Technology

Although we are now deep into the recovery phase of the COVID downturn, I still remain shocked at just how resilient Google’s parent company Alphabet has proved these past 18 months. I mean, a brief sequential drop in revenue and profit was about as bad as it got in FQ2 2020. Even then, California-based Alphabet still managed to mint billions in net income and free…

Apple (AAPL) stock has been a great investment since it was first covered on the site. Quick math suggests the iPhone maker has returned over 230% since the start of calendar year 2019 alone. Of course, its longer-term credentials are very well-known – the stock is up by a factor of almost 1,200 since IPO back in late 1980 – but its recent performance is…

I last covered Apple (AAPL) stock back in the first quarter. At the time, shares of the Cupertino-based giant traded for around $310 apiece, and had returned 100% on my previous article in early-2019. I concluded that it was still reasonably valued, albeit with the prospect of large swings in its valuation multiple.

A couple of weeks back I was reading about the former trials and tribulations of a certain British closed-end fund. This fund had underperformed its benchmark over the past few years, with some talk of it possibly losing a continuation vote at its AGM. Drilling down a bit further, it seemed like the managers’ preference for high quality, value-type stocks was to blame. Or rather,…

I spent a small portion of last weekend catching up on Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway stockholders. I imagine many readers did the same, though probably not with Alphabet (GOOG) stock in mind. The holding company of Google may seem an odd stock to mention in this context. I mean, it famously doesn’t pay a dividend, nor is it one of Berkshire’s holdings…