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However, Berkshire's own stock underperformed the broader market over that time period: The S&amp;P 500 rose 16.3% in 2020, without including reinvested dividends, while Berkshire's Class B shares increased 2.4%.</p>\n<p>Berkshire's stock performance in 2020 relative to the broader market, however, belies what has been, in aggregate, decades of outperformance for the Omaha, Nebraska-based company. Berkshire Hathaway's annual compounded gain between 1965 and 2020 was 20%, versus just 10.2% for the S&amp;P 500. And the firm's cumulative returns over that period have been a whopping 2,810,526% to the S&amp;P 500's 23,454%.</p>\n<p>On May 1, Buffett and long-time business partner Charlie Munger will hold Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles. This may serve as a forum for the pair to discuss additional investments purchased and sold in the first months of 2021, ahead of formal 13-F filing reveals later in the month. Last year, Buffett disclosed at the annual meeting thatBerkshire had sold out of its entire interest in the airline stocksAmerican Airlines (AAL), United Airlines (UAL), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV)in the first quarter of 2020.</p>\n<p>Here's how Berkshire's top 10 stock investments by market value fared over the course of the pandemic, based on the stakes disclosed in the Buffett's latest annual shareholder letter.*</p>\n<p><b>Apple</b></p>\n<p>Buffett pointed to Apple (AAPL) as one of the most valuable assets for Berkshire Hathaway alongside the firm's insurance operation and BNSF Railway, thanks in large part to the iPhone-maker's hefty share repurchases.</p>\n<p>Berkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Apple as 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>\n<p>That massive holding — comprising 44% of Berkshire's disclosed assets, according to Bloomberg data — came even after the firm pocketed $11 billion after selling a small portion of its position in 2020.</p>\n<p>\"Despite that sale – voila! – Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Apple,\" Buffett said in the shareholder letter. \"That increase was costless to us,<b>coming about because Apple</b>has continuously repurchased its shares, thereby substantially shrinking the number it now has outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>Though Buffett hashistorically steered away from investing in technology companiesin favor of businesses he has understood more deeply, Berkshire's major holding in Apple proved auspicious during the pandemic, when Big Tech companies led the market higher.</p>\n<p>Apple's stock posted a total return of 82% in 2020, outperforming every other \"FAANG\" stock including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet. The run-up has since cooled in early 2021, however, with the stock posting a total return of just 1.4% for the year-to-date through market close on April 27.</p>\n<p><b>Bank of America</b></p>\n<p>While Berkshire Hathaway unloaded many of its bank stock holdings over the course of 2020, it increased its stake in Bank of America (BAC).</p>\n<p>The firm 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%.</p>\n<p>By the end of last year, the value of that holding was worth $31.3 million, and cost $14.6 million to amass.</p>\n<p>The increase in the size of Berkshire Hathaway's Bank of America holding bucked the trend of the other bank stocks in the portfolio last year. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo (EFC) 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>\n<p>With interest rates sliding amid ultra-accommodative monetary policy during the pandemic, bank stocks were among the worst performers last year. Bank of America shares fell nearly 14% in 2020, underperforming against both the S&amp;P 500 and S&amp;P 500 financials sector, which dropped just 4.1%. However, with interest rates back on the rise and consumer spending accelerating, shares have already started to reverse these declines, and Bank of America shares have risen 32% so far in 2021.</p>\n<p><b>The Coca-Cola Company</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Coca-Cola (KO) remained unchanged between 2019 and 2020 at 400 million shares, offering 9.3% ownership in the beverage giant. Buffett has been a long-time investor in the firm, having first purchased shares in Berkshire's portfolio in 1988. It has comprised a significant portion of the firm's total holdings and mark value value ever since.</p>\n<p>This long-term investment has paid off for the company, with the market value of the shares held totaling $21.9 billion at the end of 2020. Berkshire spent just under $1.3 billion building its stake in Coca-Cola.</p>\n<p>While Berkshire's overall return on its investment in Coca-Cola has been formidable, the stock did underperform the broader market in 2020. Coca-Cola shares declined 0.9% during the year as a dearth of live events and concessions weighed on sales, though the stock did still eke out a total return of 2.44% during the year with reinvested dividends. Shares have extended a run of underperformance in 2021, with the stock falling 1.5% so far this year.</p>\n<p><b>American Express</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway held 151,610,700 shares of American Express (AXP) as of the end of 2020, with the stock comprising another of the firm's long-standing investments. Berkshire began building its stake nearly six decades ago, paying a total of just $1.29 billion to amass a stake worth $18.33 billion at the end of 2020.</p>\n<p>As a business relying heavily on both consumer and corporate spending, however, American Express' suffered a blow in 2020, with its stock dipping 2.9%.</p>\n<p>While Buffett has characterized Berkshire's holdings of marketable stocks as a \"collection of businesses\" in which he shares in long-term prosperity but does not control operations, that hasn't stopped him from imparting advice to executives at some of his top-held companies — especially during the nadir in business and economic activity during the pandemic.</p>\n<p>\"I talked to our largest shareholder, Warren Buffett, and I've talked to him during this time, the one thing he has and will continue to always point out to us is that the brand is special,\" American Express CEO Stephen Squeri said during an analyst day presentation in mid-March 2020. \"And that brand needs to be cared for, the brand needs to be invested in and we will continue to do so through tough times and through the good times.\"</p>\n<p>More recently, however, American Express's operating results and stock have picked back up. The stock outperformed the S&amp;P 500 with a rise of 25% for the year-to-date. And Squeri saidin a fourth-quarter updatethat non-travel and entertainment spend exceeded pre-COVID levels for a second straight quarter, and that trends overall have \"continued to steadily improve,\" despite some lingering impacts from the pandemic.</p>\n<p><b>Verizon Communications</b></p>\n<p>Verizon Communications (VZ), the parent company of Yahoo Finance, was one of Berkshire's new purchases in the second half of 2020.</p>\n<p>Berkshire revealed it amassed a stake of 146,716,496 shares of the telecommunications giant last year, good for a 3.5% ownership of the company.</p>\n<p>The holding was worth $8.62 billion as of year-end, representing one of several major investments Berkshire held below cost, which in this case came in at $8.69 billion. The decline likely would have been greater had Berkshire purchased the sizable stake earlier, however, with Verizon's stock having declined 4.3% excluding reinvested dividends over the the full-year 2020.</p>\n<p>But even given the pandemic, Verizon's business held up relatively strongly. Full-year 2020 sales edged down by just 3%, and adjusted EBITDA was flat year-over-year. Still, the stock has declined by 4% for 2021-to-date, or by 2% with reinvested dividends.</p>\n<p><b>Moody's Corporation</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway had a 13.2% ownership stake in Moody's Corporation (MCO) at the end of 2020, with 24,669,778 shares worth a total of $7.16 billion. That generated a notable return for Berkshire, with the cost of building this stake amounting to just $248 million. Berkshire first held shares of Moody's Corporation in 2000.</p>\n<p>The credit rating agency outperformed the S&amp;P 500 in 2020 and has since performed about in-line with the market during the COVID-19 recovery. Shares rose by 22% over the course of 2020 and have increased by 12.5% for the year-to-date.</p>\n<p><b>U.S. Bancorp</b></p>\n<p>U.S. Bancorp (USB) was one of a number of holdings Berkshire Hathaway trimmed during the pandemic.</p>\n<p>The firm's stake in the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association was reduced to 148,176,166 shares by year-end 2020, compared to 149,497,787 in 2019. However, Berkshire Hathaway stopped short of fully exiting its position in the firm, as it did with some other big banks. Berkshire's position in U.S. Bancorp was worth just over $6.9 billion in year-end 2020, compared to total cost of $5.6 billion.</p>\n<p>As was the case for many financial institutions during the pandemic, U.S. Bancorp's stock came under pressure in the low-rate environment of 2020, but has since rebounded. Shares slid by 21.4% in 2020, but have so far risen more than 25% for the year-to-date.</p>\n<p><b>BYD</b></p>\n<p>Shenzhen-based BYD Co. (BYDDF) marks one of just a couple non-U.S. companies in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio as of the end of 2020. The electric-vehicle manufacturer's stock was also the best-performing in Berkshire's portfolio during the pandemic on a price-appreciation basis, consistent with the outperformance among tech and growth stocks seen over the course of last year in the broader market. In fact, the market value of Berkshire's BYD Co. stake was more than double that of its other major auto-related position in General Motors (GM).</p>\n<p>Berkshire purchased the entirety of his 225 million share stake in BYD back in 2008 for $232 million, afterBuffett's business partner Charlie Munger toutedthe vision of its founder Wang Chuanfu. The value of that stake ballooned to $5.9 billion at the end of 2020. Shares of BYD surged by 432% in 2020 alone, though they have dipped by 13.5% for the year-to-date as some of the exuberance around electric-vehicle stocks moderated at the start of this year.</p>\n<p><b>Chevron</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway pounced at the opportunity to purchase Chevron (CVX) during a dip in oil prices and energy stocks last year, snapping up 48,498,965 million shares at a total cost of $4.02 billion. This represented 2.5% of shares outstanding for the stock.