$FSRV is a great investment due to strong balance sheet, incredible growth in both earnings and revenue, and serve a competitive niche within this fintech market. I am very excited to be apart of this, undervalued, long term investment opportunity:
What does Katapult do?
They’re a fintech lending, e-commerce focused, service that allows nonprime customers to borrow money and purchase durable goods such as: Fridge’s, Tables, Couches, etc
Why they are competitive?
Some consumers with little to no credit often times don’t get approved, and it can be costly. Katapult leverages AI and ML to allocate money to them CHEAPER and faster than ever before.
Has this been profitable?
They have both grown revenue AND EBITDA at astounding rates. They hit profitability this year and grew 171% YoY. They project they will have a CAGR of EBITDA and Net Income at 75% 🤯🤯
This is a profit and growth monster, an investors dream!
Can they maintain this growth?
Lending isn’t a new service, and neither is leveraging AI/ML. But Katapult’s customer segment is niche, as nobody else wants to do it. They stand in their own quadrant, providing a long runway for niche growth.
Do they have a plan to continue growing?
They’re very forward looking and also a younger company. They still have not penetrated their total market or brought awareness to their solution for their total market. They have a clear strategy to do this and diversify their product.
How does the overall balance sheet look?
This is one where I’ve seen a few investors stumble up on when they see that big ‘liabilities’ number. But one must understand what “revolving line of credit” means. Once you do, one can assume they’re using the liquidity to lend more.
Are they a good buy at today’s price?
YES! 1,000x over yes. Affirm, their competitors/partner, will be going the IPO route soon and will, without a doubt, be over valued. With a high CAGR, attractive EBITDA valuation, and attractive revenue valuation. This is a buy.
Conclusion: $FSVR aka Katapult provides a very rare, high growth (both revenue and profit) opportunity that is nearly the holy grail of SPAC‘s. At today’s valuations, it’s still a screaming buy. The biggest risk at the moment is managements ability to continue to handle the
riskier investments they are making on subprime borrowers. They are also, obviously, using borrowed cash to lend to other people. This is a risk, as some people may not be able to it pay back and this is a balancing act.
However, this risk can be mitigated through appropriate
execution of their set in place frame work and strategy moving forward.
Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and I encourage all to do their own DD. There are a number of risks associated with this asset and it is speculative.
I have bought $VERB
Verb Technologies is a sales enablement technology company with multiple aspects of their product offering. Primarily, the focus on video and enabling sales reps and business owners manage, promote, and improve sales.
They are currently partnered with:
- $SHOP
- $CRM
- $MSFT
- $ORCL
- $ADBE
To allow their platform to integrate within all of their environments. They are currently traded on the NASDAQ, which means they are not OTC, providing us access to more transparency.
Thread: Is the IPO process broken? Are we in a bubble?
Despite what many investors think, saying we’re showing signs of being in a bubble. This thread is designed to provide an ulterior perspective, on the IPO process and not the market as a whole.
The IPO process is broken.
The reason why I blame the process, and not market speculation/hype is directly correlated with a low share float among these exciting IPO’s. It’s simple supply and demand. There is not enough supply for retail investors, which is currently at a high due to free stock trading
apps such as TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, WeBull and Trader 212.
The process is broken.
When a company goes public, like $SNOW that has only 14% (ONLY 14% of the total share float!!) available to the public. Hedge funds, other companies, and institutional traders have scooped
When evaluating new positions, it becomes a very methodical and repetitious process over time. As I continue on my investment journey, I find myself understanding more and more about what good looks like. Especially, after you’ve read many
investor presentations and 10Q’s. However, over time it becomes more simple and if I were to oversimplify the strategy as a whole it comes down to one thing, growth. There are three growth metrics an investor should evaluate first before any time is wasted any further, they are:
1.) Past YoY revenue growth. The reason why this is significant is that it clearly shows you from a birds eye view how effective management is on executing their growth and expansion strategy. Many speculative investments (today I find them in EV, and in 2018 found it in MJ)
Warrants are a higher risk, higher reward investment made available to retail traders through SPAC’s. They trade a lot like call options in the sense where if you buy a warrant, and the stock price never goes over the strike price, it will expire worthless.
However, MOST (not all) warrants on SPAC’s have a few things in common:
1.) $11.50 strike price, meaning if the stock price goes over $11.50 you can exercise the warrant at $11.50 + your purchase price.
2.) Expires in 5 years
3.) Typically a 1:1 ratio where 1 warrant = 1 share price.
These commonalities should always be checked prior to investing into warrants.
Basically how they work is a SPAC will issue a share + a warrant under a ticker, for example, $IPOBUN. Eventually, the SPAC splits the