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 Soham Aher. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel. Introduction An ETF is made up of a portfolio of diversified investments, such as stocks, commodities, bonds, and other securities. We refer to these assets as holdings. A type of mutual fund known as an “index fund” aims to mimic the performance of a market...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 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 Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview Regardless of whether you have knowledge about stocks, you may have heard of the price-to-earnings ratio. It is one of the most common valuation metrics used to evaluate the financial health of a company and determine the fair value of its shares. Let’s get a better look...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