The world’s biggest streamers are slowly exiting their Cool Eras. Every innovative company eventually goes from being Cool, where every new development they announce is exciting and widely talked about, to Commonplace, where the company is ubiquitous and well-regarded but consumers are satisfied that they’ve seen all the tricks it can offer. That’s the trouble. Commonplace often correlates with stagnation. …
View PostThe title may sound like a vampire holiday movie, but most investors will be familiar with the term FAANG as an acronym for some of the most exciting tech companies in the world (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google). The term BEACH is less common and is used to describe travel and leisure industries that will benefit from a return …
View PostThe title may sound like a vampire holiday movie, but most investors will be familiar with the term FAANG as an acronym for some of the most exciting tech companies in the world (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google). The term BEACH is less common and is used to describe travel and leisure industries that will benefit from a return …
View PostIt’s an investment rumble in the jungle, as the House of Mouse takes on Netflix. Although Netflix gets all the credit for being a techy platform company (and included in the FAANG group), Disney+ already has nearly 100 million subscribers vs. just over 200 million at Netflix. Of course, there’s so much more to Disney than Disney+, like the entire …
View PostFive hours and over one hundred slides later, MultiChoice was done explaining why the company disagrees with the draft findings of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) that were released in 2019. ICASA believes that limited broadband access, the high cost of data and low average internet speeds will limit the growth of over-the-top (OTT) media services like …
View PostThe market operates in cycles. Things heat up; things cool off. When people tell you to “look through the cycle,” they are referring to the need to ignore the short-term fluctuations and invest in high-quality companies that will do well over an extended period. I often reference Microsoft as a powerful example of this. It is the only company that …
View PostToday was a monumental day on the markets. Pfizer announced that its Covid-19 vaccine has been found to be 90% effective, comfortably the most important scientific breakthrough thus far in the fight against the virus. Now, your immediate reaction might be to buy Pfizer shares. Funnily enough, at time of writing, Pfizer was only up 6% after the news. That …
View PostNetflix is the N in FAANG – but I maintain that it’s not the potential cash cow that the other Big Tech companies are. Perhaps N should stand for Nervous, a fair description for shareholders at the moment. Netflix is the only FAANG company that I don’t directly hold shares in. This is because I don’t buy in to the …
View PostNetflix is the N in FAANG – but I maintain that it’s not the potential cash cow that the other Big Tech companies are. Perhaps N should stand for Nervous, a fair description for shareholders at the moment. Netflix is the only FAANG company that I don’t directly hold shares in. This is because I don’t buy in to the …
View PostNetflix is the N in FAANG – but I maintain that it’s not the potential cash cow that the other Big Tech companies are. Perhaps N should stand for Nervous, a fair description for shareholders at the moment. Netflix is the only FAANG company that I don’t directly hold shares in. This is because I don’t buy in to the …
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