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Supporters of payment for order flow argue that it has helped reduce trading costs and supports the business model of no-commission trading.</p>\n<p>Lawmakers will likely raise the subject of cryptocurrency regulation as well. \"Currently we just don't have enough investor protection in crypto finance issuance, trading or lending,\" Gensler's testimony reads.</p>\n<p>Republicans have become increasingly critical of Gensler's approach to the crypto market, arguing that the agency should do more to provide regulatory clarity on the topic, while Democrats have typically voiced concerns over the industry flouting securities laws.</p>\n<p>Gensler also plans to address the SEC's policy regarding listings of Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges, most of which do not allow the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to oversee their auditing process, contrary to U.S. law. 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He will note that the SEC's Division of Enforcement has 6% fewer staff than it did in 2016, and that staff at the examinations division has stayed flat despite a 20% increase in registered investment advisors and a 65% increase in these firms' assets under management.\n\"As our capital markets have grown and technology continues to shape the face of finance, though, the SEC has not grown to meet the needs of the 2020s,\" Gensler's testimony reads. \"As more Americans are accessing the capital markets, we need to be sure the commission has the resources to protect them.\"","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":343,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":820098275,"gmtCreate":1633321549157,"gmtModify":1633321557118,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Can","listText":"Can","text":"Can","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":13,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/820098275","repostId":"2172202963","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2172202963","pubTimestamp":1633316991,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2172202963?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-04 11:09","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Will Airline Stocks Keep Flying Today？","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2172202963","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A Wall Street analyst sees upside from here for the airlines.","content":"<span> <h2>What happened</h2> <p>A prominent analyst just issued an upgrade of <strong>Southwest Airlines</strong> <span>(NYSE:LUV)</span>, and his rationale has the whole sector taking flight. Shares of Southwest, <strong>Delta Air Lines</strong> <span>(NYSE:DAL)</span>, <strong>United Airlines Holdings</strong> <span>(NASDAQ:UAL)</span>, and <strong>JetBlue Airways</strong> <span>(NASDAQ:JBLU)</span> were all up more than 5% on Friday morning on commentary that the post-pandemic aviation recovery is far from over.</p> <h2>So what</h2> <p>It's been a turbulent few years for airline stocks, with shares initially hit hard by the pandemic on fears that the drop in travel demand would lead to a rash of airline bankruptcies. But in the U.S., the industry was able to fly through the storm better than expected, and as the vaccines began to roll out, the airlines were part of the so-called \"reopening rally\" earlier this year.</p> \n <div>\n  <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2cf782f2a6aff83cf3950fd1a7cc9cd7\" srcset=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A//g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/645090/silhouette-of-airplane-flying-over-palm-trees-in-sunset-getty.jpg&amp;w=300&amp;op=resize 300w, https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A//g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/645090/silhouette-of-airplane-flying-over-palm-trees-in-sunset-getty.jpg&amp;w=1000&amp;op=resize 1000w, https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A//g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/645090/silhouette-of-airplane-flying-over-palm-trees-in-sunset-getty.jpg&amp;w=2000&amp;op=resize 2000w\"> \n  <p>Image source: Getty Images.</p> \n </div> <p>The stocks have mostly gone sideways for a few months now, caught up in a battle between bulls who see significant pent-up demand and bears who worry about added debt taken on during the crisis alongside issues including the Delta variant and continued sluggish demand for business and international travel.</p> <p>But <strong>JP Morgan</strong>'s Jamie Baker thinks the concerns are overblown. On Friday, Baker upgraded Southwest from neutral to overweight and raised his price target to $70 from $64.</p> <p>Baker's reasoning is resonating with investors in several airlines. The analyst wrote airline stocks have \"room to run,\" citing \"encouraging\" JP Morgan internal travel spending data and the recently announced easing of U.S. border restrictions. This remains a domestic-fueled rally, Baker said, but European travel is beginning to spring to life and there are also signs of improved bookings on the all-important New York-London route.</p>\n <div></div> <h2>Now what</h2> <p>Baker only upgraded Southwest, but it is easy to see why the commentary is moving the entire sector. The bullishness goes far beyond the operations of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> airline. Southwest, for example, doesn't even fly to Europe.</p> <p>Of course, many risks remain. There is reason to hope the worst of the Delta variant is behind the U.S., but we don't know what might come next from the pandemic and how these developments might impact the quarters to come. And there are some encouraging signs that historically more lucrative segments of the market like business and international travel might be off of their lows. Still, many corporations won't even require employees to return to the office until 2022. Therefore, it is hard to imagine a quick spike in the travel business any time soon.</p> <p>Valuations are reasonable, but uncertainty remains. I agree with Baker's overall optimistic tone, but investors should be aware that this is unlikely to be a straight shot higher and that risks are still in play. For those willing to buckle up for some turbulence and buy right now, it is best to stick with top-quality operators like Southwest and Delta.</p> \n <div></div> </span>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Will Airline Stocks Keep Flying Today？</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWill Airline Stocks Keep Flying Today？\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-04 11:09 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/01/why-airline-stocks-are-flying-high-today/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>What happened A prominent analyst just issued an upgrade of Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), and his rationale has the whole sector taking flight. Shares of Southwest, Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), United...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/01/why-airline-stocks-are-flying-high-today/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/01/why-airline-stocks-are-flying-high-today/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2172202963","content_text":"What happened A prominent analyst just issued an upgrade of Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), and his rationale has the whole sector taking flight. Shares of Southwest, Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ:UAL), and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) were all up more than 5% on Friday morning on commentary that the post-pandemic aviation recovery is far from over. So what It's been a turbulent few years for airline stocks, with shares initially hit hard by the pandemic on fears that the drop in travel demand would lead to a rash of airline bankruptcies. But in the U.S., the industry was able to fly through the storm better than expected, and as the vaccines began to roll out, the airlines were part of the so-called \"reopening rally\" earlier this year.\n\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\n The stocks have mostly gone sideways for a few months now, caught up in a battle between bulls who see significant pent-up demand and bears who worry about added debt taken on during the crisis alongside issues including the Delta variant and continued sluggish demand for business and international travel. But JP Morgan's Jamie Baker thinks the concerns are overblown. On Friday, Baker upgraded Southwest from neutral to overweight and raised his price target to $70 from $64. Baker's reasoning is resonating with investors in several airlines. The analyst wrote airline stocks have \"room to run,\" citing \"encouraging\" JP Morgan internal travel spending data and the recently announced easing of U.S. border restrictions. This remains a domestic-fueled rally, Baker said, but European travel is beginning to spring to life and there are also signs of improved bookings on the all-important New York-London route.\n Now what Baker only upgraded Southwest, but it is easy to see why the commentary is moving the entire sector. The bullishness goes far beyond the operations of one airline. Southwest, for example, doesn't even fly to Europe. Of course, many risks remain. There is reason to hope the worst of the Delta variant is behind the U.S., but we don't know what might come next from the pandemic and how these developments might impact the quarters to come. And there are some encouraging signs that historically more lucrative segments of the market like business and international travel might be off of their lows. Still, many corporations won't even require employees to return to the office until 2022. Therefore, it is hard to imagine a quick spike in the travel business any time soon. Valuations are reasonable, but uncertainty remains. I agree with Baker's overall optimistic tone, but investors should be aware that this is unlikely to be a straight shot higher and that risks are still in play. For those willing to buckle up for some turbulence and buy right now, it is best to stick with top-quality operators like Southwest and Delta.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":431,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":867232646,"gmtCreate":1633269467216,"gmtModify":1633269475323,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nice","listText":"Nice","text":"Nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/867232646","repostId":"2172964018","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2172964018","pubTimestamp":1633238325,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2172964018?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-03 13:18","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Italy's Leonardo says Boeing to update 787 production plan this month","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2172964018","media":"Reuters","summary":"DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expe","content":"<p>DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expected this month to release an updated production plan for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet.</p>\n<p>\"In the next day they will come out with a new plan,\" Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo told Reuters at the Dubai Expo on Saturday. \"They are saying they are 'slightly more optimistic', shall we say.\"</p>\n<p>Profumo did not say whether there would be a change in production rates in the new plan to be released by Boeing. Leonardo manufactures part of the Dreamliner airframe.</p>\n<p>A Boeing representative told Reuters the planemaker did not have any updates on 787 production. They did not say whether a new production plan would soon be released.</p>\n<p>\"We are constantly analysing the global aviation market, coordinating closely with suppliers and aligning supply with demand.”</p>\n<p>Leonardo expects Boeing to produce at a rate of 10 Dreamliners a month by the end of 2025, Profumo said, citing existing advice from the planemaker.</p>\n<p>Boeing was producing at a rate of 14 a month in 2019, according to the latest available data.</p>\n<p>The U.S. planemaker suspended Dreamliner deliveries in late May after the Federal Aviation Administration raised concerns about its proposed inspection method. (Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by William Mallard)</p>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Italy's Leonardo says Boeing to update 787 production plan this month</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nItaly's Leonardo says Boeing to update 787 production plan this month\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-03 13:18 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italys-leonardo-says-boeing-787-051845587.html><strong>Reuters</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expected this month to release an updated production plan for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet.\n\"In the ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italys-leonardo-says-boeing-787-051845587.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BA":"波音"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italys-leonardo-says-boeing-787-051845587.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2172964018","content_text":"DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expected this month to release an updated production plan for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet.\n\"In the next day they will come out with a new plan,\" Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo told Reuters at the Dubai Expo on Saturday. \"They are saying they are 'slightly more optimistic', shall we say.\"\nProfumo did not say whether there would be a change in production rates in the new plan to be released by Boeing. Leonardo manufactures part of the Dreamliner airframe.\nA Boeing representative told Reuters the planemaker did not have any updates on 787 production. They did not say whether a new production plan would soon be released.\n\"We are constantly analysing the global aviation market, coordinating closely with suppliers and aligning supply with demand.”\nLeonardo expects Boeing to produce at a rate of 10 Dreamliners a month by the end of 2025, Profumo said, citing existing advice from the planemaker.\nBoeing was producing at a rate of 14 a month in 2019, according to the latest available data.\nThe U.S. planemaker suspended Dreamliner deliveries in late May after the Federal Aviation Administration raised concerns about its proposed inspection method. (Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by William Mallard)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":468,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":867929472,"gmtCreate":1633189352309,"gmtModify":1633189360544,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Lole","listText":"Lole","text":"Lole","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/867929472","repostId":"2172196180","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2172196180","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1633144680,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2172196180?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-02 11:18","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Disney is eliminating a beloved free perk at its U.S. theme parks","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2172196180","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"A new trip-planning service called Disney Genie will help visitors at Walt Disney World and Disneyla","content":"<p>A new trip-planning service called Disney Genie will help visitors at Walt Disney World and Disneyland avoid spending too much time in lines.</p>\n<p>Cutting the line at your favorite Disney theme park attractions is now going to cost you.</p>\n<p>Disney <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DIS\">$(DIS)$</a> is set to roll out a new planning service, called Disney Genie, for visitors to its theme parks in California and Florida, designed to help guests avoid spending too much time in long lines. The Disney Genie service will be introduced to Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California this fall.</p>\n<p>As part of the change, a new, paid program is set to replace the free FastPass program at the theme parks.</p>\n<p>FastPass was first introduced in 1999, and it essentially allowed visitors to Walt Disney World and Disneyland to skip the stand-by lines at popular attractions for free. In reality, FastPass was a virtual queue system: Guests would get a ticket they could use at a reserved time to bypass the regular stand-by line, but essentially they were waiting in a virtual line.</p>\n<p>Now to take advantage of those same perks, Disney theme park visitors will have to pay as much as $80 per day for a family of four.</p>\n<p>\"While the FASTPASS, FastPass+ and Disney MaxPass services will be retired, we're incredible excited about the flexibility and choices Disney Genie service provides,\" the company said in a blog post announcing the changes.</p>\n<p>Here's what Disney theme park travelers need to know:</p>\n<p>Say hello to Genie+ and Lightning Lanes</p>\n<p>There will be an optional, paid add-on to the standard Disney Genie service, called Genie+, that will enable Disney theme park visitors to skip the stand-by lines at popular attractions. At Disney World, the service will cost $15 per day per person, while at Disneyland it will cost $20 per day per person.</p>\n<p>There will be more than 40 attractions available for Genie+ bookings at Walt Disney World, and more than 15 attractions at Disneyland. The list of attractions has not yet been released, but Disney said it will be similar to what was previously available through the old FastPass system.</p>\n<p>The FastPass lines at popular attractions will be known as Lightning Lanes. To skip the line, guests will need to reserve a time using the Disney Genie mobile app. They will be able to start making reservations beginning at 7 a.m. the day of their visit to a Walt Disney World park or when the parks open at Disneyland.</p>\n<p>Guests will be allowed to have <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> Genie+ reservation at a time -- once a reservation is used, they will be able to make another. Visitors who visit more than one Disney park in a day will be able to use Genie+ at any park they visit.</p>\n<p>The Genie+ program will come with some perks. At Disneyland, guests who purchase Genie+ will also get complimentary downloads of pictures taken through PhotoPass, such as photos taken on rides. At Walt Disney World, Genie+ purchasers will be able to try out augmented reality technology on their phones. The service also comes with complimentary audio experiences at both the California and Florida resorts.</p>\n<p>Skipping the line on some rides is going to cost people extra -- even if they purchase Genie+</p>\n<p>The most popular attractions at Disney theme parks won't be part of Genie+. To skip the lines for these, visitors will need to pay separately, though Disney has not yet said how much the perk will cost.</p>\n<p>This will be the case for up to two attractions at each park. Disney has not yet released a full list of which attractions this will be the case for, but examples they cited include the upcoming Remy's Ratatouille adventure at Epcot, Radiator Springs Racers at Disney California Adventure, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Magic Kingdom and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland.</p>\n<p>These reservations will be able to be booked starting at 7 a.m. for visitors staying at Walt Disney World hotels. Other visitors at Walt Disney World, and everyone visiting Disneyland, will otherwise be able to make to reservations when the parks open each day.</p>\n<p>As with the rides on Genie+, traditional stand-by lines (or virtual queues) will be available for guests who don't wish to pay for the upgrade. Guests can also purchase Lightning Lane access for these rides and forego Genie+ if they so choose.</p>\n<p>Some travel experts believe that the added cost of these perks, which were essentially free in the past, could upset some guests, including annual passholders. The cost of Genie+ is comparable to the cost of MaxPass, a paid FastPass program that was introduced at Disneyland Resort in recent years.</p>\n<p>\"If you're already paying $150 a day to get into the park, to tell somebody that you've got to pay another $100 for your family to get on the best rides in the park -- that's going to be a hard message to sell,\" said Len Testa, president of travel website Touring Plans.</p>\n<p>The calculus for families could come down to the value of paying for the ability to skip lines -- and that will depend on ride capacity. People with Genie+ reservations will have priority over people in the regular stand-by line. If Disney chooses to allow up to 70% of a ride's capacity to be set aside for Genie+, that could make it a better value, since that would means longer stand-by lines. (The company said that how the capacity divvies up will be similar to what was in place with the previous FastPass programs.)</p>\n<p>\"This shouldn't be that bad because fewer people are going to use paid Fast Pass than they would free Fast Pass,\" Testa said. \"If they charge $20 per FastPass, relatively few people are going to buy that. So, it won't impact the standby line as much.\"</p>\n<p>'This is something that will be copied and passed around'</p>\n<p>Even for visitors who decide against paying to skip lines, Disney argues that the new Disney Genie service will help them avoid spending too much time just waiting in lines.</p>\n<p>The new service takes advantage of machine learning technology and algorithms to track where crowds are in the theme parks and then make recommendations to visitors. Visitors can select in advance which attractions they most want to visit, and it will notify them of when they should head to that ride based on the wait times in the park. Guests will also be able to check forecasts for wait times on rides for later in the day based on crowd sizes.</p>\n<p>The Disney Genie services will be built into the existing apps for Disneyland and Walt Disney World. In addition to tracking ride wait times, the app can also be used to make dining reservations at table-service restaurants or for mobile ordering at counter-service eateries. It can then give recommendations of rides nearby with low wait times to visit before or after a meal.</p>\n<p>\"It's going to be revolutionary for the theme park industry,\" said Dennis Spiegel, president of industry consulting firm International Theme Park Services Inc. \"This is something that will be copied and passed along to all the operators.\"</p>\n<p>To Spiegel, the service will allow people to be more spontaneous when they visit a theme park and have to do less advance planning than they once did. Plus, the way that algorithms will track and predict crowd sizes and wait times will give visitors more control over their experience, he argues.</p>\n<p>\"This is going to allow people to move smoother through their visit,\" Spiegel said. \"And it's going to allow them to eat, drink and spend a little bit more -- which is going to be great for Disney -- because they're not waiting in line so long.\"</p>\n<p>Disney shares are down 4% this year to date, compared to a 14% gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a 17% gain for the S&amp;P 500 Index .</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Disney is eliminating a beloved free perk at its U.S. theme parks</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nDisney is eliminating a beloved free perk at its U.S. theme parks\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-10-02 11:18</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>A new trip-planning service called Disney Genie will help visitors at Walt Disney World and Disneyland avoid spending too much time in lines.</p>\n<p>Cutting the line at your favorite Disney theme park attractions is now going to cost you.</p>\n<p>Disney <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DIS\">$(DIS)$</a> is set to roll out a new planning service, called Disney Genie, for visitors to its theme parks in California and Florida, designed to help guests avoid spending too much time in long lines. The Disney Genie service will be introduced to Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California this fall.</p>\n<p>As part of the change, a new, paid program is set to replace the free FastPass program at the theme parks.</p>\n<p>FastPass was first introduced in 1999, and it essentially allowed visitors to Walt Disney World and Disneyland to skip the stand-by lines at popular attractions for free. In reality, FastPass was a virtual queue system: Guests would get a ticket they could use at a reserved time to bypass the regular stand-by line, but essentially they were waiting in a virtual line.</p>\n<p>Now to take advantage of those same perks, Disney theme park visitors will have to pay as much as $80 per day for a family of four.</p>\n<p>\"While the FASTPASS, FastPass+ and Disney MaxPass services will be retired, we're incredible excited about the flexibility and choices Disney Genie service provides,\" the company said in a blog post announcing the changes.</p>\n<p>Here's what Disney theme park travelers need to know:</p>\n<p>Say hello to Genie+ and Lightning Lanes</p>\n<p>There will be an optional, paid add-on to the standard Disney Genie service, called Genie+, that will enable Disney theme park visitors to skip the stand-by lines at popular attractions. At Disney World, the service will cost $15 per day per person, while at Disneyland it will cost $20 per day per person.</p>\n<p>There will be more than 40 attractions available for Genie+ bookings at Walt Disney World, and more than 15 attractions at Disneyland. The list of attractions has not yet been released, but Disney said it will be similar to what was previously available through the old FastPass system.</p>\n<p>The FastPass lines at popular attractions will be known as Lightning Lanes. To skip the line, guests will need to reserve a time using the Disney Genie mobile app. They will be able to start making reservations beginning at 7 a.m. the day of their visit to a Walt Disney World park or when the parks open at Disneyland.</p>\n<p>Guests will be allowed to have <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> Genie+ reservation at a time -- once a reservation is used, they will be able to make another. Visitors who visit more than one Disney park in a day will be able to use Genie+ at any park they visit.</p>\n<p>The Genie+ program will come with some perks. At Disneyland, guests who purchase Genie+ will also get complimentary downloads of pictures taken through PhotoPass, such as photos taken on rides. At Walt Disney World, Genie+ purchasers will be able to try out augmented reality technology on their phones. The service also comes with complimentary audio experiences at both the California and Florida resorts.</p>\n<p>Skipping the line on some rides is going to cost people extra -- even if they purchase Genie+</p>\n<p>The most popular attractions at Disney theme parks won't be part of Genie+. To skip the lines for these, visitors will need to pay separately, though Disney has not yet said how much the perk will cost.</p>\n<p>This will be the case for up to two attractions at each park. Disney has not yet released a full list of which attractions this will be the case for, but examples they cited include the upcoming Remy's Ratatouille adventure at Epcot, Radiator Springs Racers at Disney California Adventure, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Magic Kingdom and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland.</p>\n<p>These reservations will be able to be booked starting at 7 a.m. for visitors staying at Walt Disney World hotels. Other visitors at Walt Disney World, and everyone visiting Disneyland, will otherwise be able to make to reservations when the parks open each day.</p>\n<p>As with the rides on Genie+, traditional stand-by lines (or virtual queues) will be available for guests who don't wish to pay for the upgrade. Guests can also purchase Lightning Lane access for these rides and forego Genie+ if they so choose.</p>\n<p>Some travel experts believe that the added cost of these perks, which were essentially free in the past, could upset some guests, including annual passholders. The cost of Genie+ is comparable to the cost of MaxPass, a paid FastPass program that was introduced at Disneyland Resort in recent years.</p>\n<p>\"If you're already paying $150 a day to get into the park, to tell somebody that you've got to pay another $100 for your family to get on the best rides in the park -- that's going to be a hard message to sell,\" said Len Testa, president of travel website Touring Plans.</p>\n<p>The calculus for families could come down to the value of paying for the ability to skip lines -- and that will depend on ride capacity. People with Genie+ reservations will have priority over people in the regular stand-by line. If Disney chooses to allow up to 70% of a ride's capacity to be set aside for Genie+, that could make it a better value, since that would means longer stand-by lines. (The company said that how the capacity divvies up will be similar to what was in place with the previous FastPass programs.)