AMZN
Amazon.com Inc
stock NASDAQ

Damn, how much did you make off AMZN bro, killed it 👏

Usually, price tends to move in line with changes in Shareholders’ Equity (Total Equity, Book Value).
A stock’s price can trade at a “Premium” to its Book Value or at a “Discount” to its Book Value (P/B ratio).
Where it can trade will depend on the Cash Flow Statement (CFF, Cash Flow from Financing: Equity Issuance & Debt Issuance) and the composition of the Balance Sheet (Book Value = Total Assets - Total Liabilities).
Businesses with growing CFO (Cash Flow from Operations) usually have a large portion of their Book Value coming from Retained Earnings, which are part of Shareholders’ Equity (Book Value & Price Per Share📈). Examples: MSFT, AAPL, NFLX, AMZN, etc.
The problem with GME is that a large part of its Book Value comes from CFF (CF from Financing: share issuance and debt issuance), where most of its cash comes from. By issuing more Equity ('shares') in this way, you can “pump the price,” for a while, but your P/B Ratio will eventually return to around 1 or 2 because all your Book Value is sitting in Non-operating asset, such as cash.
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So, the price can return near to its Equity Value (Total Equity), example bear market since 2021-2024 (before pump!).

While pricing in the expectation of a future Equity Issuance, which could occur if Noteholders claim their shares (increasing Total Equity by increasing shares outstanding). The problem with this, is that increase actually diluted the shareholders, so the "wealth gain" is pretty low.

I agree with you.
What are you favorite plays, given the assumptions you've made?
I figure the old GOOG/MSFT/AMZN will be the big winners, along with AAPL eventually and META. Software is the PRIMARY beneficiary right now, which could be disruptive, but I think most of the firm-moat companies that are around now will be around later, just with fewer employees (which means more profitable).
How are you playing this?
Man, I really missed the boat when those Mythos headlines came out. I knew I should have been buying cyber security stocks at the time. I even had owned Fortinet for a long time but sold when it went through a full year of going absolutely fucking nowhere and then BOOM.

yeah luckily i hold AMZN and IGV so i've been getting some of the saas recovery.

PLTR, MSFT, AMZN, ABNB, probably more

Nothing, don’t sell and don’t get married.
Jk, i’d sell all individual stocks besides NVDA, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, JPM. Put some in VOO and use the rest on your wedding. Maybe sell AMZN to have extra funds for the honeymoon too.

a few names I'd personally have on the watchlist right now are ADBE, INTU, EPAM, and maybe AMZN.

Mag 7 YTD check-in:
🟢 $AMZN: +22%
🟢 $NVDA: +15%
🟢 $AAPL: +13.7%
🟢 $GOOGL: +13.4%
🟢 $MSFT: +7%
🔴 $META: -8.5%
🔴 $TSLA: -24%

I have 40k shares of ASTS... I made my money in 2000 when I used my life savings, $50k, to AMZN. This is a great investment!

That’s an interesting angle / good take on the Sierra and Decagons of the world. Since you work in the space, how do you see the competitive landscape unfolding? E.g. Genesys, FIVN, the incumbents like AMZN/MSFT/CRM, the newer players like ZM. Do you think the pie gets more dividend, or do you see more consolidation happening?

I need MU, SNDK, SKHY to do literally anything so I can unload at B/E and rotate more calls into MPE. Would love a dip in AMZN and MSFT for a better entry point

AMZN

Once AMZN has you in its crosshairs, it's just a question of when your stock will go to 0, not if.

News driving these wild candles on GOOD, AMZN, MSFT etc?

I am personally taking step back to conservative investments and buying big dips only. Big dips like MU going down to mid 700s and AMZN going below 230. I am also keeping some cash equivalents for other bets I am monitoring. I have dedicated cash set aside for when/if fed decides to raise interest rates. But yea, I am going all this in my regular brokerage. My retirement is 100% VOO.

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JNJ - ive had 24 shares I bought in 2016 but can't afford to buy another 76 @ $259 a share. well maybe I should but I was going to target AMZN first.

Listen to AMZN earning call if you haven't. Andy Jassy was very reassuring on AI return.

AMZN feeling bad for its retarded cousin GOOGL and decided to start coming down cause it felt bad.

Look at it this way. If VOO drops drastically then the entire US stock market is crashing drastically. At that point the entire world stock market is probably fucked. Also we’re likely having bigger problems than our portfolios too
I at the moment am riding the tech wave with VGT + GOOGL + AMZN and some MSFT since VGT already has a good chunk already