Category: Financial Markets

SPACs offer retail investors the ability to invest early in a company’s life cycle. In the case of Snowflake, a company that went public via a traditional IPO, retail investors did not have this opportunity. By the time Snowflake debuted on the public markets, the share price had soared over 200% from its indicated opening price. Many pundits and analysts have claimed that the IPO process is broken due to examples like Snowflake and AirBnb. Wall Street institutions and a select group of their top clients can buy shares at discounted prices before they hit the open market. SPACs allow…

Fiverr has climbed 678% this year. In this analysis, we examine if the growth can continue in the short-term and also post-COVID.  Specifically, our research shows that Fiverr is leading its industry and outpacing its primary competitor, Upwork.  We look into why this might be and what the future could look like. Background: Fiverr’s platform transforms the traditional freelancer staffing model into an e-commerce-like transaction.  The company’s model is known as a Service-as-a-Product (SaaP) offering, where sellers can list their services in over 300 different categories and buyers can easily find and purchase these services with the click of a…

The best gains come from getting in front of the herd. The second issue is that many tech companies go through periods of high growth yet can’t sustain this long-term unless there is excellent product market fit. Momentum investors and trend followers struggle most when it comes to FAANG-like gains because they can’t determine the true gems from those that are simply doing what most tech does (disrupt a market for a period of time).

Over thirty-six thousand cybersecurity professionals attended RSA in San Francisco last week, with a full roster of executive keynotes and four crowded expo floors. Although a few companies decided to not attend due to the coronavirus outbreak, such as IBM, AT&T and Verizon, there was certainly no shortage of vendors present. In fact, the biggest challenge for any public investor in cybersecurity stocks is sorting through an industry that is at peak saturation. As of 2018, there were over 1,200 cybersecurity companieswith up to 200 vendors competing in each layer. This leaves customers, such as Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs),…