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2022-09-14

Yesterday was just the hedgies doing their heavy shorting

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2023-02-09

musk really must stabilise b4 his stock can stabilise. His wacko demeanour isn't helping[Angry]

Tesla Stock Tops $200. Here’s What Happens Next

07-11

Goodness.. bad recommendations. COMFORT DELGRO is one of the worst buy. Buying at 1.1+ for its dividends is ok. Anything more isn't a wise choice - just look at the mkt performance

3 Singapore Dividend Stocks That Can Supply You with Dependable Retirement Income

2023-02-20

Would AI make us (humans) redundant in the workforce one day? if that's the case, whyare we moving in this direction of apparent self elimination?

ChatGPT Mania: 3 Stocks With the Most to Lose

2022-03-20

Motley Fool is taking Hedge Fund's side. Don't lettheir opinion fool u

Why the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?

2023-03-09

Get ready to short

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2022-07-26

Short?

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08-13

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ Luv them both

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Corporation (SGX: H02)Haw Par is a conglomerate with four distinct divisions – healthcare, leisure, property, and investments.The group’s healthcare division is the main revenue generator and is represented by the famous Tiger Balm brand of salves and ointments.For 2023, Haw Par pulled off a commendable financial performance as its Healthcare division saw a recovery as more sporting activities resumed around the world.Revenue climbed 27.4% year on year to S$232.1 million.The Healthcare division made up 92% of the group’s revenue at S$213.5 million for 2023, a 30% year-on-year increase from S$164 million a year ago.Segment profit shot up 63.1% year on year to S$64.8 million.Net profit for Haw Par rose 46% year on year to S$216.6 million.The conglomerate has an excellent track record of free cash flow generation.For 2023, Haw Par generated a positive free cash flow of S$54.9 million, more than double the S$21.2 million that was churned out in the prior year.The group’s cash flow is also 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year to S$36.3 million.The supermarket operator’s free cash flow soared 148.6% year on year to S$34.5 million.With Sheng Siong’s consistent store expansion and reliable free cash flow generation, the group is a great candidate for providing dependable retirement income.ComfortDelGro Corporation (SGX: C52)ComfortDelGro Corporation, or CDG, is one of the largest land transport operators in the world with a presence in 12 countries.The group operates a fleet of 34,000 buses, taxis and rental vehicles along with 210 km of rail network in operation or under development.For 2023, CDG saw revenue edge up 2.6% year on year to S$3.9 billion.Total operating costs increased by 2.8% year on year, resulting in operating profit inching up just 0.8% year on year to S$272.1 million.Net profit increased by 4.3% year on year to S$180.5 million.Free cash flow came in at S$70.6 million, though this was significantly lower than the S$297.7 million generated in the previous year.CDG’s 2023 core dividend was 44.5% higher than 2022 at S$0.066 compared with S$0.0461 in the prior year. Investors should note that 2022 included a special dividend of S$0.0387.CDG has continued its positive financial streak with its 1Q 2024 earnings.Revenue rose 10.8% year on year to S$1 billion because of higher contributions from the public and private transport divisions.Net profit leapt 23.8% year on year to S$40.6 million.CDG is continuing with its acquisitions with the purchase of UK-based CMAC Group, a ground transport management specialist, for £80.2 million back in February 2024.With the group’s clout and scale, income investors can rest assured that CDG can continue paying out sustainable 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The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite added 0.17% and 0.05%, respectively.</p><p>Those moves come a day after Powell reiterated his warning message to lawmakers that the central bank may raise interest rates higher than previously expected. While the Fed chair emphasized that no decision has been made regarding the March meeting, traders are bracing for a larger-than-expected hike, with more than 80% calling for a 50 basis point increase, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.</p><p>Investors received more news on the state of the labor market ahead of Friday’s closely watched nonfarm payrolls report. Jobless claims for the week ended March 4 rose more than expected, signaling that the labor may be starting to slow. In retrospect, ADP’s payrolls report and JOLTs data on Wednesday suggested a resilient economy, heightening fears that the Fed needs more hiking to slow it.</p><p>Some economists, including those at Citi, expect a positive surprise to the upside come Friday’s payrolls data, following January’s blowout report. Strong jobs growth could mean bad news for the market, wrote strategist Alex Saunders in a Wednesday note to clients.</p><p>“Given that good news is bad news for markets, we think this would likely cause equities to sell-off further and support the case for an outsize Fed hike,” Saunders said.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Dow Opens 100 Points Higher As Wall Street Braces for Friday’s Jobs Report</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\">\nDow Opens 100 Points Higher As Wall Street Braces for Friday’s Jobs Report\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2023-03-09 22:34</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>Stocks opened higher Thursday as traders continued to process comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and awaited key employment data.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 130 points, or 0.4%. The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite added 0.17% and 0.05%, respectively.</p><p>Those moves come a day after Powell reiterated his warning message to lawmakers that the central bank may raise interest rates higher than previously expected. While the Fed chair emphasized that no decision has been made regarding the March meeting, traders are bracing for a larger-than-expected hike, with more than 80% calling for a 50 basis point increase, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.</p><p>Investors received more news on the state of the labor market ahead of Friday’s closely watched nonfarm payrolls report. Jobless claims for the week ended March 4 rose more than expected, signaling that the labor may be starting to slow. In retrospect, ADP’s payrolls report and JOLTs data on Wednesday suggested a resilient economy, heightening fears that the Fed needs more hiking to slow it.</p><p>Some economists, including those at Citi, expect a positive surprise to the upside come Friday’s payrolls data, following January’s blowout report. Strong jobs growth could mean bad news for the market, wrote strategist Alex Saunders in a Wednesday note to clients.</p><p>“Given that good news is bad news for markets, we think this would likely cause equities to sell-off further and support the case for an outsize Fed hike,” Saunders said.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"道琼斯"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165379316","content_text":"Stocks opened higher Thursday as traders continued to process comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and awaited key employment data.The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 130 points, or 0.4%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite added 0.17% and 0.05%, respectively.Those moves come a day after Powell reiterated his warning message to lawmakers that the central bank may raise interest rates higher than previously expected. While the Fed chair emphasized that no decision has been made regarding the March meeting, traders are bracing for a larger-than-expected hike, with more than 80% calling for a 50 basis point increase, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.Investors received more news on the state of the labor market ahead of Friday’s closely watched nonfarm payrolls report. Jobless claims for the week ended March 4 rose more than expected, signaling that the labor may be starting to slow. In retrospect, ADP’s payrolls report and JOLTs data on Wednesday suggested a resilient economy, heightening fears that the Fed needs more hiking to slow it.Some economists, including those at Citi, expect a positive surprise to the upside come Friday’s payrolls data, following January’s blowout report. Strong jobs growth could mean bad news for the market, wrote strategist Alex Saunders in a Wednesday note to clients.“Given that good news is bad news for markets, we think this would likely cause equities to sell-off further and support the case for an outsize Fed hike,” Saunders said.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":146,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9957933663,"gmtCreate":1676873138252,"gmtModify":1676873143257,"author":{"id":"3584160346070495","authorId":"3584160346070495","name":"GM2","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3584160346070495","idStr":"3584160346070495"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Would AI make us (humans) redundant in the workforce one day? if that's the case, whyare we moving in this direction of apparent&nbsp;self elimination?","listText":"Would AI make us (humans) redundant in the workforce one day? if that's the case, whyare we moving in this direction of apparent&nbsp;self elimination?","text":"Would AI make us (humans) redundant in the workforce one day? if that's the case, whyare we moving in this direction of apparent self elimination?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9957933663","repostId":"2312002802","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":226,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[{"author":{"id":"4094168130074880","authorId":"4094168130074880","name":"Flochin","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2e824b43138b0aa530164b5433a5564b","crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"authorIdStr":"4094168130074880","idStr":"4094168130074880"},"content":"AI is also designed by humans. Humans are in control. It is a tool humans deploy to improve work efficiency and effectiveness. This also translates to cost reductions. Some jobs are made redundant while others are created. The key is to stay relevant instead of being made obsolete.","text":"AI is also designed by humans. Humans are in control. It is a tool humans deploy to improve work efficiency and effectiveness. This also translates to cost reductions. Some jobs are made redundant while others are created. The key is to stay relevant instead of being made obsolete.","html":"AI is also designed by humans. Humans are in control. It is a tool humans deploy to improve work efficiency and effectiveness. This also translates to cost reductions. Some jobs are made redundant while others are created. 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Don't lettheir opinion fool u","listText":"Motley Fool is taking Hedge Fund's side. Don't lettheir opinion fool u","text":"Motley Fool is taking Hedge Fund's side. Don't lettheir opinion fool u","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9034943822","repostId":"1195743790","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195743790","pubTimestamp":1647657923,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1195743790?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-03-19 10:45","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195743790","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"The theater-chain operator is looking to diversify and help other distressed businesses.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>AMC will take a 22% stake in defunct gold and silver miner Hycroft in exchange for $28 million.