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Value Stock Geek on Google, Meta, Taiwan Semiconductor (Season 5, Episode 13)

This episode was recorded on Tuesday, May 16 and made available to premium subscribers that same day. To become a premium subscriber sign up on Supercast or Substack.

Value Stock Geek rejoins the podcast to discuss recent portfolio acquisitions Google (GOOG), Meta (META), and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM), what’s on his watch list, and where and when he could be looking to buy.

Content Highlights

  • The case for Google stock (1:54);
  • Artificial intelligence and how that is impacting Google’s business (6:40);
  • Meta and the Metaverse: investing in the legacy business plus Instagram (7:38);
  • Taiwan Semiconductor: cyclical, yes, but a good bet for the long term (12:39);
  • ‘The Weird Portfolio’ and how that works (16:07);
  • The watchlist and two notable stocks worth watching right now: NVR (NVR) and Deere (DE) (20:39).
  • Home Depot (HD), another watchlist stock, just reported earnings and lowered guidance due in part to consumers pulling back on big-ticket purchases (29:00).

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Back to School

The following is an amended version of the Sept. 6 Daily Contrarian. This briefing and accompanying podcast are released to premium subscribers each market day morning by 0700. To subscribe, visit our Substack.

It’s Back to School week in the U.S. People are back from holiday. They may still be working from home but schools are back in session. In France they call this la rentrėe, the return.

Back to School sale at Walmart in Newburgh, N.Y. Source: Wiki
Back to School sale at Walmart in Newburgh, N.Y. Source: Wiki

Trading volumes should no longer be subdued this week. Major indexes in the U.S. are staring at three straight weeks of losses. The Nasdaq is actually down the last six days in a row. The energy crisis in Europe is a known event now, though there will likely still be shakeout like insolvencies that have maybe not been reckoned with.

Remember that a common trait of bear markets is to see a rally from futures and in the early trading hours that soon gives way to selling. We had that a couple of days last week and today (Monday) it is playing out again.

Having said that, the day-to-day movement is the domain of day traders, aka gamblers. We try not to get distracted by that. Has there really been something to reverse the negative sentiment? The Fed is still raising rates. Quantitative Tightening is here. The punch bowl is being removed from the party. Already has been, in fact.

Consumers are still going strong in the U.S., inflation or no. Anecdotally, your author visited a suburban Home Depot (HD) this Labor Day and found it packed with shoppers. See the instagram for more.

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China Concerns Cloud Retail Earnings Week

The following is an amended form of the Aug. 15 Daily Contrarian. This briefing and accompanying podcast are released to premium subscribers each market day morning by 0700. To subscribe, visit our Substack.

Some bad economic news out of China has weighed on risk sentiment overnight. The country’s central bank responded with a surprise rate cut. The impact is mostly limited to commodities so far, with WTI crude oil down 4% and copper off 2% in early Monday trading.

Starting tomorrow (Tuesday), the big box retailers will report earnings, with the likes of Walmart (WMT) and Home Depot (HD) up first. Wednesday we’ll get Lowe’s (LOW), Target (TGT), and TJX (TJX).

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