</p>\n<p>\"This shouldn't be that bad because fewer people are going to use paid Fast Pass than they would free Fast Pass,\" Testa said. \"If they charge $20 per FastPass, relatively few people are going to buy that. So, it won't impact the standby line as much.\"</p>\n<p>'This is something that will be copied and passed around'</p>\n<p>Even for visitors who decide against paying to skip lines, Disney argues that the new Disney Genie service will help them avoid spending too much time just waiting in lines.</p>\n<p>The new service takes advantage of machine learning technology and algorithms to track where crowds are in the theme parks and then make recommendations to visitors. Visitors can select in advance which attractions they most want to visit, and it will notify them of when they should head to that ride based on the wait times in the park. Guests will also be able to check forecasts for wait times on rides for later in the day based on crowd sizes.</p>\n<p>The Disney Genie services will be built into the existing apps for Disneyland and Walt Disney World. In addition to tracking ride wait times, the app can also be used to make dining reservations at table-service restaurants or for mobile ordering at counter-service eateries. It can then give recommendations of rides nearby with low wait times to visit before or after a meal.</p>\n<p>\"It's going to be revolutionary for the theme park industry,\" said Dennis Spiegel, president of industry consulting firm International Theme Park Services Inc. \"This is something that will be copied and passed along to all the operators.\"</p>\n<p>To Spiegel, the service will allow people to be more spontaneous when they visit a theme park and have to do less advance planning than they once did. Plus, the way that algorithms will track and predict crowd sizes and wait times will give visitors more control over their experience, he argues.</p>\n<p>\"This is going to allow people to move smoother through their visit,\" Spiegel said. \"And it's going to allow them to eat, drink and spend a little bit more -- which is going to be great for Disney -- because they're not waiting in line so long.\"</p>\n<p>Disney shares are down 4% this year to date, compared to a 14% gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a 17% gain for the S&amp;P 500 Index .</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"DIS":"迪士尼"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2172196180","content_text":"A new trip-planning service called Disney Genie will help visitors at Walt Disney World and Disneyland avoid spending too much time in lines.\nCutting the line at your favorite Disney theme park attractions is now going to cost you.\nDisney $(DIS)$ is set to roll out a new planning service, called Disney Genie, for visitors to its theme parks in California and Florida, designed to help guests avoid spending too much time in long lines. The Disney Genie service will be introduced to Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California this fall.\nAs part of the change, a new, paid program is set to replace the free FastPass program at the theme parks.\nFastPass was first introduced in 1999, and it essentially allowed visitors to Walt Disney World and Disneyland to skip the stand-by lines at popular attractions for free. In reality, FastPass was a virtual queue system: Guests would get a ticket they could use at a reserved time to bypass the regular stand-by line, but essentially they were waiting in a virtual line.\nNow to take advantage of those same perks, Disney theme park visitors will have to pay as much as $80 per day for a family of four.\n\"While the FASTPASS, FastPass+ and Disney MaxPass services will be retired, we're incredible excited about the flexibility and choices Disney Genie service provides,\" the company said in a blog post announcing the changes.\nHere's what Disney theme park travelers need to know:\nSay hello to Genie+ and Lightning Lanes\nThere will be an optional, paid add-on to the standard Disney Genie service, called Genie+, that will enable Disney theme park visitors to skip the stand-by lines at popular attractions. At Disney World, the service will cost $15 per day per person, while at Disneyland it will cost $20 per day per person.\nThere will be more than 40 attractions available for Genie+ bookings at Walt Disney World, and more than 15 attractions at Disneyland. The list of attractions has not yet been released, but Disney said it will be similar to what was previously available through the old FastPass system.\nThe FastPass lines at popular attractions will be known as Lightning Lanes. To skip the line, guests will need to reserve a time using the Disney Genie mobile app. They will be able to start making reservations beginning at 7 a.m. the day of their visit to a Walt Disney World park or when the parks open at Disneyland.\nGuests will be allowed to have one Genie+ reservation at a time -- once a reservation is used, they will be able to make another. Visitors who visit more than one Disney park in a day will be able to use Genie+ at any park they visit.\nThe Genie+ program will come with some perks. At Disneyland, guests who purchase Genie+ will also get complimentary downloads of pictures taken through PhotoPass, such as photos taken on rides. At Walt Disney World, Genie+ purchasers will be able to try out augmented reality technology on their phones. The service also comes with complimentary audio experiences at both the California and Florida resorts.\nSkipping the line on some rides is going to cost people extra -- even if they purchase Genie+\nThe most popular attractions at Disney theme parks won't be part of Genie+. To skip the lines for these, visitors will need to pay separately, though Disney has not yet said how much the perk will cost.\nThis will be the case for up to two attractions at each park. Disney has not yet released a full list of which attractions this will be the case for, but examples they cited include the upcoming Remy's Ratatouille adventure at Epcot, Radiator Springs Racers at Disney California Adventure, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Magic Kingdom and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland.\nThese reservations will be able to be booked starting at 7 a.m. for visitors staying at Walt Disney World hotels. Other visitors at Walt Disney World, and everyone visiting Disneyland, will otherwise be able to make to reservations when the parks open each day.\nAs with the rides on Genie+, traditional stand-by lines (or virtual queues) will be available for guests who don't wish to pay for the upgrade. Guests can also purchase Lightning Lane access for these rides and forego Genie+ if they so choose.\nSome travel experts believe that the added cost of these perks, which were essentially free in the past, could upset some guests, including annual passholders. The cost of Genie+ is comparable to the cost of MaxPass, a paid FastPass program that was introduced at Disneyland Resort in recent years.\n\"If you're already paying $150 a day to get into the park, to tell somebody that you've got to pay another $100 for your family to get on the best rides in the park -- that's going to be a hard message to sell,\" said Len Testa, president of travel website Touring Plans.\nThe calculus for families could come down to the value of paying for the ability to skip lines -- and that will depend on ride capacity. People with Genie+ reservations will have priority over people in the regular stand-by line. If Disney chooses to allow up to 70% of a ride's capacity to be set aside for Genie+, that could make it a better value, since that would means longer stand-by lines. (The company said that how the capacity divvies up will be similar to what was in place with the previous FastPass programs.)\n\"This shouldn't be that bad because fewer people are going to use paid Fast Pass than they would free Fast Pass,\" Testa said. \"If they charge $20 per FastPass, relatively few people are going to buy that. So, it won't impact the standby line as much.\"\n'This is something that will be copied and passed around'\nEven for visitors who decide against paying to skip lines, Disney argues that the new Disney Genie service will help them avoid spending too much time just waiting in lines.\nThe new service takes advantage of machine learning technology and algorithms to track where crowds are in the theme parks and then make recommendations to visitors. Visitors can select in advance which attractions they most want to visit, and it will notify them of when they should head to that ride based on the wait times in the park. Guests will also be able to check forecasts for wait times on rides for later in the day based on crowd sizes.\nThe Disney Genie services will be built into the existing apps for Disneyland and Walt Disney World. In addition to tracking ride wait times, the app can also be used to make dining reservations at table-service restaurants or for mobile ordering at counter-service eateries. It can then give recommendations of rides nearby with low wait times to visit before or after a meal.\n\"It's going to be revolutionary for the theme park industry,\" said Dennis Spiegel, president of industry consulting firm International Theme Park Services Inc. \"This is something that will be copied and passed along to all the operators.\"\nTo Spiegel, the service will allow people to be more spontaneous when they visit a theme park and have to do less advance planning than they once did. Plus, the way that algorithms will track and predict crowd sizes and wait times will give visitors more control over their experience, he argues.\n\"This is going to allow people to move smoother through their visit,\" Spiegel said. \"And it's going to allow them to eat, drink and spend a little bit more -- which is going to be great for Disney -- because they're not waiting in line so long.\"\nDisney shares are down 4% this year to date, compared to a 14% gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a 17% gain for the S&P 500 Index .","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":621,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":864314219,"gmtCreate":1633056934409,"gmtModify":1633056942604,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/864314219","repostId":"1124647688","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1124647688","pubTimestamp":1633048079,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1124647688?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-01 08:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Professor who called Dow 20,000 says he’s nervous about trends in inflation that could spark a stock-market correction","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1124647688","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, ","content":"<p>Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday said that a fresh surge in inflation is making him nervous and warned that accelerating pricing pressures could compel the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at a faster clip than currently anticipated, which could deliver a correction to equity benchmarks.</p>\n<p>The Wharton professorcredited with calling Dow 20,000&nbsp;in 2015 told CNBC during a Wednesday interview that he is “nervous about the trends I see in inflation currently.”</p>\n<p>The academic’s comments came as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday said a bout of high U.S. inflation could be prolonged into early next year because parts and material shortages might be getting worse.</p>\n<p>Parts of the financial market are undergoing big price surges, including natural-gas futuresNG00,+1.81%,whichsurged 11% on Monday,reaching levels not seen since 2014 amid tight U.S. supplies and strengthening demand across the globe.</p>\n<p><b>Read:</b>Inflation in the U.S. is running at the highest level in 30 years</p>\n<p><b>Also:</b>Fed’s Williams predicts the high rate of inflation will cool to 2% in 2022</p>\n<p>“It’s frustrating to see the supply-chain problems not getting better, in fact they are probably getting worse,” Powell said during a virtual forum with other central bank leaders, including those from the European Central Bank. “It’s very difficult to say how big the effects will be in the meantime and how long they will last.”</p>\n<p>The rate of inflation in the U.S., using the Fed’s preferred personal-consumption expenditures price index, rose at a 4.2% pace in the 12 months ended in July. That is the fastest increase in 30 years. Inflation is running even hotter based on the better-known consumer-price index, a measure of the average prices paid by consumers for a common basket of goods and services that serves as a barometer of economic health.</p>\n<p>Powell and others at the Fed have contended for months that the surge in inflation was “transitory.”</p>\n<p>However, that view is starting to shift and investors are starting to factor in more persistent inflation than previously thought,analysts say.</p>\n<p>Siegel said the anticipated timeline that the Fed will start tapering in November and end it the middle of 2022, with an eye toward starting to raise interest rates sometime next year, is a fair timetable, but he but fears that the surge in inflation could hasten moves, which would drive yields higher and stocks lower.</p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the S&amp;P 500 indexSPX,-1.19%ended higher but was still down 3.9% from its Sept. 2 record close, and the Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJIA,-1.59%was off 3.5% from its Aug. 16 record high, following marginal gains on the session. The technology-laden Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMP,-0.44%is down 5.6% from its Sept. 7 closing peak after finishing lower on Wednesday.</p>\n<p>A correction in an asset is usually defined by market technicians as a fall of at least 10%, but no more than 20%, from a recent peak.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury noteTMUBMUSD10Y,1.504%,used to price everything from car loans to mortgages, yielded 1.54%, up from 1.534% on Tuesday. The note is up nearly 10 basis points so far this quarter and up 23.7 basis points in September alone, according data compiled by Dow Jones Market Data.</p>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Professor who called Dow 20,000 says he’s nervous about trends in inflation that could spark a stock-market correction</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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That is the fastest increase in 30 years. Inflation is running even hotter based on the better-known consumer-price index, a measure of the average prices paid by consumers for a common basket of goods and services that serves as a barometer of economic health.\nPowell and others at the Fed have contended for months that the surge in inflation was “transitory.”\nHowever, that view is starting to shift and investors are starting to factor in more persistent inflation than previously thought,analysts say.\nSiegel said the anticipated timeline that the Fed will start tapering in November and end it the middle of 2022, with an eye toward starting to raise interest rates sometime next year, is a fair timetable, but he but fears that the surge in inflation could hasten moves, which would drive yields higher and stocks lower.\nOn Wednesday, the S&P 500 indexSPX,-1.19%ended higher but was still down 3.9% from its Sept. 2 record close, and the Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJIA,-1.59%was off 3.5% from its Aug. 16 record high, following marginal gains on the session. The technology-laden Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMP,-0.44%is down 5.6% from its Sept. 7 closing peak after finishing lower on Wednesday.\nA correction in an asset is usually defined by market technicians as a fall of at least 10%, but no more than 20%, from a recent peak.\nMeanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury noteTMUBMUSD10Y,1.504%,used to price everything from car loans to mortgages, yielded 1.54%, up from 1.534% on Tuesday. The note is up nearly 10 basis points so far this quarter and up 23.7 basis points in September alone, according data compiled by Dow Jones Market Data.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":762,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":865395511,"gmtCreate":1632949408576,"gmtModify":1632949416537,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nive","listText":"Nive","text":"Nive","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/865395511","repostId":"2171115602","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2171115602","pubTimestamp":1632935460,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2171115602?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-30 01:11","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2171115602","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading.\n\nNYSE assigns reference price of ","content":"<p>Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f145f99950734ec9b0e3b675836a53fb\" tg-width=\"1836\" tg-height=\"901\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>NYSE assigns reference price of $40, trading&nbsp;to begin Wednesday</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5917e3b384716a3bbcfdd5860b35711f\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"628\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Warby Parker is focused on both business and giving back, the prospectus says.</span></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/WRBY\">Warby Parker Inc.</a>, the company known for its affordable eyeglasses sold online, through its app and in stores, is begining trading Wednesday in a direct listing.</p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange assigned a $40 reference price to the New York City-based company's listing, which is expected to begin trading Wednesday under the ticker symbol \"WRBY\" . The company has about 111.5 million shares outstanding, giving it a valuation around $4.6 billion at that reference price.</p>\n<p>Reference prices for direct listings are based on trading prices in private markets ahead of companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public listing. Direct listings differ from IPOs because there is no capital raised, which is what places a dollar figure on shares in an IPO. Direct listings are largely expected to trade higher than the reference price.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker will offer class A stock, eligible for one vote per share; class B stock, which entitles shareholders to 10 votes per share and can be converted to class A shares; and class C shares, which carry no voting rights.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker will be an emerging growth company, which means it does not have to make the same disclosures required of bigger public companies. A business remains an emerging growth company until it reaches a number of milestones, including annual revenue of more than $1.07 billion.</p>\n<p>Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, ages 41 and 40 respectively, are co-founders, co-chairs and co-chief executives of the company.</p>\n<p>Prior to Warby Parker, Blumenthal was a director at VisionSpring, a nonprofit that trains men and women in developing countries to sell affordable eyewear. Blumenthal is also a director at Allbirds, which filed to go public this week, at salad chain Sweetgreen and a number of nonprofit organizations including Warby Parker Impact Foundation and RxArt.</p>\n<p>Gilboa worked at consulting firm Bain &amp; Company and merchant bank Allen &amp; Co. prior to Warby Parker. He also serves on the board of the Warby Parker Impact Foundation.</p>\n<p>Andrew Hunt and Jeffrey Raider, both age 40, are the other two co-founders of Warby Parker and both serve as directors. Also on the board is Ronald Williams, age 71, and former CEO of Aetna from 2006 to 2010.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker was founded in 2010 and inspired by the founders' concerns that glasses were expensive and the process of buying them inconvenient.</p>\n<p>In its prospectus, Warby Parker says it is driven to do good and make customers happy. In addition to making glasses more affordable, Warby Parker has distributed more than 8 million pairs of glasses through the Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program. The company is also carbon neutral, which it has achieved through purchasing offsets.</p>\n<p>\"[This motivation] pushes us to defy convention -- and, at times, to forego short-term profits -- but we believe delivering remarkable customer experiences and making a positive impact on all stakeholders will lead to continued long-term sustainable growth and profitability,\" says a letter from the co-CEOs included in the prospectus.</p>\n<p>A pair of Warby Parker spectacles starts at a price of $95 including prescription lenses, and can be purchased digitally, using a free home try-on system or virtual trial system, as well as at145 Warby Parker shops. The company keeps prices low by selling direct-to-consumer and bypassing middlemen.</p>\n<p>The company had a net loss of $55.9 million in 2020, after breakeven in 2019 and a loss of $22.9 million in 2018. It chalked up $393.7 million of revenue in 2020, up from $370.5 million in 2019.</p>\n<p>Some 95% of net revenue in 2020 came from the sale of glasses, 2% of revenue was generated by the sale of contact lenses, 1% by eye exams and 2% by eyewear accessories. The company is expecting to expand its customer base for eye exams.</p>\n<p>For the six months ending June 30, 2021, net losses were $7.3 million and revenue totaled $270.5 million. The company has more than two million active customers and nearly 3,000 workers.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3510dd6c717e636f33784d4f89bd9ce3\" tg-width=\"506\" tg-height=\"706\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>About 76% of Americans were using some kind of vision correction in 2020, according to data provided by the prospectus. The number of Americans ages 65 and over will more than double over the next 40 years and at least 84% of people in this older age group wear corrective lenses. Increasing use of screens like mobile devices and computers has contributed to the need for vision correction. Glasses are replaced every two-to-two-and-a-half years.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker says that between 2015 and 2019, it had a 50% sales retention rate within two years of the first purchase among customers it acquired. The retention rate was nearly 100% after four years during that same period.</p>\n<p>The vision care industry is expected to grow at a 9.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2025, according to Statista data provided in the prospectus.</p>\n<p>Here are five other things to know about Warby Parker before it goes public:</p>\n<p><b>Most decision-making power will be in the hands of Warby Parker's co-founders and co-CEOs</b></p>\n<p>The company's stock structure post-IPO will give the company's founders and top executives considerable control that could last until Oct. 1, 2031.</p>\n<p>\"Because of the ten-to-one voting ratio between our class B and class A common stock, our co-founders and co-CEOs collectively could continue to control a significant percentage of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore would be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the date of automatic conversion, when all shares outstanding of Class B common stock will convert automatically into shares of Class A common stock,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p>That means other shareholders will have little say in the running of the company and will not influence such decisions as the election of directors, amendments of organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, or sale of some or all of its assets.</p>\n<p>As a loss-making company, it will not pay a dividend for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p><b>Warby Parker does most things in-house -- and that could limit its ability to grow</b></p>\n<p>Warby Parker says its business model, which has it do most things in-house, could cause problems.</p>\n<p>\"[T]he vertically integrated nature of our business, where we design all of our own glasses in our New York headquarters, contract manufacture all of our glass frames, fulfill the glasses we sell at our own optical and fulfillment laboratories as well as at third-party contract laboratories, sell our products exclusively through our own retail stores, e-commerce site and mobile application, and service our products, exposes us to risk and disruption at many points that are critical to successfully operating our business, and may make it more difficult for us to scale our business,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p><b>Supply chain troubles outside of those caused by COVID-19 could arise</b></p>\n<p>Supply chain problems have plagued companies across the consumer space this year. But the company warns that its operations are vulnerable to other challenges as well.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker gets more than half of the cellulose acetate used in its frames from a single supplier. Other components are sourced from the U.S., China, Italy, Vietnam, and Japan. The company also uses third-party contractors on certain items, but doesn't have long-term contracts with these suppliers.</p>\n<p>\"We are therefore subject to the risk of shortages and long lead times in the supply of these components and the risk that our suppliers discontinue or modify components used in our products,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p>\"We may in the future experience component shortages, and the predictability of the availability of these components may be limited, which may be heightened in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\"</p>\n<p><b>Warby Parker says customers are slow to adopt e-commerce for eyeglasses</b></p>\n<p>Warby Parker offers online shopping for eyeglasses, one of the most significant ways the company differentiates itself from a crowded competitive field. But the company says many customers are more comfortable shopping for eyeglasses in person.</p>\n<p>\"Improving upon the consumer in-store experience through an online platform is difficult due to broad consumer demands on selection, quality, convenience, and affordability,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p>When the company first started, less than 2.5% of glasses were purchased online. Even now, the company says it has \"historically generated a significant portion of our revenue from our retail stores, and our growth strategy will depend, in large part, on acquiring customers through the growth of our retail store base and expansion of our existing retail store operations.\"</p>\n<p><b>Warby Parker's business is actually seasonal</b></p>\n<p>Customers eager to use health benefits before the end of a calendar year tend to boost demand in December.</p>\n<p>\"Consistent with our policy to recognize revenue upon order delivery, any orders placed at the end of December are recognized as revenue upon delivery which may occur in the following year,\" Warby Parker said.</p>","source":"lsy1603348471595","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The company has about 111.5 million shares outstanding, giving it a valuation around $4.6 billion at that reference price.\nReference prices for direct listings are based on trading prices in private markets ahead of companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public listing. Direct listings differ from IPOs because there is no capital raised, which is what places a dollar figure on shares in an IPO. Direct listings are largely expected to trade higher than the reference price.\nWarby Parker will offer class A stock, eligible for one vote per share; class B stock, which entitles shareholders to 10 votes per share and can be converted to class A shares; and class C shares, which carry no voting rights.\nWarby Parker will be an emerging growth company, which means it does not have to make the same disclosures required of bigger public companies. A business remains an emerging growth company until it reaches a number of milestones, including annual revenue of more than $1.07 billion.\nNeil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, ages 41 and 40 respectively, are co-founders, co-chairs and co-chief executives of the company.\nPrior to Warby Parker, Blumenthal was a director at VisionSpring, a nonprofit that trains men and women in developing countries to sell affordable eyewear. Blumenthal is also a director at Allbirds, which filed to go public this week, at salad chain Sweetgreen and a number of nonprofit organizations including Warby Parker Impact Foundation and RxArt.\nGilboa worked at consulting firm Bain & Company and merchant bank Allen & Co. prior to Warby Parker. He also serves on the board of the Warby Parker Impact Foundation.