Re: Tech correction
Posted: January 25th, 2022, 7:49 pm
The global market appears to have less than 9%, so not a correction yet. Just a blip.
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GeoffF100 wrote:The global market appears to have less than 9%, so not a correction yet. Just a blip.
vand wrote:I'm looking at some of these tech/growth/lockdown blowouts and starting to wonder if there is a case that can be made for the fall being overdone.
PTON - 86% fall from peak
Market cap $8bn USD
Now trading below its Q3 IPO price, which logically makes absolutely no sense where, in an alternative reality where covid didn't exist, they would have surpassed all expectation by growing as quickly as they have done since IPO.
Trading on just x2 revenue. Yet to make any profit.
People will say that they have no barriers to entry, but perhaps we will see a similar network scale effect as we see with tech stocks where the more subscribers the platform has the more cross activity and selling they can do..
ZM - 80% fall from peak
Market cap $40bn USD
Is the best internet-based meeting platform worth $40bn? Still expensive on a p/s of x10 revenue, but they have the ability to grow at a frightening rate. The product is good. My employer, who are a software company so should know a thing or two about other tech, recently switched from Webex to Zoom for example. I can see them growing quickly for the next 5 years.
BullDog wrote:vand wrote:I'm looking at some of these tech/growth/lockdown blowouts and starting to wonder if there is a case that can be made for the fall being overdone.
PTON - 86% fall from peak
Market cap $8bn USD
Now trading below its Q3 IPO price, which logically makes absolutely no sense where, in an alternative reality where covid didn't exist, they would have surpassed all expectation by growing as quickly as they have done since IPO.
Trading on just x2 revenue. Yet to make any profit.
People will say that they have no barriers to entry, but perhaps we will see a similar network scale effect as we see with tech stocks where the more subscribers the platform has the more cross activity and selling they can do..
ZM - 80% fall from peak
Market cap $40bn USD
Is the best internet-based meeting platform worth $40bn? Still expensive on a p/s of x10 revenue, but they have the ability to grow at a frightening rate. The product is good. My employer, who are a software company so should know a thing or two about other tech, recently switched from Webex to Zoom for example. I can see them growing quickly for the next 5 years.
No and doubtful.
Microsoft will squeeze any competitor out of the corporate work from home market. I am rather surprised it already hasn't happened. But it will.
vand wrote:BullDog wrote:vand wrote:I'm looking at some of these tech/growth/lockdown blowouts and starting to wonder if there is a case that can be made for the fall being overdone.
PTON - 86% fall from peak
Market cap $8bn USD
Now trading below its Q3 IPO price, which logically makes absolutely no sense where, in an alternative reality where covid didn't exist, they would have surpassed all expectation by growing as quickly as they have done since IPO.
Trading on just x2 revenue. Yet to make any profit.
People will say that they have no barriers to entry, but perhaps we will see a similar network scale effect as we see with tech stocks where the more subscribers the platform has the more cross activity and selling they can do..
ZM - 80% fall from peak
Market cap $40bn USD
Is the best internet-based meeting platform worth $40bn? Still expensive on a p/s of x10 revenue, but they have the ability to grow at a frightening rate. The product is good. My employer, who are a software company so should know a thing or two about other tech, recently switched from Webex to Zoom for example. I can see them growing quickly for the next 5 years.
No and doubtful.
Microsoft will squeeze any competitor out of the corporate work from home market. I am rather surprised it already hasn't happened. But it will.
Why so sure about that? Microsoft tend to be behind the curve. MS Teams is a far inferior product to both Webex and Zoom. If anything, I suspect businesses are more likely to drop MS Teams and move over the more specialised software such as Zoom.
BullDog wrote:Nope. MS Teams costs it's users effectively nothing and is fully embedded into the majority of big companies systems. Of course, it's only my view. For what it's worth, I can't think of a single big (energy industry) company I have worked with since the pandemic started where MS Teams isn't the default WFH and corporate meetings tool.
vand wrote:Microsoft tend to be behind the curve. MS Teams is a far inferior product to both Webex and Zoom. If anything, I suspect businesses are more likely to drop MS Teams and move over the more specialised software such as Zoom.
NotSure wrote:BullDog wrote:Nope. MS Teams costs it's users effectively nothing and is fully embedded into the majority of big companies systems. Of course, it's only my view. For what it's worth, I can't think of a single big (energy industry) company I have worked with since the pandemic started where MS Teams isn't the default WFH and corporate meetings tool.
We use Teams, as do all our customers and consultants etc - free, fully integrated with Outlook etc, seems to do the job perfectly well. It's also replaced Slack for us, which we used to use pre-Covid.
You say ZM trades at 10x sales? What sort of growth are you predicting, bearing in mind we've just had two years of Covid to stimulate its business?
NotSure wrote:BullDog wrote:Nope. MS Teams costs it's users effectively nothing and is fully embedded into the majority of big companies systems. Of course, it's only my view. For what it's worth, I can't think of a single big (energy industry) company I have worked with since the pandemic started where MS Teams isn't the default WFH and corporate meetings tool.
We use Teams, as do all our customers and consultants etc - free, fully integrated with Outlook etc, seems to do the job perfectly well. It's also replaced Slack for us, which we used to use pre-Covid.
