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2021-09-14

interesting article

S&P 500 snaps losing streak with tax hikes, inflation data on horizon

2021-07-09

I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)

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2021-09-07

We can always count on US innovation

5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement

2021-06-25

doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin

Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7

2021-09-06

Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though

What August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin

2021-09-08

never heard of this online shopping platform before. Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc

Is Sea Limited Stock A Good Buy For The Long-Term?

2021-06-25

to the moon?

Meme Stocks: How The Most Popular Have Performed in 2021

2021-06-24

Interesting article

Is Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?

2021-06-24

with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone

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Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc","listText":"never heard of this online shopping platform before. Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc","text":"never heard of this online shopping platform before. Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/880463590","repostId":"1120889633","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1120889633","pubTimestamp":1631068652,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1120889633?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-08 10:37","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Is Sea Limited Stock A Good Buy For The Long-Term?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1120889633","media":"Seeking Alpha","summary":"Summary\n\nSea Limited is a very high-quality growth stock that surprisingly receives less attention t","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Sea Limited is a very high-quality growth stock that surprisingly receives less attention than Alibaba, MercadoLibre, and Amazon, even though it has outperformed all of them, hands down.</li>\n <li>We help investors understand the key metrics in a useful analytical framework to evaluate Sea Limited's growth opportunities and whether it is worthy of a long-term position.</li>\n <li>Lastly, we present our valuation argument to help our readers to decide whether they should add Sea Limited stock right now.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6050b357f1df083177d9ed6c9d848071\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1163\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>nuttapong/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>Investment Thesis</b></p>\n<p>Sea Limited(NYSE:SE)is one of our core holdings in our growth portfolio and one that we have taken the opportunity to add on major dips in the uptrend over the last year as the stock's incredible momentum saw it easily outperforming its e-commerce peers and mobile gaming peers.</p>\n<p>For growth investors, Sea's incredible growth trajectory has been truly phenomenal, coupled with it being free of Beijing's oversights that saw its Chinese peers fall like dominoes, stunning even institutional investors with the pace of the government's \"rectification\" adjustments.</p>\n<p>Sea's ascent has also been somewhat of a conundrum for value investors, as they don't get how an unprofitable company can be trading at such sky-high valuations without consequences.</p>\n<p>Therefore, to answer whether Sea Limited stock is a good long-term buy for investors, we will show our readers how to apply the appropriate analytical framework and valuation treatment to the company, based on its performance and its projections moving forward, so that investors can make meaningful decisions on whether they think Sea Limited is a worthy long-term addition to their portfolio now.</p>\n<p>For investors who are new to Sea Limited, we have recently written several articles on the company, which you can refer to them as a preamble.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0396874197381d0fc087a864425a26d9\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"331\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea &amp; Peers' stock YTD performance (as of 3 Sep 21)</span></p>\n<p>This year, Sea has been one of our portfolio's leading performers as the stock raced to an 83% YTD lead that easily outperformed all its peers and SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF(NYSEARCA:SPY). This performance is even more incredible because it came off an outstanding 2020, where it also outperformed with a 392% return.</p>\n<p>While the rest of its American and Chinese peers often received more coverage than this Singapore-headquartered company, it has been Sea which has been quietly delivering. It has been executing, expanding its Garena gaming ecosystem, and reaching new milestones. It's been scaling its e-commerce footprint to LatAm and demonstrating to Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN)&nbsp;that they are not experiencing any reopening headwinds. This is in contrast to what&nbsp;Amazon indicated&nbsp;in its recent earnings. The company is also growing its Sea Money footprint, especially through the Shopee/Shopee Pay flywheel, as the company stakes its FinTech leadership ambitions against Southeast Asia's FinTech leader Grab(NASDAQ:AGC).</p>\n<p>As a result of Sea Limited's incredible success, the group's China-born CEO&nbsp;Forrest Li&nbsp;is also now Singapore's richest man with a net worth of $20.3B.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1620f0a51f5f3cdb4a59c482df5ec1f1\" tg-width=\"380\" tg-height=\"236\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>SE quant rating (momentum). Source: Seeking Alpha Premium</span></p>\n<p>We have always reminded investors that Sea stock is one that you should never bet against even if you are bearish on its long-term prognosis. The stock has made one of the strongest upside moves we have seen for stocks in our growth portfolio. This is also corroborated by Seeking Alpha's proprietary quant momentum rating, giving it the best possible A+ grade on its most recent performance.</p>\n<p>Given the company and the stock's stupendous performances so far, we think it's only apt that investors ask whether SE's future optimism has been largely priced in, which is especially important for new investors who have yet to add its stock, where we will highlight the analytical framework on how investors can use to consider the company's prospects moving forward.</p>\n<p><b>Monitor Its Revenue Growth Closely</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e796ddaf599085b7ad02d64a84dd3b87\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited quarterly revenue. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f6ddcbf7578338f88c00c9432ab58f23\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited quarterly revenue YoY growth. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p>Sea Limited impressed with another awesome quarter of topline growth as total revenue grew 159% YoY on revenue of $2.28B. Its QoQ performance was also remarkable with a 29% QoQ growth, as the company shows that its gangbusters growth knows \"no limit.\"</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/60c7db30aeda80ea916ef8aa2816c93e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited GAAP quarterly operating margins. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p>For companies like Sea, whose strategy is still focused very much on topline growth and building scale efficiencies in the process, we should not be too concerned with its negative operating margins, as long as the company clearly demonstrated that it could grow rapidly like in Sea's case, and also achieve economies of scale through ramping revenue as it seeks out its \"blue oceans.\" We also articulated this point in a recent article on Snowflake(NYSE:SNOW), which operates in a huge market with a massive opportunity to expand, and the firm has shown that it can execute its strategies very well to capture those revenue opportunities&nbsp;despite having negative operating margins right now.</p>\n<p>Therefore, Sea Limited has certainly struck the right notes here, and we see no cause for concern so far. What matters for investors now is whether the company is still expected to grow this rapidly moving forward.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5f1bb9296424b15e07d5536227010fd4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited revenue mean consensus estimates. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d5efed61b23216e709291326ae9eac3b\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"291\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited consensus revenue estimates revision trend. Source: Seeking Alpha Premium</span></p>\n<p>Readers should easily glean that the Street upgraded revenue forecasts for the company after Q2's earnings release from what they projected post Q1 earnings. For example, revenue projection for FY21 has been increased by 11.5% to reflect the improved guidance from the company. Even though projections for FY24 to FY25 look rather tepid, readers should note that only three analysts covered the FY24 projections, while only two covered for FY25, compared to the 18-21 analysts who covered FY21 to FY23 numbers. As a result, we will also focus our discussion up to FY23 numbers to keep them meaningful.</p>\n<p>The expected revenue CAGR from FY20 to FY23 is 59.1%, while it reads 40.1% from FY21 to FY23. Therefore, the market is still expecting Sea Limited to deliver remarkable topline growth rates moving forward.At the same time, we are cautiously optimistic about Sea Limited's future, under the skillful stewardship of Group CEO Forrest Li and his management team. The team includes his two very competent business unit chiefs&nbsp;Chris Feng&nbsp;and Terry Zhao. Feng was born in China and leads Shopee and Sea Money. He is a Stanford alumnus like Li and he was recruited from Lazada(NYSE:BABA)by Li in 2014. Feng is said to be a “very, very smart and very, very confident” person who “reacts quickly and has excellent abilities of recall.” Zhao is the president of Garena. Li has kept Zhao by his side since the company's inception. Li is unlike Alibaba's Jack Ma and prefers to keep a&nbsp;modest&nbsp;profile. Still, his team's execution has been nothing short of outstanding, and we see no reason to think otherwise moving forward for this founder-led company.</p>\n<p><b>Keep a Close Watch on Shopee's Adj. EBITDA</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/070f4ed8c5f05a52744d9e20681865ce\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Quarterly Adj. EBITDA. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a03828e68bf8d41a26be65d7ac633670\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Quarterly Adj. EBITDA by segments. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>Of particular concern, though, is that the company's Adj. EBITDA turned negative for the first time since Q2'20 as the increase in Adj. EBITDA losses from Shopee were greater than what Garena could cover in Q2'21. Investors should be able to glean from the second chart where it shows that Shopee's Adj. EBITDA losses increased to $679.77M in Q2'21, representing a 64.8% QoQ increase, while Garena's Adj. EBITDA only managed a 3.3% QoQ increase in Q2'21.</p>\n<p>Despite this observation, the company highlighted that its Malaysia market had turned Adj. EBITDA profitable, joining its Taiwan market. Therefore, we believe the huge increase in burn rate for Shopee is likely in its largest markets by gross merchandise value (GMV), such as Indonesia and Thailand. The company also alluded to this in its earnings call as it emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n And in terms of sales and marketing&nbsp;and related to competitive dynamics, I think we are -- again, as we discussed it before, given our strong market leadership, we're in a good position now that our sales and marketing is more driven by our view about the efficiency of investment into various markets at various points of time, for example, any shopping event season, any particular opportunities to promote the brand, et cetera...\n <i>And in terms of the cash burn...as we look at the market opportunities, the timing of the market, for example, in Q2, we have Ramadan season in our several largest markets including Indonesia.</i>And this is a time where investment into the growth and to promote e-commerce adoption is very efficient. We have increased our buy frequency overall to more than 6x a month.\n <i>And in Indonesia, it has exceeded 7x per month, which we believe is very healthy for a marketplace platform.</i>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3151acc225456e4078f859b16c1cb114\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"357\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee Indonesia 76th Independence Day poster (Shopee ada untuk Indonesia: Shopee is for Indonesia). Source: Shopee Indonesia LinkedIn</span></p>\n<p>Now, we emphasized Ramadan (which is not exclusive to Indonesia per se) because it's a massive annual event in Indonesia. We had a sojourn in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a year, and we can tell you it's one of the most important highlights in Indonesia's annual calendar. Therefore, we cannot further underscore the opportunities to boost sales during this important event. It shows that Shopee's management clearly understands its most important market very well, and Shopee also aligned its progress with Indonesia's progress as the country celebrated its 76th Independence Day on 17 Aug 21, as Shopee Indonesia reminded Indonesians that<i>\"Shopee is for Indonesia.\"</i></p>\n<p>Shopee Indonesia has quickly moved onto its next big 9.9 shopping event, and this time around, they recruited well-known Indonesian actor and martial artist Joe Taslim, who starred in the recent Mortal Kombat film as Sub-Zero. For readers familiar with Shopee's advertising strategy, the company often stars well-known local artists in its promotional campaigns. The ads are often quirky and dramatic, which helps capture the users' attention very easily and is often memorable. This recipe has served Shopee very well, and somehow its keen regional competitors such as Lazada and Tokopedia have found it difficult to emulate. We encourage investors and readers to continue keeping a close watch on Shopee's most important market moving forward.</p>\n<p>Therefore, while observing quarterly Adj. EBITDA moving back into negative territory wasn't exactly a welcome development; we need to consider the context. In Shopee's case, it was certainly an opportunity that they needed to undertake to take full advantage of the opportunity to boost sales during the important Ramadan festival which is mainly celebrated in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Therefore, we wouldn't be too concerned over a quarter's development and start to be worried, but instead, we should continue to monitor Shopee's Adj. EBITDA's development over the next few quarters, and give the company some space to execute its e-commerce strategies.</p>\n<p><b>Watch for Advertising's Share of Revenue</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/aad9a6a626381510c8e2399b70a4d7ea\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee Adj. EBITDA per order. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/72fa0e85e8eb2ba3d4eb65c68e2f68f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee quarterly take rate. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>As a result of Shoppe's increased Adj. EBITDA losses due to its heavier burn rate for Q2'21, we observed Shopee's Adj. EBITDA loss per order regressed to $0.41, from $0.38 in Q1'21. However, readers should note that this only represented a 7.9% QoQ increase, which is certainly much lower than the 64.8% QoQ increase in total Adj. EBITDA losses. This clearly shows that Shopee is benefiting from greater scale efficiencies, despite the larger burn rate due to the heavier investments in the quarter. In addition, the Adj. EBITDA loss per order was also not \"that bad,\" as it was still in line with Q4'20's metric. Moreover, we have certainly seen worse days, and this was nothing spectacular.</p>\n<p>Importantly, we noticed a marked and consistent improvement in Shopee's take rate for Q2'21 as it improved to 6.7% compared to 6.1% in Q1'21. Sea Limited was very clear on its earnings call where this improvement was mainly attributed to as it emphasized: \"This deepening monetization was driven mainly by<i>growing merchant investments in marketing and advertisement on the Shopee platform</i>to attract better and serve buyers.\"</p>\n<p>We think this is a critical development in Shopee's progress as it continues to scale rapidly. For example, in our recent Amazon article, we showed just how massive the advertising opportunity is for the company as it's now Amazon's fastest-growing revenue driver, and 90% of its ad revenue is centered on its e-commerce marketplace.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0d892ee4f3fa12a1d7c862ecf56cf3b\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee quarterly sales &amp; marketing (S&amp;M) margin. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>Therefore, even though we saw a marked increase in Shopee's S&amp;M margin from 49% in Q1'21 to 56.2% in Q2'21 (14.7% QoQ increase), we encourage investors to consider the company's overall Adj. EBITDA per order, which shows that the company has tremendous leverage to engage in aggressive marketing activities through better monetization in Shopee's platform.</p>\n<p><b>Garena's Bookings Growth Seems to Be Slowing Down</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f1b13b4908d9a6b7a2ebd889cf4fc198\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Garena bookings. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>The company reported a fantastic quarter for Garena again as it topped several charts. Sea highlighted that Garena's Free Fire continues to maintain incredible momentum in Southeast Asia, LatAm, and India as the highest-grossing game. In the US, Free Fire was \"ranked the highest-grossing mobile battle royale game for the past two quarters based on App Annie. Additionally, Free Fire was the second highest-grossing mobile game in the U.S. on Google Play across all games categories in the second quarter as well.\"</p>\n<p>While this is certainly impressive, we prefer to look at the global perspective on how Free Fire has performed against its peers. According to&nbsp;Sensor Tower&nbsp;data for H1'21, while Free Fire is the #2 top gross gaming app behind Moon Active's Coin Master on Google Play, it ranked only #8 in overall revenue when we included the App Store's top-grossing gaming apps such as Tencent's(OTCPK:TCEHY)Honor of Kings (#1 overall) and PUBG Mobile battle-royale game (#2 overall), and also Roblox (#4 overall)(NYSE:RBLX). Therefore, while Free Fire has been doing well in markets where the Android operating system (OS) is dominant, it hasn't performed quite as well in North America, where iOS is the leading OS (as we showed in our Digital Turbine(NASDAQ:APPS)article appendedhere). The US is the largest and the most important mobile gaming market, as it accounted for28%of the mobile gaming market share in 2020. Garena has never been a strong performer on iOS, and if the company can improve its performance in the App Store, the boost could be tremendous to Garena.</p>\n<p>While the company's bookings for Q2'21 remain strong as it posted a QoQ increase of 9.1% to $1.2B from $1.1B in Q1'21, the company only raised the guidance from $4.5B to $4.7B in bookings for FY21. When we consider H1'21's collective bookings of $2.3B, the company is therefore expecting H2'21 bookings to come in at $2.3B, which means they aren't expecting any material growth in bookings for the rest of the year as compared to H1'21. This was also picked up by one of the analysts on the conference call, and Group Chief Corporate Officer Yanjun Wang reminded:</p>\n<blockquote>\n We believe the overall guidance showed a more than 40% year-on-year growth compared to last year, which is also a record year for us with the commencement of lockdown. And I think this is a very strong performance already. And our focus, as you can tell from game and the metrics we have indicated as well as our views in terms of how to grow our gaming platform,\n <i>is to continue to first and foremost to grow our user base and also pay user base</i>across the various markets in the world as we continue to see strong potential growth. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e708cd17fe0c5aaf6c51772d63f48fd\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Quarter paying users (QPU) / Quarterly active users (QAU). Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d5f5b4c4cef797d04f34591d7cb7ea08\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Average Booking Per User (ABPU) and Average Booking Per Paying User (ABPPU)). Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>The company's bookings trends can certainly be observed on a per-user or per paying user basis. The ABPPU has certainly been trending down, which reflects a drop in monetization per paying user, which is important as paying users are the ones that generate revenue for Garena. However, we didn't really observe a meaningful drop in the ABPU trend, despite the drop in ABPPU. This shows that even though there is \"less meat\" per paying user, newly minted paying users have been supporting the bookings, which we can certainly observe from the first chart where the QPU / QAU ratio has been consistently increasing, indicating that Garena has been getting better at converting and monetizing its huge non-paying users base. We think this is of huge significance when we consider that only 12.7% of users are paying users as of Q2'21, leaving the company massive opportunities to continue \"working its magic\" on monetizing the non-paying users. On this matter, Sea Limited was unabashed as it emphasized: \"...Our past track record has shown that we're generally good at commercialization in even markets that are known to be difficult for commercialization. So we don't really worry about not being able to commercialize the content down the road. But our focus continues to be growing the user base and making this an even larger platform that allows us to really tap on into it to build a stronger game ecosystem with very strong social elements in it.\"</p>\n<p><b>Building up eSports as a Social Platform</b></p>\n<p>We shared in our previous deep dive on Garena (link to the article is appendedhere), where Garena's ambitions are beyond just a mobile gaming app. The company has huge ambitions, and they have already been using eSports as the basis to build the community for its gamers and developing it into a social platform that perhaps is similar to what Roblox has advanced. Garena has already highlighted previously its ambitions on building this cohesive and broad social community as it emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n <i>...developingit into a social platform</i>where people not only come to play the core gameplay, but also enjoy other modes: hangout, listen to music, social lives… So our focus is to continue to promote a massive-based online platform and online community and provide them with content and opportunities for socializing engagement, try out different modes of games, try out different characters, avatars or having different ways of playing.\n</blockquote>\n<p>The revenue in global eSports is not that significant as it's only expected to reach $1.62B by 2024, as we highlighted in our Garena article. Still, the whole strategic intent is to build the all-encompassing social platform that will drive incredible engagement, platform stickiness beyond what a typical gaming app can do. Importantly, the company is also headquartered in Singapore, where the Singapore government is focused on building the global hub for eSports, as Southeast Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region for eSports, and the city-state recently opened a huge 12,000-sqft eSports experience center, as the Singapore Tourism Board emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n Our world-class events&nbsp;and digital infrastructure have also made Singapore an attractive location for the industry to hold gaming and e-sports events here. The government will continue to support companies as they push boundaries through experimenting with new and immersive content formats and business models, as well as level up the quality of our local talent to become leading creators of world-class content.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Garena also recently brought in \"globally renowned DJs&nbsp;Dimitri Vegas &amp; Like Mike, Alok, and KSHMR for Free Fire’s 4th-anniversary theme song, ‘Reunion,’\" following successful strategies adopted by Roblox in its metaverse development, and we think Garena is really still very early in its opportunity to develop its own metaverse.</p>\n<p><b>Sea Limited Stakes Its Claim On MercadoLibre's LatAm Leadership</b></p>\n<p>Without a doubt, the one that generates the most interest is the company's foray into LatAm, which Sea Limited recently updated that it has seen tremendous progress. We did a deep dive recently on this topic, and we encourage you to refer to our articlehere. While we think MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI)is the undisputed e-commerce and FinTech leader in LatAm, especially in LatAm's most important market: Brazil, Shopee's progress has been truly remarkable as it's now the #2 ranked e-commerce app in downloads in Brazil according to App Annie. However, although Shopee is surely making meaningful headway in Brazil, MELI is a different competitor than Tokopedia and Lazada. MELI understands LatAm's e-commerce space comprehensively and has a very impressive logistics and fulfillment network that is second to none in LatAm's notoriously challenging logistics infrastructure. Sea Limited also noted this, but the company thinks that it will be able to overcome these difficulties as it continues to invest in LatAm, which will help these third-party logistics providers to improve their efficiencies and competencies over time and close the gap with MELI as SE emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n ...There hasn't been a lot of volume or traffic broadly generated across different platforms, then probably there is also a lack of initial growth opportunity for logistics. But on the one hand, we are also hopeful that with the growing e-commerce scene in the region and more focus of our global investors into the growth opportunities in the region, we may also see similar trends in those markets. And this is hopefully some contribution we can make to the market in terms of bringing more opportunities, bringing more digitization as well as e-commerce ecosystem that helps not just growth of Shopee but also growth of the surrounding services, including 3PLs within the region. And we've been partnering with 3PLs in our region very successfully in growing the e-commerce ecosystem. And at the same time, these third-party partners also enjoy the very strong growth on their end as well and the close partnership with Shopee. We are very happy to continue to adopt that model going forward in Brazil or the new markets as well. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n</blockquote>\n<p>We have indeed seen this great partnership between Shopee and its logistics partners in Southeast Asia, so much so that one of its key logistics partners in Indonesia:J&amp;T Express, is on track for its own IPO either in Hong Kong or the US. Therefore, while MELI certainly has the important lead in logistics right now, we believe it's only a matter of time the logistics infrastructure in LatAm improves with Shopee's involvement if it is willing to adopt the aggressiveness of its approach with Southeast Asia.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b58c9691ecea1beaa8e7bbec9861713\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>MELI Commerce Take Rate. