The general direction of the economy is fairly predictable on a long time basis. When you look at the long term chart of the Dow Jones Index you can roughly see a stairsstep pattern. There are relatively flat periods for 15 to 20 years, then a rise for 15 to…
Some of our readers got an advanced warning on The List of wiseguys. Sssssst, Let me tell you a secret. We don’t favor anyone, but those who offered us a cup of coffee often have a speed advantage. Because the moment we drank the coffee we had some small talk…
Now one of them is almost perfect to be bought. We look for shares that have a minimum gain of close to 50% a year for a period of at least 5 years, preferbly more. That is the hard part. There are tens of thousands of companies scattered over many…
Gone are the dealers on NASDAQ and the specialists at the NYSE. Instead, a company’s stock can now be traded on up to sixty competing venues where a computer matches incoming orders. A majority of quotes are now posted by high-frequency traders (HFTs), making them the dominant source of liquidity in the market.
Sartorius Aktiengesellschaft supplies pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment worldwide. It operates in two divisions, Bioprocess Solutions, and Lab Products & Services. The company offers live cell analysis system, and cell analysis reagents and consumables; cell culture media, including antibody and recombinant protein, viral vaccines, and regenerative medicine media; and multi-parallel, single-use,…
Sector(s): TechnologyIndustry: Software—InfrastructureFull Time Employees: 1,448 Adyen N.V. operates a payments platform that integrates payments stack. The company provides gateway, risk management, processing, acquiring, and settlement services. It offers a back-end infrastructure for authorizing payments across merchants’ sales channels i.e. online, mobile, and in-store, as well as APIs. The payments platform is provided…
Enphase Energy, Inc., (ENPH) together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells home energy solutions for the solar photovoltaic industry in the United States and internationally. The company offers semiconductor-based microinverter, which converts energy at the individual solar module level, and combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies…
Since 2009, there has been a radical new way of making payments. The creation of the first decentralised peer-to-peer payment system, Bitcoin, has led to the creation of a novel and booming set of payment services- known collectively as ‘cryptocurrencies’. These digital currencies are not created or backed by any…
Sector: TechnologyIndustry: Software—ApplicationFull Time Employees: 7,000 Shopify Inc., a commerce company, provides a commerce platform and services in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Latin America, and internationally. The company’s platform provides merchants to run their business in various sales channels, including web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, pop-up shops,…
(and what stimulus has the next president planned)? We think the stockmarkets have already taken an advance on what is comming. The next days, possibly weeks will be good but when the final year reports come in we might be seeing a correction. Nevertheless the president said Friday he is…
