In today’s briefing:
- Forced Participation
- Weekly Wrap – 16 Jun 2023
- Apple (AAPL) – The Big Apple = Most Valuable Company on Planet Earth
- Q2 Crypto Liquidity Update
- BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust – Europe is undervalued and under-owned
- Royal Bank of Canada: Is It Underperforming Versus Its Canadian Rivals? – Key Drivers
- The Toronto-Dominion Bank: Failed Acquisition Of First Horizon A Positive For Shareholders? – Key Drivers
Forced Participation
- Explosive SPX upside is a result of funds having to chase as most have not participated in the rise above 4,200.
- Our 4,500 target may need to be upgraded with a fresh projection at 4,547. Bull energy slated to extend into late June and like buying dips.
- Will A and H shares be the next rotation flavor? HSCEI 6,600 bull pivot. A50 13,200 resistance.
Weekly Wrap – 16 Jun 2023
Lucror Analytics Weekly Wraps provide an overview of all Morning Views comments and reports published by our analyst team in the past week, and also showcase a list of the most-read reports.
In this Insight:
- Vedanta Resources
- Tata Motors Ltd
- Health And Happiness (H&H)
- Central China Real Estate
- Agile Property Holdings
and more…
Apple (AAPL) – The Big Apple = Most Valuable Company on Planet Earth
- First of all, Apple is the most valuable company on the planet with a $2.8 trillion market capitalisation and eying for the whooping $3 trillion: +41% in 2023 alone.
- And that equates to a total return in the last 10 years of a whooping 1,266%! Note also it was not a smooth run with some big drawdowns which even they had: 2016: 32%, 2019: 39%
- Key take-away: business ownership vs stock ticker mentality is key …
Q2 Crypto Liquidity Update
- While CeFi liquidity has been on a gradual decline this year, which will be the main focus of this article, DeFi is facing a liquidity crisis of sorts in the last few days as one of the most liquid pools in the space becomes heavily imbalanced, so we’ll start there.
- After the latest round of fears surrounding Tether, the 3pool moved to a weight of 75% Tether in the last day, as users rushed out of crypto’s largest stablecoin at once.
- This resulted in Tether depegging to a price of $0.996. This is the most imbalanced the Curve pool has been this year.
BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust – Europe is undervalued and under-owned
BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust (BRGE) is managed by Stefan Gries, who seeks to invest in the best wealth-creating businesses on a minimum three- to five-year view. The process has proved successful as the trust’s NAV has outperformed the Europe ex-UK market over the last one, three, five and 10 years. BRGE is one of seven funds in the AIC Europe sector, and its NAV total returns rank first over the last one, five and 10 years. It has also generated very acceptable double-digit absolute total returns over the last decade: NAV and share price are both +10.9% pa.
Royal Bank of Canada: Is It Underperforming Versus Its Canadian Rivals? – Key Drivers
- Royal Bank of Canada delivered a mixed set of results for the previous quarter with revenues above the analyst consensus.
- Capital Markets had another solid quarter despite a challenging climate for global investment banking fee pools.
- Besides, the entrenched benefits of their structural low-beta core deposit business persisted this quarter, indicating the latent impact of recent interest rate increases.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank: Failed Acquisition Of First Horizon A Positive For Shareholders? – Key Drivers
- Toronto Dominion delivered a mixed result in the recent quarter with revenues above market expectations but it failed to surpass the analyst consensus in terms of earnings.
- During the last quarter, TD’s Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking segment showed steady progress, with increased net income and revenue.
- Loan volumes and deposits saw modest growth, although there was a shift towards term deposits and higher-yielding investments.