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>If we consider MELI's commerce take rate as compared to Shopee's take rate, readers can easily observe the incredible monetization opportunities that are available in LatAm, and we can easily understand why Sea Limited is so keen to carve out MercadoLibre's leadership there because it's just so attractive. We think as Sea Limited gets more aggressive in its marketing in LatAm, MercadoLibre will start to feel the pressure to rein in its lucrative take rate to compete with Shopee's aggressive marketing tactics.</p>\n<p>Shopee has engaged international film star Jackie Chan for its global 9.9 campaign, and its Brazilian version (see above) has received even more views (3.3M) than some of its Asian counterparts that we last surveyed: Indonesia (1.2M views) and Singapore (1.6M views). We think Shopee has the potential to inflict huge damage to MELI's highly lucrative take rate as its Southeast Asian operations have achieved significant scale, and we think they are ready to take on LatAm's e-commerce leader with confidence. Readers should note that Shopee's e-commerce operations are way larger than MELI as Shopee boasts an LTM GMV of $48.8B as compared to MELI LTM GMV of $25.6B.</p>\n<p><b>Valuations Are Never Going to be Cheap</b></p>\n<p>We used a blended comps valuation comprising its EV/Fwd Rev multiples and its EV/Fwd EBITDA multiples using the following companies in the comps set: Amazon, Tencent, Roblox, MercadoLibre, and Square(NYSE:SQ).</p>\n<p>Using an aggressive valuation approach based on FY23 consensus estimates of EBITDA and Revenue, we arrived at an implied fair value of about $336.19 (mid-point) under the EBITDA multiples approach and $352.62 (mid-point) under the Revenue approach. Averaging out those fair values will give us a blended fair value of $344.41, which indicates a potential downside of about 2.5% from its last closing price of $353.36.</p>\n<p>Readers should also note that we have used an aggressive approach and have not considered a reasonable margin of safety. So, in essence, SE stock looks expensive right now, even though we don't expect it to be cheap for a high-quality growth stock like Sea Limited.</p>\n<p><b>SE Stock Price Action and Trend Analysis</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cd66ba3ffcdaf31167f72ad7ac24d34c\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"420\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>SE stock price action (weekly).</span></p>\n<p>The rapid ascent of SE stock has left price action investors with little opportunities to add more exposure. However, we have still taken the opportunities in May to add more exposure to our portfolio and haven't added anymore since.</p>\n<p>While we have not witnessed any indication of a momentum shift in SE stock, we seriously don't think we will even consider adding exposure at this price level, as our aggressive valuation approach has shown us that quite a bit of the optimism has already been priced in. The stock is also starting to show flashes of flush-up price action that are indicative of potential bull-trap scenarios. While the price action has not been resolved yet, we are still monitoring for opportunities to perhaps enter cash-secured puts at more reasonable strike prices relative to the expected premium collected to try and take advantage of SE stock's incredible momentum.</p>\n<p>Hence, we hope that we have demonstrated in our earlier sections that Sea Limited is definitely in the early innings of its market opportunity. Still, the level of optimism in the stock will need some leveling off first so that long-term investors can add exposure at a more reasonable price level.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is Sea Limited Stock A Good Buy For The Long-Term?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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This performance is even more incredible because it came off an outstanding 2020, where it also outperformed with a 392% return.\nWhile the rest of its American and Chinese peers often received more coverage than this Singapore-headquartered company, it has been Sea which has been quietly delivering. It has been executing, expanding its Garena gaming ecosystem, and reaching new milestones. It's been scaling its e-commerce footprint to LatAm and demonstrating to Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) that they are not experiencing any reopening headwinds. This is in contrast to what Amazon indicated in its recent earnings. The company is also growing its Sea Money footprint, especially through the Shopee/Shopee Pay flywheel, as the company stakes its FinTech leadership ambitions against Southeast Asia's FinTech leader Grab(NASDAQ:AGC).\nAs a result of Sea Limited's incredible success, the group's China-born CEO Forrest Li is also now Singapore's richest man with a net worth of $20.3B.\nSE quant rating (momentum). Source: Seeking Alpha Premium\nWe have always reminded investors that Sea stock is one that you should never bet against even if you are bearish on its long-term prognosis. The stock has made one of the strongest upside moves we have seen for stocks in our growth portfolio. This is also corroborated by Seeking Alpha's proprietary quant momentum rating, giving it the best possible A+ grade on its most recent performance.\nGiven the company and the stock's stupendous performances so far, we think it's only apt that investors ask whether SE's future optimism has been largely priced in, which is especially important for new investors who have yet to add its stock, where we will highlight the analytical framework on how investors can use to consider the company's prospects moving forward.\nMonitor Its Revenue Growth Closely\nSea Limited quarterly revenue. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nSea Limited quarterly revenue YoY growth. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nSea Limited impressed with another awesome quarter of topline growth as total revenue grew 159% YoY on revenue of $2.28B. Its QoQ performance was also remarkable with a 29% QoQ growth, as the company shows that its gangbusters growth knows \"no limit.\"\nSea Limited GAAP quarterly operating margins. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nFor companies like Sea, whose strategy is still focused very much on topline growth and building scale efficiencies in the process, we should not be too concerned with its negative operating margins, as long as the company clearly demonstrated that it could grow rapidly like in Sea's case, and also achieve economies of scale through ramping revenue as it seeks out its \"blue oceans.\" We also articulated this point in a recent article on Snowflake(NYSE:SNOW), which operates in a huge market with a massive opportunity to expand, and the firm has shown that it can execute its strategies very well to capture those revenue opportunities despite having negative operating margins right now.\nTherefore, Sea Limited has certainly struck the right notes here, and we see no cause for concern so far. What matters for investors now is whether the company is still expected to grow this rapidly moving forward.\nSea Limited revenue mean consensus estimates. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nSea Limited consensus revenue estimates revision trend. Source: Seeking Alpha Premium\nReaders should easily glean that the Street upgraded revenue forecasts for the company after Q2's earnings release from what they projected post Q1 earnings. For example, revenue projection for FY21 has been increased by 11.5% to reflect the improved guidance from the company. Even though projections for FY24 to FY25 look rather tepid, readers should note that only three analysts covered the FY24 projections, while only two covered for FY25, compared to the 18-21 analysts who covered FY21 to FY23 numbers. As a result, we will also focus our discussion up to FY23 numbers to keep them meaningful.\nThe expected revenue CAGR from FY20 to FY23 is 59.1%, while it reads 40.1% from FY21 to FY23. Therefore, the market is still expecting Sea Limited to deliver remarkable topline growth rates moving forward.At the same time, we are cautiously optimistic about Sea Limited's future, under the skillful stewardship of Group CEO Forrest Li and his management team. The team includes his two very competent business unit chiefs Chris Feng and Terry Zhao. Feng was born in China and leads Shopee and Sea Money. He is a Stanford alumnus like Li and he was recruited from Lazada(NYSE:BABA)by Li in 2014. Feng is said to be a “very, very smart and very, very confident” person who “reacts quickly and has excellent abilities of recall.” Zhao is the president of Garena. Li has kept Zhao by his side since the company's inception. Li is unlike Alibaba's Jack Ma and prefers to keep a modest profile. Still, his team's execution has been nothing short of outstanding, and we see no reason to think otherwise moving forward for this founder-led company.\nKeep a Close Watch on Shopee's Adj. EBITDA\nQuarterly Adj. EBITDA. Data source: Company filings\nQuarterly Adj. EBITDA by segments. Data source: Company filings\nOf particular concern, though, is that the company's Adj. EBITDA turned negative for the first time since Q2'20 as the increase in Adj. EBITDA losses from Shopee were greater than what Garena could cover in Q2'21. Investors should be able to glean from the second chart where it shows that Shopee's Adj. EBITDA losses increased to $679.77M in Q2'21, representing a 64.8% QoQ increase, while Garena's Adj. EBITDA only managed a 3.3% QoQ increase in Q2'21.\nDespite this observation, the company highlighted that its Malaysia market had turned Adj. EBITDA profitable, joining its Taiwan market. Therefore, we believe the huge increase in burn rate for Shopee is likely in its largest markets by gross merchandise value (GMV), such as Indonesia and Thailand. The company also alluded to this in its earnings call as it emphasized:\n\n And in terms of sales and marketing and related to competitive dynamics, I think we are -- again, as we discussed it before, given our strong market leadership, we're in a good position now that our sales and marketing is more driven by our view about the efficiency of investment into various markets at various points of time, for example, any shopping event season, any particular opportunities to promote the brand, et cetera...\n And in terms of the cash burn...as we look at the market opportunities, the timing of the market, for example, in Q2, we have Ramadan season in our several largest markets including Indonesia.And this is a time where investment into the growth and to promote e-commerce adoption is very efficient. We have increased our buy frequency overall to more than 6x a month.\n And in Indonesia, it has exceeded 7x per month, which we believe is very healthy for a marketplace platform.\n\nShopee Indonesia 76th Independence Day poster (Shopee ada untuk Indonesia: Shopee is for Indonesia). Source: Shopee Indonesia LinkedIn\nNow, we emphasized Ramadan (which is not exclusive to Indonesia per se) because it's a massive annual event in Indonesia. We had a sojourn in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a year, and we can tell you it's one of the most important highlights in Indonesia's annual calendar. Therefore, we cannot further underscore the opportunities to boost sales during this important event. It shows that Shopee's management clearly understands its most important market very well, and Shopee also aligned its progress with Indonesia's progress as the country celebrated its 76th Independence Day on 17 Aug 21, as Shopee Indonesia reminded Indonesians that\"Shopee is for Indonesia.\"\nShopee Indonesia has quickly moved onto its next big 9.9 shopping event, and this time around, they recruited well-known Indonesian actor and martial artist Joe Taslim, who starred in the recent Mortal Kombat film as Sub-Zero. For readers familiar with Shopee's advertising strategy, the company often stars well-known local artists in its promotional campaigns. The ads are often quirky and dramatic, which helps capture the users' attention very easily and is often memorable. This recipe has served Shopee very well, and somehow its keen regional competitors such as Lazada and Tokopedia have found it difficult to emulate. We encourage investors and readers to continue keeping a close watch on Shopee's most important market moving forward.\nTherefore, while observing quarterly Adj. EBITDA moving back into negative territory wasn't exactly a welcome development; we need to consider the context. In Shopee's case, it was certainly an opportunity that they needed to undertake to take full advantage of the opportunity to boost sales during the important Ramadan festival which is mainly celebrated in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Therefore, we wouldn't be too concerned over a quarter's development and start to be worried, but instead, we should continue to monitor Shopee's Adj. EBITDA's development over the next few quarters, and give the company some space to execute its e-commerce strategies.\nWatch for Advertising's Share of Revenue\nShopee Adj. EBITDA per order. Data source: Company filings\nShopee quarterly take rate. Data source: Company filings\nAs a result of Shoppe's increased Adj. EBITDA losses due to its heavier burn rate for Q2'21, we observed Shopee's Adj. EBITDA loss per order regressed to $0.41, from $0.38 in Q1'21. However, readers should note that this only represented a 7.9% QoQ increase, which is certainly much lower than the 64.8% QoQ increase in total Adj. EBITDA losses. This clearly shows that Shopee is benefiting from greater scale efficiencies, despite the larger burn rate due to the heavier investments in the quarter. In addition, the Adj. EBITDA loss per order was also not \"that bad,\" as it was still in line with Q4'20's metric. Moreover, we have certainly seen worse days, and this was nothing spectacular.\nImportantly, we noticed a marked and consistent improvement in Shopee's take rate for Q2'21 as it improved to 6.7% compared to 6.1% in Q1'21. Sea Limited was very clear on its earnings call where this improvement was mainly attributed to as it emphasized: \"This deepening monetization was driven mainly bygrowing merchant investments in marketing and advertisement on the Shopee platformto attract better and serve buyers.\"\nWe think this is a critical development in Shopee's progress as it continues to scale rapidly. For example, in our recent Amazon article, we showed just how massive the advertising opportunity is for the company as it's now Amazon's fastest-growing revenue driver, and 90% of its ad revenue is centered on its e-commerce marketplace.\nShopee quarterly sales & marketing (S&M) margin. Data source: Company filings\nTherefore, even though we saw a marked increase in Shopee's S&M margin from 49% in Q1'21 to 56.2% in Q2'21 (14.7% QoQ increase), we encourage investors to consider the company's overall Adj. EBITDA per order, which shows that the company has tremendous leverage to engage in aggressive marketing activities through better monetization in Shopee's platform.\nGarena's Bookings Growth Seems to Be Slowing Down\nGarena bookings. Data source: Company filings\nThe company reported a fantastic quarter for Garena again as it topped several charts. Sea highlighted that Garena's Free Fire continues to maintain incredible momentum in Southeast Asia, LatAm, and India as the highest-grossing game. In the US, Free Fire was \"ranked the highest-grossing mobile battle royale game for the past two quarters based on App Annie. Additionally, Free Fire was the second highest-grossing mobile game in the U.S. on Google Play across all games categories in the second quarter as well.\"\nWhile this is certainly impressive, we prefer to look at the global perspective on how Free Fire has performed against its peers. According to Sensor Tower data for H1'21, while Free Fire is the #2 top gross gaming app behind Moon Active's Coin Master on Google Play, it ranked only #8 in overall revenue when we included the App Store's top-grossing gaming apps such as Tencent's(OTCPK:TCEHY)Honor of Kings (#1 overall) and PUBG Mobile battle-royale game (#2 overall), and also Roblox (#4 overall)(NYSE:RBLX). Therefore, while Free Fire has been doing well in markets where the Android operating system (OS) is dominant, it hasn't performed quite as well in North America, where iOS is the leading OS (as we showed in our Digital Turbine(NASDAQ:APPS)article appendedhere). The US is the largest and the most important mobile gaming market, as it accounted for28%of the mobile gaming market share in 2020. Garena has never been a strong performer on iOS, and if the company can improve its performance in the App Store, the boost could be tremendous to Garena.\nWhile the company's bookings for Q2'21 remain strong as it posted a QoQ increase of 9.1% to $1.2B from $1.1B in Q1'21, the company only raised the guidance from $4.5B to $4.7B in bookings for FY21. When we consider H1'21's collective bookings of $2.3B, the company is therefore expecting H2'21 bookings to come in at $2.3B, which means they aren't expecting any material growth in bookings for the rest of the year as compared to H1'21. This was also picked up by one of the analysts on the conference call, and Group Chief Corporate Officer Yanjun Wang reminded:\n\n We believe the overall guidance showed a more than 40% year-on-year growth compared to last year, which is also a record year for us with the commencement of lockdown. And I think this is a very strong performance already. And our focus, as you can tell from game and the metrics we have indicated as well as our views in terms of how to grow our gaming platform,\n is to continue to first and foremost to grow our user base and also pay user baseacross the various markets in the world as we continue to see strong potential growth. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n\nQuarter paying users (QPU) / Quarterly active users (QAU). Data source: Company filings\nAverage Booking Per User (ABPU) and Average Booking Per Paying User (ABPPU)). Data source: Company filings\nThe company's bookings trends can certainly be observed on a per-user or per paying user basis. The ABPPU has certainly been trending down, which reflects a drop in monetization per paying user, which is important as paying users are the ones that generate revenue for Garena. However, we didn't really observe a meaningful drop in the ABPU trend, despite the drop in ABPPU. This shows that even though there is \"less meat\" per paying user, newly minted paying users have been supporting the bookings, which we can certainly observe from the first chart where the QPU / QAU ratio has been consistently increasing, indicating that Garena has been getting better at converting and monetizing its huge non-paying users base. We think this is of huge significance when we consider that only 12.7% of users are paying users as of Q2'21, leaving the company massive opportunities to continue \"working its magic\" on monetizing the non-paying users. On this matter, Sea Limited was unabashed as it emphasized: \"...Our past track record has shown that we're generally good at commercialization in even markets that are known to be difficult for commercialization. So we don't really worry about not being able to commercialize the content down the road. But our focus continues to be growing the user base and making this an even larger platform that allows us to really tap on into it to build a stronger game ecosystem with very strong social elements in it.\"\nBuilding up eSports as a Social Platform\nWe shared in our previous deep dive on Garena (link to the article is appendedhere), where Garena's ambitions are beyond just a mobile gaming app. The company has huge ambitions, and they have already been using eSports as the basis to build the community for its gamers and developing it into a social platform that perhaps is similar to what Roblox has advanced. Garena has already highlighted previously its ambitions on building this cohesive and broad social community as it emphasized:\n\n...developingit into a social platformwhere people not only come to play the core gameplay, but also enjoy other modes: hangout, listen to music, social lives… So our focus is to continue to promote a massive-based online platform and online community and provide them with content and opportunities for socializing engagement, try out different modes of games, try out different characters, avatars or having different ways of playing.\n\nThe revenue in global eSports is not that significant as it's only expected to reach $1.62B by 2024, as we highlighted in our Garena article. Still, the whole strategic intent is to build the all-encompassing social platform that will drive incredible engagement, platform stickiness beyond what a typical gaming app can do. Importantly, the company is also headquartered in Singapore, where the Singapore government is focused on building the global hub for eSports, as Southeast Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region for eSports, and the city-state recently opened a huge 12,000-sqft eSports experience center, as the Singapore Tourism Board emphasized:\n\n Our world-class events and digital infrastructure have also made Singapore an attractive location for the industry to hold gaming and e-sports events here. The government will continue to support companies as they push boundaries through experimenting with new and immersive content formats and business models, as well as level up the quality of our local talent to become leading creators of world-class content.\n\nGarena also recently brought in \"globally renowned DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Alok, and KSHMR for Free Fire’s 4th-anniversary theme song, ‘Reunion,’\" following successful strategies adopted by Roblox in its metaverse development, and we think Garena is really still very early in its opportunity to develop its own metaverse.\nSea Limited Stakes Its Claim On MercadoLibre's LatAm Leadership\nWithout a doubt, the one that generates the most interest is the company's foray into LatAm, which Sea Limited recently updated that it has seen tremendous progress. We did a deep dive recently on this topic, and we encourage you to refer to our articlehere. While we think MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI)is the undisputed e-commerce and FinTech leader in LatAm, especially in LatAm's most important market: Brazil, Shopee's progress has been truly remarkable as it's now the #2 ranked e-commerce app in downloads in Brazil according to App Annie. However, although Shopee is surely making meaningful headway in Brazil, MELI is a different competitor than Tokopedia and Lazada. MELI understands LatAm's e-commerce space comprehensively and has a very impressive logistics and fulfillment network that is second to none in LatAm's notoriously challenging logistics infrastructure. Sea Limited also noted this, but the company thinks that it will be able to overcome these difficulties as it continues to invest in LatAm, which will help these third-party logistics providers to improve their efficiencies and competencies over time and close the gap with MELI as SE emphasized:\n\n ...There hasn't been a lot of volume or traffic broadly generated across different platforms, then probably there is also a lack of initial growth opportunity for logistics. But on the one hand, we are also hopeful that with the growing e-commerce scene in the region and more focus of our global investors into the growth opportunities in the region, we may also see similar trends in those markets. And this is hopefully some contribution we can make to the market in terms of bringing more opportunities, bringing more digitization as well as e-commerce ecosystem that helps not just growth of Shopee but also growth of the surrounding services, including 3PLs within the region. And we've been partnering with 3PLs in our region very successfully in growing the e-commerce ecosystem. And at the same time, these third-party partners also enjoy the very strong growth on their end as well and the close partnership with Shopee. We are very happy to continue to adopt that model going forward in Brazil or the new markets as well. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n\nWe have indeed seen this great partnership between Shopee and its logistics partners in Southeast Asia, so much so that one of its key logistics partners in Indonesia:J&T Express, is on track for its own IPO either in Hong Kong or the US. Therefore, while MELI certainly has the important lead in logistics right now, we believe it's only a matter of time the logistics infrastructure in LatAm improves with Shopee's involvement if it is willing to adopt the aggressiveness of its approach with Southeast Asia.\nMELI Commerce Take Rate. Data source: Company filings\nIf we consider MELI's commerce take rate as compared to Shopee's take rate, readers can easily observe the incredible monetization opportunities that are available in LatAm, and we can easily understand why Sea Limited is so keen to carve out MercadoLibre's leadership there because it's just so attractive. We think as Sea Limited gets more aggressive in its marketing in LatAm, MercadoLibre will start to feel the pressure to rein in its lucrative take rate to compete with Shopee's aggressive marketing tactics.\nShopee has engaged international film star Jackie Chan for its global 9.9 campaign, and its Brazilian version (see above) has received even more views (3.3M) than some of its Asian counterparts that we last surveyed: Indonesia (1.2M views) and Singapore (1.6M views). We think Shopee has the potential to inflict huge damage to MELI's highly lucrative take rate as its Southeast Asian operations have achieved significant scale, and we think they are ready to take on LatAm's e-commerce leader with confidence. Readers should note that Shopee's e-commerce operations are way larger than MELI as Shopee boasts an LTM GMV of $48.8B as compared to MELI LTM GMV of $25.6B.\nValuations Are Never Going to be Cheap\nWe used a blended comps valuation comprising its EV/Fwd Rev multiples and its EV/Fwd EBITDA multiples using the following companies in the comps set: Amazon, Tencent, Roblox, MercadoLibre, and Square(NYSE:SQ).\nUsing an aggressive valuation approach based on FY23 consensus estimates of EBITDA and Revenue, we arrived at an implied fair value of about $336.19 (mid-point) under the EBITDA multiples approach and $352.62 (mid-point) under the Revenue approach. Averaging out those fair values will give us a blended fair value of $344.41, which indicates a potential downside of about 2.5% from its last closing price of $353.36.\nReaders should also note that we have used an aggressive approach and have not considered a reasonable margin of safety. So, in essence, SE stock looks expensive right now, even though we don't expect it to be cheap for a high-quality growth stock like Sea Limited.\nSE Stock Price Action and Trend Analysis\nSE stock price action (weekly).\nThe rapid ascent of SE stock has left price action investors with little opportunities to add more exposure. However, we have still taken the opportunities in May to add more exposure to our portfolio and haven't added anymore since.\nWhile we have not witnessed any indication of a momentum shift in SE stock, we seriously don't think we will even consider adding exposure at this price level, as our aggressive valuation approach has shown us that quite a bit of the optimism has already been priced in. The stock is also starting to show flashes of flush-up price action that are indicative of potential bull-trap scenarios. While the price action has not been resolved yet, we are still monitoring for opportunities to perhaps enter cash-secured puts at more reasonable strike prices relative to the expected premium collected to try and take advantage of SE stock's incredible momentum.\nHence, we hope that we have demonstrated in our earlier sections that Sea Limited is definitely in the early innings of its market opportunity. Still, the level of optimism in the stock will need some leveling off first so that long-term investors can add exposure at a more reasonable price level.