\nAndrew Hunt and Jeffrey Raider, both age 40, are the other two co-founders of Warby Parker and both serve as directors. Also on the board is Ronald Williams, age 71, and former CEO of Aetna from 2006 to 2010.\nWarby Parker was founded in 2010 and inspired by the founders' concerns that glasses were expensive and the process of buying them inconvenient.\nIn its prospectus, Warby Parker says it is driven to do good and make customers happy. In addition to making glasses more affordable, Warby Parker has distributed more than 8 million pairs of glasses through the Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program. The company is also carbon neutral, which it has achieved through purchasing offsets.\n\"[This motivation] pushes us to defy convention -- and, at times, to forego short-term profits -- but we believe delivering remarkable customer experiences and making a positive impact on all stakeholders will lead to continued long-term sustainable growth and profitability,\" says a letter from the co-CEOs included in the prospectus.\nA pair of Warby Parker spectacles starts at a price of $95 including prescription lenses, and can be purchased digitally, using a free home try-on system or virtual trial system, as well as at145 Warby Parker shops. The company keeps prices low by selling direct-to-consumer and bypassing middlemen.\nThe company had a net loss of $55.9 million in 2020, after breakeven in 2019 and a loss of $22.9 million in 2018. It chalked up $393.7 million of revenue in 2020, up from $370.5 million in 2019.\nSome 95% of net revenue in 2020 came from the sale of glasses, 2% of revenue was generated by the sale of contact lenses, 1% by eye exams and 2% by eyewear accessories. The company is expecting to expand its customer base for eye exams.\nFor the six months ending June 30, 2021, net losses were $7.3 million and revenue totaled $270.5 million. The company has more than two million active customers and nearly 3,000 workers.\n\nAbout 76% of Americans were using some kind of vision correction in 2020, according to data provided by the prospectus. The number of Americans ages 65 and over will more than double over the next 40 years and at least 84% of people in this older age group wear corrective lenses. Increasing use of screens like mobile devices and computers has contributed to the need for vision correction. Glasses are replaced every two-to-two-and-a-half years.\nWarby Parker says that between 2015 and 2019, it had a 50% sales retention rate within two years of the first purchase among customers it acquired. The retention rate was nearly 100% after four years during that same period.\nThe vision care industry is expected to grow at a 9.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2025, according to Statista data provided in the prospectus.\nHere are five other things to know about Warby Parker before it goes public:\nMost decision-making power will be in the hands of Warby Parker's co-founders and co-CEOs\nThe company's stock structure post-IPO will give the company's founders and top executives considerable control that could last until Oct. 1, 2031.\n\"Because of the ten-to-one voting ratio between our class B and class A common stock, our co-founders and co-CEOs collectively could continue to control a significant percentage of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore would be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the date of automatic conversion, when all shares outstanding of Class B common stock will convert automatically into shares of Class A common stock,\" the prospectus says.\nThat means other shareholders will have little say in the running of the company and will not influence such decisions as the election of directors, amendments of organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, or sale of some or all of its assets.\nAs a loss-making company, it will not pay a dividend for the foreseeable future.\nWarby Parker does most things in-house -- and that could limit its ability to grow\nWarby Parker says its business model, which has it do most things in-house, could cause problems.\n\"[T]he vertically integrated nature of our business, where we design all of our own glasses in our New York headquarters, contract manufacture all of our glass frames, fulfill the glasses we sell at our own optical and fulfillment laboratories as well as at third-party contract laboratories, sell our products exclusively through our own retail stores, e-commerce site and mobile application, and service our products, exposes us to risk and disruption at many points that are critical to successfully operating our business, and may make it more difficult for us to scale our business,\" the prospectus says.\nSupply chain troubles outside of those caused by COVID-19 could arise\nSupply chain problems have plagued companies across the consumer space this year. But the company warns that its operations are vulnerable to other challenges as well.\nWarby Parker gets more than half of the cellulose acetate used in its frames from a single supplier. Other components are sourced from the U.S., China, Italy, Vietnam, and Japan. The company also uses third-party contractors on certain items, but doesn't have long-term contracts with these suppliers.\n\"We are therefore subject to the risk of shortages and long lead times in the supply of these components and the risk that our suppliers discontinue or modify components used in our products,\" the prospectus says.\n\"We may in the future experience component shortages, and the predictability of the availability of these components may be limited, which may be heightened in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\"\nWarby Parker says customers are slow to adopt e-commerce for eyeglasses\nWarby Parker offers online shopping for eyeglasses, one of the most significant ways the company differentiates itself from a crowded competitive field. But the company says many customers are more comfortable shopping for eyeglasses in person.\n\"Improving upon the consumer in-store experience through an online platform is difficult due to broad consumer demands on selection, quality, convenience, and affordability,\" the prospectus says.\nWhen the company first started, less than 2.5% of glasses were purchased online. Even now, the company says it has \"historically generated a significant portion of our revenue from our retail stores, and our growth strategy will depend, in large part, on acquiring customers through the growth of our retail store base and expansion of our existing retail store operations.\"\nWarby Parker's business is actually seasonal\nCustomers eager to use health benefits before the end of a calendar year tend to boost demand in December.\n\"Consistent with our policy to recognize revenue upon order delivery, any orders placed at the end of December are recognized as revenue upon delivery which may occur in the following year,\" Warby Parker said.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":448,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":862747451,"gmtCreate":1632919914034,"gmtModify":1632919976573,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/862747451","repostId":"2171989792","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2171989792","pubTimestamp":1632918933,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2171989792?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-29 20:35","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Tech stocks were just stomped. Here's what to watch next, according to Goldman Sachs.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2171989792","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Tech stocks just got pounded as bad as the New York Times restaurant review of Eleven Madison Park. ","content":"<p>Tech stocks just got pounded as bad as the New York Times restaurant review of Eleven Madison Park. (Sample: the beet dish \"tastes like Lemon Pledge and smells like a burning joint.\") The 2.8% downturn for the Nasdaq Composite was the largest <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a>-day percentage drop in six months.</p>\n<p>The sharp rise in interest rates over the last two weeks appears to be the main culprit. According to Goldman Sachs, the 26 basis points rise in the 10-year Treasury yield since Sept. 14 represented a 1.4 standard deviation event, and the 20 basis point rise in the 10-year TIPS yield represents a 1.7 standard deviation event.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3e4ea8be326537971e62e8118dec0b81\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"656\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>Since 1965, they note, stocks struggle when rates rise by two or more standard deviations. With the long-duration information technology and communication services sector now accounting for 40% of the S&amp;P 500 market cap, the index is even more sensitive to rate shocks.</p>\n<p>Another issue, say strategists led by Ryan Hammond, is that the backdrop for stocks isn't as favorable as when interest rates initially jumped at the beginning of the year. \"That move largely reflected the ongoing improvement in the economic growth outlook following the vaccine announcements in early November. Today, economic growth is decelerating, the FOMC [Federal Open Market Committee] is expected to announce the start of tapering at its November meeting, and our economists have downgraded China's economic growth forecasts,\" say the economists.</p>\n<p>So what to look at now? Focus on the speed of the rate moves more than the level. The 10-year yield would have to rise above 2.3% for relative valuations -- the difference between the earnings yield and the bond yield -- to rank above the long-term average.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a7e0148a36c4317619a03b61b44f9175\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"655\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>The Goldman strategists also aren't as bullish toward short-duration value stocks as they were earlier in the year. \"We expect the magnitude of outperformance for short-duration value stocks will be more muted in today's environment than in the early 2021 experience, given the less favorable current economic backdrop of decelerating growth,\" they say. Maintain longer-term positions in high-quality secular growth stocks, they add.</p>","source":"lsy1603348471595","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Tech stocks were just stomped. 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(Sample: the beet dish \"tastes like Lemon Pledge and smells like a burning joint.\") The 2.8% downturn for the Nasdaq Composite was the largest one-day percentage drop in six months.\nThe sharp rise in interest rates over the last two weeks appears to be the main culprit. According to Goldman Sachs, the 26 basis points rise in the 10-year Treasury yield since Sept. 14 represented a 1.4 standard deviation event, and the 20 basis point rise in the 10-year TIPS yield represents a 1.7 standard deviation event.\n\nSince 1965, they note, stocks struggle when rates rise by two or more standard deviations. With the long-duration information technology and communication services sector now accounting for 40% of the S&P 500 market cap, the index is even more sensitive to rate shocks.\nAnother issue, say strategists led by Ryan Hammond, is that the backdrop for stocks isn't as favorable as when interest rates initially jumped at the beginning of the year. \"That move largely reflected the ongoing improvement in the economic growth outlook following the vaccine announcements in early November. Today, economic growth is decelerating, the FOMC [Federal Open Market Committee] is expected to announce the start of tapering at its November meeting, and our economists have downgraded China's economic growth forecasts,\" say the economists.\nSo what to look at now? Focus on the speed of the rate moves more than the level. The 10-year yield would have to rise above 2.3% for relative valuations -- the difference between the earnings yield and the bond yield -- to rank above the long-term average.\n\nThe Goldman strategists also aren't as bullish toward short-duration value stocks as they were earlier in the year. \"We expect the magnitude of outperformance for short-duration value stocks will be more muted in today's environment than in the early 2021 experience, given the less favorable current economic backdrop of decelerating growth,\" they say. Maintain longer-term positions in high-quality secular growth stocks, they add.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":247,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":862747816,"gmtCreate":1632919886161,"gmtModify":1632919967503,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Oike","listText":"Oike","text":"Oike","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/862747816","repostId":"1123110487","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1123110487","pubTimestamp":1632919215,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1123110487?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-29 20:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Walmart: Limited Long-Term Returns Under Current Valuations","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1123110487","media":"Seeking Alpha","summary":"Summary\n\nThis article analyzes Walmart from the perspective of its profit sustainability by the most","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>This article analyzes Walmart from the perspective of its profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”).</li>\n <li>The results show that WMT has been maintaining a respectable level of profitability with remarkable consistency.</li>\n <li>However, at its current prices, it has reached its full valuation and offers limited long-term returns under these current valuations.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/70e8f2215d5d0d48a96d96b4323231e0\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1024\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>sanfel/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>Thesis and Background</b></p>\n<p>This article analyzes Walmart (WMT) from the perspective of its profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”). Note that ROCE is different from the return on equity (“ROE”) and is more fundamental and important than ROE. Because ROCE considers the return of capital actually employed, and therefore provides critical insight into how effectively the business uses its capital to earn a profit. A consistent and high ROCE is the hallmark of a business with a sustainable moat.</p>\n<p>The results show that WMT has been maintaining a respectable level of profitability with remarkable consistency. However, at its current prices, it has reached its full valuation and offers limited long-term returns. A long-term return can be expected in the mid single-digit range under these current valuations. Given the consistency of the business, its financial strength, and the current low-yield macroeconomic environment, it is really a good substitute for treasury bonds as argued in my&nbsp;last article.</p>\n<p><b>Moat and Profitability</b></p>\n<p>WMT owns the world’s largest retail chain, operating a chain consisting of thousands of stores both in the US and globally. Its US operation consists mainly of 3,570 supercenters, 374 discount stores, 599 Sam’s Clubs, and 799 Neighborhood Markets. And its global operation consists of more than 6,100 stores.</p>\n<p>Its sheer scale forms its most valuable moat. As an example, 70% of the U.S. population live within five miles of a WMT store, and 90% live within 15 minutes drive of one. Such extent of reach and scale provides a level of efficiency, cost-saving, and logistic superiority difficult to match by competitors.</p>\n<p>Protected by such a wide and durable moat, the business has been boasting a remarkable level of consistent profitability as to be elaborated later. And in the short term, the management is very confident and optimistic about the business. As seen from the chart below, management just raised their outlook guidance for the near year in the most recent earnings release. In terms of the topline, they expect WMT U.S. sales to go up 5% to 6% excluding fuel, and Sam’s Club sales go up 7.5% to 8.5% excluding fuel and tobacco.</p>\n<p>In terms of the bottom line, they expect the consolidated operating income to go up by 9% to 11.5% in constant currency and raised the EPS guidance to $6.20 to $6.35. Finally, the business has been investing and growing its eCommerce aggressively in recent years. Sales from eCommerce have more than doubled, up 103%, over the past two years.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/de9ee9f1cfc2727c374231b29725fc27\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"340\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Source: WMT 2022 Q2 earnings releases.</span></p>\n<p>Long-term return and ROCE</p>\n<p>After addressing the debt concern, let’s move on to analyze potential returns. If you, like this author, are a long-term investor who subscribes to the concepts of owner’s earnings, perpetual growth rate, and equity bond, then the long-term return is simpler. It is “simply” the summation of the owner’s earnings yield (“OEY”) and the perpetual growth rate (“PGR”), i.e.,</p>\n<p>Long-Term ROI = OEY + PGR</p>\n<p>Because in the long term, all fluctuations in valuation are averaged out (all luck at the end even out). And it doesn’t really matter how the business uses the earnings (payout as dividends, retained in the bank account, or repurchase stocks). As long as used sensibly (as WMT has done in the past), it will be reflected as a return to the business owner.</p>\n<p>OEY is the owner’s earnings divided by the entry price. All the complications are in the estimation of the owner’s earnings - the real economic earnings of the business, not the nominal accounting earnings. Here as a crude and conservative estimate, I will just use the free cash flow (“FCF”) as the owner’s earning. It is conservative in the sense that rigorously speaking, the owner’s earnings should be free cash flow plus the portion of CAPEx that is used to fuel the growth (i.e., the growth CAPEx). At its current price levels, the OEY is ~4.1% for WMT (~24.4x price to FCF).</p>\n<p>The next and more important item is the PGR. To understand and estimate it, we will need to first estimate the return on capital employed (“ROCE”). Note that ROCE is different from the return on equity (and more fundamental and important in my view). ROCE considers the return of capital actually employed, and therefore provides insight into how much additional capital a business needs to invest in order to earn a given extra amount of income – a key to estimating the PGR. For businesses like WMT, I consider the following items capital actually employed:</p>\n<p>1. Working capital, including payables, receivables, inventory. These are the capitals required for the daily operation of their businesses.</p>\n<p>2. Gross Property, Plant, and Equipment. These are the capitals required to actually conduct business and manufacture their products.</p>\n<p>Based on the above considerations, the ROCE of WMT over the past decade is shown below. As seen, WMT was able to maintain a quite respectable ROCE at the beginning of the decade: on average 23%. To put things in perspective, as detailed in my&nbsp;previous articles&nbsp;for Lockheed Martin (LMT) and General Dynamics (GD), ROCEs for these defense business leaders, who almost enjoy a monopoly moat, are also “only” in the range of 20% to 30%. And also note that the ROCE has been remarkably consistent, only fluctuating within a narrow range between 20% and 27.5% most of the time – a hallmark of a business with a stable and durable moat.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0da638b0331bd2193208f6b80cfdf957\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"358\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Source: author and Seeking Alpha.</span></p>\n<p><b>Reinvestment rate and long-term return</b></p>\n<p>In the long term, the growth rate is given by: PGR = ROCE * Reinvestment Rate. We’ve examined OEY and ROCE in the above section already. So the last piece of the puzzle to the long-term return is the reinvestment rate, i.e., the fraction of income that business reinvests in itself to fuel future growth. For WMT, the fraction has been about 5-10% in recent years.</p>\n<p>The following chart shows more details of the capital allocation decisions of the business in recent years. The business is in a very strong financial position, as shown in the chart. It is essentially debt-free thanks to its strong cash generation capability. Its interest coverage (EBIT divided by interest expense) is current than 14.7x. In other words, it only takes less than 6.8% of its EBIT income to cover its interest expenses.</p>\n<p>In contrast, the interest coverage for the overall market represented by SP500 is about 6x. Also as shown by the orange line in the chart, thanks to its strong profitability (and stable return on capital as aforementioned), it only takes about 57% of the operating income to cover its dividend after covering maintenance CAPEx. As a result, WMT enjoys quite a bit of flexibility in terms of capital allocation. It has plenty of organic cash to fuel future growth and it’s a matter of identifying such growth areas (such as its e-commerce in recent years).</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ea4856aebfbdb3fb6b38299628cb5fce\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"364\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Source: author and Seeking Alpha.</span></p>\n<p>With a 23% ROCE, it means that even if WMT reinvests 10% (the upper range in recent years) of its earnings to expand the capital employed, it could maintain a 2.3% PGR (PGR = ROCE * fraction of earnings reinvested = 10% * 23% = 2.3%).</p>\n<p>Now we have both pieces of the puzzle in place to estimate the long-term return. At its current price levels, the OEY is estimated to be ~4.1% for WMT, and the PGR is about 2.3%. So the total return in the long term at the current valuation would be a mid-single-digit around 6.4% as shown in the chart below. Also as seen, even when ROCE fluctuates somewhat, the fluctuations wouldn’t change the long-term return dramatically.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/532927c81a0982204f5b8f63bd2694a2\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"423\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Source: Author and Seeking Alpha.</span></p>\n<p><b>Conclusion and final thoughts</b></p>\n<p>This article examines WMT’s profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”). ROCE considers the return of capital actually employed, and therefore provides critical insight into how effectively the business uses its capital to earn a profit. A consistent and high ROCE is the hallmark of a business with a sustainable moat.</p>\n<p>The results show that WMT has been maintaining a respectable level of profitability with remarkable consistency. Its ROCE has been remarkably consistent, only fluctuating within a narrow range between 20% and 27.5% most of the time over the years – a hallmark of a business with a stable and durable moat.</p>\n<p>However, at its current prices, it has reached its full valuation and offers limited long-term returns. A long-term return can be expected in the mid-single-digit range of about 6.4% under these current valuations, consisting of about 4.1% from the owner’s earnings yield and 2.3% from long-term organic growth.</p>\n<p>As such, it is certainly not a stock I would recommend to investors mainly seeking capital appreciation. But given the consistency of the business, its financial strength, and the current low-yield macroeconomic environment, it is a solid choice for conservative investors seeking reliable dividend income. In other words, it is a good substitute for treasury bonds as argued in my&nbsp;last article.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Walmart: Limited Long-Term Returns Under Current Valuations</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWalmart: Limited Long-Term Returns Under Current Valuations\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-29 20:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4457596-walmart-stock-limited-long-term-returns-under-current-valuations><strong>Seeking Alpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nThis article analyzes Walmart from the perspective of its profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”).\nThe results show that WMT has been ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4457596-walmart-stock-limited-long-term-returns-under-current-valuations\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"WMT":"沃尔玛"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4457596-walmart-stock-limited-long-term-returns-under-current-valuations","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1123110487","content_text":"Summary\n\nThis article analyzes Walmart from the perspective of its profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”).\nThe results show that WMT has been maintaining a respectable level of profitability with remarkable consistency.\nHowever, at its current prices, it has reached its full valuation and offers limited long-term returns under these current valuations.\n\nsanfel/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nThesis and Background\nThis article analyzes Walmart (WMT) from the perspective of its profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”). Note that ROCE is different from the return on equity (“ROE”) and is more fundamental and important than ROE. Because ROCE considers the return of capital actually employed, and therefore provides critical insight into how effectively the business uses its capital to earn a profit. A consistent and high ROCE is the hallmark of a business with a sustainable moat.\nThe results show that WMT has been maintaining a respectable level of profitability with remarkable consistency. However, at its current prices, it has reached its full valuation and offers limited long-term returns. A long-term return can be expected in the mid single-digit range under these current valuations. Given the consistency of the business, its financial strength, and the current low-yield macroeconomic environment, it is really a good substitute for treasury bonds as argued in my last article.\nMoat and Profitability\nWMT owns the world’s largest retail chain, operating a chain consisting of thousands of stores both in the US and globally. Its US operation consists mainly of 3,570 supercenters, 374 discount stores, 599 Sam’s Clubs, and 799 Neighborhood Markets. And its global operation consists of more than 6,100 stores.\nIts sheer scale forms its most valuable moat. As an example, 70% of the U.S. population live within five miles of a WMT store, and 90% live within 15 minutes drive of one. Such extent of reach and scale provides a level of efficiency, cost-saving, and logistic superiority difficult to match by competitors.\nProtected by such a wide and durable moat, the business has been boasting a remarkable level of consistent profitability as to be elaborated later. And in the short term, the management is very confident and optimistic about the business. As seen from the chart below, management just raised their outlook guidance for the near year in the most recent earnings release. In terms of the topline, they expect WMT U.S. sales to go up 5% to 6% excluding fuel, and Sam’s Club sales go up 7.5% to 8.5% excluding fuel and tobacco.\nIn terms of the bottom line, they expect the consolidated operating income to go up by 9% to 11.5% in constant currency and raised the EPS guidance to $6.20 to $6.35. Finally, the business has been investing and growing its eCommerce aggressively in recent years. Sales from eCommerce have more than doubled, up 103%, over the past two years.\nSource: WMT 2022 Q2 earnings releases.\nLong-term return and ROCE\nAfter addressing the debt concern, let’s move on to analyze potential returns. If you, like this author, are a long-term investor who subscribes to the concepts of owner’s earnings, perpetual growth rate, and equity bond, then the long-term return is simpler. It is “simply” the summation of the owner’s earnings yield (“OEY”) and the perpetual growth rate (“PGR”), i.e.,\nLong-Term ROI = OEY + PGR\nBecause in the long term, all fluctuations in valuation are averaged out (all luck at the end even out). And it doesn’t really matter how the business uses the earnings (payout as dividends, retained in the bank account, or repurchase stocks). As long as used sensibly (as WMT has done in the past), it will be reflected as a return to the business owner.\nOEY is the owner’s earnings divided by the entry price. All the complications are in the estimation of the owner’s earnings - the real economic earnings of the business, not the nominal accounting earnings. Here as a crude and conservative estimate, I will just use the free cash flow (“FCF”) as the owner’s earning. It is conservative in the sense that rigorously speaking, the owner’s earnings should be free cash flow plus the portion of CAPEx that is used to fuel the growth (i.e., the growth CAPEx). At its current price levels, the OEY is ~4.1% for WMT (~24.4x price to FCF).