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$fisv Sometimes you need to pinch your nose and hit the BUY button. Fiserv at $56 is value you shouldn’t ignore. In for 5,000 shares today.

After two days this is solidly in the green. Sometimes the market hands you free money if you think logically $uso

Tomorrow when the market opens and $uso shoots up, consider buying leap puts. I doubt the flow of oil will continue to be halted for a long time. But leaps protect you just in case. Looks like a nice opportunity. A put debit spread would work as well.

If only we spent our tax dollars in building up our infrastructure within the US instead of starting wars with countries that did not attack us we’d have a stronger country, happier citizens, and a $spy that would make everyone a millionaire. When is the next election again?

$ttd Stock is in free fall. They paid $500M in SBC in 2025 as the stock collapsed. They don’t even make that in net income. Not as bad as $snap which is the worst or $pltr which at least had share price appreciation. Trade Desk ceo needs to tie equity bonuses to share price.

@Kaizen_Investor “Cash on their books plus a small premium”??? $700M cash on books, market cap is $9B. I’d say that is a hefty premium.

$PL remains my highest-conviction play in the space economy. Based on current fundamentals and their expanding contract pipeline, I see a clear path to a 300% upside from these levels. Price target: $23.91 -> $67.3 Most investors look at Planet Labs and see satellites. They see capital expenditure. They see launch risks. They are missing the forest for the trees. Planet Labs is not a normal space company. Planet Labs is a SaaS Database company with cameras in orbit. Here is the thesis for $PL based strictly on the fundamentals and the unique economics revealed in their 10-Ks and 10-Qs. 1. The One-to-Many Economics (The Margin Story) This is the single most important concept in the Planet Labs bull case, and it’s buried in their Description of Business filings. Traditional space companies (like Maxar or BlackSky) operate on a Tasking model. - Customer wants a photo. - Satellite moves. - Photo taken. - Result: 1 Unit of Cost = 1 Unit of Revenue. Planet operates on a Monitoring model (Always-on). The constellation scans the entire landmass of Earth daily. The data goes into the database. Customer A (Agriculture) buys the data. Customer B (Defense) buys the exact same data. Customer C (Finance) buys the exact same data. The Unit Economics: You pay for the satellite once. You sell the same pixel infinite times. This is why their Gross Margins are expanding toward software levels (aiming for 70%+ long-term targets), vastly superior to traditional aerospace hardware margins. 2. The Unreplicable Moat: The Time Machine In their Annual Reports, Planet highlights their proprietary archive. Competitors are launching satellites today. Great. They can show you what the world looks like today. But if an intelligence agency needs to know "When did China start building this runway?" or a hedge fund needs to know "How has this crop yield changed since 2018?", only Planet Labs has the answer. They have an image of every spot on Earth, every day, going back years. Competitor Lag: 10+ years. Barrier to Entry: Impossible. You cannot launch a satellite today to take a picture of yesterday. This archive is the training data for the world's geospatial AI. You cannot train a model on change-detection without historical data. $PL owns the training set. 3. Financial Stability (The Anti-SPAC) While the space sector is littered with bankruptcies (Virgin Orbit, Astra), look at the Balance Sheet from the latest filings: Cash & Cash Equivalents: Significant liquidity (approx ~$200M-$300M range depending on the specific quarter, usually ~30% of market cap). Debt: Negligible to zero. They are not desperate for cash. They are playing the long game while competitors starve. 4. The Quality of Revenue Reviewing the Key Business Metrics in their filings reveals why this is a high-quality asset: Recurring ACV (Annual Contract Value): Consistently >90%. This implies their revenue is sticky. Once a government or agricultural giant integrates Planet data into their workflow, they don't churn. It becomes a utility like electricity. Net Dollar Retention (NDR): Frequently >100%. Existing customers aren't just staying; they are spending more every year. 5. The Sleeping Giant: Government Contracts The 10-K highlights a shift in strategy: From Data to Solutions. We are seeing a massive transition in US Government (USG) spending. The NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) and NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) are moving from buying satellites to buying commercial data. EOCL Contract: A multi-year validation by the NRO. NASA: Renewed and expanded usage. Planet is already embedded in the US federal ecosystem. As geopolitical tensions rise (Ukraine, Middle East, Taiwan Strait), the demand for "Daily, Global Transparency" becomes inelastic. The Valuation Disconnect The market treats $PL like a speculative de-SPAC. But the filings show a company with: SaaS metrics (90%+ recurring revenue). Tech monopoly (Daily scan). Fortress balance sheet (High cash, no debt). The Catalyst: The launch of the Pelican (high-res) and Tanager (hyperspectral) constellations. Pelican closes the resolution gap with Maxar. Tanager opens a new market in carbon/methane detection (ESG compliance). Summary: You are buying a monopoly on daily Earth data for roughly the price of the cash on their books plus a small premium. When the market realizes this is an AI/Data play and not a Hardware play, the multiple expansion will be violent. Note: Not financial advice, do your own research.