</li><li>The miner shut down mining operations last November and laid off half its staff.</li><li>Hycroft has yet to perform the necessary studies needed to launch the next stage of its operations.</li></ul><p>Nothing says you&#39;re serious about turning around your movie theater business than investing in a defunct gold and silver miner, or so <b>AMC Entertainment</b> would have you believe.</p><p>The theater owner shocked everyone by announcing it had invested $27.9 million in <b>Hycroft Mining</b> in exchange for a 22% stake in the company. At the same time, metals investor Eric Sprott invested a similar amount into Hycroft.</p><p>CEO Adam Aron said AMC&#39;s own near-death experience has made it willing and able to help other businesses also knocking at death&#39;s door.</p><blockquote>In recent years, however, AMC Entertainment has had enormous success and demonstrated expertise in guiding a company with otherwise valuable assets through a time of severe liquidity challenge, the raising of capital, and strengthening of balance sheets, as well as communicating with individual retail investors. It is all that experience and skill that we bring to the table to assist the talented mining professionals at Hycroft.</blockquote><p>However, investors should be even more wary of investing in AMC than they were before.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8b91324299e2d93c69b03bc2d25d8525\" tg-width=\"2000\" tg-height=\"1330\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p><p><b>In the pits</b></p><p>AMC is not healthy. Despite having established significant liquidity by using its meme stock popularity to raise cash, the movie industry has not recovered. There are fewer movies planned for release in 2022, and that will result in even lower theater attendance than was the case even before the pandemic. So taking resources away from bolstering the business is more than just surprising.</p><p>More so because Hycroft Mining is not an active miner. It ceased operations at its only mine in Nevada last November, saying it wanted to switch to building a mill to process gold and silver sulfide ore.</p><p>The problem is, Hycroft hasn&#39;t even done a feasibility study on whether the method Hycroft wants to use to process the ore will even work or is economically feasible. It says its previous plan for using a novel two-stage sulfide heap oxidation and leach process is not economical at current metal prices, so it will instead consider using an alternative process, though it&#39;s not yet proven it can be workable at a commercial scale.</p><p>AMC, however, says third-party analyses confirm Hycroft has &#34;rock-solid assets,&#34; with 15 million ounces of gold deposits and around 600 million ounces of silver deposits at its Nevada mine.</p><p><b>Hoping something sticks</b></p><p>Investing $28 million in a defunct gold miner when you have $1.8 billion sitting in the bank is in itself not much of an issue. Even if the whole enterprise goes belly up, it&#39;s not going to severely affect the company, and if it&#39;s successful, it may make some money on the deal. So why not, right?</p><p>The problem arises from the mindset behind such an investment. The scattershot approach to trying something --<i>anything!</i>-- to get some kind of a return that&#39;s completely unrelated to your core competency indicates your actual business is not worth investing in.</p><p>Buying a business in which you have no knowledge or understanding of the industry, only that it looks kind of similar to the situation you found yourself in, is hardly the way to be using shareholder resources.</p><p>Aron has indicated he wants to think outside the box when it comes to reviving AMC, and not all of the options involve movies per se.</p><p>For example, Aron recently revealed six strategies he saw AMC undertaking that included developing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and selling popcorn in retail stores. He did say he wanted to make more acquisitions, but I suspect most people thought he meant in line with the theater chain acquisitions he previously made. Buying a gold and silver miner was probably not on anyone&#39;s bingo card.</p><p><b>Suspicious trading activity</b></p><p>The investment is likely to get SEC scrutiny too. CNBC reports there was highly unusual trading occurring in the days just preceding the announcement of the investment.</p><p>It says analysis of FactSet data shows the 90-day average trading volume of Hycroft stock was around 355,000 shares prior to the news, but the day before, it spiked to 58.6 million shares, bringing the 90-day average up to 10.5 million shares.</p><p>Indeed, last Friday, trading surged to 340 million shares, or five times greater than Hycroft&#39;s outstanding share count, and its stock rocketed from $0.30 a share to $1.40 the day before AMC announced its investment, a better than four-fold increase in price.</p><p><b>Fool&#39;s gold</b></p><p>Investing legend Peter Lynch had a word for when companies go far afield like this: &#34;de-worsi-fication.&#34;</p><p>In a bid to engage in a bit of empire building, CEOs graft wildly unrelated businesses onto their operations, ones that do nothing to strengthen the primary company -- and they tend to end badly.</p><p>There was a lot to make investors cautious about taking a stake in AMC Entertainment before this. Now that the movie theater stock is getting into gold and silver mining, they should stay far away.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhy the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-03-19 10:45 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/18/why-the-heck-is-amc-entertainment-buying-a-gold-an/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>KEY POINTSAMC will take a 22% stake in defunct gold and silver miner Hycroft in exchange for $28 million.The miner shut down mining operations last November and laid off half its staff.Hycroft has yet...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/18/why-the-heck-is-amc-entertainment-buying-a-gold-an/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HYMC":"Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/18/why-the-heck-is-amc-entertainment-buying-a-gold-an/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195743790","content_text":"KEY POINTSAMC will take a 22% stake in defunct gold and silver miner Hycroft in exchange for $28 million.The miner shut down mining operations last November and laid off half its staff.Hycroft has yet to perform the necessary studies needed to launch the next stage of its operations.Nothing says you're serious about turning around your movie theater business than investing in a defunct gold and silver miner, or so AMC Entertainment would have you believe.The theater owner shocked everyone by announcing it had invested $27.9 million in Hycroft Mining in exchange for a 22% stake in the company. At the same time, metals investor Eric Sprott invested a similar amount into Hycroft.CEO Adam Aron said AMC's own near-death experience has made it willing and able to help other businesses also knocking at death's door.In recent years, however, AMC Entertainment has had enormous success and demonstrated expertise in guiding a company with otherwise valuable assets through a time of severe liquidity challenge, the raising of capital, and strengthening of balance sheets, as well as communicating with individual retail investors. It is all that experience and skill that we bring to the table to assist the talented mining professionals at Hycroft.However, investors should be even more wary of investing in AMC than they were before.Image source: Getty Images.In the pitsAMC is not healthy. Despite having established significant liquidity by using its meme stock popularity to raise cash, the movie industry has not recovered. There are fewer movies planned for release in 2022, and that will result in even lower theater attendance than was the case even before the pandemic. So taking resources away from bolstering the business is more than just surprising.More so because Hycroft Mining is not an active miner. It ceased operations at its only mine in Nevada last November, saying it wanted to switch to building a mill to process gold and silver sulfide ore.The problem is, Hycroft hasn't even done a feasibility study on whether the method Hycroft wants to use to process the ore will even work or is economically feasible. It says its previous plan for using a novel two-stage sulfide heap oxidation and leach process is not economical at current metal prices, so it will instead consider using an alternative process, though it's not yet proven it can be workable at a commercial scale.AMC, however, says third-party analyses confirm Hycroft has \"rock-solid assets,\" with 15 million ounces of gold deposits and around 600 million ounces of silver deposits at its Nevada mine.Hoping something sticksInvesting $28 million in a defunct gold miner when you have $1.8 billion sitting in the bank is in itself not much of an issue. Even if the whole enterprise goes belly up, it's not going to severely affect the company, and if it's successful, it may make some money on the deal. So why not, right?The problem arises from the mindset behind such an investment. The scattershot approach to trying something --anything!-- to get some kind of a return that's completely unrelated to your core competency indicates your actual business is not worth investing in.Buying a business in which you have no knowledge or understanding of the industry, only that it looks kind of similar to the situation you found yourself in, is hardly the way to be using shareholder resources.Aron has indicated he wants to think outside the box when it comes to reviving AMC, and not all of the options involve movies per se.For example, Aron recently revealed six strategies he saw AMC undertaking that included developing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and selling popcorn in retail stores. He did say he wanted to make more acquisitions, but I suspect most people thought he meant in line with the theater chain acquisitions he previously made. Buying a gold and silver miner was probably not on anyone's bingo card.Suspicious trading activityThe investment is likely to get SEC scrutiny too. CNBC reports there was highly unusual trading occurring in the days just preceding the announcement of the investment.It says analysis of FactSet data shows the 90-day average trading volume of Hycroft stock was around 355,000 shares prior to the news, but the day before, it spiked to 58.6 million shares, bringing the 90-day average up to 10.5 million shares.Indeed, last Friday, trading surged to 340 million shares, or five times greater than Hycroft's outstanding share count, and its stock rocketed from $0.30 a share to $1.40 the day before AMC announced its investment, a better than four-fold increase in price.Fool's goldInvesting legend Peter Lynch had a word for when companies go far afield like this: \"de-worsi-fication.\"In a bid to engage in a bit of empire building, CEOs graft wildly unrelated businesses onto their operations, ones that do nothing to strengthen the primary company -- and they tend to end badly.There was a lot to make investors cautious about taking a stake in AMC Entertainment before this. Now that the movie theater stock is getting into gold and silver mining, they should stay far away.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":369,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":9935743276,"gmtCreate":1663146752595,"gmtModify":1676537214132,"author":{"id":"3584160346070495","authorId":"3584160346070495","name":"GM2","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3584160346070495","authorIdStr":"3584160346070495"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Yesterday was just the hedgies doing their heavy shorting&nbsp;","listText":"Yesterday was just the hedgies doing their heavy shorting&nbsp;","text":"Yesterday was just the hedgies doing their heavy shorting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":8,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9935743276","repostId":"1100448644","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1100448644","pubTimestamp":1663146405,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1100448644?