The 7investing Podcast

Walmart had a somewhat surprising reveal Tuesday when it said it was entering the crowded last-mile shipping market not just for its own items but for other retailers. The new service, GoLocal, will be white label meaning that it won’t carry the Walmart branding. The company was not specific about its plans but it did say it planned to use emerging technologies including drones and driverless vehi...

Our 7investing team is all about showing the transparency of our investing process. We hold Team Calls each month, for our advisors to get together to discuss the opportunities and the risks that face each of our investment recommendations. We provide these calls every month for our paying 7investing subscribers, as a complement to our official recommendation reports. Today, we're giving a sneak-p...

“Free Guy” has had a solid two-week run at the global box office and it was released only in theaters. Does this show that the traditional movie release model can still work? In addition, we’ll look at Boeing making an investment in Virgin Orbit, and the impact of rising fast food wages. And, to close the show, Dan Kline and Steve Symington will be talking about your stock market regrets on "7inve...

Is Facebook a monopoly? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) thinks so and it has filed a new complaint against the company after a federal judge rejected an earlier filing. The new suit alleges that Facebook “used anticompetitive acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to further its monopoly power and that it also unfairly blocked rivals from accessing its application programming interface (API).”...

One of 7investing's key principles is to think longer-term. There's a lot of short-term noise in the market, which causes significant volatility in stock prices. Patient investors who can tune this noise out and focus on the bigger picture have an excellent chance of improving their long-term returns. There is also significant volatility in the world of cryptocurrencies. Traders obsess over the da...

The stock market fell on Tuesday after reaching an all-time high Monday. Investors have become a little bit spooked by the rising number of coronavirus cases caused by the Delta Variant and, perhaps, panicked that a 1.1% drop in retail sales in July may be a sign of darker days ahead. Dan Kline is joined by Maxx Chatsko to explain what’s actually happening and why a little slowdown in consumer spe...

Concerns are on high as the number of cases of the COVID Delta variant continues to rise, causing confusion for businesses, schools, and families. How is this looking in the United States, Australia, Canada, and several other nations? 7investing lead advisors Anirban Mahanti and Dana Abramovitz share the long-term business impacts of the Delta variant, how investors should calibrate their expectat...

Low interest rates and skyrocketing housing prices have been raising the roof on the rental market. What impact will this have on the overall US economy? 7investing lead advisors Dan Kline and Maxx Chatsko share their thoughts. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $39...

The solid performance of Softbank’s legendary Vision Fund helped the company report record-breaking earnings earlier this year. But due to China’s unpredictable regulations, Softbank has now pulled the plug on all new investments in the country. Is China’s recent tech selloff a long-term opportunity, or is it a harbinger of more bad things to come? 7investing lead advisors Simon Erickson and Steve...

Logistics may be one of the most important things you rarely think about. When you get two day, one day, or even same-day delivery, an awful lot of moving parts have to come together to make that happen. GXO Logistics  (NYSE: GXO) will be one of the companies working behind the scenes to make the magic happen. Spun-off earlier this month from  XPO Logistics  (NYSE: XPO), a top ten g...

Sometimes the best investment ideas come from companies seeking to disrupt well-entrenched industries. That, of course, isn’t easy to do because the establishment has a well-vested interest in protecting the status quo. Health care offers a lot of opportunity for disruption, but it also may come with as many roadblocks as any other area. Dana Abramowitz and Simon Erickson join Dan Kline for 7inves...

The House of Mouse reported its third-quarter earnings on August 12 and the numbers told a lot about where the company stands as parts of its business recover from the pandemic while other segments continue to (in some ways) benefit from it. It was a massive success for Disney which saw its business segment which includes its theme parks return to profitability and its streaming service continue t...

Long-term success in investing is about much more than just picking good stocks. There are several lurking landmines that could wreak havoc on our long-term investment returns. Emotional and unconscious biases often convince us to buy or sell great companies at exactly the wrong time. Ecstatic bubbles can pop and create panic-laden recessions, causing broader-market sell offs that torpedo entire s...