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":549,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":817479923,"gmtCreate":1630984047162,"gmtModify":1676530434552,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"We can always count on&nbsp;US innovation","listText":"We can always count on&nbsp;US innovation","text":"We can always count on US innovation","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/817479923","repostId":"2165577384","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2165577384","pubTimestamp":1630981730,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2165577384?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-07 10:28","market":"us","language":"en","title":"5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2165577384","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Patience can pay off handsomely if you own stakes in dominant companies like these.","content":"<p>There are a lot of ways for American workers to build wealth. They can shuffle money under the mattress, buy bank certificates of deposit (CD) or bonds, or purchase a house and cross their fingers that it appreciates at a faster pace than the prevailing rate of inflation. But over the long run, no investment vehicle has delivered a higher annualized return than stocks.</p>\n<p>If you invest in great companies and allow your investment thesis to play out over many years, if not decades, stocks have the power to make the American worker rich.</p>\n<p>Understandably, there's no singular definition to being rich. For some people, that might mean buying their dream car or owning a boat. For others, \"rich\" could mean the added value of spending more time with family or not having to worry about paying their monthly bills.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fstack-of-one-hundred-dollar-bills-cash-money-invest-retire-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"491\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<p>By the time working Americans hit retirement, the following five winning stocks have the potential to make them rich.</p>\n<h2>Berkshire Hathaway</h2>\n<p>Sometimes, the best long-term investments are boring. That's the case with <b>Berkshire Hathaway</b> (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B), the conglomerate that's been run by billionaire Warren Buffett since 1965. In Buffett's more than five decades at the helm, he's created over $500 billion in value for Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders and overseen an annual average return of 20%. In aggregate, we're talking about a return of closer to 3,400,000% for the Class A shares (BRK.A), taking into account year-to-date gains.</p>\n<p>One of the reasons Berkshire is such a successful company is its cyclical ties. A majority of the company's nearly $323 billion investment portfolio is tied up in technology, financials, and consumer staples. These are sectors that perform really well when the U.S. and global economy are firing on all cylinders. Even though recessions are an inevitable part of the economic cycle, Buffett is keenly aware that periods of expansion last considerably longer than periods of contraction. In other words, the Oracle of Omaha is simply playing the odds.</p>\n<p>The other key to Berkshire's superior returns is its dividend stock ties. While Berkshire doesn't pay a dividend, quite a few of the companies it's invested in do. All told, my back-of-the-envelope calculation has Berkshire netting around $5.1 billion in dividend income this year. Based on its initial cost basis, this works out to a roughly 5% yield, which is insanely good, and points to the company's likelihood of being wildly successful for many years to come.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fhealthcare-investing-retirement-surgeon-cash-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<h2>Intuitive Surgical</h2>\n<p>Businesses that have clearly identifiable and sustainable competitive advantages are also a smart place to put money to work. Surgical-assisted robotic systems developer <b>Intuitive Surgical</b> (NASDAQ:ISRG) is a perfect example of a company with a dominant presence that can make American workers rich.</p>\n<p>When the first half of 2021 came to a close, Intuitive Surgical had 6,335 of its da Vinci surgical systems installed worldwide (although most are in the United States.). You could add up all of the company's competitors, and you still wouldn't come close to the number of surgical systems Intuitive has installed. Between the high cost of these systems ($0.5 million to $2.5 million), the training provided to surgeons, and the rapport built up over the past 20 years, Intuitive Surgical is effectively locking in its clients for a long time.</p>\n<p>More importantly, Intuitive Surgical is designed to improve its operating margins over time. This is a fancy way of saying that earnings growth can outpace sales growth for years, if not decades, to come.</p>\n<p>Initially, selling its da Vinci systems made up the bulk of the company's revenue. But these are intricate systems to build, which meant margins weren't all that great. As time has passed, most of Intuitive's sales are now derived from instruments sold with each procedure and the servicing of its systems. These are higher-margin categories and the company's ticket to a growing bottom line.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fsquare-card-terminal.png&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"520\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Square.</span></p>\n<h2>Square</h2>\n<p>If you want unbridled innovation, look no further than fintech stock <b>Square</b> (NYSE:SQ). Despite its huge run since the pandemic low in March 2020, it has all the tools needed to eventually become a $1 trillion company.</p>\n<p>Square's foundational segment continues to be its seller ecosystem. This is what provides point-of-sale devices, analytics, loans, and other tools to help merchants successfully grow their business. In the seven years leading up to the pandemic, gross payment volume (GPV) catapulted from $6.5 billion to $106.2 billion. This year, GPV should easily clear $140 billion.</p>\n<p>Something interesting to note about the seller ecosystem is that it's not just for small merchants any longer. In the June-ended quarter, 65% of all GPV derived from sellers with at least $125,000 in annualized GPV. That's up 10 percentage points from the comparable period in 2019. Since this is a merchant fee-driven segment, bigger merchants mean more gross profit.</p>\n<p>However, all eyes are on digital peer-to-peer payment platform Cash App, which more than quintupled its monthly active user count in three years. Cash App broadens Square's ability to generate revenue, and it brought in $55 in gross profit per user in the second quarter, compared to an acquisition cost per user of only around $5. These insane margins should power Square's valuation a lot higher.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fbusinessman-laptop-internet-search-research-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<h2>Pinterest</h2>\n<p>Another winning stock with the potential to make American workers rich by retirement is social media up-and-comer <b>Pinterest</b> (NYSE:PINS).</p>\n<p>Though a lot of emphasis has been placed on Pinterest's monthly active user (MAU) retracement in the second quarter, this near-term blip overlooks some very core and positive trends. For instance, user growth regressed in Q2 2021, but it remains well within historic norms, if examined over a three-year period.</p>\n<p>What's far more important is that Pinterest's average revenue per user (ARPU) continues to soar. Despite the sequential quarterly MAU retracement in Q2, global ARPU rose 89% year over year, with international ARPU up an even more impressive 163%. What this tells us is that merchants are willing to pay up to reach Pinterest's MAU base of 454 million people. That's a lot of potentially motivated people, and merchants know it.</p>\n<p>Ultimately, Pinterest is still in the early innings of monetizing what could become a top e-commerce platform. Whereas most social media requires advertisers to somewhat guess about the interests of users, Pinterest's MAUs are willingly sharing the places, services, and things that interest them. All Pinterest has to do is keep users engaged for its middleman e-commerce platform to work its magic.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fwoman-worker-employee-wearing-headset-crm-software-computer-office-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"510\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<h2><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRM\">Salesforce</a></h2>\n<p>A fifth and final winning stock that can help working Americans retire rich and on their own terms is cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software provider <b>Salesforce.com</b> (NYSE:CRM).</p>\n<p>In simple terms, consumer-facing businesses use CRM software to enhance customer relationships and improve sales. Aside from accessing and logging real-time client info, CRM software is used to manage online marketing campaigns, handle service issues, and run predictive analyses on a company's existing client base.</p>\n<p>If you're wondering where Salesforce fits into the CRM space, it's the clear-cut alpha. In the first half of 2020, IDC found that practically $0.20 of every $1 spent globally on CRM was through Salesforce. The company's four largest competitors don't even add up to Salesforce's market share in the CRM space. Translation: The company's position as an industry leader is very secure.</p>\n<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has also done an exemplary job of expanding via acquisition. The purchases of MuleSoft, Tableau, and, more recently, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/WORK\">Slack Technologies</a> have helped to expand its customer-centric ecosystem and appeal to a larger swath of small and medium-sized businesses. With Benioff calling for $50 billion in annual sales by fiscal 2026 (Salesforce reported $21.3 billion in sales in fiscal 2021), it's a good bet to outperform for investors.</p>","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>5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement</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\">\n5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-07 10:28 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/06/5-winning-stocks-can-make-american-workers-rich/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>There are a lot of ways for American workers to build wealth. They can shuffle money under the mattress, buy bank certificates of deposit (CD) or bonds, or purchase a house and cross their fingers ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/06/5-winning-stocks-can-make-american-workers-rich/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"PINS":"Pinterest, Inc.","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","CRM":"赛富时","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B","ISRG":"直觉外科公司","SQ":"Block"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/06/5-winning-stocks-can-make-american-workers-rich/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2165577384","content_text":"There are a lot of ways for American workers to build wealth. They can shuffle money under the mattress, buy bank certificates of deposit (CD) or bonds, or purchase a house and cross their fingers that it appreciates at a faster pace than the prevailing rate of inflation. But over the long run, no investment vehicle has delivered a higher annualized return than stocks.\nIf you invest in great companies and allow your investment thesis to play out over many years, if not decades, stocks have the power to make the American worker rich.\nUnderstandably, there's no singular definition to being rich. For some people, that might mean buying their dream car or owning a boat. For others, \"rich\" could mean the added value of spending more time with family or not having to worry about paying their monthly bills.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nBy the time working Americans hit retirement, the following five winning stocks have the potential to make them rich.\nBerkshire Hathaway\nSometimes, the best long-term investments are boring. That's the case with Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B), the conglomerate that's been run by billionaire Warren Buffett since 1965. In Buffett's more than five decades at the helm, he's created over $500 billion in value for Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders and overseen an annual average return of 20%. In aggregate, we're talking about a return of closer to 3,400,000% for the Class A shares (BRK.A), taking into account year-to-date gains.\nOne of the reasons Berkshire is such a successful company is its cyclical ties. A majority of the company's nearly $323 billion investment portfolio is tied up in technology, financials, and consumer staples. These are sectors that perform really well when the U.S. and global economy are firing on all cylinders. Even though recessions are an inevitable part of the economic cycle, Buffett is keenly aware that periods of expansion last considerably longer than periods of contraction. In other words, the Oracle of Omaha is simply playing the odds.\nThe other key to Berkshire's superior returns is its dividend stock ties. While Berkshire doesn't pay a dividend, quite a few of the companies it's invested in do. All told, my back-of-the-envelope calculation has Berkshire netting around $5.1 billion in dividend income this year. Based on its initial cost basis, this works out to a roughly 5% yield, which is insanely good, and points to the company's likelihood of being wildly successful for many years to come.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIntuitive Surgical\nBusinesses that have clearly identifiable and sustainable competitive advantages are also a smart place to put money to work. Surgical-assisted robotic systems developer Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) is a perfect example of a company with a dominant presence that can make American workers rich.\nWhen the first half of 2021 came to a close, Intuitive Surgical had 6,335 of its da Vinci surgical systems installed worldwide (although most are in the United States.). You could add up all of the company's competitors, and you still wouldn't come close to the number of surgical systems Intuitive has installed. Between the high cost of these systems ($0.5 million to $2.5 million), the training provided to surgeons, and the rapport built up over the past 20 years, Intuitive Surgical is effectively locking in its clients for a long time.\nMore importantly, Intuitive Surgical is designed to improve its operating margins over time. This is a fancy way of saying that earnings growth can outpace sales growth for years, if not decades, to come.\nInitially, selling its da Vinci systems made up the bulk of the company's revenue. But these are intricate systems to build, which meant margins weren't all that great. As time has passed, most of Intuitive's sales are now derived from instruments sold with each procedure and the servicing of its systems. These are higher-margin categories and the company's ticket to a growing bottom line.\nImage source: Square.\nSquare\nIf you want unbridled innovation, look no further than fintech stock Square (NYSE:SQ). Despite its huge run since the pandemic low in March 2020, it has all the tools needed to eventually become a $1 trillion company.\nSquare's foundational segment continues to be its seller ecosystem. This is what provides point-of-sale devices, analytics, loans, and other tools to help merchants successfully grow their business. In the seven years leading up to the pandemic, gross payment volume (GPV) catapulted from $6.5 billion to $106.2 billion. This year, GPV should easily clear $140 billion.\nSomething interesting to note about the seller ecosystem is that it's not just for small merchants any longer. In the June-ended quarter, 65% of all GPV derived from sellers with at least $125,000 in annualized GPV. That's up 10 percentage points from the comparable period in 2019. Since this is a merchant fee-driven segment, bigger merchants mean more gross profit.\nHowever, all eyes are on digital peer-to-peer payment platform Cash App, which more than quintupled its monthly active user count in three years. Cash App broadens Square's ability to generate revenue, and it brought in $55 in gross profit per user in the second quarter, compared to an acquisition cost per user of only around $5. These insane margins should power Square's valuation a lot higher.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nPinterest\nAnother winning stock with the potential to make American workers rich by retirement is social media up-and-comer Pinterest (NYSE:PINS).\nThough a lot of emphasis has been placed on Pinterest's monthly active user (MAU) retracement in the second quarter, this near-term blip overlooks some very core and positive trends. For instance, user growth regressed in Q2 2021, but it remains well within historic norms, if examined over a three-year period.\nWhat's far more important is that Pinterest's average revenue per user (ARPU) continues to soar. Despite the sequential quarterly MAU retracement in Q2, global ARPU rose 89% year over year, with international ARPU up an even more impressive 163%. What this tells us is that merchants are willing to pay up to reach Pinterest's MAU base of 454 million people. That's a lot of potentially motivated people, and merchants know it.\nUltimately, Pinterest is still in the early innings of monetizing what could become a top e-commerce platform. Whereas most social media requires advertisers to somewhat guess about the interests of users, Pinterest's MAUs are willingly sharing the places, services, and things that interest them. All Pinterest has to do is keep users engaged for its middleman e-commerce platform to work its magic.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nSalesforce\nA fifth and final winning stock that can help working Americans retire rich and on their own terms is cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM).\nIn simple terms, consumer-facing businesses use CRM software to enhance customer relationships and improve sales. Aside from accessing and logging real-time client info, CRM software is used to manage online marketing campaigns, handle service issues, and run predictive analyses on a company's existing client base.\nIf you're wondering where Salesforce fits into the CRM space, it's the clear-cut alpha. In the first half of 2020, IDC found that practically $0.20 of every $1 spent globally on CRM was through Salesforce. The company's four largest competitors don't even add up to Salesforce's market share in the CRM space. Translation: The company's position as an industry leader is very secure.\nSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff has also done an exemplary job of expanding via acquisition. The purchases of MuleSoft, Tableau, and, more recently, Slack Technologies have helped to expand its customer-centric ecosystem and appeal to a larger swath of small and medium-sized businesses. With Benioff calling for $50 billion in annual sales by fiscal 2026 (Salesforce reported $21.3 billion in sales in fiscal 2021), it's a good bet to outperform for investors.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":488,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":817914759,"gmtCreate":1630897221971,"gmtModify":1676530415340,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though","listText":"Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though","text":"Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/817914759","repostId":"1156270360","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1156270360","pubTimestamp":1630893227,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1156270360?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-06 09:53","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"What August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1156270360","media":"Yahoo Finance","summary":"Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data sugges","content":"<p>Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal.</p>\n<p>Last week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000&nbsp;for the second time in two weeks, extending a rally that put a&nbsp;grim sell-off that started in May&nbsp;further in the rear-view mirror. While notable for its volatility, gains in the the largest cryptocurrency may have gotten lost in the swell of rising prices across the entire asset class.</p>\n<p>With a majority of decentralized finance and non-fungible token (NFT) trading happening on the Ethereum (ETH-USD) blockchain, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose by a third from $2,700 to $3,900, a growth rate 17 percent higher than BTC.</p>\n<p>And other blockchain-based currencies such as the third highest valued cryptocurrency, Cardano (ADA-USD) has more than doubled while a newer one, Solana (SOL-USD), has more than tripled in value over the past month. ADA and SOL have continued to notch almost daily all time highs for the past two weeks.</p>\n<p>Bitcoin IRA, an investment platform that helps retail investors gain crypto exposure in their retirement accounts, saw “record-breaking inflows” of new accounts over the previous month.</p>\n<p>“We broke our record in the first quarter right before Bitcoin ran from $45,000 to $65,000,” the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Chris Kline told Yahoo Finance. “We’re seeing the same pattern happen again. So this past month [August] felt a lot like April, but about twice as big.”</p>\n<p><b>The search for growth</b></p>\n<p>Currently, Bitcoin IRA has close to 120,000 client accounts, with approximately $2 billion in assets on the platform. Although platform's heft doesn’t move the market, the swell of retail investors opening new accounts — especially for tax-advantaged IRA accounts — is an indicator of how curious investors are as they seek more traditional ways to participate in this market.</p>\n<p>By rough approximation across all accounts, Kline said his clients hold 43% of their portfolio in bitcoin, 27% in ethereum, and the remaining 30 percent in a mix of other cryptocurrencies. The company offers 10 different cryptocurrencies in total, and is planning to more than double their crypto offerings in the fall.</p>\n<p>Back in early May when Ethereum started rising to its all-time high above $4,000, the company saw a large influx of swaps or pairing from BTC to ETH. It signaled many of his clients were shifting their portfolios from BTC to ETH.</p>\n<p>However, in recent weeks? “Not so much this time,” Kline told Yahoo Finance.</p>\n<p>To be sure, there could be a lag. “Retail buyers are looking for percentage growth. While bitcoin reigns supreme, it has relatively stable growth while there is exponential growth happening on ethereum. That’s what really gets their attention,” Kline explained.</p>\n<p>Bitcoin's August peak at $50K served as a “key technical and psychological level,” according to Will Clemente, an analyst at crypto mining and hardware broker Blockware Solutions.</p>\n<p>Clemente told Yahoo Finance that for the last seven days, bitcoin’s price has remained in what he called a “volatility squeeze.” The idea being that buyers and sellers have balanced each other out, thereby reducing the asset’s typically high volatility.</p>\n<p>But the analyst suggested that could be about to change. A volatility squeeze for bitcoin usually takes a week to two weeks to resolve.</p>\n<p>“That’s not telling you the direction, it's just telling you that there’s going to be a big move soon,” said Clemente.</p>\n<p>Analyzing price action alone remains a dominant, more contested method for predicting buyers and sellers around a cryptocurrency. But Clemente’s specialization, on-chain analysis, has quickly become a crucial tool kit of metrics for investors hoping to gleam some clarity into the nascent asset-class.</p>\n<p>Similar to technical analysis, the on-chain technique tries to forecast future moves based on supply and demand. However, it relies on a far larger quantity of data only available for assets operating on publicly available blockchains.</p>\n<p>While Clemente cannot predict the price shift of Bitcoin, he pointed to a handful of supply shock ratios, such as the movement of coin supply from speculators to long term holders and the exchange supply ratio, which shows the number of Bitcoins available to buy on exchanges relative to the overall circulating supply.</p>\n<p>Each of these metrics continue to rise higher after Bitcoin crested above $50,000, according to Clemente. Historically, supply shocks begin before the Bitcoin price moves upward.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9ae3f72ad41578a53f1ab5a8c4491d4f\" tg-width=\"960\" tg-height=\"541\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Bitcoin Illiquid Supply (RSI)</span></p>","source":"yahoofinance_sg","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin</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\">\nWhat August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-06 09:53 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-augusts-record-breaking-month-for-crypto-flows-means-for-bitcoin-163906276.html><strong>Yahoo Finance</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal.\nLast week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000 for...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-augusts-record-breaking-month-for-crypto-flows-means-for-bitcoin-163906276.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-augusts-record-breaking-month-for-crypto-flows-means-for-bitcoin-163906276.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1156270360","content_text":"Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal.\nLast week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000 for the second time in two weeks, extending a rally that put a grim sell-off that started in May further in the rear-view mirror. While notable for its volatility, gains in the the largest cryptocurrency may have gotten lost in the swell of rising prices across the entire asset class.\nWith a majority of decentralized finance and non-fungible token (NFT) trading happening on the Ethereum (ETH-USD) blockchain, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose by a third from $2,700 to $3,900, a growth rate 17 percent higher than BTC.\nAnd other blockchain-based currencies such as the third highest valued cryptocurrency, Cardano (ADA-USD) has more than doubled while a newer one, Solana (SOL-USD), has more than tripled in value over the past month. ADA and SOL have continued to notch almost daily all time highs for the past two weeks.\nBitcoin IRA, an investment platform that helps retail investors gain crypto exposure in their retirement accounts, saw “record-breaking inflows” of new accounts over the previous month.\n“We broke our record in the first quarter right before Bitcoin ran from $45,000 to $65,000,” the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Chris Kline told Yahoo Finance. “We’re seeing the same pattern happen again. So this past month [August] felt a lot like April, but about twice as big.”\nThe search for growth\nCurrently, Bitcoin IRA has close to 120,000 client accounts, with approximately $2 billion in assets on the platform. Although platform's heft doesn’t move the market, the swell of retail investors opening new accounts — especially for tax-advantaged IRA accounts — is an indicator of how curious investors are as they seek more traditional ways to participate in this market.\nBy rough approximation across all accounts, Kline said his clients hold 43% of their portfolio in bitcoin, 27% in ethereum, and the remaining 30 percent in a mix of other cryptocurrencies. The company offers 10 different cryptocurrencies in total, and is planning to more than double their crypto offerings in the fall.