its customer since it is used not only by the U.S. federal government, but also by big clouds providers, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.</span></p></li><li><b>Telos Ghost:</b>is a solution that we could see as VPN 2.0, summarized by the company as:<i>\"you can't exploit what you can't see\".</i>Nowadays, more and more people are using VPN to try to protect themselves against possible threats or just because they want to remain anonymous in the Internet. However, this is not enough, especially if you are a manager of a big company and you exchange business critical information with others. This is where Telos Ghost comes in your help: it creates a fully secured network, where all the data are encrypted, user information (e.g., location and identity) are hidden, and the company's network is protected against any possible cyber threat. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:Source:<i>Telos.com</i></li><li><b>Telos ID:</b>is an identity management solution, which uses technologies, such as fuse biometrics, credentials, etc., to make sure that only specific persons can have access to sensitive information. It is a dominant solution among U.S. federal agencies, but it is also gaining popularity among enterprises.</li></ol><p><b>Discounted Cash Flow Model</b></p><p>Let's now perform a DCF analysis. Fundamentally, the company has big opportunities to offer, even if not fully yet. Let's start by looking at the cost structure.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ec0b4e8cab77dfeca9a4ebca5df711f2\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"345\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>From the figure above we can clearly see how services represent the biggest portion of costs, namely 91% for the last year (versus 5 year average of 87%), and are those responsible for keeping the operating margins relatively low. On the other side, as we can imagine, the biggest portion of revenues comes from services, namely 89.6%.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/98cdbc7405967c885a87824acff198e0\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"341\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>In particular, it is worth noting the changing growth trajectory which started in 2017 as a direct response to new business goals definition. In 2017, Telos started to invest into new products and solutions to expand its addressable market. These revenues growth dynamics are expected to keep increasing in line with its accelerating partnership programs and the strong brand name that company has in the industry.</p><p>Before starting doing any projection, I retrieved 5 years of historical data to better understand how the company works. I present below the historical data and the projections I made for the years to come:</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d814ffc0af7d3802cda7521d9b7321a2\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"427\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>At first sight, numbers don’t seem to be that promising, but we should not jump at that conclusion too fast and we should instead think out of the box. Until 2017, Telos used to work more with the government, but since 2018 its strategy has changed. In fact, as stated by the company, Telos is now focusing on leveraging its security solutions by expanding their presence in commercial markets; they do this by developing new solutions and strengthening the current ones.</p><p>In particular, the company is focusing on improving its margins and revenues by expanding its partner program to speed up the scaling in the commercial and international markets. In fact, this is what they are doing: as right now, both Telos Ghost and Xacta are available through various AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplace. Now, in light of this, and considering also the willingness of president Joe Biden to put more efforts and money into cybersecurity projects, I allow the company to grow at a CAGR of 33% in the years 2 to 5 and then I steadily decrease the growth rate to 1.58% in year 10. Why 33%? Well, it's purely subjective. I look at the company revenue growth in recent years, the company revenues relative to the overall market size and to larger players in the sector.</p><p>Now, for what concern margins, I believe that they can be improved, so I increase them to what I consider reasonable levels given the company business: 52% (versus current 34.69%) for the gross margin and 19.5% (versus current 0.69%) for the operating margin. To determine the company target margins, I look at the industry averages: for instance, the U.S. industry average margins are 23.30% and the global ones 19.31%.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/433b6939a7b8156a6b622f453033f8bf\" tg-width=\"589\" tg-height=\"184\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/</span></p><p>A number that is worth to be noted is the sales to capital ratio (i.e. growth efficiency), which tells us how much we must reinvest to keep our business growing; the higher this number the more efficiently the company is growing. In doing my projections, I decrease this number to 0.95 in year 10 (i.e. industry average).</p><p>Finally, let's look at the market inputs we need to use in the discounted cash flow model.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8935dcbda0d8246faca532f5e8c18cf8\" tg-width=\"622\" tg-height=\"157\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>The implied equity risk premium was computed following the country of incorporation approach, in this case looking only at the U.S. market. The implied equity risk premium at the time of the computation was of 4.02%, well below the historical 3 years median of 5.68%.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33334f3b9b8fc28838136eef10d07e92\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"393\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/</span></p><p>The cost of capital computations are displayed in the figure below:</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/be84b5939fcc6c091f8ad8b44872560e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"84\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>Now, taking all the projections and discounting the cash flows, I obtain a value per share of $37.15 (19% potential upside); alternatively, if you prefer pricing the company instead of discounting the future cash flows, I come up with a value of $52.8 (70% potential upside). The pricing value is obtained by taking the expected EPS in 2025 of 1.76 and multiplying it for a P/E of 30. The P/E of 30 is obtained by looking at the current Palantir (PLTR) P/E value of 125 and bringing it down to what I believe is a more reasonable value.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c2f928594eb8d7e4f3427fbf22ba1533\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"440\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p><b>Catalysts</b></p><p>At this point, you may be asking yourself: What kind of catalysts may make the value converge to the “fair” price? I would like to underline some possible catalysts, which are sector and company related.</p><ul><li>The first big catalyst I see comes from the companies themselves. By understanding the fact that the cyber threat is a real danger, which harms the business not only economically but also reputationally, businesses will be willing to do everything is in their power to protect themselves against such risks. Thus, they will invest heavily in cyberdefense.</li><li>The second catalyst comes from the digital transformation we are living now, which will be even bigger in years to come. As we know, technology is bad and good at the same time, where the former comes from cyber-attacks.</li><li>The third catalyst comes from the governments increasing spending in cybersecurity related projects, which is driven by two reasons: the willingness to protect critical information and the willingness to become leaders in the field.<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21cad07a429fd8674ad8cfab24a091b6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"498\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Belfercenter.org</span></p></li></ul><p><b>Technical Analysis</b></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5eb1ef868b278a8c94a56a2ddb177563\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"303\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:TradingView.com</span></p><p>For what concerns technical analysis, the formation I see is a “Flags, High and Tigh” with the odds in the stock’s favor. Let me explain why. First, this kind of formation is the one which I mostly love, since it offers the best performance: the average rise after the breakout is of 69% in a bull market and of 40% in a bear market; as right now, we are in a bull market according to the economic business cycle indicators. Then, if we look at the volume, we can see a falling volume structure, which makes the breakout performance even stronger (71% vs 52% for rising volume trend) and, given the current price levels, I see a risk-reward ratio of 2.9 over a period of 6 months to 1 year.</p><p><b>Final Thoughts</b></p><p>The digitalization process brings many benefits with it, but it also brings many risks. In a world in which enterprises are becoming more and more digital, cybersecurity represents a key piece to complete the puzzle. Not many have understood it yet, but when they will do, the trend will be already running at a fast pace and joining the train will offer a much lower risk-reward ratio.</p><p>Even if Telos is not a newly founded company, it knows well the industry in which it operates and it is highly adaptable at the evolving environment. Going forward, the key metric to look at is its ability to expand in the commercial market, both domestic and international.</p><p>Currently, it shows buying signals on both the fundamental and technical side and this should be taken into account. Especially for short-term investors (i.e. investors with a time horizon less than 1 year), I see an opportunity to get a return in the range of 40-60% over the next 6 to 12 months.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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>A Big Opportunity In A Big Market</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\">\nA Big Opportunity In A Big Market\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-14 11:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4428510-telos-a-big-opportunity-in-a-big-market><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe global cybersecurity market is valued at $153.16 billion in 2020 and it is expected to be valued at $366.10 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 12%.Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4428510-telos-a-big-opportunity-in-a-big-market\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TLS":"Telos Corporation"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4428510-telos-a-big-opportunity-in-a-big-market","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1129126046","content_text":"SummaryThe global cybersecurity market is valued at $153.16 billion in 2020 and it is expected to be valued at $366.10 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 12%.Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is the latest example of a ransomware attack).The estimated intrinsic value for the company is $37.15 (19% potential upside), while the pricing value is $52.8 (70% potential upside).Editor's note: Seeking Alpha is proud to welcome Deniel Selivanov as a new contributor. It's easy to become a Seeking Alpha contributor and earn money for your best investment ideas. Active contributors also get free access to SA Premium.OverviewTelos (TLS) is a cybersecurity play, which has exposure on both sides of the market, government and commercial. With the last two big cyberattacks which involved U.S. companies, namely the SolarWinds attack and Colonial Pipeline attack, we can clearly see how cybersecurity will be one of the future big trends that, if taken at the right time, offers big opportunity with big gains.Telos stock has rallied 42.67% since the IPO in 2020, outperforming the 15.3% rise in the S&P 500 over the same time period.I believe that the 25% correction in Telos stock from its 52-Week high offers a good opportunity to take a position in this cybersecurity company.Long Term: Sector Outlook OverviewThe pandemic made the digitalization process accelerate at a very fast pace and, if from one side the digitalization process brings a lot of benefits, it also brings big risks with it, namely the cyber-risk. In 2020 many companies were \"forced\" to become more digital and for time-constraints reasons everything was done without taking into account possible mistakes along the road. These mistakes, however, didn't pass unnoticed.The cyber-attacks in 2020 increased at the same pace as the digitalization transformation, especially malware and ransomware type of attacks. But why should we worry about cyber risk? A cyber-attack could lead to business interruption events: for instance, the last one involved the Colonial Pipeline, which represent not only a monetary cost for the company (whichincreased by 72%in the last 5 years) but also a reputational one.Thelatest reportpublished by Allianz (the Allianz Risk Barometer report 2021) has found that the most important global and business risks for 2021 are: business interruption (top 1), pandemic outbreak (top 2), and cyber incidents (top 3). If we consider the business interruption as a consequence of a cyber-attack, we can clearly visualize how the cyber threat is the most important risk for businesses, not only in 2021 but especially in the years to come.Source:Agcs.allianz.comAmong different kinds of cyber-attacks, malware and ransomware are those which are spreading faster than others. Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third, (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is an example of ransomware attack). Once hit by such attacks, companies tend to pay what a ransom attacker demand; however, this is only the direct cost associated with the attack and we should not forget about all the indirect costs associated with it, which are much bigger.Emsisoft, a company specialized in anti-malware solutions, estimated that in 2020 the ransom demand (i.e. the direct cost) representedonly 6%of the total cost in which companies incurred to deal with the cyber-attack. Finally, we must take into account that companies' willingness to pay attackers increases the number and the complexity of cyber-attacks.In thelatest research(the Market Research Report - 2021), conducted by Fortune Business Insights, the global cyber security market size for 2020 is estimated to be around $153.16 billion and it is expected to be worth $366.10 billion in 2028 (CAGR of 12%). However, I believe that the market can be much bigger, driven by the fact that cybersecurity will become a critical element, especially in a world in which everything tends to be digital. Nonetheless, as stated by the company, Telos sees a total addressable market at$80 billion.Company Products OverviewTelos is a cybersecurity company that offers software-based security solutions to U.S. federal government (e.g., Department of Defence, Central Intelligence Agency, etc.) and enterprises (e.g., Amazon (AMZN), Citigroup (CITI), Microsoft(MSFT), etc.). The company was founded in 1969 and its mission is to focus on the needs of its customers. In fact, Telos puts always customer needs at first place, which means offering solutions or improvements required by its clients. Telos's ability to be a customer-centric organization can be clearly seen through the numbers, since 85% of Telos revenues are recurring (and approximately 50% of total revenue comes from segments with no or limited competition).The company offers different solution, among others:Telos Xacta:is a solution that embodies two main functions: first, to continuously manage the cyber risk (security assessment for instance); and second, to help organizations manage security compliance. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:Source:Telos.comThe product is very appreciated by its customer since it is used not only by the U.S. federal government, but also by big clouds providers, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.Telos Ghost:is a solution that we could see as VPN 2.0, summarized by the company as:\"you can't exploit what you can't see\".Nowadays, more and more people are using VPN to try to protect themselves against possible threats or just because they want to remain anonymous in the Internet. However, this is not enough, especially if you are a manager of a big company and you exchange business critical information with others. This is where Telos Ghost comes in your help: it creates a fully secured network, where all the data are encrypted, user information (e.g., location and identity) are hidden, and the company's network is protected against any possible cyber threat. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:Source:Telos.comTelos ID:is an identity management solution, which uses technologies, such as fuse biometrics, credentials, etc., to make sure that only specific persons can have access to sensitive information. It is a dominant solution among U.S. federal agencies, but it is also gaining popularity among enterprises.Discounted Cash Flow ModelLet's now perform a DCF analysis. Fundamentally, the company has big opportunities to offer, even if not fully yet. Let's start by looking at the cost structure.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportFrom the figure above we can clearly see how services represent the biggest portion of costs, namely 91% for the last year (versus 5 year average of 87%), and are those responsible for keeping the operating margins relatively low. On the other side, as we can imagine, the biggest portion of revenues comes from services, namely 89.6%.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportIn particular, it is worth noting the changing growth trajectory which started in 2017 as a direct response to new business goals definition. In 2017, Telos started to invest into new products and solutions to expand its addressable market. These revenues growth dynamics are expected to keep increasing in line with its accelerating partnership programs and the strong brand name that company has in the industry.Before starting doing any projection, I retrieved 5 years of historical data to better understand how the company works. I present below the historical data and the projections I made for the years to come:Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportAt first sight, numbers don’t seem to be that promising, but we should not jump at that conclusion too fast and we should instead think out of the box. Until 2017, Telos used to work more with the government, but since 2018 its strategy has changed. In fact, as stated by the company, Telos is now focusing on leveraging its security solutions by expanding their presence in commercial markets; they do this by developing new solutions and strengthening the current ones.In particular, the company is focusing on improving its margins and revenues by expanding its partner program to speed up the scaling in the commercial and international markets. In fact, this is what they are doing: as right now, both Telos Ghost and Xacta are available through various AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplace. Now, in light of this, and considering also the willingness of president Joe Biden to put more efforts and money into cybersecurity projects, I allow the company to grow at a CAGR of 33% in the years 2 to 5 and then I steadily decrease the growth rate to 1.58% in year 10. Why 33%? Well, it's purely subjective. I look at the company revenue growth in recent years, the company revenues relative to the overall market size and to larger players in the sector.Now, for what concern margins, I believe that they can be improved, so I increase them to what I consider reasonable levels given the company business: 52% (versus current 34.69%) for the gross margin and 19.5% (versus current 0.69%) for the operating margin. To determine the company target margins, I look at the industry averages: for instance, the U.S. industry average margins are 23.30% and the global ones 19.31%.Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/A number that is worth to be noted is the sales to capital ratio (i.e. growth efficiency), which tells us how much we must reinvest to keep our business growing; the higher this number the more efficiently the company is growing. In doing my projections, I decrease this number to 0.95 in year 10 (i.e. industry average).Finally, let's look at the market inputs we need to use in the discounted cash flow model.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportThe implied equity risk premium was computed following the country of incorporation approach, in this case looking only at the U.S. market. The implied equity risk premium at the time of the computation was of 4.02%, well below the historical 3 years median of 5.68%.Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/The cost of capital computations are displayed in the figure below:Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportNow, taking all the projections and discounting the cash flows, I obtain a value per share of $37.15 (19% potential upside); alternatively, if you prefer pricing the company instead of discounting the future cash flows, I come up with a value of $52.8 (70% potential upside). The pricing value is obtained by taking the expected EPS in 2025 of 1.76 and multiplying it for a P/E of 30. The P/E of 30 is obtained by looking at the current Palantir (PLTR) P/E value of 125 and bringing it down to what I believe is a more reasonable value.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportCatalystsAt this point, you may be asking yourself: What kind of catalysts may make the value converge to the “fair” price? I would like to underline some possible catalysts, which are sector and company related.The first big catalyst I see comes from the companies themselves. By understanding the fact that the cyber threat is a real danger, which harms the business not only economically but also reputationally, businesses will be willing to do everything is in their power to protect themselves against such risks. Thus, they will invest heavily in cyberdefense.The second catalyst comes from the digital transformation we are living now, which will be even bigger in years to come. As we know, technology is bad and good at the same time, where the former comes from cyber-attacks.The third catalyst comes from the governments increasing spending in cybersecurity related projects, which is driven by two reasons: the willingness to protect critical information and the willingness to become leaders in the field.Source:Belfercenter.orgTechnical AnalysisSource:TradingView.comFor what concerns technical analysis, the formation I see is a “Flags, High and Tigh” with the odds in the stock’s favor. Let me explain why. First, this kind of formation is the one which I mostly love, since it offers the best performance: the average rise after the breakout is of 69% in a bull market and of 40% in a bear market; as right now, we are in a bull market according to the economic business cycle indicators. Then, if we look at the volume, we can see a falling volume structure, which makes the breakout performance even stronger (71% vs 52% for rising volume trend) and, given the current price levels, I see a risk-reward ratio of 2.9 over a period of 6 months to 1 year.Final ThoughtsThe digitalization process brings many benefits with it, but it also brings many risks. In a world in which enterprises are becoming more and more digital, cybersecurity represents a key piece to complete the puzzle. Not many have understood it yet, but when they will do, the trend will be already running at a fast pace and joining the train will offer a much lower risk-reward ratio.Even if Telos is not a newly founded company, it knows well the industry in which it operates and it is highly adaptable at the evolving environment. Going forward, the key metric to look at is its ability to expand in the commercial market, both domestic and international.Currently, it shows buying signals on both the fundamental and technical side and this should be taken into account. Especially for short-term investors (i.e. investors with a time horizon less than 1 year), I see an opportunity to get a return in the range of 40-60% over the next 6 to 12 months.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":345,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":198501292,"gmtCreate":1620966890216,"gmtModify":1704351279985,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Told a lot but no have much&nbsp;values..&nbsp;","listText":"Told a lot but no have much&nbsp;values..&nbsp;","text":"Told a lot but no have much values..","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/198501292","repostId":"2135945620","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2135945620","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1620936034,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2135945620?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-14 04:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Wall Street closes higher in 'buy the dip' session","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2135945620","media":"Reuters","summary":"NEW YORK, May 13  - Wall Street ended sharply higher at the close of a broad rally on Thursday, bouncing back from three straight days of selling on upbeat labor market data.All three major U.S. stock indexes notched solid gains, with the Nasdaq, weighed by Tesla Inc , picking up the rear.Recent economic data has prompted inflation fears as scarcity of both materials and workers threatens to send prices surging in the face of a demand boom.\"If this is a footrace, supply chains are still tying th","content":"<p>NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Wall Street ended sharply higher at the close of a broad rally on Thursday, bouncing back from three straight days of selling on upbeat labor market data.</p><p>All three major U.S. stock indexes notched solid gains, with the Nasdaq, weighed by Tesla Inc , picking up the rear.</p><p>Meanwhile, cyclical shares enjoyed the biggest gains.</p><p>Recent economic data has prompted inflation fears as scarcity of both materials and workers threatens to send prices surging in the face of a demand boom.</p><p>\"If this is a footrace, supply chains are still tying their shoes,\" said David Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors in New York. \"But they will catch up with demand fairly quickly.\"</p><p>But on Thursday, investors appeared to be focusing on the glass-half-full side of the demand/supply equation.</p><p>This was evidenced by the outperformance of small caps, chips&nbsp;and transports , economically sensitive stocks that stand to gain as the United States emerges from the pandemic recession.</p><p>\"Sectors and stocks that were hurt most significantly by yesterday's sell-off rebounded strongly today given that economic growth is expected to remain strong throughout the year and any inflation is likely to be temporary,\" Carter added.</p><p>New applications for unemployment insurance continue to fall, according to jobless claims data from the Labor Department that hit a 14-month low.</p><p>Labor Department data also showed producer prices surged last month, building on the inflation surge narrative of Wednesday's consumer prices report.</p><p>\"The inflation boogeyman is back right on cue,\" Carter said. \"And will continue to spook markets for the coming months.\"</p><p>But rising prices were widely anticipated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve has provided repeated assurances that it does not foresee those spikes morphing into sustained, long-term inflation.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 433.79 points, or 1.29%, to 34,021.45, the S&amp;P 500 gained 49.46 points, or 1.22%, to 4,112.5 and the Nasdaq Composite added 93.31 points, or 0.72%, to 13,124.99.</p><p>Of the 11 major sectors in the S&amp;P 500, 10 ended green, with industrials enjoying the largest percentage gain.</p><p>Energy, weighed by a drop in crude prices, was the sole loser, shedding 1.4%. 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[O/R]</p><p>Walt Disney Co shares were down nearly 5% in after-hours trading after posting quarterly results.</p><p>Dating app owner Bumble Inc tumbled 14.3%, falling below its initial public offering price, as investors remained cautious about how quickly users will return to in-person meetings.</p><p>Boeing Co rose 0.8% after gaining approval from U.S. regulators for a fix of an electrical grounding issue.</p><p>Tesla continued its slide, dropping 3.1%, the heaviest drag on the Nasdaq, after boss Elon Musk doubled down on his sudden rejection of cryptocurrency bitcoin.</p><p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.91-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.06-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p><p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 13 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 49 new highs and 201 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.50 billion shares, compared with the 10.53 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p><p><b><i>Financial</i></b><b>&nbsp;</b><b><i>Report：</i></b></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1143623731\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+ subscriber growth is slowing like Netflix's — with one worrisome difference</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1149765041\" target=\"_blank\">Coinbase revenue tripled from last quarter,To Offer Dogecoin In 6 To 8 Weeks</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135732206\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb bookings jump 52% as vaccinations spur vacation rental demand</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135555675\" target=\"_blank\">DoorDash triples gross order volume and nearly triples revenue in first quarter</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135283678\" target=\"_blank\">Aurora Cannabis stock plunges amid more large losses, stock-sale plans and cost cuts</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135787576\" target=\"_blank\">Farfetch’s First-quarter Sales Run Up 46.4 Percent</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1100486329\" target=\"_blank\">Luminar stock dips after mixed Q1 report with wider than exp</a></p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2135945620","content_text":"NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Wall Street ended sharply higher at the close of a broad rally on Thursday, bouncing back from three straight days of selling on upbeat labor market data.All three major U.S. stock indexes notched solid gains, with the Nasdaq, weighed by Tesla Inc , picking up the rear.Meanwhile, cyclical shares enjoyed the biggest gains.Recent economic data has prompted inflation fears as scarcity of both materials and workers threatens to send prices surging in the face of a demand boom.\"If this is a footrace, supply chains are still tying their shoes,\" said David Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors in New York. \"But they will catch up with demand fairly quickly.\"But on Thursday, investors appeared to be focusing on the glass-half-full side of the demand/supply equation.This was evidenced by the outperformance of small caps, chips and transports , economically sensitive stocks that stand to gain as the United States emerges from the pandemic recession.\"Sectors and stocks that were hurt most significantly by yesterday's sell-off rebounded strongly today given that economic growth is expected to remain strong throughout the year and any inflation is likely to be temporary,\" Carter added.New applications for unemployment insurance continue to fall, according to jobless claims data from the Labor Department that hit a 14-month low.Labor Department data also showed producer prices surged last month, building on the inflation surge narrative of Wednesday's consumer prices report.\"The inflation boogeyman is back right on cue,\" Carter said. \"And will continue to spook markets for the coming months.\"But rising prices were widely anticipated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve has provided repeated assurances that it does not foresee those spikes morphing into sustained, long-term inflation.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 433.79 points, or 1.29%, to 34,021.45, the S&P 500 gained 49.46 points, or 1.22%, to 4,112.5 and the Nasdaq Composite added 93.31 points, or 0.72%, to 13,124.99.Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, 10 ended green, with industrials enjoying the largest percentage gain.Energy, weighed by a drop in crude prices, was the sole loser, shedding 1.4%. [O/R]Walt Disney Co shares were down nearly 5% in after-hours trading after posting quarterly results.Dating app owner Bumble Inc tumbled 14.3%, falling below its initial public offering price, as investors remained cautious about how quickly users will return to in-person meetings.Boeing Co rose 0.8% after gaining approval from U.S. regulators for a fix of an electrical grounding issue.Tesla continued its slide, dropping 3.1%, the heaviest drag on the Nasdaq, after boss Elon Musk doubled down on his sudden rejection of cryptocurrency bitcoin.Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.91-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.06-to-1 ratio favored advancers.The S&P 500 posted 13 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 49 new highs and 201 new lows.Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.50 billion shares, compared with the 10.53 billion average over the last 20 trading days.Financial Report：Disney+ subscriber growth is slowing like Netflix's — with one worrisome differenceCoinbase revenue tripled from last quarter,To Offer Dogecoin In 6 To 8 WeeksAirbnb bookings jump 52% as vaccinations spur vacation rental demandDoorDash triples gross order volume and nearly triples revenue in first quarterAurora Cannabis stock plunges amid more large losses, stock-sale plans and cost cutsFarfetch’s First-quarter Sales Run Up 46.4 PercentLuminar stock dips after mixed Q1 report with wider than exp","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":152,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":105441034,"gmtCreate":1620322510928,"gmtModify":1704341989859,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Split insurance part from Ant?","listText":"Split insurance part from Ant?","text":"Split insurance part from Ant?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/105441034","repostId":"2133602520","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2133602520","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"T-Reuters","id":"1086160438","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a113a995fbbc262262d15a5ce37e7bc5"},"pubTimestamp":1620293736,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2133602520?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-06 17:35","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"Ant In Talks With Chinese Authorities About Turning Its ‘Mutual-Aid’ Service Into A Regulated Business - WSJ","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2133602520","media":"T-Reuters","summary":"May 6 (Reuters) - :Ant Looks To Revamp A Controversial Business Without Sparking An Outcry -Wsj.Ant ","content":"<html><body><p>May 6 (Reuters) - :Ant Looks To Revamp A Controversial Business Without Sparking An Outcry -Wsj.Ant Is In Talks With Chinese Authorities About Turning Xianghubao (“Mutual Treasure”) Into A Regulated Business - Wsj.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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It has raised $225 million in funds from investors including General Atlantic and Tencent.</p><p>Founded in 2012, Ximalaya's revenue increased by more than 48% from a year earlier to around 4 billion yuan ($617.95 million) in 2020.</p><p>Goldman Sachs, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSTLW\">Morgan Stanley</a>    , BofA Securities and CICC are underwriters on Ximalaya's offering.</p><p>Qiniu and Ximalaya did not disclose any other details about their listing plans on Friday.</p><p>($1 = 6.4730 Chinese yuan renminbi)</p><p>(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain and Sohini Podder in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TCEHY":"腾讯控股ADR","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数","MS":"摩根士丹利","00700":"腾讯控股","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2132456189","content_text":"April 30 (Reuters) - Ximalaya, backed by China's Tencent Holdings   , filed for an initial public offering $(IPO.UK)$ in the United States on Friday, cashing in on growing demand as more people tune in to podcasts while staying at home during the pandemic.China's Qiniu Ltd, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service provider backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd   , also filed paperwork for a U.S. IPO.The largest online audio platform in China, Ximalaya had 250 million average monthly average users in the first quarter of 2021, according to a regulatory filing.Ximalaya, which provides a platform for users to access free or paid content from professional or amateur providers, was valued at $3.71 billion as of July 2018, according to PitchBook. It has raised $225 million in funds from investors including General Atlantic and Tencent.Founded in 2012, Ximalaya's revenue increased by more than 48% from a year earlier to around 4 billion yuan ($617.95 million) in 2020.Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley    , BofA Securities and CICC are underwriters on Ximalaya's offering.Qiniu and Ximalaya did not disclose any other details about their listing plans on Friday.($1 = 6.4730 Chinese yuan renminbi)(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain and Sohini Podder in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":380,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":108778049,"gmtCreate":1620058825481,"gmtModify":1704338078176,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Need read it and think about it...&nbsp;","listText":"Need read it and think about it...&nbsp;","text":"Need read it and think about it...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/108778049","repostId":"1103106179","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1103106179","pubTimestamp":1619917622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1103106179?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-02 09:07","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2021: Highlights and storylines","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1103106179","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Emily McCormick·ReporterSun, May 2, 2021, 5:03 AMWarren Buffett addressed investors around the world","content":"<p>Emily McCormick·ReporterSun, May 2, 2021, 5:03 AM</p><p>Warren Buffett addressed investors around the world on Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway's 2021 Annual Shareholder Meeting.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/RN?name=RNLive&amp;rndata={&quot;liveId&quot;:&quot;16196040827650&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Playback Live Here！</b></a></p><p>In an hours-long event, the investing legend fielded questions on Berkshire's business and investment decisions,offered advice for first-time investorsand touted the strength of American corporations in a characteristically optimistic tone.Buffett nodded to the Federal Reserveand Congress for their swift response to the COVID-19 crisis, and underscored the rebound in the U.S. economy. And the Oracle of Omaha also addressed the recent rise in retail trading andonline brokerage firmslike Robinhood,the rally in bitcoinand the boom in SPAC mergers.</p><p>In many ways, this year's meeting looked different from those in the past. The annual event took placein a hotel conference room in Los Angelesrather than in an arena in Omaha, Nebraska, due to the ongoing pandemic.</p><p>Buffett's long-time business partner Charlie Munger also returned onstage this year to co-lead the event, after sitting out last year because of the pandemic. And in a new move, Buffett and Munger were joined by Berkshire's Vice Chairmen Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain,in a signal of potential succession plans at the company.</p><p>Here were some of the highlights from the event.</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway is seeing signs of rising price pressures during the COVID-19 recovery, corroborating many market participants' concerns about increasing inflationary pressures.</p><p>\"We're seeing substantial inflation. We're raising prices, people are raising prices to us. And it's being accepted,\" Buffett said. \"We really do a lot of housing. The costs are just up, up, up. Steel costs. You know, just every day they're going up.\"</p><p>\"It's an economy – really, it's red hot. And we weren't expecting it,\" he added.</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett said trading apps like Robinhoodhave contributed to the \"casino aspect\" of the stock market as of late, exploiting individuals' inclinations to gamble.</p><p>“It’s become a very significant part of the casino aspect, the casino group, that has joined into the stock market in the last year, year and a half,\" Buffett said of Robinhood. \"There’s nothing, you know, there’s nothing illegal about it, there’s nothing immoral. But I don’t think you’d build a society around people doing it.\"</p><p>\"I think the degree to which a very rich society can reward people who know how to take advantage, essentially, of the gambling instincts of the American public, the worldwide public – it’s not the most admirable part of the accomplishment,\" Buffett added. \"But I think what America has accomplished is pretty admirable overall. And I think actually American corporations have turned out to be a wonderful place for people to put their money and save. But they also make terrific gambling chips, and if you cater to those gambling chips when people have money in their pocket for the first time and you tell them take my 30 or 40 or 50 trades a day and you’re not charging commission ... I hope we don’t have more of it.”</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett explained that Berkshire's move to unload many of its bank shares last year was not due to a lack of confidence in the banking industry, but more a decision to re-balance the portfolio and avoid being too heavily tilted toward one area.</p><p>\"I like banks generally, I just didn't like the proportion compared to the possible risk,\" Buffett said. \"We were over 10% of Bank of America. It's a real pain in the neck, more to the banks than us.\"</p><p>Berkshire held 1,032,952,006 shares of Bank of America as of the end of 2020, after adding 85.1 million shares in the third quarter alone. This gave Berkshire Hathaway an ownership stake of 11.9%. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo from 345.7 million shares at year-end 2019 to 52.4 million by year-end 2020, and completely exited its holdings in JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and M&amp;T Bank Corp (MTB).</p><p>\"The banking business is way better than it was in the United States 10 or 15 years ago,\" he added. \"The banking business around the world in various places might worry me, but our banks are in far, far better shape than 10 or 15 years ago.\"</p><p>—</p><p>A shareholder asked Jain, who leads Berkshire's insurance business, whether he would be hypothetically willing to write an insurance policy for SpaceX founder Elon Musk for his proposed colonization of Mars.</p><p>\"This is an easy one. No thank you, I’ll pass,\" Jain said.</p><p>“Well I would say it would depend on the premium,” Buffett interjected with a laugh. \"And I would say that I would probably have a somewhat different rate if Elon was on board or not on board. It makes a difference if someone is asking to insure something.”</p><p>—</p><p>Warren Buffett declined to directly offer an opinion in response to a question on bitcoin, an assethe previously likened to \"rat poison squared.\"</p><p>\"I knew there’d be a question on bitcoin or crypto and I thought to myself well, I watch these politicians dodge questions all the time … The truth is, I’m going to dodge that question,\" Buffett said. \"Because the truth is, we’ve probably got hundreds of thousands of people that are watching this that own bitcoin. And we’ve probably got two people that are short. So we’ve got a choice of making 400,000 people mad at us and unhappy, and making two people happy. And it’s just a dumb equation.\"</p><p>Munger, however, issued a more direct attack.</p><p>\"Those who know me well are just waving the red flag at the bull. Of course I hate the bitcoin success,\" he said. \"And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful kidnappers and extortionists and so forth. Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. So I think I should say modestly that the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Both Buffett and Munger issued strong words of support for share repurchases, especially after Berkshire reported repurchasing an additional $6.6 billion in stock in the first three months of 2021.</p><p>\"They're a way, essentially, of distributing the cash to the people that want the cash when other co-owners mostly want you to reinvest,\" Buffett said. \"It's a savings vehicle.\"</p><p>\"I find it almost impossible to believe some of the arguments that are made that it's terrible to repurchase shares from a partner if they want to get out of something, and you're able to do it at prices that are advantages to the people that are staying,\" Buffett said. \"And it helps slightly the person that wants out.\"</p><p>Munger offered a similar view.</p><p>\"You're repurchasing stock. Just a bullet higher, it's deeply immoral,\" Munger said. \"But if you're repurchasing stock because it's a fair thing to do in the interest of your existing shareholders, it's a highly moral act and the people who are criticizing it are bonkers.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Low interest rates have catalyzed a surge in valuations across equities, giving those who invest in the markets an opportunity to create wealth, Munger said during the Berkshire Hathaway question and answer segment.</p><p>\"I think one consequence of this present situation is, Bernie Sanders has basically won,\" Munger says. \"Because with everything boomed out so high and interest rates so low, what's going to happen is, the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our generation ... He did it by accident, but he won.\"</p><p>\"And so the difference between the difference between the rich and the poor in the generation that's rising is going to be a lot less,\" he added. \"So Bernie has won.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett received a question around special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, which have become a hugely popular means for firms to go public over the past year.</p><p>\"The SPACs generally have to spend their money in two years, as I understand it. If you have to buy a business in two years, you put a gun to my head and said you've got to buy a business in two years, I'd buy one but it wouldn't be much of one,\" Buffett.</p><p>\"If you're running money from somebody else and you get a fee and you get the upside and you don't have the downside, you're going to buy something,\" he added. \"And frankly we're not competitive with that.\"</p><p>\"It's an exaggerated version of what we've seen in kind of a gambling-type market,\" he added.</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett conceded that selling some of Apple's stock in 2020 was \"probably a mistake,\" with shares rising even further this year following the tech-led 2020 in the markets.</p><p>\"The brand and the product — it's an incredible product,\" Buffett said of Apple. \"It is indispensable to people.\"</p><p>\"I sold some stock last year, although our shareholders still saw their shares go up because we repurchased shares,\" he added. \"But that was probably a mistake.\"</p><p>Berkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Appleas of the end of December for a total market value of $120.4 billion. By contrast, the firm spent just $31 billion accumulating this stake since late 2016.</p><p>—</p><p>A shareholder directed a question to Ajit Jain and Greg Abel asking about the relationship the two likely next leaders of Berkshire Hathaway have with one another, given how iconic the relationship between Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger has been over the course of the company's history.</p><p>\"There's no question the relationship Warren has with Charlie is unique,\" Jain said. \"It's not going to be duplicated, certainly not by me and Greg. I can't think of anybody that can duplicate it.\"</p><p>\"I certainly have a lot of respect, both at a professional level and personal level, in terms of what Greg's abilities are,\" Jain added. \"We do not interact with each other as often as Warren and Charlie do. But every quarter we will talk to each other about our respective decision.\"</p><p>\"Even though the interaction may be different than say how Warren and Charlie do it ... we make sure we're always following up with each other but it goes beyond that,\" Abel said. \"Ajit has a great understanding of the Berkshire culture. I strongly believe I do too.\"</p><p>—</p><p>One shareholder asked Buffett about Berkshire's decision to invest in the oil and gas industry, and queried whether we might have \"build our own unrealistic consensus on the pace of change\" to clean energy solutions. Buffett defended the company's investment in the industry and in Chevron specifically, whichwas a relatively recent investment for the firm.</p><p>\"I would say that people are on the extremes of both sides are a little nuts. I would hate to have all the hydrocarbons banned in three years,\" Buffett said. \"You wouldn't want a world — it wouldn't work. And on the other hand, what's happening will be adapted to over time just as we've adapted to all kinds of things.\"</p><p>\"We have no problem owning Costco or Walmart and a substantial number of their stores. And they sell cigarettes, it's a big item,\" he added as an analogy. \"It's a very tough situation ... It's a very tough time to decide what companies benefit societies more than others.\"</p><p>\"I don't like making the moral judgments on stocks in terms of actually running the businesses, but there's something about every business that you knew that you wouldn't like,\" he added. \"If you expect perfection in your spouse or in your friends or in companies you're not going to find it.\"</p><p>\"Chevron is not an evil company in the least, and I have no compunction about owning it in the least, about owning Chevron,\" Buffett concluded. \"And if we owned the entire business I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that business.\"</p><p>Answering a subsequent question about the Berkshire board of directors' recommendation to voteagainst reporting climate-related risks, Munger added, \"I don't know we know the answer to all these questions about global warming.\"</p><p>\"The people who ask the questions think they know the answer. We're just more modest.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Most investors would benefit from simply purchasing an S&amp;P 500 index fund over the long run rather than picking individual stocks, even including Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett said during the question-and-answer session Saturday.</p><p>\"I recommend the S&amp;P 500 index fund … I’ve never recommended Berkshire to anybody because I don’t want people to buy it because they think I’m tipping them into something,\" he said. \"On my death there's a fund for my then-widow and 90% will go into an S&amp;P 500 index fund.\"</p><p>\"I do not think the average person can pick stocks,\" he added. \"We happen to have a large group of people that didn't pick stocks but they picked Charlie and me to manage money for them 50, 60 years ago. So we have a very unusual group of shareholders I think who look at Berkshire as a lifetime savings vehicle and one that they don’t have to think about and one that they'll, you know, they don't look at it again for 10 to 20 years.\"</p><p>Charlie Munger, on the other hand, had a different perspective.</p><p>\"I personally prefer holding Berkshire to holding the market,\" he said in response to the same question. \"I’m quite comfortable holding Berkshire. I think our businesses are better than the average in the market.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett reiterated a staunchly supportive stance of U.S. corporations and capitalism in his opening remarks, highlighting that five of the six largest companies in the world by market capitalization currently comprise domestic companies. Those five companies are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook, with only Saudi Aramco of Saudi Arabia coming in as a non-U.S. mega-cap company in the top six.</p><p>But only a couple hundred years ago, the U.S. looked like the underdog.</p><p>\"In 1790 we had one-half of 1% of the world's population,\" Buffett said. \"600,000 of them were slaves. Ireland had more people than the United States had. Russia had five times as many people. Ukraine had twice as many people.\"</p><p>\"But here we were. What did we have? We had a map for the future, an aspirational map that somehow now only 232 years later, leaves us with five of the top six companies in the world,\" he said. \"It's not an accident. And it's not because we were way smarter, way stronger or anything of the sort. We had good soil, decent climate, but so did some of the other countries I named. This system has worked very well.\"</p><p>—</p><p>In opening remarks at the start of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett credited the U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis toswift action by the Federal Reserve and Congress.</p><p>\"The economy went off a cliff in March. It was resurrected in an extraordinarily effective way by Federal Reserve action and later on the fiscal front by Congress,\" Buffett said in opening remarks at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting.\"</p><p>He added that Berkshire Hathaway's own business has picked up tremendously alongside the broader economy, and suggested businesses like airlines were still among those most deeply affected by lingering effects from the pandemic.</p><p>\"Our businesses have done really quite well. This has been a very, very, very unusual recession in that it's been localized ... to an extraordinary extent. Right now business is really very good in a great many segments of the economy,\" he added. \"But there's still problems if you're in a few types of businesses that have been decimated such as international air travel or something of the sort.\"</p><p>—</p><p>The CEO of See's Candies, one of the longstanding companies owned by Berkshire Hathaway, told Yahoo Finance that the companyhas seen a strong rebound at the start of 2021. However, last year, business virtually ground to a halt.</p><p>\"This has been the longest decade of my life. We've been through a lot. Last year – it's a tale of a couple of different quarters. The first quarter was tremendous,\" See's Candies CEO Pat Egan said in an interview with Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche ahead of the start of Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting. \"In the middle of March, when this [pandemic] really hit, we shut down all of our stores in a span of five days. So about 245 stores we closed in a matter of days. And then about a week and a half later, we closed our e-commerce fulfillment center down in Southern California. So for a period of time there, we essentially completely stopped.