The 7investing Podcast

Innovation and regulation are quite often at odds. Technology relentlessly marches onward; yet it also needs to safely serve the common good. This is ever so true in banking. While banking may have traditionally been considered to be a rather conservative industry, its innovation curve has steepened significantly as physical banks have gone digital, digital banks have employed AI for lending, and...

It's an exciting time to invest in the banking sector. Newly-elected President Donald Trump has promised to relax regulations on banks, which could boost lending volumes. The Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates twice during the past two months, which could make companies more eager to borrow. In response, several publicly-traded financial services companies including Upstart Holdings (Nasda...

Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) is helping pharmaceutical companies create and sell new drugs more efficiently. It's cloud-based software platforms Veeva CRM and Veeva Vault have become industry-standards; deeply embedded with Big Pharma's largest companies. There's an upcoming catalyst next year, as Veeva's CRM platform will migrate from being hosted by Salesforce to its own infrastructure. That will...

The Dutch lithography juggernaut ASML (Nasdaq: ASML) has been one of the semiconductor industry's best performing stocks of the past decade. Yet its high-flying shares have sold off 33% in the past three months, perhaps due to its underwhelming forward guidance that could indicate slowing demand. ASML has looked to Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) for much of its growth this past year. Intel has been all-in o...

Lululemon (Nasdaq: LULU) has expanded from being a niche yoga retailer to an international fitness super-brand. New CEO Calvin McDonald has tripled its sales in five years and maintained its industry-leading 20% operating margin. Yet recently, perhaps due to concerns of a slowdown in consumer spending or of rising competition, the stock has been selling for a dirt-cheap valuation. Now priced at ju...

Our newest stock recommendation is now live! On the 1st of each month, 7investing issues its newest official recommendation. This is the one stock it feels most confident in adding to its scorecard (which we also track in real-time at 7investing.com/recommendations ). What led us to recommend this Large Cap, Moderate Risk, Retail company this month? In today's episode, Simon describes 5 specific m...

Booking Holdings (Nasdaq: BKNG) is one of the most efficient publicly-traded companies in the world, converting 50% of its 2024 revenue into cold, hard cash flow. Furthermore, it's using those operating cash flows in shareholder-friendly ways, such as repurchase large amounts of its stock and a newly-initiated dividend. 7investing CEO Simon Erickson takes a look at the company's second qua...

7investing's Watch List of New Ideas  introduces stocks that we've never formally recommended yet are worth considering as future scorecard additions. You can think of this as our pipeline of new investment opportunities. This month, 7investing CEO Simon Erickson is adding two new two European companies:  BE Semiconductor  (OTC: BESIY) and  Novo Nordisk  (NYSE: NVO). He describes why Besi&...

Fertility benefits company Progyny's (Nasdaq: PGNY) stock is selling off 33% in today's trading session after announced it's losing its largest customer who accounted for 13% of the previous year's revenue. This customer was unnamed, but it's most likely Amazon . Even though Progyny has historically had nearly 100% client retention and receives excellent net promoter scores, th...

Upstart Holdings (Nasdaq: UPST) has been one of the investing world's most volatile stocks. Since peaking at $400 per share in late 2021, its stock has fallen more than 90% and sits at just $35 today. Many believe this roller coaster ride has followed the American macroeconomy. The Zero Interest Rate policy directly following COVID was replaced by the fastest rise in interest rates the United...

Sometimes in investing, it's important to change your mind. Such is the case for Celsius Holdings (Nasdaq: CELH). This energy drink company represented one of our highest-conviction ideas in August. Yet further diligence revealed multiple red flags, which 7investing CEO Simon Erickson considers to be deal-breakers for long-term investors. In today's podcast episode, he describes several of...

Wolfspeed (NYSE: WOLF) is one of Wall Street's ultimate battleground stocks. As the world's largest provider of silicon carbide, it supplies one of the most necessary materials for next-generation Electric Vehicles. Based on the size of its potential market and the long-term supply agreements with large automakers, its stock appears to be extremely undervalued. Yet Wolfspeed is also facing...

