The Big Idea
In the old days, before cloud computing, mobile apps, application programming interfaces (APIs), big data depositories, and all manner of digital transformation initiatives, companies relied on network perimeter security solutions to keep bad actors away.
That’s all changing.
Today, with workers, consumers, business and...
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The past week has seen the market rocket higher on hopes for a massive $2 trillion economic stimulus plan that would try to help consumers and businesses get through the tunnel of productivity and financial devastation that this pandemic has created.
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As financial markets begin to thaw, global leaders build consensus on how to address this pandemic, options of potential interim treatments for Covid-19 surface and the framework of economic relief starts to firm up (even though it won’t be enough), the stock market be...
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Because of all the craziness out there I’m pushing back the stock section of this week’s update to tomorrow.
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We’re taking another step to adjust our market exposure today.
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To say that the coronavirus has infected the stock market would be to state the obvious. Less obvious is the answer to the question; what’s the antidote?
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With this stock below its September lows, we’re back to square one. How did we get here?
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This is the type of day where you’d typically want to be just watching and waiting, or even doing a little buying. But we have two positions that are at or near prices where we need to take some action.
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It looks like we’ll be ending this week on a big down note as stocks are heading south once again. The culprit is no surprise; concern that this virus will spark at least a short-term economic downturn.
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The Big Idea
Any time you have a fragmented market where there are a lot of buyers and sellers that have a hard time getting together there is an opportunity for a software-enabled marketplace to grease the wheels of commerce.
We’ve seen this concept work emerging...
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This portfolio stock reported preliminary Q4 revenue results a while back that were better than expected, and last night in the official earnings release and on the conference call management announced that profitability was also way above expectations.
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This portfolio stock reported last night that Q4 revenue rose 20.6% to $43.5 million (beating by $1.7 million) and that adjusted EPS of -$0.21 beat by $0.07.
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The only news anybody seems to care about is the coronavirus. While that’s clearly a concern and not something to take lightly, I don’t think it changes the bigger picture trend that stocks are the place to be over the coming years.
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Regarding the here and now, we’re starting to see signals that we could have a market dip, which would be entirely normal given that it’s only had two small retreats since stocks began racing higher in September.
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Sell the remaining half of this portfolio stock.
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Individual stocks continue to move around based on earnings reports and, for the most part, things appear to be quite good. Many management teams aren’t yet sticking their necks out and issuing rosy guidance for 2020, and that’s causing a few dips here there...
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This portfolio stock reported last night with revenue that was up 33.3% to $91.7 billion and beat by $3.4 million and adjusted EPS of $0.03 that beat by $0.04.
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Back to the market, there’s more good news than bad from my perspective. Employment and hiring are good, the lessening of tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S exports to China is good, interest rates remain low (many economists see a rate cut too)...
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The Big Idea
Fiber optic components are one of the building blocks of high-speed data and communications networks. This market gets a lot of press coverage and investors are generally well aware of fiber optic component suppliers for the telecom and datacom markets.
A lesser but...
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This portfolio stock recently reported first quarter fiscal 2020 results, and while the stock has been a little volatile since reporting, the punchline is that all appears on track.
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