\"</p><p>\"We just said, we're not going to reopen stores or reopen plants until we can create a safe operating environment for our employees,\" he added. \"That took a while, and by the time we restored over the summer we saw customers coming back in. But for that period of time, it was pretty rough.\"</p><p>See's Candies just completed its \"best first quarter ever\" at the start of 2021, Egan added.</p><p>—</p><p>Berkshire Hathawayreported first-quarter results Saturday morning, underscoring arebound in profits across the firm's businesses amid the COVID-19 recovery. Berkshire also reported that it conducted another $6.6 billion of stock buybacks, extending its ramped-up share repurchase program from 2020.</p><p>Operating income during the first three months of the year increased to $7.02 billion, rising 19.5% compared to the $5.87 billion posted in the first quarter of 2020. Net earnings attributable to Berkshire shareholders swung back to a profit of $11.71 billion, compared to a loss of $49.75 billion in the same quarter last year.</p><p>Consolidated shareholders' equity rose by $4.8 billion to $448 billion by the end of March compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/RN?name=RNLive&amp;rndata={&quot;liveId&quot;:&quot;16196040827650&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\">If you want to watch the full live video, please click here.</a></p>","source":"yahoofinance_sg","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>Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2021: Highlights and storylines</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; 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And the Oracle of Omaha also addressed the recent rise in retail trading andonline brokerage firmslike Robinhood,the rally in bitcoinand the boom in SPAC mergers.In many ways, this year's meeting looked different from those in the past. The annual event took placein a hotel conference room in Los Angelesrather than in an arena in Omaha, Nebraska, due to the ongoing pandemic.Buffett's long-time business partner Charlie Munger also returned onstage this year to co-lead the event, after sitting out last year because of the pandemic. And in a new move, Buffett and Munger were joined by Berkshire's Vice Chairmen Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain,in a signal of potential succession plans at the company.Here were some of the highlights from the event.—Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway is seeing signs of rising price pressures during the COVID-19 recovery, corroborating many market participants' concerns about increasing inflationary pressures.\"We're seeing substantial inflation. We're raising prices, people are raising prices to us. And it's being accepted,\" Buffett said. \"We really do a lot of housing. The costs are just up, up, up. Steel costs. You know, just every day they're going up.\"\"It's an economy – really, it's red hot. And we weren't expecting it,\" he added.—Buffett said trading apps like Robinhoodhave contributed to the \"casino aspect\" of the stock market as of late, exploiting individuals' inclinations to gamble.“It’s become a very significant part of the casino aspect, the casino group, that has joined into the stock market in the last year, year and a half,\" Buffett said of Robinhood. \"There’s nothing, you know, there’s nothing illegal about it, there’s nothing immoral. But I don’t think you’d build a society around people doing it.\"\"I think the degree to which a very rich society can reward people who know how to take advantage, essentially, of the gambling instincts of the American public, the worldwide public – it’s not the most admirable part of the accomplishment,\" Buffett added. \"But I think what America has accomplished is pretty admirable overall. And I think actually American corporations have turned out to be a wonderful place for people to put their money and save. But they also make terrific gambling chips, and if you cater to those gambling chips when people have money in their pocket for the first time and you tell them take my 30 or 40 or 50 trades a day and you’re not charging commission ... I hope we don’t have more of it.”—Buffett explained that Berkshire's move to unload many of its bank shares last year was not due to a lack of confidence in the banking industry, but more a decision to re-balance the portfolio and avoid being too heavily tilted toward one area.\"I like banks generally, I just didn't like the proportion compared to the possible risk,\" Buffett said. \"We were over 10% of Bank of America. It's a real pain in the neck, more to the banks than us.\"Berkshire held 1,032,952,006 shares of Bank of America as of the end of 2020, after adding 85.1 million shares in the third quarter alone. This gave Berkshire Hathaway an ownership stake of 11.9%. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo from 345.7 million shares at year-end 2019 to 52.4 million by year-end 2020, and completely exited its holdings in JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and M&T Bank Corp (MTB).\"The banking business is way better than it was in the United States 10 or 15 years ago,\" he added. \"The banking business around the world in various places might worry me, but our banks are in far, far better shape than 10 or 15 years ago.\"—A shareholder asked Jain, who leads Berkshire's insurance business, whether he would be hypothetically willing to write an insurance policy for SpaceX founder Elon Musk for his proposed colonization of Mars.\"This is an easy one. No thank you, I’ll pass,\" Jain said.“Well I would say it would depend on the premium,” Buffett interjected with a laugh. \"And I would say that I would probably have a somewhat different rate if Elon was on board or not on board. It makes a difference if someone is asking to insure something.”—Warren Buffett declined to directly offer an opinion in response to a question on bitcoin, an assethe previously likened to \"rat poison squared.\"\"I knew there’d be a question on bitcoin or crypto and I thought to myself well, I watch these politicians dodge questions all the time … The truth is, I’m going to dodge that question,\" Buffett said. \"Because the truth is, we’ve probably got hundreds of thousands of people that are watching this that own bitcoin. And we’ve probably got two people that are short. So we’ve got a choice of making 400,000 people mad at us and unhappy, and making two people happy. And it’s just a dumb equation.\"Munger, however, issued a more direct attack.\"Those who know me well are just waving the red flag at the bull. Of course I hate the bitcoin success,\" he said. \"And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful kidnappers and extortionists and so forth. Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. So I think I should say modestly that the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization.\"—Both Buffett and Munger issued strong words of support for share repurchases, especially after Berkshire reported repurchasing an additional $6.6 billion in stock in the first three months of 2021.\"They're a way, essentially, of distributing the cash to the people that want the cash when other co-owners mostly want you to reinvest,\" Buffett said. \"It's a savings vehicle.\"\"I find it almost impossible to believe some of the arguments that are made that it's terrible to repurchase shares from a partner if they want to get out of something, and you're able to do it at prices that are advantages to the people that are staying,\" Buffett said. \"And it helps slightly the person that wants out.\"Munger offered a similar view.\"You're repurchasing stock. Just a bullet higher, it's deeply immoral,\" Munger said. \"But if you're repurchasing stock because it's a fair thing to do in the interest of your existing shareholders, it's a highly moral act and the people who are criticizing it are bonkers.\"—Low interest rates have catalyzed a surge in valuations across equities, giving those who invest in the markets an opportunity to create wealth, Munger said during the Berkshire Hathaway question and answer segment.\"I think one consequence of this present situation is, Bernie Sanders has basically won,\" Munger says. \"Because with everything boomed out so high and interest rates so low, what's going to happen is, the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our generation ... He did it by accident, but he won.\"\"And so the difference between the difference between the rich and the poor in the generation that's rising is going to be a lot less,\" he added. \"So Bernie has won.\"—Buffett received a question around special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, which have become a hugely popular means for firms to go public over the past year.\"The SPACs generally have to spend their money in two years, as I understand it. If you have to buy a business in two years, you put a gun to my head and said you've got to buy a business in two years, I'd buy one but it wouldn't be much of one,\" Buffett.\"If you're running money from somebody else and you get a fee and you get the upside and you don't have the downside, you're going to buy something,\" he added. \"And frankly we're not competitive with that.\"\"It's an exaggerated version of what we've seen in kind of a gambling-type market,\" he added.—Buffett conceded that selling some of Apple's stock in 2020 was \"probably a mistake,\" with shares rising even further this year following the tech-led 2020 in the markets.\"The brand and the product — it's an incredible product,\" Buffett said of Apple. \"It is indispensable to people.\"\"I sold some stock last year, although our shareholders still saw their shares go up because we repurchased shares,\" he added. \"But that was probably a mistake.\"Berkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Appleas of the end of December for a total market value of $120.4 billion. By contrast, the firm spent just $31 billion accumulating this stake since late 2016.—A shareholder directed a question to Ajit Jain and Greg Abel asking about the relationship the two likely next leaders of Berkshire Hathaway have with one another, given how iconic the relationship between Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger has been over the course of the company's history.\"There's no question the relationship Warren has with Charlie is unique,\" Jain said. \"It's not going to be duplicated, certainly not by me and Greg. I can't think of anybody that can duplicate it.\"\"I certainly have a lot of respect, both at a professional level and personal level, in terms of what Greg's abilities are,\" Jain added. \"We do not interact with each other as often as Warren and Charlie do. But every quarter we will talk to each other about our respective decision.\"\"Even though the interaction may be different than say how Warren and Charlie do it ... we make sure we're always following up with each other but it goes beyond that,\" Abel said. \"Ajit has a great understanding of the Berkshire culture. I strongly believe I do too.\"—One shareholder asked Buffett about Berkshire's decision to invest in the oil and gas industry, and queried whether we might have \"build our own unrealistic consensus on the pace of change\" to clean energy solutions. Buffett defended the company's investment in the industry and in Chevron specifically, whichwas a relatively recent investment for the firm.\"I would say that people are on the extremes of both sides are a little nuts. I would hate to have all the hydrocarbons banned in three years,\" Buffett said. \"You wouldn't want a world — it wouldn't work. And on the other hand, what's happening will be adapted to over time just as we've adapted to all kinds of things.\"\"We have no problem owning Costco or Walmart and a substantial number of their stores. And they sell cigarettes, it's a big item,\" he added as an analogy. \"It's a very tough situation ... It's a very tough time to decide what companies benefit societies more than others.\"\"I don't like making the moral judgments on stocks in terms of actually running the businesses, but there's something about every business that you knew that you wouldn't like,\" he added. \"If you expect perfection in your spouse or in your friends or in companies you're not going to find it.\"\"Chevron is not an evil company in the least, and I have no compunction about owning it in the least, about owning Chevron,\" Buffett concluded. \"And if we owned the entire business I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that business.\"Answering a subsequent question about the Berkshire board of directors' recommendation to voteagainst reporting climate-related risks, Munger added, \"I don't know we know the answer to all these questions about global warming.\"\"The people who ask the questions think they know the answer. We're just more modest.\"—Most investors would benefit from simply purchasing an S&P 500 index fund over the long run rather than picking individual stocks, even including Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett said during the question-and-answer session Saturday.\"I recommend the S&P 500 index fund … I’ve never recommended Berkshire to anybody because I don’t want people to buy it because they think I’m tipping them into something,\" he said. \"On my death there's a fund for my then-widow and 90% will go into an S&P 500 index fund.\"\"I do not think the average person can pick stocks,\" he added. \"We happen to have a large group of people that didn't pick stocks but they picked Charlie and me to manage money for them 50, 60 years ago. So we have a very unusual group of shareholders I think who look at Berkshire as a lifetime savings vehicle and one that they don’t have to think about and one that they'll, you know, they don't look at it again for 10 to 20 years.\"Charlie Munger, on the other hand, had a different perspective.\"I personally prefer holding Berkshire to holding the market,\" he said in response to the same question. \"I’m quite comfortable holding Berkshire. I think our businesses are better than the average in the market.\"—Buffett reiterated a staunchly supportive stance of U.S. corporations and capitalism in his opening remarks, highlighting that five of the six largest companies in the world by market capitalization currently comprise domestic companies. Those five companies are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook, with only Saudi Aramco of Saudi Arabia coming in as a non-U.S. mega-cap company in the top six.But only a couple hundred years ago, the U.S. looked like the underdog.\"In 1790 we had one-half of 1% of the world's population,\" Buffett said. \"600,000 of them were slaves. Ireland had more people than the United States had. Russia had five times as many people. Ukraine had twice as many people.\"\"But here we were. What did we have? We had a map for the future, an aspirational map that somehow now only 232 years later, leaves us with five of the top six companies in the world,\" he said. \"It's not an accident. And it's not because we were way smarter, way stronger or anything of the sort. We had good soil, decent climate, but so did some of the other countries I named. This system has worked very well.\"—In opening remarks at the start of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett credited the U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis toswift action by the Federal Reserve and Congress.\"The economy went off a cliff in March. It was resurrected in an extraordinarily effective way by Federal Reserve action and later on the fiscal front by Congress,\" Buffett said in opening remarks at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting.\"He added that Berkshire Hathaway's own business has picked up tremendously alongside the broader economy, and suggested businesses like airlines were still among those most deeply affected by lingering effects from the pandemic.\"Our businesses have done really quite well. This has been a very, very, very unusual recession in that it's been localized ... to an extraordinary extent. Right now business is really very good in a great many segments of the economy,\" he added. \"But there's still problems if you're in a few types of businesses that have been decimated such as international air travel or something of the sort.\"—The CEO of See's Candies, one of the longstanding companies owned by Berkshire Hathaway, told Yahoo Finance that the companyhas seen a strong rebound at the start of 2021. However, last year, business virtually ground to a halt.\"This has been the longest decade of my life. We've been through a lot. Last year – it's a tale of a couple of different quarters. The first quarter was tremendous,\" See's Candies CEO Pat Egan said in an interview with Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche ahead of the start of Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting. \"In the middle of March, when this [pandemic] really hit, we shut down all of our stores in a span of five days. So about 245 stores we closed in a matter of days. And then about a week and a half later, we closed our e-commerce fulfillment center down in Southern California. So for a period of time there, we essentially completely stopped.\"\"We just said, we're not going to reopen stores or reopen plants until we can create a safe operating environment for our employees,\" he added. \"That took a while, and by the time we restored over the summer we saw customers coming back in. But for that period of time, it was pretty rough.\"See's Candies just completed its \"best first quarter ever\" at the start of 2021, Egan added.—Berkshire Hathawayreported first-quarter results Saturday morning, underscoring arebound in profits across the firm's businesses amid the COVID-19 recovery. Berkshire also reported that it conducted another $6.6 billion of stock buybacks, extending its ramped-up share repurchase program from 2020.Operating income during the first three months of the year increased to $7.02 billion, rising 19.5% compared to the $5.87 billion posted in the first quarter of 2020. Net earnings attributable to Berkshire shareholders swung back to a profit of $11.71 billion, compared to a loss of $49.75 billion in the same quarter last year.Consolidated shareholders' equity rose by $4.8 billion to $448 billion by the end of March compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.If you want to watch the full live video, please click here.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":123,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":108773763,"gmtCreate":1620058679852,"gmtModify":1704338077365,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I guess everyone is having your&nbsp;owned way of investing... 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Take shelter in these sectors, says veteran strategist","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1133315528","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Legendary investor Warren Buffett told his faithful over the weekend that the U.S. economy is “red h","content":"<p>Legendary investor Warren Buffett told his faithful over the weekend that the U.S. economy is “red hot,” suggesting money in an index fund is better served than picking stocks. That advice comes as investors face what could be a seasonally weak period for equities.</p>\n<p>The “sell in May and go away” adage dictates that from now to October is often a less profitable and more bumpy time for stocks, partly as the weather warms up and big traders spend more time vacationing, leaving behind junior traders and opening the door to volatility.</p>\n<p>A stock hiatus doesn’t seem like a crazy idea right now. Hovering near all-time highs, the S&amp;P 500SPXhas gained for three straight months and the economy is indeed rebounding hard from the pandemic. And pent-up demand for a summer vacation and plenty of vaccines in the U.S., at least, justifies going away for a little while.</p>\n<p>But instead of selling, “curb your enthusiasm” may be better advice to follow for the next six months, says our<b>call of the day</b>from Stifel’s head of institutional equity strategy, Barry Bannister. He predicts the S&amp;P 500 is headed for flat to down 5% to 10% for the next few months.</p>\n<p>He bases that on the “usual seasonality math” that predicted a 26% gain from November to April 30, 2021, while we got a 28% bump. Others have been chiming in on seasonality, such as UBS and LPL Financial who bothurge investors to stick around. Here’s Bannister’s chart:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0576c02162a56278e017fcb4e61b1d27\" tg-width=\"1259\" tg-height=\"871\">Bannister’s next chart shows how</p>\n<p>His next chart shows this: “A lump-sum of $10,000 (no further contributions) invested in 1950 in the S&amp;P 500 has produced a cumulative return in the 6</p>\n<p>months Nov-1 to the following year’s Apr-30 that is 38 times larger than if invested only in the preceding 6 months May 1 to Oct-31.”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7f83a6cb9808a84d91079a93eebaccda\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"913\">And if things turn out as Bannister expects, he said investors should get investors to get selective about sectors, says Bannister.</p>\n<p>“If May through Oct-2021 is seasonally weak, we note that S&amp;P 500 defensives (staples, healthcare, utilities, telecom services) do typically outperform cyclicals (note cyclicals include technology) in the same period, albeit usually with&nbsp;falling yields. S&amp;P 500 seasonal strength the six months since Nov-1, 2020 also appears to have front-loaded returns, diminishing May-Oct 2021,” he said.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b6c78a484e65c6e40b1e0a9a05636e9e\" tg-width=\"1259\" tg-height=\"894\">Bannister says if he’s wrong, the “only bubble path” is a much higher price/earnings ratio based on yield repression.” And as for those who “see post-COVID-19 as a ‘Roaring 1920s’ meme,” he noted the market P/E has already reached the Oct-1928 trend-adjusted level, which came just 12 months before the Oct-1929 crash.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7521a65d7d15bce7deae95818af536bd\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"851\"><b>Ethereum is red hot and more data is coming</b></p>\n<p>Taking your eyes off the screens this summer may be less advisable if you’re hot on cryptocurrencies. EthereumETHUSDhas topped $3,000for the first time, with gains outpacing those of bitcoinBTCUSDso far this year. Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman Charlie Munger hadnothing good to sayabout cryptos at the shareholder meeting on Saturday.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8b2c3eb02cf934600c5a66c87eb240e6\" tg-width=\"454\" tg-height=\"210\">Elsewhere, U.S. stock futuresES00are climbing, led by Dow futuresYM00,with Nasdaq futuresNQ00modestly up. European stocksXX:SXXPare rising, with LondonUK:UKXout for a holiday. A bunch of Asian markets were closed, but those that were openfell,as investors fretted about rising COVID-19 cases and low vaccination rates.</p>\n<p>President Joe Biden’s massive proposed spending plan won’t spark inflation, argued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenon NBC’s “Meet the Press”on Sunday. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will be speaking at the Just Economy conference on Monday, discussing community development.</p>\n<p>The Markit final April manufacturing purchasing managers index is on tap, with the Institute for Supply Management’s April manufacturing index and construction spending also ahead, along with auto sales.</p>\n<p>Another busy week for earnings kicks off with do-it-yourself home retailer Lowe’sLOW,makeup giant Estee LauderELand chip supply group ON SemiconductorONexpected to report before the bell on Monday.</p>\n<p>Shares of TeslaTSLAare pitching south after a German trade magazine said production at the electric car maker’s new gigafactory outside Berlinis facing another six-month delay.</p>\n<p>Multinational conglomerate Berkshire HathawayBRKMX:BRKBsaid itswung to a first-quarter profiton stock gains and better results from its insurance business.Among the highlightsfrom Saturday’s shareholder meeting, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffettdefended selling airlines, discussed a“casino”-likestock market, andwarned overspecial-purpose acquisition companies</p>\n<p>Telecoms giant VerizonVZis nearing a deal to sell its Yahoo and AOL internet units to private equity group Apollo Global ManagementAPO,the New York Timesand other media outlets reported, citing sources.</p>\n<p>Epic Games and AppleAAPLwillsquare off in court on Monday. The maker of the popular Fortnite online game has accused the iPhone maker of abusing its App Store for anticompetitive purposes.</p>\n<p>The EU is urging the lifting of restrictions on non-essential travel to the region by vaccinated foreign nationals who hail from a country that has a good epidemiological situation.</p>","source":"lsy1603348471595","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>A 10% drop or at least a pause could be looming for the S&P 500. Take shelter in these sectors, says veteran strategist</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\">\nA 10% drop or at least a pause could be looming for the S&P 500. Take shelter in these sectors, says veteran strategist\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-03 19:43 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-10-drop-or-at-least-a-pause-could-be-looming-for-the-s-p-500-take-shelter-in-these-sectors-says-veteran-strategist-11620041385><strong>MarketWatch</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Legendary investor Warren Buffett told his faithful over the weekend that the U.S. economy is “red hot,” suggesting money in an index fund is better served than picking stocks. That advice comes as ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-10-drop-or-at-least-a-pause-could-be-looming-for-the-s-p-500-take-shelter-in-these-sectors-says-veteran-strategist-11620041385\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SPY":"标普500ETF",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-10-drop-or-at-least-a-pause-could-be-looming-for-the-s-p-500-take-shelter-in-these-sectors-says-veteran-strategist-11620041385","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1133315528","content_text":"Legendary investor Warren Buffett told his faithful over the weekend that the U.S. economy is “red hot,” suggesting money in an index fund is better served than picking stocks. That advice comes as investors face what could be a seasonally weak period for equities.\nThe “sell in May and go away” adage dictates that from now to October is often a less profitable and more bumpy time for stocks, partly as the weather warms up and big traders spend more time vacationing, leaving behind junior traders and opening the door to volatility.\nA stock hiatus doesn’t seem like a crazy idea right now. Hovering near all-time highs, the S&P 500SPXhas gained for three straight months and the economy is indeed rebounding hard from the pandemic. And pent-up demand for a summer vacation and plenty of vaccines in the U.S., at least, justifies going away for a little while.\nBut instead of selling, “curb your enthusiasm” may be better advice to follow for the next six months, says ourcall of the dayfrom Stifel’s head of institutional equity strategy, Barry Bannister. He predicts the S&P 500 is headed for flat to down 5% to 10% for the next few months.\nHe bases that on the “usual seasonality math” that predicted a 26% gain from November to April 30, 2021, while we got a 28% bump. Others have been chiming in on seasonality, such as UBS and LPL Financial who bothurge investors to stick around. Here’s Bannister’s chart:\nBannister’s next chart shows how\nHis next chart shows this: “A lump-sum of $10,000 (no further contributions) invested in 1950 in the S&P 500 has produced a cumulative return in the 6\nmonths Nov-1 to the following year’s Apr-30 that is 38 times larger than if invested only in the preceding 6 months May 1 to Oct-31.”\nAnd if things turn out as Bannister expects, he said investors should get investors to get selective about sectors, says Bannister.\n“If May through Oct-2021 is seasonally weak, we note that S&P 500 defensives (staples, healthcare, utilities, telecom services) do typically outperform cyclicals (note cyclicals include technology) in the same period, albeit usually with falling yields. S&P 500 seasonal strength the six months since Nov-1, 2020 also appears to have front-loaded returns, diminishing May-Oct 2021,” he said.\nBannister says if he’s wrong, the “only bubble path” is a much higher price/earnings ratio based on yield repression.” And as for those who “see post-COVID-19 as a ‘Roaring 1920s’ meme,” he noted the market P/E has already reached the Oct-1928 trend-adjusted level, which came just 12 months before the Oct-1929 crash.\nEthereum is red hot and more data is coming\nTaking your eyes off the screens this summer may be less advisable if you’re hot on cryptocurrencies. EthereumETHUSDhas topped $3,000for the first time, with gains outpacing those of bitcoinBTCUSDso far this year. Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman Charlie Munger hadnothing good to sayabout cryptos at the shareholder meeting on Saturday.\nElsewhere, U.S. stock futuresES00are climbing, led by Dow futuresYM00,with Nasdaq futuresNQ00modestly up. European stocksXX:SXXPare rising, with LondonUK:UKXout for a holiday. A bunch of Asian markets were closed, but those that were openfell,as investors fretted about rising COVID-19 cases and low vaccination rates.\nPresident Joe Biden’s massive proposed spending plan won’t spark inflation, argued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenon NBC’s “Meet the Press”on Sunday. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will be speaking at the Just Economy conference on Monday, discussing community development.\nThe Markit final April manufacturing purchasing managers index is on tap, with the Institute for Supply Management’s April manufacturing index and construction spending also ahead, along with auto sales.\nAnother busy week for earnings kicks off with do-it-yourself home retailer Lowe’sLOW,makeup giant Estee LauderELand chip supply group ON SemiconductorONexpected to report before the bell on Monday.\nShares of TeslaTSLAare pitching south after a German trade magazine said production at the electric car maker’s new gigafactory outside Berlinis facing another six-month delay.\nMultinational conglomerate Berkshire HathawayBRKMX:BRKBsaid itswung to a first-quarter profiton stock gains and better results from its insurance business.Among the highlightsfrom Saturday’s shareholder meeting, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffettdefended selling airlines, discussed a“casino”-likestock market, andwarned overspecial-purpose acquisition companies\nTelecoms giant VerizonVZis nearing a deal to sell its Yahoo and AOL internet units to private equity group Apollo Global ManagementAPO,the New York Timesand other media outlets reported, citing sources.\nEpic Games and AppleAAPLwillsquare off in court on Monday. The maker of the popular Fortnite online game has accused the iPhone maker of abusing its App Store for anticompetitive purposes.\nThe EU is urging the lifting of restrictions on non-essential travel to the region by vaccinated foreign nationals who hail from a country that has a good epidemiological situation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":232,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103432203,"gmtCreate":1619799107102,"gmtModify":1704272608571,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Interesting...&nbsp;","listText":"Interesting...&nbsp;","text":"Interesting...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/103432203","repostId":"1142070002","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1142070002","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1619792975,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1142070002?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-30 22:29","market":"us","language":"en","title":"NIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1142070002","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"NIO Earnings Looked a Lot Like Ford’s. What to Know.Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO posted better than expected first quarter results. But the global automotive microchip shortage will hit production in the coming months.NIO  is a highly valued, high-growth stock. Now NIO bulls have to decide whether solid earnings will trump the growth hiccup or whether the chip shortage can hurt the company in the long run.NIO lost 23 cents a share on an adjusted, non-GAAP basis, from $1.2 billion in sales.","content":"<p>NIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/80881ae9e6de48ac5e3733583db3ba9e\" tg-width=\"840\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>NIO Earnings Looked a Lot Like Ford’s. What to Know.</b></p><p>Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO posted better than expected first quarter results. But the global automotive microchip shortage will hit production in the coming months.</p><p>NIO (ticker: NIO) is a highly valued, high-growth stock. Now NIO bulls have to decide whether solid earnings will trump the growth hiccup or whether the chip shortage can hurt the company in the long run.</p><p>NIO lost&nbsp;23 cents&nbsp;a share on an adjusted, non-GAAP basis, from $1.2 billion in sales. Wall Street was looking for a comparable 84 cent loss from $1.1 billion in sales. NIO’s corporate gross profit margin came in at 19.5%, about 3 percentage points better than analysts projected and up from negative 12% a year ago. First quarter results look solid.</p><p>The stock isn’t moving though. NIO reported numbers at 5:30 p.m. eastern time and not a lot of stock is trading after hours. NIO shares closed down 5.3% in Thursday trading. TheS&amp;P 500&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dow Jones Industrial Average&nbsp;rose about&nbsp; 0.7%.</p><p>“NIO started the year of 2021 with a new quarterly delivery record of 20,060 vehicles in the first quarter,” said CEO William Bin Li in the company’s news release. “The overall demand for our products continues to be quite strong, but the supply chain is still facing significant challenges due to the semiconductor shortage.”</p><p>Management called the chip situation “very severe” on its conference call and projected 21,000 to 22,000 vehicle deliveries for the second quarter and sales of about $1.3 billion. The Street is projecting $1.2 billion in sales. But the unit delivery guidance is a little lower than Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu had expected.</p><p>For the full year, Yu is modeling 95,000 deliveries. With about 42,000 deliveries likely for the first half of 2021, the resolution of the global chip shortage will go a long way to deciding whether or not NIO can reach Yu’s number.</p><p>Yu rates NIO shares Buy and has a $60 price target for the stock.</p><p>The overall quarter feels a little like&nbsp;Ford Motor‘s (F) quarter, which was&nbsp;reported Wednesday. Ford reported sales and earnings far better than Wall Street projected. Unit volumes were below the company’s internal projections, but improving vehicle mix boosted sales beyond Street projections. Ford prioritized making higher-end vehicles in the face of limited chip supply. Looking ahead, Ford said the impact of the chip shortage would be at the high end of the company’s initial $1 billion to $2.5 billion cost guidance.</p><p>Ford stock close down 9.4% Thursday, the day after the Wednesday evening report. The NIO second-quarter guidance isn’t as surprising as Ford’s. And NIO doesn’t have full-year guidance. But calling NIO’s stock price reaction is difficult.</p><p>Ford trades for less than 7 times estimated 2022 earnings. NIO is expected to become profitable on a full-year basis in 2022. What’s more, NIO is worth about 50% more than Ford.</p><p>NIO’s conference call wrapped up about 10 p.m. eastern time. After the chip shortage, analysts focused questions on EV competition in China and NIO’s production expansion. NIO is putting in place&nbsp;capacity to produce&nbsp;hundreds of thousands of vehicles in coming years.</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>NIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before</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\">\nNIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-04-30 22:29</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>NIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/80881ae9e6de48ac5e3733583db3ba9e\" tg-width=\"840\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>NIO Earnings Looked a Lot Like Ford’s. What to Know.</b></p><p>Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO posted better than expected first quarter results. But the global automotive microchip shortage will hit production in the coming months.</p><p>NIO (ticker: NIO) is a highly valued, high-growth stock. Now NIO bulls have to decide whether solid earnings will trump the growth hiccup or whether the chip shortage can hurt the company in the long run.</p><p>NIO lost&nbsp;23 cents&nbsp;a share on an adjusted, non-GAAP basis, from $1.2 billion in sales. Wall Street was looking for a comparable 84 cent loss from $1.1 billion in sales. NIO’s corporate gross profit margin came in at 19.5%, about 3 percentage points better than analysts projected and up from negative 12% a year ago. First quarter results look solid.</p><p>The stock isn’t moving though. NIO reported numbers at 5:30 p.m. eastern time and not a lot of stock is trading after hours. NIO shares closed down 5.3% in Thursday trading. TheS&amp;P 500&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dow Jones Industrial Average&nbsp;rose about&nbsp; 0.7%.</p><p>“NIO started the year of 2021 with a new quarterly delivery record of 20,060 vehicles in the first quarter,” said CEO William Bin Li in the company’s news release. “The overall demand for our products continues to be quite strong, but the supply chain is still facing significant challenges due to the semiconductor shortage.”</p><p>Management called the chip situation “very severe” on its conference call and projected 21,000 to 22,000 vehicle deliveries for the second quarter and sales of about $1.3 billion. The Street is projecting $1.2 billion in sales. But the unit delivery guidance is a little lower than Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu had expected.</p><p>For the full year, Yu is modeling 95,000 deliveries. With about 42,000 deliveries likely for the first half of 2021, the resolution of the global chip shortage will go a long way to deciding whether or not NIO can reach Yu’s number.</p><p>Yu rates NIO shares Buy and has a $60 price target for the stock.</p><p>The overall quarter feels a little like&nbsp;Ford Motor‘s (F) quarter, which was&nbsp;reported Wednesday. Ford reported sales and earnings far better than Wall Street projected. Unit volumes were below the company’s internal projections, but improving vehicle mix boosted sales beyond Street projections. Ford prioritized making higher-end vehicles in the face of limited chip supply. Looking ahead, Ford said the impact of the chip shortage would be at the high end of the company’s initial $1 billion to $2.5 billion cost guidance.</p><p>Ford stock close down 9.4% Thursday, the day after the Wednesday evening report. The NIO second-quarter guidance isn’t as surprising as Ford’s. And NIO doesn’t have full-year guidance. But calling NIO’s stock price reaction is difficult.</p><p>Ford trades for less than 7 times estimated 2022 earnings. NIO is expected to become profitable on a full-year basis in 2022. What’s more, NIO is worth about 50% more than Ford.</p><p>NIO’s conference call wrapped up about 10 p.m. eastern time. After the chip shortage, analysts focused questions on EV competition in China and NIO’s production expansion. NIO is putting in place&nbsp;capacity to produce&nbsp;hundreds of thousands of vehicles in coming years.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"NIO":"蔚来"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1142070002","content_text":"NIO rose more than 5%, after falling nearly 4% before.NIO Earnings Looked a Lot Like Ford’s. What to Know.Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO posted better than expected first quarter results. But the global automotive microchip shortage will hit production in the coming months.NIO (ticker: NIO) is a highly valued, high-growth stock. Now NIO bulls have to decide whether solid earnings will trump the growth hiccup or whether the chip shortage can hurt the company in the long run.NIO lost 23 cents a share on an adjusted, non-GAAP basis, from $1.2 billion in sales. Wall Street was looking for a comparable 84 cent loss from $1.1 billion in sales. NIO’s corporate gross profit margin came in at 19.5%, about 3 percentage points better than analysts projected and up from negative 12% a year ago. First quarter results look solid.The stock isn’t moving though. NIO reported numbers at 5:30 p.m. eastern time and not a lot of stock is trading after hours. NIO shares closed down 5.3% in Thursday trading. TheS&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about  0.7%.“NIO started the year of 2021 with a new quarterly delivery record of 20,060 vehicles in the first quarter,” said CEO William Bin Li in the company’s news release. “The overall demand for our products continues to be quite strong, but the supply chain is still facing significant challenges due to the semiconductor shortage.”Management called the chip situation “very severe” on its conference call and projected 21,000 to 22,000 vehicle deliveries for the second quarter and sales of about $1.3 billion. The Street is projecting $1.2 billion in sales. But the unit delivery guidance is a little lower than Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu had expected.For the full year, Yu is modeling 95,000 deliveries. With about 42,000 deliveries likely for the first half of 2021, the resolution of the global chip shortage will go a long way to deciding whether or not NIO can reach Yu’s number.Yu rates NIO shares Buy and has a $60 price target for the stock.The overall quarter feels a little like Ford Motor‘s (F) quarter, which was reported Wednesday. Ford reported sales and earnings far better than Wall Street projected. Unit volumes were below the company’s internal projections, but improving vehicle mix boosted sales beyond Street projections. Ford prioritized making higher-end vehicles in the face of limited chip supply. Looking ahead, Ford said the impact of the chip shortage would be at the high end of the company’s initial $1 billion to $2.5 billion cost guidance.Ford stock close down 9.4% Thursday, the day after the Wednesday evening report. The NIO second-quarter guidance isn’t as surprising as Ford’s. And NIO doesn’t have full-year guidance. But calling NIO’s stock price reaction is difficult.Ford trades for less than 7 times estimated 2022 earnings. NIO is expected to become profitable on a full-year basis in 2022. What’s more, NIO is worth about 50% more than Ford.NIO’s conference call wrapped up about 10 p.m. eastern time. After the chip shortage, analysts focused questions on EV competition in China and NIO’s production expansion. NIO is putting in place capacity to produce hundreds of thousands of vehicles in coming years.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":155,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103432833,"gmtCreate":1619799067422,"gmtModify":1704272608407,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"nice","listText":"nice","text":"nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/103432833","repostId":"1103818454","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1103818454","pubTimestamp":1619769216,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1103818454?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-30 15:53","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Amazon Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1103818454","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic wi","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Big Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic with another massive all-around beat.</li>\n <li>AWS seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, on the back of growth acceleration and solid margins.</li>\n <li>Amazon shares are looking hot, after a 16% one-month rally. But I think that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation, in the long term.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e9f56d3e6d62818330f1d9b52c905b50\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1024\"><span>Photo by 400tmax/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Big Tech has been having an outstanding calendar first quarter in 2021. On April 29, it was Amazon's (AMZN) turn to drop the mic with&nbsp;another earnings smasher, its fourth consecutive all-around beat. The tech and consumer goods giant topped expectations across the board, and remained on track to achieve world domination: by far the largest global retailer and IaaS cloud provider.</p>\n<p>One very important piece of Amazon's business seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, as I watch the stock soar 4% ahead of the earnings call. Amazon Web Services delivered much higher-than-forecasted revenues and solid margins of 30.8%, fueling optimism for cloud and digital transformation.</p>\n<p><b>Results were spotless</b></p>\n<p>Wall Street already expected Amazon to have an outstanding quarter, with EPS climbing by nearly 100%. Little did analysts know that the company's earnings would top aggressive projections by the third widest margin&nbsp;of the past five years, at least. EPS of $15.79 was an astonishing 215% increase YOY.</p>\n<p>The table below, particularly the area highlighted, depicts Amazon's impressive top-line performance. The broad North America and International segments, which basically encompass everything except cloud infrastructure services, experienced growth of at least 40%, fueled by:</p>\n<ol>\n <li>lingering stay-at-home tailwinds from the pandemic;</li>\n <li>a likely permanent shift in how consumers shop (i.e. online);</li>\n <li>the ramp up of smaller initiatives that are still in high-growth stage.</li>\n</ol>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ae9d372898d5f53fc75e57c395214c59\" tg-width=\"595\" tg-height=\"337\"><span>Source: Collage from earnings report</span></p>\n<p>The slower growth, smaller revenue AWS segment, however, is what I believe impressed investors the most in the first quarter. Top-line growth of 32% was quite an achievement, compared to 28% last quarter. The four percentage-point growth<i>acceleration</i>compares very favorably to Microsoft (MSFT) Azure's two percentage-point&nbsp;<i>deceleration</i>&nbsp;in the same period. This apparent shift in market share may explain why AMZN was up strongly after hours, while MSFT was down about 0.4%.</p>\n<p>I believe that the market pays too much attention to quarter-by-quarter cloud revenue flows. Matters like revenue recognition and lumpiness in large contracts can impact short-term performance. Yet, investor sentiment seems to get a boost whenever AWS performs well, as it did in the first quarter. All the better for Amazon shareholders.</p>\n<p><b>Stock is hot, company is hotter</b></p>\n<p>Some might feel uneasy buying AMZN after the stock climbed 16% in the past month alone, while the S&amp;P 500 traded higher by \"only\" 6% during the same period. This is especially true if one considers recent bullishness in Amazon stock to have been driven by&nbsp;a speculated stock split&nbsp;that, until now, has not been confirmed.</p>\n<p>But on the heels of a killer quarter, I believe that it is very hard to build a bearish case on Amazon. Yes, multiples are high (see below), and they likely will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But the company's staggering fundamentals seem to justify the valuation premium. Consider the dizzying growth pace of virtually all Amazon's sub-segments, much of which I would credit to secular (not temporary, pandemic-related) trends in digital commerce and cloud adoption.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5a158fe786b08a69d6a5d4988f520886\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"453\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>To invest in AMZN, I believe that one needs to focus on the long term. In the short term, anything can happen to the stock. A post-earnings, \"sell the news\" pullback driven by profit taking is certainly not out of question.</p>\n<p>But look farther out in time, and it is likely that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation. For example, 2026 EPS projections&nbsp;currently stand&nbsp;at over $200. Judging by what Amazon delivered in Q1, they could prove to be conservative estimates. At current levels, shares trade at a five-year forward P/E of only 17x, which is absurdly low (in my view) for a company that will likely continue to thrive well beyond the next few years.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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 Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination</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 Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 15:53 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4422778-amazon-earnings-review-on-track-for-world-domination><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic with another massive all-around beat.\nAWS seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4422778-amazon-earnings-review-on-track-for-world-domination\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4422778-amazon-earnings-review-on-track-for-world-domination","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1103818454","content_text":"Summary\n\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic with another massive all-around beat.\nAWS seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, on the back of growth acceleration and solid margins.\nAmazon shares are looking hot, after a 16% one-month rally. But I think that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation, in the long term.\n\nPhoto by 400tmax/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding calendar first quarter in 2021. On April 29, it was Amazon's (AMZN) turn to drop the mic with another earnings smasher, its fourth consecutive all-around beat. The tech and consumer goods giant topped expectations across the board, and remained on track to achieve world domination: by far the largest global retailer and IaaS cloud provider.\nOne very important piece of Amazon's business seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, as I watch the stock soar 4% ahead of the earnings call. Amazon Web Services delivered much higher-than-forecasted revenues and solid margins of 30.8%, fueling optimism for cloud and digital transformation.\nResults were spotless\nWall Street already expected Amazon to have an outstanding quarter, with EPS climbing by nearly 100%. Little did analysts know that the company's earnings would top aggressive projections by the third widest margin of the past five years, at least. EPS of $15.79 was an astonishing 215% increase YOY.\nThe table below, particularly the area highlighted, depicts Amazon's impressive top-line performance. The broad North America and International segments, which basically encompass everything except cloud infrastructure services, experienced growth of at least 40%, fueled by:\n\nlingering stay-at-home tailwinds from the pandemic;\na likely permanent shift in how consumers shop (i.e. online);\nthe ramp up of smaller initiatives that are still in high-growth stage.\n\nSource: Collage from earnings report\nThe slower growth, smaller revenue AWS segment, however, is what I believe impressed investors the most in the first quarter. Top-line growth of 32% was quite an achievement, compared to 28% last quarter. The four percentage-point growthaccelerationcompares very favorably to Microsoft (MSFT) Azure's two percentage-point deceleration in the same period. This apparent shift in market share may explain why AMZN was up strongly after hours, while MSFT was down about 0.4%.\nI believe that the market pays too much attention to quarter-by-quarter cloud revenue flows. Matters like revenue recognition and lumpiness in large contracts can impact short-term performance. Yet, investor sentiment seems to get a boost whenever AWS performs well, as it did in the first quarter. All the better for Amazon shareholders.\nStock is hot, company is hotter\nSome might feel uneasy buying AMZN after the stock climbed 16% in the past month alone, while the S&P 500 traded higher by \"only\" 6% during the same period. This is especially true if one considers recent bullishness in Amazon stock to have been driven by a speculated stock split that, until now, has not been confirmed.\nBut on the heels of a killer quarter, I believe that it is very hard to build a bearish case on Amazon. Yes, multiples are high (see below), and they likely will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But the company's staggering fundamentals seem to justify the valuation premium. Consider the dizzying growth pace of virtually all Amazon's sub-segments, much of which I would credit to secular (not temporary, pandemic-related) trends in digital commerce and cloud adoption.\nData by YCharts\nTo invest in AMZN, I believe that one needs to focus on the long term. In the short term, anything can happen to the stock. A post-earnings, \"sell the news\" pullback driven by profit taking is certainly not out of question.\nBut look farther out in time, and it is likely that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation. For example, 2026 EPS projections currently stand at over $200. Judging by what Amazon delivered in Q1, they could prove to be conservative estimates. At current levels, shares trade at a five-year forward P/E of only 17x, which is absurdly low (in my view) for a company that will likely continue to thrive well beyond the next few years.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":190,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103432977,"gmtCreate":1619799040499,"gmtModify":1704272607919,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Sounds not bad.&nbsp;","listText":"Sounds not bad.&nbsp;","text":"Sounds not bad.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/103432977","repostId":"1142063705","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1142063705","pubTimestamp":1619796118,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1142063705?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-30 23:21","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Europe's antitrust crackdown on Apple hints at what's coming for the company in the U.S.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1142063705","media":"CNBC","summary":"For a long time, the European Commission seemed to stand apart from the U.S. in cracking down on tech giants with antitrust fines againstGoogleand privacy rules like the General Data Protection Regulation.“The Commission’s argument onSpotify’sbehalf is the opposite of fair competition,” Apple said in a statement following Vestager’s announcement, referring to the music streaming company that raised the competition complaint. 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Apple said Spotify wants “all the benefits of the App Store but don’t think they should have to pay anything for that,” by choosing to object to its 15-30% commission on in-app payments for streaming apps.\nApple isn’t currently facing any antitrust charges from government officials in the U.S. and such a lawsuit may never materialize, though the Department of Justice wasreportedly granted oversight of the company’s competitive practices in 2019. But even if the government declines to press charges, recent actions in Congress, state legislatures and in private lawsuits demonstrate a significant shift in the American public’s sentiment toward Apple and the tech industry at large.\nWhen the commissionslapped its first record competition fineagainstGooglein 2017, it wasn’t yet clear that the U.S. might be ready to move on from its once-cozy relationship with its booming tech industry. But in 2018, on the heels of the revelations of howFacebookuser data was used by analytics company Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election, and increasing questions about how tech platforms can impact American democracy, that seemed to change.