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-09-14 17:06","market":"us","language":"en","title":"U.S. Futures Gain After U.S. Stocks Suffered Worst Day Since June 2020","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1100448644","media":"Wall Street Journal","summary":"U.S. futures advanced, suggesting stocks could stage a modest rebound in Wednesday trading, after st","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>U.S. futures advanced, suggesting stocks could stage a modest rebound in Wednesday trading, after stronger-than-expected inflation data triggered a huge selloff in the previous session.</p><p>Futures tied to the S&amp;P 500 rose 0.5%, a day after the benchmark index plummeted 4.3%. Contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4%, while those tied to the technology-focused Nasdaq-100 added 0.6%.</p><p>Major U.S. indexes on Tuesday posted their steepest one-day losses since June 2020 as investors responded to the release of U.S. inflation data, which showed a key measure ofU.S. consumer prices had increased sharply from the previous month. That curbed hopes the Federal Reserve might slow its aggressive pace of interest-rate increases.</p><p>On a monthly basis, the U.S. core consumer-price index, which excludes food and energy costs, rose 0.6% in August—double the pace of July’s increase. Headline CPI rose 8.3% in August from the same time a year earlier. 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The Fed’s interest-rate-setting committee is set to meet next week.</p><p>Overseas, major stock indexes fell, following the selloff in the U.S. In Europe, the pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 lost 0.2%. London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.9%, despite new data that showed that U.K. inflation eased slightly in August, due to lower gasoline prices.</p><p>In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index lost 2.5%, and the CSI 300 index of the largest stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen was down 1.1%. The smaller declines suggest the U.S. inflation reading was less of a concern for investors in Chinese equities, said Andy Maynard, the Hong Kong-based head of equities at China Renaissance.</p><p>Mr. Maynard said the market has already priced in a host of other issues for Chinese companies, such as the country’s property crisis, its zero-Covid policy and tighter regulations on technology companies.</p><p>“The global funds, if they have the ability to move their money out of this part of the world, have done so a long time ago,” he said.</p><p>Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbled 2.8%, South Korea’s Kospi index fell 1.5% and Australia’s S&amp;P/ASX 200 declined 2.6%.</p><p>Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, edged 0.2% higher to $93.32 a barrel. NYMEX Light Crude Oil slid 0.22% to $87.12.</p><p>Gold slid 0.19% to $1714.2.</p><p>VIX slipped nearly 3% while VIXmain slid 0.9%.</p><p>The WSJ Dollar Index, which measures the greenback against a basket of other currencies, fell 0.4%, after notching its largest one-day gain since March 2020 on Tuesday.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4%, while those tied to the technology-focused Nasdaq-100 added 0.6%.Major U.S. indexes on Tuesday posted their steepest one-day losses since June 2020 as investors responded to the release of U.S. inflation data, which showed a key measure ofU.S. consumer prices had increased sharply from the previous month. That curbed hopes the Federal Reserve might slow its aggressive pace of interest-rate increases.On a monthly basis, the U.S. core consumer-price index, which excludes food and energy costs, rose 0.6% in August—double the pace of July’s increase. Headline CPI rose 8.3% in August from the same time a year earlier. That was down from 8.5% in July and 9.1% in June.“I don’t think that a bad print of the CPI warrants this extreme reaction,” said Peter Andersen, founder of Boston-based investment firm Andersen Capital Management, referring to the sharp selloff in U.S. stocks. “When you look at data like this, if it isn’t a consistent straight line or improvement, I don’t think it means that we’re not progressing,” he added.The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note edged higher to 3.427% from 3.422% Tuesday. Meanwhile, the yield on the two-year note, which is more sensitive to near-term rate expectations, rose to 3.769%, from 3.754%.The previous day’s increase in bond yields, which move in the opposite direction to prices, was another indication that investors expect more upward pressure on interest rates after the inflation data. The Fed’s interest-rate-setting committee is set to meet next week.Overseas, major stock indexes fell, following the selloff in the U.S. In Europe, the pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 lost 0.2%. London’s FTSE 100 fell 0.9%, despite new data that showed that U.K. inflation eased slightly in August, due to lower gasoline prices.In Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index lost 2.5%, and the CSI 300 index of the largest stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen was down 1.1%. The smaller declines suggest the U.S. inflation reading was less of a concern for investors in Chinese equities, said Andy Maynard, the Hong Kong-based head of equities at China Renaissance.Mr. Maynard said the market has already priced in a host of other issues for Chinese companies, such as the country’s property crisis, its zero-Covid policy and tighter regulations on technology companies.“The global funds, if they have the ability to move their money out of this part of the world, have done so a long time ago,” he said.Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbled 2.8%, South Korea’s Kospi index fell 1.5% and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined 2.6%.Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, edged 0.2% higher to $93.32 a barrel. NYMEX Light Crude Oil slid 0.22% to $87.12.Gold slid 0.19% to $1714.2.VIX slipped nearly 3% while VIXmain slid 0.9%.The WSJ Dollar Index, which measures the greenback against a basket of other currencies, fell 0.4%, after notching its largest one-day gain since March 2020 on Tuesday.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":550,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9954918317,"gmtCreate":1675916608340,"gmtModify":1675916612822,"author":{"id":"3584160346070495","authorId":"3584160346070495","name":"GM2","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3584160346070495","authorIdStr":"3584160346070495"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"musk really must stabilise b4 his stock can&nbsp; stabilise. 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Still, the stock looks like it&#39;s due for a pause.</p><p>&#34;Tesla is into resistance at the $200 level, former support, from where it broke down in early November,&#34; says John Roque, senior managing director at 22V Research and market technician. &#34;Former support often becomes new resistance.&#34;</p><p>Roque isn&#39;t a fundamental analyst. His is looking at stock charts to figure out investor sentiment and what could happen next. He is also the technical analyst who thought Tesla stock would approach $100, which they did in early January.</p><p>&#34;The preceding crash and current spike have been as symmetrical as possible over a two-month time frame,&#34; says CappThesis founder and market technician Frank Cappelleri. &#34;The downturn got the stock overly depressed, and the subsequent four-week rally also appears overextended short term.&#34;</p><p>He also believes Tesla stock is due for a pause, calling shares overbought. That&#39;s a term technicians uses to describe a situation when stocks rise a lot over a short period of time. At certain levels, it can mean all the buying is done, for a while.</p><p>A pause for a technician can last anywhere from two weeks to two months. Typically something new has to happen to shake the stock out of a trading band.</p><p>One thing that could do that is the company&#39;s coming investor event on March 1. Management should be talking about new platforms, plants and the coming Cybertruck there.</p><p>Maybe Tesla stock should pause, but it doesn&#39;t obey all the rules. Shares are still about $24, or 10%, below the level where Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter. Late in 2022 he said he would find a new leader for his social media network. If he does, it could give Tesla shares a boost.</p><p>Tesla investors have been worried that Musk hasn&#39;t been able to fully focus on Tesla because of Twitter. Investors have also worried that Musk would sell Tesla stock to fund losses at Twitter. Musk tweeted on Feb. 5 that Twitter was approaching break-even. That reduces the likelihood of future Tesla stock sales. Tesla stock is up about 6% since then. The Nasdaq Composite is down about 2% over the same span.</p><p>The $225 level is also very close to the stock&#39;s 200-day moving average. That would be another level of resistance for investors to consider what comes next.</p><p>Barron&#39;s wrote positively about Tesla stock on Jan. 6. Since that article appeared, shares are up about 78%.</p><p>We also recently suggested taking some profits. We still feel that it&#39;s appropriate to lock in some gains. 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Here’s What Happens Next\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2023-02-09 08:25</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>Tesla stock just won&#39;t stop going up. Shareholders should feel happy, but they should keep asking themselves what comes next.</p><p>Shares closed higher 2.3% at $201.29 on Wednesday. The S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.1% and 1.7%, respectively. Tesla stock (ticker: TSLA) is now up 63% year to date, and up 98% from its Jan. 6 52-week intraday low of $101.81.</p><p>It&#39;s been quite a run. The last time Tesla stock closed above $200 was Nov. 4. The last time shares touched $200 was Nov. 15. Still, the stock looks like it&#39;s due for a pause.</p><p>&#34;Tesla is into resistance at the $200 level, former support, from where it broke down in early November,&#34; says John Roque, senior managing director at 22V Research and market technician. &#34;Former support often becomes new resistance.&#34;</p><p>Roque isn&#39;t a fundamental analyst. His is looking at stock charts to figure out investor sentiment and what could happen next. He is also the technical analyst who thought Tesla stock would approach $100, which they did in early January.</p><p>&#34;The preceding crash and current spike have been as symmetrical as possible over a two-month time frame,&#34; says CappThesis founder and market technician Frank Cappelleri. &#34;The downturn got the stock overly depressed, and the subsequent four-week rally also appears overextended short term.&#34;</p><p>He also believes Tesla stock is due for a pause, calling shares overbought. That&#39;s a term technicians uses to describe a situation when stocks rise a lot over a short period of time. At certain levels, it can mean all the buying is done, for a while.</p><p>A pause for a technician can last anywhere from two weeks to two months. Typically something new has to happen to shake the stock out of a trading band.</p><p>One thing that could do that is the company&#39;s coming investor event on March 1. Management should be talking about new platforms, plants and the coming Cybertruck there.</p><p>Maybe Tesla stock should pause, but it doesn&#39;t obey all the rules. Shares are still about $24, or 10%, below the level where Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter. Late in 2022 he said he would find a new leader for his social media network. If he does, it could give Tesla shares a boost.