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(mostly) micro-mid cap stocks

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Doubt is the🍸 k💚🗾ey of kno🥩wled🥌ge.

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@SavneetS @DingbatCapital @WeatherPundit @sevencornerscap @SavneetS can shareholders expect some type of guidance or even a rough ballpark around probabilities for each one? Or will it be a black box until the deal is announced / failed?

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@celtics1844 @GreenhavenRoad They staked their entire business on 3 Tier 1 RFPs then proceeded to tell their investors absolutely nothing about those 3

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@rsosa8 The strategy of shutting down your business to focus on Tier 1 RFPs then giving the market 0 visibility on said RFPs is interesting

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@EarningsB4Hugs I don't love them dragging out this REIT thing and giving no info. Happy to hold bc of the underlying business being strong

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everyone is freaking out over the Citrini piece about AI killing capitalism.

incredibly, it makes the exact same mistake that Marx, the OG doommaxer, made when he said that machines would kill capitalism... in 1867.

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If AI leads to greater efficiency I am generally positive on the smaller, flatter firms and more negative on the massive firms where the selling point is that they can throw armies of analysts at you for every need. Same reason I think McKinsey / Bain / BCG will be fine.

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$EVR $LAZ $MOE $PJT are going to be big winners from AI 'automating' finance.

Their model is get rainmakers and give them the minimum resources to make $.

AI allows more deals with the same team, while simplifying back office (where bigger banks get economies of scale)

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@TrentBlair19 Price was a bit lower than what i was hoping for but happy to see them winding down

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@AndrewTakes I made a nice ~2.5x on the stock so no complaints there but I got a bit nervous when they progressively began disclosing less and less each quarter. Their investor day was useless for real metrics

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$GENI I sold a couple months ago but they just bought Legend for up to $1.2B. I really don't like this deal. It was done at ~8x EBITDA which is great for a 50% EBITDA margin co. but the actual business is low-quality and overexposes Genius to sportsbook ad spend

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@AndrewTakes Yep similar idea. Just a shit business model which is a clear loser as sports betting matures

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@educated_rube @AggieCapitalist Hope was that $GENI would move away from sportsbook advertising (which is at a cyclical high as many states just legalized), not become more exposed

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@educated_rube @AggieCapitalist Forget the financials - the underlying company isn't high quality. It basically runs online SEO websites to compare odds. This is an awful market and is long term slow/no growth. It also has a ton of regulatory risk around potential limitations on sportsbook advertising.

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Legend basically run SEO sites for comparing odds across sportsbooks and publishing gambling-related articles. imo that business sucks and is low-to-no growth long-term with very high regulatory risk around limiting spend on gambling ads

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@jonrice80 @Aggie_CIO I thought one of those remaining 2 tier 1 RFPs was new and came after Papa John’s?

In which case Papa Johns would likely be the one under development right?

Maybe i misunderstood

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Does anyone know if Papa John's was the Tier 1 RFP that was 'in development' for $PAR? If not, it makes 0 sense why this stock is so cheap

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@Aggie_CIO Mae’s sense - was definitely hoping for more than $15m ARR from the tier 1 in development but oh well 🙃

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@Kelvin_Sbh5 @Aggie_CIO Sydney hiring is very very interesting…

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$FLG Q4 earnings next week. Hoping to see GAAP EPS positive, with significantly lower deposit costs and strong/growing C&I pipeline. It should be the low point in their balance sheet size.

Hopefully management gives some guidance around when NIB will begin to pick up again.

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Happened a while back, but $NFI.TO announced a huge settlement where the battery maker paid for 80% of the $230m recall. They then announced a CEO transition. Hopefully the new CEO will start producing at a higher rate to churn through this backlog