\nNow, as Europe continues to move forward with its probe into Apple, the U.S. no longer seems to be so far behind.\nHere’s where Apple stands to face risk of antitrust action or regulation in the U.S.:\nDOJ\nThe DOJ has already moved forward with a massive lawsuit against Google, so it could take some time if it decides to ramp up a probe into Apple. Though the DOJ’s Antitrust Division took on oversight authority of Apple in a 2019 agreement with the FTC, according to aWall Street Journal report, the Google investigation has seemed to take priority.\nStill, then-Attorney General Bill Barr announced later that year that the DOJ wouldconduct a broad antitrust review of Big Tech companies.\nAny action from the DOJ or state enforcers would take the form of a settlement or lawsuit, which would put Apple’s fate in the hands of the courts.\nPrivate lawsuits\nApple’s most immediate challenge in the U.S. has come from private companies bringing antitrust charges against its business in court.\nThe most notable of these lawsuits isfrom Fortnite-maker Epic Games, which is set to begin its trial on Monday. Epic filed its lawsuit with a PR blitz afterchallenging Apple’s in-app payment feeby advertising in its app an alternative, cheaper way to buy character outfits from Epic directly, violating Apple’s rules. That prompted Apple to remove Fortnite from its App Store. Epic filed the suit shortly after and Applefiled counterclaimsagainst Epic for allegedly breaching its contract.\n“Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store,” Apple said in a filing with the District Court for the Northern District of California in September.\nCongress\nJust last week,several app-makers testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust about the alleged anti-competitive harms they’ve facedfrom restrictions on both Apple and Google’s app stores.\nRepresentatives from Apple and Google told lawmakers they simply charge for the technology and the work they put into running the app stores, which have significantly lowered distribution costs for app developers over the years.\nBut witnesses from Tinder-ownerMatch Group, item-tracking device-maker Tile and Spotify painted a different picture.\n“We’re all afraid,” Match Group chief legal officer Jared Sine testified of the platforms’ broad power over their businesses.\nThe witnesses discussed the seemingly arbitrary nature by which Apple allegedly enforces its App Store rules. Spotify’s legal chief claimed Apple has threatened retaliation on numerous occasions and Tile’s top lawyer said Apple denied access to a key feature that wouldimprove their object-tracking product, before utilizing it for Apple’s own rival gadget,called AirTag.\nTile said that while Apple now makes the feature available for third-party developers to incorporate, accessing it would mean handing over a significant amount of data and control to Apple. Apple’s representative said its product is different from Tile’s and opening the feature in question will encourage further competition in the space.\nSenators at the hearing seemed receptive to the app developers’ complaints, which build on earlier claims made before House lawmakers. The House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust found in a more than year-long probe thatAmazon, Apple, Facebook and Googleall hold monopoly power, and lawmakers are currently crafting bills to enable stronger antitrust enforcement of digital markets.\nState Legislatures\nSeveral state legislatures have beenconsidering bills that would require platforms like Apple and Google to allow app-makers to use their own payment processing systems. While the bills have so far hadvarying degrees of successin the early stages of lawmaking, passage in one state could raise a host of questions about how it should be enforced given the ambiguous nature of digital borders.\nThe bills have been supported by the Coalition for App Fairness, a group of companies that have complained about app store fees, including Epic Games, Match Group and Spotify.\nApple has often argued that it maintains features like payments within its own ecosystem in order to protect consumers and secure their data, though app developers and lawmakers have expressed skepticism about that reasoning.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":242,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":109702049,"gmtCreate":1619716610381,"gmtModify":1704271326027,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"looks good","listText":"looks good","text":"looks good","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/109702049","repostId":"1183966356","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1183966356","pubTimestamp":1619665696,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1183966356?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-29 11:08","market":"us","language":"en","title":"NIO Q1 2021 Earnings Report Preview: What to Look For","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1183966356","media":"InvestoPedia","summary":"Analysts estimate earnings per ADS of -0.72 yuan vs. -1.66 yuan in Q1 FY 2020.Revenue is expected to soar on expanding vehicle sales.NIO Inc. , like many other automakers, was forced to halt production this year due to the global semiconductor shortage. Semiconductor chips, widely used in smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices, are especially important to NIO, a maker of premium electric vehicles . NIO's production stoppage in late March had little impact on the company's record ve","content":"<p>Focus on NIO vehicle deliveries</p>\n<p><b>KEY TAKEAWAYS</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Analysts estimate earnings per ADS of -0.72 yuan vs. -1.66 yuan in Q1 FY 2020.</li>\n <li>Vehicle deliveries, already announced, rose dramatically YOY.</li>\n <li>Revenue is expected to soar on expanding vehicle sales.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>NIO Inc. (NIO), like many other automakers, was forced to halt production this year due to the global semiconductor shortage. Semiconductor chips, widely used in smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices, are especially important to NIO, a maker of premium electric vehicles (EVs). NIO's production stoppage in late March had little impact on the company's record vehicle deliveries in Q1, but it could affect future production numbers.</p>\n<p>Investors will focus on how these forces affect NIO's immediate results, as well as its financial outlook, when the company reports earnings on April 29, 2021 for Q1 FY 2021.Analysts are expecting the company's loss per American depositary share (ADS) to narrow significantly as revenue expands at a rapid pace.</p>\n<p>Vehicle deliveries are another key metric investors watch in order to gauge the company's productive capacity. NIO already reported vehicle deliveries for the first quarter earlier this month, achieving a new quarterly record despite total deliveries coming in slightly below expectations.</p>\n<p>Shares of NIO have dramatically outperformed the broader market over the past year. But after reaching all-time highs earlier this year, the stock has fallen considerably and has been trading mostly sideways since early March. NIO's shares have provided investors with an astronomic total return of 1,171.9% over the past year, well above the S&amp;P 500's total return of 45.5%.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a11e1a915810ccbc7f07ec2adf16865b\" tg-width=\"3004\" tg-height=\"1798\"><span>Source: TradingView.</span></p>\n<p><b>NIO Earnings History</b></p>\n<p>The stock, which had been gathering downward momentum after peaking around mid-February, plunged following NIO's&nbsp;Q4 FY 2020 earnings&nbsp;report released at the beginning of March. The company reported a much larger loss per ADS than analysts expected and revenue also missed estimates. However, NIO's loss narrowed considerably compared to the year-ago quarter and revenue was still up 133.2%.The company was optimistic about its performance, noting that its&nbsp;gross margin&nbsp;rose to 17.2% compared to negative 8.9% in the year-ago quarter.</p>\n<p>In Q3 FY 2020, NIO posted a loss per ADS of 0.98 yuan ($0.15 as of the CNY/USD exchange rate on April 27, 2021).It was the smallest loss in at least 11 quarters. Revenue rose 146.4%, maintaining the pace of growth achieved in the second quarter.NIO said it delivered a record number of vehicles and saw improvements in its average selling price. The company also said that it was the second straight quarter of positive cash flow from operating activities.</p>\n<p>Analysts expect continued improvement in NIO's financial results in Q1 FY 2021. While NIO is still expected to post another loss per ADS, it is estimated to be the lowest in at least 14 quarters. Revenue for the quarter is forecast to rise 446.1%, which would be the fastest pace since Q2 FY 2019. For full-year FY 2021, analysts are currently expecting NIO to achieve a loss of 2.72 yuan per ADS, which would be the smallest loss in at least five years. Revenue is expected to rise 109.7%, a faster pace than in each of the last two years.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d412a9c0aea28621f713f5afbfba444c\" tg-width=\"885\" tg-height=\"352\"><span>Source: Visible Alpha; NIO Inc.</span></p>\n<p><b>The Key Metric</b></p>\n<p>As mentioned above, investors are also watching the number of vehicles NIO delivers each quarter. NIO generates some revenue from various services it provides, but the majority of revenue is derived from vehicle sales.Currently, the company makes deliveries of three types of vehicles: the ES8, the company's 6-seater and 7-seater flagship premium smart electric SUV; the ES6, the company’s 5-seater high-performance premium smart electric SUV; and the EC6, the company’s 5-seater premium electric coupe SUV.The number of vehicle deliveries provides an indication of the demand for NIO's vehicles as well as the company's ability to scale production.</p>\n<p>NIO has significantly ramped up its production over the past few years. The company delivered 11,350 vehicles in FY 2018. In FY 2020, it had nearly quadrupled that figure, delivering 43,730 vehicles. Despite a slowdown in Q1 FY 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, NIO quickly made up for the Q1 drop in deliveries with a 190.8% year-over-year increase in Q2 FY 2020. Total vehicle delivery growth decelerated to 154.3% in Q3 and then to 111.0% in Q4. However, vehicle deliveries rose 423.0% in Q1 FY 2021, hitting a new quarterly record, as mentioned above. For full-year FY 2021, analysts are forecasting NIO to deliver 88,280 vehicles, which would be more than double last year's total deliveries. However, NIO warned investors in early March that the global chip shortage is likely to cut its production capacity, at least in the second quarter.</p>","source":"lsy1606203311635","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>NIO Q1 2021 Earnings Report Preview: What to Look For</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\">\nNIO Q1 2021 Earnings Report Preview: What to Look For\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-29 11:08 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investopedia.com/nio-q1-2021-earnings-report-preview-5180991><strong>InvestoPedia</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Focus on NIO vehicle deliveries\nKEY TAKEAWAYS\n\nAnalysts estimate earnings per ADS of -0.72 yuan vs. -1.66 yuan in Q1 FY 2020.\nVehicle deliveries, already announced, rose dramatically YOY.\nRevenue is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/nio-q1-2021-earnings-report-preview-5180991\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"NIO":"蔚来"},"source_url":"https://www.investopedia.com/nio-q1-2021-earnings-report-preview-5180991","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1183966356","content_text":"Focus on NIO vehicle deliveries\nKEY TAKEAWAYS\n\nAnalysts estimate earnings per ADS of -0.72 yuan vs. -1.66 yuan in Q1 FY 2020.\nVehicle deliveries, already announced, rose dramatically YOY.\nRevenue is expected to soar on expanding vehicle sales.\n\nNIO Inc. (NIO), like many other automakers, was forced to halt production this year due to the global semiconductor shortage. Semiconductor chips, widely used in smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices, are especially important to NIO, a maker of premium electric vehicles (EVs). NIO's production stoppage in late March had little impact on the company's record vehicle deliveries in Q1, but it could affect future production numbers.\nInvestors will focus on how these forces affect NIO's immediate results, as well as its financial outlook, when the company reports earnings on April 29, 2021 for Q1 FY 2021.Analysts are expecting the company's loss per American depositary share (ADS) to narrow significantly as revenue expands at a rapid pace.\nVehicle deliveries are another key metric investors watch in order to gauge the company's productive capacity. NIO already reported vehicle deliveries for the first quarter earlier this month, achieving a new quarterly record despite total deliveries coming in slightly below expectations.\nShares of NIO have dramatically outperformed the broader market over the past year. But after reaching all-time highs earlier this year, the stock has fallen considerably and has been trading mostly sideways since early March. NIO's shares have provided investors with an astronomic total return of 1,171.9% over the past year, well above the S&P 500's total return of 45.5%.\nSource: TradingView.\nNIO Earnings History\nThe stock, which had been gathering downward momentum after peaking around mid-February, plunged following NIO's Q4 FY 2020 earnings report released at the beginning of March. The company reported a much larger loss per ADS than analysts expected and revenue also missed estimates. However, NIO's loss narrowed considerably compared to the year-ago quarter and revenue was still up 133.2%.The company was optimistic about its performance, noting that its gross margin rose to 17.2% compared to negative 8.9% in the year-ago quarter.\nIn Q3 FY 2020, NIO posted a loss per ADS of 0.98 yuan ($0.15 as of the CNY/USD exchange rate on April 27, 2021).It was the smallest loss in at least 11 quarters. Revenue rose 146.4%, maintaining the pace of growth achieved in the second quarter.NIO said it delivered a record number of vehicles and saw improvements in its average selling price. The company also said that it was the second straight quarter of positive cash flow from operating activities.\nAnalysts expect continued improvement in NIO's financial results in Q1 FY 2021. While NIO is still expected to post another loss per ADS, it is estimated to be the lowest in at least 14 quarters. Revenue for the quarter is forecast to rise 446.1%, which would be the fastest pace since Q2 FY 2019. For full-year FY 2021, analysts are currently expecting NIO to achieve a loss of 2.72 yuan per ADS, which would be the smallest loss in at least five years. Revenue is expected to rise 109.7%, a faster pace than in each of the last two years.\nSource: Visible Alpha; NIO Inc.\nThe Key Metric\nAs mentioned above, investors are also watching the number of vehicles NIO delivers each quarter. NIO generates some revenue from various services it provides, but the majority of revenue is derived from vehicle sales.Currently, the company makes deliveries of three types of vehicles: the ES8, the company's 6-seater and 7-seater flagship premium smart electric SUV; the ES6, the company’s 5-seater high-performance premium smart electric SUV; and the EC6, the company’s 5-seater premium electric coupe SUV.The number of vehicle deliveries provides an indication of the demand for NIO's vehicles as well as the company's ability to scale production.\nNIO has significantly ramped up its production over the past few years. The company delivered 11,350 vehicles in FY 2018. In FY 2020, it had nearly quadrupled that figure, delivering 43,730 vehicles. Despite a slowdown in Q1 FY 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, NIO quickly made up for the Q1 drop in deliveries with a 190.8% year-over-year increase in Q2 FY 2020. Total vehicle delivery growth decelerated to 154.3% in Q3 and then to 111.0% in Q4. However, vehicle deliveries rose 423.0% in Q1 FY 2021, hitting a new quarterly record, as mentioned above. For full-year FY 2021, analysts are forecasting NIO to deliver 88,280 vehicles, which would be more than double last year's total deliveries. However, NIO warned investors in early March that the global chip shortage is likely to cut its production capacity, at least in the second quarter.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":243,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":374396391,"gmtCreate":1619416257513,"gmtModify":1704723504518,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...&nbsp;","listText":"Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...&nbsp;","text":"Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/374396391","repostId":"1158968268","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1158968268","pubTimestamp":1619396796,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1158968268?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-26 08:26","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Bitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1158968268","media":"TheStreet","summary":"TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to dis","content":"<p>TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the April 'bloodbath' and what it means for investors.</p>\n<p>Did the world just witness the bitcoin bomb? Or, the chance for a bitcoin buy?</p>\n<p>The famed cryptocurrency&nbsp;fell sharply&nbsp;over the past week, sinking from its mid-month high of over $64,000 to Sunday evening, when it fell under $48,000.</p>\n<p>But the move may prove an opportunity for longer term investors.</p>\n<p>\"Bitcoin's volatility isn't a flaw, it's a gift -- especially for the up-and-coming investor class of millennials and Gen-Z,\" said Dave Balter, the chief executive of Flipside Crypto, which provides analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations, in an email to<i>TheStreet.</i>\"The last month is a reflection of its natural cycles, but also of a maturing institutional speculation and futures market.\"</p>\n<p>And, said Balter, any good investor \"knows there's always money to be made with volatile assets.\"</p>\n<p>Still, the move startled some observers. Before the fall, bitcoin had been on a steady upswing, with&nbsp;many forecasting that it was not a question of if, but when, itwould hit $100,000.&nbsp;Just in the past quarter, the cryptocurrency scored several new highs and surpassed $64,000 on April 14. By that time it had also grown by over 1,000% from a year-ago, when on March 13, 2020, it crashed 40% intraday to $5,413, according to a new&nbsp;report by CoinGecko, &nbsp;one of the largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregators.</p>\n<p>The past week's drop also came after several months of bullish buildup on crypto that dominated financial news headlines.</p>\n<p>Tesla&nbsp;had said in March that it was holding bitcoin as an investment asset and would take it as a form of payment. Visa&nbsp;gotfurther into cryptoand Grayscale Investmentsrevealed it planned a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. And then there was the hysteria of Coinbase&nbsp;going public.</p>\n<p>\"There was already a massive amount of leverage in the market in anticipation of the Coinbase IPO,\" said&nbsp;Bobby Ong, CoinGecko's chief operating officer, told<i>TheStreet</i>in an email. \"The excitement of having the first crypto company IPO also led bitcoin’s price to hit a new all-time high of $64,804.\"</p>\n<p>Further exacerbating last week's selloff was its occurrence during the weekend when there were thinner order books, said Ong.&nbsp;\"With high leverage and thin order books, even a small decrease in price will trigger a sharp drawdown and cause a downward spiral in price.\"</p>\n<p>Now, the market needs to correct itself, because there were many over-leveraged traders, said Ong, adding that bitcoin options expire toward the end of every month, which usually causes increased volatility around that time.</p>\n<p><b>Bitcoin Ban?</b></p>\n<p>Despite bitcoin's rise through mid-April and excitement leading up to Cionbase's offering, it wasn't all glitter and gold for the digital coin in past few weeks.</p>\n<p>Not only did coinbase's initial public offering somewhat disappoint in the days following, but star investors had been growing increasingly vocal about their skepticism of the cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>Hedgefund investor Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates told&nbsp;Yahoo News&nbsp;last month that he felt there was a “good probability” bitcoin could become outlawed in the U.S. He also questioned the privacy of the cryptocurrency's transactions. Then, last week, Guggenheim Partners’ Scott Minerd&nbsp;told CNBC&nbsp;that while he's bullish on bitcoin over the long-term, bitcoin is too \"frothy\" and could fall 50%.</p>\n<p>The lukewarm reception from stock investors over Coinbase's direct listing and&nbsp;\"a lot of fear and uncertainty\" spreading on social media didn't help bitcoin, suggested Ong, noting the recent headlines of crypto bans in India and Turkey.</p>\n<p>But aside from the technical and fundamental moves in crypto in the waning weeks of April -- much of what happened in the media was little more than hype and speculation, suggested Balter.</p>\n<p>\"I'd hate to go on record for ever saying Ray Dalio doesn't know what he's talking about,\" said Balter,&nbsp;who is also a partner with venture capital firm True Ventures. \"That said ... like any asset, there's always a great deal of speculation -- bitcoin is esteemed in that it presents both technical and financial implications, and thus magnifies that speculation immensely.\"</p>\n<p>And, that people like Dalio and Minerd are even talking about crypto so publicly on the record, shows how far the digital currency has come, noted Balter, also responding to a recent comment by value investor Bill Miller, who&nbsp;told CNBC&nbsp;this month that he sees bitcoin establishing itself in the \"mainstream.\"</p>\n<p>\"The fact that all three are going on record would indicate that bitcoin is likely entering the mainstream, so hat-tip to Mr. Miller,\" said Balter. \"The volatility of bitcoin has always been part of its allure, so cutting in half isn't out of the question.... Although, I don't think we'll ever see $10,000 levels again. As for Mr. Dalio, unfortunately the concept of outlawing an asset that is conceptually decentralized is pretty much out of the question, and bitcoin transactions are hardly private, so sorry Mr. Dalio, you are pretty off the mark.\"</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>Bitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?</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\">\nBitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-26 08:26 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bitcoin/thestreet-taps-two-crypto-experts-bobby-ong-of-coingecko-and-dave-balter-of-flipside-crypto-to-discuss-the-april-bloodbath-and-what-it-means-for-investors><strong>TheStreet</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the April 'bloodbath' and what it means for investors.\nDid the world just witness the bitcoin ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bitcoin/thestreet-taps-two-crypto-experts-bobby-ong-of-coingecko-and-dave-balter-of-flipside-crypto-to-discuss-the-april-bloodbath-and-what-it-means-for-investors\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"COIN":"Coinbase Global, Inc.","TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust","SQ":"Block","PYPL":"PayPal"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bitcoin/thestreet-taps-two-crypto-experts-bobby-ong-of-coingecko-and-dave-balter-of-flipside-crypto-to-discuss-the-april-bloodbath-and-what-it-means-for-investors","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1158968268","content_text":"TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the April 'bloodbath' and what it means for investors.\nDid the world just witness the bitcoin bomb? Or, the chance for a bitcoin buy?\nThe famed cryptocurrency fell sharply over the past week, sinking from its mid-month high of over $64,000 to Sunday evening, when it fell under $48,000.\nBut the move may prove an opportunity for longer term investors.\n\"Bitcoin's volatility isn't a flaw, it's a gift -- especially for the up-and-coming investor class of millennials and Gen-Z,\" said Dave Balter, the chief executive of Flipside Crypto, which provides analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations, in an email toTheStreet.\"The last month is a reflection of its natural cycles, but also of a maturing institutional speculation and futures market.\"\nAnd, said Balter, any good investor \"knows there's always money to be made with volatile assets.\"\nStill, the move startled some observers. Before the fall, bitcoin had been on a steady upswing, with many forecasting that it was not a question of if, but when, itwould hit $100,000. Just in the past quarter, the cryptocurrency scored several new highs and surpassed $64,000 on April 14. By that time it had also grown by over 1,000% from a year-ago, when on March 13, 2020, it crashed 40% intraday to $5,413, according to a new report by CoinGecko,  one of the largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregators.\nThe past week's drop also came after several months of bullish buildup on crypto that dominated financial news headlines.\nTesla had said in March that it was holding bitcoin as an investment asset and would take it as a form of payment. Visa gotfurther into cryptoand Grayscale Investmentsrevealed it planned a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. And then there was the hysteria of Coinbase going public.\n\"There was already a massive amount of leverage in the market in anticipation of the Coinbase IPO,\" said Bobby Ong, CoinGecko's chief operating officer, toldTheStreetin an email. \"The excitement of having the first crypto company IPO also led bitcoin’s price to hit a new all-time high of $64,804.\"\nFurther exacerbating last week's selloff was its occurrence during the weekend when there were thinner order books, said Ong. \"With high leverage and thin order books, even a small decrease in price will trigger a sharp drawdown and cause a downward spiral in price.\"\nNow, the market needs to correct itself, because there were many over-leveraged traders, said Ong, adding that bitcoin options expire toward the end of every month, which usually causes increased volatility around that time.\nBitcoin Ban?\nDespite bitcoin's rise through mid-April and excitement leading up to Cionbase's offering, it wasn't all glitter and gold for the digital coin in past few weeks.\nNot only did coinbase's initial public offering somewhat disappoint in the days following, but star investors had been growing increasingly vocal about their skepticism of the cryptocurrency.\nHedgefund investor Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates told Yahoo News last month that he felt there was a “good probability” bitcoin could become outlawed in the U.S. He also questioned the privacy of the cryptocurrency's transactions. Then, last week, Guggenheim Partners’ Scott Minerd told CNBC that while he's bullish on bitcoin over the long-term, bitcoin is too \"frothy\" and could fall 50%.\nThe lukewarm reception from stock investors over Coinbase's direct listing and \"a lot of fear and uncertainty\" spreading on social media didn't help bitcoin, suggested Ong, noting the recent headlines of crypto bans in India and Turkey.\nBut aside from the technical and fundamental moves in crypto in the waning weeks of April -- much of what happened in the media was little more than hype and speculation, suggested Balter.\n\"I'd hate to go on record for ever saying Ray Dalio doesn't know what he's talking about,\" said Balter, who is also a partner with venture capital firm True Ventures. \"That said ... like any asset, there's always a great deal of speculation -- bitcoin is esteemed in that it presents both technical and financial implications, and thus magnifies that speculation immensely.\"\nAnd, that people like Dalio and Minerd are even talking about crypto so publicly on the record, shows how far the digital currency has come, noted Balter, also responding to a recent comment by value investor Bill Miller, who told CNBC this month that he sees bitcoin establishing itself in the \"mainstream.\"\n\"The fact that all three are going on record would indicate that bitcoin is likely entering the mainstream, so hat-tip to Mr. Miller,\" said Balter. \"The volatility of bitcoin has always been part of its allure, so cutting in half isn't out of the question.... 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As for Mr. Dalio, unfortunately the concept of outlawing an asset that is conceptually decentralized is pretty much out of the question, and bitcoin transactions are hardly private, so sorry Mr. Dalio, you are pretty off the mark.\"","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":209,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[{"author":{"id":"3574119575606145","authorId":"3574119575606145","name":"L1324","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b05b9f32dd8af2590c80da38d48e37fc","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574119575606145","authorIdStr":"3574119575606145"},"content":"indeed it is a high risk?","text":"indeed it is a high risk?","html":"indeed it is a high risk?"}],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":374396391,"gmtCreate":1619416257513,"gmtModify":1704723504518,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...&nbsp;","listText":"Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...&nbsp;","text":"Virtual currency without government support could worth nothing...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/374396391","repostId":"1158968268","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1158968268","pubTimestamp":1619396796,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1158968268?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-26 08:26","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Bitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1158968268","media":"TheStreet","summary":"TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to dis","content":"<p>TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the April 'bloodbath' and what it means for investors.</p>\n<p>Did the world just witness the bitcoin bomb? Or, the chance for a bitcoin buy?</p>\n<p>The famed cryptocurrency&nbsp;fell sharply&nbsp;over the past week, sinking from its mid-month high of over $64,000 to Sunday evening, when it fell under $48,000.</p>\n<p>But the move may prove an opportunity for longer term investors.</p>\n<p>\"Bitcoin's volatility isn't a flaw, it's a gift -- especially for the up-and-coming investor class of millennials and Gen-Z,\" said Dave Balter, the chief executive of Flipside Crypto, which provides analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations, in an email to<i>TheStreet.</i>\"The last month is a reflection of its natural cycles, but also of a maturing institutional speculation and futures market.\"</p>\n<p>And, said Balter, any good investor \"knows there's always money to be made with volatile assets.\"</p>\n<p>Still, the move startled some observers. Before the fall, bitcoin had been on a steady upswing, with&nbsp;many forecasting that it was not a question of if, but when, itwould hit $100,000.&nbsp;Just in the past quarter, the cryptocurrency scored several new highs and surpassed $64,000 on April 14. By that time it had also grown by over 1,000% from a year-ago, when on March 13, 2020, it crashed 40% intraday to $5,413, according to a new&nbsp;report by CoinGecko, &nbsp;one of the largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregators.</p>\n<p>The past week's drop also came after several months of bullish buildup on crypto that dominated financial news headlines.</p>\n<p>Tesla&nbsp;had said in March that it was holding bitcoin as an investment asset and would take it as a form of payment. Visa&nbsp;gotfurther into cryptoand Grayscale Investmentsrevealed it planned a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. And then there was the hysteria of Coinbase&nbsp;going public.</p>\n<p>\"There was already a massive amount of leverage in the market in anticipation of the Coinbase IPO,\" said&nbsp;Bobby Ong, CoinGecko's chief operating officer, told<i>TheStreet</i>in an email. \"The excitement of having the first crypto company IPO also led bitcoin’s price to hit a new all-time high of $64,804.\"</p>\n<p>Further exacerbating last week's selloff was its occurrence during the weekend when there were thinner order books, said Ong.&nbsp;\"With high leverage and thin order books, even a small decrease in price will trigger a sharp drawdown and cause a downward spiral in price.\"</p>\n<p>Now, the market needs to correct itself, because there were many over-leveraged traders, said Ong, adding that bitcoin options expire toward the end of every month, which usually causes increased volatility around that time.</p>\n<p><b>Bitcoin Ban?</b></p>\n<p>Despite bitcoin's rise through mid-April and excitement leading up to Cionbase's offering, it wasn't all glitter and gold for the digital coin in past few weeks.</p>\n<p>Not only did coinbase's initial public offering somewhat disappoint in the days following, but star investors had been growing increasingly vocal about their skepticism of the cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>Hedgefund investor Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates told&nbsp;Yahoo News&nbsp;last month that he felt there was a “good probability” bitcoin could become outlawed in the U.S. He also questioned the privacy of the cryptocurrency's transactions. Then, last week, Guggenheim Partners’ Scott Minerd&nbsp;told CNBC&nbsp;that while he's bullish on bitcoin over the long-term, bitcoin is too \"frothy\" and could fall 50%.</p>\n<p>The lukewarm reception from stock investors over Coinbase's direct listing and&nbsp;\"a lot of fear and uncertainty\" spreading on social media didn't help bitcoin, suggested Ong, noting the recent headlines of crypto bans in India and Turkey.</p>\n<p>But aside from the technical and fundamental moves in crypto in the waning weeks of April -- much of what happened in the media was little more than hype and speculation, suggested Balter.</p>\n<p>\"I'd hate to go on record for ever saying Ray Dalio doesn't know what he's talking about,\" said Balter,&nbsp;who is also a partner with venture capital firm True Ventures. \"That said ... like any asset, there's always a great deal of speculation -- bitcoin is esteemed in that it presents both technical and financial implications, and thus magnifies that speculation immensely.\"</p>\n<p>And, that people like Dalio and Minerd are even talking about crypto so publicly on the record, shows how far the digital currency has come, noted Balter, also responding to a recent comment by value investor Bill Miller, who&nbsp;told CNBC&nbsp;this month that he sees bitcoin establishing itself in the \"mainstream.\"</p>\n<p>\"The fact that all three are going on record would indicate that bitcoin is likely entering the mainstream, so hat-tip to Mr. Miller,\" said Balter. \"The volatility of bitcoin has always been part of its allure, so cutting in half isn't out of the question.... Although, I don't think we'll ever see $10,000 levels again. As for Mr. Dalio, unfortunately the concept of outlawing an asset that is conceptually decentralized is pretty much out of the question, and bitcoin transactions are hardly private, so sorry Mr. Dalio, you are pretty off the mark.\"</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>Bitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?</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\">\nBitcoin: Boom, Bust and Big Opportunity?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-26 08:26 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bitcoin/thestreet-taps-two-crypto-experts-bobby-ong-of-coingecko-and-dave-balter-of-flipside-crypto-to-discuss-the-april-bloodbath-and-what-it-means-for-investors><strong>TheStreet</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the April 'bloodbath' and what it means for investors.\nDid the world just witness the bitcoin ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bitcoin/thestreet-taps-two-crypto-experts-bobby-ong-of-coingecko-and-dave-balter-of-flipside-crypto-to-discuss-the-april-bloodbath-and-what-it-means-for-investors\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"COIN":"Coinbase Global, Inc.","TSLA":"特斯拉","GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust","SQ":"Block","PYPL":"PayPal"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bitcoin/thestreet-taps-two-crypto-experts-bobby-ong-of-coingecko-and-dave-balter-of-flipside-crypto-to-discuss-the-april-bloodbath-and-what-it-means-for-investors","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1158968268","content_text":"TheStreet taps two crypto experts, Bobby Ong of CoinGecko and Dave Balter of Flipside Crypto, to discuss the April 'bloodbath' and what it means for investors.\nDid the world just witness the bitcoin bomb? Or, the chance for a bitcoin buy?\nThe famed cryptocurrency fell sharply over the past week, sinking from its mid-month high of over $64,000 to Sunday evening, when it fell under $48,000.\nBut the move may prove an opportunity for longer term investors.\n\"Bitcoin's volatility isn't a flaw, it's a gift -- especially for the up-and-coming investor class of millennials and Gen-Z,\" said Dave Balter, the chief executive of Flipside Crypto, which provides analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations, in an email toTheStreet.\"The last month is a reflection of its natural cycles, but also of a maturing institutional speculation and futures market.\"\nAnd, said Balter, any good investor \"knows there's always money to be made with volatile assets.\"\nStill, the move startled some observers. Before the fall, bitcoin had been on a steady upswing, with many forecasting that it was not a question of if, but when, itwould hit $100,000. Just in the past quarter, the cryptocurrency scored several new highs and surpassed $64,000 on April 14. By that time it had also grown by over 1,000% from a year-ago, when on March 13, 2020, it crashed 40% intraday to $5,413, according to a new report by CoinGecko,  one of the largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregators.\nThe past week's drop also came after several months of bullish buildup on crypto that dominated financial news headlines.\nTesla had said in March that it was holding bitcoin as an investment asset and would take it as a form of payment. Visa gotfurther into cryptoand Grayscale Investmentsrevealed it planned a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. And then there was the hysteria of Coinbase going public.\n\"There was already a massive amount of leverage in the market in anticipation of the Coinbase IPO,\" said Bobby Ong, CoinGecko's chief operating officer, toldTheStreetin an email. \"The excitement of having the first crypto company IPO also led bitcoin’s price to hit a new all-time high of $64,804.\"\nFurther exacerbating last week's selloff was its occurrence during the weekend when there were thinner order books, said Ong. \"With high leverage and thin order books, even a small decrease in price will trigger a sharp drawdown and cause a downward spiral in price.\"\nNow, the market needs to correct itself, because there were many over-leveraged traders, said Ong, adding that bitcoin options expire toward the end of every month, which usually causes increased volatility around that time.\nBitcoin Ban?\nDespite bitcoin's rise through mid-April and excitement leading up to Cionbase's offering, it wasn't all glitter and gold for the digital coin in past few weeks.\nNot only did coinbase's initial public offering somewhat disappoint in the days following, but star investors had been growing increasingly vocal about their skepticism of the cryptocurrency.\nHedgefund investor Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates told Yahoo News last month that he felt there was a “good probability” bitcoin could become outlawed in the U.S. He also questioned the privacy of the cryptocurrency's transactions. Then, last week, Guggenheim Partners’ Scott Minerd told CNBC that while he's bullish on bitcoin over the long-term, bitcoin is too \"frothy\" and could fall 50%.\nThe lukewarm reception from stock investors over Coinbase's direct listing and \"a lot of fear and uncertainty\" spreading on social media didn't help bitcoin, suggested Ong, noting the recent headlines of crypto bans in India and Turkey.\nBut aside from the technical and fundamental moves in crypto in the waning weeks of April -- much of what happened in the media was little more than hype and speculation, suggested Balter.\n\"I'd hate to go on record for ever saying Ray Dalio doesn't know what he's talking about,\" said Balter, who is also a partner with venture capital firm True Ventures. \"That said ... like any asset, there's always a great deal of speculation -- bitcoin is esteemed in that it presents both technical and financial implications, and thus magnifies that speculation immensely.\"\nAnd, that people like Dalio and Minerd are even talking about crypto so publicly on the record, shows how far the digital currency has come, noted Balter, also responding to a recent comment by value investor Bill Miller, who told CNBC this month that he sees bitcoin establishing itself in the \"mainstream.\"\n\"The fact that all three are going on record would indicate that bitcoin is likely entering the mainstream, so hat-tip to Mr. Miller,\" said Balter. \"The volatility of bitcoin has always been part of its allure, so cutting in half isn't out of the question.... Although, I don't think we'll ever see $10,000 levels again. As for Mr. Dalio, unfortunately the concept of outlawing an asset that is conceptually decentralized is pretty much out of the question, and bitcoin transactions are hardly private, so sorry Mr. Dalio, you are pretty off the mark.\"","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":209,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[{"author":{"id":"3574119575606145","authorId":"3574119575606145","name":"L1324","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b05b9f32dd8af2590c80da38d48e37fc","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574119575606145","authorIdStr":"3574119575606145"},"content":"indeed it is a high risk?","text":"indeed it is a high risk?","html":"indeed it is a high risk?"}],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":376482907,"gmtCreate":1619142200309,"gmtModify":1704720271104,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"The title is interesting... 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Just find out reason for declines","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/376482907","repostId":"2129482339","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2129482339","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":1619128620,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2129482339?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-23 05:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Intel stock falls despite earnings beat, as data-center sales slump more than 20%","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2129482339","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"CEO Gelsinger says Intel will 'fight for every socket' in the competitive data-center market.Intel Corp. shares fell in the extended session Thursday despite a big earnings beat and a raised annual forecast, as a large dip in data-center sales was papered over by strength in sales of personal computers and a departing memory business.Intel $$ shares fell about 2.2% in after-hours trading, following a 1.8% decline in the regular session to close at $62.57.\"We are already shipping Ice Lake to more","content":"<blockquote>CEO Gelsinger says Intel will 'fight for every socket' in the competitive data-center market.</blockquote><p>Intel Corp. shares fell in the extended session Thursday despite a big earnings beat and a raised annual forecast, as a large dip in data-center sales was papered over by strength in sales of personal computers and a departing memory business.</p><p>Intel <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/INTC\">$(INTC)$</a> shares fell about 2.2% in after-hours trading, following a 1.8% decline in the regular session to close at $62.57.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5684028a3e7fc16650bb39913601ae27\" tg-width=\"1114\" tg-height=\"506\"></p><p>Intel's data-center group saw revenue fall more than 20% to $5.56 billion, while analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $5.89 billion. Intel is facing increased competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMD\">$(AMD)$</a> and GPU specialist Nvidia Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NVDA\">$(NVDA)$</a> in the data-center category.</p><p>On a call with analysts, Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, in his first earnings report since officially taking over, noted that Intel had just recently launched its new generation of Xeon server chips, codenamed \"Ice Lake,\" and that the industry is just beginning to emerge from a digestion phase from data centers and that Intel is \"starting to see signs that they want to start the next build phase in their cloud.\"</p><p>\"We are already shipping Ice Lake to more than 30 customers including major cloud providers communication service providers, enterprise, and [high performance computing] customers,\" Gelsinger said, adding that Intel was going to be very aggressive in marketing to data centers.</p><p>\"We're going to fight for every socket in the market,\" Gelsinger said.</p><p>On the PC side, Gelsinger said PC demand leapt to levels not seen since 2012 because of COVID-19.</p><p>\"And that's continuing,\" Gelsinger said. \"2021 is shaping up to be the largest PC market ever. In fact, we shipped more notebook CPUs in Q1 than in any other quarter in our history.\" The CEO said that \"<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> PC in every home is no longer enough.\"</p><p>Intel's largest segment -- client-computing, the traditional PC group -- grew more than 8% to $10.6 billion, with analysts expecting $10.17 billion.</p><p>As incoming CEO, Gelsinger dropped into Intel's last earnings conference call   after taking the helm.</p><p>Intel reported first-quarter net income of $3.4 billion, or 82 cents a share, compared with $5.66 billion, or $1.31 a share, in the year-ago period. After adjusting for more than $2.2 billion for restructuring and other efforts, as well as other adjustments, Intel reported earnings of $1.39 a share, compared with $1.45 a share from a year ago.</p><p>Revenue declined to $19.7 billion from $19.83 billion in the year-ago quarter, for a third straight quarter of year-over-year revenue declines, but came in much higher than expected. Analysts had estimated adjusted earnings of $1.15 a share on revenue of $17.79 billion, while Intel had forecast adjusted earnings of $1.10 a share on revenue of about $17.5 billion. Intel also noted that revenue after removing results from the memory business it is in process of selling was $18.6 billion, still well higher than analysts' estimates.</p><p>Intel predicted Thursday annual revenue of approximately $77 billion, or $72.5 billion without the memory business, and adjusted earnings of $4.60 a share. Gelsinger had previously targeted $4.55 a share on sales of $76.5 billion.</p><p>For the second quarter, Intel forecast revenue of $18.9 billion, or $17.8 billion when removing the memory business, and GAAP and non-GAAP earnings of $1.05 a share. Analysts on average expected adjusted second-quarter earnings of $1.09 a share on revenue of $17.55 billion.</p><p>\"Overall, Intel had a good quarter as it is taking advantage of the huge uptick in overall compute demand for computers,\" said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights &amp; Strategy, in emailed comments. \"The data-center numbers were planned to be down at these levels, but I think some industry analysts may be making some misallocations in their calculations.\"</p><p>Intel reported that nonvolatile memory-solutions revenue declined slightly to $1.11 billion, far surpassing Wall Street's expectations of $563.8 million. \"Internet of Things,\" or IoT, revenue rose to $914 million, compared with an expected $774.9 million. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MBLY\">Mobileye</a> revenue was $377 million, while the Street had expected $332.3 million.</p><p>Over the past 12 months, Intel shares have gained 4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Intel as a component -- has gained 44%, the S&amp;P 500 index  has grown 48%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index  has surged 63%, and the PHLX Semiconductor Index  has ballooned 86%.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Intel is facing increased competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMD\">$(AMD)$</a> and GPU specialist Nvidia Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NVDA\">$(NVDA)$</a> in the data-center category.</p><p>On a call with analysts, Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, in his first earnings report since officially taking over, noted that Intel had just recently launched its new generation of Xeon server chips, codenamed \"Ice Lake,\" and that the industry is just beginning to emerge from a digestion phase from data centers and that Intel is \"starting to see signs that they want to start the next build phase in their cloud.\"</p><p>\"We are already shipping Ice Lake to more than 30 customers including major cloud providers communication service providers, enterprise, and [high performance computing] customers,\" Gelsinger said, adding that Intel was going to be very aggressive in marketing to data centers.</p><p>\"We're going to fight for every socket in the market,\" Gelsinger said.</p><p>On the PC side, Gelsinger said PC demand leapt to levels not seen since 2012 because of COVID-19.</p><p>\"And that's continuing,\" Gelsinger said. \"2021 is shaping up to be the largest PC market ever. In fact, we shipped more notebook CPUs in Q1 than in any other quarter in our history.\" The CEO said that \"<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> PC in every home is no longer enough.\"</p><p>Intel's largest segment -- client-computing, the traditional PC group -- grew more than 8% to $10.6 billion, with analysts expecting $10.17 billion.</p><p>As incoming CEO, Gelsinger dropped into Intel's last earnings conference call   after taking the helm.</p><p>Intel reported first-quarter net income of $3.4 billion, or 82 cents a share, compared with $5.66 billion, or $1.31 a share, in the year-ago period. After adjusting for more than $2.2 billion for restructuring and other efforts, as well as other adjustments, Intel reported earnings of $1.39 a share, compared with $1.45 a share from a year ago.</p><p>Revenue declined to $19.7 billion from $19.83 billion in the year-ago quarter, for a third straight quarter of year-over-year revenue declines, but came in much higher than expected. Analysts had estimated adjusted earnings of $1.15 a share on revenue of $17.79 billion, while Intel had forecast adjusted earnings of $1.10 a share on revenue of about $17.5 billion. Intel also noted that revenue after removing results from the memory business it is in process of selling was $18.6 billion, still well higher than analysts' estimates.</p><p>Intel predicted Thursday annual revenue of approximately $77 billion, or $72.5 billion without the memory business, and adjusted earnings of $4.60 a share. Gelsinger had previously targeted $4.55 a share on sales of $76.5 billion.</p><p>For the second quarter, Intel forecast revenue of $18.9 billion, or $17.8 billion when removing the memory business, and GAAP and non-GAAP earnings of $1.05 a share. Analysts on average expected adjusted second-quarter earnings of $1.09 a share on revenue of $17.55 billion.</p><p>\"Overall, Intel had a good quarter as it is taking advantage of the huge uptick in overall compute demand for computers,\" said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights &amp; Strategy, in emailed comments. \"The data-center numbers were planned to be down at these levels, but I think some industry analysts may be making some misallocations in their calculations.\"</p><p>Intel reported that nonvolatile memory-solutions revenue declined slightly to $1.11 billion, far surpassing Wall Street's expectations of $563.8 million. \"Internet of Things,\" or IoT, revenue rose to $914 million, compared with an expected $774.9 million. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MBLY\">Mobileye</a> revenue was $377 million, while the Street had expected $332.3 million.</p><p>Over the past 12 months, Intel shares have gained 4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Intel as a component -- has gained 44%, the S&amp;P 500 index  has grown 48%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index  has surged 63%, and the PHLX Semiconductor Index  has ballooned 86%.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2129482339","content_text":"CEO Gelsinger says Intel will 'fight for every socket' in the competitive data-center market.Intel Corp. shares fell in the extended session Thursday despite a big earnings beat and a raised annual forecast, as a large dip in data-center sales was papered over by strength in sales of personal computers and a departing memory business.Intel $(INTC)$ shares fell about 2.2% in after-hours trading, following a 1.8% decline in the regular session to close at $62.57.Intel's data-center group saw revenue fall more than 20% to $5.56 billion, while analysts surveyed by FactSet expected $5.89 billion. Intel is facing increased competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. $(AMD)$ and GPU specialist Nvidia Corp. $(NVDA)$ in the data-center category.On a call with analysts, Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, in his first earnings report since officially taking over, noted that Intel had just recently launched its new generation of Xeon server chips, codenamed \"Ice Lake,\" and that the industry is just beginning to emerge from a digestion phase from data centers and that Intel is \"starting to see signs that they want to start the next build phase in their cloud.\"\"We are already shipping Ice Lake to more than 30 customers including major cloud providers communication service providers, enterprise, and [high performance computing] customers,\" Gelsinger said, adding that Intel was going to be very aggressive in marketing to data centers.\"We're going to fight for every socket in the market,\" Gelsinger said.On the PC side, Gelsinger said PC demand leapt to levels not seen since 2012 because of COVID-19.\"And that's continuing,\" Gelsinger said. \"2021 is shaping up to be the largest PC market ever. In fact, we shipped more notebook CPUs in Q1 than in any other quarter in our history.\" The CEO said that \"one PC in every home is no longer enough.