</p><p>Tesla investors have been worried that Musk hasn&#39;t been able to fully focus on Tesla because of Twitter. Investors have also worried that Musk would sell Tesla stock to fund losses at Twitter. Musk tweeted on Feb. 5 that Twitter was approaching break-even. That reduces the likelihood of future Tesla stock sales. Tesla stock is up about 6% since then. The Nasdaq Composite is down about 2% over the same span.</p><p>The $225 level is also very close to the stock&#39;s 200-day moving average. That would be another level of resistance for investors to consider what comes next.</p><p>Barron&#39;s wrote positively about Tesla stock on Jan. 6. Since that article appeared, shares are up about 78%.</p><p>We also recently suggested taking some profits. We still feel that it&#39;s appropriate to lock in some gains. Tesla is a volatile stock, and banking some profits after run-ups can help investors weather the inevitable ups and downs of investing alongside Musk.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"LU1861215975.USD":"贝莱德新一代科技基金 A2","LU0198837287.USD":"UBS (LUX) EQUITY SICAV - USA GROWTH \"P\" (USD) ACC","BK4551":"寇图资本持仓","LU1548497426.USD":"安联环球人工智能AT Acc","LU0316494557.USD":"FRANKLIN GLOBAL FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGIES \"A\" ACC","LU1861220033.SGD":"Blackrock Next Generation Technology A2 SGD-H","LU1861558580.USD":"日兴方舟颠覆性创新基金B","BK4581":"高盛持仓","LU0820561818.USD":"安联收益及增长平衡基金Cl AM DIS","LU1551013425.SGD":"Allianz Income and Growth Cl AMg2 DIS H2-SGD","BK4099":"汽车制造商","BK4511":"特斯拉概念","LU0348723411.USD":"ALLIANZ GLOBAL HI-TECH GROWTH \"A\" (USD) INC","BK4548":"巴美列捷福持仓","LU1720051108.HKD":"ALLIANZ GLOBAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE \"AT\" (HKD) ACC","LU0943347566.SGD":"安联收益及增长平衡基金AM H2-SGD","LU0234570918.USD":"高盛全球核心股票组合Acc Close","LU1839511570.USD":"WELLS FARGO GLOBAL FACTOR ENHANCED EQUITY \"I\" (USD) ACC","LU2357305700.SGD":"Allianz Global Artificial Intelligence ET H2-SGD","LU1861559042.SGD":"日兴方舟颠覆性创新基金B SGD","LU0053666078.USD":"摩根大通基金-美国股票A（离岸）美元","LU0823411888.USD":"法巴消费创新基金 Cap","LU0082616367.USD":"摩根大通美国科技A（dist）","LU1551013342.USD":"Allianz Income and Growth Cl AMg2 DIS USD","LU0719512351.SGD":"JPMorgan Funds - US Technology A (acc) SGD","LU0056508442.USD":"贝莱德世界科技基金A2","IE00B1XK9C88.USD":"PINEBRIDGE US LARGE CAP RESEARCH ENHANCED \"A\" (USD) ACC","BK4534":"瑞士信贷持仓","BK4585":"ETF&股票定投概念","BK4574":"无人驾驶","BK4555":"新能源车","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)","LU0820561909.HKD":"ALLIANZ INCOME AND GROWTH \"AM\" (HKD) INC","IE00BSNM7G36.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN SYSTEMATIC GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE VALUE \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0234572021.USD":"高盛美国核心股票组合Acc","LU2249611893.SGD":"BNP PARIBAS ENERGY TRANSITION \"CRH\" (SGD) ACC","LU2063271972.USD":"富兰克林创新领域基金","BK4527":"明星科技股","IE00BWXC8680.SGD":"PINEBRIDGE US LARGE CAP RESEARCH ENHANCED \"A5\" (SGD) ACC","LU0823414478.USD":"法巴经典能源转换基金","LU0097036916.USD":"贝莱德美国增长A2 USD","BK4550":"红杉资本持仓","TSLA":"特斯拉","LU2087621335.USD":"ALLSPRING GLOBAL FACTOR ENHANCED EQUITY \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0689472784.USD":"安联收益及增长基金Cl AM AT Acc","LU1852331112.SGD":"Blackrock World Technology Fund A2 SGD-H","LU1720051017.SGD":"Allianz Global Artificial Intelligence AT Acc H2-SGD"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2310402185","content_text":"Tesla stock just won't stop going up. Shareholders should feel happy, but they should keep asking themselves what comes next.Shares closed higher 2.3% at $201.29 on Wednesday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.1% and 1.7%, respectively. Tesla stock (ticker: TSLA) is now up 63% year to date, and up 98% from its Jan. 6 52-week intraday low of $101.81.It's been quite a run. The last time Tesla stock closed above $200 was Nov. 4. The last time shares touched $200 was Nov. 15. Still, the stock looks like it's due for a pause.\"Tesla is into resistance at the $200 level, former support, from where it broke down in early November,\" says John Roque, senior managing director at 22V Research and market technician. \"Former support often becomes new resistance.\"Roque isn't a fundamental analyst. His is looking at stock charts to figure out investor sentiment and what could happen next. He is also the technical analyst who thought Tesla stock would approach $100, which they did in early January.\"The preceding crash and current spike have been as symmetrical as possible over a two-month time frame,\" says CappThesis founder and market technician Frank Cappelleri. \"The downturn got the stock overly depressed, and the subsequent four-week rally also appears overextended short term.\"He also believes Tesla stock is due for a pause, calling shares overbought. That's a term technicians uses to describe a situation when stocks rise a lot over a short period of time. At certain levels, it can mean all the buying is done, for a while.A pause for a technician can last anywhere from two weeks to two months. Typically something new has to happen to shake the stock out of a trading band.One thing that could do that is the company's coming investor event on March 1. Management should be talking about new platforms, plants and the coming Cybertruck there.Maybe Tesla stock should pause, but it doesn't obey all the rules. Shares are still about $24, or 10%, below the level where Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter. Late in 2022 he said he would find a new leader for his social media network. If he does, it could give Tesla shares a boost.Tesla investors have been worried that Musk hasn't been able to fully focus on Tesla because of Twitter. Investors have also worried that Musk would sell Tesla stock to fund losses at Twitter. Musk tweeted on Feb. 5 that Twitter was approaching break-even. That reduces the likelihood of future Tesla stock sales. Tesla stock is up about 6% since then. The Nasdaq Composite is down about 2% over the same span.The $225 level is also very close to the stock's 200-day moving average. That would be another level of resistance for investors to consider what comes next.Barron's wrote positively about Tesla stock on Jan. 6. 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Anything more isn't a wise choice - just look at the mkt performance&nbsp;","listText":"Goodness.. bad recommendations. COMFORT DELGRO is one of the worst buy. Buying at 1.1+ for its dividends is ok. Anything more isn't a wise choice - just look at the mkt performance&nbsp;","text":"Goodness.. bad recommendations. COMFORT DELGRO is one of the worst buy. Buying at 1.1+ for its dividends is ok. 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CDG, is one of the largest land transport operators in the world with a presence in 12 countries.</p><p>The group operates a fleet of 34,000 buses, taxis and rental vehicles along with 210 km of rail network in operation or under development.</p><p>For 2023, CDG saw revenue edge up 2.6% year on year to S$3.9 billion.</p><p>Total operating costs increased by 2.8% year on year, resulting in operating profit inching up just 0.8% year on year to S$272.1 million.</p><p>Net profit increased by 4.3% year on year to S$180.5 million.</p><p>Free cash flow came in at S$70.6 million, though this was significantly lower than the S$297.7 million generated in the previous year.</p><p>CDG’s 2023 core dividend was 44.5% higher than 2022 at S$0.066 compared with S$0.0461 in the prior year. </p><p>Investors should note that 2022 included a special dividend of S$0.0387.</p><p>CDG has continued its positive financial streak with its 1Q 2024 earnings.</p><p>Revenue rose 10.8% year on year to S$1 billion 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Corporation (SGX: H02)Haw Par is a conglomerate with four distinct divisions – healthcare, leisure, property, and investments.The group’s healthcare division is the main revenue generator and is represented by the famous Tiger Balm brand of salves and ointments.For 2023, Haw Par pulled off a commendable financial performance as its Healthcare division saw a recovery as more sporting activities resumed around the world.Revenue climbed 27.4% year on year to S$232.1 million.The Healthcare division made up 92% of the group’s revenue at S$213.5 million for 2023, a 30% year-on-year increase from S$164 million a year ago.Segment profit shot up 63.1% year on year to S$64.8 million.Net profit for Haw Par rose 46% year on year to S$216.6 million.The conglomerate has an excellent track record of free cash flow generation.For 2023, Haw Par generated a positive free cash flow of S$54.9 million, more than double the S$21.2 million that was churned out in the prior year.The group’s cash flow is also 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year to S$36.3 million.The supermarket operator’s free cash flow soared 148.6% year on year to S$34.5 million.With Sheng Siong’s consistent store expansion and reliable free cash flow generation, the group is a great candidate for providing dependable retirement income.ComfortDelGro Corporation (SGX: C52)ComfortDelGro Corporation, or CDG, is one of the largest land transport operators in the world with a presence in 12 countries.The group operates a fleet of 34,000 buses, taxis and rental vehicles along with 210 km of rail network in operation or under development.For 2023, CDG saw revenue edge up 2.6% year on year to S$3.9 billion.Total operating costs increased by 2.8% year on year, resulting in operating profit inching up just 0.8% year on year to S$272.1 million.Net profit increased by 4.3% year on year to S$180.5 million.Free cash flow came in at S$70.6 million, though this was significantly lower than the S$297.7 million generated in the previous year.CDG’s 2023 core dividend was 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But the recent popularity of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, has Wall Street looking at technology in a new light. While ChatGPT and related technology could help some companies, it could hurt others.</p><p>Disruption is always lurking, and companies like <b>Amazon</b>, <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms</a></b>, and <b>Fiverr International</b> should watch over their shoulders. Here is why these three companies could be vulnerable to the potential AI revolution.</p><h2>Could OpenAI&#39;s popularity threaten AWS&#39; growth?</h2><p><b>Justin Pope (Amazon):</b> OpenAI&#39;s ChatGPT has become a technology sensation. The chatbot recently hit 100 million unique users just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing app <i>in history</i>. So, how does that impact Amazon? Amazon&#39;s cloud platform (AWS) is currently the world&#39;s market leader. The business segment is Amazon&#39;s cash cow, responsible for all of Amazon&#39;s operating profit in 2022.</p><p>Cloud platforms are essentially internet infrastructure. Instead of paying for and maintaining their computing systems and servers, enterprises can rent the resources as needed from cloud platforms like AWS. OpenAI&#39;s explosive popularity could make it a go-to for developers who integrate AI tools into future apps and businesses. The problem for Amazon is that cloud competitor <b>Microsoft</b>, which owns Azure, has partnered with and invested heavily in OpenAI.</p><p>An essential detail of the Microsoft-OpenAI deal is that Azure will be the exclusive cloud provider for all of OpenAI&#39;s research, products, and API service workloads. In other words, Azure could benefit from a broad exposure to anything OpenAI touches moving forward. Amazon&#39;s earnings growth could take a hit if OpenAI becomes a factor in developers choosing Azure over AWS as their cloud platform.