\nBack in early May when Ethereum started rising to its all-time high above $4,000, the company saw a large influx of swaps or pairing from BTC to ETH. It signaled many of his clients were shifting their portfolios from BTC to ETH.\nHowever, in recent weeks? “Not so much this time,” Kline told Yahoo Finance.\nTo be sure, there could be a lag. “Retail buyers are looking for percentage growth. While bitcoin reigns supreme, it has relatively stable growth while there is exponential growth happening on ethereum. That’s what really gets their attention,” Kline explained.\nBitcoin's August peak at $50K served as a “key technical and psychological level,” according to Will Clemente, an analyst at crypto mining and hardware broker Blockware Solutions.\nClemente told Yahoo Finance that for the last seven days, bitcoin’s price has remained in what he called a “volatility squeeze.” The idea being that buyers and sellers have balanced each other out, thereby reducing the asset’s typically high volatility.\nBut the analyst suggested that could be about to change. A volatility squeeze for bitcoin usually takes a week to two weeks to resolve.\n“That’s not telling you the direction, it's just telling you that there’s going to be a big move soon,” said Clemente.\nAnalyzing price action alone remains a dominant, more contested method for predicting buyers and sellers around a cryptocurrency. But Clemente’s specialization, on-chain analysis, has quickly become a crucial tool kit of metrics for investors hoping to gleam some clarity into the nascent asset-class.\nSimilar to technical analysis, the on-chain technique tries to forecast future moves based on supply and demand. However, it relies on a far larger quantity of data only available for assets operating on publicly available blockchains.\nWhile Clemente cannot predict the price shift of Bitcoin, he pointed to a handful of supply shock ratios, such as the movement of coin supply from speculators to long term holders and the exchange supply ratio, which shows the number of Bitcoins available to buy on exchanges relative to the overall circulating supply.\nEach of these metrics continue to rise higher after Bitcoin crested above $50,000, according to Clemente. Historically, supply shocks begin before the Bitcoin price moves upward.\nBitcoin Illiquid Supply (RSI)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":510,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":143791144,"gmtCreate":1625815524988,"gmtModify":1703749113045,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)","listText":"I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)","text":"I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/143791144","repostId":"2149340744","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":571,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":122395299,"gmtCreate":1624596471711,"gmtModify":1703841348531,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin","listText":"doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin","text":"doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122395299","repostId":"2146021046","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2146021046","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1624589404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2146021046?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-25 10:50","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2146021046","media":"Reuters","summary":"SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on","content":"<p>SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on Thursday that a recently passed law making bitcoin legal tender will take effect on Sept. 7, noting that its use will be optional.</p>\n<p>El Salvador's Congress on June 9 approved Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.</p>\n<p>\"The use of bitcoin will be optional, nobody will receive bitcoin if they don't want it... If someone receives a payment in bitcoin they can choose to automatically receive it in dollars,\" said Bukele.</p>\n<p>Salaries and pensions will continue to be paid in U.S. dollars, said Bukele, without specifying if that included salaries paid to state workers and private sector employees.</p>\n<p>Earlier in the day Athena Bitcoin said it plans to invest over $1 million to install some 1,500 cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad.</p>\n<p>According to Athena Bitcoin's website, the ATMs can be used to buy bitcoins or sell them for cash.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nBitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1036604489\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-25 10:50</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on Thursday that a recently passed law making bitcoin legal tender will take effect on Sept. 7, noting that its use will be optional.</p>\n<p>El Salvador's Congress on June 9 approved Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.</p>\n<p>\"The use of bitcoin will be optional, nobody will receive bitcoin if they don't want it... If someone receives a payment in bitcoin they can choose to automatically receive it in dollars,\" said Bukele.</p>\n<p>Salaries and pensions will continue to be paid in U.S. dollars, said Bukele, without specifying if that included salaries paid to state workers and private sector employees.</p>\n<p>Earlier in the day Athena Bitcoin said it plans to invest over $1 million to install some 1,500 cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad.</p>\n<p>According to Athena Bitcoin's website, the ATMs can be used to buy bitcoins or sell them for cash.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2146021046","content_text":"SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on Thursday that a recently passed law making bitcoin legal tender will take effect on Sept. 7, noting that its use will be optional.\nEl Salvador's Congress on June 9 approved Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.\n\"The use of bitcoin will be optional, nobody will receive bitcoin if they don't want it... If someone receives a payment in bitcoin they can choose to automatically receive it in dollars,\" said Bukele.\nSalaries and pensions will continue to be paid in U.S. dollars, said Bukele, without specifying if that included salaries paid to state workers and private sector employees.\nEarlier in the day Athena Bitcoin said it plans to invest over $1 million to install some 1,500 cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad.\nAccording to Athena Bitcoin's website, the ATMs can be used to buy bitcoins or sell them for cash.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":426,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":122392127,"gmtCreate":1624596410869,"gmtModify":1703841346912,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"to the moon?","listText":"to the moon?","text":"to the moon?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122392127","repostId":"1147153207","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1147153207","pubTimestamp":1624592020,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1147153207?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-25 11:33","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Meme Stocks: How The Most Popular Have Performed in 2021","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1147153207","media":"thestreet","summary":"Meme mania has been one of the most unexpected phenomena in the equities market in an already atypic","content":"<p>Meme mania has been one of the most unexpected phenomena in the equities market in an already atypical pandemic environment. The “meme attacks” have rarely been based on business fundamentals, but instead fueled by momentum and discussions on web forums that catalyze vicious rallies.</p>\n<p>Below, the Wall Street Memes channel lists some of the most popular meme stocks and how each has performed so far in 2021.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ac11607753df2d587eff881c858546dd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"798\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Figure 1: GameStop store.</span></p>\n<p><b>GME - GameStop Corp.</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>1,914%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-88%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$347.51</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$200.18</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cc5e113c20912daf07551e09179fe9f2\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"519\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><b>AMC - AMC Theaters</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>2,850%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-72%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$62.55</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$55.14</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2e55df7c82d93174a0b4c088c17946a1\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"533\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>BB - BlackBerry Limited</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>281%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-68%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$25.10</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$12.82</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/00f988c9dcc4545d783ac29b2061f44d\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"525\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>CLNE - Clean Energy Fuels Corp.</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>137%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-59%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$18.64</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$11.22</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/42e24ea5dd3ca3f186eab5451fa7fcbc\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"524\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>CLOV - Clover Health Investments</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>224%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-56%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$22.15</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$12.10</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ddfd7742b5b929d9febee80c5926f08f\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"507\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>CLF - Cleveland-Cliff</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>83%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-28%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$24.44</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$20.75</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/15c8accc6baf5e68f5a1088eb8a75c4d\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"524\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>TLRY - Tilray Pharmaceuticals</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>610%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-78%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$63.91</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$17.23</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc9ed19b51e752ceff9a6534d4afd089\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"510\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>NOK - Nokia Corporation</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>69%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-41%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$6.55</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$5.14</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33e920e940ac016540520a46acbcb0d5\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"511\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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The “meme attacks” have rarely been based on business fundamentals, but ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/other-memes/meme-stocks-how-the-most-popular-have-performed-in-2021\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CLOV":"Clover Health Corp","TLRY":"Tilray Inc.","CLF":"克利夫兰克里夫","GME":"游戏驿站","CLNE":"Clean Energy Fuels Corp","AMC":"AMC院线","NOK":"诺基亚","BB":"黑莓"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/other-memes/meme-stocks-how-the-most-popular-have-performed-in-2021","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1147153207","content_text":"Meme mania has been one of the most unexpected phenomena in the equities market in an already atypical pandemic environment. The “meme attacks” have rarely been based on business fundamentals, but instead fueled by momentum and discussions on web forums that catalyze vicious rallies.\nBelow, the Wall Street Memes channel lists some of the most popular meme stocks and how each has performed so far in 2021.\nFigure 1: GameStop store.\nGME - GameStop Corp.\n\nLargest gain in 2021:1,914%\nLargest loss in 2021:-88%\nPeak price:$347.51\nCurrent price:$200.18(at last check).\n\nAMC - AMC Theaters\n\nLargest gain in 2021:2,850%\nLargest loss in 2021:-72%\nPeak price:$62.55\nCurrent price:$55.14(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nBB - BlackBerry Limited\n\nLargest gain in 2021:281%\nLargest loss in 2021:-68%\nPeak price:$25.10\nCurrent price:$12.82(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nCLNE - Clean Energy Fuels Corp.\n\nLargest gain in 2021:137%\nLargest loss in 2021:-59%\nPeak price:$18.64\nCurrent price:$11.22(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nCLOV - Clover Health Investments\n\nLargest gain in 2021:224%\nLargest loss in 2021:-56%\nPeak price:$22.15\nCurrent price:$12.10(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nCLF - Cleveland-Cliff\n\nLargest gain in 2021:83%\nLargest loss in 2021:-28%\nPeak price:$24.44\nCurrent price:$20.75(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nTLRY - Tilray Pharmaceuticals\n\nLargest gain in 2021:610%\nLargest loss in 2021:-78%\nPeak price:$63.91\nCurrent price:$17.23(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nNOK - Nokia Corporation\n\nLargest gain in 2021:69%\nLargest loss in 2021:-41%\nPeak price:$6.55\nCurrent price:$5.14(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":546,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":126097764,"gmtCreate":1624536498158,"gmtModify":1703839654035,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone","listText":"with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone","text":"with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/126097764","repostId":"1137406909","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":328,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":126095378,"gmtCreate":1624536311394,"gmtModify":1703839649938,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Interesting article","listText":"Interesting article","text":"Interesting article","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/126095378","repostId":"1198422658","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1198422658","pubTimestamp":1624533829,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1198422658?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-24 19:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Is Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1198422658","media":"The Street","summary":"Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?At first glance, Apple  -Get Report and Amazon  -Get Report stocks appeal to two distinct group of investors. The former, trading at 26 times current earnings, is a blend of value and growth, what some might call a GARP play. The latter, trading at 64 times EPS, is the highest growth of FAAMG names.First, I find it hig","content":"<blockquote>\n Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?\n</blockquote>\n<p>At first glance, Apple&nbsp;(<b>AAPL</b>) -Get Report&nbsp;and Amazon&nbsp;(<b>AMZN</b>) -Get Report&nbsp;stocks appeal to two distinct group of investors. The former, trading at 26 times current earnings, is a blend of value and growth, what some might call a GARP play. The latter, trading at 64 times EPS, is the highest growth of FAAMG names.</p>\n<p>But the Amazon Maven has unearthed an interesting finding. Both AAPL and AMZN are worth almost the same, in P/E terms, if one were to look forward to 2025. At comparable valuations, which is a better buy-and-hold through the mid-2020s?</p>\n<p><b>AAPL and AMZN: same valuation?</b></p>\n<p>The P/E multiple is a popular valuation metric that adds context to a stock’s market price. The numerator tends to be prior-year (trailing), current-year or next-year (forward) earnings per share.</p>\n<p>Amazon commands a higher multiple, among other reasons, because of the company’s more aggressive growth profile. Wall Street expects the e-commerce giant to increase EPS by a factor of four in the next five years. Apple, on the other hand, is project to “only” double earnings in the same period.</p>\n<p>By 2025, this is what analysts expect of each company’s bottom line, and what the stock’s P/E would be if share prices remained unchanged:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><b>Amazon</b>: 2025 EPS of $172.30, for a P/E of<b>20.4</b>times</li>\n <li><b>Apple</b>: fiscal 2025 EPS of $6.30, for a P/E of<b>21.2</b>times</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Given enough time and assuming that current earnings projections are close enough to accurate, Amazon tends to become a less aggressively valued stock by the year. Maybe one day, in the not-too-distant future, shares could even start to look more appealing to value investors.</p>\n<p><b>Which is the best bet?</b></p>\n<p>If Amazon and Apple are valued at roughly the same 2025 P/E, one fair question to ask is: which stock might perform best in the next five years? I can use the earnings multiple as a guide to think through this question.</p>\n<p>From the P/E formula, one can derive the following: future stock price is determined by the company’s earnings delivered (the denominator “E”) and how much investors are willing to pay for those earnings (the valuation multiple). Therefore, in the Amazon vs. Apple race to 2025, whichever does best at delivering EPS above consensus and/or commanding a richer earnings multiple wins.</p>\n<p>Clearly, this is open for debate since the future in uncertain. But I believe that Amazon stock has a better chance of producing higher gains than Apple through 2025.</p>\n<p>First, I find it highly unlikely that AMZN’s earnings multiple will converge from the 60s of today to the low 20s in 2025. This would only be feasible if the company’s growth opportunities dried out quickly, which I am not counting on. On the other hand, Apple’s P/E is more likely to stay around 20 to 25 times, given the more mature profile of the company relative to Amazon.</p>\n<p>This is not to say that I expect Amazon’s P/E to expand from 64 times. The opposite is more likely to happen, as the company ages. But if the stock is valued at, say, 40 times EPS in 2025, Amazon would not even need to deliver results beyond expectations to see its stock price double in five years.</p>\n<p>Regarding consensus, I also think that Amazon can beat expectations by a wider margin than Apple could. The e-commerce giant has been more aggressive at investing back in the business. The green- and brown-field revenue growth opportunities in e-commerce and cloud seem better.</p>\n<p>In addition, Amazon’s margins could expand substantially (see five-year trend below), if or once the company’s online retail business gets closer to maturity. Apple could also improve its margin profile but probably much less so, given how profitable the company already is.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e59ae6a459751303dfd48c45ae47f99\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"199\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><i>Figure 2: AMZN gross margin vs. operating margin.</i></p>\n<p><i>Stock Rover</i></p>\n<p><b>Twitter speaks</b></p>\n<p>Fun fact: Amazon and Apple stock trade at roughly the same 2025 P/E (i.e. 2025 earnings in the denominator) of around 21 times, even though AMZN seems much more expensive at today’s valuations. Which do you think will produce more gains in the next five years?</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e56ed880cf0d62550fc0ee752a46efff\" tg-width=\"568\" tg-height=\"471\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>","source":"lsy1610613172068","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>Is Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?</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\">\nIs Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-24 19:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/is-amazon-stock-a-better-buy-than-apple-through-2025><strong>The Street</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?\n\nAt first glance, ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/is-amazon-stock-a-better-buy-than-apple-through-2025\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/is-amazon-stock-a-better-buy-than-apple-through-2025","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1198422658","content_text":"Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?\n\nAt first glance, Apple (AAPL) -Get Report and Amazon (AMZN) -Get Report stocks appeal to two distinct group of investors. The former, trading at 26 times current earnings, is a blend of value and growth, what some might call a GARP play. The latter, trading at 64 times EPS, is the highest growth of FAAMG names.\nBut the Amazon Maven has unearthed an interesting finding. Both AAPL and AMZN are worth almost the same, in P/E terms, if one were to look forward to 2025. At comparable valuations, which is a better buy-and-hold through the mid-2020s?\nAAPL and AMZN: same valuation?\nThe P/E multiple is a popular valuation metric that adds context to a stock’s market price. The numerator tends to be prior-year (trailing), current-year or next-year (forward) earnings per share.\nAmazon commands a higher multiple, among other reasons, because of the company’s more aggressive growth profile. Wall Street expects the e-commerce giant to increase EPS by a factor of four in the next five years. Apple, on the other hand, is project to “only” double earnings in the same period.\nBy 2025, this is what analysts expect of each company’s bottom line, and what the stock’s P/E would be if share prices remained unchanged:\n\nAmazon: 2025 EPS of $172.30, for a P/E of20.4times\nApple: fiscal 2025 EPS of $6.30, for a P/E of21.2times\n\nGiven enough time and assuming that current earnings projections are close enough to accurate, Amazon tends to become a less aggressively valued stock by the year. Maybe one day, in the not-too-distant future, shares could even start to look more appealing to value investors.\nWhich is the best bet?\nIf Amazon and Apple are valued at roughly the same 2025 P/E, one fair question to ask is: which stock might perform best in the next five years? I can use the earnings multiple as a guide to think through this question.\nFrom the P/E formula, one can derive the following: future stock price is determined by the company’s earnings delivered (the denominator “E”) and how much investors are willing to pay for those earnings (the valuation multiple). Therefore, in the Amazon vs. Apple race to 2025, whichever does best at delivering EPS above consensus and/or commanding a richer earnings multiple wins.\nClearly, this is open for debate since the future in uncertain. But I believe that Amazon stock has a better chance of producing higher gains than Apple through 2025.\nFirst, I find it highly unlikely that AMZN’s earnings multiple will converge from the 60s of today to the low 20s in 2025. This would only be feasible if the company’s growth opportunities dried out quickly, which I am not counting on. On the other hand, Apple’s P/E is more likely to stay around 20 to 25 times, given the more mature profile of the company relative to Amazon.\nThis is not to say that I expect Amazon’s P/E to expand from 64 times. The opposite is more likely to happen, as the company ages. But if the stock is valued at, say, 40 times EPS in 2025, Amazon would not even need to deliver results beyond expectations to see its stock price double in five years.\nRegarding consensus, I also think that Amazon can beat expectations by a wider margin than Apple could. The e-commerce giant has been more aggressive at investing back in the business. The green- and brown-field revenue growth opportunities in e-commerce and cloud seem better.\nIn addition, Amazon’s margins could expand substantially (see five-year trend below), if or once the company’s online retail business gets closer to maturity. Apple could also improve its margin profile but probably much less so, given how profitable the company already is.\nFigure 2: AMZN gross margin vs. operating margin.\nStock Rover\nTwitter speaks\nFun fact: Amazon and Apple stock trade at roughly the same 2025 P/E (i.e. 2025 earnings in the denominator) of around 21 times, even though AMZN seems much more expensive at today’s valuations. Which do you think will produce more gains in the next five years?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":543,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":886643721,"gmtCreate":1631589060963,"gmtModify":1676530583787,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"interesting article","listText":"interesting article","text":"interesting article","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":9,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/886643721","repostId":"1178276551","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1178276551","pubTimestamp":1631574947,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1178276551?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-14 07:15","market":"us","language":"en","title":"S&P 500 snaps losing streak with tax hikes, inflation data on horizon","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1178276551","media":"Reuters","summary":"NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 closed higher on Monday, ending a five-day losing streak as investo","content":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&amp;P 500 closed higher on Monday, ending a five-day losing streak as investors focused on potential corporate tax hikes and upcoming economic data.</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average also advanced, but the Nasdaq Composite Index ended lower.</p>\n<p>Investors favored value over growth, with stocks set to benefit most from a resurging economy enjoying the biggest percentage gains.</p>\n<p>“There are probably not a lot of positive surprises coming this month,” said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi in New York. “We’re having another period of volatility where I think that rotation could go back to cyclicals and the reopened trade, as the 10-year bond rate slowly grinds higher through the end of the year.”</p>\n<p>Market participants are focused on the likely passage of U.S. President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget package, which is expected to include a proposed corporate tax rate hike to 26.5% from 21%.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs analysts see the corporate tax rate increasing to 25% and the passage of about half of a proposed increase to tax rates on foreign income, which they estimate would reduce S&amp;P 500 earnings by 5% in 2022.</p>\n<p>The Labor Department is due to release its consumer price index data on Tuesday, which could shed further light on the current inflation wave and whether it is as transitory as the Fed insists.</p>\n<p>“I don’t see inflation settling back down under 2% where it was pre-pandemic,” Young added. “Even if some of those transitory forces weaken, we will still stay at a higher rate than we were before.”</p>\n<p>Other key indicators due this week include retail sales and consumer sentiment, which could illuminate how much the demand boom driven by economic re-engagement has been dampened by the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant.