Car market fires on all cylinders in Q3
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BMW, Bugatti, Cars, China, Ducati, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Seat, Skoda, Tesla, Vehicles, Volkswagen
- November 4, 2020
One of the themes in the latest raft of corporate earnings is that the automotive sector’s engine is starting to rev again. The driver of the recovery is China, with the horrors of lockdown seemingly long forgotten. Western nations are dealing with renewed pandemic issues, as countries like the UK get locked down again. The purchase of a new car …
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Car market fires on all cylinders in Q3
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Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti, Cars, China, Ducati, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Seat, Skoda, Tesla, Vehicles, Volkswagen
- November 4, 2020
One of the themes in the latest raft of corporate earnings is that the automotive sector’s engine is starting to rev again. The driver of the recovery is China, with the horrors of lockdown seemingly long forgotten. Western nations are dealing with renewed pandemic issues, as countries like the UK get locked down again. The purchase of a new car …
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Car market fires on all cylinders in Q3
- Global
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Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti, Cars, China, Ducati, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Tesla, Vehicles, Volkswagen
- November 4, 2020
One of the themes in the latest raft of corporate earnings is that the automotive sector’s engine is starting to rev again. The driver of the recovery is China, with the horrors of lockdown seemingly long forgotten. Western nations are dealing with renewed pandemic issues, as countries like the UK get locked down again. The purchase of a new car …
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Squashing the world’s biggest Ant
Poor old Jack Ma. The Alibaba founder has been on top of the world, with Ant Group making headlines as the largest expected IPO of all time. An IPO is the process through which a company comes to market. The shares are listed on a public exchange which facilitates trade in them. As part of the process, new capital is …
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Big tech has trust issues: latest earnings
In July, the chairman of the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust called Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple “emperors of the online economy” that “enjoy the power to pick winners and losers, shake down small businesses and enrich themselves while choking off competitors”. It laid the foundation for what would come next: on October 20th, the U.S. Department of …
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Microsoft: a reminder of what growth is
Microsoft released Q1 earnings this week. No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Whilst the current earnings season is called the “Q3 season” by most people to align with the calendar year (i.e. covers the period July – September), companies with year-ends other than December won’t be calling this Q3. Microsoft’s year-end is July, so this is a Q1 result …
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Microsoft: a reminder of what growth is
Microsoft released Q1 earnings this week. No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Whilst the current earnings season is called the “Q3 season” by most people to align with the calendar year (i.e. covers the period July – September), companies with year-ends other than December won’t be calling this Q3. Microsoft’s year-end is July, so this is a Q1 result …
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Leverage: the driver of margin
Have you ever read a results announcement and wondered how revenue can grow by perhaps 7%, yet profit before tax somehow grows by 20%? It seems like an innocuous question, yet the answer holds the key to why many companies are successful and others fail. Top-line growth (i.e. revenue growth) is obviously important, but as revenue growth starts to reach …
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Leverage: the driver of margin
Have you ever read a results announcement and wondered how revenue can grow by perhaps 7%, yet profit before tax somehow grows by 20%? It seems like an innocuous question, yet the answer holds the key to why many companies are successful and others fail. Top-line growth (i.e. revenue growth) is obviously important, but as revenue growth starts to reach …
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Tesla: best quarter in history
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China, Electric vehicles, Elon Musk, Energy, Ford, General Motors, Gigafactory, Solar, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen
- October 25, 2020
Tesla has released its much-anticipated Q3 results. “Alright, so Q3 was our best quarter in history.” Those were the opening words of Elon Musk on the Tesla Q3 earnings call. A sales record combined with free cash flow of $1.4bn is certainly impressive, but as ever I remain concerned about the hype around this company which does not operate in …
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