EVENTS:   Best Equity Short Ideas Conference Call 12 - Zach Shannon/Corto Capital Advisors & Craig Huber/Huber Research Partners & Thomas Beevers /Forensic Alpha & Ed Steele/Iron Blue Financials & Bill Campbell/Paragon Intel - 12 Nov 25   Will AI Deflate the World? Macro Lessons from Three Industrial Revolutions and China - Manoj Pradhan/Talking Heads Macro - 13 Nov 25     ROADSHOWS: Forest Products Sector Equity and Commodity Research With Expertise in Distressed Debt - Kevin Mason /ERA Research   •   London   12 - 14 Nov 25       Buyside to Buyside Forum and Expert Calls across TMT, Consumer, Healthcare and Fintech - Andrew Peters /Revelare Partners   •   London   17 - 19 Nov 25       Fundamental US Healthcare Short Ideas - Dr Elliot Favus /Favus Institutional Research   •   London   17 - 19 Nov 25      

Fortnightly Publication Highlighting Latest Insights From IRF Providers

Company Research

Tracking the mutual funds tax selling

Quantitative Partners with Phil Erlanger Research

Geoff Garbacz thinks this might be the most important data point to follow to determine if we continue to see a stock market rally. Stocks vulnerable to tax selling include Boeing, Intel, Rio Tinto, Stellantis and UPS. Click here to watch the video which also includes the key levels to monitor on the S&P 500.

Edition: 193

- 23 August, 2024


Zoom (ZM)

Technology

Off Wall Street

Stay short - while the Street recognises that ZM’s Online segment has likely peaked, it is still too bullish about growth prospects for the Enterprise segment - OWS argues that competition from Microsoft Teams and Google Meet is likely to impede ZM from attaining its mid-20s targeted revenue growth rate. Operating margin may also be lower than bulls anticipate due to mix shift to lower margin Zoom Phones and the need to up spending in R&D / S&M. The magnitude of the company’s SBC expense is starkly exposed by the fact that it has spent ~$1bn YTD on stock buybacks while lowering the share count by a paltry 1% Y/Y. TP $55.

Edition: 150

- 09 December, 2022


Corporate Access: 24 events hosted so far in 2022...

Daniel Insights

Peter Daniel hosts Zoom based calls with interesting industry (public & private companies) thought leaders for institutional equity investors. Highlights from this year include Tamara Lundgren (CEO, Schnitzer Steel); Lee Cooperman (Omega Family Office); Bill Rooney (VP- Strategic Development, Kuehne & Nagel); Ward Nye (CEO, Martin Marietta Materials); Scott Hamilton (President, Leeham Company); and Ken Langone (Co-Founder, Home Depot). Further details and a full list of all the events that Peter has hosted this year can be found here.

Edition: 148

- 11 November, 2022


Corporate Access: Hosting calls with industry thought-leaders

Daniel Insights

Peter Daniel hosts Zoom based calls with interesting industry (public & private companies) thought leaders for institutional equity investors. Here are some recent events. Stay tuned for future meetings...

Steve Saxon - Partner, McKinsey & Co., lives in Shanghai - Update on China Covid lockdown implications and supply chain issues.
Ward Nye - CEO - Martin Marietta Materials - Company update.
Dave Jackson - CEO - Knight-Swift Transportation - Company update.
Ryan Green - CEO - Gridwise - A mobile app that gig economy drivers use to track important job-related operating metrics.
Curtis Garrett - Former Chief Strategy Officer - Reconex - Update on the LTL Industry.
Bob Martin - CEO - Thor Industries - Company update and RVing industry review.
Spencer Patton - CEO - Route Consultant - Update on FDX ISP operators.

Edition: 141

- 05 August, 2022


Technology Trends: Change, disruption and opportunity in 2022

Sales Pulse Research

1) The acceleration from legacy security solutions to the newer generation of solutions - SASE / shake-up of enterprise networking and network security (Zscaler, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks).
2) Leverage of AI in cloud-based communications and collaboration (CCaaS) to the advantage of vendors who are separating themselves from commodity services and pricing (Five9, NICE). Changing competitive landscape as Zoom, Microsoft, and others collide in the large and growing UCaaS market.
3) Further strength in BI / Analytics / Observability to the benefit of vendors with the strongest cloud-based solutions (Datadog, Dynatrace), but more mixed results from vendors transitioning to SaaS (Teradata, Elastic).

Edition: 128

- 04 February, 2022


The origins of Covid-19: A video call with Viral author Matt Ridley

Three Chinese laboratories in Wuhan have been experimenting with coronaviruses since a 2012 lethal outbreak in Yunnan. Animal origin can be ruled out because none from the "wet market" blocks away from the China CDC lab have ever tested positive, yet the first human cases clustered there. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has a published record of experimenting with modifications to the furin cleft, which determines the virus's ability to infect human cells, being conducted under low levels of bio-security. Click here 

Edition: 125

- 10 December, 2021


RingCentral (RNG)

Technology

Summit Insights Group

RNG has one of the best product portfolios in the UCaaS market as well as relationships with legacy vendors and service providers which will drive growth. Termination of the Zoom/Five9 merger will benefit RNG in the enterprise segment of the market. Expect the company to continue to beat estimates when it reports in November. TP $300 (~25% upside)

Edition: 121

- 15 October, 2021