Meme stocks have shown just how much temporary influence retail investors can have on the stock market. Look no further than the recent surge in any stock associated with the letters “AI.” If ChatGPT is churning out amusing copy, it must be a great time to buy “AI stocks,” right? Never mind doing any due […]
As the world becomes smaller and smaller, domestic bias isn’t just about investing in companies found in your native countries. It’s also about investing in the world’s most powerful brands. For semiconductor brands, few stand out more than Intel (INTC), a company that may have been dethroned by NVIDIA (NVDA), but still packs a punch […]
We recently published a piece which breaks down the tech stock universe into size buckets, the largest being companies with a market cap of $100 billion or more – the so-called “mega caps.” Ideally, we’re able to discover mega caps before they reach that size and invest in them. When they grow to occupy more […]
Don’t study finance if you’re the sort of person who detests boredom. Some of the topics are absolutely dreadful, not to mention the teachers. They’ll make you do things like manually calculate the variance of a portfolio, something that sounds about as fun as it looks. If you’re a glutton for punishment, do a Master’s […]
They say that a parent who claims to love all of her children equally is either a liar or doesn’t know her rug rats very well. While we can truthfully say we’re equally annoyed by all kids, we can relate to the above sentiment when it comes to some stocks. In other words, we have […]
We recently wrote about “How AI Chips Are Changing the Semiconductor Industry,” noting that AI chips come in all shapes and sizes. From smartphone AI chips that perform computations at the edge to larger chips that are used in data centers, the trend is moving toward increased specialization. Large lots of general-purpose AI chips are […]
What a difference a year makes. Few companies had enjoyed the sort of bull run AI chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) had been on, returning more than +1200% between June 2015 and June 2018, eventually hitting a market cap of about $175 billion by September 2018. Then everything went south – literally – as the market took […]
For those of you fortunate enough not to be tainted by a career in finance, you may be surprised to hear how the sausage gets made. Let’s take a stock like NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA). There are analysts out there who are paid to “cover” NVIDIA by issuing recommendations as to whether or not you ought […]
There is a new arms race, but we’re not talking thermonuclear war—unless we give machines the launch codes. Artificial intelligence is one of the key technologies that we cover, and it’s been a wild ride the last few years. Industries from healthcare to recruitment have embraced AI to gain efficiencies and a competitive edge. Heck, […]
One could be forgiven for believing that there’s not much to Canada aside from hockey, beer, and accents straight out of the movie Fargo. After all, most of us of a certain generation learned everything we thought we’d ever need to know about America’s underpopulated neighbor to the north by watching Strange Brew. But during […]