\"Intel's largest segment -- client-computing, the traditional PC group -- grew more than 8% to $10.6 billion, with analysts expecting $10.17 billion.As incoming CEO, Gelsinger dropped into Intel's last earnings conference call   after taking the helm.Intel reported first-quarter net income of $3.4 billion, or 82 cents a share, compared with $5.66 billion, or $1.31 a share, in the year-ago period. After adjusting for more than $2.2 billion for restructuring and other efforts, as well as other adjustments, Intel reported earnings of $1.39 a share, compared with $1.45 a share from a year ago.Revenue declined to $19.7 billion from $19.83 billion in the year-ago quarter, for a third straight quarter of year-over-year revenue declines, but came in much higher than expected. Analysts had estimated adjusted earnings of $1.15 a share on revenue of $17.79 billion, while Intel had forecast adjusted earnings of $1.10 a share on revenue of about $17.5 billion. Intel also noted that revenue after removing results from the memory business it is in process of selling was $18.6 billion, still well higher than analysts' estimates.Intel predicted Thursday annual revenue of approximately $77 billion, or $72.5 billion without the memory business, and adjusted earnings of $4.60 a share. Gelsinger had previously targeted $4.55 a share on sales of $76.5 billion.For the second quarter, Intel forecast revenue of $18.9 billion, or $17.8 billion when removing the memory business, and GAAP and non-GAAP earnings of $1.05 a share. Analysts on average expected adjusted second-quarter earnings of $1.09 a share on revenue of $17.55 billion.\"Overall, Intel had a good quarter as it is taking advantage of the huge uptick in overall compute demand for computers,\" said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, in emailed comments. \"The data-center numbers were planned to be down at these levels, but I think some industry analysts may be making some misallocations in their calculations.\"Intel reported that nonvolatile memory-solutions revenue declined slightly to $1.11 billion, far surpassing Wall Street's expectations of $563.8 million. \"Internet of Things,\" or IoT, revenue rose to $914 million, compared with an expected $774.9 million. Mobileye revenue was $377 million, while the Street had expected $332.3 million.Over the past 12 months, Intel shares have gained 4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Intel as a component -- has gained 44%, the S&P 500 index  has grown 48%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index  has surged 63%, and the PHLX Semiconductor Index  has ballooned 86%.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":92,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":108778049,"gmtCreate":1620058825481,"gmtModify":1704338078176,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Need read it and think about it...&nbsp;","listText":"Need read it and think about it...&nbsp;","text":"Need read it and think about it...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/108778049","repostId":"1103106179","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1103106179","pubTimestamp":1619917622,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1103106179?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-02 09:07","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2021: Highlights and storylines","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1103106179","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Emily McCormick·ReporterSun, May 2, 2021, 5:03 AMWarren Buffett addressed investors around the world","content":"<p>Emily McCormick·ReporterSun, May 2, 2021, 5:03 AM</p><p>Warren Buffett addressed investors around the world on Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway's 2021 Annual Shareholder Meeting.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/RN?name=RNLive&amp;rndata={&quot;liveId&quot;:&quot;16196040827650&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Playback Live Here！</b></a></p><p>In an hours-long event, the investing legend fielded questions on Berkshire's business and investment decisions,offered advice for first-time investorsand touted the strength of American corporations in a characteristically optimistic tone.Buffett nodded to the Federal Reserveand Congress for their swift response to the COVID-19 crisis, and underscored the rebound in the U.S. economy. And the Oracle of Omaha also addressed the recent rise in retail trading andonline brokerage firmslike Robinhood,the rally in bitcoinand the boom in SPAC mergers.</p><p>In many ways, this year's meeting looked different from those in the past. The annual event took placein a hotel conference room in Los Angelesrather than in an arena in Omaha, Nebraska, due to the ongoing pandemic.</p><p>Buffett's long-time business partner Charlie Munger also returned onstage this year to co-lead the event, after sitting out last year because of the pandemic. And in a new move, Buffett and Munger were joined by Berkshire's Vice Chairmen Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain,in a signal of potential succession plans at the company.</p><p>Here were some of the highlights from the event.</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway is seeing signs of rising price pressures during the COVID-19 recovery, corroborating many market participants' concerns about increasing inflationary pressures.</p><p>\"We're seeing substantial inflation. We're raising prices, people are raising prices to us. And it's being accepted,\" Buffett said. \"We really do a lot of housing. The costs are just up, up, up. Steel costs. You know, just every day they're going up.\"</p><p>\"It's an economy – really, it's red hot. And we weren't expecting it,\" he added.</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett said trading apps like Robinhoodhave contributed to the \"casino aspect\" of the stock market as of late, exploiting individuals' inclinations to gamble.</p><p>“It’s become a very significant part of the casino aspect, the casino group, that has joined into the stock market in the last year, year and a half,\" Buffett said of Robinhood. \"There’s nothing, you know, there’s nothing illegal about it, there’s nothing immoral. But I don’t think you’d build a society around people doing it.\"</p><p>\"I think the degree to which a very rich society can reward people who know how to take advantage, essentially, of the gambling instincts of the American public, the worldwide public – it’s not the most admirable part of the accomplishment,\" Buffett added. \"But I think what America has accomplished is pretty admirable overall. And I think actually American corporations have turned out to be a wonderful place for people to put their money and save. But they also make terrific gambling chips, and if you cater to those gambling chips when people have money in their pocket for the first time and you tell them take my 30 or 40 or 50 trades a day and you’re not charging commission ... I hope we don’t have more of it.”</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett explained that Berkshire's move to unload many of its bank shares last year was not due to a lack of confidence in the banking industry, but more a decision to re-balance the portfolio and avoid being too heavily tilted toward one area.</p><p>\"I like banks generally, I just didn't like the proportion compared to the possible risk,\" Buffett said. \"We were over 10% of Bank of America. It's a real pain in the neck, more to the banks than us.\"</p><p>Berkshire held 1,032,952,006 shares of Bank of America as of the end of 2020, after adding 85.1 million shares in the third quarter alone. This gave Berkshire Hathaway an ownership stake of 11.9%. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo from 345.7 million shares at year-end 2019 to 52.4 million by year-end 2020, and completely exited its holdings in JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and M&amp;T Bank Corp (MTB).</p><p>\"The banking business is way better than it was in the United States 10 or 15 years ago,\" he added. \"The banking business around the world in various places might worry me, but our banks are in far, far better shape than 10 or 15 years ago.\"</p><p>—</p><p>A shareholder asked Jain, who leads Berkshire's insurance business, whether he would be hypothetically willing to write an insurance policy for SpaceX founder Elon Musk for his proposed colonization of Mars.</p><p>\"This is an easy one. No thank you, I’ll pass,\" Jain said.</p><p>“Well I would say it would depend on the premium,” Buffett interjected with a laugh. \"And I would say that I would probably have a somewhat different rate if Elon was on board or not on board. It makes a difference if someone is asking to insure something.”</p><p>—</p><p>Warren Buffett declined to directly offer an opinion in response to a question on bitcoin, an assethe previously likened to \"rat poison squared.\"</p><p>\"I knew there’d be a question on bitcoin or crypto and I thought to myself well, I watch these politicians dodge questions all the time … The truth is, I’m going to dodge that question,\" Buffett said. \"Because the truth is, we’ve probably got hundreds of thousands of people that are watching this that own bitcoin. And we’ve probably got two people that are short. So we’ve got a choice of making 400,000 people mad at us and unhappy, and making two people happy. And it’s just a dumb equation.\"</p><p>Munger, however, issued a more direct attack.</p><p>\"Those who know me well are just waving the red flag at the bull. Of course I hate the bitcoin success,\" he said. \"And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful kidnappers and extortionists and so forth. Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. So I think I should say modestly that the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Both Buffett and Munger issued strong words of support for share repurchases, especially after Berkshire reported repurchasing an additional $6.6 billion in stock in the first three months of 2021.</p><p>\"They're a way, essentially, of distributing the cash to the people that want the cash when other co-owners mostly want you to reinvest,\" Buffett said. \"It's a savings vehicle.\"</p><p>\"I find it almost impossible to believe some of the arguments that are made that it's terrible to repurchase shares from a partner if they want to get out of something, and you're able to do it at prices that are advantages to the people that are staying,\" Buffett said. \"And it helps slightly the person that wants out.\"</p><p>Munger offered a similar view.</p><p>\"You're repurchasing stock. Just a bullet higher, it's deeply immoral,\" Munger said. \"But if you're repurchasing stock because it's a fair thing to do in the interest of your existing shareholders, it's a highly moral act and the people who are criticizing it are bonkers.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Low interest rates have catalyzed a surge in valuations across equities, giving those who invest in the markets an opportunity to create wealth, Munger said during the Berkshire Hathaway question and answer segment.</p><p>\"I think one consequence of this present situation is, Bernie Sanders has basically won,\" Munger says. \"Because with everything boomed out so high and interest rates so low, what's going to happen is, the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our generation ... He did it by accident, but he won.\"</p><p>\"And so the difference between the difference between the rich and the poor in the generation that's rising is going to be a lot less,\" he added. \"So Bernie has won.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett received a question around special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, which have become a hugely popular means for firms to go public over the past year.</p><p>\"The SPACs generally have to spend their money in two years, as I understand it. If you have to buy a business in two years, you put a gun to my head and said you've got to buy a business in two years, I'd buy one but it wouldn't be much of one,\" Buffett.</p><p>\"If you're running money from somebody else and you get a fee and you get the upside and you don't have the downside, you're going to buy something,\" he added. \"And frankly we're not competitive with that.\"</p><p>\"It's an exaggerated version of what we've seen in kind of a gambling-type market,\" he added.</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett conceded that selling some of Apple's stock in 2020 was \"probably a mistake,\" with shares rising even further this year following the tech-led 2020 in the markets.</p><p>\"The brand and the product — it's an incredible product,\" Buffett said of Apple. \"It is indispensable to people.\"</p><p>\"I sold some stock last year, although our shareholders still saw their shares go up because we repurchased shares,\" he added. \"But that was probably a mistake.\"</p><p>Berkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Appleas of the end of December for a total market value of $120.4 billion. By contrast, the firm spent just $31 billion accumulating this stake since late 2016.</p><p>—</p><p>A shareholder directed a question to Ajit Jain and Greg Abel asking about the relationship the two likely next leaders of Berkshire Hathaway have with one another, given how iconic the relationship between Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger has been over the course of the company's history.</p><p>\"There's no question the relationship Warren has with Charlie is unique,\" Jain said. \"It's not going to be duplicated, certainly not by me and Greg. I can't think of anybody that can duplicate it.\"</p><p>\"I certainly have a lot of respect, both at a professional level and personal level, in terms of what Greg's abilities are,\" Jain added. \"We do not interact with each other as often as Warren and Charlie do. But every quarter we will talk to each other about our respective decision.\"</p><p>\"Even though the interaction may be different than say how Warren and Charlie do it ... we make sure we're always following up with each other but it goes beyond that,\" Abel said. \"Ajit has a great understanding of the Berkshire culture. I strongly believe I do too.\"</p><p>—</p><p>One shareholder asked Buffett about Berkshire's decision to invest in the oil and gas industry, and queried whether we might have \"build our own unrealistic consensus on the pace of change\" to clean energy solutions. Buffett defended the company's investment in the industry and in Chevron specifically, whichwas a relatively recent investment for the firm.</p><p>\"I would say that people are on the extremes of both sides are a little nuts. I would hate to have all the hydrocarbons banned in three years,\" Buffett said. \"You wouldn't want a world — it wouldn't work. And on the other hand, what's happening will be adapted to over time just as we've adapted to all kinds of things.\"</p><p>\"We have no problem owning Costco or Walmart and a substantial number of their stores. And they sell cigarettes, it's a big item,\" he added as an analogy. \"It's a very tough situation ... It's a very tough time to decide what companies benefit societies more than others.\"</p><p>\"I don't like making the moral judgments on stocks in terms of actually running the businesses, but there's something about every business that you knew that you wouldn't like,\" he added. \"If you expect perfection in your spouse or in your friends or in companies you're not going to find it.\"</p><p>\"Chevron is not an evil company in the least, and I have no compunction about owning it in the least, about owning Chevron,\" Buffett concluded. \"And if we owned the entire business I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that business.\"</p><p>Answering a subsequent question about the Berkshire board of directors' recommendation to voteagainst reporting climate-related risks, Munger added, \"I don't know we know the answer to all these questions about global warming.\"</p><p>\"The people who ask the questions think they know the answer. We're just more modest.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Most investors would benefit from simply purchasing an S&amp;P 500 index fund over the long run rather than picking individual stocks, even including Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett said during the question-and-answer session Saturday.</p><p>\"I recommend the S&amp;P 500 index fund … I’ve never recommended Berkshire to anybody because I don’t want people to buy it because they think I’m tipping them into something,\" he said. \"On my death there's a fund for my then-widow and 90% will go into an S&amp;P 500 index fund.\"</p><p>\"I do not think the average person can pick stocks,\" he added. \"We happen to have a large group of people that didn't pick stocks but they picked Charlie and me to manage money for them 50, 60 years ago. So we have a very unusual group of shareholders I think who look at Berkshire as a lifetime savings vehicle and one that they don’t have to think about and one that they'll, you know, they don't look at it again for 10 to 20 years.\"</p><p>Charlie Munger, on the other hand, had a different perspective.</p><p>\"I personally prefer holding Berkshire to holding the market,\" he said in response to the same question. \"I’m quite comfortable holding Berkshire. I think our businesses are better than the average in the market.\"</p><p>—</p><p>Buffett reiterated a staunchly supportive stance of U.S. corporations and capitalism in his opening remarks, highlighting that five of the six largest companies in the world by market capitalization currently comprise domestic companies. Those five companies are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook, with only Saudi Aramco of Saudi Arabia coming in as a non-U.S. mega-cap company in the top six.</p><p>But only a couple hundred years ago, the U.S. looked like the underdog.</p><p>\"In 1790 we had one-half of 1% of the world's population,\" Buffett said. \"600,000 of them were slaves. Ireland had more people than the United States had. Russia had five times as many people. Ukraine had twice as many people.\"</p><p>\"But here we were. What did we have? We had a map for the future, an aspirational map that somehow now only 232 years later, leaves us with five of the top six companies in the world,\" he said. \"It's not an accident. And it's not because we were way smarter, way stronger or anything of the sort. We had good soil, decent climate, but so did some of the other countries I named. This system has worked very well.\"</p><p>—</p><p>In opening remarks at the start of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett credited the U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis toswift action by the Federal Reserve and Congress.</p><p>\"The economy went off a cliff in March. It was resurrected in an extraordinarily effective way by Federal Reserve action and later on the fiscal front by Congress,\" Buffett said in opening remarks at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting.\"</p><p>He added that Berkshire Hathaway's own business has picked up tremendously alongside the broader economy, and suggested businesses like airlines were still among those most deeply affected by lingering effects from the pandemic.</p><p>\"Our businesses have done really quite well. This has been a very, very, very unusual recession in that it's been localized ... to an extraordinary extent. Right now business is really very good in a great many segments of the economy,\" he added. \"But there's still problems if you're in a few types of businesses that have been decimated such as international air travel or something of the sort.\"</p><p>—</p><p>The CEO of See's Candies, one of the longstanding companies owned by Berkshire Hathaway, told Yahoo Finance that the companyhas seen a strong rebound at the start of 2021. However, last year, business virtually ground to a halt.</p><p>\"This has been the longest decade of my life. We've been through a lot. Last year – it's a tale of a couple of different quarters. The first quarter was tremendous,\" See's Candies CEO Pat Egan said in an interview with Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche ahead of the start of Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting. \"In the middle of March, when this [pandemic] really hit, we shut down all of our stores in a span of five days. So about 245 stores we closed in a matter of days. And then about a week and a half later, we closed our e-commerce fulfillment center down in Southern California. So for a period of time there, we essentially completely stopped.\"</p><p>\"We just said, we're not going to reopen stores or reopen plants until we can create a safe operating environment for our employees,\" he added. \"That took a while, and by the time we restored over the summer we saw customers coming back in. But for that period of time, it was pretty rough.\"</p><p>See's Candies just completed its \"best first quarter ever\" at the start of 2021, Egan added.</p><p>—</p><p>Berkshire Hathawayreported first-quarter results Saturday morning, underscoring arebound in profits across the firm's businesses amid the COVID-19 recovery. Berkshire also reported that it conducted another $6.6 billion of stock buybacks, extending its ramped-up share repurchase program from 2020.</p><p>Operating income during the first three months of the year increased to $7.02 billion, rising 19.5% compared to the $5.87 billion posted in the first quarter of 2020. Net earnings attributable to Berkshire shareholders swung back to a profit of $11.71 billion, compared to a loss of $49.75 billion in the same quarter last year.</p><p>Consolidated shareholders' equity rose by $4.8 billion to $448 billion by the end of March compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/RN?name=RNLive&amp;rndata={&quot;liveId&quot;:&quot;16196040827650&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\">If you want to watch the full live video, please click here.</a></p>","source":"yahoofinance_sg","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>Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2021: Highlights and storylines</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; 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And the Oracle of Omaha also addressed the recent rise in retail trading andonline brokerage firmslike Robinhood,the rally in bitcoinand the boom in SPAC mergers.In many ways, this year's meeting looked different from those in the past. The annual event took placein a hotel conference room in Los Angelesrather than in an arena in Omaha, Nebraska, due to the ongoing pandemic.Buffett's long-time business partner Charlie Munger also returned onstage this year to co-lead the event, after sitting out last year because of the pandemic. And in a new move, Buffett and Munger were joined by Berkshire's Vice Chairmen Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain,in a signal of potential succession plans at the company.Here were some of the highlights from the event.—Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway is seeing signs of rising price pressures during the COVID-19 recovery, corroborating many market participants' concerns about increasing inflationary pressures.\"We're seeing substantial inflation. We're raising prices, people are raising prices to us. And it's being accepted,\" Buffett said. \"We really do a lot of housing. The costs are just up, up, up. Steel costs. You know, just every day they're going up.\"\"It's an economy – really, it's red hot. And we weren't expecting it,\" he added.—Buffett said trading apps like Robinhoodhave contributed to the \"casino aspect\" of the stock market as of late, exploiting individuals' inclinations to gamble.“It’s become a very significant part of the casino aspect, the casino group, that has joined into the stock market in the last year, year and a half,\" Buffett said of Robinhood. \"There’s nothing, you know, there’s nothing illegal about it, there’s nothing immoral. But I don’t think you’d build a society around people doing it.\"\"I think the degree to which a very rich society can reward people who know how to take advantage, essentially, of the gambling instincts of the American public, the worldwide public – it’s not the most admirable part of the accomplishment,\" Buffett added. \"But I think what America has accomplished is pretty admirable overall. And I think actually American corporations have turned out to be a wonderful place for people to put their money and save. But they also make terrific gambling chips, and if you cater to those gambling chips when people have money in their pocket for the first time and you tell them take my 30 or 40 or 50 trades a day and you’re not charging commission ... I hope we don’t have more of it.”—Buffett explained that Berkshire's move to unload many of its bank shares last year was not due to a lack of confidence in the banking industry, but more a decision to re-balance the portfolio and avoid being too heavily tilted toward one area.\"I like banks generally, I just didn't like the proportion compared to the possible risk,\" Buffett said. \"We were over 10% of Bank of America. It's a real pain in the neck, more to the banks than us.\"Berkshire held 1,032,952,006 shares of Bank of America as of the end of 2020, after adding 85.1 million shares in the third quarter alone. This gave Berkshire Hathaway an ownership stake of 11.9%. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo from 345.7 million shares at year-end 2019 to 52.4 million by year-end 2020, and completely exited its holdings in JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and M&T Bank Corp (MTB).\"The banking business is way better than it was in the United States 10 or 15 years ago,\" he added. \"The banking business around the world in various places might worry me, but our banks are in far, far better shape than 10 or 15 years ago.\"—A shareholder asked Jain, who leads Berkshire's insurance business, whether he would be hypothetically willing to write an insurance policy for SpaceX founder Elon Musk for his proposed colonization of Mars.\"This is an easy one. No thank you, I’ll pass,\" Jain said.“Well I would say it would depend on the premium,” Buffett interjected with a laugh. \"And I would say that I would probably have a somewhat different rate if Elon was on board or not on board. It makes a difference if someone is asking to insure something.”—Warren Buffett declined to directly offer an opinion in response to a question on bitcoin, an assethe previously likened to \"rat poison squared.\"\"I knew there’d be a question on bitcoin or crypto and I thought to myself well, I watch these politicians dodge questions all the time … The truth is, I’m going to dodge that question,\" Buffett said. \"Because the truth is, we’ve probably got hundreds of thousands of people that are watching this that own bitcoin. And we’ve probably got two people that are short. So we’ve got a choice of making 400,000 people mad at us and unhappy, and making two people happy. And it’s just a dumb equation.\"Munger, however, issued a more direct attack.\"Those who know me well are just waving the red flag at the bull. Of course I hate the bitcoin success,\" he said. \"And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful kidnappers and extortionists and so forth. Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. So I think I should say modestly that the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization.\"—Both Buffett and Munger issued strong words of support for share repurchases, especially after Berkshire reported repurchasing an additional $6.6 billion in stock in the first three months of 2021.\"They're a way, essentially, of distributing the cash to the people that want the cash when other co-owners mostly want you to reinvest,\" Buffett said. \"It's a savings vehicle.\"\"I find it almost impossible to believe some of the arguments that are made that it's terrible to repurchase shares from a partner if they want to get out of something, and you're able to do it at prices that are advantages to the people that are staying,\" Buffett said. \"And it helps slightly the person that wants out.\"Munger offered a similar view.\"You're repurchasing stock. Just a bullet higher, it's deeply immoral,\" Munger said. \"But if you're repurchasing stock because it's a fair thing to do in the interest of your existing shareholders, it's a highly moral act and the people who are criticizing it are bonkers.\"—Low interest rates have catalyzed a surge in valuations across equities, giving those who invest in the markets an opportunity to create wealth, Munger said during the Berkshire Hathaway question and answer segment.\"I think one consequence of this present situation is, Bernie Sanders has basically won,\" Munger says. \"Because with everything boomed out so high and interest rates so low, what's going to happen is, the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our generation ... He did it by accident, but he won.\"\"And so the difference between the difference between the rich and the poor in the generation that's rising is going to be a lot less,\" he added. \"So Bernie has won.\"—Buffett received a question around special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, which have become a hugely popular means for firms to go public over the past year.\"The SPACs generally have to spend their money in two years, as I understand it. If you have to buy a business in two years, you put a gun to my head and said you've got to buy a business in two years, I'd buy one but it wouldn't be much of one,\" Buffett.\"If you're running money from somebody else and you get a fee and you get the upside and you don't have the downside, you're going to buy something,\" he added. \"And frankly we're not competitive with that.\"\"It's an exaggerated version of what we've seen in kind of a gambling-type market,\" he added.—Buffett conceded that selling some of Apple's stock in 2020 was \"probably a mistake,\" with shares rising even further this year following the tech-led 2020 in the markets.\"The brand and the product — it's an incredible product,\" Buffett said of Apple. \"It is indispensable to people.\"\"I sold some stock last year, although our shareholders still saw their shares go up because we repurchased shares,\" he added. \"But that was probably a mistake.\"Berkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Appleas of the end of December for a total market value of $120.4 billion. By contrast, the firm spent just $31 billion accumulating this stake since late 2016.—A shareholder directed a question to Ajit Jain and Greg Abel asking about the relationship the two likely next leaders of Berkshire Hathaway have with one another, given how iconic the relationship between Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger has been over the course of the company's history.\"There's no question the relationship Warren has with Charlie is unique,\" Jain said. \"It's not going to be duplicated, certainly not by me and Greg. I can't think of anybody that can duplicate it.\"\"I certainly have a lot of respect, both at a professional level and personal level, in terms of what Greg's abilities are,\" Jain added. \"We do not interact with each other as often as Warren and Charlie do. But every quarter we will talk to each other about our respective decision.\"\"Even though the interaction may be different than say how Warren and Charlie do it ... we make sure we're always following up with each other but it goes beyond that,\" Abel said. \"Ajit has a great understanding of the Berkshire culture. I strongly believe I do too.\"—One shareholder asked Buffett about Berkshire's decision to invest in the oil and gas industry, and queried whether we might have \"build our own unrealistic consensus on the pace of change\" to clean energy solutions. Buffett defended the company's investment in the industry and in Chevron specifically, whichwas a relatively recent investment for the firm.\"I would say that people are on the extremes of both sides are a little nuts. I would hate to have all the hydrocarbons banned in three years,\" Buffett said. \"You wouldn't want a world — it wouldn't work. And on the other hand, what's happening will be adapted to over time just as we've adapted to all kinds of things.\"\"We have no problem owning Costco or Walmart and a substantial number of their stores. And they sell cigarettes, it's a big item,\" he added as an analogy. \"It's a very tough situation ... It's a very tough time to decide what companies benefit societies more than others.\"\"I don't like making the moral judgments on stocks in terms of actually running the businesses, but there's something about every business that you knew that you wouldn't like,\" he added. \"If you expect perfection in your spouse or in your friends or in companies you're not going to find it.\"\"Chevron is not an evil company in the least, and I have no compunction about owning it in the least, about owning Chevron,\" Buffett concluded. \"And if we owned the entire business I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that business.\"Answering a subsequent question about the Berkshire board of directors' recommendation to voteagainst reporting climate-related risks, Munger added, \"I don't know we know the answer to all these questions about global warming.\"\"The people who ask the questions think they know the answer. We're just more modest.\"—Most investors would benefit from simply purchasing an S&P 500 index fund over the long run rather than picking individual stocks, even including Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett said during the question-and-answer session Saturday.\"I recommend the S&P 500 index fund … I’ve never recommended Berkshire to anybody because I don’t want people to buy it because they think I’m tipping them into something,\" he said. \"On my death there's a fund for my then-widow and 90% will go into an S&P 500 index fund.\"\"I do not think the average person can pick stocks,\" he added. \"We happen to have a large group of people that didn't pick stocks but they picked Charlie and me to manage money for them 50, 60 years ago. So we have a very unusual group of shareholders I think who look at Berkshire as a lifetime savings vehicle and one that they don’t have to think about and one that they'll, you know, they don't look at it again for 10 to 20 years.\"Charlie Munger, on the other hand, had a different perspective.\"I personally prefer holding Berkshire to holding the market,\" he said in response to the same question. \"I’m quite comfortable holding Berkshire. I think our businesses are better than the average in the market.\"—Buffett reiterated a staunchly supportive stance of U.S. corporations and capitalism in his opening remarks, highlighting that five of the six largest companies in the world by market capitalization currently comprise domestic companies. Those five companies are Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook, with only Saudi Aramco of Saudi Arabia coming in as a non-U.S. mega-cap company in the top six.But only a couple hundred years ago, the U.S. looked like the underdog.\"In 1790 we had one-half of 1% of the world's population,\" Buffett said. \"600,000 of them were slaves. Ireland had more people than the United States had. Russia had five times as many people. Ukraine had twice as many people.\"\"But here we were. What did we have? We had a map for the future, an aspirational map that somehow now only 232 years later, leaves us with five of the top six companies in the world,\" he said. \"It's not an accident. And it's not because we were way smarter, way stronger or anything of the sort. We had good soil, decent climate, but so did some of the other countries I named. This system has worked very well.\"—In opening remarks at the start of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett credited the U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis toswift action by the Federal Reserve and Congress.\"The economy went off a cliff in March. It was resurrected in an extraordinarily effective way by Federal Reserve action and later on the fiscal front by Congress,\" Buffett said in opening remarks at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting.\"He added that Berkshire Hathaway's own business has picked up tremendously alongside the broader economy, and suggested businesses like airlines were still among those most deeply affected by lingering effects from the pandemic.\"Our businesses have done really quite well. This has been a very, very, very unusual recession in that it's been localized ... to an extraordinary extent. Right now business is really very good in a great many segments of the economy,\" he added. \"But there's still problems if you're in a few types of businesses that have been decimated such as international air travel or something of the sort.\"—The CEO of See's Candies, one of the longstanding companies owned by Berkshire Hathaway, told Yahoo Finance that the companyhas seen a strong rebound at the start of 2021. However, last year, business virtually ground to a halt.\"This has been the longest decade of my life. We've been through a lot. Last year – it's a tale of a couple of different quarters. The first quarter was tremendous,\" See's Candies CEO Pat Egan said in an interview with Yahoo Finance's Julia La Roche ahead of the start of Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting. \"In the middle of March, when this [pandemic] really hit, we shut down all of our stores in a span of five days. So about 245 stores we closed in a matter of days. And then about a week and a half later, we closed our e-commerce fulfillment center down in Southern California. So for a period of time there, we essentially completely stopped.\"\"We just said, we're not going to reopen stores or reopen plants until we can create a safe operating environment for our employees,\" he added. \"That took a while, and by the time we restored over the summer we saw customers coming back in. But for that period of time, it was pretty rough.\"See's Candies just completed its \"best first quarter ever\" at the start of 2021, Egan added.—Berkshire Hathawayreported first-quarter results Saturday morning, underscoring arebound in profits across the firm's businesses amid the COVID-19 recovery. Berkshire also reported that it conducted another $6.6 billion of stock buybacks, extending its ramped-up share repurchase program from 2020.Operating income during the first three months of the year increased to $7.02 billion, rising 19.5% compared to the $5.87 billion posted in the first quarter of 2020. Net earnings attributable to Berkshire shareholders swung back to a profit of $11.71 billion, compared to a loss of $49.75 billion in the same quarter last year.Consolidated shareholders' equity rose by $4.8 billion to $448 billion by the end of March compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.If you want to watch the full live video, please click here.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":123,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":194093732,"gmtCreate":1621323646226,"gmtModify":1704355769810,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"The Bitcoin isn't&nbsp; worth anything...it is just waste the energy...&nbsp;","listText":"The Bitcoin isn't&nbsp; worth anything...it is just waste the energy...&nbsp;","text":"The Bitcoin isn't worth anything...it is just waste the energy...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/194093732","repostId":"1170122575","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1170122575","pubTimestamp":1621323334,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1170122575?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-18 15:35","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Tesla, Dogecoin And Bitcoin: Mysteries Untold","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1170122575","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nSome of Elon Musk's and Tesla's moves on Dogecoin and Bitcoin are mysterious.\nThere is howe","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Some of Elon Musk's and Tesla's moves on Dogecoin and Bitcoin are mysterious.</li>\n <li>There is however potential for a development which could impact the share price strongly.</li>\n <li>It's also a mystery why Tesla doesn't make this development happen immediately.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bc9d852829462e30593e6d12c81f674\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1024\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images News via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>There's been a lot of action around Tesla (TSLA), Elon Musk, and cryptocurrencies lately. In my view, the action so far is a mystery which will, in due time, reveal yet another hype angle for Tesla. That is a development which can be used to push the stock higher. In this case, the development might even actually create value for Tesla very rapidly.</p>\n<p>You see, Elon Musk and Tesla have been on the news due to their involvement with cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Dogecoin (DOGE-USD).</p>\n<p>The serious part of this involvement has been Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment into Bitcoin, while Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin seems more \"for fun.\" However, that too has been changing as of late, with Elon actually claiming to be working with Dogecoin developers to improve transaction efficiency - implyingserious interest in using the cryptocurrency seriously.</p>\n<p>Both the involvement with Bitcoin and Dogecoin have created some strange mysteries, which I will explore in this article. Be prepared, this is going to be a very long article, though filled with rare findings.</p>\n<p><b>Tesla Buys Bitcoin, Then Drops It</b></p>\n<p>In Q1 2021, Tesla bought Bitcoin. The&nbsp;2020 10-K&nbsp;was the first SEC filing acknowledging the acquisition, though Elon Musk tweeted about it earlier.</p>\n<blockquote>\n In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity. As part of the policy, which was duly approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we may invest a portion of such cash in certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future. Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time orlongterm. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.\n</blockquote>\n<p>An interesting part of this risk disclosure goes as follows:</p>\n<blockquote>\n Moreover, digital assets are currently considered indefinite-lived intangible assets under applicable accounting rules, meaning that any decrease in their fair values below our carrying values for such assets at any time subsequent to their acquisition will require us to recognize impairment charges, whereas we may make no upward revisions for any market price increases until a sale, which may adversely affect our operating results in any period in which such impairment occurs. Moreover, there is no guarantee that future changes in GAAP will not require us to change the way we account for digital assets held by us.\n</blockquote>\n<p>This means that if Bitcoin trades down below Tesla’s cost basis, Tesla will recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. However, if it trades up, Tesla cannot recognize the unrealized gain. It can only recognize a gain when it sells, which it partially did during Q1 2021, leading to such realized gain.</p>\n<p>In its most&nbsp;recent 10-Q, Tesla clarified when it would recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. The criteria is very strict, impossibly strict – Tesla will use the lowest market price since acquiring Bitcoin to assume an impairment on the position (italics emphasis is mine):</p>\n<blockquote>\n We determine the fair value of our bitcoin on a nonrecurring basis in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, based on quoted prices on the activeexchange(s)thatwe have determined is its principal market for bitcoin (Level 1 inputs). We perform an analysis each quarter to identify whether events or changes in circumstances, principally decreases in the quoted prices on active exchanges, indicate that it is more likely than not that our digital assets are impaired.\n <i>In determining if an impairment has occurred, we consider the lowest market price of one bitcoin quoted on the active exchange since acquiring the bitcoin. If the then current carrying value of a digital asset exceeds the fair value so determined, an impairment loss has occurred with respect to those digital assets in the amount equal to the difference between their carrying values and the price determined</i>.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, while Tesla realized a $128 million gain from selling Bitcoin during Q1 2021, it also recorded a $27 millionimpairment. That is, Bitcoin must have, very temporarily, traded below Tesla’s cost basis. This led to an impairment even as Tesla’s fair market value for the Bitcoin it still holds then stood at $2.48 billion.</p>\n<blockquote>\n Note 3 – Digital Assets, NetDuring the three months ended March 31, 2021, we purchased and received $1.50 billion of Bitcoin. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, we recorded $27 million of impairment losses on bitcoin. We also realized gains of $128 million through sales during the three months ended March 31, 2021. Such gains are presented net of impairment losses in Restructuring and other in the consolidated statement of operations. As of March 31, 2021, the carrying value of our Bitcoin held was $1.33 billion, which reflects cumulative impairments of $27 million. The fair market value of bitcoin held as of March 31, 2021,was$2.48 billion.\n</blockquote>\n<p><b>A Matter Of Curiosity - Tesla's Bitcoin Cost Basis</b></p>\n<p>Based on the available data, we can try to guess Tesla’s cost basis, as well as the price it sold Bitcoin at. Consider the following:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Tesla acquired $1.5 billion in Bitcoin.</li>\n <li>Tesla impaired this acquisition by $0.027 billion.</li>\n <li>Tesla had $1.33 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ (End Of Quarter), on a cost basis.</li>\n <li>Thus, Tesla had $1.357 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ, on a cost basis + the impairment.</li>\n <li>So, Tesla sold $0.143 billion in bitcoin ($1.5 billion at inception - $1.357 billion held at EOQ if we exclude theimpairment).</li>\n <li>Tesla sold these $0.143 billion in bitcoin at a gain of $0.128 billion. So, it sold that bitcoin amount for $0.271 billion, an 89.5% gain.</li>\n <li>Tesla’s EOQ Bitcoin at market value was $2.48 billion.</li>\n <li>And Bitcoin stood at ~$58,874 at EOQ (this is not exact, so it will introduce some error).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>So:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Tesla’s cost basis per Bitcoin is the (bitcoin+impairment on a cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ. That’s $1.357/$2.48 * $58,874 = $32,214 (there will be a bit of error due to the Bitcoin price considered for EOQ).</li>\n <li>Tesla’s current (impaired) cost basis per bitcoin is (bitcoin at cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ = $31,574.</li>\n <li>Tesla sold bitcoin at an 89.5% gain over the original cost basis, so it sold around $32,214 * 1.895 = $61,050.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Anyway, this is mostly a curiosity.</p>\n<p><b>The First Mystery</b></p>\n<p>Fast forward to two days ago, and Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin in payment but didn’t sell its existing Bitcoin hoard, as&nbsp;tweeted by Elon Musk:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c83a81967e914d8b174d80aa1df31be9\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"675\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>As we can immediately understand, the environmental excuse given was already widely known well before Tesla even started accepting Bitcoin. For instance, I already had written about it in my Bitcoin Series (which I highly recommend reading in its entirety), both a long time ago (four years ago, \"Bitcoin Series #4 - The Bitcoin Arms Race\"), and in more detail recently (\"Bitcoin Series #8 - Bitcoin Is Not The Future\"). So had many others, even earlier.</p>\n<p>The excuse for dropping Bitcoin acceptance is thus something of a mystery. It is so for several reasons, namely...</p>\n<p><b>Because (Bitcoin Only) Moving To Sustainable Energy Is Nearly Impossible</b></p>\n<p>The Tesla claim regarding a transition to more sustainable energy is a red herring. Why? Because electricity is fungible. Even a company contracting power exclusively from renewable sources (as is<i>en vogue</i>) isn’t really just using renewable sources. The company only makes the rest of electricity usage have a dirtier mix, because of not having access to those renewable sources the company is contracting away.</p>\n<p>The only time this isn’t false is when renewables are injecting so much energy into the grid (due to wind, solar, and little electricity demand) that electricity prices go negative. At that point, it can be said that there’s excess electricity in the grid, and any taker isn’t making it dirtier. But crypto mining isn’t an intermittent activity, while these events are reasonably rare and intermittent.</p>\n<p>This idea has been put forth in some misleading ways. For instance, there’s been some widespread quoting of&nbsp;a study&nbsp;stating 76% of mining operators “use renewable energysources.” However, to qualify as “using renewable sources” just takes some renewable energy being present in the electricity generation mix. Of course, nearly all electricity pools have some renewable sources, so nearly everyone can claim to use some renewable energy. That 24% couldn’t claim any use of renewable energy is more of a surprise.</p>\n<p>The same study does say that 39% of energy consumed comes from renewable sources, which is a more relevant statistic. But this statistic also suffers from the same problem I described before:Electricityis fungible. Unless the electricity is being wasted or generation was built on purpose to mine cryptocurrencies, then mining is displacing other uses and thus making other uses dirtier, which is the same as being dirty itself. Finally, I could also nitpick and say that even building renewable energy sources consumes energy and creates CO2, but that would be going too far.</p>\n<p>It was not a coincidence that the closure of a single huge coal mine in China temporarily&nbsp;wiped out one-third of all Bitcoin mining. And of course, that’s not the only coal-powered generation being used to mine Bitcoin. That alone ought to be enough for people to question any number looking like \"76%renewables.\"</p>\n<p>Also, saying that fueling EVs or launching rockets consumes energy and creates CO2 is another red herring (this one lobbied at Elon Musk for dropping Bitcoin). This is so because these are useful activities. It’s like breathing, it creates CO2 but no one is going to criticize that since it’s useful (unlike nearly all cryptocurrency activity).</p>\n<p>A final misconception is that banking consumes a lot of energy itself. Or gold mining. A direct comparison is often made, which makes no sense. The only viable comparison is comparing the energy use of a single transaction. It’s in that regard that Bitcoin is now up to 1.18 million times less efficient than something like the Visa network. Per transaction.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/97a2aac9e0372ecd87939d0b05434a64\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"271\"><span>Source:Digiconomist.net</span></p>\n<p>Mind you, that’s for each Bitcoin transaction, and nearly all those transactions are speculative in nature – not useful.</p>\n<p>Because a 100x or 1000x improvement wouldn't change things.</p>\n<p>There's also a claim about moving to a more efficient cryptocurrency. The problem here is: Improvingon Bitcoin by 100x or 1000x (lower than 1%, as stated per Elon) would still fall far from solving the problem. It would just make the resulting cryptocurrency be&nbsp;1,000x to 10,000x worse than the VISA network(instead of 1,000,000x worse).</p>\n<p>I must, however, say that there are a couple of cryptocurrencies which might be efficient enough to rival with the VISA network, though I didn’t go over the implications for their security and thus won’t name them. These cryptocurrencies don't include Dogecoin (and the current Dogecoin power consumption will increase aggressively to follow the market capitalization).</p>\n<p>Anyway, Musk is right in recognizing the Bitcoin impact and stopping its use. However, just holding Bitcoin is, arguably, contributing to this state of affairs. And Tesla continued to hold its Bitcoin.</p>\n<p>Elon Musk is a bit wrong in saying that a transitiontowardmore sustainable energy sources would solve the problem, though, for the reasons stated – unless the entire world transitioned to such sources, Bitcoin would still be making the world much dirtier than it would otherwise be. He’s also wrong in thinking that improving things by 100x (or 1000x) would be enough to come close to solving the underlying problem.</p>\n<p>Thus, these claims to stop accepting Bitcoin are somewhat mysterious.</p>\n<p><b>But The Real Mystery Is ...</b></p>\n<p>The main problemis -Musk knew already! So why did Tesla buy Bitcoin and started accepting it? And after buying, why did it stop accepting it? It couldn't have been Bitcoin's energy intensity ... Because Elon Musk knew, and commented on, Bitcoin’s energy intensity as far back as February 2019.</p>\n<p>Hence, the reason stated for dropping Bitcoin isn’t likely to be the true reason. And neither was there much concern about this energy intensity when adopting Bitcoin. So, there’s likely a hidden motive both for dropping usage. Here's what Elon Musk had to say on Bitcoin back in February 2019 (bold highlight is mine):</p>\n<blockquote>\n One of the downsides of crypto is that, computationally, it's quite energy intensive. So there have to be some kind of constraints on the creation of crypto.\n <b>But it's very energy intensive to create the incremental Bitcoin at this point</b>.\n</blockquote>\n<p><i>Source:ARKInvest Podcast with Elon Musk</i></p>\n<p>Thus, if the reasons stated for dropping Bitcoin are invalid, it becomes genuinely valid to wonder what the real reasons might be. Those are a mystery.</p>\n<p><b>Why Dogecoin?</b></p>\n<p>First, what is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency started by Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus as something of a meme joke on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.</p>\n<p>The Dogecoin was Jackson Palmer’s idea (who also acquired the&nbsp;Dogecoin.com&nbsp;domain, and created Dogecoin’s overall image and marketing), and the coding was done by Billy Marcus.</p>\n<p>Dogecoin is a source code fork of Luckycoin, which was a source code fork of Junkcoin, which was a source code fork of Litecoin, which was a source code fork of Bitcoin.</p>\n<p>Being a “source code fork” (or codebase fork, or just codebase copy) means developers copied the original code, changed some parameters or sometimes functionality, and then reset the blockchain starting from block 0. Since Luckycoin was open-source software, Billy Marcus took that code, altered some parameters and name fields and UI elements, and Doge was created.</p>\n<p>According to Billy Marcus, the whole work took around three hours, though Billy Marcus had prior experience in creating another Bitcoin source fork cryptocurrency (Bells):</p>\n<blockquote>\n It took about three hours to make, with the bulk of that time making alterations to the client to make the text Comic Sans and some custom graphics and wording for different pieces of the UI.\n</blockquote>\n<p>There were several large changes to the Bitcoin/Litecoin origins:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Target block time was reduced to 60 seconds, meaning transactions are committed faster (10x faster than Bitcoin, whose block target time is 10 minutes). Still, this is far from where it should be for instant transaction commits.</li>\n <li>Supply was uncapped. Though there was a cap initially set at 100 billion Dogecoins, a change removed the cap. This means Dogecoin is an “inflationary” cryptocurrency. The block reward is now set at 10,000 Dogecoin and will stay there forever (unless the protocol is again changed). As supply expands, though, a fixed block reward means the growth rate slowly declines.</li>\n <li>Dogecoin adopted the Litecoin POW (Proof Of Work) algorithm, Scrypt, which is much more memory intensive than SHA256 and less prone to be mined with ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) as a result (at least not the same ASICs as Bitcoin).</li>\n <li>Dogecoin adopted merged mining with other scrypt-based cryptocurrencies, mainly Litecoin. This allowed Dogecoin to be secured by work performed to mine another cryptocurrency at a time when its network’s hashrate was low and risked becoming unsafe.