</p><p>Amazon has some AI capabilities within AWS, but technology can often produce &#34;winner takes most&#34; scenarios, so ChatGPT&#39;s record-setting growth should be taken very seriously. Although AWS is likely to continue growing from the big-picture growth opportunities within the cloud space, investors should watch for changes in market share between Amazon with 34% and Microsoft with 21%. Lost share means less operating income for Amazon, which relies heavily on AWS for its bottom line.</p><h2>The artificial intelligence stock that has left investors smarting</h2><p><b>Will Healy</b> <b>(Meta Platforms): </b>At least once per month, about 3.7 billion people used a site owned by Meta Platforms in the fourth quarter of 2022. While that is an accomplishment most any company would envy, it also amounts to 47% of the world&#39;s population. Between people who avoid social media and those who cannot afford the technology to get on a platform, the company likely has few new potential users it can pursue.</p><p>To that end, Meta has turned to an AI-driven digital space called the metaverse to stoke growth. Indeed, its Meta AI has reported accomplishments in the field ranging from predicting the spread of COVID-19 to mimicking human negotiation skills with Cicero. Such successes can likely make Meta a force in artificial intelligence.</p><p>Unfortunately, investors turned on Meta&#39;s strategy, as revenue and profits fell right as research and development costs skyrocketed. So dramatic was the drop that a stock that traded as high as $384 per share in August 2021 fell below $90 per share within 14 months.</p><p>Like many stocks, Meta recovered, and it has now doubled from the October low. And by historical standards, its current 21 P/E ratio may seem inexpensive for this stock, especially considering that the slumping digital ad market should make an eventual recovery.</p><p>Additionally, its apps drove $114 billion in revenue in 2022. Given the $2 billion in revenue for Reality Labs, its virtual reality arm, investors could easily dismiss the segment&#39;s 5% revenue decline.</p><p>Not surprisingly, CEO Mark Zuckerburg doesn&#39;t want to talk about the metaverse anymore. But while that gave investors some temporary relief, it could also mean that app-driven revenue will level off soon. If Reality Labs fails to drive growth, investors may no longer perceive the 21 P/E ratio as inexpensive.</p><p>Hence, the failure of its AI-driven metaverse offering likely makes Meta the <b>Coca-Cola </b>or <b>McDonald&#39;s </b>of the tech industry. In other words, it is a worldwide company that lacks new markets where it can drive growth. Unless and until Meta can effectively leverage its technology, its stock could continue to disappoint growth investors.</p><h2>ChatGPT makes me bearish on this company&#39;s prospects</h2><p><b>Jake Lerch (Fiverr International):</b> There&#39;s no doubt about it -- the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution will eliminate some jobs. After all, there are many examples throughout history of new technology making once-lucrative jobs obsolete. I&#39;m looking at you, Mr. Telegraphist.</p><p>So, as new language tools like ChatGPT grow in popularity, it&#39;s natural to assume some jobs will be threatened. Specifically, professions that rely on expert language skills (e.g., writers, proofreaders, editors) might find themselves in the crosshairs. Similarly, companies that profit by connecting freelancers with employers could feel the pinch.</p><p>Take Fiverr International, a web-based platform that connects freelancers to buyers. While it&#39;s true that many of Fiverr&#39;s freelance positions aren&#39;t easily threatened by AI right now, I have two concerns for the company -- one short term, and one long term.</p><p>First, the immediate concern I have for Fiverr is a reputational risk. Suppose even one freelancer on the platform is covertly using ChatGPT to complete jobs. In that case, Fiverr risks alienating its buyers who assume they are paying for human-created content.</p><p>Second, over the longer term, Fiverr&#39;s business model may be threatened. After all, if ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots continue to improve, buyers may have no problem paying for AI-generated content. And that content will likely be cheaper -- and much faster to produce -- than the human-made alternative.</p><p>At any rate, Fiverr&#39;s current fundamentals remain mixed at best. The company is unprofitable, with an operating margin of -15.1%. Meanwhile, quarterly revenue growth has slowed to 11% -- far below its peak of 100% achieved in 2021.</p><p>Undoubtedly, the rise of AI will create winners and losers, and it&#39;s quite possible Fiverr might be one of the losers.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","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>ChatGPT Mania: 3 Stocks With the Most to Lose</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\">\nChatGPT Mania: 3 Stocks With the Most to Lose\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-02-20 13:58 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/19/chatgpt-mania-3-stocks-with-the-most-to-lose/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Artificial intelligence has been a mainstream idea for years, going back to the days of the Terminator movies, where humanity and machines waged war. But the recent popularity of ChatGPT, an AI-...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/19/chatgpt-mania-3-stocks-with-the-most-to-lose/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"FVRR":"Fiverr International Ltd.","META":"Meta Platforms, Inc.","AMZN":"亚马逊"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/19/chatgpt-mania-3-stocks-with-the-most-to-lose/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2312002802","content_text":"Artificial intelligence has been a mainstream idea for years, going back to the days of the Terminator movies, where humanity and machines waged war. But the recent popularity of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, has Wall Street looking at technology in a new light. While ChatGPT and related technology could help some companies, it could hurt others.Disruption is always lurking, and companies like Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Fiverr International should watch over their shoulders. Here is why these three companies could be vulnerable to the potential AI revolution.Could OpenAI's popularity threaten AWS' growth?Justin Pope (Amazon): OpenAI's ChatGPT has become a technology sensation. The chatbot recently hit 100 million unique users just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing app in history. So, how does that impact Amazon? Amazon's cloud platform (AWS) is currently the world's market leader. The business segment is Amazon's cash cow, responsible for all of Amazon's operating profit in 2022.Cloud platforms are essentially internet infrastructure. Instead of paying for and maintaining their computing systems and servers, enterprises can rent the resources as needed from cloud platforms like AWS. OpenAI's explosive popularity could make it a go-to for developers who integrate AI tools into future apps and businesses. The problem for Amazon is that cloud competitor Microsoft, which owns Azure, has partnered with and invested heavily in OpenAI.An essential detail of the Microsoft-OpenAI deal is that Azure will be the exclusive cloud provider for all of OpenAI's research, products, and API service workloads. In other words, Azure could benefit from a broad exposure to anything OpenAI touches moving forward. Amazon's earnings growth could take a hit if OpenAI becomes a factor in developers choosing Azure over AWS as their cloud platform.Amazon has some AI capabilities within AWS, but technology can often produce \"winner takes most\" scenarios, so ChatGPT's record-setting growth should be taken very seriously. Although AWS is likely to continue growing from the big-picture growth opportunities within the cloud space, investors should watch for changes in market share between Amazon with 34% and Microsoft with 21%. Lost share means less operating income for Amazon, which relies heavily on AWS for its bottom line.The artificial intelligence stock that has left investors smartingWill Healy (Meta Platforms): At least once per month, about 3.7 billion people used a site owned by Meta Platforms in the fourth quarter of 2022. While that is an accomplishment most any company would envy, it also amounts to 47% of the world's population. Between people who avoid social media and those who cannot afford the technology to get on a platform, the company likely has few new potential users it can pursue.To that end, Meta has turned to an AI-driven digital space called the metaverse to stoke growth. Indeed, its Meta AI has reported accomplishments in the field ranging from predicting the spread of COVID-19 to mimicking human negotiation skills with Cicero. Such successes can likely make Meta a force in artificial intelligence.Unfortunately, investors turned on Meta's strategy, as revenue and profits fell right as research and development costs skyrocketed. So dramatic was the drop that a stock that traded as high as $384 per share in August 2021 fell below $90 per share within 14 months.Like many stocks, Meta recovered, and it has now doubled from the October low. And by historical standards, its current 21 P/E ratio may seem inexpensive for this stock, especially considering that the slumping digital ad market should make an eventual recovery.Additionally, its apps drove $114 billion in revenue in 2022. Given the $2 billion in revenue for Reality Labs, its virtual reality arm, investors could easily dismiss the segment's 5% revenue decline.Not surprisingly, CEO Mark Zuckerburg doesn't want to talk about the metaverse anymore. But while that gave investors some temporary relief, it could also mean that app-driven revenue will level off soon. If Reality Labs fails to drive growth, investors may no longer perceive the 21 P/E ratio as inexpensive.Hence, the failure of its AI-driven metaverse offering likely makes Meta the Coca-Cola or McDonald's of the tech industry. In other words, it is a worldwide company that lacks new markets where it can drive growth. Unless and until Meta can effectively leverage its technology, its stock could continue to disappoint growth investors.ChatGPT makes me bearish on this company's prospectsJake Lerch (Fiverr International): There's no doubt about it -- the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution will eliminate some jobs. After all, there are many examples throughout history of new technology making once-lucrative jobs obsolete. I'm looking at you, Mr. Telegraphist.So, as new language tools like ChatGPT grow in popularity, it's natural to assume some jobs will be threatened. Specifically, professions that rely on expert language skills (e.g., writers, proofreaders, editors) might find themselves in the crosshairs. Similarly, companies that profit by connecting freelancers with employers could feel the pinch.Take Fiverr International, a web-based platform that connects freelancers to buyers. While it's true that many of Fiverr's freelance positions aren't easily threatened by AI right now, I have two concerns for the company -- one short term, and one long term.First, the immediate concern I have for Fiverr is a reputational risk. Suppose even one freelancer on the platform is covertly using ChatGPT to complete jobs. In that case, Fiverr risks alienating its buyers who assume they are paying for human-created content.Second, over the longer term, Fiverr's business model may be threatened. After all, if ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots continue to improve, buyers may have no problem paying for AI-generated content. And that content will likely be cheaper -- and much faster to produce -- than the human-made alternative.At any rate, Fiverr's current fundamentals remain mixed at best. The company is unprofitable, with an operating margin of -15.1%. 