Other than a Super Bowl watch party, most people hate commercials and advertisements of any kind. They are disruptive, often offensive and increasingly violate privacy. Nonetheless, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) continues to print and store massive piles of money it derives from advertising across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and others. And despite the fact that growth in traditional markets may be slowing, and its pivot to the Metaverse is wildly unproven, the low valuation (of this once growth now value stock) is hard to ignore. This report reviews the business, valuation, risks and concludes with our opinion on investing.
Shopify: Meme Stock, New Market Paradigm
We first purchased Shopify at ~$143 per share in August of 2018. It now trades at ~$333 per share. Not a bad return—until you realize the shares have fallen over 80% in the last 6 months! This report compares Shopify’s business fundamentals (including its business strategy, ongoing revenue growth and margins) to its current valuation, and then examines the question of whether Shopify CEO, Tobias Lütke, continues to imprudently push an easy-money, high-growth business strategy in an increasingly sober new market paradigm—now characterized by higher costs of capital and a starkly less friendly meme stock environment (yes—Shopify is a meme stock). We conclude with our opinion on who might want to invest—or if it’s simply time to sell and move on.
Roku: Despite Massive Sell Off, False Headwinds Still Exist
Roku (ROKU) shares are down 85%. And while some investors celebrate the bursting of what they believe was an obvious pandemic bubble stock, things could still get worse. For example, the Fed’s hawkishness is driving us into recession, Roku’s earnings are again negative and the shares remain highly shorted right along with many other now infamous “high-growth” stocks. In this report, we review Roku’s business, its growth opportunities, its valuation, the multitude of headwinds that many investors are now increasingly aware of (such as supply chain issues, competitive threats, slowing growth), and then conclude with our opinion on investing.
CrowdStrike: This “Ain’t” Their First Rodeo
CrowdStrike founder and CEO, George Kurtz, has founded and led multiple successful cybersecurity businesses, and he knows the drill. Specifically, CrowdStrike is a high-margin Software-as-a-Service company with highly attractive recurring revenues that continue to grow rapidly in a large (and expanding) total addressable market (cybersecurity). What’s more, despite the continuing rapid growth, the valuation has come down, thereby making the shares even more compelling to some investors. In this report we share our opinion on whether CrowdStrike is worth considering for investment at these levels (valuation), or if it’s just another overhyped growth stock that is being valued too much on a euphoric narrative and not enough on its underlying fundamentals.
This Steady Growth Juggernaut is a Gift from the Market
There is a lot to like about the highly-profitable business we review in this report, including its high margins, powerful revenue growth, large total addressable market opportunity, impressive history of dividend growth (10+ years) and its compelling valuation. The company helps consumers and small businesses make short work of their financial responsibilities and challenges. And the shares have absurdly lost nearly 50% of their value since November as they’ve gotten caught up in the recent market-wide high-growth selloff. Yet, yesterday’s earnings announcement makes clear this business is still quite healthy (they again exceeded expectations) and on track to do even better (perhaps dramatically so) in the years ahead.
Disciplined Growth Portfolio: 6 New Buys!
I don’t trade often (because I believe in long-term investing), but recent market dislocation has created some very attractive buying opportunities. Year-to-date, growth stocks have been hammered, and as counterintuitive as that may seem—that can often be the best time to buy. In this report, we review the new buys, the new “buy under” prices, and the aggregate portfolio details. has all the details.
Albemarle to Benefit from Inflation, EV Lithium Demand
The basic materials stock we review in this report has increased its dividend for 28-years in a row. It also has newfound growth opportunities related to dramatically increasing lithium demand and pricing (courtesy of exploding demand for lithium-based batteries in electric vehicles, for example). Not to mention, the basic materials sector can continue to be a highly attractive inflation hedge. In this report, we review the details and then conclude with our opinion on investing.
Micron: 25 Growth Stocks To Rip Higher
To the satisfaction of many prognosticators, hoards of “pandemic darling” stocks have now fallen more than 30%, 50% and even 70%. However, it’s worth noting that some of them actually have impressive businesses and now trade at dramatically more compelling valuation multiples—even after taking into consideration the risks created by the fed’s aggressive interest rate hike trajectory (to battle inflation) which could drive us into recession and decisively warrant discounted valuation multiples being assigned to these businesses still on track to achieve significantly higher future earnings. In this report, we highlight 25 examples, including a special focus on Micron (MU).
This Stock: 360 Degrees of Attractiveness
If you are looking for an investment opportunity that is attractive in every direction, you might want to consider this professional services consulting company. It’s classified in the information technology sector, but benefits handsomely from the massive opportunities that exist across the many compelling industries it serves. In this report, we review the company’s healthy growing dividend, share repurchases, massive cash flow, strong balance sheet, powerful earnings and revenue growth trajectories, and the attractive valuation for this very impressive business model.
This Attractive, High-Growth, Blue-Chip Stock Is On Sale
Now trading at only 6.4 times sales (down from over 12x in late 2021), but with an ongoing sales growth trajectory of nearly 20%, this CRM (customer relationship management) technology company has a lot of room to run (large total addressable market) and a highly defensible moat to its business. In this report, we review the business details and the risks, and then conclude with our opinion on investing (we currently own shares).
