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5 Aug 2025

Top AI companies by Market Cap

Source: Mark Roussin, CPA @Dividend_Dollar

5 Aug 2025

$PLTR absolutely destroyed their Q2 earnings

Palantir topped Wall Street’s estimates Monday, surpassing $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and hiking its full-year guidance. Shares rallied more than 5%. • Sales $1.0B vs Est. $939M • EPS $0.16 vs Est. $0.13 • US Commercial: $306M -- up 93% YoY • Customer count up 43% YoY Q3 Outlook • Sales $936M vs Est. $899M • Operating Profit $495M vs Est. $417M FY25 Outlook • Sales $4.14B vs Est. $3.90B • Operating Profit $1.92B vs Est. $1.72B Source: Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay, CNBC

4 Aug 2025

It is all about tech...

US technology and tech-related stocks now account for ~55% of the US stock market, the highest share EVER. It has exceeded the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble levels by ~5 percentage points. By comparison, defensive stocks now reflect ~18% of the market. Source: Global Markets Investor

11 Jul 2025

Technological Disruption

Source: BofA

1 Jul 2025

Robinhood launches layer-2 blockchain for stock trading in Europe

Robinhood is offering tokenized US stocks and ETFs on the Arbitrum blockchain to users in Europe. Robinhood’s push into real-world assets (RWAs) is gaining momentum, with the digital brokerage launching a tokenization-focused layer-2 blockchain and introducing stock token trading for users in the European Union. Built on Arbitrum, the new layer-2 network will enable the issuance of over 200 US stock and exchange-traded fund (ETF) tokens, giving European investors access to US assets, Robinhood announced on Monday. Robinhood’s stock tokens will have zero commissions and be available for trading 24 hours a day, five days a week.

27 Jun 2025

Party like it's 2021?

Goldman Non-Profitable hashtag#Tech Index has gained 50% since the April low. Source: Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs

26 Jun 2025

Remember IBM?

Over the past 5 years, it has outperformed: • Microsoft • Apple • Google Source: Brew markets

17 Jun 2025

Tech Stocks relative to M2 Money Supply Dot Com Bubble vs. Now

source : barchart

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