</p>\n<p>By year-end, the market value of Berkshire's stake increased slightly to about $4.1 billion, with energy prices back on the rise following the worst points of spring 2020. Chevron's stock slid 30% between year-end 2019 and year-end 2020.</p>\n<p>Berkshire's investment has already begun to appreciate in value in the early months of 2021, with energy as the best-performing sector in the S&amp;P 500 for the year-to-date. Chevron shares have risen 21.6% so far this year for a price appreciation nearly double that of the broader market, not including reinvested dividends.</p>\n<p><b>Charter Communications</b></p>\n<p>Charter Communications (CHTR) marked another holding Berkshire Hathaway trimmed in 2020. In August of last year, Berkshire reported it had cut its stake by 4% to a total of about 5.2 million shares.</p>\n<p>The sale still left Berkshire with a 2.7% stake in the company, and holdings worth $3.45 billion by year-end 2020, at a total cost of just $904 million. Berkshire had beenaccumulating its stake in Charter since 2014.</p>\n<p>Shares of Charter Communications rose 36% in 2020, but have given back some of these gains after dipping 1.2% so far in 2021.</p>\n<p><i>* This analysis excludes Berkshire Hathaway's Kraft Heinz holding of 325,442,152 shares, since this is held using a different accounting method. 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However, Berkshire's own stock underperformed the broader market over that time period: The S&P 500 rose 16.3% in 2020, without including reinvested dividends, while Berkshire's Class B shares increased 2.4%.\nBerkshire's stock performance in 2020 relative to the broader market, however, belies what has been, in aggregate, decades of outperformance for the Omaha, Nebraska-based company. Berkshire Hathaway's annual compounded gain between 1965 and 2020 was 20%, versus just 10.2% for the S&P 500. And the firm's cumulative returns over that period have been a whopping 2,810,526% to the S&P 500's 23,454%.\nOn May 1, Buffett and long-time business partner Charlie Munger will hold Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles. This may serve as a forum for the pair to discuss additional investments purchased and sold in the first months of 2021, ahead of formal 13-F filing reveals later in the month. Last year, Buffett disclosed at the annual meeting thatBerkshire had sold out of its entire interest in the airline stocksAmerican Airlines (AAL), United Airlines (UAL), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV)in the first quarter of 2020.\nHere's how Berkshire's top 10 stock investments by market value fared over the course of the pandemic, based on the stakes disclosed in the Buffett's latest annual shareholder letter.*\nApple\nBuffett pointed to Apple (AAPL) as one of the most valuable assets for Berkshire Hathaway alongside the firm's insurance operation and BNSF Railway, thanks in large part to the iPhone-maker's hefty share repurchases.\nBerkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Apple as 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.\nThat massive holding — comprising 44% of Berkshire's disclosed assets, according to Bloomberg data — came even after the firm pocketed $11 billion after selling a small portion of its position in 2020.\n\"Despite that sale – voila! – Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Apple,\" Buffett said in the shareholder letter. \"That increase was costless to us,coming about because Applehas continuously repurchased its shares, thereby substantially shrinking the number it now has outstanding.\"\nThough Buffett hashistorically steered away from investing in technology companiesin favor of businesses he has understood more deeply, Berkshire's major holding in Apple proved auspicious during the pandemic, when Big Tech companies led the market higher.\nApple's stock posted a total return of 82% in 2020, outperforming every other \"FAANG\" stock including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet. The run-up has since cooled in early 2021, however, with the stock posting a total return of just 1.4% for the year-to-date through market close on April 27.\nBank of America\nWhile Berkshire Hathaway unloaded many of its bank stock holdings over the course of 2020, it increased its stake in Bank of America (BAC).\nThe firm 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%.\nBy the end of last year, the value of that holding was worth $31.3 million, and cost $14.6 million to amass.\nThe increase in the size of Berkshire Hathaway's Bank of America holding bucked the trend of the other bank stocks in the portfolio last year. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo (EFC) 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).\nWith interest rates sliding amid ultra-accommodative monetary policy during the pandemic, bank stocks were among the worst performers last year. Bank of America shares fell nearly 14% in 2020, underperforming against both the S&P 500 and S&P 500 financials sector, which dropped just 4.1%. However, with interest rates back on the rise and consumer spending accelerating, shares have already started to reverse these declines, and Bank of America shares have risen 32% so far in 2021.\nThe Coca-Cola Company\nBerkshire Hathaway's stake in Coca-Cola (KO) remained unchanged between 2019 and 2020 at 400 million shares, offering 9.3% ownership in the beverage giant. Buffett has been a long-time investor in the firm, having first purchased shares in Berkshire's portfolio in 1988. It has comprised a significant portion of the firm's total holdings and mark value value ever since.\nThis long-term investment has paid off for the company, with the market value of the shares held totaling $21.9 billion at the end of 2020. Berkshire spent just under $1.3 billion building its stake in Coca-Cola.\nWhile Berkshire's overall return on its investment in Coca-Cola has been formidable, the stock did underperform the broader market in 2020. Coca-Cola shares declined 0.9% during the year as a dearth of live events and concessions weighed on sales, though the stock did still eke out a total return of 2.44% during the year with reinvested dividends. Shares have extended a run of underperformance in 2021, with the stock falling 1.5% so far this year.\nAmerican Express\nBerkshire Hathaway held 151,610,700 shares of American Express (AXP) as of the end of 2020, with the stock comprising another of the firm's long-standing investments. Berkshire began building its stake nearly six decades ago, paying a total of just $1.29 billion to amass a stake worth $18.33 billion at the end of 2020.\nAs a business relying heavily on both consumer and corporate spending, however, American Express' suffered a blow in 2020, with its stock dipping 2.9%.\nWhile Buffett has characterized Berkshire's holdings of marketable stocks as a \"collection of businesses\" in which he shares in long-term prosperity but does not control operations, that hasn't stopped him from imparting advice to executives at some of his top-held companies — especially during the nadir in business and economic activity during the pandemic.\n\"I talked to our largest shareholder, Warren Buffett, and I've talked to him during this time, the one thing he has and will continue to always point out to us is that the brand is special,\" American Express CEO Stephen Squeri said during an analyst day presentation in mid-March 2020. \"And that brand needs to be cared for, the brand needs to be invested in and we will continue to do so through tough times and through the good times.\"\nMore recently, however, American Express's operating results and stock have picked back up. The stock outperformed the S&P 500 with a rise of 25% for the year-to-date. And Squeri saidin a fourth-quarter updatethat non-travel and entertainment spend exceeded pre-COVID levels for a second straight quarter, and that trends overall have \"continued to steadily improve,\" despite some lingering impacts from the pandemic.\nVerizon Communications\nVerizon Communications (VZ), the parent company of Yahoo Finance, was one of Berkshire's new purchases in the second half of 2020.\nBerkshire revealed it amassed a stake of 146,716,496 shares of the telecommunications giant last year, good for a 3.5% ownership of the company.\nThe holding was worth $8.62 billion as of year-end, representing one of several major investments Berkshire held below cost, which in this case came in at $8.69 billion. The decline likely would have been greater had Berkshire purchased the sizable stake earlier, however, with Verizon's stock having declined 4.3% excluding reinvested dividends over the the full-year 2020.\nBut even given the pandemic, Verizon's business held up relatively strongly. Full-year 2020 sales edged down by just 3%, and adjusted EBITDA was flat year-over-year. Still, the stock has declined by 4% for 2021-to-date, or by 2% with reinvested dividends.\nMoody's Corporation\nBerkshire Hathaway had a 13.2% ownership stake in Moody's Corporation (MCO) at the end of 2020, with 24,669,778 shares worth a total of $7.16 billion. That generated a notable return for Berkshire, with the cost of building this stake amounting to just $248 million. Berkshire first held shares of Moody's Corporation in 2000.\nThe credit rating agency outperformed the S&P 500 in 2020 and has since performed about in-line with the market during the COVID-19 recovery. Shares rose by 22% over the course of 2020 and have increased by 12.5% for the year-to-date.\nU.S. Bancorp\nU.S. Bancorp (USB) was one of a number of holdings Berkshire Hathaway trimmed during the pandemic.\nThe firm's stake in the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association was reduced to 148,176,166 shares by year-end 2020, compared to 149,497,787 in 2019. However, Berkshire Hathaway stopped short of fully exiting its position in the firm, as it did with some other big banks. Berkshire's position in U.S. Bancorp was worth just over $6.9 billion in year-end 2020, compared to total cost of $5.6 billion.\nAs was the case for many financial institutions during the pandemic, U.S. Bancorp's stock came under pressure in the low-rate environment of 2020, but has since rebounded. Shares slid by 21.4% in 2020, but have so far risen more than 25% for the year-to-date.