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Basic Investing Strategy: How to Win The Game

A basic investing strategy is about durability.
Investing is about keep walking, not sprinting, and quit
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Too Long Didn’t Read: for Basic Investing Strategy:

  1. In the long run, earnings and cash flow matter most.
  2. An economic moat – or technically, competitive advantage, is a factor that could preserve (or even grow) earnings and cash flow.
  3. Time plays an important role, a high number of ROIC is useless if it can’t last in the long run. Time becomes the test for ROIC.
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Analysis of Nvidia Stock 2022: The Money Game

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TL, DR for Analysis of Nvidia stock 2022:

  1. Even under the company’s plan to transform into an AI platform provider, the gaming sector still becomes the backbone of the business.
  2. AI still offers massive opportunities. We have metaverse awaiting along with more AI adoption.
  3. Nvidia’s competitive advantage is solid, especially after the Mellanox acquisition.
  4. The most powerful edge of Nvidia is the connection with another big name, making it the most compatible chip manufacturer in terms of gaming, AI, auto, and design.
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Meta Stock Analysis: Metaverse Do Nothing

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TLDR for Meta stock analysis:

  1. The transformation from social media to the metaverse is still far away.
  2. Apple’s privacy policy or even followed by Google will not slash Meta earning capabilities, it just slows the growth.
  3. Meta’s strong balance sheet will help a lot in the transformation into a meta-universe.
  4. The buyback program gives us a glimpse of the management in shareholder shoes.
  5. Even though Meta has an outstanding competitive edge, when it can’t be monetized, it is useless. In the metaverse case, the situation is worse. Meta has no sustainable competitive advantages. Not Yet.
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Coinbase Stock Analysis: Update May 2022

Trustworthy Perception on Coinbase helps the company to retain its customer.
Customer Perception on Coinbase
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Too Long Didn’t Read for Coinbase Stock Analysis:

  1. The competitive advantage of Coinbase is it has a “license” to operate as a crypto hub from the Federal government. This kind of competitive edge is the sustainable one.
  2. Due to that advantage, it is easier for Coinbase to gain trust from the institutional fund that needs to invest in crypto.
  3. The trend of the institutional fund joins crypto investment beginning in August 2021 with a total of $17 billion money poured into crypto assets.
  4. As a result, Coinbase earnings in Full Year 2021 exploded more than ten times from the previous period.
  5. The biggest risk is the core business is tied to the popularity of cryptocurrency. A digital asset with no official or legal backup.
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Netflix’s Competitive Advantage is Losing?

Netflix's Competitive Advantage is decaying due to the competitors don't need to make money.
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If we inspect carefully the number of subscribers lost, actually Netflix is just fine. The streaming giant only lost 200 thousand subscribers from a total of 221 million. It is a tiny fraction, less than 0.1%. It is no big deal. Netflix said that number comes from 700 thousand losses due to Russian things. If we neglect Russia – Ukraine number, Netflix has an additional 500 thousand subscribers. Not bad. Far from it. Case closed. So, why we are here? To address a more important issue: Netflix’s Competitive Advantage.

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Understanding of The Stock Market: Misconception

Understanding of the Stock Market begins with set the misconception right.
Fix the investing misconception

How long have you been in the game? 5 years? In the last 3 years, how much have you advanced? This is not only your question but also ours. How long have you been with us? 2 years? How much do you get better by coming to us? Here we’re now making a recap of our article. To remind you what is important, to give you a checkpoint, and to know how our progress in the understanding of the stock market.

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Competitive Advantage of Tesla: Chapter II

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The third quarter of 2021 illustrates the competitive advantage of Tesla due to its integrated business. In the midst of a chip shortage that trims the production of almost all automakers, Tesla still breaks the record in terms of production units. This article is the sequel to talk about Tesla’s economic moat that discussed brand power, direct sales, and low-cost producer.

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