</p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 261.91 points, or 0.76%, to 34,869.63, the S&amp;P 500 gained 10.15 points, or 0.23%, at 4,468.73 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 9.91 points, or 0.07%, to 15,105.58.</p>\n<p>Of the 11 major sectors in the S&amp;P 500, healthcare suffered the largest percentage loss, while energy, buoyed by rising crude prices was the biggest gainer.</p>\n<p>Shares of vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer Inc sank 6.6% and 2.2%, respectively, after experts said COVID booster shots are not widely needed.</p>\n<p>Coinbase Global Inc announced plans to raise about $1.5 billion through a debt offering aimed at funding product development and potential acquisitions. The cryptocurrency exchanges shares slid 2.2%.</p>\n<p>Salesforce.com Inc dipped 1.2% as rival Freshworks Inc’s regulatory filing indicated that the business engagement and customer engagement software company is aiming for a nearly $9 billion valuation in it U.S. debut.</p>\n<p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.60-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.02-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 posted 12 new 52-week highs and one new low; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 53 new highs and 71 new lows.</p>\n<p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.30 billion shares, compared with the 9.29 billion average over the last 20 trading days.</p>","source":"lsy1601381805984","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>S&P 500 snaps losing streak with tax hikes, inflation data on horizon</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The cryptocurrency exchanges shares slid 2.2%.\nSalesforce.com Inc dipped 1.2% as rival Freshworks Inc’s regulatory filing indicated that the business engagement and customer engagement software company is aiming for a nearly $9 billion valuation in it U.S. debut.\nAdvancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.60-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.02-to-1 ratio favored advancers.\nThe S&P 500 posted 12 new 52-week highs and one new low; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 53 new highs and 71 new lows.\nVolume on U.S. exchanges was 10.30 billion shares, compared with the 9.29 billion average over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":398,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":143791144,"gmtCreate":1625815524988,"gmtModify":1703749113045,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)","listText":"I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)","text":"I think as long as Netflix keeps making original shows (like money heist, lupin, vincenzo), they'll be able to remain competitive against the new streaming services popping up (disney+, HBO go, etc)","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/143791144","repostId":"2149340744","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":571,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":817479923,"gmtCreate":1630984047162,"gmtModify":1676530434552,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"We can always count on&nbsp;US innovation","listText":"We can always count on&nbsp;US innovation","text":"We can always count on US innovation","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/817479923","repostId":"2165577384","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2165577384","pubTimestamp":1630981730,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2165577384?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-07 10:28","market":"us","language":"en","title":"5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2165577384","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Patience can pay off handsomely if you own stakes in dominant companies like these.","content":"<p>There are a lot of ways for American workers to build wealth. They can shuffle money under the mattress, buy bank certificates of deposit (CD) or bonds, or purchase a house and cross their fingers that it appreciates at a faster pace than the prevailing rate of inflation. But over the long run, no investment vehicle has delivered a higher annualized return than stocks.</p>\n<p>If you invest in great companies and allow your investment thesis to play out over many years, if not decades, stocks have the power to make the American worker rich.</p>\n<p>Understandably, there's no singular definition to being rich. For some people, that might mean buying their dream car or owning a boat. For others, \"rich\" could mean the added value of spending more time with family or not having to worry about paying their monthly bills.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fstack-of-one-hundred-dollar-bills-cash-money-invest-retire-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"491\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<p>By the time working Americans hit retirement, the following five winning stocks have the potential to make them rich.</p>\n<h2>Berkshire Hathaway</h2>\n<p>Sometimes, the best long-term investments are boring. That's the case with <b>Berkshire Hathaway</b> (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B), the conglomerate that's been run by billionaire Warren Buffett since 1965. In Buffett's more than five decades at the helm, he's created over $500 billion in value for Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders and overseen an annual average return of 20%. In aggregate, we're talking about a return of closer to 3,400,000% for the Class A shares (BRK.A), taking into account year-to-date gains.</p>\n<p>One of the reasons Berkshire is such a successful company is its cyclical ties. A majority of the company's nearly $323 billion investment portfolio is tied up in technology, financials, and consumer staples. These are sectors that perform really well when the U.S. and global economy are firing on all cylinders. Even though recessions are an inevitable part of the economic cycle, Buffett is keenly aware that periods of expansion last considerably longer than periods of contraction. In other words, the Oracle of Omaha is simply playing the odds.</p>\n<p>The other key to Berkshire's superior returns is its dividend stock ties. While Berkshire doesn't pay a dividend, quite a few of the companies it's invested in do. All told, my back-of-the-envelope calculation has Berkshire netting around $5.1 billion in dividend income this year. Based on its initial cost basis, this works out to a roughly 5% yield, which is insanely good, and points to the company's likelihood of being wildly successful for many years to come.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fhealthcare-investing-retirement-surgeon-cash-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<h2>Intuitive Surgical</h2>\n<p>Businesses that have clearly identifiable and sustainable competitive advantages are also a smart place to put money to work. Surgical-assisted robotic systems developer <b>Intuitive Surgical</b> (NASDAQ:ISRG) is a perfect example of a company with a dominant presence that can make American workers rich.</p>\n<p>When the first half of 2021 came to a close, Intuitive Surgical had 6,335 of its da Vinci surgical systems installed worldwide (although most are in the United States.). You could add up all of the company's competitors, and you still wouldn't come close to the number of surgical systems Intuitive has installed. Between the high cost of these systems ($0.5 million to $2.5 million), the training provided to surgeons, and the rapport built up over the past 20 years, Intuitive Surgical is effectively locking in its clients for a long time.</p>\n<p>More importantly, Intuitive Surgical is designed to improve its operating margins over time. This is a fancy way of saying that earnings growth can outpace sales growth for years, if not decades, to come.</p>\n<p>Initially, selling its da Vinci systems made up the bulk of the company's revenue. But these are intricate systems to build, which meant margins weren't all that great. As time has passed, most of Intuitive's sales are now derived from instruments sold with each procedure and the servicing of its systems. These are higher-margin categories and the company's ticket to a growing bottom line.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fsquare-card-terminal.png&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"520\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Square.</span></p>\n<h2>Square</h2>\n<p>If you want unbridled innovation, look no further than fintech stock <b>Square</b> (NYSE:SQ). Despite its huge run since the pandemic low in March 2020, it has all the tools needed to eventually become a $1 trillion company.</p>\n<p>Square's foundational segment continues to be its seller ecosystem. This is what provides point-of-sale devices, analytics, loans, and other tools to help merchants successfully grow their business. In the seven years leading up to the pandemic, gross payment volume (GPV) catapulted from $6.5 billion to $106.2 billion. This year, GPV should easily clear $140 billion.</p>\n<p>Something interesting to note about the seller ecosystem is that it's not just for small merchants any longer. In the June-ended quarter, 65% of all GPV derived from sellers with at least $125,000 in annualized GPV. That's up 10 percentage points from the comparable period in 2019. Since this is a merchant fee-driven segment, bigger merchants mean more gross profit.</p>\n<p>However, all eyes are on digital peer-to-peer payment platform Cash App, which more than quintupled its monthly active user count in three years. Cash App broadens Square's ability to generate revenue, and it brought in $55 in gross profit per user in the second quarter, compared to an acquisition cost per user of only around $5. These insane margins should power Square's valuation a lot higher.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fbusinessman-laptop-internet-search-research-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<h2>Pinterest</h2>\n<p>Another winning stock with the potential to make American workers rich by retirement is social media up-and-comer <b>Pinterest</b> (NYSE:PINS).</p>\n<p>Though a lot of emphasis has been placed on Pinterest's monthly active user (MAU) retracement in the second quarter, this near-term blip overlooks some very core and positive trends. For instance, user growth regressed in Q2 2021, but it remains well within historic norms, if examined over a three-year period.</p>\n<p>What's far more important is that Pinterest's average revenue per user (ARPU) continues to soar. Despite the sequential quarterly MAU retracement in Q2, global ARPU rose 89% year over year, with international ARPU up an even more impressive 163%. What this tells us is that merchants are willing to pay up to reach Pinterest's MAU base of 454 million people. That's a lot of potentially motivated people, and merchants know it.</p>\n<p>Ultimately, Pinterest is still in the early innings of monetizing what could become a top e-commerce platform. Whereas most social media requires advertisers to somewhat guess about the interests of users, Pinterest's MAUs are willingly sharing the places, services, and things that interest them. All Pinterest has to do is keep users engaged for its middleman e-commerce platform to work its magic.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F641661%2Fwoman-worker-employee-wearing-headset-crm-software-computer-office-getty.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"510\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Image source: Getty Images.</span></p>\n<h2><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRM\">Salesforce</a></h2>\n<p>A fifth and final winning stock that can help working Americans retire rich and on their own terms is cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software provider <b>Salesforce.com</b> (NYSE:CRM).</p>\n<p>In simple terms, consumer-facing businesses use CRM software to enhance customer relationships and improve sales. Aside from accessing and logging real-time client info, CRM software is used to manage online marketing campaigns, handle service issues, and run predictive analyses on a company's existing client base.</p>\n<p>If you're wondering where Salesforce fits into the CRM space, it's the clear-cut alpha. In the first half of 2020, IDC found that practically $0.20 of every $1 spent globally on CRM was through Salesforce. The company's four largest competitors don't even add up to Salesforce's market share in the CRM space. Translation: The company's position as an industry leader is very secure.</p>\n<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has also done an exemplary job of expanding via acquisition. The purchases of MuleSoft, Tableau, and, more recently, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/WORK\">Slack Technologies</a> have helped to expand its customer-centric ecosystem and appeal to a larger swath of small and medium-sized businesses. With Benioff calling for $50 billion in annual sales by fiscal 2026 (Salesforce reported $21.3 billion in sales in fiscal 2021), it's a good bet to outperform for investors.</p>","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>5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement</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\">\n5 Winning Stocks That Can Make American Workers Rich by Retirement\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-07 10:28 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/06/5-winning-stocks-can-make-american-workers-rich/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>There are a lot of ways for American workers to build wealth. They can shuffle money under the mattress, buy bank certificates of deposit (CD) or bonds, or purchase a house and cross their fingers ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/06/5-winning-stocks-can-make-american-workers-rich/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"PINS":"Pinterest, Inc.","BRK.A":"伯克希尔","CRM":"赛富时","BRK.B":"伯克希尔B","ISRG":"直觉外科公司","SQ":"Block"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/06/5-winning-stocks-can-make-american-workers-rich/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2165577384","content_text":"There are a lot of ways for American workers to build wealth. They can shuffle money under the mattress, buy bank certificates of deposit (CD) or bonds, or purchase a house and cross their fingers that it appreciates at a faster pace than the prevailing rate of inflation. But over the long run, no investment vehicle has delivered a higher annualized return than stocks.\nIf you invest in great companies and allow your investment thesis to play out over many years, if not decades, stocks have the power to make the American worker rich.\nUnderstandably, there's no singular definition to being rich. For some people, that might mean buying their dream car or owning a boat. For others, \"rich\" could mean the added value of spending more time with family or not having to worry about paying their monthly bills.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nBy the time working Americans hit retirement, the following five winning stocks have the potential to make them rich.\nBerkshire Hathaway\nSometimes, the best long-term investments are boring. That's the case with Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B), the conglomerate that's been run by billionaire Warren Buffett since 1965. In Buffett's more than five decades at the helm, he's created over $500 billion in value for Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders and overseen an annual average return of 20%. In aggregate, we're talking about a return of closer to 3,400,000% for the Class A shares (BRK.A), taking into account year-to-date gains.\nOne of the reasons Berkshire is such a successful company is its cyclical ties. A majority of the company's nearly $323 billion investment portfolio is tied up in technology, financials, and consumer staples. These are sectors that perform really well when the U.S. and global economy are firing on all cylinders. Even though recessions are an inevitable part of the economic cycle, Buffett is keenly aware that periods of expansion last considerably longer than periods of contraction. In other words, the Oracle of Omaha is simply playing the odds.\nThe other key to Berkshire's superior returns is its dividend stock ties. While Berkshire doesn't pay a dividend, quite a few of the companies it's invested in do. All told, my back-of-the-envelope calculation has Berkshire netting around $5.1 billion in dividend income this year. Based on its initial cost basis, this works out to a roughly 5% yield, which is insanely good, and points to the company's likelihood of being wildly successful for many years to come.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIntuitive Surgical\nBusinesses that have clearly identifiable and sustainable competitive advantages are also a smart place to put money to work. Surgical-assisted robotic systems developer Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) is a perfect example of a company with a dominant presence that can make American workers rich.\nWhen the first half of 2021 came to a close, Intuitive Surgical had 6,335 of its da Vinci surgical systems installed worldwide (although most are in the United States.). You could add up all of the company's competitors, and you still wouldn't come close to the number of surgical systems Intuitive has installed. Between the high cost of these systems ($0.5 million to $2.5 million), the training provided to surgeons, and the rapport built up over the past 20 years, Intuitive Surgical is effectively locking in its clients for a long time.\nMore importantly, Intuitive Surgical is designed to improve its operating margins over time. This is a fancy way of saying that earnings growth can outpace sales growth for years, if not decades, to come.\nInitially, selling its da Vinci systems made up the bulk of the company's revenue. But these are intricate systems to build, which meant margins weren't all that great. As time has passed, most of Intuitive's sales are now derived from instruments sold with each procedure and the servicing of its systems. These are higher-margin categories and the company's ticket to a growing bottom line.\nImage source: Square.\nSquare\nIf you want unbridled innovation, look no further than fintech stock Square (NYSE:SQ). Despite its huge run since the pandemic low in March 2020, it has all the tools needed to eventually become a $1 trillion company.\nSquare's foundational segment continues to be its seller ecosystem. This is what provides point-of-sale devices, analytics, loans, and other tools to help merchants successfully grow their business. In the seven years leading up to the pandemic, gross payment volume (GPV) catapulted from $6.5 billion to $106.2 billion. This year, GPV should easily clear $140 billion.\nSomething interesting to note about the seller ecosystem is that it's not just for small merchants any longer. In the June-ended quarter, 65% of all GPV derived from sellers with at least $125,000 in annualized GPV. That's up 10 percentage points from the comparable period in 2019. Since this is a merchant fee-driven segment, bigger merchants mean more gross profit.\nHowever, all eyes are on digital peer-to-peer payment platform Cash App, which more than quintupled its monthly active user count in three years. Cash App broadens Square's ability to generate revenue, and it brought in $55 in gross profit per user in the second quarter, compared to an acquisition cost per user of only around $5. These insane margins should power Square's valuation a lot higher.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nPinterest\nAnother winning stock with the potential to make American workers rich by retirement is social media up-and-comer Pinterest (NYSE:PINS).\nThough a lot of emphasis has been placed on Pinterest's monthly active user (MAU) retracement in the second quarter, this near-term blip overlooks some very core and positive trends. For instance, user growth regressed in Q2 2021, but it remains well within historic norms, if examined over a three-year period.\nWhat's far more important is that Pinterest's average revenue per user (ARPU) continues to soar. Despite the sequential quarterly MAU retracement in Q2, global ARPU rose 89% year over year, with international ARPU up an even more impressive 163%. What this tells us is that merchants are willing to pay up to reach Pinterest's MAU base of 454 million people. That's a lot of potentially motivated people, and merchants know it.\nUltimately, Pinterest is still in the early innings of monetizing what could become a top e-commerce platform. Whereas most social media requires advertisers to somewhat guess about the interests of users, Pinterest's MAUs are willingly sharing the places, services, and things that interest them. All Pinterest has to do is keep users engaged for its middleman e-commerce platform to work its magic.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nSalesforce\nA fifth and final winning stock that can help working Americans retire rich and on their own terms is cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM).\nIn simple terms, consumer-facing businesses use CRM software to enhance customer relationships and improve sales. Aside from accessing and logging real-time client info, CRM software is used to manage online marketing campaigns, handle service issues, and run predictive analyses on a company's existing client base.\nIf you're wondering where Salesforce fits into the CRM space, it's the clear-cut alpha. In the first half of 2020, IDC found that practically $0.20 of every $1 spent globally on CRM was through Salesforce. The company's four largest competitors don't even add up to Salesforce's market share in the CRM space. Translation: The company's position as an industry leader is very secure.\nSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff has also done an exemplary job of expanding via acquisition. The purchases of MuleSoft, Tableau, and, more recently, Slack Technologies have helped to expand its customer-centric ecosystem and appeal to a larger swath of small and medium-sized businesses. With Benioff calling for $50 billion in annual sales by fiscal 2026 (Salesforce reported $21.3 billion in sales in fiscal 2021), it's a good bet to outperform for investors.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":488,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":122395299,"gmtCreate":1624596471711,"gmtModify":1703841348531,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin","listText":"doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin","text":"doesnt bode well for climate change if they dont find a more sustainable way to use bitcoin","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122395299","repostId":"2146021046","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2146021046","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1624589404,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2146021046?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-25 10:50","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2146021046","media":"Reuters","summary":"SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on","content":"<p>SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on Thursday that a recently passed law making bitcoin legal tender will take effect on Sept. 7, noting that its use will be optional.</p>\n<p>El Salvador's Congress on June 9 approved Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.</p>\n<p>\"The use of bitcoin will be optional, nobody will receive bitcoin if they don't want it... If someone receives a payment in bitcoin they can choose to automatically receive it in dollars,\" said Bukele.</p>\n<p>Salaries and pensions will continue to be paid in U.S. dollars, said Bukele, without specifying if that included salaries paid to state workers and private sector employees.</p>\n<p>Earlier in the day Athena Bitcoin said it plans to invest over $1 million to install some 1,500 cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad.</p>\n<p>According to Athena Bitcoin's website, the ATMs can be used to buy bitcoins or sell them for cash.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nBitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1036604489\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-25 10:50</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on Thursday that a recently passed law making bitcoin legal tender will take effect on Sept. 7, noting that its use will be optional.</p>\n<p>El Salvador's Congress on June 9 approved Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.</p>\n<p>\"The use of bitcoin will be optional, nobody will receive bitcoin if they don't want it... If someone receives a payment in bitcoin they can choose to automatically receive it in dollars,\" said Bukele.</p>\n<p>Salaries and pensions will continue to be paid in U.S. dollars, said Bukele, without specifying if that included salaries paid to state workers and private sector employees.</p>\n<p>Earlier in the day Athena Bitcoin said it plans to invest over $1 million to install some 1,500 cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad.</p>\n<p>According to Athena Bitcoin's website, the ATMs can be used to buy bitcoins or sell them for cash.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2146021046","content_text":"SAN SALVADOR, June 24 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said in a national address on Thursday that a recently passed law making bitcoin legal tender will take effect on Sept. 7, noting that its use will be optional.\nEl Salvador's Congress on June 9 approved Bukele's proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency, making El Salvador the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.\n\"The use of bitcoin will be optional, nobody will receive bitcoin if they don't want it... If someone receives a payment in bitcoin they can choose to automatically receive it in dollars,\" said Bukele.\nSalaries and pensions will continue to be paid in U.S. dollars, said Bukele, without specifying if that included salaries paid to state workers and private sector employees.\nEarlier in the day Athena Bitcoin said it plans to invest over $1 million to install some 1,500 cryptocurrency ATMs in El Salvador, especially where residents receive remittances from abroad.\nAccording to Athena Bitcoin's website, the ATMs can be used to buy bitcoins or sell them for cash.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":426,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":817914759,"gmtCreate":1630897221971,"gmtModify":1676530415340,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though","listText":"Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though","text":"Cryptocurrency is so environmentally unfriendly though","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/817914759","repostId":"1156270360","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1156270360","pubTimestamp":1630893227,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1156270360?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-06 09:53","market":"fut","language":"en","title":"What August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1156270360","media":"Yahoo Finance","summary":"Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data sugges","content":"<p>Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal.</p>\n<p>Last week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000&nbsp;for the second time in two weeks, extending a rally that put a&nbsp;grim sell-off that started in May&nbsp;further in the rear-view mirror. While notable for its volatility, gains in the the largest cryptocurrency may have gotten lost in the swell of rising prices across the entire asset class.</p>\n<p>With a majority of decentralized finance and non-fungible token (NFT) trading happening on the Ethereum (ETH-USD) blockchain, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose by a third from $2,700 to $3,900, a growth rate 17 percent higher than BTC.