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Is Volkswagen Stock a Buy?

May 6, 2021 by Finance Gourmet

Is Volkswagen a good stock to buy right now? Some good news from Volkswagen showing rising car sales, despite a pandemic, and nice profitability. As an added bonus, electric car sales are up, and the company gets it that electric vehicles are the future, sooner rather than later. The only ding from analysts was one analyst saying he was worried that the company was spending too much on R&D. This is small minded, short-term thinking. Block that dude, and move on. The real potential problem is the chip shortage that is affecting all card manufacturers will likely hit Volkswagen too. This means that the company won’t be able to make enough vehicles to continue increasing sales. This guidance to lower sales is the reason the stock is down. As long-term investors interested in a dividend, this is a short-term problem overly focused on by a stock analysis and stock new industry obsessed with short-term stock prices. That means its time for some tire kicking from actual investors. The upside to this that no one is talking about is that the vehicles they can sell will likely sell at higher prices due to decreased supply. That means higher profitability per unit. …

Uber Buys Drizly, Proves It Has No Real Value

February 17, 2021February 2, 2021 by Finance Gourmet

Uber Buys Drizly for $1.1 Billion Once upon a time, people believed that Uber had some form of value. Its app was revolutionary. Its concept of using ordinary people using their own cars to provide rides was revolutionary. But, it turns out that it wasn’t so much revolutionary, as just the first in an easily replicable line of use-your-own-car apps. Drizly Is Just GrubHub for Alcohol, Which Is Just Uber for Food Uber is paying Drizly $1.1 billion in a desperate grab for any shot at profitability and sustainability. Uber’s acquisition of Drizly proves that there is nothing special about Uber. A handful of engineers, a couple of months, and a few million of funding and anyone can copy Uber well enough. After that, the “special” comes from good old fashioned sales. Building Drizly was a lot less about building an app, and a lot more about signing up liquor stores, and then convincing people that it was worth shelling out $5 to stay on their couch instead of heading down to their favorite liquor store. This was a tough sale pre-Covid. Why pay $5 plus tip for a liquor delivery when you could just swing by your favorite liquor …

Yahoo Buys Associated Content

May 18, 2010 by Finance Gourmet

There are plenty of other things Yahoo gets from buying Associated Content, not the least of which is a big fat swath of Internet real estate that ranks obscenely high in Google search results and Bing search results. A great deal of the traffic generated from these high ranking searches is monetized via, you guessed it, Google AdSense which pays content publishers based upon ads placed by Google on those websites. Yahoo, can now switch out those Google Ads and replace them with their own Yahoo Ads.