A very busy week for earnings. I am going to try to cover results and guidance of the companies in the high growth portfolio that have reported these last couple of days. There obviously have been other earnings reports of interest. In particular, Nvidia’s earnings release and forward guidance were not enough of a beat…
Just as a point of interest, today is AI Appreciation Day. I have no immediate plans to celebrate, other than to note that marketers can find reason to celebrate something every day of the year, and today is for AI. One lady wrote on one of the AI sites that I read that she has opted…
Bought 100 shares of Affirm at $32.61 and bought 550 shares of Sprout Social at $26.69 We made two purchases in the high growth model portfolio this morning. We bought 100 shares of Affirm taking our holding to 1200 shares. That is a weight of about 4%. The purchase cost $3265. We added 450 shares…
As I sometimes write, I have been doing this a long time. I have seen a lot, experienced a lot, some bad, some good, some fluky and well…I think readers get the picture. Yesterday, however, I saw something new: Affirm reported a blow-out quarter-‘slayed” was the work used by the CEO, and while again, I…
Sale of 300 shares of Procore (entire position); purchase of 100 shares of Shift4, 200 shares of Sentinel One; 100 shares of GitLab; 100 shares of Affirm; 100 Shares of UiPath We made some portfolio changes in the high growth portfolio today. We decided to eliminate the last of the Procore position, selling 300 shares while adding…
Dynatrace and Affirm – The opportunities are substantial I often tell subscribers and others that trying to trade earnings releases is a fool’s errand. I have tried to provide advice to a variety of clients for many years. I hope that I can share some of the experiences that I have had. An institutional sales…
Sale of 320 shares of Datadog @ $136.59; Purchase of 1000 shares of UiPath @ $25.09; Purchase of 200 shares of Affirm @ $45.59 We made some portfolio changes this morning. We sold about 1/2rd of our DDOG position as it spiked into the opening. The shares are close to their yearly high. The company is…
Summary Affirm shares trebled in the last 2 months of 2023 before retracing about 1/3rd of the move. Affirm has recently extended its relationships with both Amazon and Walmart. The Buy Now/Pay Later space apparently achieved an inflection in volume over the Black Friday weekend. Published expectations for Affirm are quite modest considering its expanded…
There have been lots of earnings the past few days, and some other news as well. Now, if only ChatGPT was up to the task…I have to confess as enthused as I am about GenerativeAI, it sometimes can compose the most peculiar sentences. I actually had to try to explain to it the difference between…
We have made some changes today in the high-growth portfolio. It is not my intention to provide suggestions in the high growth portfolio on a trading basis. I get those things wrong many, many times. There are companies that I should have placed into the high growth portfolio, but haven’t and vice versa. On the…