\nBYD\nShenzhen-based BYD Co. (BYDDF) marks one of just a couple non-U.S. companies in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio as of the end of 2020. The electric-vehicle manufacturer's stock was also the best-performing in Berkshire's portfolio during the pandemic on a price-appreciation basis, consistent with the outperformance among tech and growth stocks seen over the course of last year in the broader market. In fact, the market value of Berkshire's BYD Co. stake was more than double that of its other major auto-related position in General Motors (GM).\nBerkshire purchased the entirety of his 225 million share stake in BYD back in 2008 for $232 million, afterBuffett's business partner Charlie Munger toutedthe vision of its founder Wang Chuanfu. The value of that stake ballooned to $5.9 billion at the end of 2020. Shares of BYD surged by 432% in 2020 alone, though they have dipped by 13.5% for the year-to-date as some of the exuberance around electric-vehicle stocks moderated at the start of this year.\nChevron\nBerkshire Hathaway pounced at the opportunity to purchase Chevron (CVX) during a dip in oil prices and energy stocks last year, snapping up 48,498,965 million shares at a total cost of $4.02 billion. This represented 2.5% of shares outstanding for the stock.\nBy year-end, the market value of Berkshire's stake increased slightly to about $4.1 billion, with energy prices back on the rise following the worst points of spring 2020. Chevron's stock slid 30% between year-end 2019 and year-end 2020.\nBerkshire's investment has already begun to appreciate in value in the early months of 2021, with energy as the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 for the year-to-date. Chevron shares have risen 21.6% so far this year for a price appreciation nearly double that of the broader market, not including reinvested dividends.\nCharter Communications\nCharter Communications (CHTR) marked another holding Berkshire Hathaway trimmed in 2020. In August of last year, Berkshire reported it had cut its stake by 4% to a total of about 5.2 million shares.\nThe sale still left Berkshire with a 2.7% stake in the company, and holdings worth $3.45 billion by year-end 2020, at a total cost of just $904 million. Berkshire had beenaccumulating its stake in Charter since 2014.\nShares of Charter Communications rose 36% in 2020, but have given back some of these gains after dipping 1.2% so far in 2021.\n* This analysis excludes Berkshire Hathaway's Kraft Heinz holding of 325,442,152 shares, since this is held using a different accounting method. Berkshire reported that the market value of these shares was $11.3 billion as of December 31, 2020.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":296,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":100415098,"gmtCreate":1619628975714,"gmtModify":1704727114826,"author":{"id":"3582688642520767","authorId":"3582688642520767","name":"准备被宰的肥宰翔股神","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582688642520767","authorIdStr":"3582688642520767"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Money","listText":"Money","text":"Money","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/100415098","repostId":"1131068131","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1131068131","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619586637,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1131068131?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-28 13:10","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. Here Is What to Expect.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1131068131","media":"Barrons","summary":"Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, ","content":"<p>Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.</p>\n<p>As demonstrated by powerful results last week from Snapchat maker Snap (ticker: SNAP), digital advertising is coming back, fast. Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.</p>\n<p>Including sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.</p>\n<p>Facebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.</p>\n<p>Beyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon&nbsp;wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.</p>\n<p>In March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.</p>\n<p>Investors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.</p>\n<p>On Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.</p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;(APPL) CEO Tim Cook&nbsp;have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.</p>\n<p>BofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”</p>\n<p>Facebook finance chief David Wehner&nbsp;has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.</p>\n<p>Of the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.</p>\n<p>Barron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&amp;P 500 index rose 4.1%. Facebook gained 0.7% to $305.02 in Tuesday afternoon trading.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. 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Here Is What to Expect.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-28 13:10 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.\nAs ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1131068131","content_text":"Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.\nAs demonstrated by powerful results last week from Snapchat maker Snap (ticker: SNAP), digital advertising is coming back, fast. Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.\nIncluding sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.\nFacebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.\nBeyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.\nIn March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.\nInvestors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.\nOn Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.\nZuckerberg and Apple (APPL) CEO Tim Cook have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.\nBofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”\nFacebook finance chief David Wehner has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.\nOf the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.\nBarron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&P 500 index rose 4.1%. Facebook gained 0.7% to $305.02 in Tuesday afternoon trading.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":260,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":100436496,"gmtCreate":1619627641715,"gmtModify":1704727099900,"author":{"id":"3582688642520767","authorId":"3582688642520767","name":"准备被宰的肥宰翔股神","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582688642520767","authorIdStr":"3582688642520767"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","listText":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","text":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/100436496","repostId":"1131068131","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1131068131","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619586637,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1131068131?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-28 13:10","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. Here Is What to Expect.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1131068131","media":"Barrons","summary":"Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, ","content":"<p>Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.</p>\n<p>As demonstrated by powerful results last week from Snapchat maker Snap (ticker: SNAP), digital advertising is coming back, fast. Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.</p>\n<p>Including sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.</p>\n<p>Facebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.</p>\n<p>Beyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon&nbsp;wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.</p>\n<p>In March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.</p>\n<p>Investors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.</p>\n<p>On Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.</p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;(APPL) CEO Tim Cook&nbsp;have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.</p>\n<p>BofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”</p>\n<p>Facebook finance chief David Wehner&nbsp;has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.</p>\n<p>Of the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.</p>\n<p>Barron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&amp;P 500 index rose 4.1%. Facebook gained 0.7% to $305.02 in Tuesday afternoon trading.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. 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Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.\nIncluding sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.\nFacebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.\nBeyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.\nIn March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.\nInvestors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.\nOn Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.\nZuckerberg and Apple (APPL) CEO Tim Cook have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.\nBofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”\nFacebook finance chief David Wehner has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.\nOf the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.\nBarron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&P 500 index rose 4.1%. 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The number of journeys has already increased. March was the best month since the pandemic's full force was felt.</p>\n<p>The company also announced partnerships with Avis Budget Group Inc, Hertz and other vehicle rental agencies.</p>\n<p>From Wednesday, U.S. customers can book rental cars through the Uber app, with Uber offering up to 10% of the rental cost as a credit to the user to spend on other Uber services.</p>\n<p>In May, users in Washington DC can have their rental car delivered to and collected from their home, after paying a fee to Uber, which will rollout the service nationwide this year.</p>\n<p>Uber's smaller rival Lyft Inc already offers car rentals in partnership with Sixt SE.</p>\n<p>Uber also said it would expand an option to reserve rides in advance to more U.S. and European cities and allow customers to book and collect food delivery orders during a ride-hail trip.