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Postby winston » Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:43 pm

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iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF ( IGV )

iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is a passively managed equity exchange-traded fund, with market cap of approximately USD 2.69 billion and expense ratio of 0.47%.

IGV offers targeted exposure to the North American software industry.

Although IGV is a market-cap-weighted ETF, it caps individual security weights at maximum 8.5%.

The US software industry has seen tremendous growth over the past several years as different enterprises undergo digital transformation.

Cloud computing and flexible consumption model are key to boost the growth of software industry.

Software companies integrate AI capabilities into cloud-based enterprise software so that nowadays large, medium and small companies can access these latest AI-based solution easily for reducing cost and enhancing organizations` competitiveness.

According to IDC forecast, total cloud spending will reach USD 358 billion by 2022 from USD 166 billion in 2018, which is a 21.2% compound annual growth rate.

Increasing adoption of subscription models fuels the revenue growth of vendors.

Due to the flexible consumption models companies don`t need to bear the risk and cost of buying complex technologies.

Shifting to subscription models increases the predictability of revenue and thus the valuation of software equity.

Therefore, investors can capitalize the growth of US software sector via IGV.

Entry Price: USD 219.32
Stop Loss: USD 211.57
Target Price: USD 231.08

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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 19)

Postby winston » Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:41 am

Two struggling industries could demolish tech’s earnings season

By Therese Poletti

Investors are acting as though the downturn has bottomed, but semiconductor and storage issues don’t appear to be solved

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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 19)

Postby winston » Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:23 pm

Wedbush offered its top 10 tech predictions for 2020:

1. 2020 will be the year of the “5G Super Cycle” and Apple will be the clear winner.

2. FAANG regulatory headwinds result in fines, but NO business model changes.

3. Tesla will find success in China with Giga 3 and potentially hit the key 100k delivery number quicker than the US/Europe trajectory and be a demand tailwind.

4. Microsoft/Nadella will win the next stage of the cloud war vs. Bezos/Amazon.

5. The streaming wars will result in clear winners/losers with Disney and Iger the juggernaut that will help disrupt 10%+ of Netflix’s installed base.

6. 2020 will be the year of consolidation in cyber security as we believe both financial and strategic buyers will be aggressively looking at acquiring public/private vendors.

7. Uber will need to significantly curtail/possibly shut down Uber Eats given the lack of profitability and competitive headwinds in this business segment.

8. FAANG tech stalwarts such as Google, Amazon, and Apple further expand into healthcare and banking verticals through both organic as well as acquisitions to broaden their monetization engines and consumer product footprint.

9. AB5 California legislation will be a major “gut punch” to the Gig Economy and throw a major wrench in the business models of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and other players once passed (with all eyes on the impending court battle).

10. Google and its major cloud initiative, GCP, will potentially make a major strategic acquisition of a public cloud vendor to catalyze Kurian’s efforts chasing after the likes of Microsoft and AWS in the $1 trillion cloud race.

Source: 24 / 7 Wall Street

https://247wallst.com/technology-3/2020 ... JAN072020a
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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 19)

Postby investar » Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:23 am

Interesting link, thanks.
The article also mentions:
Wedbush’s top cybersecurity names to play in the cloud trend are CyberArk Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CYBR), Zscaler Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS) and Palo Alto Networks Inc. (NYSE: PANW).

I am long SCWX (for the pending takover by DELL) and FTNT, mentioned in this overview:

https://www.thesoftwarereport.com/the-t ... s-of-2019/
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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 19)

Postby winston » Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:22 pm

Tech ETF Wealth Builder No. 1: IGM

This is my go-to tech ETF. The iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF (NYSE: IGM) covers all the leaders in tech, a group that has been a big factor in the market’s rally for nearly a decade now.

We’re talking firms like Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which make up over 30% of its portfolio.

While many of the firms in the iShares fund have done a great job reaching into global markets, they all count on North America as their major source of strength. Given concerns about trade tensions, that’s a great place to be.

And there’s plenty of depth here as well.

Holding some 307 stocks, IGM trades at roughly $267 and has a 0.46% expense ratio. Over the past five years, it’s returned 150.7%, more than double the S&P 500’s 63% profits.

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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 19)

Postby winston » Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:24 pm

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Tech ETF Wealth Builder No. 2: XSW

When it comes to racking up high profit margins, it’s hard to beat the software sector with its steady stream of licensing revenues. Even better, many of these firms are moving to cloud-based business models that yield even higher earnings.

In other words, the SPDR S&P Software & Services ETF (NYSE: XSW) has a built-in one-two punch. With 165 stocks in its portfolio, XSW doesn’t just cover the waterfront of software and the cloud.

It also includes firms involved in e-commerce, social networking, data processing, Internet software, Big Data, and information technology consulting and services.

Trading at roughly $110 a share, XSW has returned roughly 121% to investors over the past five years. That’s nearly double the return from the S&P 500 over the same period.

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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 19)

Postby winston » Sat Feb 22, 2020 7:20 pm

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How to make sense of the latest tech surge


The big tech firms’ shares have been on a tear


IN 2018 A new word entered Silicon Valley’s lexicon: the “techlash”, or the risk of a consumer and regulatory revolt against big tech.

Today ,that threat seems empty. Even as regulators discuss new rules and activists fret about the right to privacy, the shares of the five biggest American tech firms have been on a jaw-dropping bull run over the past 12 months, rising by 52%.

The increase in the firms’ combined value, of almost $2trn, is hard to get your head round: it is roughly equivalent to Germany’s entire stockmarket.

Four of the five—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft—are each now worth over $1trn. (Facebook is worth a mere $620bn.) For all the talk of a techlash, fund managers in Boston, London and Singapore have shrugged and moved on. Their calculus is that nothing can stop these firms, which are destined to earn untold riches.

