Is Michael Saylor’s Bet Crazy: Bull vs Bear
Microstrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) and its CEO Michael Saylor are in large part confounding valuation experts worldwide.
The traditional method of valuing a company goes something like this. Analyze the cash flows a company will produce over its lifetime, discount them back to present day, sum them up and arrive at a fair market valuation for the company. » Read more about: Is Michael Saylor’s Bet Crazy: Bull vs Bear »
Read MoreMarket Commentary: 1 Unlikely AI Play You Should Not Ignore
When you think of AI plays, Airbnb is not the first company that springs to mind. Yet, Brian Chesky’s firm has made a splash by snapping up GamePlanner.ai for $200 million.
Although it’s not apparent at first glance how artificial intelligence plays into the Airbnb business model, a deeper dive reveals the genius behind the acquisition.
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Read MoreMarket Commentary: Insiders Think This Stock Is a Steal
As a prominent mall REIT, Simon Property Group (SPG) share price has been doubly impacted by both the rise of remote work and the surge in online retail, leading to its dividend yield soaring to an impressive 6.5%.
This high yield has prompted a significant change in management’s investment strategy, now favoring the repurchase of SPG shares.
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Read MoreMarket Commentary: Is This Stock The Next Starbucks?
Imagine your job is to grow Starbucks. You’ve got your work cut out for you launching hundreds of store locations each year in prime locations. Market research, consumer trends, cost of real estate, these are just a few of the factors you’ll need to analyze before building out the stores, and then you’ve got all the challenges of hiring baristas,
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Read MoreHow To Spot a 100% Winner
It wasn’t long ago that I highlighted Planet Labs as a stock with the potential to blast off. At the time it was sitting at $1.90 per share.
Fast forward to the present and Planet Labs has soared well above $4 per share and is now posting gains of over 100%.
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66% Upside In Asian Ride-sharing Stock?
Grab Holdings has evolved into Southeast Asia’s leading super-app with operations spanning ride-hailing, food/grocery delivery, and financial services.
Growth momentum has been strong, particularly since 2023 which was a pivotal year when Grab hit its first quarterly profit. That took place in Q4 2023 on $653 million revenue, up 30% year-on-year.
Under the hood,
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Will Bitcoin Rise 16.1x?
In November 2012, the first bitcoin halving cycle was recorded, and the event reduced the reward for mining new Bitcoin blocks by half. Every four years or so 210,000 blocks are mined and the rate at which new bitcoin is mined is cut by 50%.
The supply limit and increased difficulty have been instrumental in the thesis that bitcoin’s price can only rise in time to offset the inflationary effects of fiat currency.
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Wall Street juniors should enjoy their moment in the sun
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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
The 22-year-old Wall Street graduate trainee: hot commodity, or tragic victim of artificial intelligence? At the moment, the answer is both.
Earlier this week,
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