Lol... yeah.... you rambled on about how great it was for like 2 months lol... I bit my tongue, not one damn word,I let you do your thing. Notice... on any of your dozen plus posts on GoPro... I never responded once. Not once. Hmmmm. Wonder why? But whatever on that. Next time however, when you throw your reputation down on a New Years Eve post in boldface and size #7 letterhead.... lets make sure it's a winner. And please note Stoney, the ONLY reason I write this, is to perhaps point out the "I am the greatest of all time" commentary/demeanor you so like to espouse when a penny stock jumps by a dime.... translated into 20%.... think about 12/31 2021. Make a New Years Eve post that works. Again... it's the braggadociosness that needs a little humble pie. GPRO was a TERRIBLE call. . Moving on....
Apple deal. $68.80 on the ask pre-market. Light volume. My guess is it won't go much higher. That, or it will go red before it starts back up. For today at least. Sell the news.
$EVOP $27.53 on the ask. They had a decent report, increased guidance, solid balance sheet, they're in the segment that apparently everyone wants to be in now, and its been pretty much range-bound for the last 6 months. Solid steady-eddie stock from here. https://evopayments.com/ EVO Payments, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVOP) is a leading payment technology and services provider. EVO offers an array of innovative, reliable, and secure payment solutions to merchants ranging from small and mid-size enterprises to multinational companies and organizations across the Americas and Europe. As a fully integrated merchant acquirer and payment processor in over 50 markets and 150 currencies worldwide, EVO provides competitive solutions that promote business growth, increase customer loyalty, and enhance data security in the markets it serves. ========================================== ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 4, 2021--EVO Payments, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVOP) (“EVO” or the “Company”) today announced its second quarter 2021 financial results. For the quarter ended June 30, 2021, reported revenue was $122.2 million compared to $94.3 million in the prior year, an increase of 30%. On a currency neutral basis, revenue for the quarter increased 23%. On a GAAP basis for the quarter, net income was $6.8 million compared to a net loss of $9.0 million in the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA increased 42% to $42.8 million for the quarter, and on a currency neutral basis, adjusted EBITDA increased 34%. For the six months ended June 30, 2021, reported revenue was $228.4 million compared to $205.5 million in the prior year, an increase of 11%. On a currency neutral basis, revenue for the six months ended June 30, 2021 increased 7%. On a GAAP basis for the six months ended June 30, 2021, net income was $4.0 million compared to a net loss of $22.6 million in the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA increased 24% to $76.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021, and on a currency neutral basis, adjusted EBITDA increased 20%. “I’m very pleased with our financial and business performance in the second quarter,” said James G. Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of EVO. “The Company’s results reflect our strong sales efforts, including new customer and partner signings and tech-enabled acquisitions, as many of our markets experienced solid economic recovery. We look forward to driving additional growth in the second half of the year, leveraging our diversified referral networks, investments in our products and services suite, and the continued macroeconomic tailwinds.” Outlook We now expect 2021 full-year GAAP revenue to range from $487 million to $496 million, representing growth of 11% to 13% over 2020 results. On a GAAP basis, net income is expected to range from $20 million to $28 million compared to a net loss of $4 million in 2020. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to range from $173 million to $178 million, reflecting growth of 18% to 21% over 2020 adjusted EBITDA. The adjusted EBITDA margin is expected to range from 35.5% to 35.9%, reflecting expansion of 200 to 250 basis points over the 2020 adjusted EBITDA margin. Conference Call EVO’s management will host a conference call for investors at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 to discuss the results. Participants may register for the conference call via the investor relations section of the Company’s website at investor.evopayments.com or at http://www.directeventreg.com/registration/event/4460924. A recording of the call will be archived on the Company's investor relations website following the live call.
Got To Respect! Canaccord analyst upgrades Unisys to Buy after two decades at Hold 07:57 UIS Canaccord analyst Joseph Vafi upgraded Unisys to Buy from Hold with a price target of $30, up from $25. The company's Q2 results are reflective of a "heightened cadence of building business momentum," Vafi tells investors in a research note. The analyst, who has been following Unisys for nearly two decades with a Hold rating, says "all turnaround boxes are now checked." Unisys's pension overhang is removed, business units are realigned and it is seeing a resumption of organic growth with improving margins, says Vafi. He believes the company's core service offerings are becoming more differentiated in the market and that the enterprise digital transformation "wave is a growing tailwind to growth."
