It's a comprehensive article based off all information available from Jonah's Interview & Other CEO Interviews, SEC Filings, Earnings Call Transcripts and Analysts note.
Why I've been bullish on this leader in AI disrupting the Trillion-dollar Consumer Lending Market!
✅What is so special?
✅What are the Competitive advantages?
✅ $LMND of Lending?
Let's explore in this deep thread👇👇
1/ Thread Overview:
2- Company Overview
4-Competitive advantages & Emerging Moats
5 -Financials & Customer Growth
7 - Market Opportunity
8 - Management Team 9- The bear thesis & Risks
2/ $UPST Overview:
A lending platform that applies AI & machine learning to improve the consumer lending and underwriting process for making effective credit assessments.
They help their bank partners by referring loans, creating a seamless and simple consumer facing app.
• What are the differences vs similarities btw both companies?
• 🚨Revenue Growth rates over 281% & 152% respectively
• What are the risks of Investing? Can we trust both?
• $FUTU Earnings Recap
• Are they worth it?
Biz Thread below👇
0/ Thread Overview [Skim to your sections]
1: Financials Overview
2-3: $FUTU vs $TIGR Competitive advantages
4-5: Financial Analysis Summary
5-6: Management Teams
8: The Risks to Weigh
10: Industry and market Opportunity
1/ Company Overview: Super easy, nothing much.
$FUTU & $TIGR - Platforms that enables buying & selling of equities.
Key Highlights:
✔️Q4-2020 Revenue: Actual $139M vs. Est. $130M (53% YoY Growth) (7% Surprise)
✔️EPS: Act. $0.10 vs Est. $0.12
✔️Q4- GAAP Ops. Income Margin of 21% and Adjusted Margin of 45%
✔️FY 2020: 63% YoY Growth
This is a Top-class company-✅🔥
Part 2 - $ZI
- Cash flow from operations of $169.6 million, and Unlevered Free Cash Flow of $243.7 million.
- $ZI closed the year w. >20,000 customers, including more than 850 customers with $100,000 in annual contract value
- FY 2021 Guidance below
Part -3: - $ZI
* I may start another position again as I sold my position a few weeks ago.
- Top-line Revs growing >50% consistent
- High gross and ops margin
- Founder-Led with three awards for 2020 culture & placed No. 15 on for Best Company Culture
- Moat within sales teams
Weekly Fundamentals✅: $VUZI Corp was 🆙 over 30% today.
I've been talking about $VUZI since it was $9 b'cos of the capability to solve key problems across multiple verticals.
So here below was my thesis (maybe its why $ARK Invest bought? or $AAPL is investing here)
Thread👇:
This $VUZI thread contains of the following
1-5: Overview & industry use-cases
7 - Financials
8 - Industry
10 - Competitive advantages I believe makes $VUZI maintain a good position in the AR Market
*There are risks, but you'll need to be open-minded & be big picture minded*
1/ $VUZI
They design, manufacture, market and sell Augmented Reality (AR) Smart-Glasses display, wearable computing, AR optics technologies, display engines and products for the consumer and enterprise markets.
*No, this is a real product being used today, not a story stock*
$PLTR Investors should focus more on Foundry, the commercial business and leave behind the past $PLTR of US Gov’t
In this analysis, I utilize my experience as a Product Lead for AI projects to highlight factors I believe differentiates Palantir.
Below is a thread of the report-
1/ The best way to understand $PLTR software philosophy. Think of it as a funnel.
i) Data Integration to absorb data
ii) Knowledge & Data Management
iii) Advanced search and discovery
iv) Intuitive app to drive collaboration
It goes back to the early days with Peter Thiel.
2/ The Four Tenets that guide Foundry:
i) Ontology of data and wide-ranging use case templates
ii) Advanced AI Capabilities and simulation modelling from the ontology
iii) Modularization with a variety of software apps
iv) Interoperability with any data platform such as IBM’s