You say ZM trades at 10x sales? What sort of growth are you predicting, bearing in mind we've just had two years of Covid to stimulate its business?
vand wrote:NotSure wrote:BullDog wrote:Nope. MS Teams costs it's users effectively nothing and is fully embedded into the majority of big companies systems. Of course, it's only my view. For what it's worth, I can't think of a single big (energy industry) company I have worked with since the pandemic started where MS Teams isn't the default WFH and corporate meetings tool.
We use Teams, as do all our customers and consultants etc - free, fully integrated with Outlook etc, seems to do the job perfectly well. It's also replaced Slack for us, which we used to use pre-Covid.
You say ZM trades at 10x sales? What sort of growth are you predicting, bearing in mind we've just had two years of Covid to stimulate its business?
It's not that outrageous for a software/tech company, at least in today's market. The likes of Microsoft, Apple, Google etc all trade at those sort of multiples, and Zoom is growing much faster than any of them, though admittedly it received a massive lockdown tailwind. But unlike other lockdown stocks its product has ongoing benefits to its customers that will persist far beyond lockdown.
vand wrote:I'm looking at some of these tech/growth/lockdown blowouts and starting to wonder if there is a case that can be made for the fall being overdone.
PTON - 86% fall from peak
Market cap $8bn USD
Now trading below its Q3 IPO price, which logically makes absolutely no sense where, in an alternative reality where covid didn't exist, they would have surpassed all expectation by growing as quickly as they have done since IPO.
Trading on just x2 revenue. Yet to make any profit.
People will say that they have no barriers to entry, but perhaps we will see a similar network scale effect as we see with tech stocks where the more subscribers the platform has the more cross activity and selling they can do..
ZM - 80% fall from peak
Market cap $40bn USD
Is the best internet-based meeting platform worth $40bn? Still expensive on a p/s of x10 revenue, but they have the ability to grow at a frightening rate. The product is good. My employer, who are a software company so should know a thing or two about other tech, recently switched from Webex to Zoom for example. I can see them growing quickly for the next 5 years.
mc2fool wrote:Zoom is better (less faff) for informal online meetings and "stand alone" webinars, but Teams has some things that Zoom doesn't that makes it better for more formal structures, in particular the integration with Office.
vand wrote:Personally I see Zoom as much more of a direct rival to Cisco's webex platform than MS Teams.
But FWIW, Microsoft's track record in this space is not very impressive.. anyone still use Lync or MS Messenger?
Does anyone use Bing? What happened to MS Encarta? See? MS aren't exactly infallable..
I think MS would do well to just buy Zoom.
simoan wrote:vand wrote:Personally I see Zoom as much more of a direct rival to Cisco's webex platform than MS Teams.
But FWIW, Microsoft's track record in this space is not very impressive.. anyone still use Lync or MS Messenger?
Does anyone use Bing? What happened to MS Encarta? See? MS aren't exactly infallable..
I think MS would do well to just buy Zoom.
This doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things though, does it? You forgot to mention buying Nokia! Stick to the fundamentals because trying to forecast things in this way is a mugs game. The fact is all MS customers can use Teams for free and so that's a large proportion of business customers who will never switch to Zoom. Why should they if Teams works? Zoom should start paying a dividend because it's ex-growth but still highly rated. People need a reason to hold a low/no growth company at this stage. That's what the market is telling you.
simoan wrote:vand wrote:Personally I see Zoom as much more of a direct rival to Cisco's webex platform than MS Teams.
But FWIW, Microsoft's track record in this space is not very impressive.. anyone still use Lync or MS Messenger?
Does anyone use Bing? What happened to MS Encarta? See? MS aren't exactly infallable..
I think MS would do well to just buy Zoom.
This doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things though, does it? You forgot to mention buying Nokia! Stick to the fundamentals because trying to forecast things in this way is a mugs game. The fact is all MS customers can use Teams for free and so that's a large proportion of business customers who will never switch to Zoom. Why should they if Teams works? Zoom should start paying a dividend because it's ex-growth but still highly rated. People need a reason to hold a low/no growth company at this stage. That's what the market is telling you.
vand wrote:simoan wrote:vand wrote:Personally I see Zoom as much more of a direct rival to Cisco's webex platform than MS Teams.
But FWIW, Microsoft's track record in this space is not very impressive.. anyone still use Lync or MS Messenger?
Does anyone use Bing? What happened to MS Encarta? See? MS aren't exactly infallable..
I think MS would do well to just buy Zoom.
This doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things though, does it? You forgot to mention buying Nokia! Stick to the fundamentals because trying to forecast things in this way is a mugs game. The fact is all MS customers can use Teams for free and so that's a large proportion of business customers who will never switch to Zoom. Why should they if Teams works? Zoom should start paying a dividend because it's ex-growth but still highly rated. People need a reason to hold a low/no growth company at this stage. That's what the market is telling you.
Clearly you haven't even bothered looking at the numbers - Zoom is hard a low/no growth company. It only floated less than 3 years ago and revenue has gone from 150m to 4bn in that time. To suggest that it's a mature stock that should start paying out a divdend is ludicrous.
Dod101 wrote:GeoffF100 wrote:The global market appears to have less than 9%, so not a correction yet. Just a blip.
I realise the expression 'correction' is widely used for a fall in the market. Does anyone know why? Its use suggests that the market is always otherwise incorrect which in itself is not correct I am sure.
Dod