Nobody Cares Dept! Slinger Bag partners with Powerway Sports to enter Chinese market Aug. 04, 2021 9:01 AM ET Slinger Bag Inc. (SLBG)Slinger Bag Inc. (SLBG) Slinger Bag (OTCQB:SLBG) to launch into the Chinese market via a five-year distribution partnership with Shanghai and Xiamen-based Powerway Sports. Under the terms of the deal, PWS will be exclusive distributor for Slinger of the Slinger Bag ball launcher, as well as for related Slinger branded accessories. The Chinese tennis market is estimated to be worth in excess of $2B annually. Previously (June 29): Slinger Bag forays into Hong Kong market through partnership with Tennis Bot
i did end up buying some ATOS and wow a rocket today. looking to take profits and not quite sure when to do it: Atossa Therapeutics Inc NASDAQ: ATOS 3.42 USD +0.52 (18.17%)today Aug 4, 10:22 AM EDT
Double Verify Holdings. $DV $35 Sleepy little off the radar stock. I've kept an eye on it since the ipo. What do they do? I'll let the CEO explain. From the last conference call. It's worth the read. The stock's not cheap, but the growth is there. Look at their client list. I like it. $35 or wait for a tech pullback to get in cheaper. CEO: The DoubleVerify story continues to be one of strong revenue growth and profitability, driven by successful product innovation and clear market leadership in a rapidly evolving digital advertising ecosystem. Our accelerated revenue growth is driven by our product success in fast growing sectors such as programmatic, social and CTV and a global expansion strategy that's winning large enterprise clients in a growing number of international markets. Our innovative industry-leading software platform continues to scale rapidly across the global digital advertising ecosystem, driving more data, better analytics and deeper insights, which combine to yield better results for our advertisers. And our growing roster of accreditations and privacy certifications continue to distinguish us in the marketplace. We have raised our full-year revenue guidance and are excited about DV's long-term growth trajectory as our platform expands from verifying the quality of media impressions to helping drive ad performance with the objective of maximizing return on ad spend for our clients. Working to drive performance outcomes create stickier relationships with advertiser partners and greater opportunities to generate revenue. Let's take a few minutes to dig into our key revenue growth drivers. Starting with programmatic, revenue from authentic brand safety, or ABS, our market-leading prebid solution, grew 112% year over year, driven by wide scale adoption on Google's DV360 platform, where it was launched in the fourth quarter of 2020. ABS continues to roll out on additional programmatic buying platforms around the globe, creating greater opportunities for advertisers to upgrade to this premium solution. In the second quarter, we successfully launched ABS on Adform, which is Europe's largest independent programmatic buying platform, as well as on Quantcast and PulsePoint, with rollout expected on Tremor International in the third quarter. As ABS is a premium-priced alternative to our basic programmatic brand safety offering, a portion of the increase in overall programmatic revenue stems from clients upgrading from standard brand safety to ABS as we successfully upsell this unique solution. We believe the success of ABS is a great example of how our platform and its integrations across the ecosystem are a flywheel for growth. Our software platform leverages established technical integrations across the digital advertising ecosystem to capture and process data at scale, allowing us to successfully build and launch new products. Once these products are built, our in-place ecosystem relationships enable seamless upsell and distribution with compounding revenue streams. This virtuous data, innovation, distribution cycle helps build scale and intelligence that deliver better results and attract new clients, spinning the flywheel even faster. Moving to social. Our clear leadership position in this sector helped grow DoubleVerify's social volume by 100% year over year, making up approximately 35% of our direct revenue in the second quarter. DoubleVerify delivers a wide set of MRC-accredited solutions available on the largest social network, Facebook, and we continue to expand and deepen social platform integrations with a growing roster of partners. We recently launched our TikTok viewability and fraud solutions in open beta in 14 markets and are excited about the expansion of this relationship and its potential for future growth. Turning to CTV. Our products continue to gain traction in one of the fastest growing segments of the advertising market. eMarketer now forecasts 2021 CTV ad spend to grow by almost 50% year over year. DoubleVerify grew second-quarter CTV volumes by 89% year over year, driven by DV Video Complete, which is currently the only solution that allows brands to effectively block brand suitability and fraud violations on CTV through video filtering. Advertisers using DV video filtering saw a 49% lower brand suitability violation rate than those who have not yet adopted the tool. DV video filtering for CTV recently received MRC accreditation. We also added fully on screen, which is our measure of CTV viewability, to our list of CTV metrics to receive the MRC stamp of approval, which coupled