$ROKU Didn't get a chance to get into much details yet (maybe this weekend).
Below highlighted were just some concerns from the income statement based on the 1st look. Any Roku experts here that can answer any of these Qs.
Keeping aside the qtr to qtr beats & misses and stock price reactions, with so much CTV tailwind I'm more interested in
-Evolving Competition in Smart TV and how their partnerships are going.
-General trend of Active Accounts, engagement & ARPU trends (post COVID)
-Platform Revs, growth and Margins. Ad Partnerships.
-Traction on (& value) from the investments on ROKU channel.
-How they navigate the evolving CTV advertising landscape and competition from Amazon/Google.
Personally, I wouldn't mind buying more of this Company around 10 times NTM Gross Profit (unless GMs start to consistently downtrend).
With so much growth ahead and in hands of good Management (as long as they're hyper focused on partnerships, Competition, Content, CTV trends...) my expected holding time is easily 5+ years. Let's see if they give me reasons not to do that.
(not rec, DYDD)
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Any $RBLX experts here (other than @honam who might not be able to comment)?
Just quickly went over the results. Most metrics look OK, except for recent Bookings trend.
DAUs & Engagement (as of Jan-22) still increasing but Booking decreasing YoY?
Tough COVID comps or something more at play here (or I'm just misreading it)?
I guess explanations will come on the call tmrw.
(Are parents finally winning the battle of not paying for Robux for the 10th time in a month ? I doubt it😀)
Thank you for all the comments. Yes higher DAU growth & lower bookings from Developing Markets could be causing some of this (will have to wait & see from full commentary/call).
For those inspiring to be Business focused long-term investors, below would be my recommendations of Businesses to intensely study.
30 old and 30 new Companies and my reasons to include them. ⬇️
Read up on their origin stories
-Their Mission, purpose and Values
-Main products/services & evolution
-Business models
-Customer focused & long-term oriented Management Teams that created/re-created their Success
-Company culture, Capital Allocation,
-Creating/extending Moats
-Leveraging Technology and adapting to times
-Finally long-term Financial statements to put everything into perspective....
With ongoing Digital transformation projects, more & more Cos trying to own their Customer relationship and changes in data privacy landscape, both Communication & Engagement products could have plenty of runway.
For anyone new, this gives a good view of what they are doing and where they are trying to go with the whole Customer Engagement Platform on top of their Communications platform.
Some comments from Khozema Shipchandler (COO) on strategy and guidance.