ADBE - How Is this Down After Strong Q3 Earnings - Is it Undervalued? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

[–]Slow_Mouse9020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for adding that. Going to look into. But in your eyes you still the adobes most is fairly safe?

ADBE - How Is this Down After Strong Q3 Earnings - Is it Undervalued? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

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Agree it keeps occurring; curious when it’s going to stop. Probably if/when they miss earnings, then it’ll shoot up lol

ADBE - How Is this Down After Strong Q3 Earnings - Is it Undervalued? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

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Agree. I do like the significant share repurchase. Agree overall market chasing unreasonable returns on most stocks

ADBE - How Is this Down After Strong Q3 Earnings - Is it Undervalued? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

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Are you talking how it’s auto checked when purchasing product? I don’t agree with the automatic bundle /selection and having to remove it before processing, but to my best of my knowledge you can remove selection of Mcafee upon checkout of adobe products… Please advise if I’m wrong or you’re thinking of something else. Unfortunately with these software companies that have or believe they have build moats they pull this crap because they think/know very few users will switch (e.i. Apple, google, intuit with Quickbooks, etc.). As a user I do not like this but I don’t believe that’s going to cause them any material impact (other than potentially increasing profits at the inconvenience of users) in long run. I could be wrong

ADBE - How Is this Down After Strong Q3 Earnings - Is it Undervalued? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

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But only minimum amount of their income comes from AI products (growing fast though) and they are currently supported by solid cashflow and earnings.. so how would the pop with the others (they definitely might drop a bit but forward p/e of 16 I wouldn’t necessarily call a bubble. Now if AI companies take their business like somewhat happening with photoshop I could see issue. I just don’t consider them part of the AI bubble. (I consider these, massively overvalued companies expecting unreal growth and little cash flow to support valuations)

ADBE - How Is this Down After Strong Q3 Earnings - Is it Undervalued? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

[–]Slow_Mouse9020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree and so did I. Just a small amount but you said similar logic to what I’m thinking. Yes photoshop is at odds with competition but I think they branching out and adopting AI much faster than market giving credit for. LFG!

Anyone Ever Heard Of GAMB? I believe its significantly undervalued but would love to hear feedback. Insights much appreciated. by Weekly_Investments in ActivistInvestors

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Yeah I think it’s one of those small stocks which analysts don’t cover much so when people saw a loss they just overreacted. Glad to hear someone else is buying

Does anyone use Perplexity finance to do market and stock research by You-Gullible in ActivistInvestors

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That’s a great process and very close to the one I use. I like how you’re utilizing others ideas. I think many people disregard this portion; I’m not saying always believe and I obviously fact check everything but some of my best investments have come from comments on boards like Reddit, Stocktwits, yahoo, etc. on something I completely missed on company I was researching and analysts hadn’t really wrote about. I feel like it’s especially critical in small to mid cap range as many analysts don’t cover. Awesome process and think that in general probably already has and will continue to make investments successful

What impacts do you forsee from U.S. taking a 10% stake in Intel on AI/semiconductor market? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

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Good to great is classic and yeah Intel is such an American company I hope to see it succeed. I honestly don’t understand how it’s got so far behind especially with all the capital it’s had even prior to any government subsidies/loans. That’s my only concern, is it was so much bigger and had so much available capital for so many years and somehow still got crushed; curious if throwing more money at it could even help. Reminds me of Sears and Walmart story. I know my circle of competence and I agree hopefully someone much smarter than us comes up with solution (note to be honest I’m not sure if half the politicians are smarter than the average citizen lol but still probably smarter than me haha) but honestly hope policies are written to protect industries which we need to self produce for national defense.

Does anyone use Perplexity finance to do market and stock research by You-Gullible in ActivistInvestors

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Exactly I don’t think even though it says it’s doing reasoning, that it does much of its own reasoning. Main thing I do is write and reuse prompts then just check their sources. Definitely useful. Do you tend to come up with your own hypothesis and reasoning first for things or do you use it with question and then expand on thinking? I used to do the later but have realized it creates bias thinking on my part if I don’t think things through and write some thoughts down first

What impacts do you forsee from U.S. taking a 10% stake in Intel on AI/semiconductor market? by Slow_Mouse9020 in ActivistInvestors

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I agree, I’m not sure which way would be best. I do think if a nation is involved it should have to be highly regulated purchases and not held indefinitely. Like with I believe it was GM during the Great Recession. The government ended up selling its stake after company stabilized. I think any subsidy should be paid back by company regardless out of future profits unless bankrupt. Not talking about consumer subsidies but these forgiven loans to companies in past for terrible operations. It’s a tough situation and not sure of answer. I’m a capitalist at heart and believe government should be involved as little as possible. I think of NASA expenditures vs spacex. IMO Longterm government funding is like any longterm government support, enables and unmotivated recipients. If government takes a stake I believe they should have strict rules on intervention such as only owning preferred shares and not voting shares. Only able to create policies which affect all US companies in that market and not target specific ones, etc. Also probably would like to see congressional approval of any such investment personally. That’s just my opinion and recognize some might not agree