\nThe next and more important item is the PGR. To understand and estimate it, we will need to first estimate the return on capital employed (“ROCE”). Note that ROCE is different from the return on equity (and more fundamental and important in my view). ROCE considers the return of capital actually employed, and therefore provides insight into how much additional capital a business needs to invest in order to earn a given extra amount of income – a key to estimating the PGR. For businesses like WMT, I consider the following items capital actually employed:\n1. Working capital, including payables, receivables, inventory. These are the capitals required for the daily operation of their businesses.\n2. Gross Property, Plant, and Equipment. These are the capitals required to actually conduct business and manufacture their products.\nBased on the above considerations, the ROCE of WMT over the past decade is shown below. As seen, WMT was able to maintain a quite respectable ROCE at the beginning of the decade: on average 23%. To put things in perspective, as detailed in my previous articles for Lockheed Martin (LMT) and General Dynamics (GD), ROCEs for these defense business leaders, who almost enjoy a monopoly moat, are also “only” in the range of 20% to 30%. And also note that the ROCE has been remarkably consistent, only fluctuating within a narrow range between 20% and 27.5% most of the time – a hallmark of a business with a stable and durable moat.\nSource: author and Seeking Alpha.\nReinvestment rate and long-term return\nIn the long term, the growth rate is given by: PGR = ROCE * Reinvestment Rate. We’ve examined OEY and ROCE in the above section already. So the last piece of the puzzle to the long-term return is the reinvestment rate, i.e., the fraction of income that business reinvests in itself to fuel future growth. For WMT, the fraction has been about 5-10% in recent years.\nThe following chart shows more details of the capital allocation decisions of the business in recent years. The business is in a very strong financial position, as shown in the chart. It is essentially debt-free thanks to its strong cash generation capability. Its interest coverage (EBIT divided by interest expense) is current than 14.7x. In other words, it only takes less than 6.8% of its EBIT income to cover its interest expenses.\nIn contrast, the interest coverage for the overall market represented by SP500 is about 6x. Also as shown by the orange line in the chart, thanks to its strong profitability (and stable return on capital as aforementioned), it only takes about 57% of the operating income to cover its dividend after covering maintenance CAPEx. As a result, WMT enjoys quite a bit of flexibility in terms of capital allocation. It has plenty of organic cash to fuel future growth and it’s a matter of identifying such growth areas (such as its e-commerce in recent years).\nSource: author and Seeking Alpha.\nWith a 23% ROCE, it means that even if WMT reinvests 10% (the upper range in recent years) of its earnings to expand the capital employed, it could maintain a 2.3% PGR (PGR = ROCE * fraction of earnings reinvested = 10% * 23% = 2.3%).\nNow we have both pieces of the puzzle in place to estimate the long-term return. At its current price levels, the OEY is estimated to be ~4.1% for WMT, and the PGR is about 2.3%. So the total return in the long term at the current valuation would be a mid-single-digit around 6.4% as shown in the chart below. Also as seen, even when ROCE fluctuates somewhat, the fluctuations wouldn’t change the long-term return dramatically.\nSource: Author and Seeking Alpha.\nConclusion and final thoughts\nThis article examines WMT’s profit sustainability by the most important profit metric: return on capital employed (“ROCE”). ROCE considers the return of capital actually employed, and therefore provides critical insight into how effectively the business uses its capital to earn a profit. A consistent and high ROCE is the hallmark of a business with a sustainable moat.\nThe results show that WMT has been maintaining a respectable level of profitability with remarkable consistency. Its ROCE has been remarkably consistent, only fluctuating within a narrow range between 20% and 27.5% most of the time over the years – a hallmark of a business with a stable and durable moat.\nHowever, at its current prices, it has reached its full valuation and offers limited long-term returns. A long-term return can be expected in the mid-single-digit range of about 6.4% under these current valuations, consisting of about 4.1% from the owner’s earnings yield and 2.3% from long-term organic growth.\nAs such, it is certainly not a stock I would recommend to investors mainly seeking capital appreciation. But given the consistency of the business, its financial strength, and the current low-yield macroeconomic environment, it is a solid choice for conservative investors seeking reliable dividend income. In other words, it is a good substitute for treasury bonds as argued in my last article.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":319,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":862933105,"gmtCreate":1632826832450,"gmtModify":1632826834506,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/862933105","repostId":"1165142624","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1165142624","pubTimestamp":1632822820,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1165142624?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-28 17:53","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Big Tech Companies Amass Property Holdings During Covid-19 Pandemic","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1165142624","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"Google, Amazon and Facebook acquire offices and retail space, helping prop up commercial real-estate","content":"<p>Google, Amazon and Facebook acquire offices and retail space, helping prop up commercial real-estate markets</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5c975d487b8b9191fc5f925b7a57c162\" tg-width=\"1290\" tg-height=\"860\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Amazon bought the former Lord &amp; Taylor department store in Manhattan.</span></p>\n<p>The biggest U.S. companies are sitting on record piles of cash. They are getting paid next to nothing for holding it, and they are running out of ways to spend it.</p>\n<p>So they are buying a lot of commercial real estate.</p>\n<p>Google’s announcement last week that it would purchase&nbsp;a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion&nbsp;is the latest in a string of blockbuster corporate real-estate deals since the start of the pandemic.Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;last year paid $978 million for the former Lord &amp; Taylor department store in Manhattan.Facebook&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;boughtan office campus in Bellevue, Wash., for $368 million.</p>\n<p>Overall, publicly traded U.S. companies own land and buildings valued&nbsp;at $1.64 trillion, according to S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. That is up 38% from 10 years ago, and the highest for at least the past 10 years, according to S&amp;P.</p>\n<p>Retailers such as&nbsp;Walmart&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and restaurant chains such as&nbsp;McDonald’s&nbsp;Corp.&nbsp;have long been major property owners of their own stores. Big technology companies are now joining them, scooping up offices, data centers, warehouses and even retail space.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/689af445a27361824b3a7e96e801fc66\" tg-width=\"422\" tg-height=\"553\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>Buying real estate is a way for these companies to avoid sometimes pricey and cumbersome leases, because they often occupy these buildings and become their own landlords. These usually modern or renovated and sometimes custom-built properties are the kind of buildings that have appreciated in value over the years. But owning real estate also puts companies at risk of losses if urban property values fall.</p>\n<p>For now, the corporate buying spree is helping prop up commercial real-estate markets at the same time many investors are shying away from office and retail buildings amid rising vacancy rates.</p>\n<p>Many private-equity and real-estate funds have also raised hoards of cash, but for the most part they have been reluctant to spend during the pandemic in hopes that prices could fall further. And unlike real-estate investment firms, big corporations often buy their buildings without taking out mortgages, allowing them to spend more of their money and to close on deals more quickly.</p>\n<p>A number of factors have converged to unleash the buying spree. For one, firms have more money to purchase real estate.&nbsp;Big, profitable companies that dominate their industries have grown even bigger, allowing them to accumulate more cash. More recently, uncertainty over how much Covid-19 will harm the economy has prompted more companies to hoard cash, said Kristine Hankins, a professor of finance at the University of Kentucky.</p>\n<p>U.S. publicly traded companies hold $2.7 trillion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, not counting real-estate and financial companies, according to S&amp;P Global. That is up more than 90% from the fourth quarter of 2011.</p>\n<p>Interest rates are hovering around their all-time lows, so companies can get higher returns buying real estate than by keeping their money in low-risk bonds or other public securities, said Brian Kingston, chief executive of real estate at Brookfield Asset Management.</p>\n<p>“That cash is just sitting there in a not particularly productive way,” he said.</p>\n<p>Office prices, meanwhile, have fallen in Manhattan, San Francisco, Chicago and other big cities during the pandemic, making investing in this real estate cheaper than it was 18 months ago, investors say.</p>\n<p>Google and its deep cash coffers have set it apart from most every other company in terms of an increasing appetite for real estate.Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.,Google’s parent, held $135.9 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of the second quarter of 2021, more than any other publicly traded company, not counting financial and real-estate firms, according to S&amp;P Global.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/681978c6de04d4246848619eb53e517e\" tg-width=\"421\" tg-height=\"551\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>Alphabet is now one of the biggest real-estate owners in New York City and the U.S. It held $49.7 billion worth of land and buildings as of 2020, up from $5.2 billion in 2011.</p>\n<p>Google buys real estate because it wants to control the buildings it occupies, for example to make changes without having to get a landlord’s permission, said the company’s director of public policy and government affairs, William Floyd.</p>\n<p>Amazon, which owns a lot of warehouses, held $57.3 billion worth of land and buildings—more than any other U.S. public company except Walmart. The online retailer doesn’t care whether it buys or leases as long as the building is right, according to the company’s vice president of real estate and global facilities, John Schoettler.</p>\n<p>“We’re really agnostic about it,” he told The Wall Street Journal last fall.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Big Tech Companies Amass Property Holdings During Covid-19 Pandemic</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nBig Tech Companies Amass Property Holdings During Covid-19 Pandemic\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-28 17:53 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-companies-amass-property-holdings-during-covid-19-pandemic-11632821401?mod=hp_lead_pos6><strong>The Wall Street Journal</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Google, Amazon and Facebook acquire offices and retail space, helping prop up commercial real-estate markets\nAmazon bought the former Lord & Taylor department store in Manhattan.\nThe biggest U.S. ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-companies-amass-property-holdings-during-covid-19-pandemic-11632821401?mod=hp_lead_pos6\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果","MCD":"麦当劳","WMT":"沃尔玛","GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌","AMZN":"亚马逊"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-companies-amass-property-holdings-during-covid-19-pandemic-11632821401?mod=hp_lead_pos6","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165142624","content_text":"Google, Amazon and Facebook acquire offices and retail space, helping prop up commercial real-estate markets\nAmazon bought the former Lord & Taylor department store in Manhattan.\nThe biggest U.S. companies are sitting on record piles of cash. They are getting paid next to nothing for holding it, and they are running out of ways to spend it.\nSo they are buying a lot of commercial real estate.\nGoogle’s announcement last week that it would purchase a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion is the latest in a string of blockbuster corporate real-estate deals since the start of the pandemic.Amazon.com Inc. last year paid $978 million for the former Lord & Taylor department store in Manhattan.Facebook Inc. boughtan office campus in Bellevue, Wash., for $368 million.\nOverall, publicly traded U.S. companies own land and buildings valued at $1.64 trillion, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. That is up 38% from 10 years ago, and the highest for at least the past 10 years, according to S&P.\nRetailers such as Walmart Inc. and restaurant chains such as McDonald’s Corp. have long been major property owners of their own stores. Big technology companies are now joining them, scooping up offices, data centers, warehouses and even retail space.\n\nBuying real estate is a way for these companies to avoid sometimes pricey and cumbersome leases, because they often occupy these buildings and become their own landlords. These usually modern or renovated and sometimes custom-built properties are the kind of buildings that have appreciated in value over the years. But owning real estate also puts companies at risk of losses if urban property values fall.\nFor now, the corporate buying spree is helping prop up commercial real-estate markets at the same time many investors are shying away from office and retail buildings amid rising vacancy rates.\nMany private-equity and real-estate funds have also raised hoards of cash, but for the most part they have been reluctant to spend during the pandemic in hopes that prices could fall further. And unlike real-estate investment firms, big corporations often buy their buildings without taking out mortgages, allowing them to spend more of their money and to close on deals more quickly.\nA number of factors have converged to unleash the buying spree. For one, firms have more money to purchase real estate. Big, profitable companies that dominate their industries have grown even bigger, allowing them to accumulate more cash. More recently, uncertainty over how much Covid-19 will harm the economy has prompted more companies to hoard cash, said Kristine Hankins, a professor of finance at the University of Kentucky.\nU.S. publicly traded companies hold $2.7 trillion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, not counting real-estate and financial companies, according to S&P Global. That is up more than 90% from the fourth quarter of 2011.\nInterest rates are hovering around their all-time lows, so companies can get higher returns buying real estate than by keeping their money in low-risk bonds or other public securities, said Brian Kingston, chief executive of real estate at Brookfield Asset Management.\n“That cash is just sitting there in a not particularly productive way,” he said.\nOffice prices, meanwhile, have fallen in Manhattan, San Francisco, Chicago and other big cities during the pandemic, making investing in this real estate cheaper than it was 18 months ago, investors say.\nGoogle and its deep cash coffers have set it apart from most every other company in terms of an increasing appetite for real estate.Alphabet Inc.,Google’s parent, held $135.9 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of the second quarter of 2021, more than any other publicly traded company, not counting financial and real-estate firms, according to S&P Global.\n\nAlphabet is now one of the biggest real-estate owners in New York City and the U.S. It held $49.7 billion worth of land and buildings as of 2020, up from $5.2 billion in 2011.\nGoogle buys real estate because it wants to control the buildings it occupies, for example to make changes without having to get a landlord’s permission, said the company’s director of public policy and government affairs, William Floyd.\nAmazon, which owns a lot of warehouses, held $57.3 billion worth of land and buildings—more than any other U.S. public company except Walmart. The online retailer doesn’t care whether it buys or leases as long as the building is right, according to the company’s vice president of real estate and global facilities, John Schoettler.\n“We’re really agnostic about it,” he told The Wall Street Journal last fall.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":332,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":868334004,"gmtCreate":1632599137808,"gmtModify":1632654233268,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/868334004","repostId":"1149730497","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1149730497","pubTimestamp":1632538837,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1149730497?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-25 11:00","market":"sh","language":"en","title":"7 Best Stocks To Buy for Investors Building a ‘Brands’ Portfolio","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1149730497","media":"investorplace","summary":"'Brands' are big and these seven stocks each bring investors a stake in recognized quality products ","content":"<p>'Brands' are big and these seven stocks each bring investors a stake in recognized quality products and services</p>\n<p>I saw a recent article from<i>Quartz at Work</i>about Reebok, other brand reboots, and what<b>Authentic Brands</b>plans to doto revitalize the once-dominant sneaker company. While the rise and fall of Reebok is a fascinating story, the article got me thinking about stocks to buy for the “Brands” portfolio.</p>\n<p>After all, Authentic Brands itself hasfiled to go public. My fellow<i>InvestorPlace</i>contributor Dana Blankenhorn calls it the most fascinating IPO of the year.</p>\n<p>“Authentic’s S-1has more pictures than<b>Pinterest</b>(NYSE:<b><u>PINS</u></b>), but tells little about the business. The numbers are for 2020, before a host of recent deals. It only identifies direct licensing revenue, $488 million of it in that year. But $211 million of that money, 43%, wound up as net income. This is said to justify a $10 billion enterprise valuation,” Dana wrote on Sep. 20.</p>\n<p>I agree with my colleague. It’s definitely up there. Heck, by the time I’ve written this, the company’s stock might be eligible for my newest portfolio.</p>\n<p>But, for now,<i>Finviz.com</i>tells me there are34 public companieswith the word “Brands” as part of their corporate name. So, I’ll recommend the seven best stocks to buy from the bunch.</p>\n<ul>\n <li><b>Restaurant Brands International</b>(NYSE:<b><u>QSR)</u></b></li>\n <li><b>Constellation Brands</b>(NYSE:<b><u>STZ)</u></b></li>\n <li><b>Fortune Brands Home &amp; Security</b>(NYSE:<b><u>FBHS</u></b>)</li>\n <li><b>Newell Brands</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>NWL</u></b>)</li>\n <li><b>Acuity Brands</b>(NYSE:<b><u>AYI</u></b>)</li>\n <li><b>Cornerstone Building Brands</b>(NYSE:<b><u>CNR</u></b>)</li>\n <li><b>BellRing Brands</b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRBR</u></b>)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Stocks to Buy: Restaurant Brands International (QSR)</p>\n<p>I begrudgingly put Restaurant Brands International, the owner of Tim Hortons, Burger King and Popeye’s, on my list of stocks to buy.</p>\n<p>Burger King acquired Tim Hortons in 2014 to form RBI. Ever since, I’ve had a hard time accepting the merger, given Burger King’s CEO made each Tim Horton’s head office employee justify their jobs in15-minute interviews.</p>\n<p>To date, I’d say I was right to be concerned about the poor treatment of employees. Over the past five years through Sept. 22, QSR stock has a total return of 9.0%, less than the Canadian market on the whole and nearly half the return of the entire U.S. market.</p>\n<p>In August, Tim Hortons China, a joint-venture between RBI and Hong Kong private equity firm<b>Cartesian Capital</b>, agreed to merge with<b>Silver Crest Acquisition Corp.</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>SLCR</u></b>) in a transaction that valued the Chinese segment of Tim Hortons at$1.7 billion.</p>\n<p>As long as<b>3G Capital</b>continues to own almost 30% of RBI stock, I’ll remain cautious in my praise.</p>\n<p>However, with$1.35 billionin trailing 12-month (TTM) free cash flow (FCF) and a 7.0% FCF yield, now could be an opportune time to pick up some shares.</p>\n<p>Constellation Brands (STZ)<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/51af367100d1d75a5ca277a1a9675c31\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Source: ShinoStock / Shutterstock.com</p>\n<p>A telltale sign Constellation Brands has become a big deal in corporate America is therecent announcementthat it would move 400 of its employees from its offices in Canandaigua, New York, to downtown Rochester.</p>\n<p>“The company investment is estimated at $50 million, while Landers [Peter Landers, majority investor in group that owns the downtown property] says the owners/developers’ will spend close to $35 million on historic restoration, stripping paint from the barrel ceilings and brick walls, and building a 120-space parking structure,” The<i>Democrat &amp; Chronicle</i>reported.</p>\n<p>While Constellation is known for Corona and Modelo beer, Svedka vodka, and Woodbridge wine, amongst others, it isthe company’s investmentin<b>Canopy Growth</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>CGC</u></b>) that gets most of the attention.</p>\n<p>That’s because it’s taking forever to see the benefits of its multi-billion-dollar investment in the Canadian cannabis company. Since it acquired9.9% in October 2017, STZ stock has gone sideways over nearly 48 months.</p>\n<p>As a glass-half-full kind of person, I see the potential upside of its Canopy investment as a big reason to buy at current prices.</p>\n<p>Constellation has a TTM FCF of$2.0 billion, good for an FCF yield of 4.9%. When you consider the value yet to be extracted by its investment, STZ’s valuation is more than reasonable.</p>\n<p>Stocks to Buy: Fortune Brands Home &amp; Security (FBHS)<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c43d12689a9a34fc77425af4b7ac66d2\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"165\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Source: Shutterstock</p>\n<p>Fortune Brands Home &amp; Security wasspun offfrom<b>Fortune Brands Inc</b>, part of the then-holding company’s plan to deliver additional value for its shareholders almost a decade ago.</p>\n<p>At the same time, it sold its Acushnet business for $1.225 billion and renamed Fortune Brands as<b>Beam Inc.</b>, the holding company’s spirits business. Beam was subsequently sold to<b>Suntory Holdings</b>in 2014 for $16 billion, including the assumption of debt.</p>\n<p>Fortune shareholders got one share of FBHS for each share in the parent. FBHS stock has generated a total return of 22.4% over the past decade, 548 basis points higher than the entire U.S. market.</p>\n<p>The company hasthree operating segments: Plumbing, Outdoors &amp; Security, and Cabinets. Its brands include Moen faucets, Larson doors, Master Lock locks, MasterBrand cabinets, and many more.</p>\n<p>Together, they have TTM sales of $7.02 billion, $1.03 billion in operating income, $650 million in FCF, and an FCF yield of 5.0%.</p>\n<p>It’s a great business to own for the long haul.</p>\n<p>Newell Brands (NWL)<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b002bc9b30d4f4cc62b40222b912a1b0\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Source: Casimiro PT / Shutterstock.com</p>\n<p>Newell CEO Ravi Saligram was recently named one ofAtlanta’s best CEOsby the<i>Atlanta Business Chronicle.</i>Saligram joined Newell as CEO inOctober 2019. Before that, he was CEO of<b>Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers</b>(NYSE:<b><u>RBA</u></b>) from July 2014 to July 2019 and OfficeMax from November 2010 to November 2013. In addition, he oversaw the merger between OfficeMax and Office Depot.</p>\n<p>He’s been an executive for many years working in several different industries. Since joining Newell, NWL stock has gained 32% over nearly 24 months. That compares to 50% for the<b>S&amp;P 500 index</b>over the same period.</p>\n<p>Over the years, Newell Brands became quite bloated, with too many businesses generating too few profits. Newell might have underperformed so far in Saligram’s tenure, but he’s doing his best to set the company up for sustainable growth.</p>\n<p>“Along our journey, we will add capabilities to build competitive advantage. For example, we are building on our eCommerce capabilities and Digital First mindset (over 21% of our global sales are sold online) to become truly omni channel,” Saligram told the<i>Atlanta Business Chronicle.</i></p>\n<p>“We are creating consistent and compelling brand experiences for consumers no matter where they shop, how they shop or when they shop be it buy online, deliver to home, buy online pick up at the store, buy online pick up at curbside or shop at a store.”</p>\n<p>In 2019, Newell had an FCF of$780 million. In the TTM, it was $1.1 billion, a 41% increase. I would expect this FCF growth to continue.</p>\n<p>The performance in the next 24 months ought to be much better than the last 24.</p>\n<p>Stocks to Buy: Acuity Brands (AYI)<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d0fc99bca07cdb144fe2c7208776aed8\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com</p>\n<p>It’s great to see the provider of commercial and residential lighting solutions doing well in the markets after a long stretch of less-than-stellar Acuity Brands shareholder returns.</p>\n<p>For example, if you invested $10,000 in AYI stock in September 2020, today, you would have approximately $17,294. However, if you invested the same $10,000 in its stock three years ago, you’d have $10,609.</p>\n<p>While the company got lost in the woods for a time, it’s been able to find its way back, thanks in part to its hiring of CEO Neil Ashe inJanuary 2020. Ashe has held some high-powered jobs, including being in charge of<b>Walmart’s</b>(NYSE:<b><u>WMT</u></b>) eCommerce &amp; Technology unit from 2012 through 2016.</p>\n<p>Ashe replaced Vernon Nagel, who served as Acuity’s CEO for 16 years. Nagel moved into theexecutive chairman role. They ought to make an excellent pairing.</p>\n<p>In the company’s Q3 2021 results, Acuity had a 16% increase in sales to$899.7 million, with a 56% increase in earnings to $2.37 a share. In 2021, it expects growth to continue.</p>\n<p>InJanuary 2019, I suggested that Acuity needed a new CEO who could bring a fresh perspective. Less than a year later, it did just that. Kudos to Nagel for recognizing it was time to move aside.</p>\n<p>Cornerstone Building Brands (CNR)<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/60a34aa2f9805656c3d30d8bf03763eb\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"227\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Source: ©iStock.com/Sashick</p>\n<p>Of all the names on this list, Cornerstone Building Brands is the only one I didn’t recognize.</p>\n<p>The North Carolina-based provider of commercial, residential, and repair &amp; remodel building products is the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America.</p>\n<p>Although the Cornerstone name only came into existence inNovember 2018after the merger between NCI Building Systems and Ply Gem Parent LLC, the two companies have a history of more than 75 years.</p>\n<p>Since the merger’s completion, CNR stock has experienced its fair share of highs and lows, falling to less than $3 in the March 2020 correction, then recovering to almost $20 in June before settling back into the mid-teens in late September.</p>\n<p>A prominent owner of Cornerstone stock is<b>BlueTower Asset Management</b>, a Texas-based portfolio manager. The company’s Global Value Strategy owns17 stocks, CNR being the largest weighting at 18.6% of the portfolio.</p>\n<p>Here’s what BlueTower had to say about Cornerstone in itsQ2 2021 shareholder letter:</p>\n<p>“As the company realizes acquisition synergies, the housing boom continues, and Cornerstone pays down debt, the company’s value will become apparent to investors and share price will rise to meet its true fundamental value,” BlueTower portfolio manager Andrew Oskoui wrote.