Nascent SaaS, Big Upside (Smart Battery Storage Solutions Company)
Traditional valuation metrics (such as price-to-forward-earnings, and even gross margins) are better suited for evaluating mature blue-chip businesses. On the other hand, such valuation metrics leave a lot to be desired when evaluating nascent innovators—especially those with appropriately shifting business strategies and backed by massive secular trends. If you are looking for a steady-eddy dividend stock, this article is not for you. However, if you are looking for an increasingly attractive opportunity that is trading at a large discount to its compelling long-term potential, then this stock is worth considering, especially after the recent share price decline. In this report, we review the business strategy, the market opportunity, the valuation and the risks, and then conclude with our opinion on investing.
Powerful Contrarian Growth: This Is No Meme Stock
There is little doubt that this business is growing rapidly with a massive total addressable market opportunity (i.e. it has a long runway for continued growth). However the company is not profitable, its shares continue to be diluted, and in a fairly short period of time the share price has gone from high-flying pandemic darling to now a poster child for stocks to avoid in a rising interest rate environment. In this report, we review a variety of big headwinds the business currently faces, we consider several critical attractive qualities, and then we conclude with our opinion on whether a contrarian investment currently makes sense.
SaaS Business: Powerful Growth, Compelling Price
Better. Faster. Smarter. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that we review in this article helps organizations digitize and unify their workflows. That may sound like a lot of hot air, but it’s not. This is a real deal profitable business that is growing rapidly, has an extremely high customer retention rate and a massive long-term total addressable market opportunity (so it can keep growing rapidly). The company does not pay a dividend, but the shares have gotten relatively inexpensive during the recent “tech wreck,” and 5 years from now many people will wish they bought shares. We are long this stock, and it currently presents a compelling buying opportunity.
New Options Trade: High Upfront Income, Fear Creates Opportunity
High growth stocks have been selling off hard as the market is fearful of the fed’s indication of higher interest rates (as the "pandemic trade" continues to unwind). This has created an attractive opportunity to generate high upfront premium income in the options market. In this report, we share an income-generating options trade on an attractive long-term growth stock that has simply sold off too hard as a result of the market’s latest volatility and fear. In fact, premium income available goes up when short-term fear is high, and that is a big part of the reason why this trade is particularly attractive. We believe this is an attractive trade to place today and potentially over the next few trading sessions as long as the price of the underlying shares doesn’t move too far before then.
The Sky is NOT Falling: Attractive Cloud-Based SaaS HR Company
The market has been especially ugly for high-growth stocks recently as the pandemic-trade pendulum now swings too far in the opposite direction. But that doesn’t mean all growth stocks are ugly. Quite the contrary. The attractive growth stock we review in this report offers a compelling high growth rate, a large total addressable market opportunity and an attractive valuation. Plus, it is supported by high recurring revenues, high customer retention and important research-and-development spending plus a strong sales team.
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A Powerful Clean-Energy Megatrend Play
The company we review in this report is known for manufacturing power generators (and related products) but has recently opened up significant growth opportunities in the “clean energy” and “smart grid 2.0” spaces. It has also recently been benefiting from increased demand for standby home generators (due to frequent power outages in the US as a result of harsh weather conditions). As an investment, the company’s comprehensive set of offerings is uniquely positioned to benefit from the large market opportunity ahead. In this report, we review the business model, the market opportunity, financials, valuation, risks, and then conclude with our opinion on investing.
New Options Trade: High Upfront Income, International Electronic Commerce
Shares of this Brazilian electronic commerce juggernaut looked attractively inexpensive a few months ago, but have since fallen significantly further. Its woes stem from a weakening currency, interchange fee pressures, covid and now a recent FBI raid of its major POS terminal providers (in relation to cyberattacks). However, the business continue to strengthen and the market opportunity remains huge (lots of room for continuing growth). Contrarians may consider purchasing shares outright, however in this report we share an attractive income-generating options trade. The trade not only puts attractive upfront cash in your pocket (that you get to keep no matter what), but it also gives you a shot at picking up shares of this highly attractive business at an even lower price (if the shares get put to you before the contract expires in less than 1 month. We believe this is an attractive trade to place today (and potentially over the next few trading sessions) as long as the price of the underlying shares doesn’t move too much before then.
TRUTH Social: To $1 Trillion in 10 Years?
Twenty-two year old Mark Zuckerberg was widely proclaimed foolish for not selling Facebook for $1 billion in 2006. It’s now worth around $1 trillion. There are but two major challenges for Trump Media & Technology Group (“TMTG”) (DWAC), led initially by TRUTH Social, in growing its market value to $1 trillion within the next decade, and one of them is already all but solved. In this article, we review the TMTG business model, the market opportunity, the two big challenges that must be overcome, and why 10 years from now your pocketbook may deeply regret if you don’t start accumulating shares this year.