Is Warren Buffett Right about Kroger?
Given those numbers, I think Kroger is a value investment Mr. Market underprices. I think Berkshire’s purchases indicate Buffett agrees.
Can UPS Make Money without Amazon?
Therefore, Amazon Logistics could be America’s largest delivery company by 2022. Hence, Amazon could dominate the delivery business if it delivers other companies’ orders.
Could Amazon Doom FedEx?
Consequently, The Verge brands Amazon a “serious rival to FedEx and UPS.” Hence, Amazon could become America’s dominant delivery brand within three years. Thus, we could live in a country where Amazon is the average person’s first choice for delivery orders. In other words, FedEx’s worst nightmare could soon become a reality.
Is Power Ledger the Future of Energy?
Power Ledger offers Ethereum blockchain software that could facilitate renewable energy trading across three markets. Those markets are Energy Trading, Environmental Commodities Trading, and Renewable Asset Ownership.
Wayfair is Losing Money
Moreover, Wayfair is growing at a dramatic rate. Stockrow estimates Wayfair’s revenues grew by 35.17% in the quarter ending on 30 September 2019. However, that growth rate was down from 41.56% in the previous quarter.
Is TJX leading a Retail Recovery?
Importantly, TJX is making a little more money. TJX’s quarterly revenues rose from $9.781 billion on 3 August 2019 to $10.451 billion on 2 November 2019, Ycharts estimates.
Is Bank of America a Technology Company?
I think BOA’s revenues point to an interesting paradox in Fintech; the faster and more efficient Fintech gets, the less money it makes. Digital financial technology makes banks faster and more efficient but they make less money.
PayPal Grows and Grows and Grows
The number of PayPal accounts grew from 244 million in 2nd Quarter 2018 to 277 million in 1st Quarter 2019 to 286 million 2nd Quarter 2019, Statista estimates. Thus, PayPal gained nine million accounts in 1st Quarter 2019. Impressively, I estimate PayPal added 26 million accounts between 2nd Quarter 2018 and 2nd Quarter 2019. In addition, Statista estimates PayPal’s peer-to-peer (P2P) app Venmo had 40 million active accounts and a $24-billion net payment volume in 2nd Quarter 2019.
The Incredibly Growing Amazon
Some Amazon customers can pay utility bills using Amazon Pay with the help of fintech firm Paymentus’s Instant Payment Network (IPN), MarketWatch reports. Amazon claims customers in 95% of US ZIP codes could pay utility bills with Amazon Pay by 2020. Paymentus is a privately held fintech company that operates a bill pay service for PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL). The fintech market growing fast, Stockrow reports PayPal’s revenues grew by 18.87% in the quarter ending on 30 September 2019.
Can Gnosis make money from Prediction Markets?
In addition, the Gnosis team plans a new class of blockchain assets they call conditional tokens. I think the conditional tokens could be Ethereum Request for Content (ERC20) tokens that contain smart contracts linked to “conditional prediction markets.”
Is Alibaba Making Money?
Interestingly, Alibaba’s income numbers are similar to Amazon’s. On 30 June 2019, Stockrow gives Amazon a quarterly net of $2.625 billion and an operating income of $3.084 billion. Hence, Alibaba’s income was slightly larger than Amazon’s income.
Is Baidu a Value Investment?
However, Baidu could have a 93.2% market share in the world’s second largest economy. Trading Economics estimates China had a gross domestic product (GDP) of $13.608 trillion in 2018. Plus, China had an annual GDP growth rate of 6.4% in 2019.