</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>Uber app in U.S. to enable users to book vaccines and rental cars</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\">\nUber app in U.S. to enable users to book vaccines and rental cars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1036604489\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-04-28 23:23</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday it was launching new features in its app to allow U.S. customers to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments and reserve rental cars.</p>\n<p>Customers would be able reserve an appointment at a Walgreens pharmacy to receive a vaccine and book an Uber ride to travel there, the firm said in a product presentation.</p>\n<p>The feature, which expands an Uber and Walgreens partnership announced in February, reflects the wider availability of COVID-19 inoculations in the United States, where every state has opened up vaccines to all adults.</p>\n<p>For Uber, more vaccinations mean a quicker return to pre-pandemic travel and higher revenues, which tumbled during the pandemic. The number of journeys has already increased. March was the best month since the pandemic's full force was felt.</p>\n<p>The company also announced partnerships with Avis Budget Group Inc, Hertz and other vehicle rental agencies.</p>\n<p>From Wednesday, U.S. customers can book rental cars through the Uber app, with Uber offering up to 10% of the rental cost as a credit to the user to spend on other Uber services.</p>\n<p>In May, users in Washington DC can have their rental car delivered to and collected from their home, after paying a fee to Uber, which will rollout the service nationwide this year.</p>\n<p>Uber's smaller rival Lyft Inc already offers car rentals in partnership with Sixt SE.</p>\n<p>Uber also said it would expand an option to reserve rides in advance to more U.S. and European cities and allow customers to book and collect food delivery orders during a ride-hail trip.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UBER":"优步"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1196474090","content_text":"Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday it was launching new features in its app to allow U.S. customers to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments and reserve rental cars.\nCustomers would be able reserve an appointment at a Walgreens pharmacy to receive a vaccine and book an Uber ride to travel there, the firm said in a product presentation.\nThe feature, which expands an Uber and Walgreens partnership announced in February, reflects the wider availability of COVID-19 inoculations in the United States, where every state has opened up vaccines to all adults.\nFor Uber, more vaccinations mean a quicker return to pre-pandemic travel and higher revenues, which tumbled during the pandemic. The number of journeys has already increased. 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March was the best month since the pandemic's full force was felt.</p>\n<p>The company also announced partnerships with Avis Budget Group Inc, Hertz and other vehicle rental agencies.</p>\n<p>From Wednesday, U.S. customers can book rental cars through the Uber app, with Uber offering up to 10% of the rental cost as a credit to the user to spend on other Uber services.</p>\n<p>In May, users in Washington DC can have their rental car delivered to and collected from their home, after paying a fee to Uber, which will rollout the service nationwide this year.</p>\n<p>Uber's smaller rival Lyft Inc already offers car rentals in partnership with Sixt SE.</p>\n<p>Uber also said it would expand an option to reserve rides in advance to more U.S. and European cities and allow customers to book and collect food delivery orders during a ride-hail trip.</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>Uber app in U.S. to enable users to book vaccines and rental cars</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\">\nUber app in U.S. to enable users to book vaccines and rental cars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1036604489\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-04-28 23:23</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday it was launching new features in its app to allow U.S. customers to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments and reserve rental cars.</p>\n<p>Customers would be able reserve an appointment at a Walgreens pharmacy to receive a vaccine and book an Uber ride to travel there, the firm said in a product presentation.</p>\n<p>The feature, which expands an Uber and Walgreens partnership announced in February, reflects the wider availability of COVID-19 inoculations in the United States, where every state has opened up vaccines to all adults.</p>\n<p>For Uber, more vaccinations mean a quicker return to pre-pandemic travel and higher revenues, which tumbled during the pandemic. The number of journeys has already increased. March was the best month since the pandemic's full force was felt.</p>\n<p>The company also announced partnerships with Avis Budget Group Inc, Hertz and other vehicle rental agencies.</p>\n<p>From Wednesday, U.S. customers can book rental cars through the Uber app, with Uber offering up to 10% of the rental cost as a credit to the user to spend on other Uber services.</p>\n<p>In May, users in Washington DC can have their rental car delivered to and collected from their home, after paying a fee to Uber, which will rollout the service nationwide this year.</p>\n<p>Uber's smaller rival Lyft Inc already offers car rentals in partnership with Sixt SE.</p>\n<p>Uber also said it would expand an option to reserve rides in advance to more U.S. and European cities and allow customers to book and collect food delivery orders during a ride-hail trip.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"UBER":"优步"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1196474090","content_text":"Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday it was launching new features in its app to allow U.S. customers to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments and reserve rental cars.\nCustomers would be able reserve an appointment at a Walgreens pharmacy to receive a vaccine and book an Uber ride to travel there, the firm said in a product presentation.\nThe feature, which expands an Uber and Walgreens partnership announced in February, reflects the wider availability of COVID-19 inoculations in the United States, where every state has opened up vaccines to all adults.\nFor Uber, more vaccinations mean a quicker return to pre-pandemic travel and higher revenues, which tumbled during the pandemic. The number of journeys has already increased. March was the best month since the pandemic's full force was felt.\nThe company also announced partnerships with Avis Budget Group Inc, Hertz and other vehicle rental agencies.\nFrom Wednesday, U.S. customers can book rental cars through the Uber app, with Uber offering up to 10% of the rental cost as a credit to the user to spend on other Uber services.\nIn May, users in Washington DC can have their rental car delivered to and collected from their home, after paying a fee to Uber, which will rollout the service nationwide this year.\nUber's smaller rival Lyft Inc already offers car rentals in partnership with Sixt SE.\nUber also said it would expand an option to reserve rides in advance to more U.S. and European cities and allow customers to book and collect food delivery orders during a ride-hail trip.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":240,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":100430899,"gmtCreate":1619627125611,"gmtModify":1704727093743,"author":{"id":"3582688642520767","authorId":"3582688642520767","name":"准备被宰的肥宰翔股神","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582688642520767","authorIdStr":"3582688642520767"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"?","listText":"?","text":"?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/100430899","repostId":"1162145849","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1162145849","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619619737,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1162145849?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-28 22:22","market":"us","language":"en","title":"A Coinbase-backed start-up quietly powering the NFT boom raises new funding","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1162145849","media":"CNBC","summary":"Alchemy, a start-up subtly powering the recent NFT boom, is raising another round of capital as it t","content":"<div>\n<p>Alchemy, a start-up subtly powering the recent NFT boom, is raising another round of capital as it tries to keep up with the fast-growing industry.\nThe San Francisco-based company announced an $80 ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/28/nft-start-up-alchemy-raises-80-million.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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The new cash injection brings Alchemy’s valuation to $500 million. Also participating in the round were the Glazer family, who own the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; the band The Chainsmokers; and DFJ Growth -- an investor in Stripe, SpaceX andCoinbase.\nAlchemy is benefitting from the recent boom in digital collectibles through the companies it helps power. It’s not a blockchain. Alchemy is more of a middleman, sitting between blockchain infrastructure and apps likeNBA TopShotthat consumers interact with.\nThat building platform has been used to create Dapper Labs, which made CryptoKitties, popular platform NBA Top Shot, the largest NFT marketplace OpenSea and others. The record-breaking $69 million nonfungible token sold by digital artist Beeple, for example, was powered by Alchemy.\n‘Crypto winter’ launch\nThe start-up was founded by Stanford classmates Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau four years ago at the height of the last crypto boom. By the end of that year, bitcoin’s price had shot up to nearly $20,000. But it dropped by more than three-quarters in value in the following few months.\nDespite a “crypto winter” that ensued, the founders said they were still “all in” on the tech powering bitcoin and hundreds of other new cryptocurrencies. Another sign, the co-founders said, was the “smartest entrepreneurs they knew” starting companies in the blockchain space.\n“When cryptocurrencies took off, we saw it and said: ‘This is the next big technology shift,’” Alchemy CEO Viswanathan said in aZoominterview. “The huge problem was that developers didn’t have any kind of infrastructure or tools. We wanted to make it really easy for them to unlock that potential.”