China Unlimited

[surfer44]

For ZIM aficionados......

*I'm drybulk and tankers

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[RealDutch]

META is always fireworks, somehow.

Last 6 earnings releases
-26%
+17%
-5%
-24%
+23%
+10% (so far)

[RealDutch]

I have 60 ZIM call options already. This is going to be a big one.

[NewJerichoMan]

I was thinking of you yesterday because MSFT was pretty red, redder than the overall market. And then this morning... Life comes at you fast. Small profit is better than no profit.

[RealDutch]

I'm loading up with ZIM now. Stock + call options. I think the shorts have been driving it down to support around $17 and it will bounce soon Classic.

[RealDutch]

No, I lost the freebies. Overall I'm up like $200
Was thinking about selling the other 3 for $1400 yesterday but I kept them as momentum was on my side At the time

[NewJerichoMan]

Did you get the freebies out before this morning?

[surfer44]

Wow. Peter Lynch interviewed today. Nice to see.

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[surfer44]

90% red today. There is only one thing left to do.....

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[surfer44]

Who got that free ride?

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[surfer44]

It Takes a Village | by Joan Szymko [The Choral Project]

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[RealDutch]

Bought some more ZIM for $18.05. Very nice.

[surfer44]

At first glance ZIM looks really cheap. Nice.

[RealDutch]

I had 8 MSFT puts. Sold 5. The remaining 3 are a free ride.

[RealDutch]

MSFT is dropping like a SOB already. My options are up 70%. You have to wonder if these earnings leak somehow.

[RealDutch]

Bought some ZIM today

[RealDutch]

I have 4 April 28 puts 275.

[NewJerichoMan]

I'm long MSFT because ChatGPT. Last earnings were mid. IIRC the price did drop like 15% for half a day but that was it. Two days later it was trading like nothing happened. I like the play. Decent shot at payout. I'd have a quick trigger finger though.

[RealDutch]

Going to buy some MSFT put options.
They report on tuesday.
Hoping for some really bad news, and a 15% drop.

That will be my earnings play for Q1
Anyone else want to play?

[surfer44]

I just discovered version #3. Note: gotta crank up this bad boy. LOL

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[surfer44]

Version #2.....

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[surfer44]

OK, here we go. 3 versions of Kentucky Woman....

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[surfer44]

Better to become a value investor. You have a better excuse for underperforming! lol

[surfer44]

Drumming looks too strenuous...

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[surfer44]

Big Short scene. Relaxation mode....

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[surfer44]

Volatility sucks. Crazy stuff indeed!

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[surfer44]

Yeah, but does your dog bite?

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[surfer44]

Breaking news?

Dogecoin Soars After Twitter Replaces Its Blue Bird Logo With the Token's Dog
Stephen Alpher
Mon, April 3, 2023 at 10:55 AM PDT

Dogecoin (DOGE) surged more than 35% after Elon Musk's Twitter replaced the social-media platform's familiar blue bird atop its homepage with the cryptocurrency's iconic Shiba Inu dog logo.

DOGE got as high as $0.1046 versus around $0.077 right before the logo change. Before Monday, its price last exceeded 10 cents in December, according to CoinDesk data.

Musk has frequently touted DOGE, suggesting the meme coin may offer better payments functionality than bitcoin (BTC). In January the Financial Times reported that Twitter was designing a system to permit payments through the social-media platform. While Musk, who is the CEO, wanted Twitter "first and foremost" to be for fiat currencies, he sought the ability to add cryptocurrencies – a story that gave the price of DOGE a lift.

Read more: Elon Musk Wants Twitter Payments System to Accommodate Crypto: FT

A bit more than an hour after the logo change, Musk tweeted out a cartoon image as his first public comment.

[surfer44]

Out here in the fields....

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[surfer44]

OXY numbers.

