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Yesterday, after market close, the biotech company Vaxart (VXRT) announced that they have created a scientific and clinical advisory board for assistance on the development of their room-temperature oral vaccines (see link below). This team looks accomplished, and it certainly bodes well for the progress of their potentially disruptive pill vaccine. You don’t assemble (and… Continue reading 20Aug21: Vaxart’s Advisory Braintrust

Surreal is the best way to describe the current state of the stock market. I mentioned many times in the past that we’ve had some great deals… but today seems like we’ve reached a new nadir for low market caps given respective growth runways. So call yourself a value investor, hold on tight and be… Continue reading 19Aug21: Alice in Wonderland

Market fundamentals are being thrown out the window as certain hyper growth companies in the ad tech sector are seeing stock prices slashed. If problems in ad tech surfaced (or if there was a sudden return to spray-and-pray non-programmatic advertising) the drop in market cap prices would be warranted. But that ain’t happening.  The stock… Continue reading 17Aug21: Keep Calm & Carry On

Two years ago Michael Barrett, CEO of what was then Rubicon Project, and the CEO of New York’s Telaria, Mark Zagorski, met to discuss a vision: merge their companies to create the world’s largest independent SSP (Supply Side Platform) in programmatic advertising to match what The Trade Desk (TTD) was doing on the DSP (Demand… Continue reading 6Aug21: Magnite’s Glide Path

Once again it’s a bloodbath out there on the market. Luckily we’re approaching earnings season and hopefully that means some realization about how upside down the valuations are for certain small-caps and mid-caps. Can’t emphasize enough how dirt cheap these ten in particular are: Jounce (JNCE) $283M Puma Biotech (PBYI) $323M Brightcove (BCOV) $524M Sierra… Continue reading 15July21: Bargains Galore

Yesterday, while barely registering a blip on the radar, the module and IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity solutions company Sierra Wireless (SWIR) announced they integrated their Acculink with Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure IoT Central. I repeat, verbatim from the press release: IoT solutions provider Sierra Wireless Inc (NASDAQ: SWIR) successfully integrated its managed IoT solution, Acculink,… Continue reading 14July21: Sierra Wireless Strikes Back

Understanding investing and how the stock market moves is basically decoding a complicated game. Once you have some familiarity to how stocks fluctuate, and the principles behind daily price action, you then have to make the audacious decision of buying and selling stocks. It’s a dynamic game with many moving parts played by retail investors… Continue reading 9July21: Mensa Puzzle

When the market is tanking and small/mid caps are getting battered about, the first response is often an emotional sell off. This is a mistake as you’ll only “capture losses” by panic selling. While it may feel like your investment boat is drifting away, the situation ultimately is temporary and you need to keep all… Continue reading 8July21: Stalled Schooner

Mega-caps are ruling the day ($200B+) and the rest of the market seems to be getting bounced around by momentum forces, meme stocks and the overall uncertainty of our economy as we emerge from the pandemic. Programmatic advertising/digital services and biotech continue to be the fields with the most promise for sustained growth. If you… Continue reading 6July21: Steady Gradual Growth

An obvious point: investing is a numbers game. There are so many options to choose from and nobody wants to miss out on a big winner (aka stock FOMO). You can play it safe with a total stock market Vanguard option and ride the average of all American companies. Or try the opposite extreme by… Continue reading 14June21: 15 For Long-Haul Trucking