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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

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