Financial Highlights
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends Dec 31, 2022
Most Recent Quarter (mrq) Dec 31, 2022
Profitability
Profit Margin 36.32%
Operating Margin (ttm) 37.30%
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm) 11.57%
Return on Equity (ttm) 52.78%
Income Statement
Revenue (ttm) 36.63B
Revenue Per Share (ttm) 39.55
Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy) 3.90%
Gross Profit (ttm) 24.57B
EBITDA 20.59B
Net Income Avi to Common (ttm) 12.42B
Diluted EPS (ttm) 12.40
Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy) 25.40%
Balance Sheet
Total Cash (mrq) 984M
Total Cash Per Share (mrq) 1.09
Total Debt (mrq) 20.76B
Total Debt/Equity (mrq) 69.02
Current Ratio (mrq) 1.15
Book Value Per Share (mrq) 22.58
Cash Flow Statement
Operating Cash Flow (ttm) 16.81B
Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm) 10.01B

[surfer44]

Couldn't get PetroChina numbers so I looked at Petrobras. Very impressive. PBR looks like it has a sick dividend yield. Note that probably most oil companies are doing well. No wonder WB went for OXY.

Financial HighlightsCurrency in BRL.
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends Dec 31, 2022
Most Recent Quarter (mrq) Dec 31, 2022
Profitability
Profit Margin 29.37%
Operating Margin (ttm) 47.33%
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm) 19.46%
Return on Equity (ttm) 50.14%
Income Statement
Revenue (ttm) 641.26B
Revenue Per Share (ttm) 98.32
Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy) 24.00%
Gross Profit (ttm) 334.1B
EBITDA 352.32B
Net Income Avi to Common (ttm) 188.33B
Diluted EPS (ttm) 5.62
Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy) 37.60%
Balance Sheet
Total Cash (mrq) 56.19B
Total Cash Per Share (mrq) 8.62
Total Debt (mrq) 280.7B
Total Debt/Equity (mrq) 77.04
Current Ratio (mrq) 1.00
Book Value Per Share (mrq) 55.59
Cash Flow Statement
Operating Cash Flow (ttm) 255.41B
Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm) 234.83B

[surfer44]

Very impressive numbers. Saudi Aramco.

Financial Highlights
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends Dec 31, 2022
Most Recent Quarter (mrq) Dec 31, 2022
Profitability
Profit Margin 26.35%
Operating Margin (ttm) 50.46%
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm) 30.70%
Return on Equity (ttm) 40.99%
Income Statement
Revenue (ttm) 2.27T
Revenue Per Share (ttm) 10.31
Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy) 9.20%
Gross Profit (ttm) 1.33T
EBITDA 1.22T
Net Income Avi to Common (ttm) 597.22B
Diluted EPS (ttm) 2.72
Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy) 7.50%
Balance Sheet
Total Cash (mrq) 508.9B
Total Cash Per Share (mrq) 2.31
Total Debt (mrq) 393.14B
Total Debt/Equity (mrq) 23.60
Current Ratio (mrq) 2.59
Book Value Per Share (mrq) 6.59
Cash Flow Statement
Operating Cash Flow (ttm) 698.15B
Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm) 623.25B

[surfer44]

Nope. It's way less.

What is the expected value of Saudi Aramco's IPO?

The IPO values Aramco at roughly $1.7 trillion, making it the most valuable publicly traded company in the world ahead of Apple (AAPL), which is worth about $1.15 trillion. Saudi Aramco said last month that it was aiming to sell about 1.5% of its 200 billion shares.

[surfer44]

I think Saudi Aramco might be the same also.

[surfer44]

Interesting. Buffett's PetroChina investment had the same ownership ratio as HERB (90% state owned.)

[surfer44]

BT (before Tesla)....BYD

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[surfer44]

Buffett always follows the oil market....

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[surfer44]

Does this have to break on through? Not necessarily.

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[surfer44]

Despite what many people think.......

And I will have a Good Luckin Coffee to go with that!

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[RealDutch]

Nobody does

[surfer44]

I hear people on TV say stocks are expensive. Apparently they don't live where we live.

[RealDutch]

I'm fully loaded up with BDCO.
I don't need ZIM.

[surfer44]

Go for it

[surfer44]

Long oil. China needs oil and oil needs China. Warren loading up.

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[surfer44]

I did not notice that. Haven't been keeping track of ZIM.

[RealDutch]

ZIM dividend history. Hmmmmm

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/zim/dividend/

[RealDutch]

Did you notice that ZIM is paying a $6.40 dividend? I didn't think they would want to spend that money.

