Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Can MongoDB Sustain Unicorn Status?
Photo Credit: Garrett Heath/Flickr.com Last year, Billion Dollar Unicorn club member MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) went public and became the first non-Hadoop Big Data vendor to do so. Since its listing, the stock has had a roller coaster ride, but despite the misses, has maintained its Unicorn status. Here is a quick look at its financials and performance so […]
VIX Surges To Highest Since 2015’s Flash-Crash Versus Europe
Yesterday’s ‘spike’ in VIX – to its highest since Dec 1st – is continuing this morning… (note: this is highly unusual relative to the recent regime of instant reversion lower in vol) But what is most unnerving for many is relative to European volatility, this is the highest since August 2015… As U.S. stocks failed to hold […]
Punch-Drunk Investors & Extinct Bears, Part 1
The Mother of All Blow-Offs We didn’t really plan on writing about investor sentiment again so soon, but last week a few articles in the financial press caught our eye and after reviewing the data, we thought it would be a good idea to post a brief update. When positioning and sentiment reach levels that […]
Recipe Calls For A Broad Commodities Rally In 2018
At the beginning of every year, we update what’s typically one of our most popular pages, the Periodic Table of Commodity Returns. I encourage you to explore 10 years’ worth of data on basic materials such as aluminum, zinc and everything in between. A word of warning, though—the interactive feature makes the table highly addictive. Please feel […]
Silver Volume Extreme As In April 2013
During yesterday’s session silver moved back and forth in a volatile manner on volume that was the highest since April 2013. There were a few volume spikes in the meantime, but none as big as what we saw yesterday. The silver market is being very loud. But are you listening? It may be hard to […]
Barclays Says Buy IBM Ahead Of Possible Emergence As Third Big Cloud Vendor
Shares of IBM (IBM) are on the rise after Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz upgraded the stock two notches to Overweight, a buy-equivalent rating, as he believes the company could be entering a period of top-line stability and maybe even modest growth over the next 12 to 18 months. BUY IBM: In a research note to […]
The Big Four Economic Indicators: Industrial Production Up 0.9% In December
Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statement is about as close as they get to identifying their method. There is, however, a general belief that there are four big indicators that the committee weighs […]
Goldman Sachs Group Inc Q4 2017 Earnings Wiped Out By Tax Charge
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) released its latest earnings report before opening bell this morning. On an adjusted basis, Goldman Sachs Q4 2017 earnings came in at $5.68 per share, while revenue amounted to $7.83 billion. Analysts had been looking for earnings of $4.92 per share in earnings on $7.65 billion in revenue. In […]
Royal Mail PLC Delivers Good Service
Industrials sector includes twenty-three industries all related to designing, fabricating and servicing stuff we want and use. The industrials industries range from aerospace and defense to waste management with all the transportation, business services, and equipment required in between. Today I’m reviewing an integrated shipping and logistics firm named Royal Mail PLC It’s trading ticker symbol […]
Can ADT Dance?
NYSE(ADT) Security Monitoring Annual Revenue $4.3B Annual EBITDA $2.3B Shares Outstanding 772M Market [email protected] $14B Debt $10B Price Range $17-19 Pricing Target Thursday PM Lead Banks Goldman & Morgan ADT Introduction ADT has been around for a long time – they were founded in 1874 and pioneered the current security monitoring business in 1920. They […]
