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Amazon
|     | 45 | 30.41% | |
Apple
|    | 32 | 21.62% | |
Facebook
|    | 12 | 8.11% | |
Google
|    | 59 | 39.86% |
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11.08.2020, 07:52
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| Quote: |  | | | No, who said it was? But anyway, surely you don't invest exclusively in the stock market? Diversification...
Tesla has developed significant IP (not all of which has been made freely available) in the field of software. It is a supplier to utilities (massive battery arrays in Australia, for example), manufacturers (automotive, marine and possibly aviation at some point), as well as direct to consumers (solar panels, solar roof tiles). It is self-evidently and inarguably also an automotive company, manufacturing most of its products' components in-house, but this will ultimately most likely be the least significant part of its overall operations. | | | | | Hopefully one day it will start to make real profits, I noticed 1 analyst recently released a $900 price target. With 38 billion of assets it's going to be a long time before the ROCE becomes attractive enough to invest myself.
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12.08.2020, 10:50
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| Quote: | |  | | | sure, however, Microsoft, Intel, Apple and Facebook (just to name a few) will not just disappear into the void. And all of them have massive amounts of free cash at hand to either buy the disruptors or be the disruptors themselves. | | | | | This is true.
But in big tech, the market cares about who is #1, and to a lesser degree also about who is #2. If you are #3 or beyond you are pretty much in the commodity segment, and you lose that hype that overinflates your stock value and hence allows you to borrow at much more favourable conditions, or that buzz that make the press eat out of your hand.
Apple managed to make that comeback from a very dismal situation. But not every company has a Steve Jobs.
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12.08.2020, 13:01
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| Quote: | | | | | This is true.
But in big tech, the market cares about who is #1, and to a lesser degree also about who is #2. If you are #3 or beyond you are pretty much in the commodity segment, and you lose that hype that overinflates your stock value and hence allows you to borrow at much more favourable conditions, or that buzz that make the press eat out of your hand.
Apple managed to make that comeback from a very dismal situation. But not every company has a Steve Jobs. | | | | | Apple is not selling a commodity product, hence the premium pricing power, Facebook & Google are free to users & don't have huge pricing power for advertising. Facebook only has 9 million paying customers, it can grow a very long way from here.
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12.08.2020, 18:13
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| Quote: | | | | | Facebook & Google are free to users & don't have huge pricing power for advertising. | | | | | Given their market share, I am not so sure about that.  https://www.businessofapps.com/news/...share-in-2019/ | | This user would like to thank Dr Mick for this useful post: | |
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None, theyre all tech and tech is at ATH.
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12.08.2020, 21:03
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| Quote: | | | | | None, theyre all tech and tech is at ATH. | | | | | Now go and look at the date that the original post was made  | | The following 2 users would like to thank Phil_MCR for this useful post: | |
12.08.2020, 23:35
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| Quote: | | | | | None, theyre all tech and tech is at ATH. | | | | | like the last 60 months, yeah :-)
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29.08.2020, 01:32
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amusing milestone: U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/us-t...ck-market.html | | This user would like to thank Phil_MCR for this useful post: | |
29.08.2020, 08:44
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| Quote: | | | | | Now go and look at the date that the original post was made | | | | | NASDAQ was at 3020 , 39% below 5132 reached on 6 march 2000 some 12 years earlier. It closed last night at 11695
Interestingly the USD / CHF rate is virtually unchanged, so much for the CHF being a strong currency & USD being a weak currency.
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| Quote: | | | | | I presume having 'facebook' as an option is your attempt at humor.
If not, then stay away from the stock market and keep your money under the mattress. You will be better off.
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29.08.2020, 09:48
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| Quote: | | | | | Quoted for retrospective hilarity. | | | | | Up 15 times, I was going to check if it was the winner.
Choosing the hottest stock of the day will seldom be the winner over time.
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30.08.2020, 11:30
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| Quote: | | | | | NASDAQ was at 3020 , 39% below 5132 reached on 6 march 2000 some 12 years earlier. It closed last night at 11695
Interestingly the USD / CHF rate is virtually unchanged, so much for the CHF being a strong currency & USD being a weak currency. | | | | | You mean 1.80 in 2000 vs 0.95 now is virtually the same?