Tesla always gives investors plenty to talk about! In today's show, 7investing CEO Simon Erickson describes 3 key takeaways from the company's second quarter report: - The all-time high in regulatory credits, driven by attractive financing rates and political uncertainty - The Energy business recognizing an all-time high in revenue and growing 100% in year-over-year comparisons - A product...

The "organ transplant as a service" market is taking the medical world by storm. How long can the accelerated growth rates continue? TransMedics  (Nasdaq: TMDX) is a unique company you might have never heard of. But it’s playing an important role in saving the lives of thousands of Americans every year. As the creator of its patented  Organ Care System  (OCS), it is the only FDA-approved...

United Therapeutics  (Nasdaq: UTHR) is a very smart, very innovative, and very profitable company. First it treated an untreatable disease. Now it's disrupting the entire organ transplant industry. In today's show, 7investing CEO Simon Erickson introduces United Therapeutics, describing why the company was created and its five commercially-approved drugs. He also explains how its four synt...

Innovative Industrial Properties is America's only publicly-traded REIT who's exclusively focused on the cannabis industries. It buys cannabis-growing facilities and then rents the spaces out to tenants through triple-net leases. Business was booming in the zero-interest rate economy, with IIP's committed capital skyrocketing 60-fold from $30 million in 2016 to $2 billion in 2023. But...

Tesla  (Nasdaq: TSLA) is one of the market’s most unique battleground stocks. People either love it or they hate it, the financial media's commentary is either euphoric or miserable, and institutional price targets have ranged everywhere from $10 to $2,000. For the past two weeks, 7investing CEO Simon Erickson has been building a very detailed discounted cash flow for Tesla. He's put all e...

If you’ve ever travelled abroad or tried to send money across international borders, hidden fees and unfair exchange rates have no doubt been a massive and expensive headache. In this week’s episode of the 7investing podcast, Lead Advisors Luke Hallard & Krzysztof Piekarski sit down with Rina Wulfing, Senior Manager for the North American policy team at Wise ($WIZEY) to discuss the company’s o...

ShockWave Medical (Nasdaq: SWAV), the innovative pioneer of intravascular lithotripsy, has received an all-cash acquisition offer from Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) for $335 per share. In today's episode, 7investing advisors Luke Hallard and Simon Erickson discuss why we made ShockWave a 7investing recommendation, several financial details of the offer, and what investors should expect goi...

Investors are continually looking for a good deal in the stock market. But how exactly should we define value ? Quantitatively, publicly-traded companies should serve as compounding machines for their investors. They raise capital -- either through debt or by issuing stock -- then put it to work into projects. If the after-tax profits they generate are greater than their associated costs, they&#39...

We are on a quest to find the best stock opportunities of the year for investors. Enter for free , with a chance to win a $1,000 Amazon gift card and a free year of 7investing! To complement our contest, we'll be publishing seven head-to-head matchups between stocks; and we'll include the winners in our own 7investing Team entry . Our third head-to-head matchup is two companies who are emb...

As part of our Best Stocks of 2024 Contest, we're narrowing down the picks that will be the start of 7investing's entry into our contest! Between now and March 1, 2025, we'll see which stocks will catapult one of our lucky fans to victory, free subscriptions, and a $1000 Amazon gift card. Of course, we'll analyze some great companies along way, like Celsius (CELH), Novo Nordisk (NV...

The Wall Street Journal’s 2024 Health Forum in Boston recently showcased the technology, business, and policy regulations that are impacting the health care industry. With a massive disruption in the medical weight loss industry, new treatments that permanently alter patient DNA, and the ever-present COVID response and its aftermath, this year's conference had plenty of intrigue. For investors...

Enterprise software is so intriguing to investors. The rise of mega-platforms like Meta Platforms (Nasdaq: META), powerful SaaS forces like Salesforce (Nasdaq: CRM), and micro-computer software providers like Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have created several of the best-performing stocks of the past two decades. But things move fast in this innovative field. And we're living in an entirely differe...

The Fed's rampant rate increases have wreaked havoc on stocks in recent years. Yet we're perhaps finally seeing a light emerge at the end of the tunnel. Projections released by the Fed suggest that America's central bank will reduce its Fed Funds target rate multiple times during 2024. The Fed ultimately wants to reach a median target rate of 4.6% by the end of this year. Falling inter...