This surge in tech giants’ share prices raises two worries. One is whether investors have stoked a speculative bubble. The five firms, worth $5.6trn, make up almost a fifth of the value of the S&P 500 index of American shares.

The last time the market was so concentrated was 20 years ago, before a crash that triggered a widespread downturn. The other, opposite concern is that investors may be right.

The big tech firms’ supersized valuations suggest their profits will double or so in the next decade, causing far greater economic tremors in rich countries and an alarming concentration of economic and political power.

The question of a bubble is a reasonable one. Tech cycles are an integral part of the modern economy. The 1980s saw a semiconductor boom. Then, in the 1990s, came PCs and the internet. Each cycle fades or ends in a bust.

Today’s upswing got going in 2007 with the launch of the iPhone. By 2018 it, too, seemed to be showing its age. Sales of smartphones were stagnating. Data scandals at Facebook crystallised anger about the tech giants’ flippant approach to privacy.

Global antitrust regulators were on the alert. And the loss-making antics of flaky tech “unicorns”, such as Uber and WeWork, evoked the kind of speculative froth often seen at the tail end of a long boom.

In fact, at least for the biggest tech giants, today’s valuations are built on more solid foundations. Together, the five biggest firms have cranked out $178bn of cashflow after investment in the past 12 months (see Buttonwood).

Their size has yet to slow their expansion: their median sales growth, of 17% in the latest quarter, is still as impressive as it was five years ago.

Consumers say they care about privacy but act as if they care much more about getting stuff, and preferably without having to pay for it in cash. Since the end of 2018 the number of people using Facebook’s services (including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp) has risen by 11%, to 2.3bn.

Regulators have punished tech firms for tax, privacy and competition misconduct, but so far their efforts have been like bringing a pea-shooter to a gun fight: the fines and penalties they have imposed amount to less than 1% of the big five’s market value, a tolerable cost of doing business.

And the agonies of some of the unicorns, and their biggest backer, SoftBank, have only demonstrated how hard it is to replicate the scale and network effects of the big five.

Meanwhile, the size of the opportunity is vast. As our special report in this issue explains, many parts of the economy have yet to digitise. In the West only a tenth of retail sales are online, and perhaps a fifth of computing workloads sit in the cloud with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft.

Big tech operates globally, giving it more space to expand, especially in emerging economies where spending on digital technology is still relatively low.

The trouble is that if you think that tech firms will get much bigger and diversify into more industries, from health care to agriculture, it is logical to assume that the backlash against them will not fade away but, eventually, get bigger.

As big tech’s scope expands, more non-tech firms will find their profits dented and more workers will see their livelihoods disrupted, creating angry constituencies. One crude measure of scale is to look at global profits relative to American GDP.

By this yardstick, Apple, which is expanding into services, is already roughly as big as Standard Oil and US Steel were in 1910, at the height of their powers. Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are set to reach the threshold within the next ten years.

When recession strikes it will fuel new resentments. Big tech could face a storm that few have yet paid much attention to (see article). The big five firms employ 1.2m people and are now by far the biggest investors in corporate America, spending almost $200bn a year.

Their decisions about whether to squeeze suppliers, slash investment or attack weaker rivals will prove as controversial as those of carmakers when Detroit still ruled in the 1970s, or even of Wall Street in 2007-08. Big tech’s role in politics is already toxic; social media and videos influence elections from Minnesota to Myanmar.

All this means that, far from having peaked, anger may be in the foothills. Executives hope that slick lobbying will protect them. But even today, the picture outside America is not of inaction but a tumult of regulatory experiments.

China keeps its internet giants under tacit state control and wants to rely less on Silicon Valley, including Apple, which is already dealing with the covid-19 virus and other headwinds there. At least 27 countries have or are considering digital taxes. India has cracked down on e-commerce and online speech.

The European Union (EU) wants individuals to own and control their own data, an approach this newspaper favours, although it may take years of innovation to create a system that is easy for consumers to use and profit from.

This week the EU proposed curbs on artificial intelligence. Even in America, trustbusters may limit big tech’s ability to gobble up startups, a strategy which has been instrumental to the success of Alphabet and Facebook in particular.

Just when you thought platforms were back in fashion

The $5.6trn market value of tech’s formidable five is a testament to some of the most commercially successful companies ever created. But it also assumes that they will get a lot bigger even as the world stands by and watches placidly.

Until today, big tech has been largely unscathed. The bigger it becomes, the more reason there is to doubt this can continue.

Source: The Economist
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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 20)

Postby winston » Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:57 pm

Lockdowns Returning? 2 ETFs For The Stay-At-Home And Work-From-Home Trend

1. Invesco QQQ Trust
2. Direxion Work From Home ETF (WFH)


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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 20)

Postby behappyalways » Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:18 pm

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Re: Technology Sector 02 (Jun 16 - Dec 20)

Postby winston » Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:40 am

ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW)

If you prefer not to hold individual stocks and like to hold a basket in the form of an ETF, look no further than ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW).

Up over 100% since March, this fund is the top-performing actively managed ETF. This fund aims to invest in companies that develop, produce, or enable cloud computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and many other technologies. In other words, this is the most exciting slice of the already hot tech sector.

Top holdings including electric car manufacturer Tesla Inc. (TSLA), streaming media player Roku Inc. (ROKU), mobile payments provider Square Inc. (SQ), online education provider 2U Inc. (TWOU), and Sea Ltd. (SE), one of the largest e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia.

This fund looks to the future, and if that is where you want to invest, this should be the stock to hold. Down 12% from its high after a huge run this year, this could be a great time to get in.

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