\nViswanathan and Lau, who previously co-founded consumer app Down to Lunch, said they hope to be compared toAmazonWeb Services for blockchain. Like Amazon’s monster profit engine, Alchemy sits between the internet and companies likeNetflixandUberthat use it to host their websites.\nThe company has been around for four years, but just made its public launch last August. It has already attracted a star-studded capital table with an angel investment from Charles Schwab (the founder, not the company), as well as former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman and Jay-Z. The New York Stock Exchange, Coinbase andPayPalare also investors, in addition to the chairman ofAlphabet, John Hennessy.\n“Developer platforms are critical for driving adoption of new technologies,” said Hennessy, former president of Stanford University, who mentored Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. “Alchemy is uniquely positioned to greatly accelerate the growth of the blockchain industry the same way Amazon Web Services did for the internet.”\nIn the past eight months, Alchemy said it has seen 97 times growth on its platform. The number of companies it powers doubled in the first quarter, and Alchemy said it has powered more than $30 billion in transactions. Sales of NFTs soared to more than $2 billion in the first quarter, according to NonFungible.com.\nNonfungible tokens are a type of digital asset that have soared in popularity this year as celebrities and professional athletes pour into the space. NFTs represent ownership of a virtual item, such as a piece of digital artwork and sports trading cards.\nWhile NFTs have been the key growth driver for the start-up this year, Alchemy’s CEO said they’re getting more cold calls from financial institutions. There are critics who see the digital collectibles boom as another crypto phase — similar to what happened with initial coin offerings in 2017.\nBut Viswanathan said Alchemy is agnostic. It doesn’t matter if and which one of the platforms succeeds, he said.\n“We’re not dependent on a single industry — whether it’s NFTs or decentralized finance — we’re growing in a lot of other areas,” Viswanathan said. “You’ll see a whole new ways to lend, borrow, invest, transfer money — it’s hard to predict exactly what it’s going to look like, but it’s going to be amazing.”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":270,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":109052676,"gmtCreate":1619656042295,"gmtModify":1704727433046,"author":{"id":"3582688642520767","authorId":"3582688642520767","name":"准备被宰的肥宰翔股神","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582688642520767","authorIdStr":"3582688642520767"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Col","listText":"Col","text":"Col","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/109052676","repostId":"1104198438","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1104198438","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619623222,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1104198438?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-28 23:20","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Here’s how Warren Buffett’s top investments fared during the pandemic","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1104198438","media":"Yahoo","summary":"Plenty of Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A,BRK-B) top stock picks have been home runs during and prior to","content":"<p>Plenty of Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A,BRK-B) top stock picks have been home runs during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>\n<p>The famed stock portfolio run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett ballooned to a value of $281.17 billion by the end of 2020, or more than double the cumulative cost of building these stakes at $108.62 billion, according toBerkshire's latest annual shareholder letter.The value of the portfolio's total equity investments carried at market was up 13.4% compared to year-end 2019. However, Berkshire's own stock underperformed the broader market over that time period: The S&amp;P 500 rose 16.3% in 2020, without including reinvested dividends, while Berkshire's Class B shares increased 2.4%.</p>\n<p>Berkshire's stock performance in 2020 relative to the broader market, however, belies what has been, in aggregate, decades of outperformance for the Omaha, Nebraska-based company. Berkshire Hathaway's annual compounded gain between 1965 and 2020 was 20%, versus just 10.2% for the S&amp;P 500. And the firm's cumulative returns over that period have been a whopping 2,810,526% to the S&amp;P 500's 23,454%.</p>\n<p>On May 1, Buffett and long-time business partner Charlie Munger will hold Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles. This may serve as a forum for the pair to discuss additional investments purchased and sold in the first months of 2021, ahead of formal 13-F filing reveals later in the month. Last year, Buffett disclosed at the annual meeting thatBerkshire had sold out of its entire interest in the airline stocksAmerican Airlines (AAL), United Airlines (UAL), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV)in the first quarter of 2020.</p>\n<p>Here's how Berkshire's top 10 stock investments by market value fared over the course of the pandemic, based on the stakes disclosed in the Buffett's latest annual shareholder letter.*</p>\n<p><b>Apple</b></p>\n<p>Buffett pointed to Apple (AAPL) as one of the most valuable assets for Berkshire Hathaway alongside the firm's insurance operation and BNSF Railway, thanks in large part to the iPhone-maker's hefty share repurchases.</p>\n<p>Berkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Apple as 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>\n<p>That massive holding — comprising 44% of Berkshire's disclosed assets, according to Bloomberg data — came even after the firm pocketed $11 billion after selling a small portion of its position in 2020.</p>\n<p>\"Despite that sale – voila! – Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Apple,\" Buffett said in the shareholder letter. \"That increase was costless to us,<b>coming about because Apple</b>has continuously repurchased its shares, thereby substantially shrinking the number it now has outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>Though Buffett hashistorically steered away from investing in technology companiesin favor of businesses he has understood more deeply, Berkshire's major holding in Apple proved auspicious during the pandemic, when Big Tech companies led the market higher.</p>\n<p>Apple's stock posted a total return of 82% in 2020, outperforming every other \"FAANG\" stock including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet. The run-up has since cooled in early 2021, however, with the stock posting a total return of just 1.4% for the year-to-date through market close on April 27.</p>\n<p><b>Bank of America</b></p>\n<p>While Berkshire Hathaway unloaded many of its bank stock holdings over the course of 2020, it increased its stake in Bank of America (BAC).</p>\n<p>The firm 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%.</p>\n<p>By the end of last year, the value of that holding was worth $31.3 million, and cost $14.6 million to amass.</p>\n<p>The increase in the size of Berkshire Hathaway's Bank of America holding bucked the trend of the other bank stocks in the portfolio last year. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo (EFC) 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>\n<p>With interest rates sliding amid ultra-accommodative monetary policy during the pandemic, bank stocks were among the worst performers last year. Bank of America shares fell nearly 14% in 2020, underperforming against both the S&amp;P 500 and S&amp;P 500 financials sector, which dropped just 4.1%. However, with interest rates back on the rise and consumer spending accelerating, shares have already started to reverse these declines, and Bank of America shares have risen 32% so far in 2021.</p>\n<p><b>The Coca-Cola Company</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Coca-Cola (KO) remained unchanged between 2019 and 2020 at 400 million shares, offering 9.3% ownership in the beverage giant. Buffett has been a long-time investor in the firm, having first purchased shares in Berkshire's portfolio in 1988. It has comprised a significant portion of the firm's total holdings and mark value value ever since.</p>\n<p>This long-term investment has paid off for the company, with the market value of the shares held totaling $21.9 billion at the end of 2020. Berkshire spent just under $1.3 billion building its stake in Coca-Cola.</p>\n<p>While Berkshire's overall return on its investment in Coca-Cola has been formidable, the stock did underperform the broader market in 2020. Coca-Cola shares declined 0.9% during the year as a dearth of live events and concessions weighed on sales, though the stock did still eke out a total return of 2.44% during the year with reinvested dividends. Shares have extended a run of underperformance in 2021, with the stock falling 1.5% so far this year.</p>\n<p><b>American Express</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway held 151,610,700 shares of American Express (AXP) as of the end of 2020, with the stock comprising another of the firm's long-standing investments. Berkshire began building its stake nearly six decades ago, paying a total of just $1.29 billion to amass a stake worth $18.33 billion at the end of 2020.</p>\n<p>As a business relying heavily on both consumer and corporate spending, however, American Express' suffered a blow in 2020, with its stock dipping 2.9%.</p>\n<p>While Buffett has characterized Berkshire's holdings of marketable stocks as a \"collection of businesses\" in which he shares in long-term prosperity but does not control operations, that hasn't stopped him from imparting advice to executives at some of his top-held companies — especially during the nadir in business and economic activity during the pandemic.</p>\n<p>\"I talked to our largest shareholder, Warren Buffett, and I've talked to him during this time, the one thing he has and will continue to always point out to us is that the brand is special,\" American Express CEO Stephen Squeri said during an analyst day presentation in mid-March 2020. \"And that brand needs to be cared for, the brand needs to be invested in and we will continue to do so through tough times and through the good times.\"</p>\n<p>More recently, however, American Express's operating results and stock have picked back up. The stock outperformed the S&amp;P 500 with a rise of 25% for the year-to-date. And Squeri saidin a fourth-quarter updatethat non-travel and entertainment spend exceeded pre-COVID levels for a second straight quarter, and that trends overall have \"continued to steadily improve,\" despite some lingering impacts from the pandemic.