</p>\n<p>“Investors who were previously repelled by the high debt levels will invest at lower leverage levels. The share price has already tripled from the average price our long-term investors in the strategy composite paid, but we still believe the company has a high expected forward rate of return.”</p>\n<p>What’s not to like?</p>\n<p>Stocks to Buy: BellRing Brands (BRBR)<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/00df020d2a1a57e564587b5d95e0c571\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Source: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com</p>\n<p>If you’ve ever eaten a PowerBar, you’ve heard of and supported BellRing Brands.</p>\n<p>In October 2019,<b>Post Holdings</b>(NYSE:<b><u>POST</u></b>) spun off its former active nutrition business — PowerBar, Premier Protein, and Dymatize brands — selling 39.43 million shares at $14 per share. It raised approximately$516.4 millionfrom the IPO. It used the proceeds to pay down some debt owed to the parent and buy shares of the operating company, BellRing Brands LLC.</p>\n<p>After the IPO, Post owned 71% of BRBR stock. In August 2021, Post announced thatit plans to distributemost of this stake to shareholders. The move’s expected to include a special cash dividend for Post shareholders.</p>\n<p>At the same time, it announced the distribution; it also announced Q3 2021 results. Sales in the quarter jumped 68% over last year to $342.6 million, while its operating profit increased by 68% to $51.5 million.</p>\n<p>BellRing’s TTM FCF is$214.3 million. Based on a market cap of $1.3 billion, it has an FCF yield of 16.5%, well into value territory.</p>\n<p>If I’m a Post shareholder, I’d be hanging on to my BellRing shares for the long haul.</p>\n<p><i>On the date of publication, Will Ashworthdid not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the</i>InvestorPlace.comPublishing Guidelines<i>.</i></p>\n<p><i>Will Ashworth has written about investments full-time since 2008. Publications where he’s appeared include InvestorPlace, The Motley Fool Canada, Investopedia, Kiplinger, and several others in both the U.S. and Canada. He particularly enjoys creating model portfolios that stand the test of time. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the time of this writing Will Ashworth did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.</i></p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>7 Best Stocks To Buy for Investors Building a ‘Brands’ Portfolio</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n7 Best Stocks To Buy for Investors Building a ‘Brands’ Portfolio\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-09-25 11:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/09/7-best-stocks-to-buy-for-investors-building-a-brands-portfolio/><strong>investorplace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>'Brands' are big and these seven stocks each bring investors a stake in recognized quality products and services\nI saw a recent article fromQuartz at Workabout Reebok, other brand reboots, and ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/09/7-best-stocks-to-buy-for-investors-building-a-brands-portfolio/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"ISBC":"投资者银行"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/09/7-best-stocks-to-buy-for-investors-building-a-brands-portfolio/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1149730497","content_text":"'Brands' are big and these seven stocks each bring investors a stake in recognized quality products and services\nI saw a recent article fromQuartz at Workabout Reebok, other brand reboots, and whatAuthentic Brandsplans to doto revitalize the once-dominant sneaker company. While the rise and fall of Reebok is a fascinating story, the article got me thinking about stocks to buy for the “Brands” portfolio.\nAfter all, Authentic Brands itself hasfiled to go public. My fellowInvestorPlacecontributor Dana Blankenhorn calls it the most fascinating IPO of the year.\n“Authentic’s S-1has more pictures thanPinterest(NYSE:PINS), but tells little about the business. The numbers are for 2020, before a host of recent deals. It only identifies direct licensing revenue, $488 million of it in that year. But $211 million of that money, 43%, wound up as net income. This is said to justify a $10 billion enterprise valuation,” Dana wrote on Sep. 20.\nI agree with my colleague. It’s definitely up there. Heck, by the time I’ve written this, the company’s stock might be eligible for my newest portfolio.\nBut, for now,Finviz.comtells me there are34 public companieswith the word “Brands” as part of their corporate name. So, I’ll recommend the seven best stocks to buy from the bunch.\n\nRestaurant Brands International(NYSE:QSR)\nConstellation Brands(NYSE:STZ)\nFortune Brands Home & Security(NYSE:FBHS)\nNewell Brands(NASDAQ:NWL)\nAcuity Brands(NYSE:AYI)\nCornerstone Building Brands(NYSE:CNR)\nBellRing Brands(NYSE:BRBR)\n\nStocks to Buy: Restaurant Brands International (QSR)\nI begrudgingly put Restaurant Brands International, the owner of Tim Hortons, Burger King and Popeye’s, on my list of stocks to buy.\nBurger King acquired Tim Hortons in 2014 to form RBI. Ever since, I’ve had a hard time accepting the merger, given Burger King’s CEO made each Tim Horton’s head office employee justify their jobs in15-minute interviews.\nTo date, I’d say I was right to be concerned about the poor treatment of employees. Over the past five years through Sept. 22, QSR stock has a total return of 9.0%, less than the Canadian market on the whole and nearly half the return of the entire U.S. market.\nIn August, Tim Hortons China, a joint-venture between RBI and Hong Kong private equity firmCartesian Capital, agreed to merge withSilver Crest Acquisition Corp.(NASDAQ:SLCR) in a transaction that valued the Chinese segment of Tim Hortons at$1.7 billion.\nAs long as3G Capitalcontinues to own almost 30% of RBI stock, I’ll remain cautious in my praise.\nHowever, with$1.35 billionin trailing 12-month (TTM) free cash flow (FCF) and a 7.0% FCF yield, now could be an opportune time to pick up some shares.\nConstellation Brands (STZ)Source: ShinoStock / Shutterstock.com\nA telltale sign Constellation Brands has become a big deal in corporate America is therecent announcementthat it would move 400 of its employees from its offices in Canandaigua, New York, to downtown Rochester.\n“The company investment is estimated at $50 million, while Landers [Peter Landers, majority investor in group that owns the downtown property] says the owners/developers’ will spend close to $35 million on historic restoration, stripping paint from the barrel ceilings and brick walls, and building a 120-space parking structure,” TheDemocrat & Chroniclereported.\nWhile Constellation is known for Corona and Modelo beer, Svedka vodka, and Woodbridge wine, amongst others, it isthe company’s investmentinCanopy Growth(NASDAQ:CGC) that gets most of the attention.\nThat’s because it’s taking forever to see the benefits of its multi-billion-dollar investment in the Canadian cannabis company. Since it acquired9.9% in October 2017, STZ stock has gone sideways over nearly 48 months.\nAs a glass-half-full kind of person, I see the potential upside of its Canopy investment as a big reason to buy at current prices.\nConstellation has a TTM FCF of$2.0 billion, good for an FCF yield of 4.9%. When you consider the value yet to be extracted by its investment, STZ’s valuation is more than reasonable.\nStocks to Buy: Fortune Brands Home & Security (FBHS)Source: Shutterstock\nFortune Brands Home & Security wasspun offfromFortune Brands Inc, part of the then-holding company’s plan to deliver additional value for its shareholders almost a decade ago.\nAt the same time, it sold its Acushnet business for $1.225 billion and renamed Fortune Brands asBeam Inc., the holding company’s spirits business. Beam was subsequently sold toSuntory Holdingsin 2014 for $16 billion, including the assumption of debt.\nFortune shareholders got one share of FBHS for each share in the parent. FBHS stock has generated a total return of 22.4% over the past decade, 548 basis points higher than the entire U.S. market.\nThe company hasthree operating segments: Plumbing, Outdoors & Security, and Cabinets. Its brands include Moen faucets, Larson doors, Master Lock locks, MasterBrand cabinets, and many more.\nTogether, they have TTM sales of $7.02 billion, $1.03 billion in operating income, $650 million in FCF, and an FCF yield of 5.0%.\nIt’s a great business to own for the long haul.\nNewell Brands (NWL)Source: Casimiro PT / Shutterstock.com\nNewell CEO Ravi Saligram was recently named one ofAtlanta’s best CEOsby theAtlanta Business Chronicle.Saligram joined Newell as CEO inOctober 2019. Before that, he was CEO ofRitchie Bros. Auctioneers(NYSE:RBA) from July 2014 to July 2019 and OfficeMax from November 2010 to November 2013. In addition, he oversaw the merger between OfficeMax and Office Depot.\nHe’s been an executive for many years working in several different industries. Since joining Newell, NWL stock has gained 32% over nearly 24 months. That compares to 50% for theS&P 500 indexover the same period.\nOver the years, Newell Brands became quite bloated, with too many businesses generating too few profits. Newell might have underperformed so far in Saligram’s tenure, but he’s doing his best to set the company up for sustainable growth.\n“Along our journey, we will add capabilities to build competitive advantage. For example, we are building on our eCommerce capabilities and Digital First mindset (over 21% of our global sales are sold online) to become truly omni channel,” Saligram told theAtlanta Business Chronicle.\n“We are creating consistent and compelling brand experiences for consumers no matter where they shop, how they shop or when they shop be it buy online, deliver to home, buy online pick up at the store, buy online pick up at curbside or shop at a store.”\nIn 2019, Newell had an FCF of$780 million. In the TTM, it was $1.1 billion, a 41% increase. I would expect this FCF growth to continue.\nThe performance in the next 24 months ought to be much better than the last 24.\nStocks to Buy: Acuity Brands (AYI)Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com\nIt’s great to see the provider of commercial and residential lighting solutions doing well in the markets after a long stretch of less-than-stellar Acuity Brands shareholder returns.\nFor example, if you invested $10,000 in AYI stock in September 2020, today, you would have approximately $17,294. However, if you invested the same $10,000 in its stock three years ago, you’d have $10,609.\nWhile the company got lost in the woods for a time, it’s been able to find its way back, thanks in part to its hiring of CEO Neil Ashe inJanuary 2020. Ashe has held some high-powered jobs, including being in charge ofWalmart’s(NYSE:WMT) eCommerce & Technology unit from 2012 through 2016.\nAshe replaced Vernon Nagel, who served as Acuity’s CEO for 16 years. Nagel moved into theexecutive chairman role. They ought to make an excellent pairing.\nIn the company’s Q3 2021 results, Acuity had a 16% increase in sales to$899.7 million, with a 56% increase in earnings to $2.37 a share. In 2021, it expects growth to continue.\nInJanuary 2019, I suggested that Acuity needed a new CEO who could bring a fresh perspective. Less than a year later, it did just that. Kudos to Nagel for recognizing it was time to move aside.\nCornerstone Building Brands (CNR)Source: ©iStock.com/Sashick\nOf all the names on this list, Cornerstone Building Brands is the only one I didn’t recognize.\nThe North Carolina-based provider of commercial, residential, and repair & remodel building products is the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America.\nAlthough the Cornerstone name only came into existence inNovember 2018after the merger between NCI Building Systems and Ply Gem Parent LLC, the two companies have a history of more than 75 years.\nSince the merger’s completion, CNR stock has experienced its fair share of highs and lows, falling to less than $3 in the March 2020 correction, then recovering to almost $20 in June before settling back into the mid-teens in late September.\nA prominent owner of Cornerstone stock isBlueTower Asset Management, a Texas-based portfolio manager. The company’s Global Value Strategy owns17 stocks, CNR being the largest weighting at 18.6% of the portfolio.\nHere’s what BlueTower had to say about Cornerstone in itsQ2 2021 shareholder letter:\n“As the company realizes acquisition synergies, the housing boom continues, and Cornerstone pays down debt, the company’s value will become apparent to investors and share price will rise to meet its true fundamental value,” BlueTower portfolio manager Andrew Oskoui wrote.\n“Investors who were previously repelled by the high debt levels will invest at lower leverage levels. The share price has already tripled from the average price our long-term investors in the strategy composite paid, but we still believe the company has a high expected forward rate of return.”\nWhat’s not to like?\nStocks to Buy: BellRing Brands (BRBR)Source: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com\nIf you’ve ever eaten a PowerBar, you’ve heard of and supported BellRing Brands.\nIn October 2019,Post Holdings(NYSE:POST) spun off its former active nutrition business — PowerBar, Premier Protein, and Dymatize brands — selling 39.43 million shares at $14 per share. It raised approximately$516.4 millionfrom the IPO. It used the proceeds to pay down some debt owed to the parent and buy shares of the operating company, BellRing Brands LLC.\nAfter the IPO, Post owned 71% of BRBR stock. In August 2021, Post announced thatit plans to distributemost of this stake to shareholders. The move’s expected to include a special cash dividend for Post shareholders.\nAt the same time, it announced the distribution; it also announced Q3 2021 results. Sales in the quarter jumped 68% over last year to $342.6 million, while its operating profit increased by 68% to $51.5 million.\nBellRing’s TTM FCF is$214.3 million. Based on a market cap of $1.3 billion, it has an FCF yield of 16.5%, well into value territory.\nIf I’m a Post shareholder, I’d be hanging on to my BellRing shares for the long haul.\nOn the date of publication, Will Ashworthdid not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to theInvestorPlace.comPublishing Guidelines.\nWill Ashworth has written about investments full-time since 2008. Publications where he’s appeared include InvestorPlace, The Motley Fool Canada, Investopedia, Kiplinger, and several others in both the U.S. and Canada. He particularly enjoys creating model portfolios that stand the test of time. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 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Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>13.6%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>10.9%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>11.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Sales and Marketing efficiency rate, defined as how many dollars of additional new revenue are generated by each dollar of Sales and Marketing spend, dropped to 1.4x in the most recent reporting period, as shown in the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Efficiency Rate</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Multiple</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.4</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.6</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Rule of 40 is a software industry rule of thumb that says that as long as the combined revenue growth rate and EBITDA percentage rate equal or exceed 40%, the firm is on an acceptable growth/EBITDA trajectory.</p>\n<p>CWAN’s most recent calculation was 41% during the six months ended June 30, 2021, so the firm has performed well in this regard, per the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Rule of 40</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Calculation</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Recent Rev. Growth %</p></td>\n   <td><p>24%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EBITDA %</p></td>\n   <td><p>17%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Total</p></td>\n   <td><p>41%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The firm’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate for June 30, 2021 was 109%, a reasonably good result.</p>\n<p>The dollar-based net revenue retention rate metric measures how much additional revenue is generated over time from each cohort of customers, so that a figure over 100% means that the company is generating more revenue from the same customer cohort over time, indicating good product/market fit and efficient sales and marketing efforts.</p>\n<p><b>Market &amp; Competition</b></p>\n<p>According to a 2021 marketresearch reportby Market Primes, the global investment management software market was an estimated $3 billion in 2019 and is forecast to reach nearly $4.5 billion by 2025.</p>\n<p>This represents a forecast CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2025.</p>\n<p>The main drivers for this expected growth are a desire by users to automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on maximizing portfolio performance and creating more sophisticated approaches.</p>\n<p>Also, assessing risks and exposures and being able to efficiently report and share the information with stakeholders will drive demand for more capable solutions.</p>\n<p>Major competitive or other industry participants include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>SS&amp;C</p></li>\n <li><p>State Street</p></li>\n <li><p>SAP</p></li>\n <li><p>BNY Mellon (Eagle)</p></li>\n <li><p>Simcorp</p></li>\n <li><p>BlackRock</p></li>\n <li><p>FIS</p></li>\n <li><p>Northern Trust</p></li>\n <li><p>Others</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Financial Performance</b></p>\n<p>Clearwater’s recent financial results can be summarized as follows:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Strong topline revenue growth</p></li>\n <li><p>Increasing gross profit and gross margin</p></li>\n <li><p>A swing to operating profit and net profit</p></li>\n <li><p>Uneven cash used in operations</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Below are relevant financial results derived from the firm’s registration statement:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Total Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Total Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 117,770,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 203,222,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>21.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 168,001,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 87,872,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>28.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 149,959,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>24.1%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 120,856,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Margin</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>74.61%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>73.79%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>71.94%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Operating Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 20,544,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>17.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (20,418,000)</p></td>\n   <td><p>-10.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 25,697,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.3%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Net Income (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Net Income (Loss)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 3,200,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (44,230,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 7,732,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Cash Flow From Operations</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Cash Flow From Operations</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (16,352,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (6,486,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (230,029,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>As of June 30, 2021, Clearwater had $41 million in cash and $450 million in total liabilities.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow during the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Valuation Metrics</p>\n<p>Below is a table of the firm’s relevant capitalization and valuation metrics at IPO, excluding the effects of underwriter options:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Measure [TTM]</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Amount</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Market Capitalization at IPO</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,472,178,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Enterprise Value</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,470,109,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Price / Sales</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.37</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.36</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / EBITDA</p></td>\n   <td><p>-141.93</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Earnings Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$0.23</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Float To Outstanding Shares Ratio</p></td>\n   <td><p>12.96%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Proposed IPO Midpoint Price per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>$15.00</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Net Free Cash Flow</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$38,024,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Free Cash Flow Yield Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-1.10%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Revenue Growth Rate</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.83%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p><b>Commentary</b></p>\n<p>CWAN intends to go public to pay down debt and will have a net of $55 million in debt post-IPO.</p>\n<p>The firm’s financials show strong topline revenue growth and gross profit growth and a rebound to operating profit and net income after negative results in 2020.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow for the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was a decidedly unimpressive negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenue has increased; its Sales and Marketing efficiency rate dropped slightly to 1.4x in the most recent six-month period.</p>\n<p>CWAN's dollar-based net retention rate was 109% for June 30, 2021, a positive result and its Rule of 40 performance was good as well.</p>\n<p>The market opportunity for selling investment management software is large and expected to grow substantially in the years ahead, but the firm has extensive competition.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs is the lead left underwriter and IPOs led by the firm over the last 12-month period have generated an average return of 40.5% since their IPO. This is a middle-tier performance for all major underwriters during the period.</p>\n<p>The primary risk to the company’s outlook is the degree of competition and specialization present in various submarkets in which it competes, as well as the ability for some larger prospects to develop solutions in-house.</p>\n<p>As for valuation, compared to competitor Simcorp, the CWAN IPO is much more highly priced on a revenue multiple basis. In my view, this is justified as the firm is growing revenue at a significantly higher rate of growth.</p>\n<p>After a difficult period during 2020 where the firm produced operating losses, 2021 has seen a return to operating and net profits with impressive growth as well.</p>\n<p>Given CWAN’s growth trajectory and the investment management software industry’s strong growth potential in the years ahead, the IPO is worth a close look.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>IPO opening reminder: Clearwater Analytics opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO price</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Technology</b></p>\n<p>Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater was founded to develop a SaaS platform to simplify investment accounting and analysis for asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations.</p>\n<p>Management is headed by Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Sahai, who has been with the firm since September 2016 and was previously CEO of Solmark, an investment partnership.</p>\n<p>The company’s primary offerings include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Investment accounting and reporting</p></li>\n <li><p>Performance measurement</p></li>\n <li><p>Compliance monitoring</p></li>\n <li><p>Risk analysis</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Clearwater has received at least $421 million in notes payable in equity investment from investors including Welsh Carson, Permira, Warburg Pincus and Dragoneer.</p>\n<p><b>Customer Acquisition</b></p>\n<p>The firm pursues client relationships with asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations via a direct sales and marketing force that is focused on the United States.</p>\n<p>CWAN also has international clients and will seek to expand its international presence post-IPO.</p>\n<p>Clearwater handles data on over $5.6 trillion in assets between more than 1,000 clients.</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenues have increased, as the figures below indicate:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Expenses vs. Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Percentage</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>13.6%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>10.9%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>11.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Sales and Marketing efficiency rate, defined as how many dollars of additional new revenue are generated by each dollar of Sales and Marketing spend, dropped to 1.4x in the most recent reporting period, as shown in the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Efficiency Rate</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Multiple</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.4</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.6</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Rule of 40 is a software industry rule of thumb that says that as long as the combined revenue growth rate and EBITDA percentage rate equal or exceed 40%, the firm is on an acceptable growth/EBITDA trajectory.</p>\n<p>CWAN’s most recent calculation was 41% during the six months ended June 30, 2021, so the firm has performed well in this regard, per the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Rule of 40</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Calculation</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Recent Rev. Growth %</p></td>\n   <td><p>24%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EBITDA %</p></td>\n   <td><p>17%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Total</p></td>\n   <td><p>41%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The firm’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate for June 30, 2021 was 109%, a reasonably good result.</p>\n<p>The dollar-based net revenue retention rate metric measures how much additional revenue is generated over time from each cohort of customers, so that a figure over 100% means that the company is generating more revenue from the same customer cohort over time, indicating good product/market fit and efficient sales and marketing efforts.</p>\n<p><b>Market &amp; Competition</b></p>\n<p>According to a 2021 marketresearch reportby Market Primes, the global investment management software market was an estimated $3 billion in 2019 and is forecast to reach nearly $4.5 billion by 2025.</p>\n<p>This represents a forecast CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2025.</p>\n<p>The main drivers for this expected growth are a desire by users to automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on maximizing portfolio performance and creating more sophisticated approaches.</p>\n<p>Also, assessing risks and exposures and being able to efficiently report and share the information with stakeholders will drive demand for more capable solutions.</p>\n<p>Major competitive or other industry participants include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>SS&amp;C</p></li>\n <li><p>State Street</p></li>\n <li><p>SAP</p></li>\n <li><p>BNY Mellon (Eagle)</p></li>\n <li><p>Simcorp</p></li>\n <li><p>BlackRock</p></li>\n <li><p>FIS</p></li>\n <li><p>Northern Trust</p></li>\n <li><p>Others</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Financial Performance</b></p>\n<p>Clearwater’s recent financial results can be summarized as follows:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Strong topline revenue growth</p></li>\n <li><p>Increasing gross profit and gross margin</p></li>\n <li><p>A swing to operating profit and net profit</p></li>\n <li><p>Uneven cash used in operations</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Below are relevant financial results derived from the firm’s registration statement:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Total Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Total Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 117,770,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 203,222,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>21.