A joke went viral recently when a comedian wrote a skit about two people arguing over the merits of the US Dollar and Bitcoin respectively. Had you invested $10,000 in Bitcoin in 2010, you would have almost $100 million now, according to the skit writer. If you left your $10,000 in fiat currency you would have about $8,500.
Imagine I hold up $100 and offer it to you for $95, would you take the deal? At face value it’s a sure bet, but you would probably be wondering what the catch is? Is the Benjamin Franklin note real or fake? Are you about to make $5 or lose $95? Well, that’s the same trade-off to make when investing in a company that trades below cash value,
Just a couple of months ago, the consensus view was that an Ethereum ETF would not be approved. At the time, the price of Bitcoin diverged materially from that of Ether.
But the breadcrumbs were pointing to a different outcome. It was clear that Wall Street was favoring Ethereum because of its smart contracts and flexible architecture;
What company in the United States generates revenues and profits that rivals big tech companies but is valued at less than half of most of them? The answer turns out to be Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
Last quarter alone, Berkshire Hathaway generated an astonishing $89 billion in revenues and reported $17 billion in operating income.
When it comes to government relying on AI companies, Palantir seems to attract most investor attention and with good reason too.
Palantir is famous for big data analytics and analyzing massive amounts of information to make informed insights that can help government primarily, and increasingly commercial enterprises in sectors ranging from healthcare to finance.
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If you want to get paid monthly, you’ll probably struggle to find ways in the stock market. While real estate offers a straightforward path to collecting rent checks monthly, dividend investing is generally limited to paying shareholders on a quarterly schedule.
Some rare exceptions do exist, such as Realty Income, which is known as The Monthly Dividend Company.
Smartsheet isn’t a company on the tip of most retail traders tongues but it might be soon. What started out as a spreadsheet with collaborative project management features has grown into a work management software worth $5.7 billion.
Better yet, it’s growing at a rapid rate and is sitting squarely in the middle of a market that is forecast to grow at 13.4% annually through 2026.
George Soros had an old rule: invest first, investigate later. When a great opportunity seemed ripe for the picking, he would buy it, and figure out later if he was right.
It’s actually the opposite of what most funds do, which is to spend many months researching and dotting all their “i”s and crossing all their “t”s before patiently waiting for the price to get to the level they think is right.
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When Facebook first grew to prominence, a lot was made of how much attention per day Mark Zuckerberg’s company captured among users. It was common to see the average daily usage was close to a full hour per day per person.
Over time the scale of Facebook’s base proved astonishing. A full 1 billion users tapped into Facebook,
If you’ve been around the investing block a few times you know the old jokes about stocks falling the second you buy them. Peter Lynch, the legendary investor who averaged a 29.2% return from 1977 to 1990 doesn’t shy from plunging stocks like most others, though. Instead he embraces it and calls corrections for what they truly are.
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