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by thisisit 7y ago
As a born and bread corporate (mostly banks) corporate IT guy, I used to frown upon this behavior. Then I got one of my bigger career breaks because the finance team went behind IT, bought a software and installed it in a machine which kept
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by thisisit 7y ago
Oracle and Apple are exceptions than norm. Many companies have shown growth on back of the low interest rate environment. For them to spend money for dividends and buybacks in excess of earnings is not good. Buybacks are especially concerni
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This is not a good sign. One of the important things for companies to do is to turn the total earnings into a stable flow of cash. But if cash outflow is larger than inflow then companies are mostly sitting on negative cash flow. The differ
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by thisisit 7y ago
> The whole reason stocks have fundamental value in the first place is because they're claims on the future profits of the company. If earnings are low then so is the free cash flow too. In which case most of these companies are bor
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by thisisit 7y ago
I remember something similar being discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482238
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by thisisit 7y ago
"Our product offering is ever-changing with a constant rotation of opportunistic products , complemented by an assortment of competitively priced everyday staples across grocery, produce, refrigerated and frozen foods, beer and wine,
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by thisisit 7y ago
Not that it is a fair comparison but if you look at Walmart - Gross Margin is 20ish% but net margins at 1.3%
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by thisisit 7y ago
CCI, the government body in question, was formed about a decade ago. It already has couple of run-ins with Google: 1. They fined Google INR 1 Crore in 2014 for refusal to provide information relating to a "search bias" case 2. Lat
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by thisisit 7y ago
Binance did a ICO raising $15 million. Their coins are now worth $3 billion. I find it surprising is that coin price is down just 4%.
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It depends. If the company uses the proceeds for operations of the company it is another rounding of funding. There are times when the company IPOs specifically to provide exit to the existing shareholder and not adding any money to operati
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> Lyft reported Q1 revenue of $776.0 million versus $397.2 million in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 95 percent year-over-year. 95% growth year-over-year? On first reading this sounds incredible. But then on the other hand, if
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by thisisit 7y ago
There has also been a rise of >you see growth opportunities that are worth spending money on instead of returning profits to investors. I fail to understand why asking a company to return a profit considered wrong? Sure, growth opportuni
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by thisisit 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder about what exactly is the line when it comes to listening to customers or looking at your competitors, for ideas? As the Hiten Shah puts it he got ideas or Hiten Bombs by watching competitors , investors, advisers and so
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by thisisit 7y ago
> I'd like to point out that profitability is not a black-and-white consideration . A company has many financial dials and switches, and ours specifically could have easily been profitable if they had chosen to do so. It was a very
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by thisisit 8y ago
My guess is pg_is_a_butt gets enough salt from his username. But this got me curious. Who are the sweetest users? And what kind of topics generate most salt? This will be interesting because there has been a general trend on HN where people
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Because that's absolutely true and valid complaint. I agree that it is a valid complaint. But simple rules like - Use a thick/thin client or terminals instead of hopping on to a server or use complex passwords with password
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by thisisit 8y ago
One things I always wonder - Why do IT folks, people who are supposedly expert in computers, fall for phishing emails etc? You'd think they'd know better. Couple of years ago I was working at the offshore office of a large interne
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Uber's Coming Out Party: Personal Mobility Pioneer or Car Service on Steroids?(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
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It is entirely possible for two companies to be the same but also different in how they see their market and revenues. So, without having a deeper understanding of reading financials, comparisons drawn solely based on numbers are flawed. Fo
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> It takes months to write, peer-review, and publish research papers So, there are no peer-reviewed, published research on this? Good to know. > It's common knowledge to anyone in the industry that the Antminer S9 is by far the m
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by thisisit 8y ago
Couple of things which I find interesting are: - The whole calculation around "Other Income" are nothing short of financial engineering to show bottom line profitability. - 24% of Uber's gross bookings come from 5 cities - Lo
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by thisisit 8y ago
One of the most interesting things I see about Uber/Lyft's IPO has been their risk factors which says: Our business would be adversely affected if Drivers were classified as employees instead of independent contractors.
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You don't need people to make that point, Uber agrees to it too: The personal mobility, meal delivery, and logistics industries are highly competitive, with well-established and low-cost alternatives that have been available for decad
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Because this is a public market? One of things you expect companies to do, ethically speaking, is to provide honest information wherever possible. If Lyft used financial engineering to boost their IPO price, while they get money in loads wh
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by thisisit 8y ago
I am really curious about the points you make in your post. > This Nature article was debunked by other researchers. Who are these other researcher? Care to link to their research on this? > when in fact 60-70% of the mining power com
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Getting rid of debt may make your brain work better(marketwatch.com)
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This is a clickbait title. The article clearly says "Rich Indians might be charitable, but not enough of them are philanthropists." So the title should be "Why India's rich don't give their money away to philanthro
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> Google is following the local laws, like they try to do everywhere. If only that was true. They routinely fight against government rulings in democratic countries because they can. For example, fines from European Union. They don'
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Why Consumers Abandon Legacy Brands(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
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by thisisit 8y ago
It is actually more common among SaaS businesses than you think. If you look at balance sheet from Salesforce etc, they tend to have items called "deferred commission" or something similar which are captialized marketing and sales

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