</p>\n<p><b>Verizon Communications</b></p>\n<p>Verizon Communications (VZ), the parent company of Yahoo Finance, was one of Berkshire's new purchases in the second half of 2020.</p>\n<p>Berkshire revealed it amassed a stake of 146,716,496 shares of the telecommunications giant last year, good for a 3.5% ownership of the company.</p>\n<p>The holding was worth $8.62 billion as of year-end, representing one of several major investments Berkshire held below cost, which in this case came in at $8.69 billion. The decline likely would have been greater had Berkshire purchased the sizable stake earlier, however, with Verizon's stock having declined 4.3% excluding reinvested dividends over the the full-year 2020.</p>\n<p>But even given the pandemic, Verizon's business held up relatively strongly. Full-year 2020 sales edged down by just 3%, and adjusted EBITDA was flat year-over-year. Still, the stock has declined by 4% for 2021-to-date, or by 2% with reinvested dividends.</p>\n<p><b>Moody's Corporation</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway had a 13.2% ownership stake in Moody's Corporation (MCO) at the end of 2020, with 24,669,778 shares worth a total of $7.16 billion. That generated a notable return for Berkshire, with the cost of building this stake amounting to just $248 million. Berkshire first held shares of Moody's Corporation in 2000.</p>\n<p>The credit rating agency outperformed the S&amp;P 500 in 2020 and has since performed about in-line with the market during the COVID-19 recovery. Shares rose by 22% over the course of 2020 and have increased by 12.5% for the year-to-date.</p>\n<p><b>U.S. Bancorp</b></p>\n<p>U.S. Bancorp (USB) was one of a number of holdings Berkshire Hathaway trimmed during the pandemic.</p>\n<p>The firm's stake in the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association was reduced to 148,176,166 shares by year-end 2020, compared to 149,497,787 in 2019. However, Berkshire Hathaway stopped short of fully exiting its position in the firm, as it did with some other big banks. Berkshire's position in U.S. Bancorp was worth just over $6.9 billion in year-end 2020, compared to total cost of $5.6 billion.</p>\n<p>As was the case for many financial institutions during the pandemic, U.S. Bancorp's stock came under pressure in the low-rate environment of 2020, but has since rebounded. Shares slid by 21.4% in 2020, but have so far risen more than 25% for the year-to-date.</p>\n<p><b>BYD</b></p>\n<p>Shenzhen-based BYD Co. (BYDDF) marks one of just a couple non-U.S. companies in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio as of the end of 2020. The electric-vehicle manufacturer's stock was also the best-performing in Berkshire's portfolio during the pandemic on a price-appreciation basis, consistent with the outperformance among tech and growth stocks seen over the course of last year in the broader market. In fact, the market value of Berkshire's BYD Co. stake was more than double that of its other major auto-related position in General Motors (GM).</p>\n<p>Berkshire purchased the entirety of his 225 million share stake in BYD back in 2008 for $232 million, afterBuffett's business partner Charlie Munger toutedthe vision of its founder Wang Chuanfu. The value of that stake ballooned to $5.9 billion at the end of 2020. Shares of BYD surged by 432% in 2020 alone, though they have dipped by 13.5% for the year-to-date as some of the exuberance around electric-vehicle stocks moderated at the start of this year.</p>\n<p><b>Chevron</b></p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway pounced at the opportunity to purchase Chevron (CVX) during a dip in oil prices and energy stocks last year, snapping up 48,498,965 million shares at a total cost of $4.02 billion. This represented 2.5% of shares outstanding for the stock.</p>\n<p>By year-end, the market value of Berkshire's stake increased slightly to about $4.1 billion, with energy prices back on the rise following the worst points of spring 2020. Chevron's stock slid 30% between year-end 2019 and year-end 2020.</p>\n<p>Berkshire's investment has already begun to appreciate in value in the early months of 2021, with energy as the best-performing sector in the S&amp;P 500 for the year-to-date. Chevron shares have risen 21.6% so far this year for a price appreciation nearly double that of the broader market, not including reinvested dividends.</p>\n<p><b>Charter Communications</b></p>\n<p>Charter Communications (CHTR) marked another holding Berkshire Hathaway trimmed in 2020. In August of last year, Berkshire reported it had cut its stake by 4% to a total of about 5.2 million shares.</p>\n<p>The sale still left Berkshire with a 2.7% stake in the company, and holdings worth $3.45 billion by year-end 2020, at a total cost of just $904 million. Berkshire had beenaccumulating its stake in Charter since 2014.</p>\n<p>Shares of Charter Communications rose 36% in 2020, but have given back some of these gains after dipping 1.2% so far in 2021.</p>\n<p><i>* This analysis excludes Berkshire Hathaway's Kraft Heinz holding of 325,442,152 shares, since this is held using a different accounting method. Berkshire reported that the market value of these shares was $11.3 billion as of December 31, 2020.</i></p>","source":"lsy1584348713084","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>Here’s how Warren Buffett’s top investments fared during the pandemic</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\">\nHere’s how Warren Buffett’s top investments fared during the pandemic\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-28 23:20 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-how-warren-buffetts-top-investments-fared-during-the-pandemic-151003576.html><strong>Yahoo</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Plenty of Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A,BRK-B) top stock picks have been home runs during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe famed stock portfolio run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-how-warren-buffetts-top-investments-fared-during-the-pandemic-151003576.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"VZ":"威瑞森","USB":"美国合众银行","AAPL":"苹果","MCO":"穆迪","002594":"比亚迪","CHTR":"特许通讯","01211":"比亚迪股份","BAC":"美国银行","CVX":"雪佛龙","AXP":"美国运通","KO":"可口可乐"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-how-warren-buffetts-top-investments-fared-during-the-pandemic-151003576.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1104198438","content_text":"Plenty of Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A,BRK-B) top stock picks have been home runs during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe famed stock portfolio run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett ballooned to a value of $281.17 billion by the end of 2020, or more than double the cumulative cost of building these stakes at $108.62 billion, according toBerkshire's latest annual shareholder letter.The value of the portfolio's total equity investments carried at market was up 13.4% compared to year-end 2019. However, Berkshire's own stock underperformed the broader market over that time period: The S&P 500 rose 16.3% in 2020, without including reinvested dividends, while Berkshire's Class B shares increased 2.4%.\nBerkshire's stock performance in 2020 relative to the broader market, however, belies what has been, in aggregate, decades of outperformance for the Omaha, Nebraska-based company. Berkshire Hathaway's annual compounded gain between 1965 and 2020 was 20%, versus just 10.2% for the S&P 500. And the firm's cumulative returns over that period have been a whopping 2,810,526% to the S&P 500's 23,454%.\nOn May 1, Buffett and long-time business partner Charlie Munger will hold Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles. This may serve as a forum for the pair to discuss additional investments purchased and sold in the first months of 2021, ahead of formal 13-F filing reveals later in the month. Last year, Buffett disclosed at the annual meeting thatBerkshire had sold out of its entire interest in the airline stocksAmerican Airlines (AAL), United Airlines (UAL), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV)in the first quarter of 2020.\nHere's how Berkshire's top 10 stock investments by market value fared over the course of the pandemic, based on the stakes disclosed in the Buffett's latest annual shareholder letter.*\nApple\nBuffett pointed to Apple (AAPL) as one of the most valuable assets for Berkshire Hathaway alongside the firm's insurance operation and BNSF Railway, thanks in large part to the iPhone-maker's hefty share repurchases.\nBerkshire owned 907,559,761 shares of Apple as 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.\nThat massive holding — comprising 44% of Berkshire's disclosed assets, according to Bloomberg data — came even after the firm pocketed $11 billion after selling a small portion of its position in 2020.\n\"Despite that sale – voila! – Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Apple,\" Buffett said in the shareholder letter. \"That increase was costless to us,coming about because Applehas continuously repurchased its shares, thereby substantially shrinking the number it now has outstanding.\"\nThough Buffett hashistorically steered away from investing in technology companiesin favor of businesses he has understood more deeply, Berkshire's major holding in Apple proved auspicious during the pandemic, when Big Tech companies led the market higher.\nApple's stock posted a total return of 82% in 2020, outperforming every other \"FAANG\" stock including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet. The run-up has since cooled in early 2021, however, with the stock posting a total return of just 1.4% for the year-to-date through market close on April 27.\nBank of America\nWhile Berkshire Hathaway unloaded many of its bank stock holdings over the course of 2020, it increased its stake in Bank of America (BAC).\nThe firm 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%.\nBy the end of last year, the value of that holding was worth $31.3 million, and cost $14.6 million to amass.\nThe increase in the size of Berkshire Hathaway's Bank of America holding bucked the trend of the other bank stocks in the portfolio last year. Berkshire cut its holdings of Wells Fargo (EFC) 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).