</li>\n <li>Dogecoin adopted a 1 Dogecoin per Kb fixed transaction fee, making it cheaper to transact on the Dogecoin network. 10x more frequent blocks and a similar maximum block size (1 Mb) also means it’s much cheaper to commit transactions on Doge.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Although Dogecoin took some compromises so as to provide higher transaction efficiency and speed, in practice these compromises are creating technical problems (this is interesting because recent Elon Muskproposals- like reducing block times - would make said problems more relevant still). As it is, the very quick block generation time is leading to most nodes not getting a synchronized blockchain, and thus making transaction confirmations slower and potentially less safe. Anyway, Dogecoin development is now showered with money and things might improve.</p>\n<p>A curiosity, the Dogecoin network is even more reliant on block rewards compared to fees than the Bitcoin network.</p>\n<ul>\n <li>At $0.50/Dogecoin, with 10,000 Dogecoins awarded per minute, this generates $7.2 million in block rewards per day or $2.63 billion per year. The estimated fees per day are just $40,000, thus representing only $14.6 million per year or 0.56% of the value of the block rewards.</li>\n <li>The Bitcoin network generates 144 blocks per day, and each rewards 6.25 Bitcoins. At $50,000/Bitcoin, this translates to $45 million per day or $16.43 billion per year. As for transaction fees, it generates an estimated $7.05 million per day or $2.57 billion per year. Transaction fees thus represent 15.7% of the value of the block rewards.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This might lose some significance in the sense that Dogecoin is inflationary and the block rewards will keep on being generated at the current pace forever.</p>\n<p>Another interesting fact about Dogecoin is that Dogecoin, launched as a joke on the proliferation of all kinds of altcoins, wasn’t pre-mined. That is, the founders didn’t try to take a large financial advantage of their own creation.</p>\n<p>Also, over time the founders didn’t accumulate significant amounts of Dogecoin. And at least Billy Marcus famously sold all his Dogecoin (plus other cryptocurrencies) to buy a used Honda Civic. In short, the Dogecoin founders didn’t have a large economic interest in Dogecoin, and both left the project rather early.</p>\n<p>However, while the Dogecoin community is painted as fun and uninterested on the “get rich quick” side of things that’s prevalent in cryptocurrencies, there’s evidence to the contrary.</p>\n<p>Nowhere is that evidence clearer than in the way Dogecoin’s development froze in time once the initial enthusiasm died down. And sure enough, you can expect said development to wake up again now that Dogecoin is worth tens of billions of dollars (below, Github statistics).</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/db4422b6cbfadbfe9808861359c61f18\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"369\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>When Did Elon Start Being Involved With Dogecoin?</b></p>\n<p>For many, it might seem like Elon Musk’s involvement with Bitcoin is something very recent. Charts like this, along with recent participation on the Dogecoin mania, make it seem so:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ee9ad6869ec5ea4c63f084cec082c3a3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"373\"><span>Source:Galaxy Digital Research,Cryptowat.ch</span></p>\n<p>Yet, Elon Musk has actually been tweeting on Dogecoin for a very long time. Some might remember him being \"elected Dogecoin’s CEO”&nbsp;as far back as April 2, 2019&nbsp;(of note, Elon Musk&nbsp;provided an email address for \"access codes\"):</p>\n<p>What fewer willrememberisthatthere’s indirect indication that he had been following the project earlier. If not, how would one explain the coincidence of him addressing Jackson Palmer, one of Dogecoin’s founders,back in Sept. 17, 2018? That’s nearly three years ago:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5b6a129d60fe7732aef70e46ab535284\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"192\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Moreover, this reference is strange, because Jackson Palmer wasn’t the technical lead on Dogecoin. Billy Marcus was. It was the modern equivalent of asking for technical help from Steve Jobs on a hardware issue, instead of asking it from Steve Wozniak. Jackson Palmer did help, though.</p>\n<p>Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin was thus more or less a constant at least since 2018, if not earlier. And it endured through the years, as constant references can be seen over and over. For instance,on March 3, 2020, he again said Dogecoin was the best cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>This, by itself, would already constitute a mystery. But a lot of other things make the mystery be denser. For instance, if Tesla has an interest in cryptocurrency, why get involved with an existing one instead of launching its own? Remember:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>We saw, exactly from Dogecoin’s launch, that it’s very easy to come up with a Dogecoin equivalent. It took Billy Marcus three hours to set it up.</li>\n <li>We know, from Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, that such a Teslacoin would gather instant recognition.</li>\n <li>We also know that it’s incredibly profitable to launch a cryptocurrency, especially if you pre-mine it (something the Dogecoin founders didn’t do). Tesla is known to take advantage of profitable opportunities - like the instance with battery changes and EV credits, or the instance with selling something it didn't have (Full Self-Driving) since October 2016. How can Tesla pass on the opportunity to mint billions of dollars out of thin air?</li>\n <li>The cryptocurrency space is&nbsp;worth $2.3 trillion in aggregate. Bitcoin is worth roughly 40% of that. Dogecoin has a near-$70 billion market cap. A Teslacoin would easily be larger than Dogecoin and could even compete with Bitcoin in time (since it would be technically better from a late launch while having massive community support).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>All in all, these considerations make it unlikely for Tesla to get involved with a cryptocurrency “built by others” like Dogecoin. It makes it doubly unlikely when this currency, just six months ago, had a mere $323 million market capitalization (it’s $68 billion right now, 210x higher). Especially when Tesla could replicate the entire thing in a matter of hours (for the technical side of it) and days (for the community and participation side of it). All while retaining control and enjoying massive rewards.</p>\n<p>Hence, there’s the mystery: Why go through the trouble of supporting Dogecoin (or Bitcoin, for that matter) when the alternative is so obviously better for Tesla and Elon Musk alike?</p>\n<p>Were Tesla to launch its own Teslacoin, and it's not farfetched to think it could have a $100 billion or more market cap. Were Tesla to pre-mine an amount similar to what Satoshi Nakamoto \"pre-mined\" on Bitcoin, and it could hold 5% of this. On $100 billion, that would be $5 billion made from pure air, and it could then also try to get a cut on transaction revenues, etc., by design. $5 billion is relevant, but much more relevant would be the hype around such an endeavor. Plus this is at a $100 billion market cap, but it could also be multiples of that.</p>\n<p><b>Adding To The Mystery</b></p>\n<p>Small tidbits emerge which add to the Dogecoin/Tesla mystery. For instance, back in that first public contact between Elon Musk and Jackson Palmer in Sept. 17, 2018, both were on friendly terms.</p>\n<p>Why is it then, that just a couple of days ago, Jackson Palmer emerged from a self-imposed seclusion exclusively to label Elon Musk&nbsp;a self-absorbed grifter? What happened in between Sept. 17, 2018, and yesterday, for Jackson Palmer’s opinion to change so drastically?</p>\n<p>This happened immediately after Elon Musk tweeted he was working with Dogecoin developers (independent from the founders) on Dogecoin transaction efficiency.</p>\n<p>So, was this just Jackson Palmer’s evaluation of Elon Musk’s public persona during this time, or did something happen backstage, between the two, that the public isn’t aware of?</p>\n<p><b>Final Notes</b></p>\n<p>Although the article speaks of something Tesla can take advantage of, and which would have a large positive impact on the stock price, I label itbearish.</p>\n<p>I label it bearish on valuation. Tesla trades as if will be the most profitable carmaker in the world. Indeed, it trades as if it will be as profitable as several of the largest carmakers in the world put together. This is unlikely to happen. Quite the contrary, competition in the EV space is only set to intensify. Taking advantage of cryptocurrency wouldn't change that enough.</p>\n<p>However, it's easy to see that no matter what the underlying value for Tesla might be (and there would be a lot of value), the stock would get pumped crazily. It's been pumped on robotaxis and other things that don't exist - it's not a surprise that it would be pumped on something Tesla can easily deliver...</p>\n<p>The mysteries do remain, though:</p>\n<ol>\n <li>We don't know why Tesla gave as a reason to dump Bitcoin its energy intensity when Elon already knew about this in 2019.</li>\n <li>We don't know about the extent of the involvement with Dogecoin, because Elon had contacts with one founder in 2018 before he ever talked about Dogecoin, and because they had an obvious falling out in the meantime which no one knows the reasonfor.</li>\n <li>It's also a mystery why Tesla doesn't simply launch its own cryptocurrency (which is an obvious thing to do).</li>\n</ol>\n<p><b>Addendum</b></p>\n<p>There are a couple more useful observations I want to make.</p>\n<p><b>Billy Marcus’ Opinion On Cryptocurrency</b></p>\n<p>Billy Marcus, one of Dogecoin's founders, strikes me as a very realistic and fair person. Hence, I'd like to reproduce his opinion on cryptocurrencies here:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8627a5e885b6de8fdd6063633d0f948\" tg-width=\"567\" tg-height=\"303\"><span>Dogecoin's Concentration</span></p>\n<p>Most opinions out there,including Elon Musk's, have Dogecoin as being extremely concentrated. However, I&nbsp;came across a study, linked to by Billy Marcus, which seems to dispel this notion a lot. It seems most of the top holders are basically exchange wallets (which aggregate the positions of many individual investors).</p>\n<p>This does mean that Dogecoin is sort of GameStop (GME) cryptocurrency equivalent, given the intense retail participation, especially through Robinhood. This also makes it likely Dogecoin will end the same way GameStop did.</p>\n<p><b>Elon Musk Catfished On Dogecoin</b></p>\n<p>This is just another interesting curiosity. It does show that the Dogecoin community has its share of greedy not-so-innocent actors.</p>\n<p>In a somewhat-unknown episode Musk fell victim to some such actors, through&nbsp;a catfishing effort. Obviously, the effort was to try and make Musk express himself about Dogecoin, so as to promote Dogecoin.</p>\n<p><b>Conclusion</b></p>\n<p>To me, it's a mystery why Tesla really stopped accepting Bitcoin (while continuing to hold it). The reason stated was already known by Musk before Tesla even bought Bitcoin. Elon Musk's involvement with Dogecoin also is a mystery, since it seems to backdate current events by a lot. Finally, it's a mystery why Tesla doesn't launch its own cryptocurrency instead of going around promoting other people's.</p>\n<p>Given Elon Musk’s interest in cryptocurrency space and the lack of any technical difficulty, I think it’s a natural step for Tesla to launch its own cryptocurrency. If this is done while the cryptocurrency fever lasts, it could serve as yet another way to drive the stock higher. Given Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, it wouldn’t be very surprising for adoption worldwide to be massive, and for it to generate significant gains for Tesla. The gains could run into the billions of dollars and be recurring, depending on how it’s structured and how long the cryptocurrency euphoria lasts.</p>\n<p>Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin, given the ease with which Tesla can replicate and outdo Dogecoin, is really strange.Therelikely are unseen connections to Dogecoin which haven’t come to public knowledge. This is something of an unknown unknown and a potential source of liability.</p>\n<p>I think over time, Dogecoin will suffer a massive crash (80-90%+), much like the rest of the cryptocurrency space. An exception to this would be for Tesla to, somehow, adopt Dogecoin as its own cryptocurrency. This would be very strange, since Tesla would be foregoing the extreme gains which would be available to it if, instead, it launched its own cryptocurrency. Tesla's cryptocurrency could very easily be technically much more advanced than Dogecoin.</p>\n<p>In short, cryptocurrencies are an opportunity for Tesla even if I disagree with their value. I think overall, cryptocurrencies are just a large pyramid with little practical use. However, it’s clear that Tesla can exploit this euphoria, can do it quickly, and can gain several, possibly many, billions of dollars from milking this irrational euphoria.</p>\n<p>The opportunity doesn’t lie in Tesla accepting existing cryptocurrencies, investing in existing cryptocurrencies or adopting Dogecoin. The opportunity lies in Tesla launching its own cryptocurrency (after pre-mining it a bit…). If this happens:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Tesla will make money out of thin air. $5 billion. $10 billion. It depends on how high the Teslacoin market cap goes, on how much Tesla pre-mines, and if the protocol includes a way for Tesla to get a slice of ongoing transactions using its cryptocurrency.</li>\n <li>Tesla stock will be hyped, possibly strongly. It's not hard to envision the stock market believing Tesla will dominate the cryptocurrency market. And the cryptocurrency market is presently a $2-$2.5 trillion market. It's not peanuts. 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In my view, the action so far is a mystery which will, in due time, reveal yet another hype angle for Tesla. That is a development which can be used to push the stock higher. In this case, the development might even actually create value for Tesla very rapidly.\nYou see, Elon Musk and Tesla have been on the news due to their involvement with cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Dogecoin (DOGE-USD).\nThe serious part of this involvement has been Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment into Bitcoin, while Elon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin seems more \"for fun.\" However, that too has been changing as of late, with Elon actually claiming to be working with Dogecoin developers to improve transaction efficiency - implyingserious interest in using the cryptocurrency seriously.\nBoth the involvement with Bitcoin and Dogecoin have created some strange mysteries, which I will explore in this article. Be prepared, this is going to be a very long article, though filled with rare findings.\nTesla Buys Bitcoin, Then Drops It\nIn Q1 2021, Tesla bought Bitcoin. The 2020 10-K was the first SEC filing acknowledging the acquisition, though Elon Musk tweeted about it earlier.\n\n In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity. As part of the policy, which was duly approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we may invest a portion of such cash in certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future. Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time orlongterm. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis, which we may or may not liquidate upon receipt.\n\nAn interesting part of this risk disclosure goes as follows:\n\n Moreover, digital assets are currently considered indefinite-lived intangible assets under applicable accounting rules, meaning that any decrease in their fair values below our carrying values for such assets at any time subsequent to their acquisition will require us to recognize impairment charges, whereas we may make no upward revisions for any market price increases until a sale, which may adversely affect our operating results in any period in which such impairment occurs. Moreover, there is no guarantee that future changes in GAAP will not require us to change the way we account for digital assets held by us.\n\nThis means that if Bitcoin trades down below Tesla’s cost basis, Tesla will recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. However, if it trades up, Tesla cannot recognize the unrealized gain. It can only recognize a gain when it sells, which it partially did during Q1 2021, leading to such realized gain.\nIn its most recent 10-Q, Tesla clarified when it would recognize an impairment on the Bitcoin position. The criteria is very strict, impossibly strict – Tesla will use the lowest market price since acquiring Bitcoin to assume an impairment on the position (italics emphasis is mine):\n\n We determine the fair value of our bitcoin on a nonrecurring basis in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, based on quoted prices on the activeexchange(s)thatwe have determined is its principal market for bitcoin (Level 1 inputs). We perform an analysis each quarter to identify whether events or changes in circumstances, principally decreases in the quoted prices on active exchanges, indicate that it is more likely than not that our digital assets are impaired.\n In determining if an impairment has occurred, we consider the lowest market price of one bitcoin quoted on the active exchange since acquiring the bitcoin. If the then current carrying value of a digital asset exceeds the fair value so determined, an impairment loss has occurred with respect to those digital assets in the amount equal to the difference between their carrying values and the price determined.\n\nIndeed, while Tesla realized a $128 million gain from selling Bitcoin during Q1 2021, it also recorded a $27 millionimpairment. That is, Bitcoin must have, very temporarily, traded below Tesla’s cost basis. This led to an impairment even as Tesla’s fair market value for the Bitcoin it still holds then stood at $2.48 billion.\n\n Note 3 – Digital Assets, NetDuring the three months ended March 31, 2021, we purchased and received $1.50 billion of Bitcoin. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, we recorded $27 million of impairment losses on bitcoin. We also realized gains of $128 million through sales during the three months ended March 31, 2021. Such gains are presented net of impairment losses in Restructuring and other in the consolidated statement of operations. As of March 31, 2021, the carrying value of our Bitcoin held was $1.33 billion, which reflects cumulative impairments of $27 million. The fair market value of bitcoin held as of March 31, 2021,was$2.48 billion.\n\nA Matter Of Curiosity - Tesla's Bitcoin Cost Basis\nBased on the available data, we can try to guess Tesla’s cost basis, as well as the price it sold Bitcoin at. Consider the following:\n\nTesla acquired $1.5 billion in Bitcoin.\nTesla impaired this acquisition by $0.027 billion.\nTesla had $1.33 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ (End Of Quarter), on a cost basis.\nThus, Tesla had $1.357 billion in Bitcoin at EOQ, on a cost basis + the impairment.\nSo, Tesla sold $0.143 billion in bitcoin ($1.5 billion at inception - $1.357 billion held at EOQ if we exclude theimpairment).\nTesla sold these $0.143 billion in bitcoin at a gain of $0.128 billion. So, it sold that bitcoin amount for $0.271 billion, an 89.5% gain.\nTesla’s EOQ Bitcoin at market value was $2.48 billion.\nAnd Bitcoin stood at ~$58,874 at EOQ (this is not exact, so it will introduce some error).\n\nSo:\n\nTesla’s cost basis per Bitcoin is the (bitcoin+impairment on a cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ. That’s $1.357/$2.48 * $58,874 = $32,214 (there will be a bit of error due to the Bitcoin price considered for EOQ).\nTesla’s current (impaired) cost basis per bitcoin is (bitcoin at cost basis at EOQ)/(EOQ bitcoin at market value) * Bitcoin price at EOQ = $31,574.\nTesla sold bitcoin at an 89.5% gain over the original cost basis, so it sold around $32,214 * 1.895 = $61,050.\n\nAnyway, this is mostly a curiosity.\nThe First Mystery\nFast forward to two days ago, and Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin in payment but didn’t sell its existing Bitcoin hoard, as tweeted by Elon Musk:\n\nAs we can immediately understand, the environmental excuse given was already widely known well before Tesla even started accepting Bitcoin. For instance, I already had written about it in my Bitcoin Series (which I highly recommend reading in its entirety), both a long time ago (four years ago, \"Bitcoin Series #4 - The Bitcoin Arms Race\"), and in more detail recently (\"Bitcoin Series #8 - Bitcoin Is Not The Future\"). So had many others, even earlier.\nThe excuse for dropping Bitcoin acceptance is thus something of a mystery. It is so for several reasons, namely...\nBecause (Bitcoin Only) Moving To Sustainable Energy Is Nearly Impossible\nThe Tesla claim regarding a transition to more sustainable energy is a red herring. Why? Because electricity is fungible. Even a company contracting power exclusively from renewable sources (as isen vogue) isn’t really just using renewable sources. The company only makes the rest of electricity usage have a dirtier mix, because of not having access to those renewable sources the company is contracting away.\nThe only time this isn’t false is when renewables are injecting so much energy into the grid (due to wind, solar, and little electricity demand) that electricity prices go negative. At that point, it can be said that there’s excess electricity in the grid, and any taker isn’t making it dirtier. But crypto mining isn’t an intermittent activity, while these events are reasonably rare and intermittent.\nThis idea has been put forth in some misleading ways. For instance, there’s been some widespread quoting of a study stating 76% of mining operators “use renewable energysources.” However, to qualify as “using renewable sources” just takes some renewable energy being present in the electricity generation mix. Of course, nearly all electricity pools have some renewable sources, so nearly everyone can claim to use some renewable energy. That 24% couldn’t claim any use of renewable energy is more of a surprise.\nThe same study does say that 39% of energy consumed comes from renewable sources, which is a more relevant statistic. But this statistic also suffers from the same problem I described before:Electricityis fungible. Unless the electricity is being wasted or generation was built on purpose to mine cryptocurrencies, then mining is displacing other uses and thus making other uses dirtier, which is the same as being dirty itself. Finally, I could also nitpick and say that even building renewable energy sources consumes energy and creates CO2, but that would be going too far.\nIt was not a coincidence that the closure of a single huge coal mine in China temporarily wiped out one-third of all Bitcoin mining. And of course, that’s not the only coal-powered generation being used to mine Bitcoin. That alone ought to be enough for people to question any number looking like \"76%renewables.\"\nAlso, saying that fueling EVs or launching rockets consumes energy and creates CO2 is another red herring (this one lobbied at Elon Musk for dropping Bitcoin). This is so because these are useful activities. It’s like breathing, it creates CO2 but no one is going to criticize that since it’s useful (unlike nearly all cryptocurrency activity).\nA final misconception is that banking consumes a lot of energy itself. Or gold mining. A direct comparison is often made, which makes no sense. The only viable comparison is comparing the energy use of a single transaction. It’s in that regard that Bitcoin is now up to 1.18 million times less efficient than something like the Visa network. Per transaction.\nSource:Digiconomist.net\nMind you, that’s for each Bitcoin transaction, and nearly all those transactions are speculative in nature – not useful.\nBecause a 100x or 1000x improvement wouldn't change things.\nThere's also a claim about moving to a more efficient cryptocurrency. The problem here is: Improvingon Bitcoin by 100x or 1000x (lower than 1%, as stated per Elon) would still fall far from solving the problem. It would just make the resulting cryptocurrency be 1,000x to 10,000x worse than the VISA network(instead of 1,000,000x worse).\nI must, however, say that there are a couple of cryptocurrencies which might be efficient enough to rival with the VISA network, though I didn’t go over the implications for their security and thus won’t name them. These cryptocurrencies don't include Dogecoin (and the current Dogecoin power consumption will increase aggressively to follow the market capitalization).\nAnyway, Musk is right in recognizing the Bitcoin impact and stopping its use. However, just holding Bitcoin is, arguably, contributing to this state of affairs. And Tesla continued to hold its Bitcoin.\nElon Musk is a bit wrong in saying that a transitiontowardmore sustainable energy sources would solve the problem, though, for the reasons stated – unless the entire world transitioned to such sources, Bitcoin would still be making the world much dirtier than it would otherwise be. He’s also wrong in thinking that improving things by 100x (or 1000x) would be enough to come close to solving the underlying problem.\nThus, these claims to stop accepting Bitcoin are somewhat mysterious.\nBut The Real Mystery Is ...\nThe main problemis -Musk knew already! So why did Tesla buy Bitcoin and started accepting it? And after buying, why did it stop accepting it? It couldn't have been Bitcoin's energy intensity ... Because Elon Musk knew, and commented on, Bitcoin’s energy intensity as far back as February 2019.\nHence, the reason stated for dropping Bitcoin isn’t likely to be the true reason. And neither was there much concern about this energy intensity when adopting Bitcoin. So, there’s likely a hidden motive both for dropping usage. Here's what Elon Musk had to say on Bitcoin back in February 2019 (bold highlight is mine):\n\n One of the downsides of crypto is that, computationally, it's quite energy intensive. So there have to be some kind of constraints on the creation of crypto.\n But it's very energy intensive to create the incremental Bitcoin at this point.\n\nSource:ARKInvest Podcast with Elon Musk\nThus, if the reasons stated for dropping Bitcoin are invalid, it becomes genuinely valid to wonder what the real reasons might be. Those are a mystery.\nWhy Dogecoin?\nFirst, what is Dogecoin? Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency started by Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus as something of a meme joke on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.\nThe Dogecoin was Jackson Palmer’s idea (who also acquired the Dogecoin.com domain, and created Dogecoin’s overall image and marketing), and the coding was done by Billy Marcus.\nDogecoin is a source code fork of Luckycoin, which was a source code fork of Junkcoin, which was a source code fork of Litecoin, which was a source code fork of Bitcoin.\nBeing a “source code fork” (or codebase fork, or just codebase copy) means developers copied the original code, changed some parameters or sometimes functionality, and then reset the blockchain starting from block 0. Since Luckycoin was open-source software, Billy Marcus took that code, altered some parameters and name fields and UI elements, and Doge was created.\nAccording to Billy Marcus, the whole work took around three hours, though Billy Marcus had prior experience in creating another Bitcoin source fork cryptocurrency (Bells):\n\n It took about three hours to make, with the bulk of that time making alterations to the client to make the text Comic Sans and some custom graphics and wording for different pieces of the UI.\n\nThere were several large changes to the Bitcoin/Litecoin origins:\n\nTarget block time was reduced to 60 seconds, meaning transactions are committed faster (10x faster than Bitcoin, whose block target time is 10 minutes). Still, this is far from where it should be for instant transaction commits.\nSupply was uncapped. Though there was a cap initially set at 100 billion Dogecoins, a change removed the cap. This means Dogecoin is an “inflationary” cryptocurrency. The block reward is now set at 10,000 Dogecoin and will stay there forever (unless the protocol is again changed). As supply expands, though, a fixed block reward means the growth rate slowly declines.\nDogecoin adopted the Litecoin POW (Proof Of Work) algorithm, Scrypt, which is much more memory intensive than SHA256 and less prone to be mined with ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) as a result (at least not the same ASICs as Bitcoin).\nDogecoin adopted merged mining with other scrypt-based cryptocurrencies, mainly Litecoin. This allowed Dogecoin to be secured by work performed to mine another cryptocurrency at a time when its network’s hashrate was low and risked becoming unsafe.\nDogecoin adopted a 1 Dogecoin per Kb fixed transaction fee, making it cheaper to transact on the Dogecoin network. 10x more frequent blocks and a similar maximum block size (1 Mb) also means it’s much cheaper to commit transactions on Doge.\n\nAlthough Dogecoin took some compromises so as to provide higher transaction efficiency and speed, in practice these compromises are creating technical problems (this is interesting because recent Elon Muskproposals- like reducing block times - would make said problems more relevant still). As it is, the very quick block generation time is leading to most nodes not getting a synchronized blockchain, and thus making transaction confirmations slower and potentially less safe. Anyway, Dogecoin development is now showered with money and things might improve.\nA curiosity, the Dogecoin network is even more reliant on block rewards compared to fees than the Bitcoin network.\n\nAt $0.50/Dogecoin, with 10,000 Dogecoins awarded per minute, this generates $7.2 million in block rewards per day or $2.63 billion per year. The estimated fees per day are just $40,000, thus representing only $14.6 million per year or 0.56% of the value of the block rewards.\nThe Bitcoin network generates 144 blocks per day, and each rewards 6.25 Bitcoins. At $50,000/Bitcoin, this translates to $45 million per day or $16.43 billion per year. As for transaction fees, it generates an estimated $7.05 million per day or $2.57 billion per year. Transaction fees thus represent 15.7% of the value of the block rewards.\n\nThis might lose some significance in the sense that Dogecoin is inflationary and the block rewards will keep on being generated at the current pace forever.\nAnother interesting fact about Dogecoin is that Dogecoin, launched as a joke on the proliferation of all kinds of altcoins, wasn’t pre-mined. That is, the founders didn’t try to take a large financial advantage of their own creation.\nAlso, over time the founders didn’t accumulate significant amounts of Dogecoin. And at least Billy Marcus famously sold all his Dogecoin (plus other cryptocurrencies) to buy a used Honda Civic. In short, the Dogecoin founders didn’t have a large economic interest in Dogecoin, and both left the project rather early.\nHowever, while the Dogecoin community is painted as fun and uninterested on the “get rich quick” side of things that’s prevalent in cryptocurrencies, there’s evidence to the contrary.\nNowhere is that evidence clearer than in the way Dogecoin’s development froze in time once the initial enthusiasm died down. And sure enough, you can expect said development to wake up again now that Dogecoin is worth tens of billions of dollars (below, Github statistics).\n\nWhen Did Elon Start Being Involved With Dogecoin?\nFor many, it might seem like Elon Musk’s involvement with Bitcoin is something very recent. Charts like this, along with recent participation on the Dogecoin mania, make it seem so:\nSource:Galaxy Digital Research,Cryptowat.ch\nYet, Elon Musk has actually been tweeting on Dogecoin for a very long time. Some might remember him being \"elected Dogecoin’s CEO” as far back as April 2, 2019 (of note, Elon Musk provided an email address for \"access codes\"):\nWhat fewer willrememberisthatthere’s indirect indication that he had been following the project earlier. If not, how would one explain the coincidence of him addressing Jackson Palmer, one of Dogecoin’s founders,back in Sept. 17, 2018? That’s nearly three years ago:\n\nMoreover, this reference is strange, because Jackson Palmer wasn’t the technical lead on Dogecoin. Billy Marcus was. It was the modern equivalent of asking for technical help from Steve Jobs on a hardware issue, instead of asking it from Steve Wozniak. Jackson Palmer did help, though.\nElon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin was thus more or less a constant at least since 2018, if not earlier. And it endured through the years, as constant references can be seen over and over. For instance,on March 3, 2020, he again said Dogecoin was the best cryptocurrency.\nThis, by itself, would already constitute a mystery. But a lot of other things make the mystery be denser. For instance, if Tesla has an interest in cryptocurrency, why get involved with an existing one instead of launching its own? Remember:\n\nWe saw, exactly from Dogecoin’s launch, that it’s very easy to come up with a Dogecoin equivalent. It took Billy Marcus three hours to set it up.\nWe know, from Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, that such a Teslacoin would gather instant recognition.\nWe also know that it’s incredibly profitable to launch a cryptocurrency, especially if you pre-mine it (something the Dogecoin founders didn’t do). Tesla is known to take advantage of profitable opportunities - like the instance with battery changes and EV credits, or the instance with selling something it didn't have (Full Self-Driving) since October 2016. How can Tesla pass on the opportunity to mint billions of dollars out of thin air?\nThe cryptocurrency space is worth $2.3 trillion in aggregate. Bitcoin is worth roughly 40% of that. Dogecoin has a near-$70 billion market cap. A Teslacoin would easily be larger than Dogecoin and could even compete with Bitcoin in time (since it would be technically better from a late launch while having massive community support).\n\nAll in all, these considerations make it unlikely for Tesla to get involved with a cryptocurrency “built by others” like Dogecoin. It makes it doubly unlikely when this currency, just six months ago, had a mere $323 million market capitalization (it’s $68 billion right now, 210x higher). Especially when Tesla could replicate the entire thing in a matter of hours (for the technical side of it) and days (for the community and participation side of it). All while retaining control and enjoying massive rewards.\nHence, there’s the mystery: Why go through the trouble of supporting Dogecoin (or Bitcoin, for that matter) when the alternative is so obviously better for Tesla and Elon Musk alike?\nWere Tesla to launch its own Teslacoin, and it's not farfetched to think it could have a $100 billion or more market cap. Were Tesla to pre-mine an amount similar to what Satoshi Nakamoto \"pre-mined\" on Bitcoin, and it could hold 5% of this. On $100 billion, that would be $5 billion made from pure air, and it could then also try to get a cut on transaction revenues, etc., by design. $5 billion is relevant, but much more relevant would be the hype around such an endeavor. Plus this is at a $100 billion market cap, but it could also be multiples of that.\nAdding To The Mystery\nSmall tidbits emerge which add to the Dogecoin/Tesla mystery. For instance, back in that first public contact between Elon Musk and Jackson Palmer in Sept. 17, 2018, both were on friendly terms.\nWhy is it then, that just a couple of days ago, Jackson Palmer emerged from a self-imposed seclusion exclusively to label Elon Musk a self-absorbed grifter? What happened in between Sept. 17, 2018, and yesterday, for Jackson Palmer’s opinion to change so drastically?\nThis happened immediately after Elon Musk tweeted he was working with Dogecoin developers (independent from the founders) on Dogecoin transaction efficiency.\nSo, was this just Jackson Palmer’s evaluation of Elon Musk’s public persona during this time, or did something happen backstage, between the two, that the public isn’t aware of?\nFinal Notes\nAlthough the article speaks of something Tesla can take advantage of, and which would have a large positive impact on the stock price, I label itbearish.\nI label it bearish on valuation. Tesla trades as if will be the most profitable carmaker in the world. Indeed, it trades as if it will be as profitable as several of the largest carmakers in the world put together. This is unlikely to happen. Quite the contrary, competition in the EV space is only set to intensify. Taking advantage of cryptocurrency wouldn't change that enough.\nHowever, it's easy to see that no matter what the underlying value for Tesla might be (and there would be a lot of value), the stock would get pumped crazily. It's been pumped on robotaxis and other things that don't exist - it's not a surprise that it would be pumped on something Tesla can easily deliver...\nThe mysteries do remain, though:\n\nWe don't know why Tesla gave as a reason to dump Bitcoin its energy intensity when Elon already knew about this in 2019.\nWe don't know about the extent of the involvement with Dogecoin, because Elon had contacts with one founder in 2018 before he ever talked about Dogecoin, and because they had an obvious falling out in the meantime which no one knows the reasonfor.\nIt's also a mystery why Tesla doesn't simply launch its own cryptocurrency (which is an obvious thing to do).\n\nAddendum\nThere are a couple more useful observations I want to make.\nBilly Marcus’ Opinion On Cryptocurrency\nBilly Marcus, one of Dogecoin's founders, strikes me as a very realistic and fair person. Hence, I'd like to reproduce his opinion on cryptocurrencies here:\nDogecoin's Concentration\nMost opinions out there,including Elon Musk's, have Dogecoin as being extremely concentrated. However, I came across a study, linked to by Billy Marcus, which seems to dispel this notion a lot. It seems most of the top holders are basically exchange wallets (which aggregate the positions of many individual investors).\nThis does mean that Dogecoin is sort of GameStop (GME) cryptocurrency equivalent, given the intense retail participation, especially through Robinhood. This also makes it likely Dogecoin will end the same way GameStop did.\nElon Musk Catfished On Dogecoin\nThis is just another interesting curiosity. It does show that the Dogecoin community has its share of greedy not-so-innocent actors.\nIn a somewhat-unknown episode Musk fell victim to some such actors, through a catfishing effort. Obviously, the effort was to try and make Musk express himself about Dogecoin, so as to promote Dogecoin.\nConclusion\nTo me, it's a mystery why Tesla really stopped accepting Bitcoin (while continuing to hold it). The reason stated was already known by Musk before Tesla even bought Bitcoin. Elon Musk's involvement with Dogecoin also is a mystery, since it seems to backdate current events by a lot. Finally, it's a mystery why Tesla doesn't launch its own cryptocurrency instead of going around promoting other people's.\nGiven Elon Musk’s interest in cryptocurrency space and the lack of any technical difficulty, I think it’s a natural step for Tesla to launch its own cryptocurrency. If this is done while the cryptocurrency fever lasts, it could serve as yet another way to drive the stock higher. Given Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s popularity, it wouldn’t be very surprising for adoption worldwide to be massive, and for it to generate significant gains for Tesla. The gains could run into the billions of dollars and be recurring, depending on how it’s structured and how long the cryptocurrency euphoria lasts.\nElon Musk’s involvement with Dogecoin, given the ease with which Tesla can replicate and outdo Dogecoin, is really strange.Therelikely are unseen connections to Dogecoin which haven’t come to public knowledge. This is something of an unknown unknown and a potential source of liability.\nI think over time, Dogecoin will suffer a massive crash (80-90%+), much like the rest of the cryptocurrency space. An exception to this would be for Tesla to, somehow, adopt Dogecoin as its own cryptocurrency. This would be very strange, since Tesla would be foregoing the extreme gains which would be available to it if, instead, it launched its own cryptocurrency. Tesla's cryptocurrency could very easily be technically much more advanced than Dogecoin.\nIn short, cryptocurrencies are an opportunity for Tesla even if I disagree with their value. I think overall, cryptocurrencies are just a large pyramid with little practical use. However, it’s clear that Tesla can exploit this euphoria, can do it quickly, and can gain several, possibly many, billions of dollars from milking this irrational euphoria.\nThe opportunity doesn’t lie in Tesla accepting existing cryptocurrencies, investing in existing cryptocurrencies or adopting Dogecoin. The opportunity lies in Tesla launching its own cryptocurrency (after pre-mining it a bit…). If this happens:\n\nTesla will make money out of thin air. $5 billion. $10 billion. It depends on how high the Teslacoin market cap goes, on how much Tesla pre-mines, and if the protocol includes a way for Tesla to get a slice of ongoing transactions using its cryptocurrency.\nTesla stock will be hyped, possibly strongly. It's not hard to envision the stock market believing Tesla will dominate the cryptocurrency market. And the cryptocurrency market is presently a $2-$2.5 trillion market. It's not peanuts. It's relevant even for a company of Tesla's size.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":215,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103432833,"gmtCreate":1619799067422,"gmtModify":1704272608407,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"nice","listText":"nice","text":"nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/103432833","repostId":"1103818454","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1103818454","pubTimestamp":1619769216,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1103818454?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-30 15:53","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Amazon Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1103818454","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic wi","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Big Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic with another massive all-around beat.</li>\n <li>AWS seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, on the back of growth acceleration and solid margins.</li>\n <li>Amazon shares are looking hot, after a 16% one-month rally. But I think that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation, in the long term.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e9f56d3e6d62818330f1d9b52c905b50\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1024\"><span>Photo by 400tmax/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p>Big Tech has been having an outstanding calendar first quarter in 2021. On April 29, it was Amazon's (AMZN) turn to drop the mic with&nbsp;another earnings smasher, its fourth consecutive all-around beat. The tech and consumer goods giant topped expectations across the board, and remained on track to achieve world domination: by far the largest global retailer and IaaS cloud provider.</p>\n<p>One very important piece of Amazon's business seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, as I watch the stock soar 4% ahead of the earnings call. Amazon Web Services delivered much higher-than-forecasted revenues and solid margins of 30.8%, fueling optimism for cloud and digital transformation.</p>\n<p><b>Results were spotless</b></p>\n<p>Wall Street already expected Amazon to have an outstanding quarter, with EPS climbing by nearly 100%. Little did analysts know that the company's earnings would top aggressive projections by the third widest margin&nbsp;of the past five years, at least. EPS of $15.79 was an astonishing 215% increase YOY.</p>\n<p>The table below, particularly the area highlighted, depicts Amazon's impressive top-line performance. The broad North America and International segments, which basically encompass everything except cloud infrastructure services, experienced growth of at least 40%, fueled by:</p>\n<ol>\n <li>lingering stay-at-home tailwinds from the pandemic;</li>\n <li>a likely permanent shift in how consumers shop (i.e. online);</li>\n <li>the ramp up of smaller initiatives that are still in high-growth stage.</li>\n</ol>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ae9d372898d5f53fc75e57c395214c59\" tg-width=\"595\" tg-height=\"337\"><span>Source: Collage from earnings report</span></p>\n<p>The slower growth, smaller revenue AWS segment, however, is what I believe impressed investors the most in the first quarter. Top-line growth of 32% was quite an achievement, compared to 28% last quarter. The four percentage-point growth<i>acceleration</i>compares very favorably to Microsoft (MSFT) Azure's two percentage-point&nbsp;<i>deceleration</i>&nbsp;in the same period. This apparent shift in market share may explain why AMZN was up strongly after hours, while MSFT was down about 0.4%.</p>\n<p>I believe that the market pays too much attention to quarter-by-quarter cloud revenue flows. Matters like revenue recognition and lumpiness in large contracts can impact short-term performance. Yet, investor sentiment seems to get a boost whenever AWS performs well, as it did in the first quarter. All the better for Amazon shareholders.</p>\n<p><b>Stock is hot, company is hotter</b></p>\n<p>Some might feel uneasy buying AMZN after the stock climbed 16% in the past month alone, while the S&amp;P 500 traded higher by \"only\" 6% during the same period. This is especially true if one considers recent bullishness in Amazon stock to have been driven by&nbsp;a speculated stock split&nbsp;that, until now, has not been confirmed.</p>\n<p>But on the heels of a killer quarter, I believe that it is very hard to build a bearish case on Amazon. Yes, multiples are high (see below), and they likely will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But the company's staggering fundamentals seem to justify the valuation premium. Consider the dizzying growth pace of virtually all Amazon's sub-segments, much of which I would credit to secular (not temporary, pandemic-related) trends in digital commerce and cloud adoption.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5a158fe786b08a69d6a5d4988f520886\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"453\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>To invest in AMZN, I believe that one needs to focus on the long term. In the short term, anything can happen to the stock. A post-earnings, \"sell the news\" pullback driven by profit taking is certainly not out of question.</p>\n<p>But look farther out in time, and it is likely that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation. For example, 2026 EPS projections&nbsp;currently stand&nbsp;at over $200. Judging by what Amazon delivered in Q1, they could prove to be conservative estimates. At current levels, shares trade at a five-year forward P/E of only 17x, which is absurdly low (in my view) for a company that will likely continue to thrive well beyond the next few years.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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 Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination</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 Earnings Review: On Track For World Domination\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-30 15:53 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4422778-amazon-earnings-review-on-track-for-world-domination><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic with another massive all-around beat.\nAWS seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4422778-amazon-earnings-review-on-track-for-world-domination\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4422778-amazon-earnings-review-on-track-for-world-domination","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1103818454","content_text":"Summary\n\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding Q1, with Amazon being the latest to drop the mic with another massive all-around beat.\nAWS seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, on the back of growth acceleration and solid margins.\nAmazon shares are looking hot, after a 16% one-month rally. But I think that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation, in the long term.\n\nPhoto by 400tmax/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images\nBig Tech has been having an outstanding calendar first quarter in 2021. On April 29, it was Amazon's (AMZN) turn to drop the mic with another earnings smasher, its fourth consecutive all-around beat. The tech and consumer goods giant topped expectations across the board, and remained on track to achieve world domination: by far the largest global retailer and IaaS cloud provider.\nOne very important piece of Amazon's business seems to justify bullish after-hours reaction more than anything else, as I watch the stock soar 4% ahead of the earnings call. Amazon Web Services delivered much higher-than-forecasted revenues and solid margins of 30.8%, fueling optimism for cloud and digital transformation.\nResults were spotless\nWall Street already expected Amazon to have an outstanding quarter, with EPS climbing by nearly 100%. Little did analysts know that the company's earnings would top aggressive projections by the third widest margin of the past five years, at least. EPS of $15.79 was an astonishing 215% increase YOY.\nThe table below, particularly the area highlighted, depicts Amazon's impressive top-line performance. The broad North America and International segments, which basically encompass everything except cloud infrastructure services, experienced growth of at least 40%, fueled by:\n\nlingering stay-at-home tailwinds from the pandemic;\na likely permanent shift in how consumers shop (i.e. online);\nthe ramp up of smaller initiatives that are still in high-growth stage.\n\nSource: Collage from earnings report\nThe slower growth, smaller revenue AWS segment, however, is what I believe impressed investors the most in the first quarter. Top-line growth of 32% was quite an achievement, compared to 28% last quarter. The four percentage-point growthaccelerationcompares very favorably to Microsoft (MSFT) Azure's two percentage-point deceleration in the same period. This apparent shift in market share may explain why AMZN was up strongly after hours, while MSFT was down about 0.4%.\nI believe that the market pays too much attention to quarter-by-quarter cloud revenue flows. Matters like revenue recognition and lumpiness in large contracts can impact short-term performance. Yet, investor sentiment seems to get a boost whenever AWS performs well, as it did in the first quarter. All the better for Amazon shareholders.\nStock is hot, company is hotter\nSome might feel uneasy buying AMZN after the stock climbed 16% in the past month alone, while the S&P 500 traded higher by \"only\" 6% during the same period. This is especially true if one considers recent bullishness in Amazon stock to have been driven by a speculated stock split that, until now, has not been confirmed.\nBut on the heels of a killer quarter, I believe that it is very hard to build a bearish case on Amazon. Yes, multiples are high (see below), and they likely will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But the company's staggering fundamentals seem to justify the valuation premium. Consider the dizzying growth pace of virtually all Amazon's sub-segments, much of which I would credit to secular (not temporary, pandemic-related) trends in digital commerce and cloud adoption.\nData by YCharts\nTo invest in AMZN, I believe that one needs to focus on the long term. In the short term, anything can happen to the stock. A post-earnings, \"sell the news\" pullback driven by profit taking is certainly not out of question.\nBut look farther out in time, and it is likely that AMZN will continue to grow into its valuation. For example, 2026 EPS projections currently stand at over $200. Judging by what Amazon delivered in Q1, they could prove to be conservative estimates. At current levels, shares trade at a five-year forward P/E of only 17x, which is absurdly low (in my view) for a company that will likely continue to thrive well beyond the next few years.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":190,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":103432977,"gmtCreate":1619799040499,"gmtModify":1704272607919,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Sounds not bad.&nbsp;","listText":"Sounds not bad.&nbsp;","text":"Sounds not bad.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/103432977","repostId":"1142063705","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1142063705","pubTimestamp":1619796118,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1142063705?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-30 23:21","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Europe's antitrust crackdown on Apple hints at what's coming for the company in the U.S.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1142063705","media":"CNBC","summary":"For a long time, the European Commission seemed to stand apart from the U.S. in cracking down on tech giants with antitrust fines againstGoogleand privacy rules like the General Data Protection Regulation.“The Commission’s argument onSpotify’sbehalf is the opposite of fair competition,” Apple said in a statement following Vestager’s announcement, referring to the music streaming company that raised the competition complaint. Apple said Spotify wants “all the benefits of the App Store but don’t t","content":"<div>\n<p>For a long time, the European Commission seemed to stand apart from the U.S. in cracking down on tech giants with antitrust fines againstGoogleand privacy rules like the General Data Protection ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/30/eu-leads-tech-crackdown-but-the-us-isnt-far-behind.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"cnbc_highlight","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>Europe's antitrust crackdown on Apple hints at what's coming for the company in the U.S.</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; 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Apple said Spotify wants “all the benefits of the App Store but don’t think they should have to pay anything for that,” by choosing to object to its 15-30% commission on in-app payments for streaming apps.\nApple isn’t currently facing any antitrust charges from government officials in the U.S. and such a lawsuit may never materialize, though the Department of Justice wasreportedly granted oversight of the company’s competitive practices in 2019. But even if the government declines to press charges, recent actions in Congress, state legislatures and in private lawsuits demonstrate a significant shift in the American public’s sentiment toward Apple and the tech industry at large.\nWhen the commissionslapped its first record competition fineagainstGooglein 2017, it wasn’t yet clear that the U.S. might be ready to move on from its once-cozy relationship with its booming tech industry. But in 2018, on the heels of the revelations of howFacebookuser data was used by analytics company Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election, and increasing questions about how tech platforms can impact American democracy, that seemed to change.\nNow, as Europe continues to move forward with its probe into Apple, the U.S. no longer seems to be so far behind.