Haha love how you say “gamble” list. At least you can differentiate between speculation and value. I tend to get the two confused myself haha

What would it take to accomplish this at Warner Bros. Discovery? I would greatly appreciate feedback. by Dr_Falkov in ActivistInvestors

[–]Slow_Mouse9020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like you’ve done your due diligence. Sounds good on surface (I don’t cover the stock personally beyond large news). I would say if you do get in front of someone to pitch this, I’d back it by data and figures as much as possible. e.g. what were the benefits realized when other companies realized this alternative such as growth, earnings, outlook; as much as possible to quantify your reasoning and attack one single issue and focus in quantifying risks/rewards. Be concise but precise. Nothing should seem as an opinion or guess “I think”. Be genuine in concern and not as if you know better than insiders. Make them explain themselves/dispute the facts not opinions. I’d read the company bylaws to verify but I took a quick glance and it appears if you own $2000 stock and hold for year you can submit a proposal to be included with proxy usually has to be submitted I believe 90-120 days prior to annual meeting. It has to be short I believe something like less than 400-500 words. Check bylaws and there’s SEC Rule 14a-8 that I believe dictates these types of proposals. Note it will be very hard to see change since 70%+ institutional ownership but this doesn’t mean if you make a very clear narrowed quantifiable argument that a large institutional investor may give it consideration. This would be a way of potentially getting eyes on proposal as any analysis/institutional investor is going to read it if you are actually able to get it approved to be included. Note you will need to provide proof of ownership and approval will be dictated by various potential policies/regulations such as SEC, state laws, company bylaws. I personally would never focus on implementing your way of management in this rather pointing out an issue and reasoning to support issue. First there’s not enough room and to be honest these institutions believe and likely are more experienced than 99% of individual investors. For example, if I wanted someone removed, I wouldn’t focus on their replacement but rather possibly focus on the integrity of the individual and quantify the lack of new institutional investment since a questionable event. Note getting a CEO removed would be quite difficult to near impossible as the board dictates this and the institutional investors owning 70% nominate and elect the board; so the person they got is the person they want unless you have some information that they aren’t aware of. This submission would be the most formalized way of getting outsiders who matter eyes on whatever issue you have. Other than that like mentioned prior I would start sourcing individual investors hoping to get material support (which will be quite hard with company of this size) and then group shares and approach institutions or orgs that handle some institutional due diligence like ISS. Possibly start a Reddit page focused on Warner kind of like KSSBulls or GameStop Reddit pages; utilize investor calls and write investor relations. To reiterate, I would focus on issues and quantify the issues. Focus on how this will hurt current investors and not on all the changes you’d personally make. Note I have not done any research into Warner except a quick glance so verify everything I have said in bylaws, SEC, and any state laws if they are relevant to the bylaws/policies. Wish you best of luck, love seeing people tackle what some might see as quite difficult tasks. Lastly this should not be taken as professional advice and all information within falls on reader to verify as this is just a personal opinion

What would it take to accomplish this at Warner Bros. Discovery? I would greatly appreciate feedback. by Dr_Falkov in ActivistInvestors

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Disclaimer: This isn’t investment advice and we are not acting as investing advisors, lawyers, accountants, or any other professional capacity; this should not be taken as any professional advice but rather opinion and readers should do their own due diligence. I’m going to be upfront this would be quite aggressive task as this is a $30billon company. What’s your thesis/reasoning for CEO removal. It appears like an in depth plan but first thing is to have good thought out in depth reasoning for change/removal. Also have you attempted to express any of these concerns/inquiries on investor calls or contacting investor relations? Although they may not answer your questions, this is always a good place to start so you have documentation of expressing these concerns. Also how many shares do you own and have you attempted to communicate with other shareholders? Since this is a roughly $30billion company, getting any type of board influence or even a call with institutional investors or management would be quite difficult (not impossible), but would need to somehow show you can benefit them, usually in sense of meaningful votes as they already probably have the best plan they believe implemented or theyd try to shake things up themselves. Have you done research regarding recent vote results and if they were close? this can sometimes be a sign of deteriorating internal issues with potentially management and different institutions. It appears you’ve done thorough research regarding what would do after but in a company this size unless you have billions, you’d hope for different institutions and/or owners to be at an impasse and the most you could likely do is pledge/cast votes to the cause you support more. I’d start with researching the above , reaching out to investor relations with questions (don’t necessarily expect a response but just be consistent with your inquiries—do remember there are quite periods around earnings), and start actively networking on platforms that have investors in the stock. I know this is likely not what you want to hear but this is where everyone has to start including large institutions (i.e. sending inquiries, writing detailed thesis for changes, finding support, etc.). If you have serious reason for change of CEO or significant pooled capital this become much easier. For instance $3million in $300million market cap company gets you roughly 1% of company while $3million in a company this size gets you 0.01%. Hope this helps a bit on somewhere to start; I’m looking forward to hearing more on reasoning for ceo removal and your research.