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Nvidia Enters the Trillion Dollar Club


The Chip-making company: Nvidia, has now a market worth almost as much as Amazon.

 

Nvidia is America’s largest semiconductor company and has vaulted past the $1 trillion market capitalization mark, a milestone reached by only a handful of companies including Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. While many of these are household names, Nvidia has only freshly gained extensive attention amidst the AI boom.

 

The Infographic used here compares Nvidia to the seven companies that have reached the trillion-dollar club.

Nvidia Enters the Trillion Dollar Club #Infographic

 

The Global Cloud Market Dominated by Big Three


The online retailer’s profitable cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has established itself as an early leader in the market for cloud infrastructure and is still ahead in the list. The reports from Synergy Research Group estimate that Amazon’s market share in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market amounted to 32 percent in the first quarter of 2023, continuing a slight downward trend that saw its market share slip from 34 percent in Q3 2022, to 33 percent in Q4 2022. At the very time, Microsoft gained two points since Q3 2022 and now sits at 23 percent market share, gradually taking away the lead from Amazon.

The Global Cloud Market Dominated by Big Three #Infographic

 

Tesla Announces Unbeatable Profit Margins


Tesla made quite a surprising announcement in January this year, that it would be cutting prices on its vehicles by as much as 20%.

 

Even though price cuts are not new in the automotive world, they surely are for Tesla. The company, which generally has been unable to keep up with demand, has seen its order backlog shrink from 476,000 units in July 2022, to 74,000 in December 2022.

 

This has been attributed to robust production growth of Tesla, which saw 2022 production increase 41% over 2021 (from 930,422 to 1,313,851 units).

 

Apparently, the days of “endless” demand of Tesla are over, Tesla is going on the offensive by reducing its prices. This is a step that puts pressure on competitors, but has also annoyed existing owners of this brand.

 

Tesla Announces Unbeatable Profit Margins #Infographic

Microsoft's Growth Hindered by Strong U.S. Dollar & PC Market

 

The release of financial statements of Microsoft for the quarter ending December 2022 presented investors and observers with a mixed bag. Even though the revenue was recorded to be an all-time high of $52.7 billion, the operating income of this tech company dropped by more than $1 billion compared to the previous three-month period. This can be attributed to a considerable cooling of the PC market, which hit OEM bundling business of Microsoft and resulted in a continued decline of revenue in the Windows segment. The company's saving grace: An increased focus on cloud solutions and Artificial Intelligence, welcomed by CEO Natya Sadella as the "next major wave of computing" in the accompanying earnings call.

 

Microsoft's Growth Hindered by Strong U.S. Dollar & PC Market #Infographic

 

The Leading Businesses in the World in 2022


The year 2022 has been shaped by rough macroeconomic headwinds. Millions and millions of dollars were wiped away in public company market capitalizations, investor confidence decreased, and cost burdens squeezed consumer pocketbooks.

 

Considering all factors, many of the world’s leading businesses experienced harsh declines in market share. Still, a few companies in key sectors managed to have positive growth over the year.

 

As 2022 has ended, the infographic shows the leading businesses in the world, using data from Companiesmarketcap.com.

The Leading Businesses in the World in 2022 #Infographic

 

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Control Cloud Market


Being recognized as a primary leader in the market for cloud infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the online retailer’s profitable cloud platform, is still ahead of the pack. The Synergy Research Group estimates that market share of Amazon in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market amounted to 34 percent in the third quarter of 2022. This figure still is higher than the combined market share of its two largest competitors, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

 

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Control Cloud Market #Infographic

The Decline in Trillion Dollar Market Cap Club


Federal Reserve has aggressively tightened the trillion dollar market cap club. This has caused tech stocks to plunge back to Earth in 2022, and has shaken up the membership of this club.

