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Amazon 3Q'23 Update

Disclosure: I own Jan 2025 $55 call options of Amazon Imagine opening Amazon’s 3Q’23 earnings report 5 years from now and what do you think you might hope you paid more attention to? It’s very unlikely to be AWS topline growth rate this (or any) quarter. If

Meta 3Q'23 Update

Disclosure: I own shares and 2025 January $50 Call Options of Meta Meta had a terrific third quarter which makes the after-hours reaction (down ~3%) tad bit surprising, but perhaps understandable given the wider range of scenarios for advertising going forward. Here are my highlights from tonight’s call. Subscribe

Alphabet 3Q'23 Update

Disclosure: I am long shares and Jan 2025 $50 Call Options of Alphabet While Google Service segment did just fine, Google Cloud’s pace of deceleration in topline was a bit disappointing. Here are my highlights from Alphabet’s call tonight. Subscribe Revenue After four consecutive quarters of single digit

Spotify 3Q'23 Update

Disclosure: I own shares of Spotify We walked into 2023 thinking we would do just over 20 million in net subscriber adds for the full year, but we're actually on track to deliver 30 million, which is a significant beat from where we thought we would be. I’

Enphase Energy: A Solar Roller Coaster

You can listen to the Deep Dive here If you invested $1,000 in Enphase Energy’s IPO in 2012, you would have only ~$140 left in 2016. That $140, if left untouched, would then become ~$44,000 by the end of 2022, a mind boggling >300-bagger stock in

Forward Cap and MBI Discuss Tesla

One of the joys of writing about publicly listed companies at a very accessible price point is the interaction with other intelligent and curious readers. I routinely learn a lot from these interactions and MBI Deep Dives is a better product because of these interactions. After I published my Deep

Tesla: A Bet on Dominance in Potentially Compelling Megatrend(s)

You can listen to the Deep Dive here “…if someone in the year 1900 had to bet on the outcome of the battle between external steam combustion, internal gasoline combustion, and electricity as the future standard for powering cars, they’d have probably put their money on electricity. And at

September Update

Exactly three years ago, I launched MBI Deep Dives in September, 2020. Thanks to your support, I have been able to keep at it for the past thirty six months writing Deep Dives every single month. I have never had as much fun as I have had "working"

The Curious Case of Big Tech

Disclosure: Nearly 60% of my personal portfolio is invested in Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” While most market participants want to focus on what happens next quarter or the next year, it

Dollar General: Rural America's Retailer

You can listen to the Deep Dive here I am not sure how many of my readers ever set their foot in a Dollar Store in America, but there are more Dollar Stores in the US than Starbucks, Walmart, and McDonald's combined. Dollar General is the leading Dollar