There has been good news and bad news for American consumers. Wages, especially at the bottom end of the workforce have been rising, but those gains have seen their impact muted by price increases in a number of areas. Some have called this inflation, but it’s not that simple. While there likely is some inflation in the market, there are also clear supply chain issues that have driven up prices fo...

Fastly’s growth rates have come to a screeching halt, and its customers are infuriated over a recent network outage. Are these short-term blips that are correctable? Or are they indicative of longer-term problems with the company’s technology? 7investing lead advisors Anirban Mahanti and Dan Kline discuss Fastly’s Content Delivery Network and whether it is sustainable as a long-term investment. We...

After a disappointing first day of trading, Robinhood’s stock has regained confidence from investors. Is this just short-term noise, or are there important new developments that long-term investors should be aware of? 7investing lead advisors Dana Abramovitz and Steve Symington take a closer look at one of the stock market’s most recent IPOs. The two also dig into a new educational program that Ta...

Simon Property Group has disclosed its sales have now fully recovered to their 2019 levels. Post-pandemic, what items are consumers most interested in buying from malls? 7investing lead advisors Dan Kline and Maxx Chatsko discuss why certain “A-List” malls could be lucrative long-term investment opportunities that are benefiting from pent-up demand. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower yo...

Square’s acquisition of Afterpay will give it access to the fast-growing Buy Now Pay Later market. Was this a good acquisition, or was the price tag too expensive? 7investing lead advisors Anirban Mahanti and Steve Symington discuss Square’s underappreciated network effects and why the company is so excited about integrating BNPL into its existing Cash App. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to em...

Daniel Anstandig, the CEO and Co-Founder of Futuri -- an innovative company focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of media through an enterprise tech platform --  joined the 7investing podcast to explain what his company does and share his thoughts on the future of media. Futuri has targeted making content companies more effective. The emerging brand uses an artificial intelligence (AI) sys...

When Caribou Biosciences (NASDAQ: CRBU) became the seventh publicly-traded CRISPR stock in July 2021, I saw an exchange on social media. One person asked why the company sported a market valuation of $900 million when another newly-public CRISPR stock, Verve Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VERV), was valued near $2.3 billion. "Is there any reason for this other than the timing of the IPOs?", asked the indiv...

Robinhood’s first day as a publicly-traded company didn’t quite go as planned. Is this company a long-term investment opportunity? 7investing lead advisors Dana Abramovitz and Simon Erickson analyze how Robinhood makes its money and whether those revenue streams are long-term sustainable. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the...

Markets have been propped up by low interest rates for quite some time, yet inflation looms on everyone’s mind. What could be the impact for long-term investors? 7investing lead advisors Maxx Chatsko and Steve Symington share their take on the Fed’s recent actions, the potential for transitory inflation, and certain pockets of the economy that are a bit ‘frothier’ than others. Welcome to 7investin...

The world is adjusting to the new normal of the COVID pandemic. But what could resurging cases of its Delta variant mean for the stock market? 7investing lead advisors Anirban Mahanti and Dan Kline evaluate the impact of the pandemic on companies with international supply chains and share their advice for long-term investors. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your futu...

China is threatening stricter regulations on its businesses who are listed on American exchanges. What could this mean for long-term investors? 7investing Lead Advisors Maxx Chatsko and Simon Erickson dig into variable interest entities, what it means to be ‘delisted’, and what China is ultimately trying to achieve on the global stage. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in...

In a Sunday surprise Square reported its second quarter earnings and dropped the news that it will buy Australian buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firm Afterpay for $29 billion. The all-stock transaction will give Afterpay shareholders 0.375 shares of Square class A stock for every share they own. That’s roughly a 30% premium from where shares closed at the end of the market day Friday. Anirban Mahanti an...