@AGPamBondi Disgraceful on so many levels. Choosing to shield child rapists and killers. For what, so you can retain your job? There’s a special place in hell for Epstein, his conspirators, the enablers, and those who have the power to do something but choose to do nothing.

@TheBenSchmark They need to mark to market their investment value on the balance sheet so it should not be a surprise what the value is.

$ZM is the best Anthropic play Zoom likely made a $51m investment in Anthropic Series C in 2023 at ~$4.1bn valuation. Sequoia in at $350bn. 85X? Even diluted, Zoom may have a multi-billion dollar Anthropic position. Stock down 80% since ‘21. AI winner. wen Anthropic IPO?

$jd JD released their annual 2025 share buyback figures. This implies around 50M ADRs were bought in Q4. Yet in Q4 the share price sank even with these buybacks. Nice thing is they canceled 6.3% of their outstanding shares and have $2B more to go on the buyback. ir.jd.com/news-releases/…

The CEO of $jd paused the approved stock buyback now for 2+ quarters so that she can subsidize housing for delivery drivers of the money losing food delivery service she for some unknown reason is hellbent on throwing away money on. She could have gotten into AI, robotics, etc… but nope, food delivery. Negative margins, high competition, tons of promotion required food delivery. If JD was a US company she would have been booted out already.

$JD I have no doubt in my mind that $JD will hit $70 within 12 months. Remember this post.

$nio Needs a new CEO. No focus here. Wasted time and money developing a cell phone, opening Nio houses, expanding into Western Europe to sell 100 cars a quarter. A good CEO masters one thing first. An unfocused ceo tries to do everything at once. And for crying out loud your R&D running at a quarter billion per quarter is insane. When you think about labor cost in China that’s like half the country.

CEOs who don’t time their stock buybacks to maximize the amount of shares purchased should be shown the door. It doesn’t take a genius to look at stock history and what the RSI is relative to history. Stop wasting money in food delivery (which in a poor economy will tank and even in a good economy runs at a loss) and buy back shares. $jd

Imagine being the $JD CEO, with $27B in cash and short term investments on the balance sheet. Your market cap is $42B. You are profitable hundreds of millions per quarter. And you have paused for 2 quarters your stock buyback. What is wrong with this lady? New CEO needed.

@Vivek4real_ Everyone wants to buy bitcoin (with someone else’s money).

🇺🇸 STRIKE CEO JACK MALLERS JUST SAID THEY WILL BUY OVER $60,000,000,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN “WE WANNA BE THE LARGEST HOLDER OF BITCOIN”

@mikealfred I think Trump took the briefcase full of IOUs from Dumb and Dumber as a scene from a documentary.

I just got off the craziest call I’ve ever had. I can’t share names or details because I don’t want to compromise anyone. But the short summary is that I have been advised confidentially that a massive, possibly multi-trillion dollar, liquidity injection is coming within 75 days.

$jd and unsurprisingly the ceo did none of the three things I said and stock is down even though a double beat. As I said, earnings didn’t matter. CEO is clueless.

$jd reports earnings in about 7-8 hours. Earnings don’t matter because they’ve beat how many quarters in a row? CEO needs to talk AI, Robotics, and commit to a much larger share buyback now. Anything less is poor leadership.

$jd The ceo has a spending problem. Q3 revenue up 15%, but marketing expense up 100%. Where she should be spending is on the stock buyback. This is the second quarter in a row they have bought back zero shares. What is she waiting for? Stock is down 10% for the year.

@pennycheck Would need another zero to make it noteworthy. $12M in shares is a drop in the ocean for them.

$CCCX Putting together this filing Citadels market making firm owns 1.5M shares (not noteworthy) But Citadels investment fund owns 686K shares (very noteworthy)

@mikealfred Because…? There’s no underlying asset. When quantum cracks encryption then what? At least with the tulip bulb bubble you could grow a flower. What is here besides energy consumption and herd mentality? #bitcoin