By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel Overview Google is the search engine of the world and needs very little introduction. There’s an extremely good chance that if you are reading this article today, you use at least a few of Google’s services. While the company just started out as a...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel Overview Google Services is the company’s current cash cow and only profitable segment. This segment comprises the advertising businesses: Search, Youtube, the Google Network business; as well as the hardware business: Pixel, Nest and Fitbit. Advertising Google started with one main service, its Search...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel. Overview On April 1st of 2022, Becton, Dickinson and Company (one of the world’s largest medical technology companies) completed its spin-off of its diabetes care business, Embecta Corp. Listed on the NASDAQ as ticker symbol EMBC, Embecta presents a great opportunity to own a...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel. Overview Micron is a semiconductor company founded in 1978, and is based in the United States. The company focuses on manufacturing DRAM and NAND products. It has a market cap of around $68 Billion, and has over 40,000 employees. In this article, we will go through the...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel. Overview Alibaba is the largest retail commerce business in the world by Gross Merchandise Value and is the third largest Chinese company, behind only Tencent and Moutai. Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote this article (read it to get a better understanding of Alibaba’s business model)...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview Over the last 10 years, inflation in the US has been less than 2% annually. Unfortunately, this is set to change. A combination of massive stimulus to the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic, global supply chain issues, and the Russia-Ukraine war has now led to inflation...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview In April of 2022, AT&T marked the end of its 4 year relationship with WarnerMedia. The telecommunications giant had acquired the media company for over 85 Billion dollars in 2018, only to sell it to Discovery in a $43 Billion merger this year. This merger meant...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview A great way for investors to earn passive income off of their portfolios is through collecting dividends from their shares. In recent decades, the rise of technology stocks has led to a decline in the dividend yield of the S&p 500 as a whole, but there...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview In October of last year, Facebook rebranded to Meta. This was done to draw attention to the company’s ongoing investments into the metaverse and to also take attention off an ongoing whistleblower scandal. Around that time, the company had already fallen 16% from its highs, and...Read More
By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The Nasdaq has just closed at $13,301 – marking a 21% drawdown from its peak and signifying the start of a bear market. On the other hand, the S&P 500 still remains in correction territory, closing at $4204, an approximate 13% decline from its peak. In...Read More