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Baidu faces a significant challenge as its primary search business has lost its appeal to TenCent’s WeChat and with the Cloud division unable to compensate. Profit 2024: 9$/Eps, exluding cash only 2 EPS. Investing massively in R&D, unsuccessful so far. Stock trading almost against the value of the cash on its balance sheet. So cheap…

Pinduoduo is a very unique company. It is the heavies weight in my porfolio and has massive upside. PDD is a chinese social commerce app that allows users to buy products at very low prices by forming groups with friends and family for bulk purchases. Founded in 2015, the platform integrates social media, gamification and a focus…

Alibaba, criminally competitive and undervalued relative to their western counterparts. Alibaba ADR traded at $300+ (300% higher than today) right before Xi squashed the Ant Financial IPO (BABA daughter company), which was set up to be (one of?) the largest IPO’s in history. Then the group was hit with major fines and it’s famous CEO…

Produces electric cars cheaper and faster than all competitors. Produces product similar to Tesla M3 for half the price. Still more profitable than other EV manufactures, about 20% margin even at their current prices. BYD’s 2024 profit is much higher than Tesla’s. The gap is going to widen in 2025. Revolution in car making. Tesla…

A 25-year-old tech company that strategically moves with the dao, methodically and effectively overtaking competitors in different segments. Out innovates the rest. P E 20 at the moment. Not cheap not expensive. Good stable addition to the portfolio, correlates strongly with the whole China strategy

You might have heard of them. Novo Nordisk is currently experiencing an unprecedented period of growth and global attention, almost entirely driven by the spectacular success of its GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs, Ozempic (for type 2 diabetes) and Wegovy (for weight management). Nordisk stock is down due to its significantly reduced 2025 sales and profit outlook, citing weaker-than-expected demand…

Newmont is a gold mining  company such as Hecla is a silver mining company. Just as Hecla, it is a prime candidate to benefit from the high inflation low growth (stagflation) scenario that is unfolding. Lower energy costs AISC (see Hecla post) down to roughly 1500 an ounce so it is majorly profitable at these…

Hecla mining is the largest silver mining company in North America. It is the second most weighted company in my porfolio. The company mines silver, gold, lead, and zinc from operations in Alaska, Idaho, and Canada. Operational Profitability (The Important Metric for Miners) This measures the cash cost of producing an ounce of silver versus…