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SSNC shares are flat from August 2018 to August 2022. By year-end 2022, SS&C will have grown Adjusted EBITDA by more than 60% from year-end 2018 - no small feat (table below) - yet SSNC shares do not reflect this achievement. S&P Global (ticker: SPGI), FIS Inc. (ticker: FIS) and Fiserv (ticker: FISV), will need … Continue reading Now May Be The Time for SSNC To Sell Itself
Technology platform companies include more than Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. We contemplate a few FinTech platform companies below. PayPal (ticker: PYPL): A "Payments" platform company that re-invented itself by acquiring another payments company - Venmo - that was built on top of another platform company - Facebook. The architect that drove PYPL's strategy … Continue reading Technology Platform Companies Include More Than The Usual Suspects
Webull - the China-based fintech firm - is the latest entry in the commission-free trading space along with Robinhood, Square and Fidelity to name several. These zero commission stock trading apps have enabled the equity bubble in part. A key element of these platforms is fractional share trading which enables retail equity traders to buy … Continue reading The Free Trading Business Is Getting Crowded. Webull and Square Have an Edge.Premium
Were I to go to market with an Enterprise Software product portfolio I would stress our CyberSecurity capability in all product marketing efforts. It doesn't matter what the core product offering is - CRM, HRMS, POS, Payroll - CyberSecurity must be baked into the offering. To make CybeSecurity an afterthought is to risk losing revenue … Continue reading CyberSecurity As A Competitive Differentiator
We selected five top CEOs across five Technology categories. Three of the five CEOs are founders: FinTech - Payments: Jack Dorsey, Square (tkr: SQ)FinTech - Capital Markets/ Asset Mgt.: Jeffrey Sprecher, Intercontinental Exchange (tkr: ICE)Information Services: Jerre Stead, Clarivate Analytics (tkr: CCC)Platform Companies: Satya Nadella, Microsoft (tkr: MSFT)PropTech: Andrew Florance, CoStar Group (tkr: CSGP) Click … Continue reading CEORater 2020 Technology CEOs of the Year
We compared a number of Fintech apps in the Google Play Store. Square's Cash App ranked #7 (See our analysis for Fintech rankings). Venmo failed to rank in the top 600. Recent Cash App user reviews from the same Google Play Store analysis suggest Cash App is frequently hacked. View our analysis by clicking the … Continue reading Square’s Cash App Has A Fraud Problem
FinTech companies with global ambitions would be wise to look to Africa and Asia for growth given global population trends. Perhaps no Fintech CEO has been as vocal about Africa as Square (tkr: SQ), CEO Jack Dorsey who had planed to operate from Africa for a period of time. Africa's "unbanked" population represents a significant … Continue reading Fintech Growth Is Hitched to Asia and Africa
This trend has accelerated since the Federal Reserve embarked on its money printing spree earlier this year. Using Bitcoin as a proxy, it is clear that cryptocurrencies have evolved beyond speculative investment status to become a store of value. There are a fixed number of Bitcoins that may be mined (21 million) which checks one … Continue reading Cryptocurrency Is Starting To Gain Recognition As A Store of Value
The world's most popular Websites are: 1.) Google.com; 2.) YouTube.com; 3.) Facebook.com and 4.) Amazon.com. We also took a snapshot of Website traffic for eight leading FinTech companies. We found this data interesting, but be careful about reading too much into it. Many of these companies operate multiple Android and iOS apps which are the … Continue reading FinTech Companies and Their Website TrafficPremium
Companies have pulled forward a significant amount of future earnings. The question is: "How much"? Back in April Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella said the company experienced two years of digital transformation in two months. Amazon (AMZN), Shopify (SHOP), Square (SQ), PayPal (PYPL) and other e-commerce players have undoubtedly pulled earnings forward as COVID accelerated … Continue reading How Much Future Earnings Have We Pulled Forward?
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