 

The four current members of this exclusive club are:

 

Company

Sector

Date Market Cap Hit $1T

Market Cap (Nov 3, 2022)

Apple (AAPL)

Tech

Aug 2, 2018

$2.21 trillion

Aramco (2222)

Energy

Dec 11, 2019

$2.01 trillion

Microsoft (MSFT)

Tech

Apr 25, 2019

$1.60 trillion

Alphabet (GOOGL)

Tech

Jan 16, 2020

$1.08 trillion

 

The Decline in Trillion Dollar Market Cap Club #Infographic

The Cities that are at the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?

A housing bubble can be described as a market condition when prices rise beyond what most people consider as sustainable or reasonable. One good way to identify if this condition exists is to look at home prices in terms of household income. In a balanced housing market, the median home price is about four times the median household income. When it starts to exceed five times, a bubble is forming.


In a recent survey released by investment bank UBS, it was found out that the Canadian city Toronto had the highest risk of a housing bubble developing. Other cities at high risk include Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Munich, Zurich and Vancouver.

The Cities that are at the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble #Infographic

When Reddit Took Over the Stock Market

During the pandemic, the market crashed and social media users naturally found an investment/finance community online as the world went into lockdown. 


One of these communities can be found on Reddit. These Redditors began to notice that big time investors were shorting GameStop stock, meaning they were selling shares they didn’t own and waiting for the stock price to drop so that they could then buy back the shares at a lower price and gain a profit before giving shares back to their rightful owner. A little shady, sure, but not illegal, nor uncommon. 

When Reddit Took Over the Stock Market #Infographic

2021 Dividend Aristocrats

A basket containing around 65 stocks in the S&P 500 Index is the US dividend aristocrat. These companies have been working for the past 25 years in order to grow their dividend aristocrat. Know that growing these aristocrats is not a piece of cake. It requires immense hard work, strategic plans, economic environments, etc. Moreover, a company must have a stable business model that can withstand various factors such as market crashes.

2021 Dividend Aristocrats #infographic

Top online marketplaces in the world

With the term “online marketplaces,” the platforms that pop in the minds of the majority of Europeans and Americans are Amazon and eBay. However, to our surprise, these widely known e-commerce platforms rank at the third and fifth position, respectively. Now you must be wondering if these hold third and fifth positions, which platforms are resting at upper ranks; let’s find out.

According to the infographic, Alibaba-owned Chinese online marketplaces, i.e., Taobao and Tmall, are the leading e-commerce platforms with a gross merchandise volume of $490.3 billion and $463.5 billion, respectively (as of 2019). Taobao’s GMV grew by 4 percent compared to that in 2018 whereas, Tmall saw a great year-by-year increase of 17 percent.

Top online marketplaces in the world #infographic

Windows OS dominates the global market

It is no surprise to know that the Windows Operating System stays ahead of all the other competitors in the market including the Mac OS. Apple’s Mac OS has always been the closest competitor to the Windows OS for quite a long time but was never able to be strong enough to challenge Windows OS in the global market share.

Windows OS dominates the global market #infographic

Gold demand reduces by 14% worldwide

Unlike previous decades when people had lots of gold and were loaded with heavy gold jewelry, most people have stopped wearing gold nowadays. Some fear of it getting stolen whereas, the majority of the people couldn’t afford the sky-touching prices of it. World Gold Council reports that the demand for gold since 2008 have dropped drastically by 14% in the final quarter of 2020.

Gold demand reduces by 14% worldwide #infographic

Effects of Covid-19 on global car markets

The long list of markets and industries impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic includes global car markets as well. In the past year, major car markets in the world have had the roughest time ever where their sales dropped drastically. The infographic below reveals the countries where car markets have faced unimaginable loss; the data is collected by the reports of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). According to it, the EU member states’ newly registered passenger cars declined by 24 percent in the year 2020. Moreover, other fellow states also faced double-digit losses in their car market.

The number of sales fell by 29 percent in the UK, followed closely by Italy, where 28 percent fewer new registrations were recorded. However, the new registrations in Germany’s car market had a loss of 19 percent in 2020 as compared to the previous year. Among all these countries, China is the one with the least percent loss in sales of new cars was recorded, i.e., only 6.1 percent.