with our CTV fraud and invalid traffic accreditation, firmly puts us in a leadership position for quality CTV metrics. Additionally, we have recently launched the industry's only app-level CTV brand suitability solution, which offers advertisers wide brand suitability coverage across all CTV platforms, apps and devices. We are the first verification provider to roll out turnkey brand safety tiers and floor controls in alignment with standards advanced by the 4A's Advertising Protection Bureau and World Federation of Advertisers Global Alliance for Responsible Media. And we have recently rolled out these controls on YouTube as well. Shifting to international growth. We now generate revenue in 94 countries. We grew second-quarter APAC revenues by 73% year over year, and EMEA revenues by 62% year over year as we continue to execute our global expansion strategy. We see both extensive white space and competitive opportunities in global regions outside the Americas. We recently won the global business of new enterprise clients, including Diageo, BMW, Philip Morris International, Grupo Bimbo and Bumble. International clients switched to DV based on three key differentiators. The first is the strength of our software platform and its unique ability to seamlessly connect measurement to targeting with our pre- and post-bid capabilities while servicing insights through a consolidated user interface. Second is the depth and granularity of our product integrations across media buying platforms. And third is the scale at which we measure and analyze transaction data. Combined, these factors produce better analytics, which maximize ROI for clients and help us win in head-to-head comparisons with other platforms. DV has won 86% of new or expansion business opportunities over the past five quarters. Direct revenue outside of the Americas grew nearly 66% year over year in the second quarter, representing approximately 24% of direct revenue and exemplifying the expanding opportunity for the application of our software in markets around the globe. On top of our global direct and programmatic growth, we continue to renew and expand revenue-generating partnerships with key supply side platforms and publishers, including MoPub, a market-leading mobile sell-side platform, and Yahoo! JAPAN, one of the largest digital publishers in the APAC region. Building off our successful acquisition of Ad-Juster in 2019, DoubleVerify is now integrated with 85 of the world's largest publishers, enabling us to leverage our data set into accretive solutions across both the buy and sell sides of the digital advertising ecosystem. Let me conclude with an update on our performance solutions and investment in privacy leadership. Our recently launched privacy-friendly performance solutions continue to gain traction, taking advantage of the growing vacuum created by the ongoing deprecation of third-party cookies. Google's announcement to delay cookie deprecation on Chrome gave the industry a brief breather. However, the momentum shifting digital targeting away from cookie-based identifiers is unstoppable as cookie-less venues such as iOS devices and CTV gain increasing advertiser attention. DV custom contextual is a cookie-free and privacy-safe programmatic performance solution that leverages the same best-in-class ontology and semantic science that powers authentic brand safety to maximize the relevance between ads and content. Recently, Vodafone U.K. partnered with us to test DV custom contextual, and the results were exceptional. We delivered over twice as many acquisitions per dollar than Vodafone U.K.'s benchmark and over three times as many as a competitor's contextual strategy that was running in parallel. Custom contextual was recently made available on leading DSPs, including The Trade Desk, MediaMath, Adform, Amazon, Verizon Media, and Xandr. Advertisers regularly using our solution have more than doubled in the second quarter compared to the first quarter of this year. As global market leaders in a rapidly evolving digital ad ecosystem, privacy is at the core of our business. DV's measurement solutions are cookie-free, and we're proud to announce that we are the first in the industry to be awarded privacy certification seals from TrustArc, demonstrating that DV's data protection mechanisms are aligned with core international data protection principles and standards. In summary, Q2 was another strong quarter for DV. We continued to deliver robust growth based on our channel strength in programmatic, social, and CTV, as well as our successes on the global new business development front. But we are winning share and filling in white space around the world. Our market-leading partnerships and platform innovations position us to take advantage of industry tailwinds. We've made tremendous progress to date, and we see a strong long-term growth trajectory ahead. With that, let me turn the call over to Nicola.
IRA Stock-- Roche I think we got a major clue today) SoftBank builds $5B stake in Roche, Bloomberg reports 06:15 SFTBY, RHHBY SoftBank (SFTBY) has quietly built a $5B stake in Roche (RHHBY) and is now one of Roche's largest investors, Bloomberg's Giles Turner and Tom Giles report, citing people familiar with the matter. SoftBank believes Roche's Genentech division, which focuses on data-based drug discovery and development, is highly undervalued, one of the people said,