Duncan Lamont

It’s not a requirement on Nasdaq. E.g. for biotech

imagine a company researching new medicines. It has no revenues because it’s at the research stage. It’s raised money from investors to pay for that research, and investors hope they’ll win big if it makes a discovery

Nae bother!

I wouldn’t overstate the broader economic risks here. Lots of these will be biotech companies etc rather than big employers

Yolonomics indeed

It’s based on the constituent list of the Nasdaq composite so I guess it would

Good point

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But in answer to your original question, imagine a company researching new medicines. It has no revenues because it’s at the research stage. So yes, it’s raised money from investors to pay for that research, and investors hope they’ll win big if it makes a discovery

Or should we see it as a good thing that public market investors are able to access to pre-revenue, earlier-stage companies, not just the more mature businesses we see on the traditional markets?

You can certainly argue that but oh my word, you need to be properly on it with your company research

Stronger wording than I expected from a news account!

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This hilarious video probably does it better than I could youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo

There are over 3,000 companies on Nasdaq, many of which are tiny and hugely speculative plays. Many also have next to zero liquidity

Even accepting that most investors will have 0% of their money invested in the overwhelming majority of these companies, I still think this is quite the trend

Ok but it’s even weirder as you can argue we’re not in a bubble if you’re only interested in profitable companies

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🫣 Profits are for wimps. Revenues are for losers. Ideas sell, not fundamentals

Over half the Nasdaq market is loss making. About 1-in-8 companies have no revenues

There are a lot more in these camps than in the past

Some but not all. I haven’t been down the full list

It’s interesting as I shared a chart recently which showed that biotech VC financing has dried up as it’s all going into AI

Struck me as odd as my not particularly researched view is that AI should improve biotech odds of success

Note: these are averages, covering a v.wide range of outcomes

Meme stock speculative trading at the risky end of the market, barbelled with the mega caps.

There's speculation in both trades but the current fundamentals couldn't be more different

A divided US stock market: Tech cos with no revenues or no profits are flying, as are the cash and profit machines that are the Magnificent-7.

The rest of the stockmarket has been left in their shade

I’d have panic attacks! Or do you somehow get used to it?

I’ll accept a doggy bag

Love it

Is that yours?!

🤣

Genuinely can’t remember. So I’ll say yeah

Will see if my mum still has it in the loft somewhere

Genuine lol

Niche knowledge!

Yeah that’s the ordering

I have a bright green napapijiri one and I love it

They shouldn’t even make cars like that in those colours. The salesperson should try to talk customers out of it

Sad times

We’ve been expecting you, Mr Bond

H/t David Brooks for the pic