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30.08.2020, 11:37
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| Quote: | | | | | You mean 1.80 in 2000 vs 0.95 now is virtually the same? | | | | | I mean over the life of the thread, since 2012 the USD/CHF rate is virtually the same.
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| Quote: | | | | | I mean over the life of the thread, since 2012 the USD/CHF rate is virtually the same. | | | | | Small difference is crucial for currency trading. There were the times that CHF1 was worth less than $1 (CHF1 = $0.97) and good for transferring USD/CHF earned from stock dividends. For the past weeks it’s around CHF1 = $1.1 ideal for buying Nasdaq shares. 
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| Quote: | | | | | Hopefully one day it will start to make real profits, I noticed 1 analyst recently released a $900 price target. With 38 billion of assets it's going to be a long time before the ROCE becomes attractive enough to invest myself. | | | | | Those lousy $900 seem like peanuts now, don't they? TSLA looks more and more like bitcoin... about 10x in a year is simply not sustainable IMHO. Maybe it will got to 3k, maybe even higher, but I fear many will be burnt badly.
I just exited my Scottish Mortgage Position for the sole reason for their large holding in TSLA. The latest data I have on SMT is 12.5% holding of TSLA which was end of June. Unless they heavily unloaded tesla shares, their holding must be 25%-30% which is crazy. | Quote: | | | | | In one of the discussions SMT came up as an alternative, I looked at the performance going back to Fundsmith's inception November 2010.
Fundsmith was the winner for almost all the last 10 years, SMT has hugely outperformed in recent months due to its huge positions in Tesla & Amazon. Both companies are on huge PE's 768 & 119. This makes FS largest holding of Microsoft seem a huge bargain at 37.5
Not sure I would want to buy SMT today, in March a different story, volatility can be your friend as the member who picked up Smithson for £9.00 in March found out. | | | | |  |
01.09.2020, 10:40
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Well, split adjusted, they're already half-way there now.
If the current stock-price represents a future-to-come, it would be mean that the current manufacturers of ICE-cars will be relegated to niche-vendors rather soon.
Basically, a repeat of the rise of Apple as a smartphone-manufacturer. Just with cars this time.
Sadly, the Apple-car itself has not manifested, yet.
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| Quote: | | | | | Those lousy $900 seem like peanuts now, don't they? TSLA looks more and more like bitcoin... about 10x in a year is simply not sustainable IMHO. Maybe it will got to 3k, maybe even higher, but I fear many will be burnt badly.
I just exited my Scottish Mortgage Position for the sole reason for their large holding in TSLA. The latest data I have on SMT is 12.5% holding of TSLA which was end of June. Unless they heavily unloaded tesla shares, their holding must be 25%-30% which is crazy. | | | | | They also hold a big stake in Illumina, who I acted for as a lawyer. If that doesn't get you selling I don't know what will  |
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| Quote: | | | | | They also hold a big stake in Illumina, who I acted for as a lawyer. If that doesn't get you selling I don't know what will | | | | | Really, their sequencing tech seems to be the most advanced available today, isn't it? | Quote: | | | | | Well, split adjusted, they're already half-way there now.
If the current stock-price represents a future-to-come, it would be mean that the current manufacturers of ICE-cars will be relegated to niche-vendors rather soon.
Basically, a repeat of the rise of Apple as a smartphone-manufacturer. Just with cars this time.
Sadly, the Apple-car itself has not manifested, yet. | | | | | TSLA would need a close to 100% market share of all car manufacturers (not just EVs) to justify its valuation. I do like teslas, but close to 100% market share is quite optimistic
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| Quote: | | | | | Really, their sequencing tech seems to be the most advanced available today, isn't it?
TSLA would need a close to 100% market share of all car manufacturers (not just EVs) to justify its valuation. I do like teslas, but close to 100% market share is quite optimistic | | | | | I filed a submission in defense of one of their most important European Patents on DNA sequencing. I think its fantastic technology. I really do. You can see how it blew everything else that came before it out of the water.
It certainly was a hell of a lot easier defending their tech than it was for the lawyer on the other side.
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| Quote: | | | | | TSLA would need a close to 100% market share of all car manufacturers (not just EVs) to justify its valuation. I do like teslas, but close to 100% market share is quite optimistic | | | | | not sure your calculation is correct.
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