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29 Jul 2024

Should Lamborghini be spun out of Volkswagen $VOW?

In 2023, they sold 10,600 cars, which is actually less than $RACE's 13,700. The two car manufacturers also have similar EBIT margins of about 27%. Lamborghini has grown its revenue with a 17% CAGR over the past 6 years, while EBIT had a CAGR of 53% during the same period. This visual by Quartr shows the number of Lamborghini cars sold per year between 1999 and 2023:

29 Jul 2024

The big names were the biggest losers this week

Even if other segments of the market are moving higher, it is tough for the main index to make progress of the big names continue to lose ground. Since July 10th, the market cap of the Magnificent 7 stocks has dropped a mind-numbering $2 trillion... Source: Trend Spider

26 Jul 2024

Russell 2000 Outperformance vs S&P 500 continues.

RTY vs SPX break out is at its widest levels since Feb 2000, > +9% MTD Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

26 Jul 2024

Corporate Insiders are dumping shares at the fastest pace in AT LEAST a decade 🚨🚨🚨

Source: Barchart

26 Jul 2024

Is there more drawdown ahead for the S&P500?

Over the last ~100 years, median year has a SPX peak to trough drawdown of 13%. Believe it or not current drawdown has only been 5%... Source: GS

26 Jul 2024

That was an enormous miss in durable goods, coming in at -6.6% vs a forecast of +0.3%.

We need to transport things in a growing economy, right? "Transportation equipment, down two of the last three months, drove the decrease, $19.6 billion or 20.5 percent to $75.8 billion. Source: Markets & Mayhem

26 Jul 2024

Nasdaq has underperformed Russell 2000 for 11 of the last 12 days, erasing YTD outperformance for the big-tech index

Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohedge.com

25 Jul 2024

The Magnificent 7 dropped by more than $750 Billion yesterday

Source: Evan, Yahoo Finance

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