\nHere’s where Apple stands to face risk of antitrust action or regulation in the U.S.:\nDOJ\nThe DOJ has already moved forward with a massive lawsuit against Google, so it could take some time if it decides to ramp up a probe into Apple. Though the DOJ’s Antitrust Division took on oversight authority of Apple in a 2019 agreement with the FTC, according to aWall Street Journal report, the Google investigation has seemed to take priority.\nStill, then-Attorney General Bill Barr announced later that year that the DOJ wouldconduct a broad antitrust review of Big Tech companies.\nAny action from the DOJ or state enforcers would take the form of a settlement or lawsuit, which would put Apple’s fate in the hands of the courts.\nPrivate lawsuits\nApple’s most immediate challenge in the U.S. has come from private companies bringing antitrust charges against its business in court.\nThe most notable of these lawsuits isfrom Fortnite-maker Epic Games, which is set to begin its trial on Monday. Epic filed its lawsuit with a PR blitz afterchallenging Apple’s in-app payment feeby advertising in its app an alternative, cheaper way to buy character outfits from Epic directly, violating Apple’s rules. That prompted Apple to remove Fortnite from its App Store. Epic filed the suit shortly after and Applefiled counterclaimsagainst Epic for allegedly breaching its contract.\n“Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store,” Apple said in a filing with the District Court for the Northern District of California in September.\nCongress\nJust last week,several app-makers testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust about the alleged anti-competitive harms they’ve facedfrom restrictions on both Apple and Google’s app stores.\nRepresentatives from Apple and Google told lawmakers they simply charge for the technology and the work they put into running the app stores, which have significantly lowered distribution costs for app developers over the years.\nBut witnesses from Tinder-ownerMatch Group, item-tracking device-maker Tile and Spotify painted a different picture.\n“We’re all afraid,” Match Group chief legal officer Jared Sine testified of the platforms’ broad power over their businesses.\nThe witnesses discussed the seemingly arbitrary nature by which Apple allegedly enforces its App Store rules. Spotify’s legal chief claimed Apple has threatened retaliation on numerous occasions and Tile’s top lawyer said Apple denied access to a key feature that wouldimprove their object-tracking product, before utilizing it for Apple’s own rival gadget,called AirTag.\nTile said that while Apple now makes the feature available for third-party developers to incorporate, accessing it would mean handing over a significant amount of data and control to Apple. Apple’s representative said its product is different from Tile’s and opening the feature in question will encourage further competition in the space.\nSenators at the hearing seemed receptive to the app developers’ complaints, which build on earlier claims made before House lawmakers. The House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust found in a more than year-long probe thatAmazon, Apple, Facebook and Googleall hold monopoly power, and lawmakers are currently crafting bills to enable stronger antitrust enforcement of digital markets.\nState Legislatures\nSeveral state legislatures have beenconsidering bills that would require platforms like Apple and Google to allow app-makers to use their own payment processing systems. While the bills have so far hadvarying degrees of successin the early stages of lawmaking, passage in one state could raise a host of questions about how it should be enforced given the ambiguous nature of digital borders.\nThe bills have been supported by the Coalition for App Fairness, a group of companies that have complained about app store fees, including Epic Games, Match Group and Spotify.\nApple has often argued that it maintains features like payments within its own ecosystem in order to protect consumers and secure their data, though app developers and lawmakers have expressed skepticism about that reasoning.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":242,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":372972553,"gmtCreate":1619172969272,"gmtModify":1704720762332,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good for the stock listed in US market but business outside of US...&nbsp;","listText":"Good for the stock listed in US market but business outside of US...&nbsp;","text":"Good for the stock listed in US market but business outside of US...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/372972553","repostId":"2129336573","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2129336573","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1619121680,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2129336573?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-23 04:01","market":"us","language":"en","title":"U.S. stocks drop on news of Biden tax proposals","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2129336573","media":"Reuters","summary":"AT&T rises on strong quarterly resultsU.S. weekly jobless claims decline furtherIndexes down: Dow 0.","content":"<ul><li>AT&amp;T rises on strong quarterly results</li><li>U.S. weekly jobless claims decline further</li><li>Indexes down: Dow 0.94%, S&amp;P 500 0.92%, Nasdaq 0.94%</li></ul><p>By Herbert Lash</p><p>NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dived on Thursday on reports President Joe Biden planned to almost double the capital gains tax, news analysts said provided an excuse to take profits in a directionless market ahead of big tech's earnings next week.</p><p>The three main indexes on Wall Street also fell on reports that Biden planned to raise income taxes on the wealthy, a proposal some said would be hard to pass in Congress.</p><p>\"If it had a chance of passing, we'd be down 2,000 points,\" said Thomas Hayes, chairman and managing member at hedge fund Great Hill Capital LLC.</p><p>Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Investment Management in Chicago, said when a proposal is floated about raising taxes or capital gains, everybody gets excited, sells first and asks questions later.</p><p>\"It is more of a short-term, knee-jerk reaction,\" he said.</p><p>Biden will propose raising the marginal income tax rate to 39.6% from 37% and nearly double capital gains taxes to 39.6% for people earning more than $1 million, sources told Reuters.</p><p>The proposal targets about $1 trillion for child care, universal pre-kindergarten education and paid leave for workers, the sources said.</p><p>Markets have been listless after the Dow    and S&amp;P 500&nbsp;scaled all-time peaks last week as investors await guidance from Microsoft Corp   , Google parent Alphabet Inc    and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a> Inc    when they report earnings next week.</p><p>\"Until we get out of this information vacuum the market is going to be generally directionless,\" he said. \"All that really matters moving forward is what are those big tech earnings next week?\"</p><p>During the session, the S&amp;P 500 healthcare sector hit a fresh record high while industrials were the biggest gainers.</p><p>American Airlines Group Inc and Southwest Airlines Co    reported smaller-than-expected quarterly losses, signaling a revival in travel demand. Both shares fell.</p><p>Investors welcomed data showing the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week dropped to a fresh <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-year low. The Labor Department report suggested layoffs were subsiding and expectations were rising for another month of blockbuster job growth in April.</p><p>The speedy U.S. vaccination rollout has improved the economic outlook as people plan summer vacations and leisure spending, but a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and elsewhere in Asia has kept investors anxious, Hayes said.</p><p>Equities have likely reached a near-term top as expectations are too high, said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.</p><p>\"There's going to be continued positive moves throughout the remainder of the year but we are due for some sort of a pullback in the very short term,\" he said. \"Then the dip buyers will step back in.\"</p><p>First-quarter earnings are expected to increase 31.9% from a year ago, the highest rate since the fourth quarter, according to IBES Refinitiv data.</p><p>All 11 S&amp;P 500 sectors closed lower as Microsoft, Apple Inc , Amazon.com Inc and Tesla Inc weighted the most on the downdraft.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.94% to 33,815.9, the S&amp;P 500 lost 0.92% at 4,134.98, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.94% to 13,818.41.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.35 billion shares, compared with the 10.32 billion full-session average over the last 20 trading days.</p><p>Chipmaker Intel Corp forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street targets, betting its next generation of processors for data centers and PCs will meet growing demand for cloud-based services. Shares slipped about 1% in after-hours trade.</p><p>AT&amp;T Inc beat Wall Street revenue targets as the U.S. economic reopening following pandemic-linked restrictions boosted smartphone sales and the media business. AT&amp;T shares rose 4.2%.</p><p>Biogen Inc beat quarterly profit estimates on stronger-than-expected sales for its muscle wasting disorder drug, though concerns over its reliance on its yet-to-be approved Alzheimer's therapy, aducanumab, weighed on shares. Biogen shares fell 4.0%.</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.57-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.04-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 84 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 20 new lows. (Reporting by Herbert Lash, additional reporting by Lewis Krauskopf in New York, Shivani Kumaresan and Shreyashi Sanyal in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Richard Chang)</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>U.S. stocks drop on news of Biden tax proposals</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; 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Both shares fell.</p><p>Investors welcomed data showing the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week dropped to a fresh <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-year low. The Labor Department report suggested layoffs were subsiding and expectations were rising for another month of blockbuster job growth in April.</p><p>The speedy U.S. vaccination rollout has improved the economic outlook as people plan summer vacations and leisure spending, but a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and elsewhere in Asia has kept investors anxious, Hayes said.</p><p>Equities have likely reached a near-term top as expectations are too high, said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.</p><p>\"There's going to be continued positive moves throughout the remainder of the year but we are due for some sort of a pullback in the very short term,\" he said. \"Then the dip buyers will step back in.\"</p><p>First-quarter earnings are expected to increase 31.9% from a year ago, the highest rate since the fourth quarter, according to IBES Refinitiv data.</p><p>All 11 S&amp;P 500 sectors closed lower as Microsoft, Apple Inc , Amazon.com Inc and Tesla Inc weighted the most on the downdraft.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.94% to 33,815.9, the S&amp;P 500 lost 0.92% at 4,134.98, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.94% to 13,818.41.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.35 billion shares, compared with the 10.32 billion full-session average over the last 20 trading days.</p><p>Chipmaker Intel Corp forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street targets, betting its next generation of processors for data centers and PCs will meet growing demand for cloud-based services. Shares slipped about 1% in after-hours trade.</p><p>AT&amp;T Inc beat Wall Street revenue targets as the U.S. economic reopening following pandemic-linked restrictions boosted smartphone sales and the media business. AT&amp;T shares rose 4.2%.</p><p>Biogen Inc beat quarterly profit estimates on stronger-than-expected sales for its muscle wasting disorder drug, though concerns over its reliance on its yet-to-be approved Alzheimer's therapy, aducanumab, weighed on shares. Biogen shares fell 4.0%.</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.57-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.04-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 84 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 20 new lows. 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Both shares fell.Investors welcomed data showing the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week dropped to a fresh one-year low. The Labor Department report suggested layoffs were subsiding and expectations were rising for another month of blockbuster job growth in April.The speedy U.S. vaccination rollout has improved the economic outlook as people plan summer vacations and leisure spending, but a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and elsewhere in Asia has kept investors anxious, Hayes said.Equities have likely reached a near-term top as expectations are too high, said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.\"There's going to be continued positive moves throughout the remainder of the year but we are due for some sort of a pullback in the very short term,\" he said. \"Then the dip buyers will step back in.\"First-quarter earnings are expected to increase 31.9% from a year ago, the highest rate since the fourth quarter, according to IBES Refinitiv data.All 11 S&P 500 sectors closed lower as Microsoft, Apple Inc , Amazon.com Inc and Tesla Inc weighted the most on the downdraft.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.94% to 33,815.9, the S&P 500 lost 0.92% at 4,134.98, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.94% to 13,818.41.Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.35 billion shares, compared with the 10.32 billion full-session average over the last 20 trading days.Chipmaker Intel Corp forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street targets, betting its next generation of processors for data centers and PCs will meet growing demand for cloud-based services. Shares slipped about 1% in after-hours trade.AT&T Inc beat Wall Street revenue targets as the U.S. economic reopening following pandemic-linked restrictions boosted smartphone sales and the media business. AT&T shares rose 4.2%.Biogen Inc beat quarterly profit estimates on stronger-than-expected sales for its muscle wasting disorder drug, though concerns over its reliance on its yet-to-be approved Alzheimer's therapy, aducanumab, weighed on shares. Biogen shares fell 4.0%.Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.57-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.04-to-1 ratio favored decliners.The S&P 500 posted 84 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 86 new highs and 20 new lows. 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Four such shares represent one class A ordinary share.&nbsp;The company announced on Wednesday morning that it had increased the size of the deal; it had planned on offering 288 million shares.</p>\n<p>At $14 a share, Didi would have a $67 billion market capitalization. On a fully diluted basis, Didi’s valuation rises to about $73 billion</p>\n<p>The Beijing company has raised $4 billion in the offering. The shares will start trading on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DIDI.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan are the underwriters on the Didi offering.</p>\n<p>Didi provides a smartphone app that lets users connect with vehicles and taxis for hire. Founded in 2012, it operates in nearly 4,000 cities, counties, and towns across 16 countries,its prospectus said. It had more than 493 million annual active users as of March 31.</p>\n<p><b>Its relationship with Uber is complicated</b></p>\n<p>Comparisons between the world’s top two ride-hailing companies could become more frequent as Didi goes public in the United States.</p>\n<p>In its filing, Didi said it has hundreds of millions of riders in China and operates in 16 countries and nearly 4,000 cities. Besides ride hailing, its new services include intra-city freight, community group buying and food delivery.</p>\n<p>In its 2020 annual report, San Francisco-based Uber said that as of Dec. 31, 2020, it operated in 71 countries and about 10,000 cities. Uber offers rides, delivery and freight. Although it&nbsp;unloaded its autonomous-vehicle business&nbsp;last year, it has a partnership with self-driving company Aurora Technologies.</p>\n<p>One thing Didi has in common with Uber (and smaller rival Lyft) is that it has also been mostly unprofitable. But it did turn a profit in the first quarter, reporting net income of 5.49 billion rembini ($837 million) on revenue of RMB 42.16 billion ($6.44 billion), up from a loss of RMB 3.97 billion on sales of RMB 20.47 billion the year before. That profit was largely due to its investments.</p>\n<p>After a battle in which Didi and Uber lost a lot of money as they tried to undercut each other in China, Uber sold its Chinese business to Didi for $7 billion in 2016. Uber’s CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, wrote in a blog post announcing the deal: “Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to turn a profit there.”</p>\n<p>Uber retained a 12.8% stake in Didi, though, which will be reduced to a 12% stake after the IPO. That’s the second-largest stake in the company behind SoftBank Group’s 21.5% in equity ahead of the IPO. At the midpoint of Didi’s expected selling price, the number of shares Uber holds could be worth about $1.94 billion.</p>\n<p>Didi sold all the shares it held in Uber last year for a gain of RMB 2.8 million ($427,417), according to its filing.</p>\n<p><b>Insiders will have control</b></p>\n<p>Following the trend of many recent IPOs, especially in the tech world, Didi will have a dual-class stock structure. Each Class A share (equal to four ADS) will have one vote, and each Class B share will have 10 votes.</p>\n<p>Founder and Chief Executive Will Wei Cheng, co-founder and President Jean Qing Liu and CEO of the international business group Stephen Jingshi Zhu, who all sit on the board, will own all issued and outstanding Class&nbsp;B ordinary shares. These shares will comprise 9.8% of the company’s total issued shares and 52% of the voting power immediately after the public offering.</p>\n<p>Cheng, 38, is also the chairman of the board. The former Alibaba and Alipay manager will have 6.5% equity in the company but 35.5% of the voting power after the IPO.</p>\n<p>Cheng brought on Liu two years after he founded Didi. She will have 1.6% equity in the company after the offering.</p>\n<p>The other top stakeholder in Didi besides its top executives, SoftBank and Uber is Tencent Holdings, which will have a 6.4% stake post-IPO.</p>\n<p><b>‘Darkest days’</b></p>\n<p>In summer 2018, two female passengers&nbsp;were killed&nbsp;by drivers on Didi’s Hitch platform. “These shook us to our core,” Cheng and Liu wrote in their founders’ letter under a section they called “Our darkest days.”</p>\n<p>They said the company changed how it onboarded drivers and expanded background checks, as well as redesigned its technology with safety in mind. Didi also established what it calls a “SWAT team” to respond to safety incidents. In places where it is allowed, the company has installed video cameras in its ride-hailing vehicles.</p>\n<p>The changes led to what the company said was “a massive drop in the number of criminal incidents per million rides on our platform as well as significant declines in the number of in-car disputes and traffic accidents.”</p>\n<p>The company says that although the number of incidents have gone down, safety remains a risk factor.</p>\n<p><b>Risk factors</b></p>\n<p>Other big risk factors for the company include the Chinese government’s recently stepped-up&nbsp;antitrust crackdown on tech companies, including Didi. In its filing, Didi said that while it has completed a self-inspection and has tried to correct or improve in certain areas, it can’t be sure the government will be satisfied with that.</p>\n<p>The company also said government regulators are concerned about driver income, pricing, and fairness to all platform participants, including riders and drivers. Like its biggest competitors, Didi treats its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. “Our business would be adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees, workers or quasi-employees,” Didi said in its filing.</p>\n<p>As for how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect Didi’s business, the company said its core platform’s gross transaction value fell 4.8% in 2020 compared with 2019. In China, its mobility business’ GTV decreased 6.6% in the same period, while international GTV actually rose 11.4%. Didi cited increasing coronavirus cases in certain parts of the world as continuing risk factors.</p>\n<p><b>Other businesses</b></p>\n<p>Didi says it has the world’s largest network of electric vehicles on its platform: 1 million, including hybrids, as of the end of last year. Those EVs account for nearly 40% of the electric vehicle miles traveled in China, the company said, citing a study it commissioned. Didi has designed an EV itself, called the D1. It also says it has built China’s largest charging network, with more than 30% market share of total public charging volume in the first quarter of 2021.</p>\n<p>As for autonomous vehicles, Didi says it has a team of more than 500 members working on Level 4 AVs for its fleet. The company said self-driving vehicles should help meet what it sees as increasing demand for ride-hailing services.</p>\n<p>“The global mobility market is expected to reach $16.4 trillion by 2040, by which time the penetration of shared mobility and electric vehicles is expected to have increased to 23.6% and 29.3%, respectively,” it said in its filing, citing research it commissioned.</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>Didi spikes 16% on its first day of trading</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\">\nDidi spikes 16% on its first day of trading\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-07-01 00:47</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Chinese ride-hailing giant&nbsp;Didi Global Inc.opened at $16.32&nbsp;each on Wednesday, about 16% higher than the company’s IPO price.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/85a8c96b377b4febacd7009170064bdc\" tg-width=\"1296\" tg-height=\"833\"></p>\n<p>The Chinese ride-hailing behemoth on Wednesday said it&nbsp;sold 316.8 million American depositary shares at $14 each, the top of its $13 to $14 price range. Four such shares represent one class A ordinary share.&nbsp;The company announced on Wednesday morning that it had increased the size of the deal; it had planned on offering 288 million shares.</p>\n<p>At $14 a share, Didi would have a $67 billion market capitalization. On a fully diluted basis, Didi’s valuation rises to about $73 billion</p>\n<p>The Beijing company has raised $4 billion in the offering. The shares will start trading on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DIDI.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan are the underwriters on the Didi offering.</p>\n<p>Didi provides a smartphone app that lets users connect with vehicles and taxis for hire. Founded in 2012, it operates in nearly 4,000 cities, counties, and towns across 16 countries,its prospectus said. It had more than 493 million annual active users as of March 31.</p>\n<p><b>Its relationship with Uber is complicated</b></p>\n<p>Comparisons between the world’s top two ride-hailing companies could become more frequent as Didi goes public in the United States.</p>\n<p>In its filing, Didi said it has hundreds of millions of riders in China and operates in 16 countries and nearly 4,000 cities. Besides ride hailing, its new services include intra-city freight, community group buying and food delivery.</p>\n<p>In its 2020 annual report, San Francisco-based Uber said that as of Dec. 31, 2020, it operated in 71 countries and about 10,000 cities. Uber offers rides, delivery and freight. Although it&nbsp;unloaded its autonomous-vehicle business&nbsp;last year, it has a partnership with self-driving company Aurora Technologies.</p>\n<p>One thing Didi has in common with Uber (and smaller rival Lyft) is that it has also been mostly unprofitable. But it did turn a profit in the first quarter, reporting net income of 5.49 billion rembini ($837 million) on revenue of RMB 42.16 billion ($6.44 billion), up from a loss of RMB 3.97 billion on sales of RMB 20.47 billion the year before. That profit was largely due to its investments.</p>\n<p>After a battle in which Didi and Uber lost a lot of money as they tried to undercut each other in China, Uber sold its Chinese business to Didi for $7 billion in 2016. Uber’s CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, wrote in a blog post announcing the deal: “Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to turn a profit there.”</p>\n<p>Uber retained a 12.8% stake in Didi, though, which will be reduced to a 12% stake after the IPO. That’s the second-largest stake in the company behind SoftBank Group’s 21.5% in equity ahead of the IPO. At the midpoint of Didi’s expected selling price, the number of shares Uber holds could be worth about $1.94 billion.</p>\n<p>Didi sold all the shares it held in Uber last year for a gain of RMB 2.8 million ($427,417), according to its filing.</p>\n<p><b>Insiders will have control</b></p>\n<p>Following the trend of many recent IPOs, especially in the tech world, Didi will have a dual-class stock structure. Each Class A share (equal to four ADS) will have one vote, and each Class B share will have 10 votes.</p>\n<p>Founder and Chief Executive Will Wei Cheng, co-founder and President Jean Qing Liu and CEO of the international business group Stephen Jingshi Zhu, who all sit on the board, will own all issued and outstanding Class&nbsp;B ordinary shares. These shares will comprise 9.8% of the company’s total issued shares and 52% of the voting power immediately after the public offering.</p>\n<p>Cheng, 38, is also the chairman of the board. The former Alibaba and Alipay manager will have 6.5% equity in the company but 35.5% of the voting power after the IPO.</p>\n<p>Cheng brought on Liu two years after he founded Didi. She will have 1.6% equity in the company after the offering.</p>\n<p>The other top stakeholder in Didi besides its top executives, SoftBank and Uber is Tencent Holdings, which will have a 6.4% stake post-IPO.</p>\n<p><b>‘Darkest days’</b></p>\n<p>In summer 2018, two female passengers&nbsp;were killed&nbsp;by drivers on Didi’s Hitch platform. “These shook us to our core,” Cheng and Liu wrote in their founders’ letter under a section they called “Our darkest days.”</p>\n<p>They said the company changed how it onboarded drivers and expanded background checks, as well as redesigned its technology with safety in mind. Didi also established what it calls a “SWAT team” to respond to safety incidents. In places where it is allowed, the company has installed video cameras in its ride-hailing vehicles.</p>\n<p>The changes led to what the company said was “a massive drop in the number of criminal incidents per million rides on our platform as well as significant declines in the number of in-car disputes and traffic accidents.”</p>\n<p>The company says that although the number of incidents have gone down, safety remains a risk factor.</p>\n<p><b>Risk factors</b></p>\n<p>Other big risk factors for the company include the Chinese government’s recently stepped-up&nbsp;antitrust crackdown on tech companies, including Didi. In its filing, Didi said that while it has completed a self-inspection and has tried to correct or improve in certain areas, it can’t be sure the government will be satisfied with that.</p>\n<p>The company also said government regulators are concerned about driver income, pricing, and fairness to all platform participants, including riders and drivers. Like its biggest competitors, Didi treats its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. “Our business would be adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees, workers or quasi-employees,” Didi said in its filing.</p>\n<p>As for how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect Didi’s business, the company said its core platform’s gross transaction value fell 4.8% in 2020 compared with 2019. In China, its mobility business’ GTV decreased 6.6% in the same period, while international GTV actually rose 11.4%. Didi cited increasing coronavirus cases in certain parts of the world as continuing risk factors.</p>\n<p><b>Other businesses</b></p>\n<p>Didi says it has the world’s largest network of electric vehicles on its platform: 1 million, including hybrids, as of the end of last year. Those EVs account for nearly 40% of the electric vehicle miles traveled in China, the company said, citing a study it commissioned. Didi has designed an EV itself, called the D1. It also says it has built China’s largest charging network, with more than 30% market share of total public charging volume in the first quarter of 2021.</p>\n<p>As for autonomous vehicles, Didi says it has a team of more than 500 members working on Level 4 AVs for its fleet. The company said self-driving vehicles should help meet what it sees as increasing demand for ride-hailing services.</p>\n<p>“The global mobility market is expected to reach $16.4 trillion by 2040, by which time the penetration of shared mobility and electric vehicles is expected to have increased to 23.6% and 29.3%, respectively,” it said in its filing, citing research it commissioned.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"DIDI":"滴滴(已退市)"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1123487269","content_text":"Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc.opened at $16.32 each on Wednesday, about 16% higher than the company’s IPO price.\n\nThe Chinese ride-hailing behemoth on Wednesday said it sold 316.8 million American depositary shares at $14 each, the top of its $13 to $14 price range. Four such shares represent one class A ordinary share. The company announced on Wednesday morning that it had increased the size of the deal; it had planned on offering 288 million shares.\nAt $14 a share, Didi would have a $67 billion market capitalization. On a fully diluted basis, Didi’s valuation rises to about $73 billion\nThe Beijing company has raised $4 billion in the offering. The shares will start trading on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DIDI.\nGoldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan are the underwriters on the Didi offering.\nDidi provides a smartphone app that lets users connect with vehicles and taxis for hire. Founded in 2012, it operates in nearly 4,000 cities, counties, and towns across 16 countries,its prospectus said. It had more than 493 million annual active users as of March 31.\nIts relationship with Uber is complicated\nComparisons between the world’s top two ride-hailing companies could become more frequent as Didi goes public in the United States.\nIn its filing, Didi said it has hundreds of millions of riders in China and operates in 16 countries and nearly 4,000 cities. Besides ride hailing, its new services include intra-city freight, community group buying and food delivery.\nIn its 2020 annual report, San Francisco-based Uber said that as of Dec. 31, 2020, it operated in 71 countries and about 10,000 cities. Uber offers rides, delivery and freight. Although it unloaded its autonomous-vehicle business last year, it has a partnership with self-driving company Aurora Technologies.\nOne thing Didi has in common with Uber (and smaller rival Lyft) is that it has also been mostly unprofitable. But it did turn a profit in the first quarter, reporting net income of 5.49 billion rembini ($837 million) on revenue of RMB 42.16 billion ($6.44 billion), up from a loss of RMB 3.97 billion on sales of RMB 20.47 billion the year before. That profit was largely due to its investments.\nAfter a battle in which Didi and Uber lost a lot of money as they tried to undercut each other in China, Uber sold its Chinese business to Didi for $7 billion in 2016. Uber’s CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, wrote in a blog post announcing the deal: “Uber and Didi Chuxing are investing billions of dollars in China and both companies have yet to turn a profit there.”\nUber retained a 12.8% stake in Didi, though, which will be reduced to a 12% stake after the IPO. That’s the second-largest stake in the company behind SoftBank Group’s 21.5% in equity ahead of the IPO. At the midpoint of Didi’s expected selling price, the number of shares Uber holds could be worth about $1.94 billion.\nDidi sold all the shares it held in Uber last year for a gain of RMB 2.8 million ($427,417), according to its filing.\nInsiders will have control\nFollowing the trend of many recent IPOs, especially in the tech world, Didi will have a dual-class stock structure. Each Class A share (equal to four ADS) will have one vote, and each Class B share will have 10 votes.\nFounder and Chief Executive Will Wei Cheng, co-founder and President Jean Qing Liu and CEO of the international business group Stephen Jingshi Zhu, who all sit on the board, will own all issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares. These shares will comprise 9.8% of the company’s total issued shares and 52% of the voting power immediately after the public offering.\nCheng, 38, is also the chairman of the board. The former Alibaba and Alipay manager will have 6.5% equity in the company but 35.5% of the voting power after the IPO.\nCheng brought on Liu two years after he founded Didi. She will have 1.6% equity in the company after the offering.\nThe other top stakeholder in Didi besides its top executives, SoftBank and Uber is Tencent Holdings, which will have a 6.4% stake post-IPO.\n‘Darkest days’\nIn summer 2018, two female passengers were killed by drivers on Didi’s Hitch platform. “These shook us to our core,” Cheng and Liu wrote in their founders’ letter under a section they called “Our darkest days.”\nThey said the company changed how it onboarded drivers and expanded background checks, as well as redesigned its technology with safety in mind. Didi also established what it calls a “SWAT team” to respond to safety incidents. In places where it is allowed, the company has installed video cameras in its ride-hailing vehicles.\nThe changes led to what the company said was “a massive drop in the number of criminal incidents per million rides on our platform as well as significant declines in the number of in-car disputes and traffic accidents.”\nThe company says that although the number of incidents have gone down, safety remains a risk factor.\nRisk factors\nOther big risk factors for the company include the Chinese government’s recently stepped-up antitrust crackdown on tech companies, including Didi. In its filing, Didi said that while it has completed a self-inspection and has tried to correct or improve in certain areas, it can’t be sure the government will be satisfied with that.\nThe company also said government regulators are concerned about driver income, pricing, and fairness to all platform participants, including riders and drivers. Like its biggest competitors, Didi treats its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. “Our business would be adversely affected if drivers were classified as employees, workers or quasi-employees,” Didi said in its filing.\nAs for how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect Didi’s business, the company said its core platform’s gross transaction value fell 4.8% in 2020 compared with 2019. In China, its mobility business’ GTV decreased 6.6% in the same period, while international GTV actually rose 11.4%. Didi cited increasing coronavirus cases in certain parts of the world as continuing risk factors.\nOther businesses\nDidi says it has the world’s largest network of electric vehicles on its platform: 1 million, including hybrids, as of the end of last year. Those EVs account for nearly 40% of the electric vehicle miles traveled in China, the company said, citing a study it commissioned. Didi has designed an EV itself, called the D1. It also says it has built China’s largest charging network, with more than 30% market share of total public charging volume in the first quarter of 2021.\nAs for autonomous vehicles, Didi says it has a team of more than 500 members working on Level 4 AVs for its fleet. The company said self-driving vehicles should help meet what it sees as increasing demand for ride-hailing services.\n“The global mobility market is expected to reach $16.4 trillion by 2040, by which time the penetration of shared mobility and electric vehicles is expected to have increased to 23.6% and 29.3%, respectively,” it said in its filing, citing research it commissioned.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":282,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":162606521,"gmtCreate":1624059806763,"gmtModify":1703827716207,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.&nbsp;","listText":"This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.&nbsp;","text":"This share is having potential until someone in China catch up.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/162606521","repostId":"1168762020","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1168762020","pubTimestamp":1623988654,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1168762020?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-18 11:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ASML: The Market Could Be Underestimating Its Potential","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1168762020","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nThe Semiconductor sector is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028.\nDUV lithogra","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>The Semiconductor sector is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028.</li>\n <li>DUV lithography is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 8.4% through 2025 with EUV lithography forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 12% through 2027.</li>\n <li>ASML holds a monopoly within EUV and faces very limited competition within DUV, both platforms absolutely vital for the semiconductor manufacturing process.</li>\n <li>A true innovator, ASML commands an outstanding position and growth outlook but the stock market has long since recognized the potential.</li>\n <li>Existing shareholders do well for themselves in just enjoying the ride, but there is little margin of safety left for prospective shareholders who might dip their toes into the water through dollar-cost averaging to benefit from the strong tailwinds powering ASML.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/44b5f81c309842f14fe1adffe3d6c9ca\" tg-width=\"768\" tg-height=\"432\"><span>MACRO PHOTO/iStock via Getty ImagesInvestment Thesis</span></p>\n<p>ASML Holding (ASML) commands a market position like no one else with not a competitor in sight for its most advanced technological platform, EUV lithography. Similarly, it faces very limited competition within DUV, both platforms vital for semiconductor manufacturing. The household names within the semiconductor industry belong to the manufacturers, but the machinery providers, such as ASML, command very strong moats through extensive technological knowledge and strong process knowledge leaving all potential competitors years behind if they should ever try to compete.</p>\n<p>It's hard to think of a better competitive situation, especially when operating in a sector forecasted to grow well above general GDP for many years to come. However, the market has long since recognized ASML's outstanding potential and potential journey, but still, it could be underestimating the potential.</p>\n<p><b>Introduction</b></p>\n<p>I recently wrote an article concerning how youcan’t own too much semiconductor exposure. Having decomposed the value chain for semiconductor manufacturing, I received a number of questions concerning ASML in the comment sections and decided to conduct this follow-up. I’ve selected ASML due to its unique marketplace position and potential.</p>\n<p>Personally I have exposure to the manufacturing level of the semiconductor value chain through shares in both Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), but venturing further back into the value chain, and investors can be allowed to invest in a broader manner into the industry, as the suppliers of machinery and software obtain a broader exposure to most of the manufacturers making it immensely interesting as you can adopt the mantra of “I don’t really mind who wins, as long as they are racing”. As such, potential exposure upstream in the value chain carries great interest.</p>\n<p><b>The Marketplace and Value Drivers For Years To Come</b></p>\n<p>For ASML followers it’s no surprise at this point, but ASML is dominant within the product offering that will drive its revenue for the coming decade, EUV (Extreme ultraviolet lithography) technology. My personal take is that it is hard to find a company in a similarly advantageous competitive position anywhere in any industry. ASML provides equipment for lithography, the art of printing the chip features via light sources, in several light spectrums with its most advanced being EUV which is the next-gen to DUV (deep ultraviolet lithography). For DUV there are competitors albeit ASML has a massive market share above 85%. The difference between DUV and EUV is that EUV operates at a light wavelength almost 15 times smaller than DUV (13.5nm compared to 193nm).</p>\n<p>Actually, the semiconductor manufacturers for the leading edge chips such as 5nm and soon to be 3nm are deeply dependent on the EUV machinery. Without it, it simply wouldn’t be possible. That sounds like a pretty good bargain for those who can manufacture these machines, but there is only one company that is able to do it, and that is ASML. For every generation of new EUV machinery, its yield becomes better with higher throughput and reduced downtime issues, meaning that ASML is effectively lightyears ahead of anyone who would try to pick up the gauntlet and challenge their dominant position.</p>\n<p>This is an industry where everything is about process knowledge. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) is able to produce 5nm chips because it was able to produce 7nm, and it will be able to produce 3nm because it can produce 5nm and has done that a million times over which is also why it was so detrimental to Intel Corp (INTC) that it had to acknowledge its persistent issues with the 7nm technology.</p>\n<p>Quite simply, there is no 3nm if you can’t do the 5nm, as also discussed in my previous article. Same goes for ASML as a competitor would be years and years behind ASML if they entered the EUV space as they would struggle with the same issues that have plagued ASML in its early days of EUV more than a decade ago. I’ve included a number of illustrations from their most recent investor day which took place in November 2018, with the next one to take place in September 2021.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/edaa6b5a77f99726bbae61b032b9c208\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"359\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 6.</span></p>\n<p>The picture above clearly illustrates the process knowledge having been picked up by ASML throughout its EUV lifetime. This has also translated into better EUV machinery for each new generation as also evident by its productivity improvements. Again, I can’t imagine a more favourable competitive situation for a company, given how much time and capital it would require for a competitor to adopt the EUV technology.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/85913766aea721e218e976e4f73349e5\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"362\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 16.</span></p>\n<p>Semiconductor manufacturing is a cutthroat business with heavy R&amp;D spend (it took ASML €6 billion in R&amp;D spend to invent EUV) driving chip improvements according to Moore’s law, meaning that ASML is already working on the next-gen technology, referred to as High NA-EUV. High NA-EUV is still some time away, with the timeline below being slightly outdated, but its technology will significantly improve the EUV platform and power the industry beyond this decade. It takes time to develop the technology, improve yield and reduce downtime, but there is still plenty of opportunities for EUV in terms of marketplace expansion and margin improvement.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7709f0f76b1619a31b32fc3330134005\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"361\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 21.</span></p>\n<p>ASML itself has laid out the expected path in terms of optimised margins through both add-ons facing the buyer side and upstream cost reductions facing their suppliers creating a sweet spot for the company effectively striving to achieve the same profitability profile as for its more mature DUV platform.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/809661531ad423f613fb44c26e0b3352\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"353\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 25.</span></p>\n<p>If that wasn’t good enough, then add the fact that the semiconductor industry in general is expected to outpace general GDP for at least until 2028 with a CAGR of 8.6%. Recentcommunicationsby Taiwan Semiconductor, Intel and Samsung Electronics Company (OTC:SSNLF) shows the strength and growth potential for the sector with their combined CAPEX expectations going beyond $200 billion for the coming decade, with a significant chunk of that within the coming years.</p>\n<p>As can be seen in the illustration above, ASML expects increased customer value through upgrades, with their roadmap for DUV serving as an example in terms of how the revenue base could expand over the coming years for EUV as is the case for DUV via what the company has labelled installed base management.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d8ef7940a4b888c50159e5b9db4c0634\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"362\"><span>ASML Investor Day 2018, DUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 10.</span></p>\n<p>There is of course always the possibility of a serious contender entering the marketplace in order to try and challenge ASML, but companies have tried to enter the space when the technology was in its infancy having given up, meaning the prime threat would be the emergence of a new lithography technology arriving and doing to EUV what EUV did to DUV. Possible sure, likely, not so much. Just to hammer down the point, I’ve inserted a paragraph from ASML’s own description of how lithography plays its role.</p>\n<blockquote>\n “\n <i>Lithography is a driving force in the creation of more powerful, faster and cheaper chips. The manufacturing of chips becomes increasingly complex as semiconductor feature sizes shrink, while the imperative to mass produce at the right cost remains. Our holistic lithography product portfolio helps to optimize production and enable affordable shrink by integrating lithography systems with computational modeling, as well as metrology and inspection solutions. A lithography system is essentially a projection system. Light is projected through a blueprint of the pattern that will be printed (known as a ‘mask’ or ‘reticle’). With the pattern encoded in the light, the system’s optics shrink and focus the pattern onto a photosensitive silicon wafer. After the pattern is printed, the system moves the wafer slightly and makes another copy on the wafer. This process is repeated until the wafer is covered in patterns, completing one layer of the wafer’s chips. To make an entire microchip, this process is repeated layer after layer, stacking the patterns to create an integrated circuit (IC). The simplest chips have around 10 layers, while the most complex can have over 150 layers. The size of the features to be printed varies depending on the layer, which means that different types of lithography systems are used for different layers – our latest-generation EUV systems for the most critical layers with the smallest features to ArF, KrF, and i-line DUV systems for less critical layers with larger features.</i>”\n <i>ASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.</i>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fa32572971943844c4e71ddfc77559d6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"547\"><span>ASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.</span></p>\n<p>I believe most investors are familiar with confirmation bias, and if they aren’t, they should grab a book and educate themselves. Having read through this section, it can easily sound as if I as the author is suffering from confirmation bias given how strongly I’ve advocated for ASML’s position and competitive power. However, I’ve striven towards identifying situations that could severely impact ASML and being honest I can’t find it. There are of course the risks associated with geopolitical tension, which also showed itself in the stock price back in 2016, the risk of supply chain disruption as is currently transpiring across the industry and competition for talent. These are touched upon by the company itself in their annual report 2020 p. 21 and no industry comes without potential risks.</p>\n<p>So, to sum it all up:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>ASML has pioneered EUV lithography, with no competitors in sight</li>\n <li>EUV will enable the continuation of Moore’s Law and will drive long term value for ASML and its customers well into this decade</li>\n <li>The semiconductor sector forecasted to grow at CAGR of 8.6% through 2028, outpacing general GDP with ASML being a key supplier to the manufacturers (foundries)</li>\n <li>Strong industry CAPEX driving demand for ASML offerings</li>\n <li>The path forward for expanding EUV business in terms of installed base management, margins improvement and manufacturer dependency on EUV machinery for leading edge chips</li>\n <li>ASML is a crucial player for leading edge chip manufacturing</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Sounds pretty good to me.</p>\n<p>The Financial Performance and Development</p>\n<p>ASML is doing well for itself as evident by the illustration below.</p>\n<ul>\n <li>Strong revenue growth</li>\n <li>Strong margin expansion</li>\n <li>Strong improvement in free cash flow</li>\n <li>Impressive operational improvements strengthening its moat through increased R&amp;D spend and IP portfolio</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7900753b1857ac9ad6fc705b9baad563\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"414\"><span>Annual Report 2020, p 7.</span></p>\n<p>This was followed by a strong Q1-2021 performance with mouth-watering financials on both top and bottom line. However, for their Q2-2021 performance they are guiding for slightly lower revenue expansion at €4.1 billion with a gross margin of 49%, which is still above the long term average but closer to it. There is however no denying that the company is thriving in the current environment.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/60ea4dedde41a918bd9e1fd307a9531f\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"356\"><span>ASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 14.</span></p>\n<p>An interesting detail is the development within the installed base management as illustrated earlier in the article. The company is delivering on its promise with a strong development within this segment growing 29% YoY from 2019 to 2020, well beyond the total growth of 18%.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c6966dcaf747d226d5de580187d4d3ad\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"357\"><span>ASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 8.</span></p>\n<p>The more interesting question however is whether the market estimates are underestimating the potential for ASML. An immensely hard question, but if we give it a look, I personally at least see the possibility of that being the case.</p>\n<p>Are Analyst Consensus Estimates Under- or Over-Estimating ASML’s Potential?</p>\n<p>ASML is well-covered by analysts offering estimates all the way through 2028, but with coverage waning once we go beyond 2025 which is the last year covered by more than one analyst. The current estimates show a revenue CAGR development of 11.1% from 2020 to 2028, but if we remove 2021, which shows stellar growth, the CAGR is 6.5%.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9adf4cebbce28dc7433186b5bd0827e8\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"377\"><span>Author's Own Creation, Source Seeking Alpha.</span></p>\n<p>Remember the sector as a whole is forecasted to exhibit growth at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028. These are all estimates which carry great uncertainty with no one able to reliably predict the future. However, it is worth noticing that revenue estimates for ASML are below the sector as a whole if the massive jump from 2020 to 2021 is left out of the equation. Average revenue growth from 2026 to 2028 is currently estimated to be 3.5%.</p>\n<p>Considering some of the arguments in favour of why ASML’s outlook could be even more positive:</p>\n<ul>\n <li>General semiconductor industry CAGR 2020-2028 forecasted at 8.6%.</li>\n <li>DUV CAGR 2020-2025forecastedat 8.4%, it is still ASML’s largest product category.</li>\n <li>EUV CAGR 2020-2027forecastedat 12%.</li>\n <li>ASML is a linchpin player to solve chip shortage through technology advancement and its machines define the performance of every electrical gadget we utilise in our daily lives.</li>\n <li>ASML shows progress in its plan to widen the ecosystem for its machinery through \"Installed Base Management\" increasing the total addressable market by upwards of double digits percentage as 2018 sales were 20% installed base management and 2025 estimate is 50%.</li>\n <li>ASML dominates the DUV immersion segment, the part of DUV with high margins as its two solecompetitorsin DUV, Nikon and Canon lack the means and capabilities.</li>\n <li>As the market transitions to EUV, the demand for DUV willfollowas the chip stacking process benefits from both systems through its manufacturing.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>This is without mentioning the potential price increases that could trickle down towards its customers as they could be fighting over ASML’s capacity due to its strong market position of 85% in DUV and monopoly within EUV while also bringing High NA-EUV to market by mid of this decade. Customers today pay roughly $130-150 million for EUV machines, while DUV machines come in at around $100 million. The largest hindrance to ASML overdelivering is its current capacity constraint in terms of ability to deliver EUV systems which is capped somewhere between 40 and 50 systems a year, with the company of course striving to expand that capacity constraint as demand builds up over the years. On the other hand, this could also be a driver for price increases as ASML strives to expand capacity.</p>\n<p>I will not try to construct an even bolder revenue guidance as it’s a cheap shot and frankly, no one has the capacity to accurately forecast if the current expectations will stand or whether they are too positive or negative. I just want to highlight that with everything going on and ASML’s market position in mind, I don’t consider it unreasonable that the company will do even better than currently anticipated.</p>\n<p><b>Valuation</b></p>\n<p>The stock price is an inch away from its 52-week high and has been on a tear since the beginning of 2020, really taking off since October 2020 from which it has doubled since.