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Feb 10, 2023
Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of February 10
Let's take a look at firms raising/lowering their dividends this week.
Feb 9, 2023
Chipotle’s Fourth Quarter 2022 Results Not Bad, Has Incredible Long-Term Unit Restaurant Potential
Image Source: Valuentum. Long term, Chipotle has plans to expand to 7,000 restaurants, up from nearly 3,200 restaurants at the end of 2022. The company still holds the wild card of expanding into the breakfast daypart, which we believe is a huge source of upside potential for the burrito maker, especially as it adds more drive-throughs across its restaurant portfolio. We continue to like shares.
Feb 8, 2023
Net-Cash-Rich Vertex Pharma’s Lucrative Cystic Fibrosis Franchise Continues to Power Performance
Image Source: Vertex Pharma. We’re huge fans of Vertex Pharma. We love its net-cash-rich balance sheet, strong free-cash-flow generating capacity and lucrative and established CF franchise. We also like its long-term potential in CRISPR gene-editing technology and pain management alternatives to opioids and believe the company has other opportunities that may eventually reach commercialization across its pipeline. Our fair value estimate of Vertex Pharma stands at $320 per share, and we continue like the company as our primary biotech exposure in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio.
Feb 3, 2023
Trio of Earnings Reports from Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon Give Pause to Markets
Image Source: Valuentum. Apple’s, Alphabet’s and Amazon’s calendar fourth-quarter results, released February 2, weren’t great, but we’re keeping things in context. Apple had to deal with disruptions in China during the period, while Alphabet is contending with a slowdown in advertising. Both Apple and Alphabet continue to generate tremendous amounts of free cash flow, while boasting considerable net cash positions. Alphabet’s financial profile is second to none. Amazon, on the other hand, continues to burn through free cash flow while it holds a net-neutral balance sheet. We continue to be comfortable including Apple and Alphabet in the newsletter portfolios, but we won’t be considering Amazon anytime soon. Though we expect to make a few tweaks to our valuation models of each, our fair value estimates remain unchanged at this time.
Feb 3, 2023
Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of February 3
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Feb 2, 2023
Meta’s Free Cash Flow Generation Has Returned, But TikTok Has Permanently Changed the Competitive Landscape
Image: Meta Platforms’ free cash flow has bounced back a bit, but the firm’s top-line growth remains challenged as it transitions away from a secular growth powerhouse into a cyclical story with encroaching competition. Image Source: Meta Platforms. We’re loving this nice move higher in the stylistic area of large cap growth, and for those investors seeking broad-based exposure, we think this area is the place to be in the long run. Tesla’s strong financial performance coupled with Meta Platforms’ return to financial discipline are propelling large cap growth higher, but risks to the broader equity markets and economy remain. In any case, with inflation likely peaking in June 2022, fourth-quarter 2022 earnings season coming in better-than-feared, and technical breakouts of key indices across the board from the equal-weighted and market-cap weighted S&P 500 to the NASDAQ-100, equity investors have a lot to cheer about.
Jan 28, 2023
We Don’t Think Intel Will Spoil the Tech Rally
Image Shown: The Invesco QQQ ETF has broken through its technical downtrend, and we don’t think Intel’s poor outlook will derail this tech rally. Image Source: TradingView. Intel no longer is the bellwether it once was. Its market capitalization has dwindled significantly in recent years and now stands at ~116.5 billion, lower than Advanced Micro Devices' market capitalization of ~$121.6 billion, Texas Instruments' market capitalization of ~$158.8 billion, and Nvidia’s market capitalization of ~$501 billion. Taiwan Semiconductor has a market capitalization of ~$431 billion, while ASML Holding has a market capitalization of ~$268 billion. Intel no longer is what it once was, and as such, we don’t think its poor and borderline shocking outlook will derail a tech rally that could have significant legs. We still like these markets, and we don’t think Intel will spoil the party.
Jan 27, 2023
Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of January 27
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Jan 26, 2023
Market-Cap Weighted S&P 500 Breaks Out; Have We Already Seen the Bottom?
Image: The market-cap weighted S&P 500 (SPY) has broken through its downtrend. The markets could be headed meaningfully higher. Image Source: TradingView. The market-cap weighted S&P 500 has broken out of the technical downtrend that defined 2022 following the equal-weight breakout that preceded it. The pace of inflation looks like it peaked in June 2022, and while myriad risks to both the economy and stock market remain, fourth-quarter 2022 earnings season is shaping up better than feared. We maintain our view that the markets remain at critical technical levels, and we continue to monitor earnings season and technical developments closely.
Jan 25, 2023
Microsoft Is Betting Big on Artificial Intelligence (AI); Fiscal Q2 Shows Meager Revenue Growth, Weaker Cash Flow Generation
Image: Microsoft believes artificial intelligence (AI) will be the next platform wave, and the company is going full steam ahead to incorporate AI across its business systems. Image Source: Microsoft. “The age of AI is upon us and Microsoft is powering it. We are witnessing non-linear improvements in capability of foundation models, which we are making available as platforms. And as customers select their cloud providers and invest in new workloads, we are well positioned to capture that opportunity as a leader in AI. We have the most powerful AI supercomputing infrastructure in the cloud. It’s being used by customers and partners like OpenAI to train state-of-the-art models and services, including ChatGPT.” – Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (January 24, 2023)


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