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 168,001,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 87,872,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>28.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 149,959,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>24.1%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 120,856,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Margin</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>74.61%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>73.79%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>71.94%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Operating Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 20,544,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>17.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (20,418,000)</p></td>\n   <td><p>-10.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 25,697,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.3%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Net Income (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Net Income (Loss)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 3,200,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (44,230,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 7,732,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Cash Flow From Operations</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Cash Flow From Operations</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (16,352,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (6,486,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (230,029,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>As of June 30, 2021, Clearwater had $41 million in cash and $450 million in total liabilities.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow during the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Valuation Metrics</p>\n<p>Below is a table of the firm’s relevant capitalization and valuation metrics at IPO, excluding the effects of underwriter options:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Measure [TTM]</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Amount</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Market Capitalization at IPO</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,472,178,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Enterprise Value</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,470,109,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Price / Sales</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.37</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.36</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / EBITDA</p></td>\n   <td><p>-141.93</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Earnings Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$0.23</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Float To Outstanding Shares Ratio</p></td>\n   <td><p>12.96%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Proposed IPO Midpoint Price per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>$15.00</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Net Free Cash Flow</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$38,024,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Free Cash Flow Yield Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-1.10%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Revenue Growth Rate</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.83%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p><b>Commentary</b></p>\n<p>CWAN intends to go public to pay down debt and will have a net of $55 million in debt post-IPO.</p>\n<p>The firm’s financials show strong topline revenue growth and gross profit growth and a rebound to operating profit and net income after negative results in 2020.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow for the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was a decidedly unimpressive negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenue has increased; its Sales and Marketing efficiency rate dropped slightly to 1.4x in the most recent six-month period.</p>\n<p>CWAN's dollar-based net retention rate was 109% for June 30, 2021, a positive result and its Rule of 40 performance was good as well.</p>\n<p>The market opportunity for selling investment management software is large and expected to grow substantially in the years ahead, but the firm has extensive competition.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs is the lead left underwriter and IPOs led by the firm over the last 12-month period have generated an average return of 40.5% since their IPO. This is a middle-tier performance for all major underwriters during the period.</p>\n<p>The primary risk to the company’s outlook is the degree of competition and specialization present in various submarkets in which it competes, as well as the ability for some larger prospects to develop solutions in-house.</p>\n<p>As for valuation, compared to competitor Simcorp, the CWAN IPO is much more highly priced on a revenue multiple basis. In my view, this is justified as the firm is growing revenue at a significantly higher rate of growth.</p>\n<p>After a difficult period during 2020 where the firm produced operating losses, 2021 has seen a return to operating and net profits with impressive growth as well.</p>\n<p>Given CWAN’s growth trajectory and the investment management software industry’s strong growth potential in the years ahead, the IPO is worth a close look.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CWAN":"Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc."},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1114004721","content_text":"(Sept 24) Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO price.\n\nCompany & Technology\nBoise, Idaho-based Clearwater was founded to develop a SaaS platform to simplify investment accounting and analysis for asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations.\nManagement is headed by Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Sahai, who has been with the firm since September 2016 and was previously CEO of Solmark, an investment partnership.\nThe company’s primary offerings include:\n\nInvestment accounting and reporting\nPerformance measurement\nCompliance monitoring\nRisk analysis\n\nClearwater has received at least $421 million in notes payable in equity investment from investors including Welsh Carson, Permira, Warburg Pincus and Dragoneer.\nCustomer Acquisition\nThe firm pursues client relationships with asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations via a direct sales and marketing force that is focused on the United States.\nCWAN also has international clients and will seek to expand its international presence post-IPO.\nClearwater handles data on over $5.6 trillion in assets between more than 1,000 clients.\nSales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenues have increased, as the figures below indicate:\n\n\n\n\nSales and Marketing\nExpenses vs. Revenue\n\n\nPeriod\nPercentage\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n13.6%\n\n\n2020\n10.9%\n\n\n2019\n11.4%\n\n\n\nThe Sales and Marketing efficiency rate, defined as how many dollars of additional new revenue are generated by each dollar of Sales and Marketing spend, dropped to 1.4x in the most recent reporting period, as shown in the table below:\n\n\n\n\nSales and Marketing\nEfficiency Rate\n\n\nPeriod\nMultiple\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n1.4\n\n\n2020\n1.6\n\n\n\nThe Rule of 40 is a software industry rule of thumb that says that as long as the combined revenue growth rate and EBITDA percentage rate equal or exceed 40%, the firm is on an acceptable growth/EBITDA trajectory.\nCWAN’s most recent calculation was 41% during the six months ended June 30, 2021, so the firm has performed well in this regard, per the table below:\n\n\n\n\nRule of 40\nCalculation\n\n\nRecent Rev. Growth %\n24%\n\n\nEBITDA %\n17%\n\n\nTotal\n41%\n\n\n\nThe firm’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate for June 30, 2021 was 109%, a reasonably good result.\nThe dollar-based net revenue retention rate metric measures how much additional revenue is generated over time from each cohort of customers, so that a figure over 100% means that the company is generating more revenue from the same customer cohort over time, indicating good product/market fit and efficient sales and marketing efforts.\nMarket & Competition\nAccording to a 2021 marketresearch reportby Market Primes, the global investment management software market was an estimated $3 billion in 2019 and is forecast to reach nearly $4.5 billion by 2025.\nThis represents a forecast CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2025.\nThe main drivers for this expected growth are a desire by users to automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on maximizing portfolio performance and creating more sophisticated approaches.\nAlso, assessing risks and exposures and being able to efficiently report and share the information with stakeholders will drive demand for more capable solutions.\nMajor competitive or other industry participants include:\n\nSS&C\nState Street\nSAP\nBNY Mellon (Eagle)\nSimcorp\nBlackRock\nFIS\nNorthern Trust\nOthers\n\nFinancial Performance\nClearwater’s recent financial results can be summarized as follows:\n\nStrong topline revenue growth\nIncreasing gross profit and gross margin\nA swing to operating profit and net profit\nUneven cash used in operations\n\nBelow are relevant financial results derived from the firm’s registration statement:\n\n\n\n\nTotal Revenue\n\n\nPeriod\nTotal Revenue\n% Variance vs. Prior\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 117,770,000\n23.8%\n\n\n2020\n$ 203,222,000\n21.0%\n\n\n2019\n$ 168,001,000\n\n\n\nGross Profit (Loss)\n\n\nPeriod\nGross Profit (Loss)\n% Variance vs. Prior\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 87,872,000\n28.8%\n\n\n2020\n$ 149,959,000\n24.1%\n\n\n2019\n$ 120,856,000\n\n\n\nGross Margin\n\n\nPeriod\nGross Margin\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n74.61%\n\n\n2020\n73.79%\n\n\n2019\n71.94%\n\n\n\nOperating Profit (Loss)\n\n\nPeriod\nOperating Profit (Loss)\nOperating Margin\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 20,544,000\n17.4%\n\n\n2020\n$ (20,418,000)\n-10.0%\n\n\n2019\n$ 25,697,000\n15.3%\n\n\n\nNet Income (Loss)\n\n\nPeriod\nNet Income (Loss)\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 3,200,000\n\n\n2020\n$ (44,230,000)\n\n\n2019\n$ 7,732,000\n\n\n\nCash Flow From Operations\n\n\nPeriod\nCash Flow From Operations\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ (16,352,000)\n\n\n2020\n$ (6,486,000)\n\n\n2019\n$ (230,029,000)\n\n\n\nAs of June 30, 2021, Clearwater had $41 million in cash and $450 million in total liabilities.\nFree cash flow during the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was negative ($38 million).\nValuation Metrics\nBelow is a table of the firm’s relevant capitalization and valuation metrics at IPO, excluding the effects of underwriter options:\n\n\n\n\nMeasure [TTM]\nAmount\n\n\nMarket Capitalization at IPO\n$3,472,178,130\n\n\nEnterprise Value\n$3,470,109,130\n\n\nPrice / Sales\n15.37\n\n\nEV / Revenue\n15.36\n\n\nEV / EBITDA\n-141.93\n\n\nEarnings Per Share\n-$0.23\n\n\nFloat To Outstanding Shares Ratio\n12.96%\n\n\nProposed IPO Midpoint Price per Share\n$15.00\n\n\nNet Free Cash Flow\n-$38,024,000\n\n\nFree Cash Flow Yield Per Share\n-1.10%\n\n\nRevenue Growth Rate\n23.83%\n\n\n\nCommentary\nCWAN intends to go public to pay down debt and will have a net of $55 million in debt post-IPO.\nThe firm’s financials show strong topline revenue growth and gross profit growth and a rebound to operating profit and net income after negative results in 2020.\nFree cash flow for the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was a decidedly unimpressive negative ($38 million).\nSales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenue has increased; its Sales and Marketing efficiency rate dropped slightly to 1.4x in the most recent six-month period.\nCWAN's dollar-based net retention rate was 109% for June 30, 2021, a positive result and its Rule of 40 performance was good as well.\nThe market opportunity for selling investment management software is large and expected to grow substantially in the years ahead, but the firm has extensive competition.\nGoldman Sachs is the lead left underwriter and IPOs led by the firm over the last 12-month period have generated an average return of 40.5% since their IPO. This is a middle-tier performance for all major underwriters during the period.\nThe primary risk to the company’s outlook is the degree of competition and specialization present in various submarkets in which it competes, as well as the ability for some larger prospects to develop solutions in-house.\nAs for valuation, compared to competitor Simcorp, the CWAN IPO is much more highly priced on a revenue multiple basis. In my view, this is justified as the firm is growing revenue at a significantly higher rate of growth.\nAfter a difficult period during 2020 where the firm produced operating losses, 2021 has seen a return to operating and net profits with impressive growth as well.\nGiven CWAN’s growth trajectory and the investment management software industry’s strong growth potential in the years ahead, the IPO is worth a close look.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":340,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":829414612,"gmtCreate":1633533086805,"gmtModify":1633533125490,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Lol","listText":"Lol","text":"Lol","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":14,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/829414612","repostId":"1132226534","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":463,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":820098275,"gmtCreate":1633321549157,"gmtModify":1633321557118,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Can","listText":"Can","text":"Can","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":13,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/820098275","repostId":"2172202963","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2172202963","pubTimestamp":1633316991,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2172202963?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-04 11:09","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Will Airline Stocks Keep Flying Today？","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2172202963","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A Wall Street analyst sees upside from here for the airlines.","content":"<span> <h2>What happened</h2> <p>A prominent analyst just issued an upgrade of <strong>Southwest Airlines</strong> <span>(NYSE:LUV)</span>, and his rationale has the whole sector taking flight. Shares of Southwest, <strong>Delta Air Lines</strong> <span>(NYSE:DAL)</span>, <strong>United Airlines Holdings</strong> <span>(NASDAQ:UAL)</span>, and <strong>JetBlue Airways</strong> <span>(NASDAQ:JBLU)</span> were all up more than 5% on Friday morning on commentary that the post-pandemic aviation recovery is far from over.</p> <h2>So what</h2> <p>It's been a turbulent few years for airline stocks, with shares initially hit hard by the pandemic on fears that the drop in travel demand would lead to a rash of airline bankruptcies. But in the U.S., the industry was able to fly through the storm better than expected, and as the vaccines began to roll out, the airlines were part of the so-called \"reopening rally\" earlier this year.</p> \n <div>\n  <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2cf782f2a6aff83cf3950fd1a7cc9cd7\" srcset=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A//g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/645090/silhouette-of-airplane-flying-over-palm-trees-in-sunset-getty.jpg&amp;w=300&amp;op=resize 300w, https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A//g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/645090/silhouette-of-airplane-flying-over-palm-trees-in-sunset-getty.jpg&amp;w=1000&amp;op=resize 1000w, https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A//g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/645090/silhouette-of-airplane-flying-over-palm-trees-in-sunset-getty.jpg&amp;w=2000&amp;op=resize 2000w\"> \n  <p>Image source: Getty Images.</p> \n </div> <p>The stocks have mostly gone sideways for a few months now, caught up in a battle between bulls who see significant pent-up demand and bears who worry about added debt taken on during the crisis alongside issues including the Delta variant and continued sluggish demand for business and international travel.</p> <p>But <strong>JP Morgan</strong>'s Jamie Baker thinks the concerns are overblown. On Friday, Baker upgraded Southwest from neutral to overweight and raised his price target to $70 from $64.</p> <p>Baker's reasoning is resonating with investors in several airlines. The analyst wrote airline stocks have \"room to run,\" citing \"encouraging\" JP Morgan internal travel spending data and the recently announced easing of U.S. border restrictions. This remains a domestic-fueled rally, Baker said, but European travel is beginning to spring to life and there are also signs of improved bookings on the all-important New York-London route.</p>\n <div></div> <h2>Now what</h2> <p>Baker only upgraded Southwest, but it is easy to see why the commentary is moving the entire sector. The bullishness goes far beyond the operations of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> airline. Southwest, for example, doesn't even fly to Europe.</p> <p>Of course, many risks remain. There is reason to hope the worst of the Delta variant is behind the U.S., but we don't know what might come next from the pandemic and how these developments might impact the quarters to come. And there are some encouraging signs that historically more lucrative segments of the market like business and international travel might be off of their lows. Still, many corporations won't even require employees to return to the office until 2022. Therefore, it is hard to imagine a quick spike in the travel business any time soon.</p> <p>Valuations are reasonable, but uncertainty remains. I agree with Baker's overall optimistic tone, but investors should be aware that this is unlikely to be a straight shot higher and that risks are still in play. For those willing to buckle up for some turbulence and buy right now, it is best to stick with top-quality operators like Southwest and Delta.</p> \n <div></div> </span>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Will Airline Stocks Keep Flying Today？</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWill Airline Stocks Keep Flying Today？\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-04 11:09 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/01/why-airline-stocks-are-flying-high-today/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>What happened A prominent analyst just issued an upgrade of Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), and his rationale has the whole sector taking flight. Shares of Southwest, Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), United...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/01/why-airline-stocks-are-flying-high-today/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/01/why-airline-stocks-are-flying-high-today/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2172202963","content_text":"What happened A prominent analyst just issued an upgrade of Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), and his rationale has the whole sector taking flight. Shares of Southwest, Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL), United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ:UAL), and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) were all up more than 5% on Friday morning on commentary that the post-pandemic aviation recovery is far from over. So what It's been a turbulent few years for airline stocks, with shares initially hit hard by the pandemic on fears that the drop in travel demand would lead to a rash of airline bankruptcies. But in the U.S., the industry was able to fly through the storm better than expected, and as the vaccines began to roll out, the airlines were part of the so-called \"reopening rally\" earlier this year.\n\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\n The stocks have mostly gone sideways for a few months now, caught up in a battle between bulls who see significant pent-up demand and bears who worry about added debt taken on during the crisis alongside issues including the Delta variant and continued sluggish demand for business and international travel. But JP Morgan's Jamie Baker thinks the concerns are overblown. On Friday, Baker upgraded Southwest from neutral to overweight and raised his price target to $70 from $64. Baker's reasoning is resonating with investors in several airlines. The analyst wrote airline stocks have \"room to run,\" citing \"encouraging\" JP Morgan internal travel spending data and the recently announced easing of U.S. border restrictions. This remains a domestic-fueled rally, Baker said, but European travel is beginning to spring to life and there are also signs of improved bookings on the all-important New York-London route.\n Now what Baker only upgraded Southwest, but it is easy to see why the commentary is moving the entire sector. The bullishness goes far beyond the operations of one airline. Southwest, for example, doesn't even fly to Europe. Of course, many risks remain. There is reason to hope the worst of the Delta variant is behind the U.S., but we don't know what might come next from the pandemic and how these developments might impact the quarters to come. And there are some encouraging signs that historically more lucrative segments of the market like business and international travel might be off of their lows. Still, many corporations won't even require employees to return to the office until 2022. Therefore, it is hard to imagine a quick spike in the travel business any time soon. Valuations are reasonable, but uncertainty remains. I agree with Baker's overall optimistic tone, but investors should be aware that this is unlikely to be a straight shot higher and that risks are still in play. For those willing to buckle up for some turbulence and buy right now, it is best to stick with top-quality operators like Southwest and Delta.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":431,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":829908262,"gmtCreate":1633447276829,"gmtModify":1633447284970,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nice","listText":"Nice","text":"Nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":7,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/829908262","repostId":"2173559915","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":343,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":867232646,"gmtCreate":1633269467216,"gmtModify":1633269475323,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nice","listText":"Nice","text":"Nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/867232646","repostId":"2172964018","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2172964018","pubTimestamp":1633238325,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2172964018?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-03 13:18","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Italy's Leonardo says Boeing to update 787 production plan this month","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2172964018","media":"Reuters","summary":"DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expe","content":"<p>DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expected this month to release an updated production plan for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet.</p>\n<p>\"In the next day they will come out with a new plan,\" Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo told Reuters at the Dubai Expo on Saturday. \"They are saying they are 'slightly more optimistic', shall we say.\"</p>\n<p>Profumo did not say whether there would be a change in production rates in the new plan to be released by Boeing. Leonardo manufactures part of the Dreamliner airframe.</p>\n<p>A Boeing representative told Reuters the planemaker did not have any updates on 787 production. They did not say whether a new production plan would soon be released.</p>\n<p>\"We are constantly analysing the global aviation market, coordinating closely with suppliers and aligning supply with demand.”</p>\n<p>Leonardo expects Boeing to produce at a rate of 10 Dreamliners a month by the end of 2025, Profumo said, citing existing advice from the planemaker.</p>\n<p>Boeing was producing at a rate of 14 a month in 2019, according to the latest available data.</p>\n<p>The U.S. planemaker suspended Dreamliner deliveries in late May after the Federal Aviation Administration raised concerns about its proposed inspection method. (Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by William Mallard)</p>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Italy's Leonardo says Boeing to update 787 production plan this month</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nItaly's Leonardo says Boeing to update 787 production plan this month\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-03 13:18 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italys-leonardo-says-boeing-787-051845587.html><strong>Reuters</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expected this month to release an updated production plan for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet.\n\"In the ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italys-leonardo-says-boeing-787-051845587.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BA":"波音"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/italys-leonardo-says-boeing-787-051845587.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5f26f4a48f9cb3e29be4d71d3ba8c038","article_id":"2172964018","content_text":"DUBAI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Italian aerospace firm Leonardo said Boeing was expected this month to release an updated production plan for its 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet.\n\"In the next day they will come out with a new plan,\" Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo told Reuters at the Dubai Expo on Saturday. \"They are saying they are 'slightly more optimistic', shall we say.\"\nProfumo did not say whether there would be a change in production rates in the new plan to be released by Boeing. Leonardo manufactures part of the Dreamliner airframe.\nA Boeing representative told Reuters the planemaker did not have any updates on 787 production. They did not say whether a new production plan would soon be released.\n\"We are constantly analysing the global aviation market, coordinating closely with suppliers and aligning supply with demand.”\nLeonardo expects Boeing to produce at a rate of 10 Dreamliners a month by the end of 2025, Profumo said, citing existing advice from the planemaker.\nBoeing was producing at a rate of 14 a month in 2019, according to the latest available data.\nThe U.S. planemaker suspended Dreamliner deliveries in late May after the Federal Aviation Administration raised concerns about its proposed inspection method. (Reporting by Alexander Cornwell; Editing by William Mallard)","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":468,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":864314219,"gmtCreate":1633056934409,"gmtModify":1633056942604,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/864314219","repostId":"1124647688","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1124647688","pubTimestamp":1633048079,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1124647688?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-01 08:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Professor who called Dow 20,000 says he’s nervous about trends in inflation that could spark a stock-market correction","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1124647688","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, ","content":"<p>Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday said that a fresh surge in inflation is making him nervous and warned that accelerating pricing pressures could compel the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at a faster clip than currently anticipated, which could deliver a correction to equity benchmarks.