Rivian ($0 revenue, -$1.6 billion net income) now has a higher market cap than Starbucks ($29 billion revenue, $4.2 billion net income) and Target ($100 billion revenue, $6.3 billion net income).
$RIVN $SBUX $TGT
Data via @ycharts
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When we put a high multiple to sales, the most important thing to worry about is - what could disrupt those cash flows. A lower multiple to sales (like a 1x or 2x) justifies Yo-Yo cyclicality and 10x sales implies relatively stable gross margins, cash flow and business economics.
It's amazing \U0001f60a 25% NP
— Avinash (@Aviral_Bharat) February 17, 2022
$8b revenue
$2b Profit
$92b MCap
At 11 times revenue, it seems to be cheap compared to\U0001f609
June's research paper: Intangible Value ✨
Can value investing strategies be improved by adding intangible assets?
👾 The Asset-Light Economy
🔮 The Dark Matter of Finance
🏰 Intangible Moats
📉 The Disruption of Value
👨🎓 Fixing the "Value Factor"
(Not investment advice)
🧵
(0/10) Full paper here 📘
Blog
https://t.co/omtrn9kfvt
(1/10) The Asset-Light Economy 👾
“The four largest companies today by market value do not need any net tangible assets. They are not like AT&T, GM, or Exxon Mobil, requiring lots of capital to produce earnings. We have become an asset-light economy."
- Warren Buffett
(2/10) The End of Accounting 🧮
“The constant rise in the importance of intangibles in companies’ performance and value creation, yet suppressed by accounting and reporting practices, renders financial information increasingly irrelevant.”
- Baruch Lev and Feng Gu
(3/10) The Dark Matter of Finance 🔮
While intangible matter holds the financial universe together, it is not visible to the naked eye. Unstructured data contains info on intangibles but is large, noisy, and resistant to standard statistical analysis.
Can value investing strategies be improved by adding intangible assets?
👾 The Asset-Light Economy
🔮 The Dark Matter of Finance
🏰 Intangible Moats
📉 The Disruption of Value
👨🎓 Fixing the "Value Factor"
(Not investment advice)
🧵
(0/10) Full paper here 📘
Blog
https://t.co/omtrn9kfvt
(1/10) The Asset-Light Economy 👾
“The four largest companies today by market value do not need any net tangible assets. They are not like AT&T, GM, or Exxon Mobil, requiring lots of capital to produce earnings. We have become an asset-light economy."
- Warren Buffett
(2/10) The End of Accounting 🧮
“The constant rise in the importance of intangibles in companies’ performance and value creation, yet suppressed by accounting and reporting practices, renders financial information increasingly irrelevant.”
- Baruch Lev and Feng Gu
(3/10) The Dark Matter of Finance 🔮
While intangible matter holds the financial universe together, it is not visible to the naked eye. Unstructured data contains info on intangibles but is large, noisy, and resistant to standard statistical analysis.