To The Moon

Lithography giant $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ has just released its Q2 report:Beated Expectations: Revenue: 5.43 billion euros, exceeding the company's guidance cap of 5.3 billion and far exceeding analysts' expectations of 5.26 billion. Net income: EUR 1.41 billion, beating market expectations of EUR 1.38 billion. Value of lithography bookings: 8.46 billion euros -- a record high Missed Expectations: Q3 revenue guidance: 5.1-5.4 billion euros, unchanged from the previous year level but less than the market expectation of 6.48 billion. 2022 Revenue growth rate: lowered to 10% from the previous 20%. 2022 gross margin guidance: 49%-50%, less than the previ

Global stocks fell on Thursday as investors sold risky assets due to concerns about possible recession and the Russian-Ukranian war. U.S. Stocks Market - The worst Q1 start since 2009, in March we saw third-biggest bearish rally since The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 Global Bond Markets - The worst Q1 performance since record U.S. Treasuries - The worst Q1 performance since the American Civil War U.S. Treasury Yield Curve - Shows an inversion signifying a recession Commodities - poised for the best quarterly performance in 32 years International Oil Prices - the strongest Q1 start since 1999 U.S. Gasoline - Fastest rise ever, Hit record high London Nickel Price - Unprecedented one-day doubling leads to deal cancellations

Nasdaq (+0.29%) continued the recent downtrend and made a bottoming tail candle while the price was rejected by the EMA10. Paying attention to both a reversal back to the SMA200 if the price has the power to close today above Friday’s high or a reset of the support at ~13.800. SP-500 (+0.34%) showed the same type of candle, but this time, the price was rejected by the SMA200. This level now is a support and it will be bullish if it holds. In the news Tesla delivered 310,048 electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2022. Meta’s A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as the lab tries to keep pace with rivals. Bitcoin (+3%) and Ethereum (+9.9%) continued to lead the market north, but they were by no means the growth leaders this week. Instead, Solana (+32%) and Terra (+23%) were the biggest movers th

$The Honest Company, Inc.(HNST)$ is one of the companies that had terrible share price performance. Since its IPO back in May 2021, the share price is down almost 75%. Jeremy from Financial Education covered it in a couple of his videos and I decided to take a dive deep at it myself. There's one topic that I'd like to mention before I start with the analysis and valuation. As humans, we should be able to respectfully disagree and that is okay. There are plenty of negative and hateful comments and that doesn't add value to anyone. When valuing companies, everybody makes assumptions about the future regardless of the approach that is used. Nobody knows what the future brings and we're all going to be wrong with our assumptions. The g

$Berkshire Hathaway(BRK.B)$Berkshire was sitting on $144 billion worth of cash as at the end of 2021 as Buffett did not find anything to invest in. He did find Berkshire attractive and has been making share buybacks. All of a sudden in Mar 2022 alone, Berkshire made two huge purchases - first was a $5 billion stake (and an additional $1 billion subsequently) in Occidental Petroleum and second was a $11.6 billion buyout of the entire Alleghany. Occidental Petroleum, as the name suggests, is in the oil and gas industry. Berkshire's first contact with Occidental was in 2019 where the former loaned $10 billion to the latter to buy Anadarko. But 2020 was a bad year for the industry and Berkshire sold the shares it received as loan repayment.Now the ti

Key Points: Are Energy and U.S. Stocks Really Negatively Correlated?The Oil Supply Going to Increase while Demand Tends fall, how oil price and stock market will perform? Bloomberg reportsOil Stocks Negatively Correlated to Market First Time Since 2001.From the data of past 3 month and half year, Oil and gas equities are defying the broader stock market in a way investors haven’t seen in two decades. The energy index has climbed 39% this year while the broader index has fallen 6% and the S&P 500 Information Technology Index is down 10%. The correlation between the S&P 500 Energy Index and the broader S&P 500 has gone negative for the first time since 2001, fue

Key Points: Are Energy and U.S. Stocks Really Negatively Correlated?The Oil Supply Going to Increase while Demand Tends fall, how oil price and stock market will perform? Bloomberg reportsOil Stocks Negatively Correlated to Market First Time Since 2001.From the data of past 3 month and half year, Oil and gas equities are defying the broader stock market in a way investors haven’t seen in two decades. The energy index has climbed 39% this year while the broader index has fallen 6% and the S&P 500 Information Technology Index is down 10%. The correlation between the S&P 500 Energy Index and the broader S&P 500 has gone negative for the first time since 2001, fue