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Don't lettheir opinion fool u","listText":"Motley Fool is taking Hedge Fund's side. Don't lettheir opinion fool u","text":"Motley Fool is taking Hedge Fund's side. Don't lettheir opinion fool u","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9034943822","repostId":"1195743790","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195743790","pubTimestamp":1647657923,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1195743790?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-03-19 10:45","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195743790","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"The theater-chain operator is looking to diversify and help other distressed businesses.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>AMC will take a 22% stake in defunct gold and silver miner Hycroft in exchange for $28 million.</li><li>The miner shut down mining operations last November and laid off half its staff.</li><li>Hycroft has yet to perform the necessary studies needed to launch the next stage of its operations.</li></ul><p>Nothing says you&#39;re serious about turning around your movie theater business than investing in a defunct gold and silver miner, or so <b>AMC Entertainment</b> would have you believe.</p><p>The theater owner shocked everyone by announcing it had invested $27.9 million in <b>Hycroft Mining</b> in exchange for a 22% stake in the company. At the same time, metals investor Eric Sprott invested a similar amount into Hycroft.</p><p>CEO Adam Aron said AMC&#39;s own near-death experience has made it willing and able to help other businesses also knocking at death&#39;s door.</p><blockquote>In recent years, however, AMC Entertainment has had enormous success and demonstrated expertise in guiding a company with otherwise valuable assets through a time of severe liquidity challenge, the raising of capital, and strengthening of balance sheets, as well as communicating with individual retail investors. It is all that experience and skill that we bring to the table to assist the talented mining professionals at Hycroft.</blockquote><p>However, investors should be even more wary of investing in AMC than they were before.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8b91324299e2d93c69b03bc2d25d8525\" tg-width=\"2000\" tg-height=\"1330\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p><p><b>In the pits</b></p><p>AMC is not healthy. Despite having established significant liquidity by using its meme stock popularity to raise cash, the movie industry has not recovered. There are fewer movies planned for release in 2022, and that will result in even lower theater attendance than was the case even before the pandemic. So taking resources away from bolstering the business is more than just surprising.</p><p>More so because Hycroft Mining is not an active miner. It ceased operations at its only mine in Nevada last November, saying it wanted to switch to building a mill to process gold and silver sulfide ore.</p><p>The problem is, Hycroft hasn&#39;t even done a feasibility study on whether the method Hycroft wants to use to process the ore will even work or is economically feasible. It says its previous plan for using a novel two-stage sulfide heap oxidation and leach process is not economical at current metal prices, so it will instead consider using an alternative process, though it&#39;s not yet proven it can be workable at a commercial scale.</p><p>AMC, however, says third-party analyses confirm Hycroft has &#34;rock-solid assets,&#34; with 15 million ounces of gold deposits and around 600 million ounces of silver deposits at its Nevada mine.</p><p><b>Hoping something sticks</b></p><p>Investing $28 million in a defunct gold miner when you have $1.8 billion sitting in the bank is in itself not much of an issue. Even if the whole enterprise goes belly up, it&#39;s not going to severely affect the company, and if it&#39;s successful, it may make some money on the deal. So why not, right?</p><p>The problem arises from the mindset behind such an investment. The scattershot approach to trying something --<i>anything!</i>-- to get some kind of a return that&#39;s completely unrelated to your core competency indicates your actual business is not worth investing in.</p><p>Buying a business in which you have no knowledge or understanding of the industry, only that it looks kind of similar to the situation you found yourself in, is hardly the way to be using shareholder resources.</p><p>Aron has indicated he wants to think outside the box when it comes to reviving AMC, and not all of the options involve movies per se.</p><p>For example, Aron recently revealed six strategies he saw AMC undertaking that included developing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and selling popcorn in retail stores. He did say he wanted to make more acquisitions, but I suspect most people thought he meant in line with the theater chain acquisitions he previously made. Buying a gold and silver miner was probably not on anyone&#39;s bingo card.</p><p><b>Suspicious trading activity</b></p><p>The investment is likely to get SEC scrutiny too. CNBC reports there was highly unusual trading occurring in the days just preceding the announcement of the investment.</p><p>It says analysis of FactSet data shows the 90-day average trading volume of Hycroft stock was around 355,000 shares prior to the news, but the day before, it spiked to 58.6 million shares, bringing the 90-day average up to 10.5 million shares.</p><p>Indeed, last Friday, trading surged to 340 million shares, or five times greater than Hycroft&#39;s outstanding share count, and its stock rocketed from $0.30 a share to $1.40 the day before AMC announced its investment, a better than four-fold increase in price.</p><p><b>Fool&#39;s gold</b></p><p>Investing legend Peter Lynch had a word for when companies go far afield like this: &#34;de-worsi-fication.&#34;</p><p>In a bid to engage in a bit of empire building, CEOs graft wildly unrelated businesses onto their operations, ones that do nothing to strengthen the primary company -- and they tend to end badly.</p><p>There was a lot to make investors cautious about taking a stake in AMC Entertainment before this. Now that the movie theater stock is getting into gold and silver mining, they should stay far away.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhy the Heck Is AMC Entertainment Buying a Gold and Silver Mine?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-03-19 10:45 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/18/why-the-heck-is-amc-entertainment-buying-a-gold-an/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>KEY POINTSAMC will take a 22% stake in defunct gold and silver miner Hycroft in exchange for $28 million.The miner shut down mining operations last November and laid off half its staff.Hycroft has yet...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/18/why-the-heck-is-amc-entertainment-buying-a-gold-an/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"HYMC":"Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/18/why-the-heck-is-amc-entertainment-buying-a-gold-an/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195743790","content_text":"KEY POINTSAMC will take a 22% stake in defunct gold and silver miner Hycroft in exchange for $28 million.The miner shut down mining operations last November and laid off half its staff.Hycroft has yet to perform the necessary studies needed to launch the next stage of its operations.Nothing says you're serious about turning around your movie theater business than investing in a defunct gold and silver miner, or so AMC Entertainment would have you believe.The theater owner shocked everyone by announcing it had invested $27.9 million in Hycroft Mining in exchange for a 22% stake in the company. At the same time, metals investor Eric Sprott invested a similar amount into Hycroft.CEO Adam Aron said AMC's own near-death experience has made it willing and able to help other businesses also knocking at death's door.In recent years, however, AMC Entertainment has had enormous success and demonstrated expertise in guiding a company with otherwise valuable assets through a time of severe liquidity challenge, the raising of capital, and strengthening of balance sheets, as well as communicating with individual retail investors. It is all that experience and skill that we bring to the table to assist the talented mining professionals at Hycroft.However, investors should be even more wary of investing in AMC than they were before.Image source: Getty Images.In the pitsAMC is not healthy. Despite having established significant liquidity by using its meme stock popularity to raise cash, the movie industry has not recovered. There are fewer movies planned for release in 2022, and that will result in even lower theater attendance than was the case even before the pandemic. So taking resources away from bolstering the business is more than just surprising.More so because Hycroft Mining is not an active miner. It ceased operations at its only mine in Nevada last November, saying it wanted to switch to building a mill to process gold and silver sulfide ore.The problem is, Hycroft hasn't even done a feasibility study on whether the method Hycroft wants to use to process the ore will even work or is economically feasible. It says its previous plan for using a novel two-stage sulfide heap oxidation and leach process is not economical at current metal prices, so it will instead consider using an alternative process, though it's not yet proven it can be workable at a commercial scale.AMC, however, says third-party analyses confirm Hycroft has \"rock-solid assets,\" with 15 million ounces of gold deposits and around 600 million ounces of silver deposits at its Nevada mine.Hoping something sticksInvesting $28 million in a defunct gold miner when you have $1.8 billion sitting in the bank is in itself not much of an issue. Even if the whole enterprise goes belly up, it's not going to severely affect the company, and if it's successful, it may make some money on the deal. So why not, right?The problem arises from the mindset behind such an investment. The scattershot approach to trying something --anything!-- to get some kind of a return that's completely unrelated to your core competency indicates your actual business is not worth investing in.Buying a business in which you have no knowledge or understanding of the industry, only that it looks kind of similar to the situation you found yourself in, is hardly the way to be using shareholder resources.Aron has indicated he wants to think outside the box when it comes to reviving AMC, and not all of the options involve movies per se.For example, Aron recently revealed six strategies he saw AMC undertaking that included developing non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and selling popcorn in retail stores. He did say he wanted to make more acquisitions, but I suspect most people thought he meant in line with the theater chain acquisitions he previously made. Buying a gold and silver miner was probably not on anyone's bingo card.Suspicious trading activityThe investment is likely to get SEC scrutiny too. CNBC reports there was highly unusual trading occurring in the days just preceding the announcement of the investment.It says analysis of FactSet data shows the 90-day average trading volume of Hycroft stock was around 355,000 shares prior to the news, but the day before, it spiked to 58.6 million shares, bringing the 90-day average up to 10.5 million shares.Indeed, last Friday, trading surged to 340 million shares, or five times greater than Hycroft's outstanding share count, and its stock rocketed from $0.30 a share to $1.40 the day before AMC announced its investment, a better than four-fold increase in price.Fool's goldInvesting legend Peter Lynch had a word for when companies go far afield like this: \"de-worsi-fication.\"In a bid to engage in a bit of empire building, CEOs graft wildly unrelated businesses onto their operations, ones that do nothing to strengthen the primary company -- and they tend to end badly.There was a lot to make investors cautious about taking a stake in AMC Entertainment before this. Now that the movie theater stock is getting into gold and silver mining, they should stay far away.