</p>\n<p>And other blockchain-based currencies such as the third highest valued cryptocurrency, Cardano (ADA-USD) has more than doubled while a newer one, Solana (SOL-USD), has more than tripled in value over the past month. ADA and SOL have continued to notch almost daily all time highs for the past two weeks.</p>\n<p>Bitcoin IRA, an investment platform that helps retail investors gain crypto exposure in their retirement accounts, saw “record-breaking inflows” of new accounts over the previous month.</p>\n<p>“We broke our record in the first quarter right before Bitcoin ran from $45,000 to $65,000,” the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Chris Kline told Yahoo Finance. “We’re seeing the same pattern happen again. So this past month [August] felt a lot like April, but about twice as big.”</p>\n<p><b>The search for growth</b></p>\n<p>Currently, Bitcoin IRA has close to 120,000 client accounts, with approximately $2 billion in assets on the platform. Although platform's heft doesn’t move the market, the swell of retail investors opening new accounts — especially for tax-advantaged IRA accounts — is an indicator of how curious investors are as they seek more traditional ways to participate in this market.</p>\n<p>By rough approximation across all accounts, Kline said his clients hold 43% of their portfolio in bitcoin, 27% in ethereum, and the remaining 30 percent in a mix of other cryptocurrencies. The company offers 10 different cryptocurrencies in total, and is planning to more than double their crypto offerings in the fall.</p>\n<p>Back in early May when Ethereum started rising to its all-time high above $4,000, the company saw a large influx of swaps or pairing from BTC to ETH. It signaled many of his clients were shifting their portfolios from BTC to ETH.</p>\n<p>However, in recent weeks? “Not so much this time,” Kline told Yahoo Finance.</p>\n<p>To be sure, there could be a lag. “Retail buyers are looking for percentage growth. While bitcoin reigns supreme, it has relatively stable growth while there is exponential growth happening on ethereum. That’s what really gets their attention,” Kline explained.</p>\n<p>Bitcoin's August peak at $50K served as a “key technical and psychological level,” according to Will Clemente, an analyst at crypto mining and hardware broker Blockware Solutions.</p>\n<p>Clemente told Yahoo Finance that for the last seven days, bitcoin’s price has remained in what he called a “volatility squeeze.” The idea being that buyers and sellers have balanced each other out, thereby reducing the asset’s typically high volatility.</p>\n<p>But the analyst suggested that could be about to change. A volatility squeeze for bitcoin usually takes a week to two weeks to resolve.</p>\n<p>“That’s not telling you the direction, it's just telling you that there’s going to be a big move soon,” said Clemente.</p>\n<p>Analyzing price action alone remains a dominant, more contested method for predicting buyers and sellers around a cryptocurrency. But Clemente’s specialization, on-chain analysis, has quickly become a crucial tool kit of metrics for investors hoping to gleam some clarity into the nascent asset-class.</p>\n<p>Similar to technical analysis, the on-chain technique tries to forecast future moves based on supply and demand. However, it relies on a far larger quantity of data only available for assets operating on publicly available blockchains.</p>\n<p>While Clemente cannot predict the price shift of Bitcoin, he pointed to a handful of supply shock ratios, such as the movement of coin supply from speculators to long term holders and the exchange supply ratio, which shows the number of Bitcoins available to buy on exchanges relative to the overall circulating supply.</p>\n<p>Each of these metrics continue to rise higher after Bitcoin crested above $50,000, according to Clemente. Historically, supply shocks begin before the Bitcoin price moves upward.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9ae3f72ad41578a53f1ab5a8c4491d4f\" tg-width=\"960\" tg-height=\"541\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Bitcoin Illiquid Supply (RSI)</span></p>","source":"yahoofinance_sg","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin</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\">\nWhat August's record breaking month for crypto flows means for bitcoin\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-06 09:53 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-augusts-record-breaking-month-for-crypto-flows-means-for-bitcoin-163906276.html><strong>Yahoo Finance</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal.\nLast week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000 for...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-augusts-record-breaking-month-for-crypto-flows-means-for-bitcoin-163906276.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GBTC":"Grayscale Bitcoin Trust"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-augusts-record-breaking-month-for-crypto-flows-means-for-bitcoin-163906276.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1156270360","content_text":"Over the past month, the crypto market has looked like a rising tide for all coins — but data suggest growth across the asset class hasn’t been equal.\nLast week, Bitcoin (BTC-USD) breached $50,000 for the second time in two weeks, extending a rally that put a grim sell-off that started in May further in the rear-view mirror. While notable for its volatility, gains in the the largest cryptocurrency may have gotten lost in the swell of rising prices across the entire asset class.\nWith a majority of decentralized finance and non-fungible token (NFT) trading happening on the Ethereum (ETH-USD) blockchain, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose by a third from $2,700 to $3,900, a growth rate 17 percent higher than BTC.\nAnd other blockchain-based currencies such as the third highest valued cryptocurrency, Cardano (ADA-USD) has more than doubled while a newer one, Solana (SOL-USD), has more than tripled in value over the past month. ADA and SOL have continued to notch almost daily all time highs for the past two weeks.\nBitcoin IRA, an investment platform that helps retail investors gain crypto exposure in their retirement accounts, saw “record-breaking inflows” of new accounts over the previous month.\n“We broke our record in the first quarter right before Bitcoin ran from $45,000 to $65,000,” the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Chris Kline told Yahoo Finance. “We’re seeing the same pattern happen again. So this past month [August] felt a lot like April, but about twice as big.”\nThe search for growth\nCurrently, Bitcoin IRA has close to 120,000 client accounts, with approximately $2 billion in assets on the platform. Although platform's heft doesn’t move the market, the swell of retail investors opening new accounts — especially for tax-advantaged IRA accounts — is an indicator of how curious investors are as they seek more traditional ways to participate in this market.\nBy rough approximation across all accounts, Kline said his clients hold 43% of their portfolio in bitcoin, 27% in ethereum, and the remaining 30 percent in a mix of other cryptocurrencies. The company offers 10 different cryptocurrencies in total, and is planning to more than double their crypto offerings in the fall.\nBack in early May when Ethereum started rising to its all-time high above $4,000, the company saw a large influx of swaps or pairing from BTC to ETH. It signaled many of his clients were shifting their portfolios from BTC to ETH.\nHowever, in recent weeks? “Not so much this time,” Kline told Yahoo Finance.\nTo be sure, there could be a lag. “Retail buyers are looking for percentage growth. While bitcoin reigns supreme, it has relatively stable growth while there is exponential growth happening on ethereum. That’s what really gets their attention,” Kline explained.\nBitcoin's August peak at $50K served as a “key technical and psychological level,” according to Will Clemente, an analyst at crypto mining and hardware broker Blockware Solutions.\nClemente told Yahoo Finance that for the last seven days, bitcoin’s price has remained in what he called a “volatility squeeze.” The idea being that buyers and sellers have balanced each other out, thereby reducing the asset’s typically high volatility.\nBut the analyst suggested that could be about to change. A volatility squeeze for bitcoin usually takes a week to two weeks to resolve.\n“That’s not telling you the direction, it's just telling you that there’s going to be a big move soon,” said Clemente.\nAnalyzing price action alone remains a dominant, more contested method for predicting buyers and sellers around a cryptocurrency. But Clemente’s specialization, on-chain analysis, has quickly become a crucial tool kit of metrics for investors hoping to gleam some clarity into the nascent asset-class.\nSimilar to technical analysis, the on-chain technique tries to forecast future moves based on supply and demand. However, it relies on a far larger quantity of data only available for assets operating on publicly available blockchains.\nWhile Clemente cannot predict the price shift of Bitcoin, he pointed to a handful of supply shock ratios, such as the movement of coin supply from speculators to long term holders and the exchange supply ratio, which shows the number of Bitcoins available to buy on exchanges relative to the overall circulating supply.\nEach of these metrics continue to rise higher after Bitcoin crested above $50,000, according to Clemente. Historically, supply shocks begin before the Bitcoin price moves upward.\nBitcoin Illiquid Supply (RSI)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":510,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":880463590,"gmtCreate":1631072938510,"gmtModify":1676530460065,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"never heard of this online shopping platform before. Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc","listText":"never heard of this online shopping platform before. Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc","text":"never heard of this online shopping platform before. Whether it grows will be dependent on how it sets itself apart from the big players like shopee, lazada, etc","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/880463590","repostId":"1120889633","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1120889633","pubTimestamp":1631068652,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1120889633?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-08 10:37","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Is Sea Limited Stock A Good Buy For The Long-Term?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1120889633","media":"Seeking Alpha","summary":"Summary\n\nSea Limited is a very high-quality growth stock that surprisingly receives less attention t","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Sea Limited is a very high-quality growth stock that surprisingly receives less attention than Alibaba, MercadoLibre, and Amazon, even though it has outperformed all of them, hands down.</li>\n <li>We help investors understand the key metrics in a useful analytical framework to evaluate Sea Limited's growth opportunities and whether it is worthy of a long-term position.</li>\n <li>Lastly, we present our valuation argument to help our readers to decide whether they should add Sea Limited stock right now.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6050b357f1df083177d9ed6c9d848071\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1163\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>nuttapong/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>Investment Thesis</b></p>\n<p>Sea Limited(NYSE:SE)is one of our core holdings in our growth portfolio and one that we have taken the opportunity to add on major dips in the uptrend over the last year as the stock's incredible momentum saw it easily outperforming its e-commerce peers and mobile gaming peers.</p>\n<p>For growth investors, Sea's incredible growth trajectory has been truly phenomenal, coupled with it being free of Beijing's oversights that saw its Chinese peers fall like dominoes, stunning even institutional investors with the pace of the government's \"rectification\" adjustments.</p>\n<p>Sea's ascent has also been somewhat of a conundrum for value investors, as they don't get how an unprofitable company can be trading at such sky-high valuations without consequences.</p>\n<p>Therefore, to answer whether Sea Limited stock is a good long-term buy for investors, we will show our readers how to apply the appropriate analytical framework and valuation treatment to the company, based on its performance and its projections moving forward, so that investors can make meaningful decisions on whether they think Sea Limited is a worthy long-term addition to their portfolio now.</p>\n<p>For investors who are new to Sea Limited, we have recently written several articles on the company, which you can refer to them as a preamble.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0396874197381d0fc087a864425a26d9\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"331\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea &amp; Peers' stock YTD performance (as of 3 Sep 21)</span></p>\n<p>This year, Sea has been one of our portfolio's leading performers as the stock raced to an 83% YTD lead that easily outperformed all its peers and SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF(NYSEARCA:SPY). This performance is even more incredible because it came off an outstanding 2020, where it also outperformed with a 392% return.</p>\n<p>While the rest of its American and Chinese peers often received more coverage than this Singapore-headquartered company, it has been Sea which has been quietly delivering. It has been executing, expanding its Garena gaming ecosystem, and reaching new milestones. It's been scaling its e-commerce footprint to LatAm and demonstrating to Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN)&nbsp;that they are not experiencing any reopening headwinds. This is in contrast to what&nbsp;Amazon indicated&nbsp;in its recent earnings. The company is also growing its Sea Money footprint, especially through the Shopee/Shopee Pay flywheel, as the company stakes its FinTech leadership ambitions against Southeast Asia's FinTech leader Grab(NASDAQ:AGC).</p>\n<p>As a result of Sea Limited's incredible success, the group's China-born CEO&nbsp;Forrest Li&nbsp;is also now Singapore's richest man with a net worth of $20.3B.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1620f0a51f5f3cdb4a59c482df5ec1f1\" tg-width=\"380\" tg-height=\"236\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>SE quant rating (momentum). Source: Seeking Alpha Premium</span></p>\n<p>We have always reminded investors that Sea stock is one that you should never bet against even if you are bearish on its long-term prognosis. The stock has made one of the strongest upside moves we have seen for stocks in our growth portfolio. This is also corroborated by Seeking Alpha's proprietary quant momentum rating, giving it the best possible A+ grade on its most recent performance.</p>\n<p>Given the company and the stock's stupendous performances so far, we think it's only apt that investors ask whether SE's future optimism has been largely priced in, which is especially important for new investors who have yet to add its stock, where we will highlight the analytical framework on how investors can use to consider the company's prospects moving forward.</p>\n<p><b>Monitor Its Revenue Growth Closely</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e796ddaf599085b7ad02d64a84dd3b87\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited quarterly revenue. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f6ddcbf7578338f88c00c9432ab58f23\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited quarterly revenue YoY growth. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p>Sea Limited impressed with another awesome quarter of topline growth as total revenue grew 159% YoY on revenue of $2.28B. Its QoQ performance was also remarkable with a 29% QoQ growth, as the company shows that its gangbusters growth knows \"no limit.\"</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/60c7db30aeda80ea916ef8aa2816c93e\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited GAAP quarterly operating margins. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p>For companies like Sea, whose strategy is still focused very much on topline growth and building scale efficiencies in the process, we should not be too concerned with its negative operating margins, as long as the company clearly demonstrated that it could grow rapidly like in Sea's case, and also achieve economies of scale through ramping revenue as it seeks out its \"blue oceans.\" We also articulated this point in a recent article on Snowflake(NYSE:SNOW), which operates in a huge market with a massive opportunity to expand, and the firm has shown that it can execute its strategies very well to capture those revenue opportunities&nbsp;despite having negative operating margins right now.</p>\n<p>Therefore, Sea Limited has certainly struck the right notes here, and we see no cause for concern so far. What matters for investors now is whether the company is still expected to grow this rapidly moving forward.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5f1bb9296424b15e07d5536227010fd4\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited revenue mean consensus estimates. Data source: S&amp;P Capital IQ</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d5efed61b23216e709291326ae9eac3b\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"291\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sea Limited consensus revenue estimates revision trend. Source: Seeking Alpha Premium</span></p>\n<p>Readers should easily glean that the Street upgraded revenue forecasts for the company after Q2's earnings release from what they projected post Q1 earnings. For example, revenue projection for FY21 has been increased by 11.5% to reflect the improved guidance from the company. Even though projections for FY24 to FY25 look rather tepid, readers should note that only three analysts covered the FY24 projections, while only two covered for FY25, compared to the 18-21 analysts who covered FY21 to FY23 numbers. As a result, we will also focus our discussion up to FY23 numbers to keep them meaningful.</p>\n<p>The expected revenue CAGR from FY20 to FY23 is 59.1%, while it reads 40.1% from FY21 to FY23. Therefore, the market is still expecting Sea Limited to deliver remarkable topline growth rates moving forward.At the same time, we are cautiously optimistic about Sea Limited's future, under the skillful stewardship of Group CEO Forrest Li and his management team. The team includes his two very competent business unit chiefs&nbsp;Chris Feng&nbsp;and Terry Zhao. Feng was born in China and leads Shopee and Sea Money. He is a Stanford alumnus like Li and he was recruited from Lazada(NYSE:BABA)by Li in 2014. Feng is said to be a “very, very smart and very, very confident” person who “reacts quickly and has excellent abilities of recall.” Zhao is the president of Garena. Li has kept Zhao by his side since the company's inception. Li is unlike Alibaba's Jack Ma and prefers to keep a&nbsp;modest&nbsp;profile. Still, his team's execution has been nothing short of outstanding, and we see no reason to think otherwise moving forward for this founder-led company.</p>\n<p><b>Keep a Close Watch on Shopee's Adj. EBITDA</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/070f4ed8c5f05a52744d9e20681865ce\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Quarterly Adj. EBITDA. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a03828e68bf8d41a26be65d7ac633670\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Quarterly Adj. EBITDA by segments. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>Of particular concern, though, is that the company's Adj. EBITDA turned negative for the first time since Q2'20 as the increase in Adj. EBITDA losses from Shopee were greater than what Garena could cover in Q2'21. Investors should be able to glean from the second chart where it shows that Shopee's Adj. EBITDA losses increased to $679.77M in Q2'21, representing a 64.8% QoQ increase, while Garena's Adj. EBITDA only managed a 3.3% QoQ increase in Q2'21.</p>\n<p>Despite this observation, the company highlighted that its Malaysia market had turned Adj. EBITDA profitable, joining its Taiwan market. Therefore, we believe the huge increase in burn rate for Shopee is likely in its largest markets by gross merchandise value (GMV), such as Indonesia and Thailand. The company also alluded to this in its earnings call as it emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n And in terms of sales and marketing&nbsp;and related to competitive dynamics, I think we are -- again, as we discussed it before, given our strong market leadership, we're in a good position now that our sales and marketing is more driven by our view about the efficiency of investment into various markets at various points of time, for example, any shopping event season, any particular opportunities to promote the brand, et cetera...\n <i>And in terms of the cash burn...as we look at the market opportunities, the timing of the market, for example, in Q2, we have Ramadan season in our several largest markets including Indonesia.</i>And this is a time where investment into the growth and to promote e-commerce adoption is very efficient. We have increased our buy frequency overall to more than 6x a month.\n <i>And in Indonesia, it has exceeded 7x per month, which we believe is very healthy for a marketplace platform.</i>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3151acc225456e4078f859b16c1cb114\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"357\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee Indonesia 76th Independence Day poster (Shopee ada untuk Indonesia: Shopee is for Indonesia). Source: Shopee Indonesia LinkedIn</span></p>\n<p>Now, we emphasized Ramadan (which is not exclusive to Indonesia per se) because it's a massive annual event in Indonesia. We had a sojourn in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a year, and we can tell you it's one of the most important highlights in Indonesia's annual calendar. Therefore, we cannot further underscore the opportunities to boost sales during this important event. It shows that Shopee's management clearly understands its most important market very well, and Shopee also aligned its progress with Indonesia's progress as the country celebrated its 76th Independence Day on 17 Aug 21, as Shopee Indonesia reminded Indonesians that<i>\"Shopee is for Indonesia.\"</i></p>\n<p>Shopee Indonesia has quickly moved onto its next big 9.9 shopping event, and this time around, they recruited well-known Indonesian actor and martial artist Joe Taslim, who starred in the recent Mortal Kombat film as Sub-Zero. For readers familiar with Shopee's advertising strategy, the company often stars well-known local artists in its promotional campaigns. The ads are often quirky and dramatic, which helps capture the users' attention very easily and is often memorable. This recipe has served Shopee very well, and somehow its keen regional competitors such as Lazada and Tokopedia have found it difficult to emulate. We encourage investors and readers to continue keeping a close watch on Shopee's most important market moving forward.</p>\n<p>Therefore, while observing quarterly Adj. EBITDA moving back into negative territory wasn't exactly a welcome development; we need to consider the context. In Shopee's case, it was certainly an opportunity that they needed to undertake to take full advantage of the opportunity to boost sales during the important Ramadan festival which is mainly celebrated in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Therefore, we wouldn't be too concerned over a quarter's development and start to be worried, but instead, we should continue to monitor Shopee's Adj. EBITDA's development over the next few quarters, and give the company some space to execute its e-commerce strategies.</p>\n<p><b>Watch for Advertising's Share of Revenue</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/aad9a6a626381510c8e2399b70a4d7ea\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee Adj. EBITDA per order. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/72fa0e85e8eb2ba3d4eb65c68e2f68f3\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee quarterly take rate. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>As a result of Shoppe's increased Adj. EBITDA losses due to its heavier burn rate for Q2'21, we observed Shopee's Adj. EBITDA loss per order regressed to $0.41, from $0.38 in Q1'21. However, readers should note that this only represented a 7.9% QoQ increase, which is certainly much lower than the 64.8% QoQ increase in total Adj. EBITDA losses. This clearly shows that Shopee is benefiting from greater scale efficiencies, despite the larger burn rate due to the heavier investments in the quarter. In addition, the Adj. EBITDA loss per order was also not \"that bad,\" as it was still in line with Q4'20's metric. Moreover, we have certainly seen worse days, and this was nothing spectacular.</p>\n<p>Importantly, we noticed a marked and consistent improvement in Shopee's take rate for Q2'21 as it improved to 6.7% compared to 6.1% in Q1'21. Sea Limited was very clear on its earnings call where this improvement was mainly attributed to as it emphasized: \"This deepening monetization was driven mainly by<i>growing merchant investments in marketing and advertisement on the Shopee platform</i>to attract better and serve buyers.\"</p>\n<p>We think this is a critical development in Shopee's progress as it continues to scale rapidly. For example, in our recent Amazon article, we showed just how massive the advertising opportunity is for the company as it's now Amazon's fastest-growing revenue driver, and 90% of its ad revenue is centered on its e-commerce marketplace.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b0d892ee4f3fa12a1d7c862ecf56cf3b\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Shopee quarterly sales &amp; marketing (S&amp;M) margin. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>Therefore, even though we saw a marked increase in Shopee's S&amp;M margin from 49% in Q1'21 to 56.2% in Q2'21 (14.7% QoQ increase), we encourage investors to consider the company's overall Adj. EBITDA per order, which shows that the company has tremendous leverage to engage in aggressive marketing activities through better monetization in Shopee's platform.</p>\n<p><b>Garena's Bookings Growth Seems to Be Slowing Down</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f1b13b4908d9a6b7a2ebd889cf4fc198\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Garena bookings. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>The company reported a fantastic quarter for Garena again as it topped several charts. Sea highlighted that Garena's Free Fire continues to maintain incredible momentum in Southeast Asia, LatAm, and India as the highest-grossing game. In the US, Free Fire was \"ranked the highest-grossing mobile battle royale game for the past two quarters based on App Annie. Additionally, Free Fire was the second highest-grossing mobile game in the U.S. on Google Play across all games categories in the second quarter as well.\"</p>\n<p>While this is certainly impressive, we prefer to look at the global perspective on how Free Fire has performed against its peers. According to&nbsp;Sensor Tower&nbsp;data for H1'21, while Free Fire is the #2 top gross gaming app behind Moon Active's Coin Master on Google Play, it ranked only #8 in overall revenue when we included the App Store's top-grossing gaming apps such as Tencent's(OTCPK:TCEHY)Honor of Kings (#1 overall) and PUBG Mobile battle-royale game (#2 overall), and also Roblox (#4 overall)(NYSE:RBLX). Therefore, while Free Fire has been doing well in markets where the Android operating system (OS) is dominant, it hasn't performed quite as well in North America, where iOS is the leading OS (as we showed in our Digital Turbine(NASDAQ:APPS)article appendedhere). The US is the largest and the most important mobile gaming market, as it accounted for28%of the mobile gaming market share in 2020. Garena has never been a strong performer on iOS, and if the company can improve its performance in the App Store, the boost could be tremendous to Garena.