</p>\n<p>The Wharton professorcredited with calling Dow 20,000&nbsp;in 2015 told CNBC during a Wednesday interview that he is “nervous about the trends I see in inflation currently.”</p>\n<p>The academic’s comments came as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday said a bout of high U.S. inflation could be prolonged into early next year because parts and material shortages might be getting worse.</p>\n<p>Parts of the financial market are undergoing big price surges, including natural-gas futuresNG00,+1.81%,whichsurged 11% on Monday,reaching levels not seen since 2014 amid tight U.S. supplies and strengthening demand across the globe.</p>\n<p><b>Read:</b>Inflation in the U.S. is running at the highest level in 30 years</p>\n<p><b>Also:</b>Fed’s Williams predicts the high rate of inflation will cool to 2% in 2022</p>\n<p>“It’s frustrating to see the supply-chain problems not getting better, in fact they are probably getting worse,” Powell said during a virtual forum with other central bank leaders, including those from the European Central Bank. “It’s very difficult to say how big the effects will be in the meantime and how long they will last.”</p>\n<p>The rate of inflation in the U.S., using the Fed’s preferred personal-consumption expenditures price index, rose at a 4.2% pace in the 12 months ended in July. That is the fastest increase in 30 years. Inflation is running even hotter based on the better-known consumer-price index, a measure of the average prices paid by consumers for a common basket of goods and services that serves as a barometer of economic health.</p>\n<p>Powell and others at the Fed have contended for months that the surge in inflation was “transitory.”</p>\n<p>However, that view is starting to shift and investors are starting to factor in more persistent inflation than previously thought,analysts say.</p>\n<p>Siegel said the anticipated timeline that the Fed will start tapering in November and end it the middle of 2022, with an eye toward starting to raise interest rates sometime next year, is a fair timetable, but he but fears that the surge in inflation could hasten moves, which would drive yields higher and stocks lower.</p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the S&amp;P 500 indexSPX,-1.19%ended higher but was still down 3.9% from its Sept. 2 record close, and the Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJIA,-1.59%was off 3.5% from its Aug. 16 record high, following marginal gains on the session. The technology-laden Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMP,-0.44%is down 5.6% from its Sept. 7 closing peak after finishing lower on Wednesday.</p>\n<p>A correction in an asset is usually defined by market technicians as a fall of at least 10%, but no more than 20%, from a recent peak.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury noteTMUBMUSD10Y,1.504%,used to price everything from car loans to mortgages, yielded 1.54%, up from 1.534% on Tuesday. The note is up nearly 10 basis points so far this quarter and up 23.7 basis points in September alone, according data compiled by Dow Jones Market Data.</p>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Professor who called Dow 20,000 says he’s nervous about trends in inflation that could spark a stock-market correction</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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That is the fastest increase in 30 years. Inflation is running even hotter based on the better-known consumer-price index, a measure of the average prices paid by consumers for a common basket of goods and services that serves as a barometer of economic health.\nPowell and others at the Fed have contended for months that the surge in inflation was “transitory.”\nHowever, that view is starting to shift and investors are starting to factor in more persistent inflation than previously thought,analysts say.\nSiegel said the anticipated timeline that the Fed will start tapering in November and end it the middle of 2022, with an eye toward starting to raise interest rates sometime next year, is a fair timetable, but he but fears that the surge in inflation could hasten moves, which would drive yields higher and stocks lower.\nOn Wednesday, the S&P 500 indexSPX,-1.19%ended higher but was still down 3.9% from its Sept. 2 record close, and the Dow Jones Industrial AverageDJIA,-1.59%was off 3.5% from its Aug. 16 record high, following marginal gains on the session. The technology-laden Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMP,-0.44%is down 5.6% from its Sept. 7 closing peak after finishing lower on Wednesday.\nA correction in an asset is usually defined by market technicians as a fall of at least 10%, but no more than 20%, from a recent peak.\nMeanwhile, the benchmark 10-year Treasury noteTMUBMUSD10Y,1.504%,used to price everything from car loans to mortgages, yielded 1.54%, up from 1.534% on Tuesday. The note is up nearly 10 basis points so far this quarter and up 23.7 basis points in September alone, according data compiled by Dow Jones Market Data.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":762,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":865395511,"gmtCreate":1632949408576,"gmtModify":1632949416537,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nive","listText":"Nive","text":"Nive","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/865395511","repostId":"2171115602","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2171115602","pubTimestamp":1632935460,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2171115602?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-30 01:11","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2171115602","media":"MarketWatch","summary":"Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading.\n\nNYSE assigns reference price of ","content":"<p>Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f145f99950734ec9b0e3b675836a53fb\" tg-width=\"1836\" tg-height=\"901\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>NYSE assigns reference price of $40, trading&nbsp;to begin Wednesday</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5917e3b384716a3bbcfdd5860b35711f\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"628\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Warby Parker is focused on both business and giving back, the prospectus says.</span></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/WRBY\">Warby Parker Inc.</a>, the company known for its affordable eyeglasses sold online, through its app and in stores, is begining trading Wednesday in a direct listing.</p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange assigned a $40 reference price to the New York City-based company's listing, which is expected to begin trading Wednesday under the ticker symbol \"WRBY\" . The company has about 111.5 million shares outstanding, giving it a valuation around $4.6 billion at that reference price.</p>\n<p>Reference prices for direct listings are based on trading prices in private markets ahead of companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public listing. Direct listings differ from IPOs because there is no capital raised, which is what places a dollar figure on shares in an IPO. Direct listings are largely expected to trade higher than the reference price.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker will offer class A stock, eligible for one vote per share; class B stock, which entitles shareholders to 10 votes per share and can be converted to class A shares; and class C shares, which carry no voting rights.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker will be an emerging growth company, which means it does not have to make the same disclosures required of bigger public companies. A business remains an emerging growth company until it reaches a number of milestones, including annual revenue of more than $1.07 billion.</p>\n<p>Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, ages 41 and 40 respectively, are co-founders, co-chairs and co-chief executives of the company.</p>\n<p>Prior to Warby Parker, Blumenthal was a director at VisionSpring, a nonprofit that trains men and women in developing countries to sell affordable eyewear. Blumenthal is also a director at Allbirds, which filed to go public this week, at salad chain Sweetgreen and a number of nonprofit organizations including Warby Parker Impact Foundation and RxArt.</p>\n<p>Gilboa worked at consulting firm Bain &amp; Company and merchant bank Allen &amp; Co. prior to Warby Parker. He also serves on the board of the Warby Parker Impact Foundation.</p>\n<p>Andrew Hunt and Jeffrey Raider, both age 40, are the other two co-founders of Warby Parker and both serve as directors. Also on the board is Ronald Williams, age 71, and former CEO of Aetna from 2006 to 2010.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker was founded in 2010 and inspired by the founders' concerns that glasses were expensive and the process of buying them inconvenient.</p>\n<p>In its prospectus, Warby Parker says it is driven to do good and make customers happy. In addition to making glasses more affordable, Warby Parker has distributed more than 8 million pairs of glasses through the Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program. The company is also carbon neutral, which it has achieved through purchasing offsets.</p>\n<p>\"[This motivation] pushes us to defy convention -- and, at times, to forego short-term profits -- but we believe delivering remarkable customer experiences and making a positive impact on all stakeholders will lead to continued long-term sustainable growth and profitability,\" says a letter from the co-CEOs included in the prospectus.</p>\n<p>A pair of Warby Parker spectacles starts at a price of $95 including prescription lenses, and can be purchased digitally, using a free home try-on system or virtual trial system, as well as at145 Warby Parker shops. The company keeps prices low by selling direct-to-consumer and bypassing middlemen.</p>\n<p>The company had a net loss of $55.9 million in 2020, after breakeven in 2019 and a loss of $22.9 million in 2018. It chalked up $393.7 million of revenue in 2020, up from $370.5 million in 2019.</p>\n<p>Some 95% of net revenue in 2020 came from the sale of glasses, 2% of revenue was generated by the sale of contact lenses, 1% by eye exams and 2% by eyewear accessories. The company is expecting to expand its customer base for eye exams.</p>\n<p>For the six months ending June 30, 2021, net losses were $7.3 million and revenue totaled $270.5 million. The company has more than two million active customers and nearly 3,000 workers.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3510dd6c717e636f33784d4f89bd9ce3\" tg-width=\"506\" tg-height=\"706\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>About 76% of Americans were using some kind of vision correction in 2020, according to data provided by the prospectus. The number of Americans ages 65 and over will more than double over the next 40 years and at least 84% of people in this older age group wear corrective lenses. Increasing use of screens like mobile devices and computers has contributed to the need for vision correction. Glasses are replaced every two-to-two-and-a-half years.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker says that between 2015 and 2019, it had a 50% sales retention rate within two years of the first purchase among customers it acquired. The retention rate was nearly 100% after four years during that same period.</p>\n<p>The vision care industry is expected to grow at a 9.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2025, according to Statista data provided in the prospectus.</p>\n<p>Here are five other things to know about Warby Parker before it goes public:</p>\n<p><b>Most decision-making power will be in the hands of Warby Parker's co-founders and co-CEOs</b></p>\n<p>The company's stock structure post-IPO will give the company's founders and top executives considerable control that could last until Oct. 1, 2031.</p>\n<p>\"Because of the ten-to-one voting ratio between our class B and class A common stock, our co-founders and co-CEOs collectively could continue to control a significant percentage of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore would be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the date of automatic conversion, when all shares outstanding of Class B common stock will convert automatically into shares of Class A common stock,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p>That means other shareholders will have little say in the running of the company and will not influence such decisions as the election of directors, amendments of organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, or sale of some or all of its assets.</p>\n<p>As a loss-making company, it will not pay a dividend for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p><b>Warby Parker does most things in-house -- and that could limit its ability to grow</b></p>\n<p>Warby Parker says its business model, which has it do most things in-house, could cause problems.</p>\n<p>\"[T]he vertically integrated nature of our business, where we design all of our own glasses in our New York headquarters, contract manufacture all of our glass frames, fulfill the glasses we sell at our own optical and fulfillment laboratories as well as at third-party contract laboratories, sell our products exclusively through our own retail stores, e-commerce site and mobile application, and service our products, exposes us to risk and disruption at many points that are critical to successfully operating our business, and may make it more difficult for us to scale our business,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p><b>Supply chain troubles outside of those caused by COVID-19 could arise</b></p>\n<p>Supply chain problems have plagued companies across the consumer space this year. But the company warns that its operations are vulnerable to other challenges as well.</p>\n<p>Warby Parker gets more than half of the cellulose acetate used in its frames from a single supplier. Other components are sourced from the U.S., China, Italy, Vietnam, and Japan. The company also uses third-party contractors on certain items, but doesn't have long-term contracts with these suppliers.</p>\n<p>\"We are therefore subject to the risk of shortages and long lead times in the supply of these components and the risk that our suppliers discontinue or modify components used in our products,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p>\"We may in the future experience component shortages, and the predictability of the availability of these components may be limited, which may be heightened in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\"</p>\n<p><b>Warby Parker says customers are slow to adopt e-commerce for eyeglasses</b></p>\n<p>Warby Parker offers online shopping for eyeglasses, one of the most significant ways the company differentiates itself from a crowded competitive field. But the company says many customers are more comfortable shopping for eyeglasses in person.</p>\n<p>\"Improving upon the consumer in-store experience through an online platform is difficult due to broad consumer demands on selection, quality, convenience, and affordability,\" the prospectus says.</p>\n<p>When the company first started, less than 2.5% of glasses were purchased online. Even now, the company says it has \"historically generated a significant portion of our revenue from our retail stores, and our growth strategy will depend, in large part, on acquiring customers through the growth of our retail store base and expansion of our existing retail store operations.\"</p>\n<p><b>Warby Parker's business is actually seasonal</b></p>\n<p>Customers eager to use health benefits before the end of a calendar year tend to boost demand in December.</p>\n<p>\"Consistent with our policy to recognize revenue upon order delivery, any orders placed at the end of December are recognized as revenue upon delivery which may occur in the following year,\" Warby Parker said.</p>","source":"lsy1603348471595","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Eyewear maker Warby Parker spikes 34% on its first day of trading</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The company has about 111.5 million shares outstanding, giving it a valuation around $4.6 billion at that reference price.\nReference prices for direct listings are based on trading prices in private markets ahead of companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public listing. Direct listings differ from IPOs because there is no capital raised, which is what places a dollar figure on shares in an IPO. Direct listings are largely expected to trade higher than the reference price.\nWarby Parker will offer class A stock, eligible for one vote per share; class B stock, which entitles shareholders to 10 votes per share and can be converted to class A shares; and class C shares, which carry no voting rights.\nWarby Parker will be an emerging growth company, which means it does not have to make the same disclosures required of bigger public companies. A business remains an emerging growth company until it reaches a number of milestones, including annual revenue of more than $1.07 billion.\nNeil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, ages 41 and 40 respectively, are co-founders, co-chairs and co-chief executives of the company.\nPrior to Warby Parker, Blumenthal was a director at VisionSpring, a nonprofit that trains men and women in developing countries to sell affordable eyewear. Blumenthal is also a director at Allbirds, which filed to go public this week, at salad chain Sweetgreen and a number of nonprofit organizations including Warby Parker Impact Foundation and RxArt.\nGilboa worked at consulting firm Bain & Company and merchant bank Allen & Co. prior to Warby Parker. He also serves on the board of the Warby Parker Impact Foundation.\nAndrew Hunt and Jeffrey Raider, both age 40, are the other two co-founders of Warby Parker and both serve as directors. Also on the board is Ronald Williams, age 71, and former CEO of Aetna from 2006 to 2010.\nWarby Parker was founded in 2010 and inspired by the founders' concerns that glasses were expensive and the process of buying them inconvenient.\nIn its prospectus, Warby Parker says it is driven to do good and make customers happy. In addition to making glasses more affordable, Warby Parker has distributed more than 8 million pairs of glasses through the Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program. The company is also carbon neutral, which it has achieved through purchasing offsets.\n\"[This motivation] pushes us to defy convention -- and, at times, to forego short-term profits -- but we believe delivering remarkable customer experiences and making a positive impact on all stakeholders will lead to continued long-term sustainable growth and profitability,\" says a letter from the co-CEOs included in the prospectus.\nA pair of Warby Parker spectacles starts at a price of $95 including prescription lenses, and can be purchased digitally, using a free home try-on system or virtual trial system, as well as at145 Warby Parker shops. The company keeps prices low by selling direct-to-consumer and bypassing middlemen.\nThe company had a net loss of $55.9 million in 2020, after breakeven in 2019 and a loss of $22.9 million in 2018. It chalked up $393.7 million of revenue in 2020, up from $370.5 million in 2019.\nSome 95% of net revenue in 2020 came from the sale of glasses, 2% of revenue was generated by the sale of contact lenses, 1% by eye exams and 2% by eyewear accessories. The company is expecting to expand its customer base for eye exams.\nFor the six months ending June 30, 2021, net losses were $7.3 million and revenue totaled $270.5 million. The company has more than two million active customers and nearly 3,000 workers.\n\nAbout 76% of Americans were using some kind of vision correction in 2020, according to data provided by the prospectus. The number of Americans ages 65 and over will more than double over the next 40 years and at least 84% of people in this older age group wear corrective lenses. Increasing use of screens like mobile devices and computers has contributed to the need for vision correction. Glasses are replaced every two-to-two-and-a-half years.\nWarby Parker says that between 2015 and 2019, it had a 50% sales retention rate within two years of the first purchase among customers it acquired. The retention rate was nearly 100% after four years during that same period.\nThe vision care industry is expected to grow at a 9.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2025, according to Statista data provided in the prospectus.\nHere are five other things to know about Warby Parker before it goes public:\nMost decision-making power will be in the hands of Warby Parker's co-founders and co-CEOs\nThe company's stock structure post-IPO will give the company's founders and top executives considerable control that could last until Oct. 1, 2031.\n\"Because of the ten-to-one voting ratio between our class B and class A common stock, our co-founders and co-CEOs collectively could continue to control a significant percentage of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore would be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the date of automatic conversion, when all shares outstanding of Class B common stock will convert automatically into shares of Class A common stock,\" the prospectus says.\nThat means other shareholders will have little say in the running of the company and will not influence such decisions as the election of directors, amendments of organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, or sale of some or all of its assets.\nAs a loss-making company, it will not pay a dividend for the foreseeable future.\nWarby Parker does most things in-house -- and that could limit its ability to grow\nWarby Parker says its business model, which has it do most things in-house, could cause problems.\n\"[T]he vertically integrated nature of our business, where we design all of our own glasses in our New York headquarters, contract manufacture all of our glass frames, fulfill the glasses we sell at our own optical and fulfillment laboratories as well as at third-party contract laboratories, sell our products exclusively through our own retail stores, e-commerce site and mobile application, and service our products, exposes us to risk and disruption at many points that are critical to successfully operating our business, and may make it more difficult for us to scale our business,\" the prospectus says.\nSupply chain troubles outside of those caused by COVID-19 could arise\nSupply chain problems have plagued companies across the consumer space this year. But the company warns that its operations are vulnerable to other challenges as well.\nWarby Parker gets more than half of the cellulose acetate used in its frames from a single supplier. Other components are sourced from the U.S., China, Italy, Vietnam, and Japan. The company also uses third-party contractors on certain items, but doesn't have long-term contracts with these suppliers.\n\"We are therefore subject to the risk of shortages and long lead times in the supply of these components and the risk that our suppliers discontinue or modify components used in our products,\" the prospectus says.\n\"We may in the future experience component shortages, and the predictability of the availability of these components may be limited, which may be heightened in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\"\nWarby Parker says customers are slow to adopt e-commerce for eyeglasses\nWarby Parker offers online shopping for eyeglasses, one of the most significant ways the company differentiates itself from a crowded competitive field. But the company says many customers are more comfortable shopping for eyeglasses in person.\n\"Improving upon the consumer in-store experience through an online platform is difficult due to broad consumer demands on selection, quality, convenience, and affordability,\" the prospectus says.\nWhen the company first started, less than 2.5% of glasses were purchased online. Even now, the company says it has \"historically generated a significant portion of our revenue from our retail stores, and our growth strategy will depend, in large part, on acquiring customers through the growth of our retail store base and expansion of our existing retail store operations.\"\nWarby Parker's business is actually seasonal\nCustomers eager to use health benefits before the end of a calendar year tend to boost demand in December.\n\"Consistent with our policy to recognize revenue upon order delivery, any orders placed at the end of December are recognized as revenue upon delivery which may occur in the following year,\" Warby Parker said.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":448,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":862747816,"gmtCreate":1632919886161,"gmtModify":1632919967503,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Oike","listText":"Oike","text":"Oike","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/862747816","repostId":"1123110487","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":319,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":868334004,"gmtCreate":1632599137808,"gmtModify":1632654233268,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/868334004","repostId":"1149730497","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":213,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":867929472,"gmtCreate":1633189352309,"gmtModify":1633189360544,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Lole","listText":"Lole","text":"Lole","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/867929472","repostId":"2172196180","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":621,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":861210868,"gmtCreate":1632497091755,"gmtModify":1632715885006,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Cana one","listText":"Cana one","text":"Cana one","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/861210868","repostId":"1114004721","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1114004721","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1632496493,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1114004721?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-09-24 23:14","market":"us","language":"en","title":"IPO opening reminder: Clearwater Analytics opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO price","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1114004721","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"(Sept 24) Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO pric","content":"<p>(Sept 24)&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CWAN\">Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.</a></b> opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO price.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/076505c7b70dbe2ad6cfcae8c44f52cb\" tg-width=\"902\" tg-height=\"557\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b>Company &amp; Technology</b></p>\n<p>Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater was founded to develop a SaaS platform to simplify investment accounting and analysis for asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations.</p>\n<p>Management is headed by Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Sahai, who has been with the firm since September 2016 and was previously CEO of Solmark, an investment partnership.</p>\n<p>The company’s primary offerings include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Investment accounting and reporting</p></li>\n <li><p>Performance measurement</p></li>\n <li><p>Compliance monitoring</p></li>\n <li><p>Risk analysis</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Clearwater has received at least $421 million in notes payable in equity investment from investors including Welsh Carson, Permira, Warburg Pincus and Dragoneer.</p>\n<p><b>Customer Acquisition</b></p>\n<p>The firm pursues client relationships with asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations via a direct sales and marketing force that is focused on the United States.</p>\n<p>CWAN also has international clients and will seek to expand its international presence post-IPO.</p>\n<p>Clearwater handles data on over $5.6 trillion in assets between more than 1,000 clients.</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenues have increased, as the figures below indicate:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Expenses vs. Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Percentage</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>13.6%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>10.9%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>11.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Sales and Marketing efficiency rate, defined as how many dollars of additional new revenue are generated by each dollar of Sales and Marketing spend, dropped to 1.4x in the most recent reporting period, as shown in the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Efficiency Rate</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Multiple</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.4</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.6</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Rule of 40 is a software industry rule of thumb that says that as long as the combined revenue growth rate and EBITDA percentage rate equal or exceed 40%, the firm is on an acceptable growth/EBITDA trajectory.