Lowe's ($HD) CFO on JPM's virtual retail conference (4/1).
1. Sees "healthy demand", with shelter-in-place and weather being main drivers
2. Says 2/3 of purchases are non-discretionary
3. Expects little impact to margin due to product shift
this @HindenburgRes $sq report is trash with a clickbait headline. employees assigned to review accounts is clearly gonna find > 50% bad accounts. can't use that data point to extrapolate to the entire customer base
@HindenburgRes to understand the true population of bad accounts would need to know % of them not captured by the reviewers so you have an sense of recall vs precision
@milken_cookies i had the same though and went last year. the actual meeting is meh but the overall weekend was great. lot of funds were hosting happy hours and people were very friendly
read any good books recently? could be any subject - investing, biography, fiction, etc. going on a long trip and recommendations would be appreciated 🙌
Coatue believes that the market is failing to distinguish between technology companies.
Upbeat: Snap, Shopify, DoorDash, and Neftlix
Downbeat: Pinterest, Wayfair, Lyft, and Roku
@buccocapital I would have said crypto but it’s either 1) grift or 2) real good technology but unclear how money will be made. there is so much capital and competition