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‌$Warner Bros. Discovery(WBD)$  ‌ If you have not familiarized yourself with Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (Nasdaq: WBD), maybe you might be interested to find out more after reading this article. Subscription videos on demand and streaming have been prevalent over the last decade and consumers have a plethora of choices to choose from these days, from the likes of Netflix (currently the largest streaming company in the world by market cap) to Disney Plus and Warner Bros Discovery. Competition is intense but it is good for the consumers and the markets. These companies are increasingly focus on refining and streamlining their operations, including providing more choices for consumers at a fraction of what they used to pay. Last year, t

Yesterday, there was an article which I read that caught my attention immediately. The title itself was self-provoking as “tweaking” regulatory limits for S-REITs gearing probably warrants a deeper discussion on the topic itself. This news is not surprising and has been in consideration for many years, but it shows up and revolves around when S-REITs as an industry itself are struggling, especially the past 1-2 years at the back of high interest rates, sluggish demand, and lower property valuations all providing not one, two, but triple whammy to the REITs. To reiterate what constitutes the current rules for S-REITs (which were revised in 2020), S-REITs should not have aggregate leverage exceeding 45% of the total assets to equity. REITs may exceed this threshold up to a maxim

‌$ARM Holdings Ltd(ARM)$  ‌ Arm Holdings Limited (“Arm”) has on the 21st of Aug 2023, announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering of American depositary shares (“ADS”) representing its ordinary shares. This will represent one of the biggest initial public offerings we have this year with Softbank looking to raise up to $4.87 billion at the top range, offering 95.5 million American depository shares for between $47 to $51 a piece. The proposed range would value the company at between $48b to $52b, which is higher than the failed $40 billion deal Softbank was trying to sell to Nvidia Corp last year because o

‌$Roblox Corporation(RBLX)$  ‌ If you have children, or if you are a gamer yourself, there is a good chance that you might have heard about the popular game Roblox. In fact, over the past couple of years since making its inception in 2006, Roblox has been making waves in the gaming community and its popularity has skyrocketed among both the kids under 13 and young adults. Roblox is one of the beneficiaries that resulted from the pandemic growth as gaming took stage centre, but it has fallen by more than 70% since hitting the peak at $134.7 back in Nov 2021. Is there value at this company after falling so much, and what is the projector trajectory growth going forward? Let’s deep dive to find out. Roblox Business Model and Platform Stick

I will do a quick update to the August portfolio transactions and report. This is a month that we finally see the market pullback after a strong rally over the last few weeks without any opportunity to add to our positions. Using this opportunity, I have also added some positions to take advantage of the situation. First, I added about 4,000 of Micro-Mechanics shares given the overall weakness in the tech sector following the pullback. This was also a nice chance to add on solid driven company into my CDP portfolio with a nice 6-7% yield. I also tripled my small position in PayPal following their pullback after earnings. I think with a few changes in their management as well as their recent news announcing the launch of their crypto coins, we might see something brewing in surp

‌$Alibaba(BABA)$  ‌‌$Alibaba(09988)$  ‌ Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE: BABA) just reported earnings for the quarter ended 30 June 2023. Let us take a look at its reported financial results in a nutshell: Revenue was up 14% year on year to RMB 234,156 million (USD 32,292 million). Income from Operations was up 70% year on year to RMB 42,290 million (USD 5,860 million). This was due to the one-off reversal of share-based compensation expense of RMB 6,901 million (USD 962 million) which helped to boost. Without this, income from operations would still have been up but lesser by 43% year on year. Net Income attributable to ordinary shareholders was RMB 34,332 million (USD 4,735 million). Non-GAAP

‌$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$  ‌‌$Twitter(TWTR)$  ‌ Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg announced the initial version of Threads, an app built by Instagram for sharing and networking with text. Most people would be familiar with how Instagram works where billions of people around the world connect with photos and videos, so the vision with Threads is an expansion of the ecosystem to create a space to express your ideas with words. It has already occupied the number one spot in the charts for social media apps in store this week so you can quickly see how that escalates. Latest news is that Threads has passed 2 million sign-ups in the first two hours launch in App Store, and 30 million sign-up

‌$Tencent(00700)$  ‌ Tencent Holdings have been under a tremendous selling pressure over the last couple of months after its largest shareholder, Prosus NV announced mid-2022 that it was going to pare back a good amount of its holdings in the Chinese tech shares to fund its own company share buyback. Even though these trades have come in at relatively small blocks – between 3-5% of daily volumes, it still puts an intense strain on Tencent as the Chinese tech company is still recovering from the slower advertising demand and previous tech crackdown from the Chinese Communist Party. Luckily for Tencent shareholders, the company itself has been mitigating this impact by buying back some of the shares themselves in the round bout of buybacks

‌$Sea Ltd(SE)$  ‌ Sea Ltd made a few sensational headlines recently with its drastic cost cutting measures which puts the company back into profitability from last quarter. We are not just talking about headcount hiring freeze or salary increment pause. We are also hearing news from inside that they were removing all benefits which were provided previously to staff such as pantry benefits and massage & game room. But what really stole the headline was its drastic move to change its toilet paper from a 2-ply to 1-ply and this is where management really meant business. You can read that article here if you are interested. In this article, we’ll look at its Q1 FY2023 performance and we compare it against last year during the same period,

‌$Alphabet(GOOGL)$  ‌ The stock market is a voting machine in the short term but a weighing machine in the long term. Investors might recall just about in the past three-month, Alphabet was hit by a slew of bad news. These include Google AI Chatbot Bard flubbing its answer during the demo, followed by threats about Microsoft Bing potentially replacing Google Search as the number one engine in the years to come. As a result of these bad news, shares of Alphabet plunged to the $90s sometime in Feb and since then, it has continued to struggle against the other mega peers who have been picking up momentum. Google keynote 2023 presentation done earlier this week has embraced AI and many other updates in its revolution – the full a