</p>\n<p>CWAN’s most recent calculation was 41% during the six months ended June 30, 2021, so the firm has performed well in this regard, per the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Rule of 40</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Calculation</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Recent Rev. Growth %</p></td>\n   <td><p>24%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EBITDA %</p></td>\n   <td><p>17%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Total</p></td>\n   <td><p>41%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The firm’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate for June 30, 2021 was 109%, a reasonably good result.</p>\n<p>The dollar-based net revenue retention rate metric measures how much additional revenue is generated over time from each cohort of customers, so that a figure over 100% means that the company is generating more revenue from the same customer cohort over time, indicating good product/market fit and efficient sales and marketing efforts.</p>\n<p><b>Market &amp; Competition</b></p>\n<p>According to a 2021 marketresearch reportby Market Primes, the global investment management software market was an estimated $3 billion in 2019 and is forecast to reach nearly $4.5 billion by 2025.</p>\n<p>This represents a forecast CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2025.</p>\n<p>The main drivers for this expected growth are a desire by users to automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on maximizing portfolio performance and creating more sophisticated approaches.</p>\n<p>Also, assessing risks and exposures and being able to efficiently report and share the information with stakeholders will drive demand for more capable solutions.</p>\n<p>Major competitive or other industry participants include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>SS&amp;C</p></li>\n <li><p>State Street</p></li>\n <li><p>SAP</p></li>\n <li><p>BNY Mellon (Eagle)</p></li>\n <li><p>Simcorp</p></li>\n <li><p>BlackRock</p></li>\n <li><p>FIS</p></li>\n <li><p>Northern Trust</p></li>\n <li><p>Others</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Financial Performance</b></p>\n<p>Clearwater’s recent financial results can be summarized as follows:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Strong topline revenue growth</p></li>\n <li><p>Increasing gross profit and gross margin</p></li>\n <li><p>A swing to operating profit and net profit</p></li>\n <li><p>Uneven cash used in operations</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Below are relevant financial results derived from the firm’s registration statement:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Total Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Total Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 117,770,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 203,222,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>21.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 168,001,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 87,872,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>28.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 149,959,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>24.1%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 120,856,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Margin</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>74.61%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>73.79%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>71.94%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Operating Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 20,544,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>17.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (20,418,000)</p></td>\n   <td><p>-10.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 25,697,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.3%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Net Income (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Net Income (Loss)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 3,200,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (44,230,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 7,732,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Cash Flow From Operations</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Cash Flow From Operations</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (16,352,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (6,486,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (230,029,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>As of June 30, 2021, Clearwater had $41 million in cash and $450 million in total liabilities.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow during the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Valuation Metrics</p>\n<p>Below is a table of the firm’s relevant capitalization and valuation metrics at IPO, excluding the effects of underwriter options:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Measure [TTM]</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Amount</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Market Capitalization at IPO</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,472,178,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Enterprise Value</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,470,109,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Price / Sales</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.37</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.36</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / EBITDA</p></td>\n   <td><p>-141.93</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Earnings Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$0.23</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Float To Outstanding Shares Ratio</p></td>\n   <td><p>12.96%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Proposed IPO Midpoint Price per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>$15.00</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Net Free Cash Flow</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$38,024,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Free Cash Flow Yield Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-1.10%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Revenue Growth Rate</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.83%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p><b>Commentary</b></p>\n<p>CWAN intends to go public to pay down debt and will have a net of $55 million in debt post-IPO.</p>\n<p>The firm’s financials show strong topline revenue growth and gross profit growth and a rebound to operating profit and net income after negative results in 2020.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow for the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was a decidedly unimpressive negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenue has increased; its Sales and Marketing efficiency rate dropped slightly to 1.4x in the most recent six-month period.</p>\n<p>CWAN's dollar-based net retention rate was 109% for June 30, 2021, a positive result and its Rule of 40 performance was good as well.</p>\n<p>The market opportunity for selling investment management software is large and expected to grow substantially in the years ahead, but the firm has extensive competition.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs is the lead left underwriter and IPOs led by the firm over the last 12-month period have generated an average return of 40.5% since their IPO. This is a middle-tier performance for all major underwriters during the period.</p>\n<p>The primary risk to the company’s outlook is the degree of competition and specialization present in various submarkets in which it competes, as well as the ability for some larger prospects to develop solutions in-house.</p>\n<p>As for valuation, compared to competitor Simcorp, the CWAN IPO is much more highly priced on a revenue multiple basis. In my view, this is justified as the firm is growing revenue at a significantly higher rate of growth.</p>\n<p>After a difficult period during 2020 where the firm produced operating losses, 2021 has seen a return to operating and net profits with impressive growth as well.</p>\n<p>Given CWAN’s growth trajectory and the investment management software industry’s strong growth potential in the years ahead, the IPO is worth a close look.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>IPO opening reminder: Clearwater Analytics opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO price</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Technology</b></p>\n<p>Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater was founded to develop a SaaS platform to simplify investment accounting and analysis for asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations.</p>\n<p>Management is headed by Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Sahai, who has been with the firm since September 2016 and was previously CEO of Solmark, an investment partnership.</p>\n<p>The company’s primary offerings include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Investment accounting and reporting</p></li>\n <li><p>Performance measurement</p></li>\n <li><p>Compliance monitoring</p></li>\n <li><p>Risk analysis</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Clearwater has received at least $421 million in notes payable in equity investment from investors including Welsh Carson, Permira, Warburg Pincus and Dragoneer.</p>\n<p><b>Customer Acquisition</b></p>\n<p>The firm pursues client relationships with asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations via a direct sales and marketing force that is focused on the United States.</p>\n<p>CWAN also has international clients and will seek to expand its international presence post-IPO.</p>\n<p>Clearwater handles data on over $5.6 trillion in assets between more than 1,000 clients.</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenues have increased, as the figures below indicate:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Expenses vs. Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Percentage</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>13.6%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>10.9%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>11.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Sales and Marketing efficiency rate, defined as how many dollars of additional new revenue are generated by each dollar of Sales and Marketing spend, dropped to 1.4x in the most recent reporting period, as shown in the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Sales and Marketing</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Efficiency Rate</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Multiple</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.4</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>1.6</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The Rule of 40 is a software industry rule of thumb that says that as long as the combined revenue growth rate and EBITDA percentage rate equal or exceed 40%, the firm is on an acceptable growth/EBITDA trajectory.</p>\n<p>CWAN’s most recent calculation was 41% during the six months ended June 30, 2021, so the firm has performed well in this regard, per the table below:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Rule of 40</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Calculation</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Recent Rev. Growth %</p></td>\n   <td><p>24%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EBITDA %</p></td>\n   <td><p>17%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Total</p></td>\n   <td><p>41%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>The firm’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate for June 30, 2021 was 109%, a reasonably good result.</p>\n<p>The dollar-based net revenue retention rate metric measures how much additional revenue is generated over time from each cohort of customers, so that a figure over 100% means that the company is generating more revenue from the same customer cohort over time, indicating good product/market fit and efficient sales and marketing efforts.</p>\n<p><b>Market &amp; Competition</b></p>\n<p>According to a 2021 marketresearch reportby Market Primes, the global investment management software market was an estimated $3 billion in 2019 and is forecast to reach nearly $4.5 billion by 2025.</p>\n<p>This represents a forecast CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2025.</p>\n<p>The main drivers for this expected growth are a desire by users to automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on maximizing portfolio performance and creating more sophisticated approaches.</p>\n<p>Also, assessing risks and exposures and being able to efficiently report and share the information with stakeholders will drive demand for more capable solutions.</p>\n<p>Major competitive or other industry participants include:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>SS&amp;C</p></li>\n <li><p>State Street</p></li>\n <li><p>SAP</p></li>\n <li><p>BNY Mellon (Eagle)</p></li>\n <li><p>Simcorp</p></li>\n <li><p>BlackRock</p></li>\n <li><p>FIS</p></li>\n <li><p>Northern Trust</p></li>\n <li><p>Others</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Financial Performance</b></p>\n<p>Clearwater’s recent financial results can be summarized as follows:</p>\n<ul>\n <li><p>Strong topline revenue growth</p></li>\n <li><p>Increasing gross profit and gross margin</p></li>\n <li><p>A swing to operating profit and net profit</p></li>\n <li><p>Uneven cash used in operations</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Below are relevant financial results derived from the firm’s registration statement:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Total Revenue</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Total Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 117,770,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 203,222,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>21.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 168,001,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>% Variance vs. Prior</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 87,872,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>28.8%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 149,959,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>24.1%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 120,856,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Gross Margin</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Gross Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>74.61%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>73.79%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>71.94%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Operating Profit (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Profit (Loss)</p></td>\n   <td><p>Operating Margin</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 20,544,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>17.4%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (20,418,000)</p></td>\n   <td><p>-10.0%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 25,697,000</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.3%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Net Income (Loss)</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Net Income (Loss)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 3,200,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (44,230,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ 7,732,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr></tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Cash Flow From Operations</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Period</p></td>\n   <td><p>Cash Flow From Operations</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Six Mos. Ended June 30, 2021</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (16,352,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2020</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (6,486,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>2019</p></td>\n   <td><p>$ (230,029,000)</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p>As of June 30, 2021, Clearwater had $41 million in cash and $450 million in total liabilities.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow during the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Valuation Metrics</p>\n<p>Below is a table of the firm’s relevant capitalization and valuation metrics at IPO, excluding the effects of underwriter options:</p>\n<table>\n <colgroup></colgroup>\n <tbody>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p><b>Measure [TTM]</b></p></td>\n   <td><p><b>Amount</b></p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Market Capitalization at IPO</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,472,178,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Enterprise Value</p></td>\n   <td><p>$3,470,109,130</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Price / Sales</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.37</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / Revenue</p></td>\n   <td><p>15.36</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>EV / EBITDA</p></td>\n   <td><p>-141.93</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Earnings Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$0.23</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Float To Outstanding Shares Ratio</p></td>\n   <td><p>12.96%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Proposed IPO Midpoint Price per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>$15.00</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Net Free Cash Flow</p></td>\n   <td><p>-$38,024,000</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Free Cash Flow Yield Per Share</p></td>\n   <td><p>-1.10%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n  <tr>\n   <td><p>Revenue Growth Rate</p></td>\n   <td><p>23.83%</p></td>\n  </tr>\n </tbody>\n</table>\n<p><b>Commentary</b></p>\n<p>CWAN intends to go public to pay down debt and will have a net of $55 million in debt post-IPO.</p>\n<p>The firm’s financials show strong topline revenue growth and gross profit growth and a rebound to operating profit and net income after negative results in 2020.</p>\n<p>Free cash flow for the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was a decidedly unimpressive negative ($38 million).</p>\n<p>Sales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenue has increased; its Sales and Marketing efficiency rate dropped slightly to 1.4x in the most recent six-month period.</p>\n<p>CWAN's dollar-based net retention rate was 109% for June 30, 2021, a positive result and its Rule of 40 performance was good as well.</p>\n<p>The market opportunity for selling investment management software is large and expected to grow substantially in the years ahead, but the firm has extensive competition.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs is the lead left underwriter and IPOs led by the firm over the last 12-month period have generated an average return of 40.5% since their IPO. This is a middle-tier performance for all major underwriters during the period.</p>\n<p>The primary risk to the company’s outlook is the degree of competition and specialization present in various submarkets in which it competes, as well as the ability for some larger prospects to develop solutions in-house.</p>\n<p>As for valuation, compared to competitor Simcorp, the CWAN IPO is much more highly priced on a revenue multiple basis. In my view, this is justified as the firm is growing revenue at a significantly higher rate of growth.</p>\n<p>After a difficult period during 2020 where the firm produced operating losses, 2021 has seen a return to operating and net profits with impressive growth as well.</p>\n<p>Given CWAN’s growth trajectory and the investment management software industry’s strong growth potential in the years ahead, the IPO is worth a close look.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CWAN":"Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc."},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1114004721","content_text":"(Sept 24) Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc. opens for trading at $23.8, up about 32% from IPO price.\n\nCompany & Technology\nBoise, Idaho-based Clearwater was founded to develop a SaaS platform to simplify investment accounting and analysis for asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations.\nManagement is headed by Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Sahai, who has been with the firm since September 2016 and was previously CEO of Solmark, an investment partnership.\nThe company’s primary offerings include:\n\nInvestment accounting and reporting\nPerformance measurement\nCompliance monitoring\nRisk analysis\n\nClearwater has received at least $421 million in notes payable in equity investment from investors including Welsh Carson, Permira, Warburg Pincus and Dragoneer.\nCustomer Acquisition\nThe firm pursues client relationships with asset managers, insurance companies and large corporations via a direct sales and marketing force that is focused on the United States.\nCWAN also has international clients and will seek to expand its international presence post-IPO.\nClearwater handles data on over $5.6 trillion in assets between more than 1,000 clients.\nSales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenues have increased, as the figures below indicate:\n\n\n\n\nSales and Marketing\nExpenses vs. Revenue\n\n\nPeriod\nPercentage\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n13.6%\n\n\n2020\n10.9%\n\n\n2019\n11.4%\n\n\n\nThe Sales and Marketing efficiency rate, defined as how many dollars of additional new revenue are generated by each dollar of Sales and Marketing spend, dropped to 1.4x in the most recent reporting period, as shown in the table below:\n\n\n\n\nSales and Marketing\nEfficiency Rate\n\n\nPeriod\nMultiple\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n1.4\n\n\n2020\n1.6\n\n\n\nThe Rule of 40 is a software industry rule of thumb that says that as long as the combined revenue growth rate and EBITDA percentage rate equal or exceed 40%, the firm is on an acceptable growth/EBITDA trajectory.\nCWAN’s most recent calculation was 41% during the six months ended June 30, 2021, so the firm has performed well in this regard, per the table below:\n\n\n\n\nRule of 40\nCalculation\n\n\nRecent Rev. Growth %\n24%\n\n\nEBITDA %\n17%\n\n\nTotal\n41%\n\n\n\nThe firm’s dollar-based net revenue retention rate for June 30, 2021 was 109%, a reasonably good result.\nThe dollar-based net revenue retention rate metric measures how much additional revenue is generated over time from each cohort of customers, so that a figure over 100% means that the company is generating more revenue from the same customer cohort over time, indicating good product/market fit and efficient sales and marketing efforts.\nMarket & Competition\nAccording to a 2021 marketresearch reportby Market Primes, the global investment management software market was an estimated $3 billion in 2019 and is forecast to reach nearly $4.5 billion by 2025.\nThis represents a forecast CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2025.\nThe main drivers for this expected growth are a desire by users to automate repetitive tasks so they can focus on maximizing portfolio performance and creating more sophisticated approaches.\nAlso, assessing risks and exposures and being able to efficiently report and share the information with stakeholders will drive demand for more capable solutions.\nMajor competitive or other industry participants include:\n\nSS&C\nState Street\nSAP\nBNY Mellon (Eagle)\nSimcorp\nBlackRock\nFIS\nNorthern Trust\nOthers\n\nFinancial Performance\nClearwater’s recent financial results can be summarized as follows:\n\nStrong topline revenue growth\nIncreasing gross profit and gross margin\nA swing to operating profit and net profit\nUneven cash used in operations\n\nBelow are relevant financial results derived from the firm’s registration statement:\n\n\n\n\nTotal Revenue\n\n\nPeriod\nTotal Revenue\n% Variance vs. Prior\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 117,770,000\n23.8%\n\n\n2020\n$ 203,222,000\n21.0%\n\n\n2019\n$ 168,001,000\n\n\n\nGross Profit (Loss)\n\n\nPeriod\nGross Profit (Loss)\n% Variance vs. Prior\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 87,872,000\n28.8%\n\n\n2020\n$ 149,959,000\n24.1%\n\n\n2019\n$ 120,856,000\n\n\n\nGross Margin\n\n\nPeriod\nGross Margin\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n74.61%\n\n\n2020\n73.79%\n\n\n2019\n71.94%\n\n\n\nOperating Profit (Loss)\n\n\nPeriod\nOperating Profit (Loss)\nOperating Margin\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 20,544,000\n17.4%\n\n\n2020\n$ (20,418,000)\n-10.0%\n\n\n2019\n$ 25,697,000\n15.3%\n\n\n\nNet Income (Loss)\n\n\nPeriod\nNet Income (Loss)\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ 3,200,000\n\n\n2020\n$ (44,230,000)\n\n\n2019\n$ 7,732,000\n\n\n\nCash Flow From Operations\n\n\nPeriod\nCash Flow From Operations\n\n\nSix Mos. Ended June 30, 2021\n$ (16,352,000)\n\n\n2020\n$ (6,486,000)\n\n\n2019\n$ (230,029,000)\n\n\n\nAs of June 30, 2021, Clearwater had $41 million in cash and $450 million in total liabilities.\nFree cash flow during the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was negative ($38 million).\nValuation Metrics\nBelow is a table of the firm’s relevant capitalization and valuation metrics at IPO, excluding the effects of underwriter options:\n\n\n\n\nMeasure [TTM]\nAmount\n\n\nMarket Capitalization at IPO\n$3,472,178,130\n\n\nEnterprise Value\n$3,470,109,130\n\n\nPrice / Sales\n15.37\n\n\nEV / Revenue\n15.36\n\n\nEV / EBITDA\n-141.93\n\n\nEarnings Per Share\n-$0.23\n\n\nFloat To Outstanding Shares Ratio\n12.96%\n\n\nProposed IPO Midpoint Price per Share\n$15.00\n\n\nNet Free Cash Flow\n-$38,024,000\n\n\nFree Cash Flow Yield Per Share\n-1.10%\n\n\nRevenue Growth Rate\n23.83%\n\n\n\nCommentary\nCWAN intends to go public to pay down debt and will have a net of $55 million in debt post-IPO.\nThe firm’s financials show strong topline revenue growth and gross profit growth and a rebound to operating profit and net income after negative results in 2020.\nFree cash flow for the twelve months ended June 30, 2021, was a decidedly unimpressive negative ($38 million).\nSales and Marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenue have varied as revenue has increased; its Sales and Marketing efficiency rate dropped slightly to 1.4x in the most recent six-month period.\nCWAN's dollar-based net retention rate was 109% for June 30, 2021, a positive result and its Rule of 40 performance was good as well.\nThe market opportunity for selling investment management software is large and expected to grow substantially in the years ahead, but the firm has extensive competition.\nGoldman Sachs is the lead left underwriter and IPOs led by the firm over the last 12-month period have generated an average return of 40.5% since their IPO. This is a middle-tier performance for all major underwriters during the period.\nThe primary risk to the company’s outlook is the degree of competition and specialization present in various submarkets in which it competes, as well as the ability for some larger prospects to develop solutions in-house.\nAs for valuation, compared to competitor Simcorp, the CWAN IPO is much more highly priced on a revenue multiple basis. In my view, this is justified as the firm is growing revenue at a significantly higher rate of growth.\nAfter a difficult period during 2020 where the firm produced operating losses, 2021 has seen a return to operating and net profits with impressive growth as well.\nGiven CWAN’s growth trajectory and the investment management software industry’s strong growth potential in the years ahead, the IPO is worth a close look.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":340,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":862747451,"gmtCreate":1632919914034,"gmtModify":1632919976573,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/862747451","repostId":"2171989792","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":247,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":862933105,"gmtCreate":1632826832450,"gmtModify":1632826834506,"author":{"id":"3569227954325701","authorId":"3569227954325701","name":"Seuna","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0bfb6c0f011a65d66aae3afb6132a82d","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/862933105","repostId":"1165142624","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":332,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}