Beware of Robinhood
This may sound like a fairytale, but it could have an unhappy ending. Robinhood is the US stockbroking app that has driven an influx of literally millions of (particularly younger) investors who have bought American stocks on a fractional ownership basis. Fractional ownership is the same principle that Easy Equities uses locally, which allows people to invest a specific amount …
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Beware of Robinhood
This may sound like a fairytale, but it could have an unhappy ending. Robinhood is the US stockbroking app that has driven an influx of literally millions of (particularly younger) investors who have bought American stocks on a fractional ownership basis. Fractional ownership is the same principle that Easy Equities uses locally, which allows people to invest a specific amount …
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FAANG? I choose FAAAM, fam.
Many of you are familiar with the term FAANG, although a recent poll I ran on Facebook did suggest that many readers think it is a type of tooth. It’s not a tooth It stands for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (although the listed holding company of Google is called Alphabet these days). Coined a few years ago, the …
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Multichoice – Africa’s storyteller rewards shareholders
The front page of Multichoice’s results booklet that was released today describes the group as “Africa’s most loved storyteller” – that’s beautiful, but perhaps not as beautiful as the stunning improvement in their profitability. StatsSA’s last major survey (done in 2017) estimated that there are 16.2m households in South Africa. Multichoice has 8.4m subscribers in South Africa, which suggests that …
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Netflix and Chill-vest
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Cash flow, Comcast, Discovery, Disney, Fox, Media, Nasdaq, Netflix, P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, Tech, Valuation
- April 24, 2020
Subscriber growth in the first quarter of 2020: 15.77 million. That’s a big number. $14.17 billion is also a big number. That’s how much debt Netflix had at the end of March. They’ve just announced a debt raise of another $1 billion in junk bonds, so it’s only getting larger. Netflix is an investment anomaly, to be honest: The valuation …
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