Chegg, Inc (CHGG:NYSE) was founded in 2003 and operates a direct to student learning platform. They offer solutions to allow students to pass tests, pass classes and, maybe most …
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I never liked Kobe Bryant. I thought that he was arrogant and aloof, a product of his privileged upbringing. I don’t think that he was ever a “Philly guy”, but none of that is …
Bed Bath and Beyond
The stock market loves its retail store darlings. Five Below (FIVE:NASDAQ), Target (TGT:Nasdaq), Lululemon (LULU:Nasdaq) all have experienced meteoric rises in the their stock …
New Tax Form For Senior Citizens
The new tax reporting system was billed as "so easy it can be done on one page". They conveniently left out the fact that there were six schedules that you needed to complete in …
Netflix, Streaming Peacocks and Competition
For the longest time now, it has been a choice between Netflix (NFLX:NASDAQ) and Amazon's Prime Video (AMZN:NASDAQ) . It hadn't been much of a competition until Amazon started to …
Netflix Monetization
During their quarterly earnings release yesterday, Netflix (NFLX:NASDAQ) disappointed the investment community by adding 2.7 million paid subscribers. The analyst community was …
Managing Money In The Age Of Trump
I wonder what it would be like to pick stocks based on their fundamental book value as opposed to the current era where "momentum sources" are the chief determinant of price …
History Rhymes
In the Republic, Plato poses the query, "Who is to guard the guards themselves?". In other words, what happens to power that goes unchecked? I'm sure you know where I am going with …
Market Up On Interpreted News
The stock market is in the process of ending the recent rout with a four hundred point gain in the Dow as of the writing of this post. It seems that it's not the actual content of …
Plant Burgers, anyone?
One of the more interesting initial public offerings lately has been that of Beyond Meat (BYND). The company's stated mission is to be the "Future of Protein" - delicious …
Same-Store Sales Blues
It's always a little bit of a crapshoot when a company that relies on same-store sales as a metric reports their results. Same-store sales is exactly that: How did existing stores …
Cross-Selling in Financial Services
Cross selling has gotten a lot of print in the last few years. Unfortunately, when it comes to financial services, things that get the most attention are often those that are …