TEK2day

Operating at the Intersection of Technology and the Capital Markets

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    • AI Is Nothing New, Yet We Are Only Scratching The Surface

      AI is nothing new, yet we are only scratching the surface. I believe that every Technology company is incorporating broadly-defined “AI” into their products and services offerings at this juncture. “AI” at its core is based upon statistical models that underpin various advanced automation processes such as machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, natural language…

    • The Full Promise of Large Language Models

      The full promise of Large Language Models (LLMs) won’t be delivered until LLMs are capable of understanding nuanced industry specific commercial data. Until such time, LLMs will be productivity enhancers (think Google Assistant), capable of automating routine tasks but incapable of operating complex processes. In order for the above to happen, LLMs will need to…

    • Short-Term Paper, Quality Names and Gold

    • 2023 Won’t Be Pretty For CRE & Housing

      2023 is shaping up to be a tough year for the CRE and Housing markets as interest rates remain elevated.

    • For Stock Returns, Look Where Others Are Not

      Small cap equities and international equities are generally good places for investors to begin their work of finding undervalued companies. In this age of ultra-low interest rates and overvalued assets it makes sense for public company investors to look for value in areas of the market that receive less investor attention than sectors that garner…

    • Metaverse Plays

      The Metaverse is a fancy term for accessing online worlds via the Internet. Gaming environments are a prime example. Online meeting spaces (avatar meetings) are another example. We can imagine a world where buying a home or purchasing an automobile take place in a virtual environment. We believe that every Software company of size will…

    • Quality Companies Outperform Over The Long-Term

      We will say it until we are blue in the face: Management Teams Matter. A high quality management team starts with a high-quality CEO. Quality management teams build quality companies. They do the hard, tedious work required to build the best products and processes in order to deliver maximum customer value. CEOs of these companies…

    • Deals Brewing Based On CEORater and TEK2day Traffic?

      Based on the inbound traffic to our CEORater and TEK2day properties our best guess is that M&A due diligence is taking place for a deal between some combination of Fiserv (FISV), FIS Global (FIS) and Global Payments (GPN). The last time we saw this type of activity on our platform was in the several months…

    • CEORater Portfolio Ahead of The Benchmark

      CEORater began an experiment several years ago whereby we built a concentrated “buy and hold” equal-weight portfolio consisting of quality Enterprise Software names that would be held for a minimum of five years. The benchmark is the S&P North American Expanded Technology Software Index (SPNASEUP). CEORater is up 4.2% Year-to-Date vs. 2.0% for the benchmark…

    • Update: Battle-Tested Software CEOs

      We published a piece in March 2020 entitled Battle-Tested Software CEOs, that highlighted a group of CEOs that we believed would hold the line and successfully navigate the COVID waters. Here is our updated thinking regarding that list. Tickers mentioned: AAPL, ADBE, CSGP, CVLT, FISV, MSCI, PYPL, SPGI, SQ, SSNC, VRSK Andy Florance. Founder &…