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":369,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9949362193,"gmtCreate":1678372639712,"gmtModify":1678372643380,"author":{"id":"3584160346070495","authorId":"3584160346070495","name":"GM2","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3584160346070495","authorIdStr":"3584160346070495"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Get ready to short&nbsp;","listText":"Get ready to short&nbsp;","text":"Get ready to short","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9949362193","repostId":"1165379316","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":146,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9909954699,"gmtCreate":1658801030411,"gmtModify":1676536210078,"author":{"id":"3584160346070495","authorId":"3584160346070495","name":"GM2","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3584160346070495","authorIdStr":"3584160346070495"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Short?","listText":"Short?","text":"Short?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9909954699","repostId":"1157069231","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1157069231","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1658799009,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1157069231?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-07-26 09:30","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Meta Platforms Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1157069231","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Meta Platforms is slated to report its second-quarter 2022 results after market close on Wednesday, ","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms</a> is slated to report its second-quarter 2022 results after market close on Wednesday, July 27th.</p><p>A consensus of analysts estimates the company will earn $2.56 per share on $29.01B in revenue.</p><h3>Previous Quarter Review</h3><p>Meta&#39;s profit soundly beat Wall Street targets at $2.72 per share for the first quarter, compared with an average analyst estimate of $2.56, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. The earning beats were tempered by Meta recording its slowest revenue growth in a decade.</p><p>Facebook daily active users were 1.96 billion, slightly higher than the estimate of 1.95 billion. Monthly active users came in at 2.94 billion, missing Wall Street estimates by 30 million.</p><p>Total revenue, the bulk of which comes from ad sales, rose 7% to $27.91 billion in the first quarter, but missed analysts&#39; estimates of $28.20 billion.</p><h3>Meta&#39;s Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline YoY</h3><p>The market expects <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms </a> to deliver a year-over-year decline in earnings on lower revenues when it reports results for the quarter ended June 2022. The company has mentioned that Q2 sales projections were on the lower side ($28b to $30b), which would represent a YoY decline for the very first time in Meta&#39;s history.</p><p>This widely-known consensus outlook is important in assessing the company&#39;s earnings picture, but a powerful factor that might influence its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates.</p><h3>Slowing Growth in Ad Revenue</h3><p>Meta&#39;s ability to generate sales through advertising on its platforms has cemented the company as one of the largest tech powerhouses in the world today. However, many questions are being asked about the slowing growth in such metrics.</p><p>While we see the clear exponential growth in the earlier years, we&#39;re also starting to see slowing growth in ad revenue and total sales in the later years. This is largely due to slowing user growth which may have arisen due to intense competition in the industry, or other possible concerns. The fall-off in growth has raised many eyebrows, with analysts downgrading the stock as it no longer seems to be a good value play in the long term.</p><p>Besides, the intensifying geopolitical situations, such as the Ukraine war and the raging inflationary environment also impacted Meta&#39;s advertising business. These challenges might explain the recent weak revenue growth rate of 7% year over year in the first quarter of 2022.</p><p>Considering the previous user growth rates that Meta was at, this social media company is bound to see a fall-off - and it&#39;s not just the fact that there are competitors gaining market share, but also because there&#39;s an absolute limit to how far we can go in terms of user growth, because they&#39;re only that many people (with internet access) in the world. Meta has grown to a point where it has almost 2 billion daily users on the Facebook platform.</p><p>For some reference, there is an estimated total of 5 billion people in the world who use the internet today, which means that 40% of the internet-using global population are on Facebook every day. As such, the company or its platforms are not &#34;dead&#34; by any means, and to say that slowing user growth means that investing in Meta is a bad decision is rather myopic. Another important metric we could consider is the average revenue per user (ARPU), which can definitely be maximized to get the company&#39;s revenue back on track.</p><p>We see that the ARPU is still on a steady rise. In other words, the company is earning more from each user, though we may be seeing slowing growth in total sales due to a decline in users. With appropriate steps taken in the direction of research and innovation, Meta could stay on track and gain more in sales despite the slowing user growth. However, whether Meta can do this is a question that remains unanswered. We&#39;ll go deeper into this as we progress through the article.</p><h3>Uncertainty From Strategic Decision on the Metaverse</h3><p>Another concern for investors is Meta&#39;s strategic decision to bet the ship on the metaverse. In theory, the shift makes perfect sense. After all, there seems to be no limit to the potential of the metaverse, which, if successful, will create a whole new income stream for the company. Management is betting heavily on this young venture, investing more than $10 billion alone in 2021.</p><p>But make no mistake: Meta&#39;s bet on the metaverse remains a moonshot. Nobody knows how this industry will evolve or the company&#39;s role in this new industry. Moreover, while Meta can afford to spend heavily -- thanks to the profitability of its advertising business -- it is far from certain that these investments will create value for shareholders in the long run. Worse, this new venture could take too much of management&#39;s attention, causing them to neglect the existing golden goose.</p><p>One of the biggest talking points about Meta is its huge investment in the metaverse. For those of you who don&#39;t exactly know what the metaverse is, it is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection&#34;.</p><p>So, how does Meta plan to be involved? Meta has invested a massive $10b into the metaverse, and it turns out that Mark Zuckerberg has an entire line of projects planned out as he believes that it will be a huge part of our lives in the future.</p><p>Horizon Worlds is Meta&#39;s virtual reality (VR) social platform, and it functions as a virtual world where users are able to carry out daily activities such as interacting with people, attending meetings, commerce etc. with the help of the Quest VR headset. Meta intends to continue improving the platform by introducing more features and regulating inappropriate actions so that Horizon Worlds eventually becomes a safe space detached from reality where people are able to do things seamlessly in an interactive and customizable virtual world. In February 2022 this year, the platform hit 300000 users, which is a tenfold increase compared to the same number three months prior to that. In addition, Meta plans to release this platform for mobile phone users.</p><h3>Analyst Opinions</h3><p>A consensus of analysts expects <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta</a> to earn $2.56 per share on $29.01B in revenue for the second quarter.</p><p>According to Zacks Consensus Estimate, This social media company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $2.51 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -30.5%.</p><p>Revenues are expected to be $28.92 billion, down 0.6% from the year-ago quarter.</p><p>Credit Suisse analyst Stephen Ju maintained <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms</a> with an Outperform rating and cut the price target from $273 to $245.</p><p>His checks indicate an in-line Q2, with growth expectations for the second half of 2022 moving lower on the macro backdrop, with flattish quarter-over-quarter budget growth from Q2 to Q3.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Meta Platforms Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline</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\">\nMeta Platforms Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-07-26 09:30</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms</a> is slated to report its second-quarter 2022 results after market close on Wednesday, July 27th.</p><p>A consensus of analysts estimates the company will earn $2.56 per share on $29.01B in revenue.</p><h3>Previous Quarter Review</h3><p>Meta&#39;s profit soundly beat Wall Street targets at $2.72 per share for the first quarter, compared with an average analyst estimate of $2.56, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. The earning beats were tempered by Meta recording its slowest revenue growth in a decade.</p><p>Facebook daily active users were 1.96 billion, slightly higher than the estimate of 1.95 billion. Monthly active users came in at 2.94 billion, missing Wall Street estimates by 30 million.</p><p>Total revenue, the bulk of which comes from ad sales, rose 7% to $27.91 billion in the first quarter, but missed analysts&#39; estimates of $28.20 billion.</p><h3>Meta&#39;s Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline YoY</h3><p>The market expects <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms </a> to deliver a year-over-year decline in earnings on lower revenues when it reports results for the quarter ended June 2022. The company has mentioned that Q2 sales projections were on the lower side ($28b to $30b), which would represent a YoY decline for the very first time in Meta&#39;s history.</p><p>This widely-known consensus outlook is important in assessing the company&#39;s earnings picture, but a powerful factor that might influence its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates.</p><h3>Slowing Growth in Ad Revenue</h3><p>Meta&#39;s ability to generate sales through advertising on its platforms has cemented the company as one of the largest tech powerhouses in the world today. However, many questions are being asked about the slowing growth in such metrics.</p><p>While we see the clear exponential growth in the earlier years, we&#39;re also starting to see slowing growth in ad revenue and total sales in the later years. This is largely due to slowing user growth which may have arisen due to intense competition in the industry, or other possible concerns. The fall-off in growth has raised many eyebrows, with analysts downgrading the stock as it no longer seems to be a good value play in the long term.</p><p>Besides, the intensifying geopolitical situations, such as the Ukraine war and the raging inflationary environment also impacted Meta&#39;s advertising business. These challenges might explain the recent weak revenue growth rate of 7% year over year in the first quarter of 2022.