Effects of Covid-19 on global car markets #infographic

Apple leads the global smartphone market

Apple has always been ahead of other smartphone companies, mostly because of its incredible fame and craze among people all around the globe. Despite being pretty expensive, iPhones have always been the foremost choice for a large number of the world's population. The infographic below shows that Apple is once again leading the global smartphone market among the top five smartphone companies in the world.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, Apple launched its new iPhone models, i.e., the iPhone 12 series, which are also the company's first-ever 5G smartphones. The tech giant saw a phenomenal spike in sales after the launch of its 5G smartphones, which also pushed Apple to the top rank in the entire smartphone market worldwide.

Apple leads the global smartphone market #infographic

How to slow down ROI measurement

Half the world is led by businesses in today’s era, leading us to the number of investments made every second of the day. To run a business, a person must be well-aware of the efforts and patience it requires. While some businesses take less time to produce fruitful results, the others take a longer time to be able to measure the Return On Investment or ROI. The task of performing ROI measurement is done to check whether your investment has gained you any profit or not. It is not considered clever to measure your ROI in the early months of starting a business, as measurements of these sorts take time to form.

How to slow down ROI measurement #infographic

Expert 2021 Predictions

After taking a deep look into the past sequence of events, experts from around the world decided to list down predictions for the future. The current year is still very much a black box for most people out there, and rightly so; the recent events did not allow them time to play in their favor. The following infographic addresses all the future predictions made by the experts concisely and powerfully.

Expert 2021 Predictions #infographic

How have developers heated up the gaming market?

A massive, broad and hard-to-neglect market, gaming has been on a drastic rise due to the moves made by the developers in recent years. The gaming industry has always been believed to be a market where it gets super hard to succeed, followed by many failures. Even though there have been lackluster consoles like N-Gage by Nokia and flop games such as Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers despite having a big name, the gaming market is still making billions of dollars every year and is growing with a pace no one could ever imagine.

Mobile gaming is the fastest growing in the entire gaming industry. According to the studies, around $85 billion sales are generated via mobile gaming in 2020, which is more than 50% of the total gaming revenue of the year. Streaming services have boosted mobile gaming as it cannot be done on the consoles. Tech giants like Apple, Amazon and Google, and play services like Microsoft and Sony have launched either personal cloud streaming services or game subscription services, some of them have even rolled out both of them. Games are updated with new and interesting more, and better subscription offers to keep the users glued to the game.

How have developers heated up the gaming market? #infographic

CBD and its extensive market

Recent years has opened many doors for potentially strong businesses in America. Fortunately, the government agreed to legalize Cannabis, and without wasting much time, the businesses instantly kicked off their work. Cannabis has now become an asset to thousands of industries as its supply and application has helped many relative industries to serve in several different areas. Cannabis is composed of Cannabidiol or CBD, which is considered to be a major source of interest for Chemical laboratories where its benefits and applications are studied carefully and then particularly engineered to run several businesses.

To dive into a little more detail, we have put together some interesting facts and applications of CBD, which are extensively used for health care purposes. From providing a simple anti-inflammatory cream to playing a huge part in treating cancer in the body, this substance has the ability to give mind-boggling results.

CBD and its extensive market #infographic

The Impact of Vertical Farming on the Market and Economy


What is vertical farming exactly? With so many methods out of traditional farming already available, do even need to have a new method? Basically, vertical farming kind of mimics vertical buildings. This means that it has stacks layered on top of one another, having containers with plants of all types. There is, of course, the space for these plants to grow. How it differs from traditional methods is awe-striking. 



Firstly, it is a method which is soilless. this can have its benefits as leaving soil to natural environments can be harmful if there are pesticides, monsoons and other reasons. Secondly, vertical farming is done in a controlled environment. This provides more flexibility to take care of plants. For instance, the temperature can be controlled.


The Impact of Vertical Farming on the Market and Economy #Infographic

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