Today, Bruce Murray and Stockchase Insights commented about whether GWO-T, PYPL-Q, CTS-T, ABBNY-OTC, NFI-T, MRE-T, AMZN-Q, NVDA-Q, CTS-T, DFY-T, CHR-T, MGA-N, BEP.UN-T, WCP-T, SAP-T, ATRL-T, MSFT-Q, MFC-T, AFN-T, AQN-T, ROK-N, TWM-T, BLDP-T, LNR-T, META-Q, CHE.UN-T, BNS-T, AC-T, QCOM-Q are stocks to buy or sell.
Recent selloff an overreaction; most companies are happy to have higher credit lines regardless of what else is going on.
They provide flexibility of course.
We think $8.50 to $9.50 would be an acceptable price for buyer and seller.
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Revenue matched estimates and EPS was about 3% better ($1.24 vs $1.198).
PayPal is in the early stages of optimizing operating performance, with a margin turnaround in 3Q22 likely to lead improvement of about 125 bps in 2023.
This will be aided by slower non-transaction expense growth, which is on track to normalize to pre-pandemic levels.
Revenue growth could be faster than the mid-single-digit growth assumed in cost planning by management.
Cross-border volumes, after being impacted severely by the pandemic, could surprise on the upside, depending on the economy.
The strong growth in Braintree volumes, launch of a commerce platform (PCPP) for unbranded checkouts for small and medium businesses, conversion of existing customers to monthly active app users, and opportunities in offline payments should provide a long runway for revenue growth.
The worst is likely over for the stock, and it now looks attractively priced at 16X earnings.
The balance sheet remains very strong and cash flow generation is very solid ($6.2B last year, with $5.5B in free cash flow).
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GWO is now trading at 9.7x times' Forward P/E. In Q4 – 2022, EPS of $0.96 beat estimates of $0.88. ROE is good at 13.6%.
Total asset under management remained largely flat at $1.03B. Based on consensus estimates, EPS is expected to grow by 6% in 2023.
The financial position is strong with long-term debt (excluding lease) of $10.5B against total Equity of $32B.
The company also increased dividends by 6% and gave out medium-term guidance to grow EPS by 9% on average while maintaining an ROE of 14-15% on average.
Overall, we think this is a good quarter, the company continues to execute well with their previous guidance.
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Exponential Growth for Stocks and Companies. To tie the concept of compounding returns, and exponential growth into a business and the performance of a stock - we can look to Amazon as a prime example. The way that companies and businesses operate can be very similar to that of an individual investor; they take earnings made during the year and reinvest them back into the company so as to generate compounding returns. A company reinvesting its earnings is essentially performing the same compounding wealth effect that individuals are when saving for retirement or just in general. The chart on the left might give an investor pause as the price momentum may seem ‘unsustainable’, however, the chart on the right shows a business that is growing at a good pace and likely earning a return on its reinvested capital. Both charts are Amazon’s price history since inception - the chart on the left is linear and the right is logarithmic.
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Owns shares in the company and believes very strong business.
Amazon web services very strong with excellent cash generating capability.
Massive sales that are growing every day.
Good long term hold.