https://klse.i3investor.com/servlets/pfs/120720.jsp
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Brian Chan:
How do we know if this number given by management is trustable? I read the prospectus which PLTR roughly described how $119b TAM is derived. But how do we know this is not a "manufactured" or "exaggerated" number to drive up interest?
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Philip Farms:
That is the part where you never fully trust anybody and read up directly yourself.
What are the big ideas of a data analysis company? Data points.
Palantir requirements to sign up are any company with 500m usd of yearly revenues not in China and Russia. So they have big customers like airasia, airbus with thousands of datapoints. Manufacturing companies like BP, Ferrari, Airbus.
It is a two edged sword. They currently only have 125 customers which is a very small number, but they also have average spend of 5.3 million per client and growing which is incredibly huge for SaaS platforms in comparison to the rest of the market.
Moving forward I have no idea who is their biggest competitor, and the mystique surrounding palantir makes them the top choice for customers in the space similar to Tesla. I mean, if you were a manufacturer in need of improving your business to get more profits, wouldn't you want to get the company that boasts CIA, NSA, the NHS, and WHO as their client lists?
In the end for this market sphere, you are not looking for the cheapest solution. You are looking for the most effective one. No point spending millions if you can't get any concrete results that help you improve you business.
PLTR works. Unlike all those companies that use SaaS cheap for you to deploy but in the end you don't see any concrete results...
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/products/artificial-intelligence-business-toolkit-intelligence-service
I also subscribed to this market reports to look at AI business deployment market size of 126b worldwide currently third party report which matches their claim
Merry Christmas all, I hope you guys have a fruitful year, learn from my silly mistakes in investing, and learn to love watching paint dry.
Long term investing can be downright boring sometimes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2019/10/17/ai-stats-news-65-of-companies-have-not-seen-business-gains-from-their-ai-investments/?sh=48d1391f19f4
Similar to iPhone, before it came into the scene a lot of similar competitors were in the market... Blackberry, Nokia etc
Problem was they were clunky, not user friendly and not customer centric
For Apple, they had a great product... And very good marketing
That propelled them all the way to the moon.
The problem with Palantir is that they have an excellent product (17 years in market... Government bodies are falling over themselves to get it)
However... They had zero marketing
Now that is changing and accelerating
Another easy to identify figure, let's look at the world government. There are 193 governments in the world. Assuming that moving forward they will need quick analytics and AI systems to process the huge requirements of their growing population, crisis management (covid tracking), terrorism, safety, expenditure to impact analysis etc, if we put a figure of 500 million per government per year, these SaaS for fire, water management, healthcare, transport, agriculture, defence,construction planning etc
So that puts the figure at around 100 billion a year for these analytical models.
The advantage that PLTR had is that it already has the models and queries in place based on their experience in tracking illegal immigrants (ICE), catching financial crimes like Bernie Madoff (IRB), stopping terrorism (CIA), defence in Iraq, catching osama (ARMY), manufacturing ( AIRBUS, Ferrari), transport ( AirAsia)
So with these existing models, they can deploy with greater speed to other companies with their foundry(commercial) Apollo (multi platform deployment) and Gotham (government)
I don't mean to keep rehashing, apologies as it is my strongest conviction stock this year, next to stoneco.
And as everyone knows... I have a very small number of stock competencies
So I buy very few stocks
Ql
Yinson
Serba/kpower/scib (Karim team)
Gkent
Uoadev
Pchem
Skpres(Dyson proxy)
Uniqlo
Stoneco
Palantir
My ten (13) stocks that I am holding
I would say these are all among the top companies in their market sphere
Ql is for palm oil, boiler construction,family mart, eggs, chicken, frozen food and surumi.
Yinson is for FPSO oil upstream
Serba is for epcc energy maintenance and construction
Gkent is for water and railway
Uoadev is for property development
Pchem is for o&g downstream
Skpres is for consumer product high end dyson
Uniqlo is for clothing
Stoneco for financial lending management
Palantir is for data analysis
All business I can illustrate with a crayon, I can estimate the TAM, I know which part of the growth cycle they are in, which is the more experimental, which the the rock solid slow business, which is the safest and which has the highest risk reward ratio
I believe one should know what they are buying
If you don't know what you are buying, it is much safer to just sit back and stay away.
How to understand your business.
1. Start by understanding the industry. It helps if you work in it.
2. Then you start analyzing the company you like in it fundamentally, and also the technical aspect of the market expectations of the company.
3. Then you start analyzing that company direct competitors, and find out the competitive positioning of everybody in the sphere.
4. Then you start analyzing the possibility of your favourite company adding new capabilities and invading a new sphere (new business model, new country, new products etc).
5. Then you do comparative analysis of the company that has already done this transition to find out what was already done, and what challenges they encountered and pushed through.
6. Once you have found this, you can compare with the company to see the possibility of this happening, or if the company is just twiddling their thumbs.
Once you have done this.... You are on the way to actually understanding the company you are interested in.
So here is the thing, if you spend this much time trying to understand 1 business, you have no time to own 30-40 stocks, it is crazy to manage.
If you own a lot of companies your strategy and hope is that out of these 40 companies you hold, 21 earns money... A scary strategy in my opinion if you have no idea why a company would make money long term, or even where the money will be coming from.
I prefer having full perfect knowledge of one company on a safe trading route than buying 30-40 companies.
My recent small trade on choobee is backed by knowing the manager for amsteel, the manager of choobee, the fact that prices have rise on a daily to weekly basis ( yesterday price for rebar went up by another 50 per metric ton. Which is incredible but still cheap at 2500 per ton compared to KL prices more than 2800 per ton. ) It will be a field day of profit for steel suppliers.
Scuttlebutt is still the best option.
Never listen to rumors or whisper stocks or comments from other sifus.
Make up your own mind, buy things you understand.
If someone stop you in the middle of the street selling you a chanel bag original for 500, you would stop look at the bag and check to see the quality right?
How come in the stock market you can throw 5000 without blinking once?
Points to ponder.
Sslee
Dear Philip,
Thank you for the information:
My recent small trade on choobee is backed by knowing the manager for amsteel, the manager of choobee, the fact that prices have rise on a daily to weekly basis ( yesterday price for rebar went up by another 50 per metric ton. Which is incredible but still cheap at 2500 per ton compared to KL prices more than 2800 per ton. ) It will be a field day of profit for steel suppliers.
I will keep my balance Masteel a bit longer
5098 MASTEEL
100,000 0.4225 0.5350 42,250.00 53,500.00 11,250.00 26.63
2020-12-25 12:36