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/472c0e2f540c1d4ee2a7bbaec09379c0\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"453\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>Market cap has exploded with all other parameters left in its wake having seen a significant expansion in price-earnings ratio despite a strong improvement in EPS and revenue. The stock market has long since recognised the story and potential of ASML with the Wall Street analyst target currently at $722 per share. Fair to say, there is no margin of safety if the analysts are correct in the predictions. Interestingly, out of the 30 analysts offering a price target, the percentage who are very bullish hasn’t been higher since 2016 with 56% stating a very bullish opinion. There is a mental exercise in staying cautious in terms of believing in such statements, not least because the stock has only known one direction for the last couple of years – upwards.</p>\n<p>The significance of the expansion in typical ratios is evident when considered over a five-year horizon as shown below. Both P/E and P/S have expanded massively standing at 55 and 15.7 respectively. However, the company is in a very different place compared to three years ago.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c691d4662a793b5de150add67a3a4e11\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"419\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>Revenue is growing significantly faster than previously with gross margin and free cash flow also having improved. Due to this positive development, ASML is also returning plenty of capital to its shareholders with a share buyback program of €10 billion for 2021, which unfortunately only translates to a reduction of 0.5% of the current float.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7341584d3ba7b1db51e1eef3c4bdaccd\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"436\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>The strong belief in ASML going forward is also clearly illustrated by the estimates for the coming years, which throughout the most recent years has been steadily climbing due to the company’s strong portfolio and market dominance.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b262aeeb8d75114dbc3e45bf9464c830\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"419\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p>With all that said, I believe that current shareholders do well for themselves in holding on to their existing shares as this company has a great outlook. I’ve had my eyes on ASML for the last year, and I’m extremely sad to say I never got around to looking into it properly, but only looked it at from afar and concluded that the stock might be due for a good pullback at one point. Little did I know.</p>\n<p>As Peter Lynch famously said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves,” as would also be true for someone like me who didn’t act in time. I’m still massively fascinated by ASML’s outlook and potential journey, but at the current price, I remain hesitant about the prospects and the lack of margin of safety.</p>\n<p>There is a lot of potential for ASML to grow into its valuation, and if one is to add that current levels, I’d say dollar-cost averaging is a prudent strategy for the current price, while reserving the possibility to back up the truck for a full load if we see a pullback before end of 2021.</p>\n<p>As can be seen below, it is not uncommon for ASML to experience a 10% setback once or twice a year.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ad90b51964870f5475b596fe16f63317\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"403\"><span>Data by YCharts</span></p>\n<p><b>Conclusion</b></p>\n<p>ASML is dominant within its two main offerings, the DUV and EUV lithography. Its market is backed by incredibly strong tailwinds as all our gadgets, electrical cars, 5G, datacentres, cloud servers, etc. are heavily reliant on the technology platform offered by ASML. A true innovator with no real competition in sight, feeding machinery and tools to an industry expected to grow at CAGR 8.6% through 2028 with potentially even stronger growth for both its DUV and EUV platforms while also expecting margin expansion.</p>\n<p>There is little evil to be said about ASML, but unfortunately, the stock market has long since recognised its amazing story and potential. With such a strong outlook in sight, existing shareholders do well for themselves in holding onto their shares and just enjoy the journey ahead, but for the prospective shareholders, there appears to be a little margin of safety with the market cap having expanded significantly recently and the stock trading just an inch shy of its 52 week high.</p>\n<p>As Peter Lynch said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” The exact fallacy I’ve fallen victim to as I’ve looked at ASML from afar for quite a while. Despite the recent expansion in market cap and multiples, there could be made a case for current estimates underestimating ASML’s true potential, but any forecast extending 5-10 years into the future comes with extreme uncertainty and guesstimation. As I’ve shown, ASML’s share price is prone to setbacks once or twice a year allowing dollar-cost averaging to serve as a method to acquire exposure to the company slowly building a position along the way.</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>ASML: The Market Could Be Underestimating Its Potential</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; 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Similarly, it faces very limited competition within DUV, both platforms vital for semiconductor manufacturing. The household names within the semiconductor industry belong to the manufacturers, but the machinery providers, such as ASML, command very strong moats through extensive technological knowledge and strong process knowledge leaving all potential competitors years behind if they should ever try to compete.\nIt's hard to think of a better competitive situation, especially when operating in a sector forecasted to grow well above general GDP for many years to come. However, the market has long since recognized ASML's outstanding potential and potential journey, but still, it could be underestimating the potential.\nIntroduction\nI recently wrote an article concerning how youcan’t own too much semiconductor exposure. Having decomposed the value chain for semiconductor manufacturing, I received a number of questions concerning ASML in the comment sections and decided to conduct this follow-up. I’ve selected ASML due to its unique marketplace position and potential.\nPersonally I have exposure to the manufacturing level of the semiconductor value chain through shares in both Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), but venturing further back into the value chain, and investors can be allowed to invest in a broader manner into the industry, as the suppliers of machinery and software obtain a broader exposure to most of the manufacturers making it immensely interesting as you can adopt the mantra of “I don’t really mind who wins, as long as they are racing”. As such, potential exposure upstream in the value chain carries great interest.\nThe Marketplace and Value Drivers For Years To Come\nFor ASML followers it’s no surprise at this point, but ASML is dominant within the product offering that will drive its revenue for the coming decade, EUV (Extreme ultraviolet lithography) technology. My personal take is that it is hard to find a company in a similarly advantageous competitive position anywhere in any industry. ASML provides equipment for lithography, the art of printing the chip features via light sources, in several light spectrums with its most advanced being EUV which is the next-gen to DUV (deep ultraviolet lithography). For DUV there are competitors albeit ASML has a massive market share above 85%. The difference between DUV and EUV is that EUV operates at a light wavelength almost 15 times smaller than DUV (13.5nm compared to 193nm).\nActually, the semiconductor manufacturers for the leading edge chips such as 5nm and soon to be 3nm are deeply dependent on the EUV machinery. Without it, it simply wouldn’t be possible. That sounds like a pretty good bargain for those who can manufacture these machines, but there is only one company that is able to do it, and that is ASML. For every generation of new EUV machinery, its yield becomes better with higher throughput and reduced downtime issues, meaning that ASML is effectively lightyears ahead of anyone who would try to pick up the gauntlet and challenge their dominant position.\nThis is an industry where everything is about process knowledge. Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) is able to produce 5nm chips because it was able to produce 7nm, and it will be able to produce 3nm because it can produce 5nm and has done that a million times over which is also why it was so detrimental to Intel Corp (INTC) that it had to acknowledge its persistent issues with the 7nm technology.\nQuite simply, there is no 3nm if you can’t do the 5nm, as also discussed in my previous article. Same goes for ASML as a competitor would be years and years behind ASML if they entered the EUV space as they would struggle with the same issues that have plagued ASML in its early days of EUV more than a decade ago. I’ve included a number of illustrations from their most recent investor day which took place in November 2018, with the next one to take place in September 2021.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 6.\nThe picture above clearly illustrates the process knowledge having been picked up by ASML throughout its EUV lifetime. This has also translated into better EUV machinery for each new generation as also evident by its productivity improvements. Again, I can’t imagine a more favourable competitive situation for a company, given how much time and capital it would require for a competitor to adopt the EUV technology.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 16.\nSemiconductor manufacturing is a cutthroat business with heavy R&D spend (it took ASML €6 billion in R&D spend to invent EUV) driving chip improvements according to Moore’s law, meaning that ASML is already working on the next-gen technology, referred to as High NA-EUV. High NA-EUV is still some time away, with the timeline below being slightly outdated, but its technology will significantly improve the EUV platform and power the industry beyond this decade. It takes time to develop the technology, improve yield and reduce downtime, but there is still plenty of opportunities for EUV in terms of marketplace expansion and margin improvement.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 21.\nASML itself has laid out the expected path in terms of optimised margins through both add-ons facing the buyer side and upstream cost reductions facing their suppliers creating a sweet spot for the company effectively striving to achieve the same profitability profile as for its more mature DUV platform.\nASML Investor Day 2018, EUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 25.\nIf that wasn’t good enough, then add the fact that the semiconductor industry in general is expected to outpace general GDP for at least until 2028 with a CAGR of 8.6%. Recentcommunicationsby Taiwan Semiconductor, Intel and Samsung Electronics Company (OTC:SSNLF) shows the strength and growth potential for the sector with their combined CAPEX expectations going beyond $200 billion for the coming decade, with a significant chunk of that within the coming years.\nAs can be seen in the illustration above, ASML expects increased customer value through upgrades, with their roadmap for DUV serving as an example in terms of how the revenue base could expand over the coming years for EUV as is the case for DUV via what the company has labelled installed base management.\nASML Investor Day 2018, DUV Products and Business Opportunity, p. 10.\nThere is of course always the possibility of a serious contender entering the marketplace in order to try and challenge ASML, but companies have tried to enter the space when the technology was in its infancy having given up, meaning the prime threat would be the emergence of a new lithography technology arriving and doing to EUV what EUV did to DUV. Possible sure, likely, not so much. Just to hammer down the point, I’ve inserted a paragraph from ASML’s own description of how lithography plays its role.\n\n “\n Lithography is a driving force in the creation of more powerful, faster and cheaper chips. The manufacturing of chips becomes increasingly complex as semiconductor feature sizes shrink, while the imperative to mass produce at the right cost remains. Our holistic lithography product portfolio helps to optimize production and enable affordable shrink by integrating lithography systems with computational modeling, as well as metrology and inspection solutions. A lithography system is essentially a projection system. Light is projected through a blueprint of the pattern that will be printed (known as a ‘mask’ or ‘reticle’). With the pattern encoded in the light, the system’s optics shrink and focus the pattern onto a photosensitive silicon wafer. After the pattern is printed, the system moves the wafer slightly and makes another copy on the wafer. This process is repeated until the wafer is covered in patterns, completing one layer of the wafer’s chips. To make an entire microchip, this process is repeated layer after layer, stacking the patterns to create an integrated circuit (IC). The simplest chips have around 10 layers, while the most complex can have over 150 layers. The size of the features to be printed varies depending on the layer, which means that different types of lithography systems are used for different layers – our latest-generation EUV systems for the most critical layers with the smallest features to ArF, KrF, and i-line DUV systems for less critical layers with larger features.”\n ASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.\n\nASML Annual Report 2020, The Role Of Lithography, p. 12.\nI believe most investors are familiar with confirmation bias, and if they aren’t, they should grab a book and educate themselves. Having read through this section, it can easily sound as if I as the author is suffering from confirmation bias given how strongly I’ve advocated for ASML’s position and competitive power. However, I’ve striven towards identifying situations that could severely impact ASML and being honest I can’t find it. There are of course the risks associated with geopolitical tension, which also showed itself in the stock price back in 2016, the risk of supply chain disruption as is currently transpiring across the industry and competition for talent. These are touched upon by the company itself in their annual report 2020 p. 21 and no industry comes without potential risks.\nSo, to sum it all up:\n\nASML has pioneered EUV lithography, with no competitors in sight\nEUV will enable the continuation of Moore’s Law and will drive long term value for ASML and its customers well into this decade\nThe semiconductor sector forecasted to grow at CAGR of 8.6% through 2028, outpacing general GDP with ASML being a key supplier to the manufacturers (foundries)\nStrong industry CAPEX driving demand for ASML offerings\nThe path forward for expanding EUV business in terms of installed base management, margins improvement and manufacturer dependency on EUV machinery for leading edge chips\nASML is a crucial player for leading edge chip manufacturing\n\nSounds pretty good to me.\nThe Financial Performance and Development\nASML is doing well for itself as evident by the illustration below.\n\nStrong revenue growth\nStrong margin expansion\nStrong improvement in free cash flow\nImpressive operational improvements strengthening its moat through increased R&D spend and IP portfolio\n\nAnnual Report 2020, p 7.\nThis was followed by a strong Q1-2021 performance with mouth-watering financials on both top and bottom line. However, for their Q2-2021 performance they are guiding for slightly lower revenue expansion at €4.1 billion with a gross margin of 49%, which is still above the long term average but closer to it. There is however no denying that the company is thriving in the current environment.\nASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 14.\nAn interesting detail is the development within the installed base management as illustrated earlier in the article. The company is delivering on its promise with a strong development within this segment growing 29% YoY from 2019 to 2020, well beyond the total growth of 18%.\nASML 2021 First-Quarter, p. 8.\nThe more interesting question however is whether the market estimates are underestimating the potential for ASML. An immensely hard question, but if we give it a look, I personally at least see the possibility of that being the case.\nAre Analyst Consensus Estimates Under- or Over-Estimating ASML’s Potential?\nASML is well-covered by analysts offering estimates all the way through 2028, but with coverage waning once we go beyond 2025 which is the last year covered by more than one analyst. The current estimates show a revenue CAGR development of 11.1% from 2020 to 2028, but if we remove 2021, which shows stellar growth, the CAGR is 6.5%.\nAuthor's Own Creation, Source Seeking Alpha.\nRemember the sector as a whole is forecasted to exhibit growth at a CAGR of 8.6% through 2028. These are all estimates which carry great uncertainty with no one able to reliably predict the future. However, it is worth noticing that revenue estimates for ASML are below the sector as a whole if the massive jump from 2020 to 2021 is left out of the equation. Average revenue growth from 2026 to 2028 is currently estimated to be 3.5%.\nConsidering some of the arguments in favour of why ASML’s outlook could be even more positive:\n\nGeneral semiconductor industry CAGR 2020-2028 forecasted at 8.6%.\nDUV CAGR 2020-2025forecastedat 8.4%, it is still ASML’s largest product category.\nEUV CAGR 2020-2027forecastedat 12%.\nASML is a linchpin player to solve chip shortage through technology advancement and its machines define the performance of every electrical gadget we utilise in our daily lives.\nASML shows progress in its plan to widen the ecosystem for its machinery through \"Installed Base Management\" increasing the total addressable market by upwards of double digits percentage as 2018 sales were 20% installed base management and 2025 estimate is 50%.\nASML dominates the DUV immersion segment, the part of DUV with high margins as its two solecompetitorsin DUV, Nikon and Canon lack the means and capabilities.\nAs the market transitions to EUV, the demand for DUV willfollowas the chip stacking process benefits from both systems through its manufacturing.\n\nThis is without mentioning the potential price increases that could trickle down towards its customers as they could be fighting over ASML’s capacity due to its strong market position of 85% in DUV and monopoly within EUV while also bringing High NA-EUV to market by mid of this decade. Customers today pay roughly $130-150 million for EUV machines, while DUV machines come in at around $100 million. The largest hindrance to ASML overdelivering is its current capacity constraint in terms of ability to deliver EUV systems which is capped somewhere between 40 and 50 systems a year, with the company of course striving to expand that capacity constraint as demand builds up over the years. On the other hand, this could also be a driver for price increases as ASML strives to expand capacity.\nI will not try to construct an even bolder revenue guidance as it’s a cheap shot and frankly, no one has the capacity to accurately forecast if the current expectations will stand or whether they are too positive or negative. I just want to highlight that with everything going on and ASML’s market position in mind, I don’t consider it unreasonable that the company will do even better than currently anticipated.\nValuation\nThe stock price is an inch away from its 52-week high and has been on a tear since the beginning of 2020, really taking off since October 2020 from which it has doubled since.\nData by YCharts\nMarket cap has exploded with all other parameters left in its wake having seen a significant expansion in price-earnings ratio despite a strong improvement in EPS and revenue. The stock market has long since recognised the story and potential of ASML with the Wall Street analyst target currently at $722 per share. Fair to say, there is no margin of safety if the analysts are correct in the predictions. Interestingly, out of the 30 analysts offering a price target, the percentage who are very bullish hasn’t been higher since 2016 with 56% stating a very bullish opinion. There is a mental exercise in staying cautious in terms of believing in such statements, not least because the stock has only known one direction for the last couple of years – upwards.\nThe significance of the expansion in typical ratios is evident when considered over a five-year horizon as shown below. Both P/E and P/S have expanded massively standing at 55 and 15.7 respectively. However, the company is in a very different place compared to three years ago.\nData by YCharts\nRevenue is growing significantly faster than previously with gross margin and free cash flow also having improved. Due to this positive development, ASML is also returning plenty of capital to its shareholders with a share buyback program of €10 billion for 2021, which unfortunately only translates to a reduction of 0.5% of the current float.\nData by YCharts\nThe strong belief in ASML going forward is also clearly illustrated by the estimates for the coming years, which throughout the most recent years has been steadily climbing due to the company’s strong portfolio and market dominance.\nData by YCharts\nWith all that said, I believe that current shareholders do well for themselves in holding on to their existing shares as this company has a great outlook. I’ve had my eyes on ASML for the last year, and I’m extremely sad to say I never got around to looking into it properly, but only looked it at from afar and concluded that the stock might be due for a good pullback at one point. Little did I know.\nAs Peter Lynch famously said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves,” as would also be true for someone like me who didn’t act in time. I’m still massively fascinated by ASML’s outlook and potential journey, but at the current price, I remain hesitant about the prospects and the lack of margin of safety.\nThere is a lot of potential for ASML to grow into its valuation, and if one is to add that current levels, I’d say dollar-cost averaging is a prudent strategy for the current price, while reserving the possibility to back up the truck for a full load if we see a pullback before end of 2021.\nAs can be seen below, it is not uncommon for ASML to experience a 10% setback once or twice a year.\nData by YCharts\nConclusion\nASML is dominant within its two main offerings, the DUV and EUV lithography. Its market is backed by incredibly strong tailwinds as all our gadgets, electrical cars, 5G, datacentres, cloud servers, etc. are heavily reliant on the technology platform offered by ASML. A true innovator with no real competition in sight, feeding machinery and tools to an industry expected to grow at CAGR 8.6% through 2028 with potentially even stronger growth for both its DUV and EUV platforms while also expecting margin expansion.\nThere is little evil to be said about ASML, but unfortunately, the stock market has long since recognised its amazing story and potential. With such a strong outlook in sight, existing shareholders do well for themselves in holding onto their shares and just enjoy the journey ahead, but for the prospective shareholders, there appears to be a little margin of safety with the market cap having expanded significantly recently and the stock trading just an inch shy of its 52 week high.\nAs Peter Lynch said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” The exact fallacy I’ve fallen victim to as I’ve looked at ASML from afar for quite a while. Despite the recent expansion in market cap and multiples, there could be made a case for current estimates underestimating ASML’s true potential, but any forecast extending 5-10 years into the future comes with extreme uncertainty and guesstimation. As I’ve shown, ASML’s share price is prone to setbacks once or twice a year allowing dollar-cost averaging to serve as a method to acquire exposure to the company slowly building a position along the way.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":267,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":183931358,"gmtCreate":1623299146374,"gmtModify":1704200380820,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"There are too many already, need to focus!","listText":"There are too many already, need to focus!","text":"There are too many already, need to focus!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/183931358","repostId":"1105615437","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1105615437","pubTimestamp":1623288344,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1105615437?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-10 09:25","market":"us","language":"en","title":"To the moon! Deeper dive into meme stock trading","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1105615437","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"The meme trade is transforming into something new as retail traders continue to make waves in the br","content":"<ul>\n <li>The meme trade is transforming into something new as retail traders continue to make waves in the broader markets. The ability to pool together their collective research or sentiment is lending credence to a new investment strategy, which is generating widespread buzz that brokerages, hedge funds and institutions didn't see coming. With more stocks being added to the category by the day, volatility is even affectingrebalancing decisionsof market indexes like the Russell 2000(NYSEARCA:IWM), which was once considered a stable benchmark for mutual funds before all the action.</li>\n <li>The old meme list that headlined favorites AMC(NYSE:AMC), BlackBerry(NYSE:BB)and GameStop(NYSE:GME)is changing. Over the last few sessions, we've seen big run-ups and falls in names like Clover Health(NASDAQ:CLOV), ContextLogic(NASDAQ:WISH), Clean Energy Fuels(NASDAQ:CLNE), GEO Group(NYSE:GEO)and even Wendy's(NASDAQ:WEN). The fast-food chain was added to the group yesterday, which marked anotable departurefrom the classic meme mold that featured high short interest in order to squeeze a stock.</li>\n <li><i>Backdrop:</i>The meme trade began with GameStop back in January and was partly a strategy (short squeeze), partly a gamble (remember binary options?) and partly a middle finger to Wall Street (little guy vs. the suits). The strategy was an outgrowth of the YOLO trade, which was popularized on the WallStreetBets forum to reach financial freedom overnight. Retail bros would throw all of their savings into one stock without caring about risk management or diversification. The method was compounded by waves of swarm trading, as well as gamification of stock apps and access to commission-free trading.</li>\n <li>Remember the Hertz(OTCPK:HTZGQ)bankruptcy bid-up that occurred last summer and the Kodak(NYSE:KODK)craze that followed? What about Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA)once being worth more than every carmaker on Earth despite a fraction of their sales? Do we dare mention Bitcoin (BTC-USD), Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) or other cryptos?</li>\n <li><b>Go deeper:</b>If meme trading is the new casino gambling, then timing is everything until the last trader is left holding the bag. Some still swear by the technicals, which have created countless day trading channels and messaging platforms. Others are quick to point to the eye-popping fortunes being posted online, but don't forget the whopping losses that get far less coverage. It also leads one to wonder about the broader public markets, where every share is only worth as much as people are prepared to pay for it. With the meme trade spreading to new sectors and industries, will stock fundamentals still hold water? Did they ever?</li>\n <li>Tilray's CEO is&nbsp;welcoming&nbsp;Reddit users and Generation Z as investors.Is cannabis the next meme-stock target?</li>\n</ul>","source":"seekingalpha","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>To the moon! 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With more stocks being added to the category by the day, volatility is even affectingrebalancing decisionsof market indexes like the Russell 2000(NYSEARCA:IWM), which was once considered a stable benchmark for mutual funds before all the action.\nThe old meme list that headlined favorites AMC(NYSE:AMC), BlackBerry(NYSE:BB)and GameStop(NYSE:GME)is changing. Over the last few sessions, we've seen big run-ups and falls in names like Clover Health(NASDAQ:CLOV), ContextLogic(NASDAQ:WISH), Clean Energy Fuels(NASDAQ:CLNE), GEO Group(NYSE:GEO)and even Wendy's(NASDAQ:WEN). The fast-food chain was added to the group yesterday, which marked anotable departurefrom the classic meme mold that featured high short interest in order to squeeze a stock.\nBackdrop:The meme trade began with GameStop back in January and was partly a strategy (short squeeze), partly a gamble (remember binary options?) and partly a middle finger to Wall Street (little guy vs. the suits). The strategy was an outgrowth of the YOLO trade, which was popularized on the WallStreetBets forum to reach financial freedom overnight. Retail bros would throw all of their savings into one stock without caring about risk management or diversification. The method was compounded by waves of swarm trading, as well as gamification of stock apps and access to commission-free trading.\nRemember the Hertz(OTCPK:HTZGQ)bankruptcy bid-up that occurred last summer and the Kodak(NYSE:KODK)craze that followed? What about Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA)once being worth more than every carmaker on Earth despite a fraction of their sales? Do we dare mention Bitcoin (BTC-USD), Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) or other cryptos?\nGo deeper:If meme trading is the new casino gambling, then timing is everything until the last trader is left holding the bag. Some still swear by the technicals, which have created countless day trading channels and messaging platforms. Others are quick to point to the eye-popping fortunes being posted online, but don't forget the whopping losses that get far less coverage. It also leads one to wonder about the broader public markets, where every share is only worth as much as people are prepared to pay for it. With the meme trade spreading to new sectors and industries, will stock fundamentals still hold water? Did they ever?\nTilray's CEO is welcoming Reddit users and Generation Z as investors.Is cannabis the next meme-stock target?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":315,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":189658170,"gmtCreate":1623258851390,"gmtModify":1704199632542,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Because they&nbsp; are young and willing to takes risk!","listText":"Because they&nbsp; are young and willing to takes risk!","text":"Because they are young and willing to takes risk!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/189658170","repostId":"1188697627","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1188697627","pubTimestamp":1623247497,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1188697627?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-09 22:04","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why This Millennial Is Rage-Buying AMC and Crypto","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1188697627","media":"Barron's","summary":"Karl Marx would have loved Reddit. If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that ","content":"<p>Karl Marx would have loved Reddit. If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that everyone should get in on trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency. Not to get rich—though that’s a nice side benefit—but to strike back at the investor class. “It’s worthwhile running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money,” Marxwrote. I’m right there with you, Karl.</p>\n<p>Working-class millennials have been denied the chance to build generational wealth over the course of our professional careers. Many of us are risking what little we have left as a way of raging against a machine we feel is rigged against us. And we’re following in Marx’s footsteps.</p>\n<p>After a friend died in 1864, Marx received £820 in a bequest, his biographerrecounts. That comes out to roughly $151,500 today after adjusting for inflation and applying current conversion rates. Marx used a portion of his inheritance to become a financial speculator, often engaging in the same sort of penny-stock bubble schemes that the notorious WallStreetBets sub-Reddit has been accused of engaging in this year. “[Stocks] are springing up like mushrooms this year,” Marx wrote in a letter to his uncle, bragging that he had already made £400 from speculation. He added that many of his investments were typically “forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse.”</p>\n<p>Marx’s trading stories are difficult to substantiate, but millennials’ love of meme stocks is very real. I’ve already made more this year from trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency than I have as a professional writer. I’ve come to look at the meme stock boom as millennials’ chance to finally build wealth. But if not, we’re content with making the investors largely responsible for our financial woes feel a bit of the pain they’ve inflicted on us. Short-sellers are losing their shirts to the tune of$4.5 billionon meme stocks so far.</p>\n<p>As a 34-year-old American, almost every generational stereotype applies to me. HuffPost’s Michael Hobbessummed upmillennials’ financial situation best in 2017: “My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.”</p>\n<p>Perhaps because we’re the only American generation to live through two major recessions and two wars in our coming-up years, we’re the first generation to be financially worse off than our parents, despite beingbetter educatedon average. We paid for it, too. A year of college that cost $10,000 for boomers set millennials back more than $15,000 on average in inflation-adjusted dollars, according toBloomberg. Millennials of color, particularly Black millennials, have it worse. They graduated witheven more student debtthan their white classmates, arefar less likelyto be hired in white-collar professions, and their households earnjust 60%of what their white coworkers make.</p>\n<p>Millennials’ high-priced educations haven’t bought us much job security. A 2018 Gallup studycalledmillennials the “job-hopping generation.” Maybe, but not by choice. A 2019University of Chicago studyfound millennials actually long for a stable career. It should come as little surprise, then, that a generation plagued with job insecurity and mounting debt is leading the“baby bust.”The birth rate is at its lowest inthree decades. There may not be enough working-age Americans to care for the nation’s swelling senior population. Boomers effectively climbed the class ladder, then took a saw and cut off the rungs below them. (And they still ask us when we’ll give them grandchildren!)</p>\n<p>If all that doesn’t make meme stocks and cryptocurrency more appealing, at least it might help explain why some of us just don’t care any more about playing it safe. I’ll be the first to admit that investing in meme stocks isn’t a sustainable way to build wealth. A lot more of us will get hurt than get rich. But I’m not primarily investing to make money: I want the investors who crashed the economy and got bailed out in my senior year of college—thustorpedoingmy career earning potential—to feel at least a little bit of the hardship they put my generation through. And given thepredominantly millennialcomposition of /r/WallStreetBets, I know I’m not the only rage-driven investor.</p>\n<p>There’s plenty to be mad about. Like we saw withGameStop,workers organizing to make the stock market pay out in our favor results in strict blowback. After Redditors speculated GameStop shares through the roof in late January, mobile trading app Robinhood not only restricted trading, but evenreportedlysold investors’ GameStop shares without their consent. (Robinhooddeniesforced-selling occurred.) When it came to light that Robinhood had afinancial relationshipwith firms that help route its customers’ orders, it made a lot of newbie investors like me even more jaded about the markets.</p>\n<p>In March, when New York City opened movie theaters, I decided to buy AMC shares on a lark for $7 apiece. As of early June, my investment has appreciated in value by more than 550%. That could evaporate, but I’m taking a lesson from GameStop. Its stock is still trading at more than $250 per share despite starting the year under $20. I plan on continuing to hold my AMC shares in hopes the value will increase even more. When it’s finally time, I’ll sell half and re-invest my profits in cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>When that happens, I’ll be far from the only millennial betting big on crypto. According to Business Insider, my generation ischiefly responsiblefor the sudden rise of cryptocurrency in 2021, in which both blue-chip digital currencies like Ethereum, as well as joke cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, are thriving. Ethereum’s price has gone from $730.97 per coin on Jan. 1 to a peak of over $4,000 in May. Dogecoin hasappreciatedby more than 21,000% since its inception as a meme in 2013. (I’m still kicking myself for selling my Dogecoin when it was trading for less than 10 cents, even though I still made thousands in profit). Millennials’ commitment to crypto is now forcing the giants to play along: In March,Morgan Stanleybecame thefirst bankto offer Bitcoin funds to its wealthy clients. And as if on cue, now that the workers have made a little money in the rigged casino, U.S. regulators are reportedly preparing a “crackdown” on cryptocurrency.</p>\n<p>Millennials went through childhood being told we had to work hard to have financial security. Then we were told we had to shackle ourselves with debt to get a college degree that would get us a good job. Then we were told that only a lucky few actually build wealth from their jobs and that to have true financial success, we should invest. And then when we invested, we were told we were doing it wrong. I get the message. Millennials aren’t meant to win. Financial security isn’t for us. So if we can make a few grand by speculating penny stocks to the moon and hurt a few smug hedge fund vultures in the process, we’ll settle for that.</p>\n<p><b>Corrections &amp; Amplifications</b>: Citadel Securities is a market-maker that provides services for Robinhood, not a hedge fund. An earlier version of this commentary incorrectly reported that a subsidiary of Citadel Securities held a short position in GameStop.</p>","source":"lsy1610680873436","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>Why This Millennial Is Rage-Buying AMC and Crypto</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\">\nWhy This Millennial Is Rage-Buying AMC and Crypto\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-09 22:04 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-im-still-rage-buying-meme-stocks-51623165336><strong>Barron's</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Karl Marx would have loved Reddit. If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that everyone should get in on trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency. Not to get rich—though that’s a ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-im-still-rage-buying-meme-stocks-51623165336\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线","GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust","COIN":"Coinbase Global, Inc."},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-im-still-rage-buying-meme-stocks-51623165336","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1188697627","content_text":"Karl Marx would have loved Reddit. If the German philosopher were alive today, he’d be posting that everyone should get in on trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency. Not to get rich—though that’s a nice side benefit—but to strike back at the investor class. “It’s worthwhile running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money,” Marxwrote. I’m right there with you, Karl.\nWorking-class millennials have been denied the chance to build generational wealth over the course of our professional careers. Many of us are risking what little we have left as a way of raging against a machine we feel is rigged against us. And we’re following in Marx’s footsteps.\nAfter a friend died in 1864, Marx received £820 in a bequest, his biographerrecounts. That comes out to roughly $151,500 today after adjusting for inflation and applying current conversion rates. Marx used a portion of his inheritance to become a financial speculator, often engaging in the same sort of penny-stock bubble schemes that the notorious WallStreetBets sub-Reddit has been accused of engaging in this year. “[Stocks] are springing up like mushrooms this year,” Marx wrote in a letter to his uncle, bragging that he had already made £400 from speculation. He added that many of his investments were typically “forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse.”\nMarx’s trading stories are difficult to substantiate, but millennials’ love of meme stocks is very real. I’ve already made more this year from trading meme stocks and cryptocurrency than I have as a professional writer. I’ve come to look at the meme stock boom as millennials’ chance to finally build wealth. But if not, we’re content with making the investors largely responsible for our financial woes feel a bit of the pain they’ve inflicted on us. Short-sellers are losing their shirts to the tune of$4.5 billionon meme stocks so far.\nAs a 34-year-old American, almost every generational stereotype applies to me. HuffPost’s Michael Hobbessummed upmillennials’ financial situation best in 2017: “My rent consumes nearly half my income, I haven’t had a steady job since Pluto was a planet and my savings are dwindling faster than the ice caps the baby boomers melted.”\nPerhaps because we’re the only American generation to live through two major recessions and two wars in our coming-up years, we’re the first generation to be financially worse off than our parents, despite beingbetter educatedon average. We paid for it, too. A year of college that cost $10,000 for boomers set millennials back more than $15,000 on average in inflation-adjusted dollars, according toBloomberg. Millennials of color, particularly Black millennials, have it worse. They graduated witheven more student debtthan their white classmates, arefar less likelyto be hired in white-collar professions, and their households earnjust 60%of what their white coworkers make.\nMillennials’ high-priced educations haven’t bought us much job security. A 2018 Gallup studycalledmillennials the “job-hopping generation.” Maybe, but not by choice. A 2019University of Chicago studyfound millennials actually long for a stable career. It should come as little surprise, then, that a generation plagued with job insecurity and mounting debt is leading the“baby bust.”The birth rate is at its lowest inthree decades. There may not be enough working-age Americans to care for the nation’s swelling senior population. Boomers effectively climbed the class ladder, then took a saw and cut off the rungs below them. (And they still ask us when we’ll give them grandchildren!)\nIf all that doesn’t make meme stocks and cryptocurrency more appealing, at least it might help explain why some of us just don’t care any more about playing it safe. I’ll be the first to admit that investing in meme stocks isn’t a sustainable way to build wealth. A lot more of us will get hurt than get rich. But I’m not primarily investing to make money: I want the investors who crashed the economy and got bailed out in my senior year of college—thustorpedoingmy career earning potential—to feel at least a little bit of the hardship they put my generation through. And given thepredominantly millennialcomposition of /r/WallStreetBets, I know I’m not the only rage-driven investor.\nThere’s plenty to be mad about. Like we saw withGameStop,workers organizing to make the stock market pay out in our favor results in strict blowback. After Redditors speculated GameStop shares through the roof in late January, mobile trading app Robinhood not only restricted trading, but evenreportedlysold investors’ GameStop shares without their consent. (Robinhooddeniesforced-selling occurred.) When it came to light that Robinhood had afinancial relationshipwith firms that help route its customers’ orders, it made a lot of newbie investors like me even more jaded about the markets.\nIn March, when New York City opened movie theaters, I decided to buy AMC shares on a lark for $7 apiece. As of early June, my investment has appreciated in value by more than 550%. That could evaporate, but I’m taking a lesson from GameStop. Its stock is still trading at more than $250 per share despite starting the year under $20. I plan on continuing to hold my AMC shares in hopes the value will increase even more. When it’s finally time, I’ll sell half and re-invest my profits in cryptocurrency.\nWhen that happens, I’ll be far from the only millennial betting big on crypto. According to Business Insider, my generation ischiefly responsiblefor the sudden rise of cryptocurrency in 2021, in which both blue-chip digital currencies like Ethereum, as well as joke cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin, are thriving. Ethereum’s price has gone from $730.97 per coin on Jan. 1 to a peak of over $4,000 in May. Dogecoin hasappreciatedby more than 21,000% since its inception as a meme in 2013. (I’m still kicking myself for selling my Dogecoin when it was trading for less than 10 cents, even though I still made thousands in profit). Millennials’ commitment to crypto is now forcing the giants to play along: In March,Morgan Stanleybecame thefirst bankto offer Bitcoin funds to its wealthy clients. And as if on cue, now that the workers have made a little money in the rigged casino, U.S. regulators are reportedly preparing a “crackdown” on cryptocurrency.\nMillennials went through childhood being told we had to work hard to have financial security. Then we were told we had to shackle ourselves with debt to get a college degree that would get us a good job. Then we were told that only a lucky few actually build wealth from their jobs and that to have true financial success, we should invest. And then when we invested, we were told we were doing it wrong. I get the message. Millennials aren’t meant to win. Financial security isn’t for us. So if we can make a few grand by speculating penny stocks to the moon and hurt a few smug hedge fund vultures in the process, we’ll settle for that.\nCorrections & Amplifications: Citadel Securities is a market-maker that provides services for Robinhood, not a hedge fund. 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NIO holds a 49% stake in this JV.Under the agreement, JAC will cont","content":"<p>Today&nbsp;NIO&nbsp;shares&nbsp;starts&nbsp;rising&nbsp;as&nbsp;renewed its&nbsp;key joint&nbsp;manufacturing agreements.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/81342d8f5525b276e53965c25c315483\" tg-width=\"1291\" tg-height=\"623\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>NIO Inc. (<b>NIO</b>) has renewed its manufacturing agreements with Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC) and Jianglai Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Jianglai) for the joint manufacture of NIO vehicles and associated fee arrangements.</p><p>JAC, a state-owned vehicle manufacturer, presently manufactures NIO vehicles at its Hefei JAC-NIO plant, which was specifically set up for NIO vehicles.</p><p>Jianglai is a joint venture between NIO and JAC for operations management. NIO holds a 49% stake in this JV.</p><p>Under the agreement, JAC will continue manufacturing NIO’s ES8, ES6, EC6, and ET7 models, as well as other models in its pipeline, until May 2024.</p><p>Furthermore, JAC will increase its annual production capacity to 240,000 units to satisfy the rising demand for NIO vehicles. While NIO will take responsibility for vehicle development, engineering, supply chain, quality management, and manufacturing processes, Jianglai will be in charge of parts assembly and operations management.</p><p>Significantly, the new agreement will enable NIO to benefit from economies of scale and future improvements in manufacturing processes.</p><p>On May 13, Citigroup analyst&nbsp;Jeff Chung&nbsp;reiterated a Hold rating on the stock with a $57.60 price target (69.1% upside potential).</p><p>Commenting after interacting with NIO management, Chung noted that the shortage of chips was a key constraint for vehicle production in May but management sees the situation improving in June or July.</p><p>Consensus among analysts is that NIO is a Moderate Buy based on 7 Buys and 3 Holds. The average analyst&nbsp;price target of $60.04&nbsp;implies 76.3% upside potential.</p><p>Shares have dropped about 36.3% so far this year.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/950bbbe2c5ec687c9da6552220a18689\" tg-width=\"807\" tg-height=\"450\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>","source":"yahoofinance","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>NIO shares starts rising as renewed its key joint manufacturing agreements</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\">\nNIO shares starts rising as renewed its key joint manufacturing agreements\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-24 22:02 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nio-renews-key-joint-manufacturing-134312432.html><strong>SmarterAnalyst</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Today NIO shares starts rising as renewed its key joint manufacturing agreements.NIO Inc. (NIO) has renewed its manufacturing agreements with Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC) and Jianglai Advanced ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nio-renews-key-joint-manufacturing-134312432.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"NIO":"蔚来"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nio-renews-key-joint-manufacturing-134312432.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2137537153","content_text":"Today NIO shares starts rising as renewed its key joint manufacturing agreements.NIO Inc. (NIO) has renewed its manufacturing agreements with Jianghuai Automobile Group (JAC) and Jianglai Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Jianglai) for the joint manufacture of NIO vehicles and associated fee arrangements.JAC, a state-owned vehicle manufacturer, presently manufactures NIO vehicles at its Hefei JAC-NIO plant, which was specifically set up for NIO vehicles.Jianglai is a joint venture between NIO and JAC for operations management. NIO holds a 49% stake in this JV.Under the agreement, JAC will continue manufacturing NIO’s ES8, ES6, EC6, and ET7 models, as well as other models in its pipeline, until May 2024.Furthermore, JAC will increase its annual production capacity to 240,000 units to satisfy the rising demand for NIO vehicles. While NIO will take responsibility for vehicle development, engineering, supply chain, quality management, and manufacturing processes, Jianglai will be in charge of parts assembly and operations management.Significantly, the new agreement will enable NIO to benefit from economies of scale and future improvements in manufacturing processes.On May 13, Citigroup analyst Jeff Chung reiterated a Hold rating on the stock with a $57.60 price target (69.1% upside potential).Commenting after interacting with NIO management, Chung noted that the shortage of chips was a key constraint for vehicle production in May but management sees the situation improving in June or July.Consensus among analysts is that NIO is a Moderate Buy based on 7 Buys and 3 Holds. The average analyst price target of $60.04 implies 76.3% upside potential.Shares have dropped about 36.3% so far this year.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":476,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":130304567,"gmtCreate":1621509726259,"gmtModify":1704358783603,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I wouldn't trust this non trustful thing...&nbsp;","listText":"I wouldn't trust this non trustful thing...&nbsp;","text":"I wouldn't trust this non trustful thing...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/130304567","repostId":"1157270283","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1157270283","pubTimestamp":1621507648,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1157270283?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-20 18:47","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Bitcoin briefly tops $40,000 as it struggles to recover from brutal sell-off","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1157270283","media":"CNBC","summary":"KEY POINTS\n\nBitcoin initially climbed Thursday morning, trading as high as $40,700 at one point, bef","content":"<div>\n<p>KEY POINTS\n\nBitcoin initially climbed Thursday morning, trading as high as $40,700 at one point, before slipping down as low as $38,965.\nOn Wednesday, bitcoin dived 30% to nearly $30,000 at one point,...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/bitcoin-btc-briefly-tops-40000-struggles-to-recover-from-sell-off.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"cnbc_highlight","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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It was last up 2.6% at a price of $39,980.\nSome of bitcoin’s younger alternatives also attempted a comeback Thursday, with ether up 2.2% at $2,676 and litecoin rising 3% to $209.\nIt comes after a brutal plunge for cryptocurrency markets. On Wednesday, bitcoin dived 30% to nearly $30,000 at one point, before paring some of those losses later in the session. The entire crypto market lost hundreds of billions of dollars of value in a single day.\nThe move lower was likely driven by mixed signals from Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who came out as a believer in bitcoin earlier this year — and a regulatory clampdown on the market in China.\nOn May 12, Musk said his electric car firm had suspended vehicle purchases with bitcoin due to environmental concerns over the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin uses more energy than entire countries like Argentina and Ukraine, according to Cambridge University researchers. This is due the energy-intensive “mining” process which releases new bitcoins into circulation.\nEarlier this week, Musk suggested Tesla may have sold his bitcoin holdings, only to later clarify that the firm had “not sold any bitcoin.” On Wednesday, he tweeted the “diamond hands” emoji, implying that the electric vehicle maker would not shed any of its bitcoin.\nAlso weighing on bitcoin’s price Wednesday was the news that China had banned financial institutions and payment firms from providing cryptocurrency-related services, reiterating its tough stance on digital currencies.\n“If you look at the history of bull markets, a correction of this size, between 30-40% of bitcoin price, tends to be part of the bull market,” Alyse Killeen, founder and managing partner of bitcoin-focused venture capital firm Stillmark Capital, told CNBC Wednesday.\nInstitutional investors jumping ship?\nBitcoin investors say the cryptocurrency has become a kind of “digital gold,” providing protection from rising inflation as central banks around the world print money to soften the economic blow of the coronavirus crisis. They say that this has led to increased buying from institutional and corporate investors.\nHowever, in a note to clients this week, analysts at JPMorgan said institutional investors were dumping bitcoin in favor of gold, reversing the trend that’s played out over the last two quarters.\n“I did talk to friends in the institutional bitcoin buy and custody space … and what I heard from them is that folks aren’t selling,” Killeen said.