Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe

Revenues were a little better than expected for the fourth quarter, up to $190 million... continued extremely strong revenue retention rate (168%), very strong backlog with remaining performance obligation of $1.3 billion. At 100X sales though, that's r[...]

I think I answered that as best I can above -- the market has almost never seen these kinds of valuations before, so there's no guarantee that if we collapse from here that these stocks will all bounce back, certainly not within a short time period like 1-[...]

Sure, I can't provide personal advice but when there are questions of general appeal that I can answer to some degree, I do try to answer them in future Friday Files or comments.[...]

It's starting to melt up here now, you can come back![...]

Nope, have never looked at that one.[...]

Fascinating to see behind the curtain, no? It's a pretty extraordinary business, with all that wild marketing and the reader "funnel" really at the heart of it.[...]

Over the past few years I've spent 1-2% of my portfolio buying hedges to protect against a loss of more than 20-25%, generally using IWM and SPY, but you could do the same with QQQ (which is much more richly valued, of course, and more volatile -- so the d[...]

Could certainly be, we know King teased Aeva/IPV last year (I covered that here) in that pricier newsletter. Sometimes [...]

Intel bought Mobileye maybe 4 years ago. They use cameras rather than LiDAR, but last I checked that business was still doing well, too. Don’t know how much impact It has on INTC’s numbers.[...]

Yes, that’s some kind of indexed or variable annuity — looked at it last year at one point, and the teased ideas he talked up his wife having chosen at some point in the past was wildly better than anyone would be able to get in the current market, so [...]

AEye is in the process of going public through a SPAC merger. Details about which SPAC are above, I don’t remember offhand. If you buy SPAC shares and the deal goes through, then you will own AEye. It will change its name and ticker after the deal i[...]

Might work if a couple big winners emerge and you can ignore and hold the basket. That usually feels more apt to me when there are only 1-3 stocks in a segment than when there are 6-8, but maybe I’m just a little overwhelmed by the sudden volume of these[...]

AEye has made its SPAC deal, as noted above, it’s just not finalized yet. The “going public” is mostly a formality now, anyone who wants it can buy into the SPAC today if they like. Assuming, of course, that the vote approves the deal and the mer[...]

Yes, it's very much a double-down on "cheap" -- find the cheapest dozen or so stock markets (by CAPE), out of the 45 markets they monitor, then within those cheaper markets look at the 30-biggest stocks, and choose the 10 most undervalued stocks a[...]

Nope, just not one of the six LiDAR SPACs and also clearly not otherwise a match for the tease -- though I confess I also hadn't noticed Microvision's re-emergence as a LiDAR play.[...]

All of these stocks have pretty impressive connections or partnerships of one sort or another, and maybe you're right about LAZR -- that's certainly the consensus view, going just by the market valuation. When I read up on all these stories I say "wow, th[...]

It's probably a tossup as to whether Velodyne or Luminar is the "most teased" or "most promoted" by pundits, but they've both gotten a lot of enthusiastic coverage over the past six months.[...]

Oh, that Pico stuff? Amazing that they're still around, I remember them being rabidly promoted by someone or other back in 2007 or 2008 for their micro-projection technology, then maybe five years ago by Jeff Brown and others for their 3D sensing tech, wi[...]

Ha! Do love that... a Six Pack of SPACs, maybe that will be the next teaser pitch.[...]

My latest assessment was that they're both reasonable buys, I own more CCI but have been giving AMT the edge as their valuations converge a bit (AMT has better dividend growth and more cash flow flexibility, CCI a higher current yield), latest numbers were[...]