On March 13, 2023, ZIM announced a dividend payment of $6.40 per ordinary share (approximately $769 million), to holders of the ordinary shares as of March 24, 2023. Payment of the Dividend is expected to be made on April 3, 2023 (the "Payment Date"). Because the Dividend amount per share exceeds 25% of the Company's ordinary share price as of the declaration date (March 13, 2023), per the instructions of the NYSE, the ex-dividend date with respect to the Dividend distribution was set for April 4, 2023. Therefore, Shareholders who wish to receive the Dividend must hold on to their ZIM Shares until the ex-dividend date.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zim-updates-withholding-tax-procedures-120000524.html

[surfer44]

Brilliant!

[surfer44]

UPDATE 6-Alibaba to break up empire into six units as Jack Ma returns to China

Tue, March 28, 2023 at 2:34 AM PDT
By Josh Horwitz

SHANGHAI, March 28 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group plans to split into six units and explore fundraisings or listings for most of them, it said on Tuesday, in a major revamp as Beijing vows to ease a sweeping regulatory crackdown and support its private enterprises.

Alibaba's U.S.-listed shares rose as much as 8% after the news. The Alibaba stock is down around 70% since the regulatory crackdown started in late 2020.

The Chinese e-commerce conglomerate said that the biggest restructuring in its 24 year history would see it split into six units -- Cloud Intelligence Group, Taobao Tmall Commerce Group, Local Services Group, Cainiao Smart Logistics Group, Global Digital Commerce Group and Digital Media and Entertainment Group

The revamp of the conglomerate comes a day after its founder Jack Ma returned home after a year-long stay abroad and as Beijing looks to spur private sector growth after a two-year-long regulatory crackdown on its showpiece private enterprises.

"The original intention and fundamental purpose of this reform is to make our organisation more agile, shorten decision making links and respond faster," Zhang said in a letter to staff seen by Reuters.

Each business group, he said, had to actively tackle the rapid changes in the market and each Alibaba employee had to "return to the mindset of an entrepreneur."

Daniel Zhang will continue to serve as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, which will follow a holding company management model, and concurrently serve as CEO of Cloud Intelligence Group.

Each of the six business groups will be managed by its own CEO and board of directors and will retain the flexibility to raise outside capital and seek an initial public offering, it said.

The exception would be Taobao Tmall Commerce Group that handles its China commerce businesses and will remain an Alibaba Group wholly owned unit.

Zhang also said that the company would "lighten and thin" its middle and back office functions, but did not detail job cuts.

Investors said the announcement stems concerns Alibaba had lost growth potential and signals regulatory worries clearing.

“It releases additional value,” said Kenny Ng, a strategist at China Everbright Securities in Hong Kong.

“With this expectation, investors will be more positive on Alibaba. “It may reflect a new round of development for the business and reduce worries of regulatory issues.”

MA'S RETURN

The restructuring is among the biggest corporate moves made by a major Chinese tech company in recent years, as the industry cowered under tightening regulatory oversight, causing deals to dry up and dampening appetite among businesses to explore new areas.

Authorities have in recent months been softening their tone towards the private sector as leaders try to shore up an economy battered by three years of COVID-19 curbs. Companies, however, have been hesitant, privately pointing to a lack of new supportive policies and the new regulatory framework.

Alibaba's shares had received a boost on Monday after the company's founder Ma was pictured having returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed as reflecting the sober mood of its private businesses.

China's new premier, Li Qiang, who has been at the forefront of government's effort to bolster the private sector, had recognised Ma's return to the mainland could help boost business confidence among entrepreneurs and since late last year had begun asking Ma to return, five sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

"It does seem something of a coincidence that this is happening just as Ma seems comfortable returning. To me it suggests something that Alibaba has been wanting to do for some time, but has been waiting for the opportunity to do so," said Stuart Cole, head macro economist at brokerage Equiti Capital.

The restructuring "does inject an element of flexibility and adaptability into the company, which currently is something of a behemoth," he added.

(Reporting by Josh Horwitz in Shanghai, Lavanya Ahire and Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru and Tom Westbrook in Singapore; Writing by Brenda Goh; editing by Arun Koyyur, Jason Neely and Christina Fincher)

[surfer44]

Busy day for value investors....

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