\n“What you saw was newer buyers were exiting and long-term holders were accumulating or ’hodling,′ and that’s what we have historically seen at these more significant drawdowns in bull markets,” she added.\nMeanwhile, there have been various signs of froth in crypto market lately. Dogecoin, a meme-inspired digital currency, saw a stunning rally earlier this year, propelled by supportive comments from Musk and other celebrities like Mark Cuban and Gene Simmons.\nCrypto skeptics would argue that all digital assets are in a speculative bubble. In a closely-watched fund manager survey, Bank of America found “long bitcoin” was the most crowded trade. According to the firm, 75% of fund managers said the cryptocurrency was in bubble territory.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":150,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":198508275,"gmtCreate":1620966964997,"gmtModify":1704351281118,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good topic...&nbsp;","listText":"Good topic...&nbsp;","text":"Good topic...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/198508275","repostId":"1129126046","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1129126046","pubTimestamp":1620964164,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1129126046?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-14 11:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"A Big Opportunity In A Big Market","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1129126046","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"SummaryThe global cybersecurity market is valued at $153.16 billion in 2020 and it is expected to be","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p><ul><li>The global cybersecurity market is valued at $153.16 billion in 2020 and it is expected to be valued at $366.10 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 12%.</li><li>Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is the latest example of a ransomware attack).</li><li>The estimated intrinsic value for the company is $37.15 (19% potential upside), while the pricing value is $52.8 (70% potential upside).</li></ul><p>Editor's note: Seeking Alpha is proud to welcome Deniel Selivanov as a new contributor. It's easy to become a Seeking Alpha contributor and earn money for your best investment ideas. Active contributors also get free access to SA Premium.</p><p><b>Overview</b></p><p>Telos (TLS) is a cybersecurity play, which has exposure on both sides of the market, government and commercial. With the last two big cyberattacks which involved U.S. companies, namely the SolarWinds attack and Colonial Pipeline attack, we can clearly see how cybersecurity will be one of the future big trends that, if taken at the right time, offers big opportunity with big gains.</p><p>Telos stock has rallied 42.67% since the IPO in 2020, outperforming the 15.3% rise in the S&amp;P 500 over the same time period.</p><p>I believe that the 25% correction in Telos stock from its 52-Week high offers a good opportunity to take a position in this cybersecurity company.</p><p><b>Long Term: Sector Outlook Overview</b></p><p>The pandemic made the digitalization process accelerate at a very fast pace and, if from one side the digitalization process brings a lot of benefits, it also brings big risks with it, namely the cyber-risk. In 2020 many companies were \"forced\" to become more digital and for time-constraints reasons everything was done without taking into account possible mistakes along the road. These mistakes, however, didn't pass unnoticed.</p><p>The cyber-attacks in 2020 increased at the same pace as the digitalization transformation, especially malware and ransomware type of attacks. But why should we worry about cyber risk? A cyber-attack could lead to business interruption events: for instance, the last one involved the Colonial Pipeline, which represent not only a monetary cost for the company (whichincreased by 72%in the last 5 years) but also a reputational one.</p><p>Thelatest reportpublished by Allianz (the Allianz Risk Barometer report 2021) has found that the most important global and business risks for 2021 are: business interruption (top 1), pandemic outbreak (top 2), and cyber incidents (top 3). If we consider the business interruption as a consequence of a cyber-attack, we can clearly visualize how the cyber threat is the most important risk for businesses, not only in 2021 but especially in the years to come.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a6e3117e4d5051a7e658c17f734e107e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"586\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Agcs.allianz.com</span></p><p>Among different kinds of cyber-attacks, malware and ransomware are those which are spreading faster than others. Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third, (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is an example of ransomware attack). Once hit by such attacks, companies tend to pay what a ransom attacker demand; however, this is only the direct cost associated with the attack and we should not forget about all the indirect costs associated with it, which are much bigger.</p><p>Emsisoft, a company specialized in anti-malware solutions, estimated that in 2020 the ransom demand (i.e. the direct cost) representedonly 6%of the total cost in which companies incurred to deal with the cyber-attack. Finally, we must take into account that companies' willingness to pay attackers increases the number and the complexity of cyber-attacks.</p><p>In thelatest research(the Market Research Report - 2021), conducted by Fortune Business Insights, the global cyber security market size for 2020 is estimated to be around $153.16 billion and it is expected to be worth $366.10 billion in 2028 (CAGR of 12%). However, I believe that the market can be much bigger, driven by the fact that cybersecurity will become a critical element, especially in a world in which everything tends to be digital. Nonetheless, as stated by the company, Telos sees a total addressable market at$80 billion.</p><p><b>Company Products Overview</b></p><p>Telos is a cybersecurity company that offers software-based security solutions to U.S. federal government (e.g., Department of Defence, Central Intelligence Agency, etc.) and enterprises (e.g., Amazon (AMZN), Citigroup (CITI), Microsoft(MSFT), etc.). The company was founded in 1969 and its mission is to focus on the needs of its customers. In fact, Telos puts always customer needs at first place, which means offering solutions or improvements required by its clients. Telos's ability to be a customer-centric organization can be clearly seen through the numbers, since 85% of Telos revenues are recurring (and approximately 50% of total revenue comes from segments with no or limited competition).</p><p>The company offers different solution, among others:</p><ol><li><b>Telos Xacta:</b>is a solution that embodies two main functions: first, to continuously manage the cyber risk (security assessment for instance); and second, to help organizations manage security compliance. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0c4d0337daeb5f6d1476c5006b87b257\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"287\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Telos.comThe product is very appreciated by its customer since it is used not only by the U.S. federal government, but also by big clouds providers, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.</span></p></li><li><b>Telos Ghost:</b>is a solution that we could see as VPN 2.0, summarized by the company as:<i>\"you can't exploit what you can't see\".</i>Nowadays, more and more people are using VPN to try to protect themselves against possible threats or just because they want to remain anonymous in the Internet. However, this is not enough, especially if you are a manager of a big company and you exchange business critical information with others. This is where Telos Ghost comes in your help: it creates a fully secured network, where all the data are encrypted, user information (e.g., location and identity) are hidden, and the company's network is protected against any possible cyber threat. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:Source:<i>Telos.com</i></li><li><b>Telos ID:</b>is an identity management solution, which uses technologies, such as fuse biometrics, credentials, etc., to make sure that only specific persons can have access to sensitive information. It is a dominant solution among U.S. federal agencies, but it is also gaining popularity among enterprises.</li></ol><p><b>Discounted Cash Flow Model</b></p><p>Let's now perform a DCF analysis. Fundamentally, the company has big opportunities to offer, even if not fully yet. Let's start by looking at the cost structure.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ec0b4e8cab77dfeca9a4ebca5df711f2\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"345\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>From the figure above we can clearly see how services represent the biggest portion of costs, namely 91% for the last year (versus 5 year average of 87%), and are those responsible for keeping the operating margins relatively low. On the other side, as we can imagine, the biggest portion of revenues comes from services, namely 89.6%.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/98cdbc7405967c885a87824acff198e0\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"341\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>In particular, it is worth noting the changing growth trajectory which started in 2017 as a direct response to new business goals definition. In 2017, Telos started to invest into new products and solutions to expand its addressable market. These revenues growth dynamics are expected to keep increasing in line with its accelerating partnership programs and the strong brand name that company has in the industry.</p><p>Before starting doing any projection, I retrieved 5 years of historical data to better understand how the company works. I present below the historical data and the projections I made for the years to come:</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d814ffc0af7d3802cda7521d9b7321a2\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"427\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>At first sight, numbers don’t seem to be that promising, but we should not jump at that conclusion too fast and we should instead think out of the box. Until 2017, Telos used to work more with the government, but since 2018 its strategy has changed. In fact, as stated by the company, Telos is now focusing on leveraging its security solutions by expanding their presence in commercial markets; they do this by developing new solutions and strengthening the current ones.</p><p>In particular, the company is focusing on improving its margins and revenues by expanding its partner program to speed up the scaling in the commercial and international markets. In fact, this is what they are doing: as right now, both Telos Ghost and Xacta are available through various AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplace. Now, in light of this, and considering also the willingness of president Joe Biden to put more efforts and money into cybersecurity projects, I allow the company to grow at a CAGR of 33% in the years 2 to 5 and then I steadily decrease the growth rate to 1.58% in year 10. Why 33%? Well, it's purely subjective. I look at the company revenue growth in recent years, the company revenues relative to the overall market size and to larger players in the sector.</p><p>Now, for what concern margins, I believe that they can be improved, so I increase them to what I consider reasonable levels given the company business: 52% (versus current 34.69%) for the gross margin and 19.5% (versus current 0.69%) for the operating margin. To determine the company target margins, I look at the industry averages: for instance, the U.S. industry average margins are 23.30% and the global ones 19.31%.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/433b6939a7b8156a6b622f453033f8bf\" tg-width=\"589\" tg-height=\"184\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/</span></p><p>A number that is worth to be noted is the sales to capital ratio (i.e. growth efficiency), which tells us how much we must reinvest to keep our business growing; the higher this number the more efficiently the company is growing. In doing my projections, I decrease this number to 0.95 in year 10 (i.e. industry average).</p><p>Finally, let's look at the market inputs we need to use in the discounted cash flow model.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8935dcbda0d8246faca532f5e8c18cf8\" tg-width=\"622\" tg-height=\"157\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>The implied equity risk premium was computed following the country of incorporation approach, in this case looking only at the U.S. market. The implied equity risk premium at the time of the computation was of 4.02%, well below the historical 3 years median of 5.68%.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33334f3b9b8fc28838136eef10d07e92\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"393\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/</span></p><p>The cost of capital computations are displayed in the figure below:</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/be84b5939fcc6c091f8ad8b44872560e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"84\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p>Now, taking all the projections and discounting the cash flows, I obtain a value per share of $37.15 (19% potential upside); alternatively, if you prefer pricing the company instead of discounting the future cash flows, I come up with a value of $52.8 (70% potential upside). The pricing value is obtained by taking the expected EPS in 2025 of 1.76 and multiplying it for a P/E of 30. The P/E of 30 is obtained by looking at the current Palantir (PLTR) P/E value of 125 and bringing it down to what I believe is a more reasonable value.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c2f928594eb8d7e4f3427fbf22ba1533\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"440\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K report</span></p><p><b>Catalysts</b></p><p>At this point, you may be asking yourself: What kind of catalysts may make the value converge to the “fair” price? I would like to underline some possible catalysts, which are sector and company related.</p><ul><li>The first big catalyst I see comes from the companies themselves. By understanding the fact that the cyber threat is a real danger, which harms the business not only economically but also reputationally, businesses will be willing to do everything is in their power to protect themselves against such risks. Thus, they will invest heavily in cyberdefense.</li><li>The second catalyst comes from the digital transformation we are living now, which will be even bigger in years to come. As we know, technology is bad and good at the same time, where the former comes from cyber-attacks.</li><li>The third catalyst comes from the governments increasing spending in cybersecurity related projects, which is driven by two reasons: the willingness to protect critical information and the willingness to become leaders in the field.<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21cad07a429fd8674ad8cfab24a091b6\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"498\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:Belfercenter.org</span></p></li></ul><p><b>Technical Analysis</b></p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5eb1ef868b278a8c94a56a2ddb177563\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"303\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Source:TradingView.com</span></p><p>For what concerns technical analysis, the formation I see is a “Flags, High and Tigh” with the odds in the stock’s favor. Let me explain why. First, this kind of formation is the one which I mostly love, since it offers the best performance: the average rise after the breakout is of 69% in a bull market and of 40% in a bear market; as right now, we are in a bull market according to the economic business cycle indicators. Then, if we look at the volume, we can see a falling volume structure, which makes the breakout performance even stronger (71% vs 52% for rising volume trend) and, given the current price levels, I see a risk-reward ratio of 2.9 over a period of 6 months to 1 year.</p><p><b>Final Thoughts</b></p><p>The digitalization process brings many benefits with it, but it also brings many risks. In a world in which enterprises are becoming more and more digital, cybersecurity represents a key piece to complete the puzzle. Not many have understood it yet, but when they will do, the trend will be already running at a fast pace and joining the train will offer a much lower risk-reward ratio.</p><p>Even if Telos is not a newly founded company, it knows well the industry in which it operates and it is highly adaptable at the evolving environment. Going forward, the key metric to look at is its ability to expand in the commercial market, both domestic and international.</p><p>Currently, it shows buying signals on both the fundamental and technical side and this should be taken into account. Especially for short-term investors (i.e. investors with a time horizon less than 1 year), I see an opportunity to get a return in the range of 40-60% over the next 6 to 12 months.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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>A Big Opportunity In A Big Market</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\">\nA Big Opportunity In A Big Market\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-14 11:49 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4428510-telos-a-big-opportunity-in-a-big-market><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>SummaryThe global cybersecurity market is valued at $153.16 billion in 2020 and it is expected to be valued at $366.10 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 12%.Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4428510-telos-a-big-opportunity-in-a-big-market\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TLS":"Telos Corporation"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4428510-telos-a-big-opportunity-in-a-big-market","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1129126046","content_text":"SummaryThe global cybersecurity market is valued at $153.16 billion in 2020 and it is expected to be valued at $366.10 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 12%.Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is the latest example of a ransomware attack).The estimated intrinsic value for the company is $37.15 (19% potential upside), while the pricing value is $52.8 (70% potential upside).Editor's note: Seeking Alpha is proud to welcome Deniel Selivanov as a new contributor. It's easy to become a Seeking Alpha contributor and earn money for your best investment ideas. Active contributors also get free access to SA Premium.OverviewTelos (TLS) is a cybersecurity play, which has exposure on both sides of the market, government and commercial. With the last two big cyberattacks which involved U.S. companies, namely the SolarWinds attack and Colonial Pipeline attack, we can clearly see how cybersecurity will be one of the future big trends that, if taken at the right time, offers big opportunity with big gains.Telos stock has rallied 42.67% since the IPO in 2020, outperforming the 15.3% rise in the S&P 500 over the same time period.I believe that the 25% correction in Telos stock from its 52-Week high offers a good opportunity to take a position in this cybersecurity company.Long Term: Sector Outlook OverviewThe pandemic made the digitalization process accelerate at a very fast pace and, if from one side the digitalization process brings a lot of benefits, it also brings big risks with it, namely the cyber-risk. In 2020 many companies were \"forced\" to become more digital and for time-constraints reasons everything was done without taking into account possible mistakes along the road. These mistakes, however, didn't pass unnoticed.The cyber-attacks in 2020 increased at the same pace as the digitalization transformation, especially malware and ransomware type of attacks. But why should we worry about cyber risk? A cyber-attack could lead to business interruption events: for instance, the last one involved the Colonial Pipeline, which represent not only a monetary cost for the company (whichincreased by 72%in the last 5 years) but also a reputational one.Thelatest reportpublished by Allianz (the Allianz Risk Barometer report 2021) has found that the most important global and business risks for 2021 are: business interruption (top 1), pandemic outbreak (top 2), and cyber incidents (top 3). If we consider the business interruption as a consequence of a cyber-attack, we can clearly visualize how the cyber threat is the most important risk for businesses, not only in 2021 but especially in the years to come.Source:Agcs.allianz.comAmong different kinds of cyber-attacks, malware and ransomware are those which are spreading faster than others. Throughout 2020, malware and ransomware attacks increased by more than a third, (e.g., Colonial Pipeline is an example of ransomware attack). Once hit by such attacks, companies tend to pay what a ransom attacker demand; however, this is only the direct cost associated with the attack and we should not forget about all the indirect costs associated with it, which are much bigger.Emsisoft, a company specialized in anti-malware solutions, estimated that in 2020 the ransom demand (i.e. the direct cost) representedonly 6%of the total cost in which companies incurred to deal with the cyber-attack. Finally, we must take into account that companies' willingness to pay attackers increases the number and the complexity of cyber-attacks.In thelatest research(the Market Research Report - 2021), conducted by Fortune Business Insights, the global cyber security market size for 2020 is estimated to be around $153.16 billion and it is expected to be worth $366.10 billion in 2028 (CAGR of 12%). However, I believe that the market can be much bigger, driven by the fact that cybersecurity will become a critical element, especially in a world in which everything tends to be digital. Nonetheless, as stated by the company, Telos sees a total addressable market at$80 billion.Company Products OverviewTelos is a cybersecurity company that offers software-based security solutions to U.S. federal government (e.g., Department of Defence, Central Intelligence Agency, etc.) and enterprises (e.g., Amazon (AMZN), Citigroup (CITI), Microsoft(MSFT), etc.). The company was founded in 1969 and its mission is to focus on the needs of its customers. In fact, Telos puts always customer needs at first place, which means offering solutions or improvements required by its clients. Telos's ability to be a customer-centric organization can be clearly seen through the numbers, since 85% of Telos revenues are recurring (and approximately 50% of total revenue comes from segments with no or limited competition).The company offers different solution, among others:Telos Xacta:is a solution that embodies two main functions: first, to continuously manage the cyber risk (security assessment for instance); and second, to help organizations manage security compliance. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:Source:Telos.comThe product is very appreciated by its customer since it is used not only by the U.S. federal government, but also by big clouds providers, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.Telos Ghost:is a solution that we could see as VPN 2.0, summarized by the company as:\"you can't exploit what you can't see\".Nowadays, more and more people are using VPN to try to protect themselves against possible threats or just because they want to remain anonymous in the Internet. However, this is not enough, especially if you are a manager of a big company and you exchange business critical information with others. This is where Telos Ghost comes in your help: it creates a fully secured network, where all the data are encrypted, user information (e.g., location and identity) are hidden, and the company's network is protected against any possible cyber threat. As stated by the company, the main advantages coming from using Telos Xacta are:Source:Telos.comTelos ID:is an identity management solution, which uses technologies, such as fuse biometrics, credentials, etc., to make sure that only specific persons can have access to sensitive information. It is a dominant solution among U.S. federal agencies, but it is also gaining popularity among enterprises.Discounted Cash Flow ModelLet's now perform a DCF analysis. Fundamentally, the company has big opportunities to offer, even if not fully yet. Let's start by looking at the cost structure.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportFrom the figure above we can clearly see how services represent the biggest portion of costs, namely 91% for the last year (versus 5 year average of 87%), and are those responsible for keeping the operating margins relatively low. On the other side, as we can imagine, the biggest portion of revenues comes from services, namely 89.6%.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportIn particular, it is worth noting the changing growth trajectory which started in 2017 as a direct response to new business goals definition. In 2017, Telos started to invest into new products and solutions to expand its addressable market. These revenues growth dynamics are expected to keep increasing in line with its accelerating partnership programs and the strong brand name that company has in the industry.Before starting doing any projection, I retrieved 5 years of historical data to better understand how the company works. I present below the historical data and the projections I made for the years to come:Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportAt first sight, numbers don’t seem to be that promising, but we should not jump at that conclusion too fast and we should instead think out of the box. Until 2017, Telos used to work more with the government, but since 2018 its strategy has changed. In fact, as stated by the company, Telos is now focusing on leveraging its security solutions by expanding their presence in commercial markets; they do this by developing new solutions and strengthening the current ones.In particular, the company is focusing on improving its margins and revenues by expanding its partner program to speed up the scaling in the commercial and international markets. In fact, this is what they are doing: as right now, both Telos Ghost and Xacta are available through various AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplace. Now, in light of this, and considering also the willingness of president Joe Biden to put more efforts and money into cybersecurity projects, I allow the company to grow at a CAGR of 33% in the years 2 to 5 and then I steadily decrease the growth rate to 1.58% in year 10. Why 33%? Well, it's purely subjective. I look at the company revenue growth in recent years, the company revenues relative to the overall market size and to larger players in the sector.Now, for what concern margins, I believe that they can be improved, so I increase them to what I consider reasonable levels given the company business: 52% (versus current 34.69%) for the gross margin and 19.5% (versus current 0.69%) for the operating margin. To determine the company target margins, I look at the industry averages: for instance, the U.S. industry average margins are 23.30% and the global ones 19.31%.Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/A number that is worth to be noted is the sales to capital ratio (i.e. growth efficiency), which tells us how much we must reinvest to keep our business growing; the higher this number the more efficiently the company is growing. In doing my projections, I decrease this number to 0.95 in year 10 (i.e. industry average).Finally, let's look at the market inputs we need to use in the discounted cash flow model.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportThe implied equity risk premium was computed following the country of incorporation approach, in this case looking only at the U.S. market. The implied equity risk premium at the time of the computation was of 4.02%, well below the historical 3 years median of 5.68%.Source:Pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/The cost of capital computations are displayed in the figure below:Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportNow, taking all the projections and discounting the cash flows, I obtain a value per share of $37.15 (19% potential upside); alternatively, if you prefer pricing the company instead of discounting the future cash flows, I come up with a value of $52.8 (70% potential upside). The pricing value is obtained by taking the expected EPS in 2025 of 1.76 and multiplying it for a P/E of 30. The P/E of 30 is obtained by looking at the current Palantir (PLTR) P/E value of 125 and bringing it down to what I believe is a more reasonable value.Source:Author’s Estimates using data from latest 10K reportCatalystsAt this point, you may be asking yourself: What kind of catalysts may make the value converge to the “fair” price? I would like to underline some possible catalysts, which are sector and company related.The first big catalyst I see comes from the companies themselves. By understanding the fact that the cyber threat is a real danger, which harms the business not only economically but also reputationally, businesses will be willing to do everything is in their power to protect themselves against such risks. Thus, they will invest heavily in cyberdefense.The second catalyst comes from the digital transformation we are living now, which will be even bigger in years to come. As we know, technology is bad and good at the same time, where the former comes from cyber-attacks.The third catalyst comes from the governments increasing spending in cybersecurity related projects, which is driven by two reasons: the willingness to protect critical information and the willingness to become leaders in the field.Source:Belfercenter.orgTechnical AnalysisSource:TradingView.comFor what concerns technical analysis, the formation I see is a “Flags, High and Tigh” with the odds in the stock’s favor. Let me explain why. First, this kind of formation is the one which I mostly love, since it offers the best performance: the average rise after the breakout is of 69% in a bull market and of 40% in a bear market; as right now, we are in a bull market according to the economic business cycle indicators. Then, if we look at the volume, we can see a falling volume structure, which makes the breakout performance even stronger (71% vs 52% for rising volume trend) and, given the current price levels, I see a risk-reward ratio of 2.9 over a period of 6 months to 1 year.Final ThoughtsThe digitalization process brings many benefits with it, but it also brings many risks. In a world in which enterprises are becoming more and more digital, cybersecurity represents a key piece to complete the puzzle. Not many have understood it yet, but when they will do, the trend will be already running at a fast pace and joining the train will offer a much lower risk-reward ratio.Even if Telos is not a newly founded company, it knows well the industry in which it operates and it is highly adaptable at the evolving environment. Going forward, the key metric to look at is its ability to expand in the commercial market, both domestic and international.Currently, it shows buying signals on both the fundamental and technical side and this should be taken into account. Especially for short-term investors (i.e. investors with a time horizon less than 1 year), I see an opportunity to get a return in the range of 40-60% over the next 6 to 12 months.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":345,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":198501292,"gmtCreate":1620966890216,"gmtModify":1704351279985,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Told a lot but no have much&nbsp;values..&nbsp;","listText":"Told a lot but no have much&nbsp;values..&nbsp;","text":"Told a lot but no have much values..","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/198501292","repostId":"2135945620","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2135945620","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1620936034,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2135945620?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-14 04:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Wall Street closes higher in 'buy the dip' session","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2135945620","media":"Reuters","summary":"NEW YORK, May 13  - Wall Street ended sharply higher at the close of a broad rally on Thursday, bouncing back from three straight days of selling on upbeat labor market data.All three major U.S. stock indexes notched solid gains, with the Nasdaq, weighed by Tesla Inc , picking up the rear.Recent economic data has prompted inflation fears as scarcity of both materials and workers threatens to send prices surging in the face of a demand boom.\"If this is a footrace, supply chains are still tying th","content":"<p>NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Wall Street ended sharply higher at the close of a broad rally on Thursday, bouncing back from three straight days of selling on upbeat labor market data.</p><p>All three major U.S. stock indexes notched solid gains, with the Nasdaq, weighed by Tesla Inc , picking up the rear.</p><p>Meanwhile, cyclical shares enjoyed the biggest gains.</p><p>Recent economic data has prompted inflation fears as scarcity of both materials and workers threatens to send prices surging in the face of a demand boom.</p><p>\"If this is a footrace, supply chains are still tying their shoes,\" said David Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors in New York. \"But they will catch up with demand fairly quickly.\"</p><p>But on Thursday, investors appeared to be focusing on the glass-half-full side of the demand/supply equation.</p><p>This was evidenced by the outperformance of small caps, chips&nbsp;and transports , economically sensitive stocks that stand to gain as the United States emerges from the pandemic recession.</p><p>\"Sectors and stocks that were hurt most significantly by yesterday's sell-off rebounded strongly today given that economic growth is expected to remain strong throughout the year and any inflation is likely to be temporary,\" Carter added.</p><p>New applications for unemployment insurance continue to fall, according to jobless claims data from the Labor Department that hit a 14-month low.</p><p>Labor Department data also showed producer prices surged last month, building on the inflation surge narrative of Wednesday's consumer prices report.</p><p>\"The inflation boogeyman is back right on cue,\" Carter said. \"And will continue to spook markets for the coming months.\"</p><p>But rising prices were widely anticipated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve has provided repeated assurances that it does not foresee those spikes morphing into sustained, long-term inflation.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 433.79 points, or 1.29%, to 34,021.45, the S&amp;P 500 gained 49.46 points, or 1.22%, to 4,112.5 and the Nasdaq Composite added 93.31 points, or 0.72%, to 13,124.99.</p><p>Of the 11 major sectors in the S&amp;P 500, 10 ended green, with industrials enjoying the largest percentage gain.</p><p>Energy, weighed by a drop in crude prices, was the sole loser, shedding 1.4%. 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[O/R]</p><p>Walt Disney Co shares were down nearly 5% in after-hours trading after posting quarterly results.</p><p>Dating app owner Bumble Inc tumbled 14.3%, falling below its initial public offering price, as investors remained cautious about how quickly users will return to in-person meetings.</p><p>Boeing Co rose 0.8% after gaining approval from U.S. regulators for a fix of an electrical grounding issue.</p><p>Tesla continued its slide, dropping 3.1%, the heaviest drag on the Nasdaq, after boss Elon Musk doubled down on his sudden rejection of cryptocurrency bitcoin.</p><p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.91-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.06-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p><p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 13 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 49 new highs and 201 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.50 billion shares, compared with the 10.53 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p><p><b><i>Financial</i></b><b>&nbsp;</b><b><i>Report：</i></b></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1143623731\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+ subscriber growth is slowing like Netflix's — with one worrisome difference</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1149765041\" target=\"_blank\">Coinbase revenue tripled from last quarter,To Offer Dogecoin In 6 To 8 Weeks</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135732206\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb bookings jump 52% as vaccinations spur vacation rental demand</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135555675\" target=\"_blank\">DoorDash triples gross order volume and nearly triples revenue in first quarter</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135283678\" target=\"_blank\">Aurora Cannabis stock plunges amid more large losses, stock-sale plans and cost cuts</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/2135787576\" target=\"_blank\">Farfetch’s First-quarter Sales Run Up 46.4 Percent</a></p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/NW/1100486329\" target=\"_blank\">Luminar stock dips after mixed Q1 report with wider than exp</a></p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2135945620","content_text":"NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Wall Street ended sharply higher at the close of a broad rally on Thursday, bouncing back from three straight days of selling on upbeat labor market data.All three major U.S. stock indexes notched solid gains, with the Nasdaq, weighed by Tesla Inc , picking up the rear.Meanwhile, cyclical shares enjoyed the biggest gains.Recent economic data has prompted inflation fears as scarcity of both materials and workers threatens to send prices surging in the face of a demand boom.\"If this is a footrace, supply chains are still tying their shoes,\" said David Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors in New York. \"But they will catch up with demand fairly quickly.\"But on Thursday, investors appeared to be focusing on the glass-half-full side of the demand/supply equation.This was evidenced by the outperformance of small caps, chips and transports , economically sensitive stocks that stand to gain as the United States emerges from the pandemic recession.\"Sectors and stocks that were hurt most significantly by yesterday's sell-off rebounded strongly today given that economic growth is expected to remain strong throughout the year and any inflation is likely to be temporary,\" Carter added.New applications for unemployment insurance continue to fall, according to jobless claims data from the Labor Department that hit a 14-month low.Labor Department data also showed producer prices surged last month, building on the inflation surge narrative of Wednesday's consumer prices report.\"The inflation boogeyman is back right on cue,\" Carter said. \"And will continue to spook markets for the coming months.\"But rising prices were widely anticipated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve has provided repeated assurances that it does not foresee those spikes morphing into sustained, long-term inflation.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 433.79 points, or 1.29%, to 34,021.45, the S&P 500 gained 49.46 points, or 1.22%, to 4,112.5 and the Nasdaq Composite added 93.31 points, or 0.72%, to 13,124.99.Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, 10 ended green, with industrials enjoying the largest percentage gain.Energy, weighed by a drop in crude prices, was the sole loser, shedding 1.4%. [O/R]Walt Disney Co shares were down nearly 5% in after-hours trading after posting quarterly results.Dating app owner Bumble Inc tumbled 14.3%, falling below its initial public offering price, as investors remained cautious about how quickly users will return to in-person meetings.Boeing Co rose 0.8% after gaining approval from U.S. regulators for a fix of an electrical grounding issue.Tesla continued its slide, dropping 3.1%, the heaviest drag on the Nasdaq, after boss Elon Musk doubled down on his sudden rejection of cryptocurrency bitcoin.Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.91-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.06-to-1 ratio favored advancers.The S&P 500 posted 13 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 49 new highs and 201 new lows.Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.50 billion shares, compared with the 10.53 billion average over the last 20 trading days.Financial Report：Disney+ subscriber growth is slowing like Netflix's — with one worrisome differenceCoinbase revenue tripled from last quarter,To Offer Dogecoin In 6 To 8 WeeksAirbnb bookings jump 52% as vaccinations spur vacation rental demandDoorDash triples gross order volume and nearly triples revenue in first quarterAurora Cannabis stock plunges amid more large losses, stock-sale plans and cost cutsFarfetch’s First-quarter Sales Run Up 46.4 PercentLuminar stock dips after mixed Q1 report with wider than exp","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":152,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":105441034,"gmtCreate":1620322510928,"gmtModify":1704341989859,"author":{"id":"3582119541501169","authorId":"3582119541501169","name":"TestWater","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582119541501169","authorIdStr":"3582119541501169"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Split insurance part from Ant?","listText":"Split insurance part from Ant?","text":"Split insurance part from Ant?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/105441034","repostId":"2133602520","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2133602520","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"T-Reuters","id":"1086160438","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a113a995fbbc262262d15a5ce37e7bc5"},"pubTimestamp":1620293736,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2133602520?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-06 17:35","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"Ant In Talks With Chinese Authorities About Turning Its ‘Mutual-Aid’ Service Into A Regulated Business - WSJ","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2133602520","media":"T-Reuters","summary":"May 6 (Reuters) - :Ant Looks To Revamp A Controversial Business Without Sparking An Outcry -Wsj.Ant ","content":"<html><body><p>May 6 (Reuters) - :Ant Looks To Revamp A Controversial Business Without Sparking An Outcry -Wsj.Ant Is In Talks With Chinese Authorities About Turning Xianghubao (“Mutual Treasure”) Into A Regulated Business - Wsj.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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It has raised $225 million in funds from investors including General Atlantic and Tencent.</p><p>Founded in 2012, Ximalaya's revenue increased by more than 48% from a year earlier to around 4 billion yuan ($617.95 million) in 2020.</p><p>Goldman Sachs, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSTLW\">Morgan Stanley</a>    , BofA Securities and CICC are underwriters on Ximalaya's offering.</p><p>Qiniu and Ximalaya did not disclose any other details about their listing plans on Friday.</p><p>($1 = 6.4730 Chinese yuan renminbi)</p><p>(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain and Sohini Podder in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TCEHY":"腾讯控股ADR","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数","MS":"摩根士丹利","00700":"腾讯控股","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2132456189","content_text":"April 30 (Reuters) - Ximalaya, backed by China's Tencent Holdings   , filed for an initial public offering $(IPO.UK)$ in the United States on Friday, cashing in on growing demand as more people tune in to podcasts while staying at home during the pandemic.China's Qiniu Ltd, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service provider backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd   , also filed paperwork for a U.S. IPO.The largest online audio platform in China, Ximalaya had 250 million average monthly average users in the first quarter of 2021, according to a regulatory filing.Ximalaya, which provides a platform for users to access free or paid content from professional or amateur providers, was valued at $3.71 billion as of July 2018, according to PitchBook. 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Just listen to them and make your owned way...&nbsp;","listText":"I guess everyone is having your&nbsp;owned way of investing... Just listen to them and make your owned way...&nbsp;","text":"I guess everyone is having your owned way of investing... Just listen to them and make your owned way...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/108773763","repostId":"1133315528","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1133315528","pubTimestamp":1620042187,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1133315528?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-03 19:43","market":"us","language":"en","title":"A 10% drop or at least a pause could be looming for the S&P 500. 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Hovering near all-time highs, the S&amp;P 500SPXhas gained for three straight months and the economy is indeed rebounding hard from the pandemic. And pent-up demand for a summer vacation and plenty of vaccines in the U.S., at least, justifies going away for a little while.</p>\n<p>But instead of selling, “curb your enthusiasm” may be better advice to follow for the next six months, says our<b>call of the day</b>from Stifel’s head of institutional equity strategy, Barry Bannister. He predicts the S&amp;P 500 is headed for flat to down 5% to 10% for the next few months.</p>\n<p>He bases that on the “usual seasonality math” that predicted a 26% gain from November to April 30, 2021, while we got a 28% bump. Others have been chiming in on seasonality, such as UBS and LPL Financial who bothurge investors to stick around. 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S&amp;P 500 seasonal strength the six months since Nov-1, 2020 also appears to have front-loaded returns, diminishing May-Oct 2021,” he said.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b6c78a484e65c6e40b1e0a9a05636e9e\" tg-width=\"1259\" tg-height=\"894\">Bannister says if he’s wrong, the “only bubble path” is a much higher price/earnings ratio based on yield repression.” And as for those who “see post-COVID-19 as a ‘Roaring 1920s’ meme,” he noted the market P/E has already reached the Oct-1928 trend-adjusted level, which came just 12 months before the Oct-1929 crash.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7521a65d7d15bce7deae95818af536bd\" tg-width=\"1260\" tg-height=\"851\"><b>Ethereum is red hot and more data is coming</b></p>\n<p>Taking your eyes off the screens this summer may be less advisable if you’re hot on cryptocurrencies. EthereumETHUSDhas topped $3,000for the first time, with gains outpacing those of bitcoinBTCUSDso far this year. Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman Charlie Munger hadnothing good to sayabout cryptos at the shareholder meeting on Saturday.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8b2c3eb02cf934600c5a66c87eb240e6\" tg-width=\"454\" tg-height=\"210\">Elsewhere, U.S. stock futuresES00are climbing, led by Dow futuresYM00,with Nasdaq futuresNQ00modestly up. European stocksXX:SXXPare rising, with LondonUK:UKXout for a holiday. A bunch of Asian markets were closed, but those that were openfell,as investors fretted about rising COVID-19 cases and low vaccination rates.</p>\n<p>President Joe Biden’s massive proposed spending plan won’t spark inflation, argued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenon NBC’s “Meet the Press”on Sunday. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will be speaking at the Just Economy conference on Monday, discussing community development.</p>\n<p>The Markit final April manufacturing purchasing managers index is on tap, with the Institute for Supply Management’s April manufacturing index and construction spending also ahead, along with auto sales.</p>\n<p>Another busy week for earnings kicks off with do-it-yourself home retailer Lowe’sLOW,makeup giant Estee LauderELand chip supply group ON SemiconductorONexpected to report before the bell on Monday.</p>\n<p>Shares of TeslaTSLAare pitching south after a German trade magazine said production at the electric car maker’s new gigafactory outside Berlinis facing another six-month delay.</p>\n<p>Multinational conglomerate Berkshire HathawayBRKMX:BRKBsaid itswung to a first-quarter profiton stock gains and better results from its insurance business.Among the highlightsfrom Saturday’s shareholder meeting, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffettdefended selling airlines, discussed a“casino”-likestock market, andwarned overspecial-purpose acquisition companies</p>\n<p>Telecoms giant VerizonVZis nearing a deal to sell its Yahoo and AOL internet units to private equity group Apollo Global ManagementAPO,the New York Timesand other media outlets reported, citing sources.</p>\n<p>Epic Games and AppleAAPLwillsquare off in court on Monday. 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Take shelter in these sectors, says veteran strategist\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-03 19:43 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-10-drop-or-at-least-a-pause-could-be-looming-for-the-s-p-500-take-shelter-in-these-sectors-says-veteran-strategist-11620041385><strong>MarketWatch</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Legendary investor Warren Buffett told his faithful over the weekend that the U.S. economy is “red hot,” suggesting money in an index fund is better served than picking stocks. That advice comes as ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-10-drop-or-at-least-a-pause-could-be-looming-for-the-s-p-500-take-shelter-in-these-sectors-says-veteran-strategist-11620041385\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SPY":"标普500ETF",".DJI":"道琼斯",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-10-drop-or-at-least-a-pause-could-be-looming-for-the-s-p-500-take-shelter-in-these-sectors-says-veteran-strategist-11620041385","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1133315528","content_text":"Legendary investor Warren Buffett told his faithful over the weekend that the U.S. economy is “red hot,” suggesting money in an index fund is better served than picking stocks. That advice comes as investors face what could be a seasonally weak period for equities.\nThe “sell in May and go away” adage dictates that from now to October is often a less profitable and more bumpy time for stocks, partly as the weather warms up and big traders spend more time vacationing, leaving behind junior traders and opening the door to volatility.\nA stock hiatus doesn’t seem like a crazy idea right now. Hovering near all-time highs, the S&P 500SPXhas gained for three straight months and the economy is indeed rebounding hard from the pandemic. And pent-up demand for a summer vacation and plenty of vaccines in the U.S., at least, justifies going away for a little while.\nBut instead of selling, “curb your enthusiasm” may be better advice to follow for the next six months, says ourcall of the dayfrom Stifel’s head of institutional equity strategy, Barry Bannister. He predicts the S&P 500 is headed for flat to down 5% to 10% for the next few months.\nHe bases that on the “usual seasonality math” that predicted a 26% gain from November to April 30, 2021, while we got a 28% bump. Others have been chiming in on seasonality, such as UBS and LPL Financial who bothurge investors to stick around. Here’s Bannister’s chart:\nBannister’s next chart shows how\nHis next chart shows this: “A lump-sum of $10,000 (no further contributions) invested in 1950 in the S&P 500 has produced a cumulative return in the 6\nmonths Nov-1 to the following year’s Apr-30 that is 38 times larger than if invested only in the preceding 6 months May 1 to Oct-31.”\nAnd if things turn out as Bannister expects, he said investors should get investors to get selective about sectors, says Bannister.\n“If May through Oct-2021 is seasonally weak, we note that S&P 500 defensives (staples, healthcare, utilities, telecom services) do typically outperform cyclicals (note cyclicals include technology) in the same period, albeit usually with falling yields. S&P 500 seasonal strength the six months since Nov-1, 2020 also appears to have front-loaded returns, diminishing May-Oct 2021,” he said.\nBannister says if he’s wrong, the “only bubble path” is a much higher price/earnings ratio based on yield repression.” And as for those who “see post-COVID-19 as a ‘Roaring 1920s’ meme,” he noted the market P/E has already reached the Oct-1928 trend-adjusted level, which came just 12 months before the Oct-1929 crash.\nEthereum is red hot and more data is coming\nTaking your eyes off the screens this summer may be less advisable if you’re hot on cryptocurrencies. EthereumETHUSDhas topped $3,000for the first time, with gains outpacing those of bitcoinBTCUSDso far this year. Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman Charlie Munger hadnothing good to sayabout cryptos at the shareholder meeting on Saturday.\nElsewhere, U.S. stock futuresES00are climbing, led by Dow futuresYM00,with Nasdaq futuresNQ00modestly up. European stocksXX:SXXPare rising, with LondonUK:UKXout for a holiday. A bunch of Asian markets were closed, but those that were openfell,as investors fretted about rising COVID-19 cases and low vaccination rates.\nPresident Joe Biden’s massive proposed spending plan won’t spark inflation, argued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenon NBC’s “Meet the Press”on Sunday. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will be speaking at the Just Economy conference on Monday, discussing community development.\nThe Markit final April manufacturing purchasing managers index is on tap, with the Institute for Supply Management’s April manufacturing index and construction spending also ahead, along with auto sales.\nAnother busy week for earnings kicks off with do-it-yourself home retailer Lowe’sLOW,makeup giant Estee LauderELand chip supply group ON SemiconductorONexpected to report before the bell on Monday.\nShares of TeslaTSLAare pitching south after a German trade magazine said production at the electric car maker’s new gigafactory outside Berlinis facing another six-month delay.\nMultinational conglomerate Berkshire HathawayBRKMX:BRKBsaid itswung to a first-quarter profiton stock gains and better results from its insurance business.Among the highlightsfrom Saturday’s shareholder meeting, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffettdefended selling airlines, discussed a“casino”-likestock market, andwarned overspecial-purpose acquisition companies\nTelecoms giant VerizonVZis nearing a deal to sell its Yahoo and AOL internet units to private equity group Apollo Global ManagementAPO,the New York Timesand other media outlets reported, citing sources.\nEpic Games and AppleAAPLwillsquare off in court on Monday. The maker of the popular Fortnite online game has accused the iPhone maker of abusing its App Store for anticompetitive purposes.\nThe EU is urging the lifting of restrictions on non-essential travel to the region by vaccinated foreign nationals who hail from a country that has a good epidemiological situation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":232,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}