\nWith interest rates sliding amid ultra-accommodative monetary policy during the pandemic, bank stocks were among the worst performers last year. Bank of America shares fell nearly 14% in 2020, underperforming against both the S&P 500 and S&P 500 financials sector, which dropped just 4.1%. However, with interest rates back on the rise and consumer spending accelerating, shares have already started to reverse these declines, and Bank of America shares have risen 32% so far in 2021.\nThe Coca-Cola Company\nBerkshire Hathaway's stake in Coca-Cola (KO) remained unchanged between 2019 and 2020 at 400 million shares, offering 9.3% ownership in the beverage giant. Buffett has been a long-time investor in the firm, having first purchased shares in Berkshire's portfolio in 1988. It has comprised a significant portion of the firm's total holdings and mark value value ever since.\nThis long-term investment has paid off for the company, with the market value of the shares held totaling $21.9 billion at the end of 2020. Berkshire spent just under $1.3 billion building its stake in Coca-Cola.\nWhile Berkshire's overall return on its investment in Coca-Cola has been formidable, the stock did underperform the broader market in 2020. Coca-Cola shares declined 0.9% during the year as a dearth of live events and concessions weighed on sales, though the stock did still eke out a total return of 2.44% during the year with reinvested dividends. Shares have extended a run of underperformance in 2021, with the stock falling 1.5% so far this year.\nAmerican Express\nBerkshire Hathaway held 151,610,700 shares of American Express (AXP) as of the end of 2020, with the stock comprising another of the firm's long-standing investments. Berkshire began building its stake nearly six decades ago, paying a total of just $1.29 billion to amass a stake worth $18.33 billion at the end of 2020.\nAs a business relying heavily on both consumer and corporate spending, however, American Express' suffered a blow in 2020, with its stock dipping 2.9%.\nWhile Buffett has characterized Berkshire's holdings of marketable stocks as a \"collection of businesses\" in which he shares in long-term prosperity but does not control operations, that hasn't stopped him from imparting advice to executives at some of his top-held companies — especially during the nadir in business and economic activity during the pandemic.\n\"I talked to our largest shareholder, Warren Buffett, and I've talked to him during this time, the one thing he has and will continue to always point out to us is that the brand is special,\" American Express CEO Stephen Squeri said during an analyst day presentation in mid-March 2020. \"And that brand needs to be cared for, the brand needs to be invested in and we will continue to do so through tough times and through the good times.\"\nMore recently, however, American Express's operating results and stock have picked back up. The stock outperformed the S&P 500 with a rise of 25% for the year-to-date. And Squeri saidin a fourth-quarter updatethat non-travel and entertainment spend exceeded pre-COVID levels for a second straight quarter, and that trends overall have \"continued to steadily improve,\" despite some lingering impacts from the pandemic.\nVerizon Communications\nVerizon Communications (VZ), the parent company of Yahoo Finance, was one of Berkshire's new purchases in the second half of 2020.\nBerkshire revealed it amassed a stake of 146,716,496 shares of the telecommunications giant last year, good for a 3.5% ownership of the company.\nThe holding was worth $8.62 billion as of year-end, representing one of several major investments Berkshire held below cost, which in this case came in at $8.69 billion. The decline likely would have been greater had Berkshire purchased the sizable stake earlier, however, with Verizon's stock having declined 4.3% excluding reinvested dividends over the the full-year 2020.\nBut even given the pandemic, Verizon's business held up relatively strongly. Full-year 2020 sales edged down by just 3%, and adjusted EBITDA was flat year-over-year. Still, the stock has declined by 4% for 2021-to-date, or by 2% with reinvested dividends.\nMoody's Corporation\nBerkshire Hathaway had a 13.2% ownership stake in Moody's Corporation (MCO) at the end of 2020, with 24,669,778 shares worth a total of $7.16 billion. That generated a notable return for Berkshire, with the cost of building this stake amounting to just $248 million. Berkshire first held shares of Moody's Corporation in 2000.\nThe credit rating agency outperformed the S&P 500 in 2020 and has since performed about in-line with the market during the COVID-19 recovery. Shares rose by 22% over the course of 2020 and have increased by 12.5% for the year-to-date.\nU.S. Bancorp\nU.S. Bancorp (USB) was one of a number of holdings Berkshire Hathaway trimmed during the pandemic.\nThe firm's stake in the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association was reduced to 148,176,166 shares by year-end 2020, compared to 149,497,787 in 2019. However, Berkshire Hathaway stopped short of fully exiting its position in the firm, as it did with some other big banks. Berkshire's position in U.S. Bancorp was worth just over $6.9 billion in year-end 2020, compared to total cost of $5.6 billion.\nAs was the case for many financial institutions during the pandemic, U.S. Bancorp's stock came under pressure in the low-rate environment of 2020, but has since rebounded. Shares slid by 21.4% in 2020, but have so far risen more than 25% for the year-to-date.\nBYD\nShenzhen-based BYD Co. (BYDDF) marks one of just a couple non-U.S. companies in Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio as of the end of 2020. The electric-vehicle manufacturer's stock was also the best-performing in Berkshire's portfolio during the pandemic on a price-appreciation basis, consistent with the outperformance among tech and growth stocks seen over the course of last year in the broader market. In fact, the market value of Berkshire's BYD Co. stake was more than double that of its other major auto-related position in General Motors (GM).\nBerkshire purchased the entirety of his 225 million share stake in BYD back in 2008 for $232 million, afterBuffett's business partner Charlie Munger toutedthe vision of its founder Wang Chuanfu. The value of that stake ballooned to $5.9 billion at the end of 2020. Shares of BYD surged by 432% in 2020 alone, though they have dipped by 13.5% for the year-to-date as some of the exuberance around electric-vehicle stocks moderated at the start of this year.\nChevron\nBerkshire Hathaway pounced at the opportunity to purchase Chevron (CVX) during a dip in oil prices and energy stocks last year, snapping up 48,498,965 million shares at a total cost of $4.02 billion. This represented 2.5% of shares outstanding for the stock.\nBy year-end, the market value of Berkshire's stake increased slightly to about $4.1 billion, with energy prices back on the rise following the worst points of spring 2020. Chevron's stock slid 30% between year-end 2019 and year-end 2020.\nBerkshire's investment has already begun to appreciate in value in the early months of 2021, with energy as the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 for the year-to-date. Chevron shares have risen 21.6% so far this year for a price appreciation nearly double that of the broader market, not including reinvested dividends.\nCharter Communications\nCharter Communications (CHTR) marked another holding Berkshire Hathaway trimmed in 2020. In August of last year, Berkshire reported it had cut its stake by 4% to a total of about 5.2 million shares.\nThe sale still left Berkshire with a 2.7% stake in the company, and holdings worth $3.45 billion by year-end 2020, at a total cost of just $904 million. Berkshire had beenaccumulating its stake in Charter since 2014.\nShares of Charter Communications rose 36% in 2020, but have given back some of these gains after dipping 1.2% so far in 2021.\n* This analysis excludes Berkshire Hathaway's Kraft Heinz holding of 325,442,152 shares, since this is held using a different accounting method. 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Here Is What to Expect.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1131068131","media":"Barrons","summary":"Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, ","content":"<p>Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.</p>\n<p>As demonstrated by powerful results last week from Snapchat maker Snap (ticker: SNAP), digital advertising is coming back, fast. Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.</p>\n<p>Including sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.</p>\n<p>Facebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.</p>\n<p>Beyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon&nbsp;wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.</p>\n<p>In March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.</p>\n<p>Investors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.</p>\n<p>On Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.</p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;(APPL) CEO Tim Cook&nbsp;have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.</p>\n<p>BofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”</p>\n<p>Facebook finance chief David Wehner&nbsp;has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.</p>\n<p>Of the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.</p>\n<p>Barron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&amp;P 500 index rose 4.1%. Facebook gained 0.7% to $305.02 in Tuesday afternoon trading.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. 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Here Is What to Expect.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-28 13:10 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.\nAs ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1131068131","content_text":"Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.\nAs demonstrated by powerful results last week from Snapchat maker Snap (ticker: SNAP), digital advertising is coming back, fast. Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.\nIncluding sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.\nFacebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.\nBeyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.\nIn March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.\nInvestors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.\nOn Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.\nZuckerberg and Apple (APPL) CEO Tim Cook have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.\nBofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”\nFacebook finance chief David Wehner has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.\nOf the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.\nBarron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&P 500 index rose 4.1%. Facebook gained 0.7% to $305.02 in Tuesday afternoon trading.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":260,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":100436496,"gmtCreate":1619627641715,"gmtModify":1704727099900,"author":{"id":"3582688642520767","authorId":"3582688642520767","name":"准备被宰的肥宰翔股神","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3582688642520767","authorIdStr":"3582688642520767"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","listText":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","text":"Great ariticle, would you like to share it?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/100436496","repostId":"1131068131","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1131068131","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1619586637,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1131068131?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-28 13:10","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. 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Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.</p>\n<p>Including sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.</p>\n<p>Facebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.</p>\n<p>Beyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon&nbsp;wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.</p>\n<p>In March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg&nbsp;said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.</p>\n<p>Investors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.</p>\n<p>On Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.</p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;(APPL) CEO Tim Cook&nbsp;have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.</p>\n<p>BofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”</p>\n<p>Facebook finance chief David Wehner&nbsp;has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.</p>\n<p>Of the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.</p>\n<p>Barron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&amp;P 500 index rose 4.1%. Facebook gained 0.7% to $305.02 in Tuesday afternoon trading.</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","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>Facebook Reports Earnings Wednesday. 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Here Is What to Expect.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-04-28 13:10 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.\nAs ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-reports-earnings-wednesday-here-is-what-to-expect-51619550329?mod=RTA","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1131068131","content_text":"Despite controversy, economic damage to online ads amid Covid-19 pandemic-related economic turmoil, and antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is expected to report another blockbuster quarter Wednesday.\nAs demonstrated by powerful results last week from Snapchat maker Snap (ticker: SNAP), digital advertising is coming back, fast. Facebook (FB) stands to make even more money than Snap. Analysts expect a net profit of nearly $7 billion, which amounts to $2.61 a share, when Facebook reports results after the closing bell Wednesday.\nIncluding sales of its virtual reality hardware, and other devices—which are expected contribute to the estimated $452 million to the “Other” revenue segment—Facebook revenue is expected to rise roughly 33% to $23.71 billion. The ad business will contribute revenue of $23.29 billion.\nFacebook is expected to grow its user base by tens of millions as well. Analysts forecast its daily member count will rise to 1.87 billion, and monthly user base will top 2.83 billion. Its monthly user base is expected to reach almost 3 billion (2.99 billion) by the end of the year.\nBeyond advertising, BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon wrote in a research note that commerce and shopping are becoming more important for Facebook’s success.\nIn March, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said there were one million Facebook Shops, and 250 million visitors. Salmon said that if the company discloses the gross merchandise volume, it could help cement the importance to investors of Facebook’s commerce initiatives. Salmon acknowledged that such as disclosure wasn’t likely.\nInvestors have been wondering for months about the impact of a change to Apple‘s mobile operating system tech, which finally rolled out this week.\nOn Monday, in an update to its iOS operating system,Apple changed its software to ask iPhone and iPad users to opt in to an app’s tracking—a significant departure from the opt out ability buried in the operating system’s settings previously.\nZuckerberg and Apple (APPL) CEO Tim Cook have sparred over the issue for months. With just over a day’s worth of data, it seems unlikely Facebook will share details about the impact on its users. Previously developers have said it will hurt advertising targeting, and therefore damage ad revenue. It isn’t yet clear exactly what Apple users will do when presented with the choice, or the effectiveness of potential workarounds built by Facebook and others.\nBofA Securities analyst Justin Post wrote that he expects a “modest, low-single digit” impact on advertising spending on the platform since Facebook has had “ample time to prepare and develop workarounds.”\nFacebook finance chief David Wehner has discussed the potential impact on the business in past conference calls, and investors should pay close attention to any updates offered Wednesday. It’s worth noting that Zuckerberg took a less cautious tone in March, saying that he was confident the company will handle the situation. There is also the potential it could positively benefit the company, the CEO said.\nOf the analysts that cover Facebook, 49 rate the stock Buy, six have a Hold, and three rate it a Sell. The average target price is $339, which implies an upside of 12%.\nBarron’s took a positive view of Facebook stock earlier this month. Shares have climbed 2% since the cover story in the April 5 issue, as the S&P 500 index rose 4.1%. 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The new cash injection brings Alchemy’s valuation to $500 million. Also participating in the round were the Glazer family, who own the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; the band The Chainsmokers; and DFJ Growth -- an investor in Stripe, SpaceX andCoinbase.\nAlchemy is benefitting from the recent boom in digital collectibles through the companies it helps power. It’s not a blockchain. Alchemy is more of a middleman, sitting between blockchain infrastructure and apps likeNBA TopShotthat consumers interact with.\nThat building platform has been used to create Dapper Labs, which made CryptoKitties, popular platform NBA Top Shot, the largest NFT marketplace OpenSea and others. The record-breaking $69 million nonfungible token sold by digital artist Beeple, for example, was powered by Alchemy.\n‘Crypto winter’ launch\nThe start-up was founded by Stanford classmates Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau four years ago at the height of the last crypto boom. By the end of that year, bitcoin’s price had shot up to nearly $20,000. But it dropped by more than three-quarters in value in the following few months.\nDespite a “crypto winter” that ensued, the founders said they were still “all in” on the tech powering bitcoin and hundreds of other new cryptocurrencies. Another sign, the co-founders said, was the “smartest entrepreneurs they knew” starting companies in the blockchain space.\n“When cryptocurrencies took off, we saw it and said: ‘This is the next big technology shift,’” Alchemy CEO Viswanathan said in aZoominterview. “The huge problem was that developers didn’t have any kind of infrastructure or tools. We wanted to make it really easy for them to unlock that potential.”\nViswanathan and Lau, who previously co-founded consumer app Down to Lunch, said they hope to be compared toAmazonWeb Services for blockchain. Like Amazon’s monster profit engine, Alchemy sits between the internet and companies likeNetflixandUberthat use it to host their websites.\nThe company has been around for four years, but just made its public launch last August. It has already attracted a star-studded capital table with an angel investment from Charles Schwab (the founder, not the company), as well as former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman and Jay-Z. The New York Stock Exchange, Coinbase andPayPalare also investors, in addition to the chairman ofAlphabet, John Hennessy.\n“Developer platforms are critical for driving adoption of new technologies,” said Hennessy, former president of Stanford University, who mentored Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. “Alchemy is uniquely positioned to greatly accelerate the growth of the blockchain industry the same way Amazon Web Services did for the internet.”\nIn the past eight months, Alchemy said it has seen 97 times growth on its platform. The number of companies it powers doubled in the first quarter, and Alchemy said it has powered more than $30 billion in transactions. Sales of NFTs soared to more than $2 billion in the first quarter, according to NonFungible.com.\nNonfungible tokens are a type of digital asset that have soared in popularity this year as celebrities and professional athletes pour into the space. NFTs represent ownership of a virtual item, such as a piece of digital artwork and sports trading cards.\nWhile NFTs have been the key growth driver for the start-up this year, Alchemy’s CEO said they’re getting more cold calls from financial institutions. There are critics who see the digital collectibles boom as another crypto phase — similar to what happened with initial coin offerings in 2017.\nBut Viswanathan said Alchemy is agnostic. It doesn’t matter if and which one of the platforms succeeds, he said.\n“We’re not dependent on a single industry — whether it’s NFTs or decentralized finance — we’re growing in a lot of other areas,” Viswanathan said. “You’ll see a whole new ways to lend, borrow, invest, transfer money — it’s hard to predict exactly what it’s going to look like, but it’s going to be amazing.”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":270,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}