</p>\n<p>While the company's bookings for Q2'21 remain strong as it posted a QoQ increase of 9.1% to $1.2B from $1.1B in Q1'21, the company only raised the guidance from $4.5B to $4.7B in bookings for FY21. When we consider H1'21's collective bookings of $2.3B, the company is therefore expecting H2'21 bookings to come in at $2.3B, which means they aren't expecting any material growth in bookings for the rest of the year as compared to H1'21. This was also picked up by one of the analysts on the conference call, and Group Chief Corporate Officer Yanjun Wang reminded:</p>\n<blockquote>\n We believe the overall guidance showed a more than 40% year-on-year growth compared to last year, which is also a record year for us with the commencement of lockdown. And I think this is a very strong performance already. And our focus, as you can tell from game and the metrics we have indicated as well as our views in terms of how to grow our gaming platform,\n <i>is to continue to first and foremost to grow our user base and also pay user base</i>across the various markets in the world as we continue to see strong potential growth. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4e708cd17fe0c5aaf6c51772d63f48fd\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Quarter paying users (QPU) / Quarterly active users (QAU). Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d5f5b4c4cef797d04f34591d7cb7ea08\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Average Booking Per User (ABPU) and Average Booking Per Paying User (ABPPU)). Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>The company's bookings trends can certainly be observed on a per-user or per paying user basis. The ABPPU has certainly been trending down, which reflects a drop in monetization per paying user, which is important as paying users are the ones that generate revenue for Garena. However, we didn't really observe a meaningful drop in the ABPU trend, despite the drop in ABPPU. This shows that even though there is \"less meat\" per paying user, newly minted paying users have been supporting the bookings, which we can certainly observe from the first chart where the QPU / QAU ratio has been consistently increasing, indicating that Garena has been getting better at converting and monetizing its huge non-paying users base. We think this is of huge significance when we consider that only 12.7% of users are paying users as of Q2'21, leaving the company massive opportunities to continue \"working its magic\" on monetizing the non-paying users. On this matter, Sea Limited was unabashed as it emphasized: \"...Our past track record has shown that we're generally good at commercialization in even markets that are known to be difficult for commercialization. So we don't really worry about not being able to commercialize the content down the road. But our focus continues to be growing the user base and making this an even larger platform that allows us to really tap on into it to build a stronger game ecosystem with very strong social elements in it.\"</p>\n<p><b>Building up eSports as a Social Platform</b></p>\n<p>We shared in our previous deep dive on Garena (link to the article is appendedhere), where Garena's ambitions are beyond just a mobile gaming app. The company has huge ambitions, and they have already been using eSports as the basis to build the community for its gamers and developing it into a social platform that perhaps is similar to what Roblox has advanced. Garena has already highlighted previously its ambitions on building this cohesive and broad social community as it emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n <i>...developingit into a social platform</i>where people not only come to play the core gameplay, but also enjoy other modes: hangout, listen to music, social lives… So our focus is to continue to promote a massive-based online platform and online community and provide them with content and opportunities for socializing engagement, try out different modes of games, try out different characters, avatars or having different ways of playing.\n</blockquote>\n<p>The revenue in global eSports is not that significant as it's only expected to reach $1.62B by 2024, as we highlighted in our Garena article. Still, the whole strategic intent is to build the all-encompassing social platform that will drive incredible engagement, platform stickiness beyond what a typical gaming app can do. Importantly, the company is also headquartered in Singapore, where the Singapore government is focused on building the global hub for eSports, as Southeast Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region for eSports, and the city-state recently opened a huge 12,000-sqft eSports experience center, as the Singapore Tourism Board emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n Our world-class events&nbsp;and digital infrastructure have also made Singapore an attractive location for the industry to hold gaming and e-sports events here. The government will continue to support companies as they push boundaries through experimenting with new and immersive content formats and business models, as well as level up the quality of our local talent to become leading creators of world-class content.\n</blockquote>\n<p>Garena also recently brought in \"globally renowned DJs&nbsp;Dimitri Vegas &amp; Like Mike, Alok, and KSHMR for Free Fire’s 4th-anniversary theme song, ‘Reunion,’\" following successful strategies adopted by Roblox in its metaverse development, and we think Garena is really still very early in its opportunity to develop its own metaverse.</p>\n<p><b>Sea Limited Stakes Its Claim On MercadoLibre's LatAm Leadership</b></p>\n<p>Without a doubt, the one that generates the most interest is the company's foray into LatAm, which Sea Limited recently updated that it has seen tremendous progress. We did a deep dive recently on this topic, and we encourage you to refer to our articlehere. While we think MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI)is the undisputed e-commerce and FinTech leader in LatAm, especially in LatAm's most important market: Brazil, Shopee's progress has been truly remarkable as it's now the #2 ranked e-commerce app in downloads in Brazil according to App Annie. However, although Shopee is surely making meaningful headway in Brazil, MELI is a different competitor than Tokopedia and Lazada. MELI understands LatAm's e-commerce space comprehensively and has a very impressive logistics and fulfillment network that is second to none in LatAm's notoriously challenging logistics infrastructure. Sea Limited also noted this, but the company thinks that it will be able to overcome these difficulties as it continues to invest in LatAm, which will help these third-party logistics providers to improve their efficiencies and competencies over time and close the gap with MELI as SE emphasized:</p>\n<blockquote>\n ...There hasn't been a lot of volume or traffic broadly generated across different platforms, then probably there is also a lack of initial growth opportunity for logistics. But on the one hand, we are also hopeful that with the growing e-commerce scene in the region and more focus of our global investors into the growth opportunities in the region, we may also see similar trends in those markets. And this is hopefully some contribution we can make to the market in terms of bringing more opportunities, bringing more digitization as well as e-commerce ecosystem that helps not just growth of Shopee but also growth of the surrounding services, including 3PLs within the region. And we've been partnering with 3PLs in our region very successfully in growing the e-commerce ecosystem. And at the same time, these third-party partners also enjoy the very strong growth on their end as well and the close partnership with Shopee. We are very happy to continue to adopt that model going forward in Brazil or the new markets as well. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n</blockquote>\n<p>We have indeed seen this great partnership between Shopee and its logistics partners in Southeast Asia, so much so that one of its key logistics partners in Indonesia:J&amp;T Express, is on track for its own IPO either in Hong Kong or the US. Therefore, while MELI certainly has the important lead in logistics right now, we believe it's only a matter of time the logistics infrastructure in LatAm improves with Shopee's involvement if it is willing to adopt the aggressiveness of its approach with Southeast Asia.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b58c9691ecea1beaa8e7bbec9861713\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>MELI Commerce Take Rate. Data source: Company filings</span></p>\n<p>If we consider MELI's commerce take rate as compared to Shopee's take rate, readers can easily observe the incredible monetization opportunities that are available in LatAm, and we can easily understand why Sea Limited is so keen to carve out MercadoLibre's leadership there because it's just so attractive. We think as Sea Limited gets more aggressive in its marketing in LatAm, MercadoLibre will start to feel the pressure to rein in its lucrative take rate to compete with Shopee's aggressive marketing tactics.</p>\n<p>Shopee has engaged international film star Jackie Chan for its global 9.9 campaign, and its Brazilian version (see above) has received even more views (3.3M) than some of its Asian counterparts that we last surveyed: Indonesia (1.2M views) and Singapore (1.6M views). We think Shopee has the potential to inflict huge damage to MELI's highly lucrative take rate as its Southeast Asian operations have achieved significant scale, and we think they are ready to take on LatAm's e-commerce leader with confidence. Readers should note that Shopee's e-commerce operations are way larger than MELI as Shopee boasts an LTM GMV of $48.8B as compared to MELI LTM GMV of $25.6B.</p>\n<p><b>Valuations Are Never Going to be Cheap</b></p>\n<p>We used a blended comps valuation comprising its EV/Fwd Rev multiples and its EV/Fwd EBITDA multiples using the following companies in the comps set: Amazon, Tencent, Roblox, MercadoLibre, and Square(NYSE:SQ).</p>\n<p>Using an aggressive valuation approach based on FY23 consensus estimates of EBITDA and Revenue, we arrived at an implied fair value of about $336.19 (mid-point) under the EBITDA multiples approach and $352.62 (mid-point) under the Revenue approach. Averaging out those fair values will give us a blended fair value of $344.41, which indicates a potential downside of about 2.5% from its last closing price of $353.36.</p>\n<p>Readers should also note that we have used an aggressive approach and have not considered a reasonable margin of safety. So, in essence, SE stock looks expensive right now, even though we don't expect it to be cheap for a high-quality growth stock like Sea Limited.</p>\n<p><b>SE Stock Price Action and Trend Analysis</b></p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cd66ba3ffcdaf31167f72ad7ac24d34c\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"420\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>SE stock price action (weekly).</span></p>\n<p>The rapid ascent of SE stock has left price action investors with little opportunities to add more exposure. However, we have still taken the opportunities in May to add more exposure to our portfolio and haven't added anymore since.</p>\n<p>While we have not witnessed any indication of a momentum shift in SE stock, we seriously don't think we will even consider adding exposure at this price level, as our aggressive valuation approach has shown us that quite a bit of the optimism has already been priced in. The stock is also starting to show flashes of flush-up price action that are indicative of potential bull-trap scenarios. While the price action has not been resolved yet, we are still monitoring for opportunities to perhaps enter cash-secured puts at more reasonable strike prices relative to the expected premium collected to try and take advantage of SE stock's incredible momentum.</p>\n<p>Hence, we hope that we have demonstrated in our earlier sections that Sea Limited is definitely in the early innings of its market opportunity. Still, the level of optimism in the stock will need some leveling off first so that long-term investors can add exposure at a more reasonable price level.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is Sea Limited Stock A Good Buy For The Long-Term?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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This performance is even more incredible because it came off an outstanding 2020, where it also outperformed with a 392% return.\nWhile the rest of its American and Chinese peers often received more coverage than this Singapore-headquartered company, it has been Sea which has been quietly delivering. It has been executing, expanding its Garena gaming ecosystem, and reaching new milestones. It's been scaling its e-commerce footprint to LatAm and demonstrating to Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN) that they are not experiencing any reopening headwinds. This is in contrast to what Amazon indicated in its recent earnings. The company is also growing its Sea Money footprint, especially through the Shopee/Shopee Pay flywheel, as the company stakes its FinTech leadership ambitions against Southeast Asia's FinTech leader Grab(NASDAQ:AGC).\nAs a result of Sea Limited's incredible success, the group's China-born CEO Forrest Li is also now Singapore's richest man with a net worth of $20.3B.\nSE quant rating (momentum). Source: Seeking Alpha Premium\nWe have always reminded investors that Sea stock is one that you should never bet against even if you are bearish on its long-term prognosis. The stock has made one of the strongest upside moves we have seen for stocks in our growth portfolio. This is also corroborated by Seeking Alpha's proprietary quant momentum rating, giving it the best possible A+ grade on its most recent performance.\nGiven the company and the stock's stupendous performances so far, we think it's only apt that investors ask whether SE's future optimism has been largely priced in, which is especially important for new investors who have yet to add its stock, where we will highlight the analytical framework on how investors can use to consider the company's prospects moving forward.\nMonitor Its Revenue Growth Closely\nSea Limited quarterly revenue. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nSea Limited quarterly revenue YoY growth. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nSea Limited impressed with another awesome quarter of topline growth as total revenue grew 159% YoY on revenue of $2.28B. Its QoQ performance was also remarkable with a 29% QoQ growth, as the company shows that its gangbusters growth knows \"no limit.\"\nSea Limited GAAP quarterly operating margins. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nFor companies like Sea, whose strategy is still focused very much on topline growth and building scale efficiencies in the process, we should not be too concerned with its negative operating margins, as long as the company clearly demonstrated that it could grow rapidly like in Sea's case, and also achieve economies of scale through ramping revenue as it seeks out its \"blue oceans.\" We also articulated this point in a recent article on Snowflake(NYSE:SNOW), which operates in a huge market with a massive opportunity to expand, and the firm has shown that it can execute its strategies very well to capture those revenue opportunities despite having negative operating margins right now.\nTherefore, Sea Limited has certainly struck the right notes here, and we see no cause for concern so far. What matters for investors now is whether the company is still expected to grow this rapidly moving forward.\nSea Limited revenue mean consensus estimates. Data source: S&P Capital IQ\nSea Limited consensus revenue estimates revision trend. Source: Seeking Alpha Premium\nReaders should easily glean that the Street upgraded revenue forecasts for the company after Q2's earnings release from what they projected post Q1 earnings. For example, revenue projection for FY21 has been increased by 11.5% to reflect the improved guidance from the company. Even though projections for FY24 to FY25 look rather tepid, readers should note that only three analysts covered the FY24 projections, while only two covered for FY25, compared to the 18-21 analysts who covered FY21 to FY23 numbers. As a result, we will also focus our discussion up to FY23 numbers to keep them meaningful.\nThe expected revenue CAGR from FY20 to FY23 is 59.1%, while it reads 40.1% from FY21 to FY23. Therefore, the market is still expecting Sea Limited to deliver remarkable topline growth rates moving forward.At the same time, we are cautiously optimistic about Sea Limited's future, under the skillful stewardship of Group CEO Forrest Li and his management team. The team includes his two very competent business unit chiefs Chris Feng and Terry Zhao. Feng was born in China and leads Shopee and Sea Money. He is a Stanford alumnus like Li and he was recruited from Lazada(NYSE:BABA)by Li in 2014. Feng is said to be a “very, very smart and very, very confident” person who “reacts quickly and has excellent abilities of recall.” Zhao is the president of Garena. Li has kept Zhao by his side since the company's inception. Li is unlike Alibaba's Jack Ma and prefers to keep a modest profile. Still, his team's execution has been nothing short of outstanding, and we see no reason to think otherwise moving forward for this founder-led company.\nKeep a Close Watch on Shopee's Adj. EBITDA\nQuarterly Adj. EBITDA. Data source: Company filings\nQuarterly Adj. EBITDA by segments. Data source: Company filings\nOf particular concern, though, is that the company's Adj. EBITDA turned negative for the first time since Q2'20 as the increase in Adj. EBITDA losses from Shopee were greater than what Garena could cover in Q2'21. Investors should be able to glean from the second chart where it shows that Shopee's Adj. EBITDA losses increased to $679.77M in Q2'21, representing a 64.8% QoQ increase, while Garena's Adj. EBITDA only managed a 3.3% QoQ increase in Q2'21.\nDespite this observation, the company highlighted that its Malaysia market had turned Adj. EBITDA profitable, joining its Taiwan market. Therefore, we believe the huge increase in burn rate for Shopee is likely in its largest markets by gross merchandise value (GMV), such as Indonesia and Thailand. The company also alluded to this in its earnings call as it emphasized:\n\n And in terms of sales and marketing and related to competitive dynamics, I think we are -- again, as we discussed it before, given our strong market leadership, we're in a good position now that our sales and marketing is more driven by our view about the efficiency of investment into various markets at various points of time, for example, any shopping event season, any particular opportunities to promote the brand, et cetera...\n And in terms of the cash burn...as we look at the market opportunities, the timing of the market, for example, in Q2, we have Ramadan season in our several largest markets including Indonesia.And this is a time where investment into the growth and to promote e-commerce adoption is very efficient. We have increased our buy frequency overall to more than 6x a month.\n And in Indonesia, it has exceeded 7x per month, which we believe is very healthy for a marketplace platform.\n\nShopee Indonesia 76th Independence Day poster (Shopee ada untuk Indonesia: Shopee is for Indonesia). Source: Shopee Indonesia LinkedIn\nNow, we emphasized Ramadan (which is not exclusive to Indonesia per se) because it's a massive annual event in Indonesia. We had a sojourn in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a year, and we can tell you it's one of the most important highlights in Indonesia's annual calendar. Therefore, we cannot further underscore the opportunities to boost sales during this important event. It shows that Shopee's management clearly understands its most important market very well, and Shopee also aligned its progress with Indonesia's progress as the country celebrated its 76th Independence Day on 17 Aug 21, as Shopee Indonesia reminded Indonesians that\"Shopee is for Indonesia.\"\nShopee Indonesia has quickly moved onto its next big 9.9 shopping event, and this time around, they recruited well-known Indonesian actor and martial artist Joe Taslim, who starred in the recent Mortal Kombat film as Sub-Zero. For readers familiar with Shopee's advertising strategy, the company often stars well-known local artists in its promotional campaigns. The ads are often quirky and dramatic, which helps capture the users' attention very easily and is often memorable. This recipe has served Shopee very well, and somehow its keen regional competitors such as Lazada and Tokopedia have found it difficult to emulate. We encourage investors and readers to continue keeping a close watch on Shopee's most important market moving forward.\nTherefore, while observing quarterly Adj. EBITDA moving back into negative territory wasn't exactly a welcome development; we need to consider the context. In Shopee's case, it was certainly an opportunity that they needed to undertake to take full advantage of the opportunity to boost sales during the important Ramadan festival which is mainly celebrated in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Therefore, we wouldn't be too concerned over a quarter's development and start to be worried, but instead, we should continue to monitor Shopee's Adj. EBITDA's development over the next few quarters, and give the company some space to execute its e-commerce strategies.\nWatch for Advertising's Share of Revenue\nShopee Adj. EBITDA per order. Data source: Company filings\nShopee quarterly take rate. Data source: Company filings\nAs a result of Shoppe's increased Adj. EBITDA losses due to its heavier burn rate for Q2'21, we observed Shopee's Adj. EBITDA loss per order regressed to $0.41, from $0.38 in Q1'21. However, readers should note that this only represented a 7.9% QoQ increase, which is certainly much lower than the 64.8% QoQ increase in total Adj. EBITDA losses. This clearly shows that Shopee is benefiting from greater scale efficiencies, despite the larger burn rate due to the heavier investments in the quarter. In addition, the Adj. EBITDA loss per order was also not \"that bad,\" as it was still in line with Q4'20's metric. Moreover, we have certainly seen worse days, and this was nothing spectacular.\nImportantly, we noticed a marked and consistent improvement in Shopee's take rate for Q2'21 as it improved to 6.7% compared to 6.1% in Q1'21. Sea Limited was very clear on its earnings call where this improvement was mainly attributed to as it emphasized: \"This deepening monetization was driven mainly bygrowing merchant investments in marketing and advertisement on the Shopee platformto attract better and serve buyers.\"\nWe think this is a critical development in Shopee's progress as it continues to scale rapidly. For example, in our recent Amazon article, we showed just how massive the advertising opportunity is for the company as it's now Amazon's fastest-growing revenue driver, and 90% of its ad revenue is centered on its e-commerce marketplace.\nShopee quarterly sales & marketing (S&M) margin. Data source: Company filings\nTherefore, even though we saw a marked increase in Shopee's S&M margin from 49% in Q1'21 to 56.2% in Q2'21 (14.7% QoQ increase), we encourage investors to consider the company's overall Adj. EBITDA per order, which shows that the company has tremendous leverage to engage in aggressive marketing activities through better monetization in Shopee's platform.\nGarena's Bookings Growth Seems to Be Slowing Down\nGarena bookings. Data source: Company filings\nThe company reported a fantastic quarter for Garena again as it topped several charts. Sea highlighted that Garena's Free Fire continues to maintain incredible momentum in Southeast Asia, LatAm, and India as the highest-grossing game. In the US, Free Fire was \"ranked the highest-grossing mobile battle royale game for the past two quarters based on App Annie. Additionally, Free Fire was the second highest-grossing mobile game in the U.S. on Google Play across all games categories in the second quarter as well.\"\nWhile this is certainly impressive, we prefer to look at the global perspective on how Free Fire has performed against its peers. According to Sensor Tower data for H1'21, while Free Fire is the #2 top gross gaming app behind Moon Active's Coin Master on Google Play, it ranked only #8 in overall revenue when we included the App Store's top-grossing gaming apps such as Tencent's(OTCPK:TCEHY)Honor of Kings (#1 overall) and PUBG Mobile battle-royale game (#2 overall), and also Roblox (#4 overall)(NYSE:RBLX). Therefore, while Free Fire has been doing well in markets where the Android operating system (OS) is dominant, it hasn't performed quite as well in North America, where iOS is the leading OS (as we showed in our Digital Turbine(NASDAQ:APPS)article appendedhere). The US is the largest and the most important mobile gaming market, as it accounted for28%of the mobile gaming market share in 2020. Garena has never been a strong performer on iOS, and if the company can improve its performance in the App Store, the boost could be tremendous to Garena.\nWhile the company's bookings for Q2'21 remain strong as it posted a QoQ increase of 9.1% to $1.2B from $1.1B in Q1'21, the company only raised the guidance from $4.5B to $4.7B in bookings for FY21. When we consider H1'21's collective bookings of $2.3B, the company is therefore expecting H2'21 bookings to come in at $2.3B, which means they aren't expecting any material growth in bookings for the rest of the year as compared to H1'21. This was also picked up by one of the analysts on the conference call, and Group Chief Corporate Officer Yanjun Wang reminded:\n\n We believe the overall guidance showed a more than 40% year-on-year growth compared to last year, which is also a record year for us with the commencement of lockdown. And I think this is a very strong performance already. And our focus, as you can tell from game and the metrics we have indicated as well as our views in terms of how to grow our gaming platform,\n is to continue to first and foremost to grow our user base and also pay user baseacross the various markets in the world as we continue to see strong potential growth. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n\nQuarter paying users (QPU) / Quarterly active users (QAU). Data source: Company filings\nAverage Booking Per User (ABPU) and Average Booking Per Paying User (ABPPU)). Data source: Company filings\nThe company's bookings trends can certainly be observed on a per-user or per paying user basis. The ABPPU has certainly been trending down, which reflects a drop in monetization per paying user, which is important as paying users are the ones that generate revenue for Garena. However, we didn't really observe a meaningful drop in the ABPU trend, despite the drop in ABPPU. This shows that even though there is \"less meat\" per paying user, newly minted paying users have been supporting the bookings, which we can certainly observe from the first chart where the QPU / QAU ratio has been consistently increasing, indicating that Garena has been getting better at converting and monetizing its huge non-paying users base. We think this is of huge significance when we consider that only 12.7% of users are paying users as of Q2'21, leaving the company massive opportunities to continue \"working its magic\" on monetizing the non-paying users. On this matter, Sea Limited was unabashed as it emphasized: \"...Our past track record has shown that we're generally good at commercialization in even markets that are known to be difficult for commercialization. So we don't really worry about not being able to commercialize the content down the road. But our focus continues to be growing the user base and making this an even larger platform that allows us to really tap on into it to build a stronger game ecosystem with very strong social elements in it.