Delta Air Lines came into 2025 expecting it's best year ever. A lot of Trump turbulence later, and guidance has been pulled for the full year. Is the company just being conservative, or is there reason to worry?
UPS delivers – but not always for investors. In fact, the long-term track record of returns is poor. This is a tactical stock rather than one you want to hold for a long time, so the cyclical nature of the stock is important to understand. With the all-important fourth quarter just around the corner, is there an opportunity to take advantage of signs of a recovery?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been all the rage in recent times. Coming up just as quickly is quantum computing, an exciting new technology that has some potentially incredible use cases. To lift the lid on this trend and to identify how to consider investing in it, international geopolitical strategist Dimitri Zabelin joined us on this show. If you enjoy Dimitri's work, and we strongly suspect that you will, you can check out Pantheon Insights on Substack.
FedEx and Lululemon have both been covered and recapped on Magic Markets Premium before. We love circling back and revisiting companies that we’ve researched before, as the feedback loop is so important when testing how an investment thesis played out. Join us in this week's free show for an update on the latest company news and our updated views.
It’s not every day that a company name becomes a verb. Usually, this only happens when a company becomes so synonymous with a particular service that consumers feel like there’s only one choice in the market – even when there isn’t. Uber’s brand has done an excellent job of becoming part of our everyday language. But for years, the company reported vast losses. When tech platforms finally turn the corner and become profitable, the results can be rather explosive, as we’ve now seen at Uber.
UPS is part of the logistics oligopoly in the US, with arch-rival FedEx having been covered a few times on Magic Markets before. UPS has had a terrible year, with major labour issues highlighting the risks in this sector. Does it represent an interesting swing trade for the rest of the year?
FedEx keeps delivering share price volatility and major shifts in its operations, so we keep covering this stock. With news of a substantial cost cutting plan now in the market, the share price has been on a strong run this year. With margins suffering a hard landing, can management deliver this plan?
Use the podcast player below to listen to our discussion on Sysco and its Q4’22 result, which accompanies the detailed write-up below: (Date of report: 17 August 2022) Sysco is a company you’ve likely never heard of unless you have friends in the restaurant industry in the US. This is effectively the Bidcorp equivalent in America, delivered at grand scale and with a powerful track record of value creation. It’s rare to see an executive team talking about repositioning for growth while maintaining dividend aristocrat status. That tells you most of what you need to know about Sysco’s business. To whet [...]
Use the podcast player below to listen to our recap on FedEx and Taiwan Semiconductor Company, which accompanies the detailed write-up below: (Date of report: 10 August 2022) Recap shows are important in Magic Markets Premium. We strongly believe in a feedback loop and assessing our views and expectations against what actually happened. We always give it a few months after our work for a clear trend to establish itself. In this show, we recap two companies that have been beneficiaries of the pandemic. FedEx has loved a supply crunch that has allowed it to raise prices for moving goods across [...]
Use the podcast player below to listen to our discussion on Karooooo and its Q4’22 result, which accompanies the detailed write-up below: (Date of report: 8 June 2022) At the request of our subscribers, Karooooo is the first JSE-listed company we have covered in Magic Markets Premium. The group is also listed on the Nasdaq and has a global growth strategy, so we believe that it fits the Magic Markets Premium promise of covering globally relevant stocks. With an entrepreneurial approach that has been highly successful in South Africa with the Cartrack business, Karooooo believes that its technology can address customer [...]
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