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Why is TSMC’s profit margin much greater than competitors?

Pros and cons of investing in Coca-Cola

Pros and cons of investing in Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola (ticker: KO) was founded in 1892 and listed on the US stock market in 1919. The sugar-sweetened beverages it produces have become well-known sodas in the world. Unlike smaller rival PepsiCo (ticker: PEP),

ROE, the most important management indicator

The Return On Equity (ROE) algorithm is “net profit after tax/shareholder equity × 100%”, which is one of the few financial figures that can be used to measure the operational performance of a company’s leadership team. It represents the efficiency of the company’s profit for shareholders, and it can also be said to measure the company’s overall capital utilization efficiency. Therefore, the higher the value, the better.

Successful investors must persist to the end

Investors must persist to the end

Adobe, a company with no strong competitors in its main business for a long time

Walking helps thinking, get you recharged and refeshed

Walking helps thinking. Earlier I mentioned that investment is actually a boring, tedious, long-term, lonely, basic research that needs to be repeated. Time, patience, and discipline are the three major elements of successful investment.

How does Costco make money?

How does Costco make money? Is it a good company?

Are analyst reports useful?

Are analyst reports useless?

Why did Western hypermarket retailers retreat in China and Taiwan?

Why did Western hypermarket retailers retreat in China and Taiwan? After I published my first Costco post, a Singaporean investor asked this question on my English version of the post.

Amazon vs. Alibaba

The businesses of Amazon and Alibaba are almost the same in all aspects, so the two are highly comparable. Just as Amazon’s stock price is not very good this year, and Alibaba has collapsed by more than 40% now, let us compare the two e-commerce giants in China and the United States.