\"\nBuilding up eSports as a Social Platform\nWe shared in our previous deep dive on Garena (link to the article is appendedhere), where Garena's ambitions are beyond just a mobile gaming app. The company has huge ambitions, and they have already been using eSports as the basis to build the community for its gamers and developing it into a social platform that perhaps is similar to what Roblox has advanced. Garena has already highlighted previously its ambitions on building this cohesive and broad social community as it emphasized:\n\n...developingit into a social platformwhere people not only come to play the core gameplay, but also enjoy other modes: hangout, listen to music, social lives… So our focus is to continue to promote a massive-based online platform and online community and provide them with content and opportunities for socializing engagement, try out different modes of games, try out different characters, avatars or having different ways of playing.\n\nThe revenue in global eSports is not that significant as it's only expected to reach $1.62B by 2024, as we highlighted in our Garena article. Still, the whole strategic intent is to build the all-encompassing social platform that will drive incredible engagement, platform stickiness beyond what a typical gaming app can do. Importantly, the company is also headquartered in Singapore, where the Singapore government is focused on building the global hub for eSports, as Southeast Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region for eSports, and the city-state recently opened a huge 12,000-sqft eSports experience center, as the Singapore Tourism Board emphasized:\n\n Our world-class events and digital infrastructure have also made Singapore an attractive location for the industry to hold gaming and e-sports events here. The government will continue to support companies as they push boundaries through experimenting with new and immersive content formats and business models, as well as level up the quality of our local talent to become leading creators of world-class content.\n\nGarena also recently brought in \"globally renowned DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Alok, and KSHMR for Free Fire’s 4th-anniversary theme song, ‘Reunion,’\" following successful strategies adopted by Roblox in its metaverse development, and we think Garena is really still very early in its opportunity to develop its own metaverse.\nSea Limited Stakes Its Claim On MercadoLibre's LatAm Leadership\nWithout a doubt, the one that generates the most interest is the company's foray into LatAm, which Sea Limited recently updated that it has seen tremendous progress. We did a deep dive recently on this topic, and we encourage you to refer to our articlehere. While we think MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI)is the undisputed e-commerce and FinTech leader in LatAm, especially in LatAm's most important market: Brazil, Shopee's progress has been truly remarkable as it's now the #2 ranked e-commerce app in downloads in Brazil according to App Annie. However, although Shopee is surely making meaningful headway in Brazil, MELI is a different competitor than Tokopedia and Lazada. MELI understands LatAm's e-commerce space comprehensively and has a very impressive logistics and fulfillment network that is second to none in LatAm's notoriously challenging logistics infrastructure. Sea Limited also noted this, but the company thinks that it will be able to overcome these difficulties as it continues to invest in LatAm, which will help these third-party logistics providers to improve their efficiencies and competencies over time and close the gap with MELI as SE emphasized:\n\n ...There hasn't been a lot of volume or traffic broadly generated across different platforms, then probably there is also a lack of initial growth opportunity for logistics. But on the one hand, we are also hopeful that with the growing e-commerce scene in the region and more focus of our global investors into the growth opportunities in the region, we may also see similar trends in those markets. And this is hopefully some contribution we can make to the market in terms of bringing more opportunities, bringing more digitization as well as e-commerce ecosystem that helps not just growth of Shopee but also growth of the surrounding services, including 3PLs within the region. And we've been partnering with 3PLs in our region very successfully in growing the e-commerce ecosystem. And at the same time, these third-party partners also enjoy the very strong growth on their end as well and the close partnership with Shopee. We are very happy to continue to adopt that model going forward in Brazil or the new markets as well. (from Q2'21 earnings call)\n\nWe have indeed seen this great partnership between Shopee and its logistics partners in Southeast Asia, so much so that one of its key logistics partners in Indonesia:J&T Express, is on track for its own IPO either in Hong Kong or the US. Therefore, while MELI certainly has the important lead in logistics right now, we believe it's only a matter of time the logistics infrastructure in LatAm improves with Shopee's involvement if it is willing to adopt the aggressiveness of its approach with Southeast Asia.\nMELI Commerce Take Rate. Data source: Company filings\nIf we consider MELI's commerce take rate as compared to Shopee's take rate, readers can easily observe the incredible monetization opportunities that are available in LatAm, and we can easily understand why Sea Limited is so keen to carve out MercadoLibre's leadership there because it's just so attractive. We think as Sea Limited gets more aggressive in its marketing in LatAm, MercadoLibre will start to feel the pressure to rein in its lucrative take rate to compete with Shopee's aggressive marketing tactics.\nShopee has engaged international film star Jackie Chan for its global 9.9 campaign, and its Brazilian version (see above) has received even more views (3.3M) than some of its Asian counterparts that we last surveyed: Indonesia (1.2M views) and Singapore (1.6M views). We think Shopee has the potential to inflict huge damage to MELI's highly lucrative take rate as its Southeast Asian operations have achieved significant scale, and we think they are ready to take on LatAm's e-commerce leader with confidence. Readers should note that Shopee's e-commerce operations are way larger than MELI as Shopee boasts an LTM GMV of $48.8B as compared to MELI LTM GMV of $25.6B.\nValuations Are Never Going to be Cheap\nWe used a blended comps valuation comprising its EV/Fwd Rev multiples and its EV/Fwd EBITDA multiples using the following companies in the comps set: Amazon, Tencent, Roblox, MercadoLibre, and Square(NYSE:SQ).\nUsing an aggressive valuation approach based on FY23 consensus estimates of EBITDA and Revenue, we arrived at an implied fair value of about $336.19 (mid-point) under the EBITDA multiples approach and $352.62 (mid-point) under the Revenue approach. Averaging out those fair values will give us a blended fair value of $344.41, which indicates a potential downside of about 2.5% from its last closing price of $353.36.\nReaders should also note that we have used an aggressive approach and have not considered a reasonable margin of safety. So, in essence, SE stock looks expensive right now, even though we don't expect it to be cheap for a high-quality growth stock like Sea Limited.\nSE Stock Price Action and Trend Analysis\nSE stock price action (weekly).\nThe rapid ascent of SE stock has left price action investors with little opportunities to add more exposure. However, we have still taken the opportunities in May to add more exposure to our portfolio and haven't added anymore since.\nWhile we have not witnessed any indication of a momentum shift in SE stock, we seriously don't think we will even consider adding exposure at this price level, as our aggressive valuation approach has shown us that quite a bit of the optimism has already been priced in. The stock is also starting to show flashes of flush-up price action that are indicative of potential bull-trap scenarios. While the price action has not been resolved yet, we are still monitoring for opportunities to perhaps enter cash-secured puts at more reasonable strike prices relative to the expected premium collected to try and take advantage of SE stock's incredible momentum.\nHence, we hope that we have demonstrated in our earlier sections that Sea Limited is definitely in the early innings of its market opportunity. Still, the level of optimism in the stock will need some leveling off first so that long-term investors can add exposure at a more reasonable price level.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":549,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":122392127,"gmtCreate":1624596410869,"gmtModify":1703841346912,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"to the moon?","listText":"to the moon?","text":"to the moon?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/122392127","repostId":"1147153207","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1147153207","pubTimestamp":1624592020,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1147153207?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-25 11:33","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Meme Stocks: How The Most Popular Have Performed in 2021","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1147153207","media":"thestreet","summary":"Meme mania has been one of the most unexpected phenomena in the equities market in an already atypic","content":"<p>Meme mania has been one of the most unexpected phenomena in the equities market in an already atypical pandemic environment. The “meme attacks” have rarely been based on business fundamentals, but instead fueled by momentum and discussions on web forums that catalyze vicious rallies.</p>\n<p>Below, the Wall Street Memes channel lists some of the most popular meme stocks and how each has performed so far in 2021.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ac11607753df2d587eff881c858546dd\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"798\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Figure 1: GameStop store.</span></p>\n<p><b>GME - GameStop Corp.</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>1,914%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-88%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$347.51</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$200.18</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cc5e113c20912daf07551e09179fe9f2\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"519\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><b>AMC - AMC Theaters</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>2,850%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-72%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$62.55</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$55.14</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2e55df7c82d93174a0b4c088c17946a1\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"533\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>BB - BlackBerry Limited</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>281%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-68%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$25.10</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$12.82</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/00f988c9dcc4545d783ac29b2061f44d\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"525\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>CLNE - Clean Energy Fuels Corp.</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>137%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-59%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$18.64</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$11.22</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/42e24ea5dd3ca3f186eab5451fa7fcbc\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"524\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>CLOV - Clover Health Investments</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>224%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-56%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$22.15</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$12.10</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ddfd7742b5b929d9febee80c5926f08f\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"507\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>CLF - Cleveland-Cliff</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>83%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-28%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$24.44</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$20.75</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/15c8accc6baf5e68f5a1088eb8a75c4d\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"524\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>TLRY - Tilray Pharmaceuticals</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>610%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-78%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$63.91</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$17.23</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc9ed19b51e752ceff9a6534d4afd089\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"510\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>\n<p><b>NOK - Nokia Corporation</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Largest gain in 2021:<b>69%</b></li>\n <li>Largest loss in 2021:<b>-41%</b></li>\n <li>Peak price:<b>$6.55</b></li>\n <li>Current price:<b>$5.14</b>(at last check).</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/33e920e940ac016540520a46acbcb0d5\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"511\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Google Finance</span></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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The “meme attacks” have rarely been based on business fundamentals, but ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/other-memes/meme-stocks-how-the-most-popular-have-performed-in-2021\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CLOV":"Clover Health Corp","TLRY":"Tilray Inc.","CLF":"克利夫兰克里夫","GME":"游戏驿站","CLNE":"Clean Energy Fuels Corp","AMC":"AMC院线","NOK":"诺基亚","BB":"黑莓"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/memestocks/other-memes/meme-stocks-how-the-most-popular-have-performed-in-2021","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1147153207","content_text":"Meme mania has been one of the most unexpected phenomena in the equities market in an already atypical pandemic environment. The “meme attacks” have rarely been based on business fundamentals, but instead fueled by momentum and discussions on web forums that catalyze vicious rallies.\nBelow, the Wall Street Memes channel lists some of the most popular meme stocks and how each has performed so far in 2021.\nFigure 1: GameStop store.\nGME - GameStop Corp.\n\nLargest gain in 2021:1,914%\nLargest loss in 2021:-88%\nPeak price:$347.51\nCurrent price:$200.18(at last check).\n\nAMC - AMC Theaters\n\nLargest gain in 2021:2,850%\nLargest loss in 2021:-72%\nPeak price:$62.55\nCurrent price:$55.14(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nBB - BlackBerry Limited\n\nLargest gain in 2021:281%\nLargest loss in 2021:-68%\nPeak price:$25.10\nCurrent price:$12.82(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nCLNE - Clean Energy Fuels Corp.\n\nLargest gain in 2021:137%\nLargest loss in 2021:-59%\nPeak price:$18.64\nCurrent price:$11.22(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nCLOV - Clover Health Investments\n\nLargest gain in 2021:224%\nLargest loss in 2021:-56%\nPeak price:$22.15\nCurrent price:$12.10(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nCLF - Cleveland-Cliff\n\nLargest gain in 2021:83%\nLargest loss in 2021:-28%\nPeak price:$24.44\nCurrent price:$20.75(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nTLRY - Tilray Pharmaceuticals\n\nLargest gain in 2021:610%\nLargest loss in 2021:-78%\nPeak price:$63.91\nCurrent price:$17.23(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance\nNOK - Nokia Corporation\n\nLargest gain in 2021:69%\nLargest loss in 2021:-41%\nPeak price:$6.55\nCurrent price:$5.14(at last check).\n\nGoogle Finance","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":546,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":126095378,"gmtCreate":1624536311394,"gmtModify":1703839649938,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Interesting article","listText":"Interesting article","text":"Interesting article","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/126095378","repostId":"1198422658","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1198422658","pubTimestamp":1624533829,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1198422658?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-24 19:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Is Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1198422658","media":"The Street","summary":"Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?At first glance, Apple  -Get Report and Amazon  -Get Report stocks appeal to two distinct group of investors. The former, trading at 26 times current earnings, is a blend of value and growth, what some might call a GARP play. The latter, trading at 64 times EPS, is the highest growth of FAAMG names.First, I find it hig","content":"<blockquote>\n Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?\n</blockquote>\n<p>At first glance, Apple&nbsp;(<b>AAPL</b>) -Get Report&nbsp;and Amazon&nbsp;(<b>AMZN</b>) -Get Report&nbsp;stocks appeal to two distinct group of investors. The former, trading at 26 times current earnings, is a blend of value and growth, what some might call a GARP play. The latter, trading at 64 times EPS, is the highest growth of FAAMG names.</p>\n<p>But the Amazon Maven has unearthed an interesting finding. Both AAPL and AMZN are worth almost the same, in P/E terms, if one were to look forward to 2025. At comparable valuations, which is a better buy-and-hold through the mid-2020s?</p>\n<p><b>AAPL and AMZN: same valuation?</b></p>\n<p>The P/E multiple is a popular valuation metric that adds context to a stock’s market price. The numerator tends to be prior-year (trailing), current-year or next-year (forward) earnings per share.</p>\n<p>Amazon commands a higher multiple, among other reasons, because of the company’s more aggressive growth profile. Wall Street expects the e-commerce giant to increase EPS by a factor of four in the next five years. Apple, on the other hand, is project to “only” double earnings in the same period.</p>\n<p>By 2025, this is what analysts expect of each company’s bottom line, and what the stock’s P/E would be if share prices remained unchanged:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><b>Amazon</b>: 2025 EPS of $172.30, for a P/E of<b>20.4</b>times</li>\n <li><b>Apple</b>: fiscal 2025 EPS of $6.30, for a P/E of<b>21.2</b>times</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Given enough time and assuming that current earnings projections are close enough to accurate, Amazon tends to become a less aggressively valued stock by the year. Maybe one day, in the not-too-distant future, shares could even start to look more appealing to value investors.</p>\n<p><b>Which is the best bet?</b></p>\n<p>If Amazon and Apple are valued at roughly the same 2025 P/E, one fair question to ask is: which stock might perform best in the next five years? I can use the earnings multiple as a guide to think through this question.</p>\n<p>From the P/E formula, one can derive the following: future stock price is determined by the company’s earnings delivered (the denominator “E”) and how much investors are willing to pay for those earnings (the valuation multiple). Therefore, in the Amazon vs. Apple race to 2025, whichever does best at delivering EPS above consensus and/or commanding a richer earnings multiple wins.</p>\n<p>Clearly, this is open for debate since the future in uncertain. But I believe that Amazon stock has a better chance of producing higher gains than Apple through 2025.</p>\n<p>First, I find it highly unlikely that AMZN’s earnings multiple will converge from the 60s of today to the low 20s in 2025. This would only be feasible if the company’s growth opportunities dried out quickly, which I am not counting on. On the other hand, Apple’s P/E is more likely to stay around 20 to 25 times, given the more mature profile of the company relative to Amazon.</p>\n<p>This is not to say that I expect Amazon’s P/E to expand from 64 times. The opposite is more likely to happen, as the company ages. But if the stock is valued at, say, 40 times EPS in 2025, Amazon would not even need to deliver results beyond expectations to see its stock price double in five years.</p>\n<p>Regarding consensus, I also think that Amazon can beat expectations by a wider margin than Apple could. The e-commerce giant has been more aggressive at investing back in the business. The green- and brown-field revenue growth opportunities in e-commerce and cloud seem better.</p>\n<p>In addition, Amazon’s margins could expand substantially (see five-year trend below), if or once the company’s online retail business gets closer to maturity. Apple could also improve its margin profile but probably much less so, given how profitable the company already is.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e59ae6a459751303dfd48c45ae47f99\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"199\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><i>Figure 2: AMZN gross margin vs. operating margin.</i></p>\n<p><i>Stock Rover</i></p>\n<p><b>Twitter speaks</b></p>\n<p>Fun fact: Amazon and Apple stock trade at roughly the same 2025 P/E (i.e. 2025 earnings in the denominator) of around 21 times, even though AMZN seems much more expensive at today’s valuations. Which do you think will produce more gains in the next five years?</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e56ed880cf0d62550fc0ee752a46efff\" tg-width=\"568\" tg-height=\"471\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>","source":"lsy1610613172068","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>Is Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?</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\">\nIs Amazon Stock A Better Buy Than Apple Through 2025?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-24 19:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/is-amazon-stock-a-better-buy-than-apple-through-2025><strong>The Street</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?\n\nAt first glance, ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/is-amazon-stock-a-better-buy-than-apple-through-2025\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"亚马逊","AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/is-amazon-stock-a-better-buy-than-apple-through-2025","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1198422658","content_text":"Amazon shares may seem much pricier than Apple today, but the valuation gap should narrow over time. With both stocks valued at 21 times 2025 earnings, which is a better buy today?\n\nAt first glance, Apple (AAPL) -Get Report and Amazon (AMZN) -Get Report stocks appeal to two distinct group of investors. The former, trading at 26 times current earnings, is a blend of value and growth, what some might call a GARP play. The latter, trading at 64 times EPS, is the highest growth of FAAMG names.\nBut the Amazon Maven has unearthed an interesting finding. Both AAPL and AMZN are worth almost the same, in P/E terms, if one were to look forward to 2025. At comparable valuations, which is a better buy-and-hold through the mid-2020s?\nAAPL and AMZN: same valuation?\nThe P/E multiple is a popular valuation metric that adds context to a stock’s market price. The numerator tends to be prior-year (trailing), current-year or next-year (forward) earnings per share.\nAmazon commands a higher multiple, among other reasons, because of the company’s more aggressive growth profile. Wall Street expects the e-commerce giant to increase EPS by a factor of four in the next five years. Apple, on the other hand, is project to “only” double earnings in the same period.\nBy 2025, this is what analysts expect of each company’s bottom line, and what the stock’s P/E would be if share prices remained unchanged:\n\nAmazon: 2025 EPS of $172.30, for a P/E of20.4times\nApple: fiscal 2025 EPS of $6.30, for a P/E of21.2times\n\nGiven enough time and assuming that current earnings projections are close enough to accurate, Amazon tends to become a less aggressively valued stock by the year. Maybe one day, in the not-too-distant future, shares could even start to look more appealing to value investors.\nWhich is the best bet?\nIf Amazon and Apple are valued at roughly the same 2025 P/E, one fair question to ask is: which stock might perform best in the next five years? I can use the earnings multiple as a guide to think through this question.\nFrom the P/E formula, one can derive the following: future stock price is determined by the company’s earnings delivered (the denominator “E”) and how much investors are willing to pay for those earnings (the valuation multiple). Therefore, in the Amazon vs. Apple race to 2025, whichever does best at delivering EPS above consensus and/or commanding a richer earnings multiple wins.\nClearly, this is open for debate since the future in uncertain. But I believe that Amazon stock has a better chance of producing higher gains than Apple through 2025.\nFirst, I find it highly unlikely that AMZN’s earnings multiple will converge from the 60s of today to the low 20s in 2025. This would only be feasible if the company’s growth opportunities dried out quickly, which I am not counting on. On the other hand, Apple’s P/E is more likely to stay around 20 to 25 times, given the more mature profile of the company relative to Amazon.\nThis is not to say that I expect Amazon’s P/E to expand from 64 times. The opposite is more likely to happen, as the company ages. But if the stock is valued at, say, 40 times EPS in 2025, Amazon would not even need to deliver results beyond expectations to see its stock price double in five years.\nRegarding consensus, I also think that Amazon can beat expectations by a wider margin than Apple could. The e-commerce giant has been more aggressive at investing back in the business. The green- and brown-field revenue growth opportunities in e-commerce and cloud seem better.\nIn addition, Amazon’s margins could expand substantially (see five-year trend below), if or once the company’s online retail business gets closer to maturity. Apple could also improve its margin profile but probably much less so, given how profitable the company already is.\nFigure 2: AMZN gross margin vs. operating margin.\nStock Rover\nTwitter speaks\nFun fact: Amazon and Apple stock trade at roughly the same 2025 P/E (i.e. 2025 earnings in the denominator) of around 21 times, even though AMZN seems much more expensive at today’s valuations. Which do you think will produce more gains in the next five years?","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":543,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":126097764,"gmtCreate":1624536498158,"gmtModify":1703839654035,"author":{"id":"3584861659205722","authorId":"3584861659205722","name":"diversify","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone","listText":"with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone","text":"with the strong hold apple has on the smartphone industry, would be better for them to think of new ways to make people want an iPhone","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/126097764","repostId":"1137406909","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":328,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}