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Global stocks or foreign stocks give investors exposure to regions and countries outside where they're domiciled to help avoid domestic bias. Before purchasing any global stocks, it's important to understand the global investable market - in other words, all the stocks on this planet. These can be found as a collection in an index produced by MSCI called the All Country World Index - also called ACWI - which contains 99% of the world's investable stocks. It's further broken down into emerging markets and developed markets which have a weak correlation. While the former has more embedded risks, the latter has outperformed meaningfully over the past 15 years. If you're wondering if you should invest in global stocks (you should at least consider it), or how you might invest in global stocks (we propose the easiest way for everyone), then this video on foreign stocks is for you.

Also, the Hank Hill joke at the video start is a classic. The presenter actually pulled that one off on a "patron" at Joe Bananas in Wan Chai much to the amusement of his rugby teammates. They used to call it "East Admiralty" because some of the wives wouldn't let their husbands go to Wan Chai. And if you said "Wan Chai," you were immediately fined. Same thing for saying Pattaya instead of "Bangkok Suburbs."

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Opendoor stock has been rising lately along with all other real estate services companies. Investors need to take a step back first and look at what exposure they're getting from an investment in OPEN stock. It's not a property tech firm, it's more like a property management firm. You see, Opendoor acquires homes which then sit on their balance sheet until they're sold for a profit. With gross margins of 10% during good times, there isn't a lot of buffer for when the property market sees a downturn. Last quarter saw gross margins of 5% which might be further squeezed if the bottom falls out of the residential property market. How many people are keen to buy a new house when mortgage rates exceed 7%? We find Opendoor stock to be way too risky for our tastes, even if they were a SaaS model with no exposure to the property process. Want exposure to residential properties in America? Invest in REITs instead.

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Proteomics stocks like Codexis CDXS, Seer SEER, Somalogic SLGC, Olink OLK, Quanterix QTRX, Nautilus Biotechnology NAUT, and Quantum Si QSI have attracted lots of attention from retail investors who see the potential in studying the world of proteins - a field referred to as proteomics. It's been about a year since we last checked in with these seven protein stocks, and a revisit shows that Olink has managed to transition their business model from majority services to majority platform. At the same time, Quanterix has been executing on their turnaround plan with growth expected to resume next year. As for the other proteomics stocks on our list, we're avoiding them all for various reasons presented in this video update.

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LiDAR stocks aren't looking very good after eight LiDAR companies went public using the SPAC method. One has already gone bankrupt - Quanergy - but Hesai Group has taken their place. This Chinese LiDAR firm pursued the traditional listing method, but there's a much bigger question to ask here. Does investing in LiDAR stocks make sense in the first place? Of the remaining LiDAR stocks out there, Luminar is the biggest, but they're selling stuff for less than it costs to produce. As for Ouster stock and Velodyne stock, there's now merged into a single entity which doesn't appear overly compelling. We'll probably want to wait until next year to see if the synergies result in a LiDAR stock worth looking at. As for Cepton stock, Aeva stock, Aeye stock, and Innoviz stock, all these companies need to focus on selling LiDAR solutions for more than they cost to produce, and at meaningful quantities of $10 million per year or more.

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AMD stock vs NVIDIA stock. There's only one reason investors are interested in how these two companies compare. It's because they're hoping AMD stock takes off at the same trajectory as NVDA stock. As long-time investors in $NVDA, we want to see what competitive threat AMD proposes. The answer is, not much. What we did learn when comparing these two companies is that NVIDIA sits in its own world with an inflated stock price that's tripled in six months. That means any AMD stock analysis needs to detach itself from NVIDIA and judge the company on its own merits. AMD doesn't appear overvalued, though we question the "purity" of their data center segment when it comes to GPUs AI hardware exposure. Maybe their acquisition of Xilinx's FPGAs might help them steal market share from NVIDIA which claims upwards of 80% of the AI hardware GPU market.

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Finding top growth stocks starts with defining what a growth stock is. For the definition of a growth stock, we can turn to global index provider MSCI which built a growth vs value methodology that uses five variables to find growth stocks. The end result is two universes of growth stocks and value stocks, though the same stock might be found in both universes because stocks can have both growth and value characteristics (it all comes down to weighting). Once we've defined a universe of global growth stocks, we can then identify the top growth stocks by weighting for any country or region. Prior to investing in growth stocks, you should know how they're defined, and that's what this video will teach you.

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The ARK Space ETF ARKX is one of ARK's thematic ETFs, albeit one of the least popular. We also think $ARKX is the least compelling based on the top-ten constituents. That's not ARK's fault though, because there aren't many great pure-play space stocks out there. We cover 27 space stocks in our tech stock catalog, but we're only holding one. We "like" a few others, but the rest we're avoiding. The main takeaway here is that we don't think ARKX provides enough pure-play exposure to space stocks, and that NewSpace investors would be better served cherry-picking some pure-play stocks. Note that space - along with 3D printing - is a theme that's difficult to invest in because the thesis is changing all the time while the companies on offer aren't all that great.

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The best dividend stocks are those which will survive. That's the ultimate goal of every business. If you're trying to find the best dividend stock, think about it like this. If you could only hold one stock, what stock would that be? Sure, NVIDIA pays a dividend, but that's a tech stock, and technologies change very quickly. When looking for a company that is likely to survive for the next fifty years, you may want to consider track records. What companies have proven they can not only pay but increase their dividend for at least 25 years in a row? These are called "dividend champions," and we would propose that the best dividend stock can be found within this universe of dividend stocks. Other characteristics of the best dividend stock would be size (larger will be more likely to survive) and preferably spread out across multiple industries in the form of a conglomerate. We ranked our entire universe of 70-plus dividend champions and two names bubbled to the top.

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SoFi stock has been tearing up the charts as cheerleaders mindlessly push shares of SoFi, though it's unlikely most can answer one simple question - what does SoFi do? A better question would be where SoFi's revenues come from, and 2/3 come from unsecured loans (43% of which are personal loans). With unsecured consumer debt at an all time high along with interest rates and a lot of irresponsible loan recipients asking for the government to "forgive" money they rightfully borrowed, this isn't exposure we want anything to do with. The only hope would be that SoFi's other two revenue segments - Technology and Financial Services - grow enough to diversify away their strong dependence on unsecured consumer loans. Should all these HENRYs start running into problems because many are dumb enough to live paycheck to paycheck, it's going to wreak havoc on SoFi's balance sheet where lots of this debt sits because institutions no longer have the same appetites for these securitized loans. $SOFI stock is one we'll be avoiding going forward.

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Our Adobe stock analysis starts with a look at what Adobe actually does - they power creative types with content creation and marketing tools. Growth for Adobe has been solid double digits over the past decade, though that's stalled recently. (Adobe stock is still richly valued with a simple valuation ratio of 12.) Perhaps that's why they decided to pay so much to acquire Figma, or at least they plan to (the Figma acquisition hasn't been approved by regulators yet). The big topic for analysts lately has been how generative AI might threaten ADBE stock. AI will reduce the need for creative types, and consequently impact Adobe's subscriptions. Adobe spins this as a positive, though we're more concerned with how Adobe might be impacted once all the "influencers" and "creators" realize it takes a ton of work to go beyond the $100-per-year mark and begin cancelling their subscriptions and looking for real jobs. Advocates of the creator economy would have a different opinion, but our view on $ADBE stock is that it doesn't offer the sort of disruption we're looking for.