One of the most important considerations for homeowners is to select the appropriate mortgage package to work with. Let’s first start with how a mortgage works. When you make a payment to your bank (assuming you are taking a bank loan), some percentage of that payment will go towards the principal and some towards the…
JD Inc. Shares Rise After Earnings, Free Cash Flow & Valuations After Thoughts
JD.com (Nasdaq: JD) shares ended up in positive green territory after announcing its Q1 FY22 results last night which appear to exceed analysts’ expectations. Expectations surrounding many of the Chinese companies were low after the last round of earnings as China continues to tackle the ongoing issues of Covid-19 which dampens the overall spending of…
Sea Ltd (NYSE: SE) – No Surprises This Time Round But Revising My Valuations Down For Now
Sea Ltd (NYSE: SE) announced Q1 FY22 results this evening which came in rather expected. If any, I think there was a little disappointment as metrics surrounding its Digital Entertainment continued to fall this quarter and the uncertainty surrounding the growing cash cow of Garena will continue to dominate for quarters to come. If you…
Cherry Picking Your Statistics with Terra Luna as Case Study
Terra Luna and UST have been making the headlines in the past recent weeks as the crypto market goes into turmoil mode when one of the more stablecoins erupted overnight and send its value plunging almost close to nil (well, not exactly nil as we see later how much the market cap is right now…
Unity Software Inc (NYSE: U) – A Classic Example of a Great Company, Poor Stock Valuation in a Terrible Macro-economic Environment
Unity Software Inc (NYSE: U) crashed by nearly 30% in post-market hours after announcing its Q1 FY22 results which disappoint investors. The steep crash in the stock price follows the downward momentum of many other recently announced US companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Upstart, Teladoc, Cloudflare, and many others. Q1 Earnings Review The company announced…
May 2022 – Portfolio Transactions & Updates
What a roller coaster month it has been this year. After recovering strongly the previous month, the portfolio was once again hammered and it has been a very common sight these days with the portfolio continuing to suffer at the mercy of the global rout. Before I go into specifics of what I have been…
Trading Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) Opportunity With Futu SG (moomoo) 0% Commission For US Stocks
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) plunged sharply after announcing its Q1 FY22 post-market hours which came in much below expectations and to the disappointment of many investors. Despite announcing an increase in Prime membership recently (monthly rate is now up from USD 12.99 to USD 14.99 and annual cost is up from USD 119 to USD 139)…
All You Need To Know About REITs Symposium 2022 (21 May) @ Suntec Convention
One of the most anticipated event of the year is here once again – with this year’s REITs Symposium to be held on the 21st May 2022 on a hybrid event at the Suntec Convention Hall and broadcasted LIVE simultaneously to online viewers. We are fortunate to have this event finally back live physically this…
Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL) Falls 3.5% After Earnings Despite Strong Earnings From All Segments Including Search Advertising and Cloud. Is This an Opportunity?
The market is in an unforgiving mood in the past recent days. Alphabet Inc., which is more commonly known as Google – reported its Q1 FY22 earnings this morning after market close. The market seems to be disappointed by the results where it drops 3.5% after hours but let’s take a look what is going…
What is Your Price of Happiness Index Level?
I attended one very interesting Group Research Project in recent weeks which I wanted to share my thoughts. The Project was about measuring the correlation between income to expense ratio over happiness level. I’ll explain in a little bit about how this works. The Group of attendees were selected randomly but selectively through (I suspect)…