</p><p>Considering the previous user growth rates that Meta was at, this social media company is bound to see a fall-off - and it&#39;s not just the fact that there are competitors gaining market share, but also because there&#39;s an absolute limit to how far we can go in terms of user growth, because they&#39;re only that many people (with internet access) in the world. Meta has grown to a point where it has almost 2 billion daily users on the Facebook platform.</p><p>For some reference, there is an estimated total of 5 billion people in the world who use the internet today, which means that 40% of the internet-using global population are on Facebook every day. As such, the company or its platforms are not &#34;dead&#34; by any means, and to say that slowing user growth means that investing in Meta is a bad decision is rather myopic. Another important metric we could consider is the average revenue per user (ARPU), which can definitely be maximized to get the company&#39;s revenue back on track.</p><p>We see that the ARPU is still on a steady rise. In other words, the company is earning more from each user, though we may be seeing slowing growth in total sales due to a decline in users. With appropriate steps taken in the direction of research and innovation, Meta could stay on track and gain more in sales despite the slowing user growth. However, whether Meta can do this is a question that remains unanswered. We&#39;ll go deeper into this as we progress through the article.</p><h3>Uncertainty From Strategic Decision on the Metaverse</h3><p>Another concern for investors is Meta&#39;s strategic decision to bet the ship on the metaverse. In theory, the shift makes perfect sense. After all, there seems to be no limit to the potential of the metaverse, which, if successful, will create a whole new income stream for the company. Management is betting heavily on this young venture, investing more than $10 billion alone in 2021.</p><p>But make no mistake: Meta&#39;s bet on the metaverse remains a moonshot. Nobody knows how this industry will evolve or the company&#39;s role in this new industry. Moreover, while Meta can afford to spend heavily -- thanks to the profitability of its advertising business -- it is far from certain that these investments will create value for shareholders in the long run. Worse, this new venture could take too much of management&#39;s attention, causing them to neglect the existing golden goose.</p><p>One of the biggest talking points about Meta is its huge investment in the metaverse. For those of you who don&#39;t exactly know what the metaverse is, it is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection&#34;.</p><p>So, how does Meta plan to be involved? Meta has invested a massive $10b into the metaverse, and it turns out that Mark Zuckerberg has an entire line of projects planned out as he believes that it will be a huge part of our lives in the future.</p><p>Horizon Worlds is Meta&#39;s virtual reality (VR) social platform, and it functions as a virtual world where users are able to carry out daily activities such as interacting with people, attending meetings, commerce etc. with the help of the Quest VR headset. Meta intends to continue improving the platform by introducing more features and regulating inappropriate actions so that Horizon Worlds eventually becomes a safe space detached from reality where people are able to do things seamlessly in an interactive and customizable virtual world. In February 2022 this year, the platform hit 300000 users, which is a tenfold increase compared to the same number three months prior to that. In addition, Meta plans to release this platform for mobile phone users.</p><h3>Analyst Opinions</h3><p>A consensus of analysts expects <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta</a> to earn $2.56 per share on $29.01B in revenue for the second quarter.</p><p>According to Zacks Consensus Estimate, This social media company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $2.51 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -30.5%.</p><p>Revenues are expected to be $28.92 billion, down 0.6% from the year-ago quarter.</p><p>Credit Suisse analyst Stephen Ju maintained <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta Platforms</a> with an Outperform rating and cut the price target from $273 to $245.</p><p>His checks indicate an in-line Q2, with growth expectations for the second half of 2022 moving lower on the macro backdrop, with flattish quarter-over-quarter budget growth from Q2 to Q3.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"META":"Meta Platforms, Inc."},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1157069231","content_text":"Meta Platforms is slated to report its second-quarter 2022 results after market close on Wednesday, July 27th.A consensus of analysts estimates the company will earn $2.56 per share on $29.01B in revenue.Previous Quarter ReviewMeta's profit soundly beat Wall Street targets at $2.72 per share for the first quarter, compared with an average analyst estimate of $2.56, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. The earning beats were tempered by Meta recording its slowest revenue growth in a decade.Facebook daily active users were 1.96 billion, slightly higher than the estimate of 1.95 billion. Monthly active users came in at 2.94 billion, missing Wall Street estimates by 30 million.Total revenue, the bulk of which comes from ad sales, rose 7% to $27.91 billion in the first quarter, but missed analysts' estimates of $28.20 billion.Meta's Q2 Earnings Expected to Decline YoYThe market expects Meta Platforms  to deliver a year-over-year decline in earnings on lower revenues when it reports results for the quarter ended June 2022. The company has mentioned that Q2 sales projections were on the lower side ($28b to $30b), which would represent a YoY decline for the very first time in Meta's history.This widely-known consensus outlook is important in assessing the company's earnings picture, but a powerful factor that might influence its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates.Slowing Growth in Ad RevenueMeta's ability to generate sales through advertising on its platforms has cemented the company as one of the largest tech powerhouses in the world today. However, many questions are being asked about the slowing growth in such metrics.While we see the clear exponential growth in the earlier years, we're also starting to see slowing growth in ad revenue and total sales in the later years. This is largely due to slowing user growth which may have arisen due to intense competition in the industry, or other possible concerns. The fall-off in growth has raised many eyebrows, with analysts downgrading the stock as it no longer seems to be a good value play in the long term.Besides, the intensifying geopolitical situations, such as the Ukraine war and the raging inflationary environment also impacted Meta's advertising business. These challenges might explain the recent weak revenue growth rate of 7% year over year in the first quarter of 2022.Considering the previous user growth rates that Meta was at, this social media company is bound to see a fall-off - and it's not just the fact that there are competitors gaining market share, but also because there's an absolute limit to how far we can go in terms of user growth, because they're only that many people (with internet access) in the world. Meta has grown to a point where it has almost 2 billion daily users on the Facebook platform.For some reference, there is an estimated total of 5 billion people in the world who use the internet today, which means that 40% of the internet-using global population are on Facebook every day. As such, the company or its platforms are not \"dead\" by any means, and to say that slowing user growth means that investing in Meta is a bad decision is rather myopic. Another important metric we could consider is the average revenue per user (ARPU), which can definitely be maximized to get the company's revenue back on track.We see that the ARPU is still on a steady rise. In other words, the company is earning more from each user, though we may be seeing slowing growth in total sales due to a decline in users. With appropriate steps taken in the direction of research and innovation, Meta could stay on track and gain more in sales despite the slowing user growth. However, whether Meta can do this is a question that remains unanswered. We'll go deeper into this as we progress through the article.Uncertainty From Strategic Decision on the MetaverseAnother concern for investors is Meta's strategic decision to bet the ship on the metaverse. In theory, the shift makes perfect sense. After all, there seems to be no limit to the potential of the metaverse, which, if successful, will create a whole new income stream for the company. Management is betting heavily on this young venture, investing more than $10 billion alone in 2021.But make no mistake: Meta's bet on the metaverse remains a moonshot. Nobody knows how this industry will evolve or the company's role in this new industry. Moreover, while Meta can afford to spend heavily -- thanks to the profitability of its advertising business -- it is far from certain that these investments will create value for shareholders in the long run. Worse, this new venture could take too much of management's attention, causing them to neglect the existing golden goose.One of the biggest talking points about Meta is its huge investment in the metaverse. For those of you who don't exactly know what the metaverse is, it is a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection\".So, how does Meta plan to be involved? Meta has invested a massive $10b into the metaverse, and it turns out that Mark Zuckerberg has an entire line of projects planned out as he believes that it will be a huge part of our lives in the future.Horizon Worlds is Meta's virtual reality (VR) social platform, and it functions as a virtual world where users are able to carry out daily activities such as interacting with people, attending meetings, commerce etc. with the help of the Quest VR headset. Meta intends to continue improving the platform by introducing more features and regulating inappropriate actions so that Horizon Worlds eventually becomes a safe space detached from reality where people are able to do things seamlessly in an interactive and customizable virtual world. In February 2022 this year, the platform hit 300000 users, which is a tenfold increase compared to the same number three months prior to that. In addition, Meta plans to release this platform for mobile phone users.Analyst OpinionsA consensus of analysts expects Meta to earn $2.56 per share on $29.01B in revenue for the second quarter.According to Zacks Consensus Estimate, This social media company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $2.51 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -30.5%.Revenues are expected to be $28.92 billion, down 0.6% from the year-ago quarter.Credit Suisse analyst Stephen Ju maintained Meta Platforms with an Outperform rating and cut the price target from $273 to $245.His checks indicate an in-line Q2, with growth expectations for the second half of 2022 moving lower on the macro backdrop, with flattish quarter-over-quarter budget growth from Q2 to Q3.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":330,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":337868322783248,"gmtCreate":1723507901406,"gmtModify":1726714972279,"author":{"id":"3584160346070495","authorId":"3584160346070495","name":"GM2","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3584160346070495","authorIdStr":"3584160346070495"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/TSLA\">$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$&nbsp;</a> Luv them both","listText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/TSLA\">$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$&nbsp;</a> Luv them both","text":"$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ Luv them both","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/337868322783248","isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":54,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}