Market is in an unforgiving mode this year after we’ve seen a battered meltdown in many growth technology and e-commerce stocks. While most of these companies are still in positive territory after their strong run-up during Covid, many of them are starting to give up their gains in the past couple of months. The past…
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PayPal Plunged After Earnings – Opportunity or Stay Out?
PayPal Holdings slides after it announces its Q4 and full year earnings post-market. This was a dejavu to the announcement made for Q3 when it suffered the same fate after it plunged post announcing the earnings result. Let’s first take a look at what they have announced. Q4 and Full Year Earnings 2021 Going through…
Jan 2022 – Portfolio & Transaction Updates
Let’s get to the first month of portfolio updates in the New Year and there are no big changes other than mostly accumulation of the existing. Barely three weeks into the New Year, the market has sent many investors scrambling for safety as it wrecked open the realities of many companies in the first three…
Sharing My Experience of Changing Jobs & What I Get/Learn In Return
The Great Resignation trend across globally is hitting the jobs market today with many singling out collective jobs burnout as one of the main reason why people decide to weigh in their lifestyle choice and choose to look elsewhere. Resignation and attrition are a common theme across most companies given the majority of people have…
Netflix Raises Price Hike Again Right Before Earnings Announcement
Following up on my previous article on Netflix, the company announces a significant news of a price hike yet again to as much as $20 a month in the US region where they have most control over with. Barely just a week before earnings, Netflix is doing their regular habits of hiking prices early to…
Short Netflix (Short Term Target: $513; Mid Term Target: $428; Long Term Target: $300)
Much was anticipated in the opening week of the New Year as Mr Market rotated out of most growth tech stocks, especially those with lofty valuations and switched in on companies which might benefit from the rising interest rate environment (i.e banks, oil). I took an opportunity to take a short position on Netflix last…
CPF Balance Increases Marginally With Interests of $8,314.36 Credited For The Year 2021
First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! This would mark the first post of the New Year and I wanted to start with something that is light and close to every Singaporean’s heart, and being in this fanatically finance driven friends around you, that would mean the start of the Year will always be…
The Importance of Patience & Focusing on the Business Metrics – Amazon Case Study
Amazon has one of the most impressive compounder chart history in many years. After accounting for three rounds of stock splits in more than 2 decades, the stock has advanced from $1.50 back in 1997 to $3400 today in 2021. That is a whooping return of more than 200,000% return in a period of slightly…
5 Reasons Why You Should Be Accumulating on Tencent
If you are following my social media page, you are probably already aware that I am in the midst of accumulating more Tencent shares in the past recent weeks (I am done accumulating my position for Baba and has now moved to Tencent with the intent to build a position larger). I added another 100…