Expiration and strike price were not shared so unclear what his play is. For reference “the big short” was about 1.3 billion in total placed in 2005-2006 with an expiration around 5 years later around 2010-2011. It was somewhat standard for burry/scion capital and possibly still is so they could be playing this assuming the bubble will pop no later than 2030 (and paying 10s of millions a year to maintain those contracts) or they possibly have data to suggest an earlier expiration is worthwhile. They obviously won’t share this and public disclosures aren’t required
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Well, kinda. To be more specific, he's mostly betting that Palantir is overvalued, which it probably is. Peter Thiel is a nut case.
Well, he's right about the Antichrist. Peter Theil knows about the Antichrist.
Nvidia
$4752 B Market Cap
$165 B Revenue
$100 B Earnings
$40 B Liabilities
$140 B Assets
4752/100 = 47 years to pay up market cap
Palantir
$445 B Market Cap
$3.44 B Revenue
$0.79 B Earnings
$7.36 B Assets
$1.34 B Liabilities
445/0.79 = 569 years to pay up market cap
He's not wrong. It's pumped more than in 1998
1998 didn't have retail investors, meme stocks or Bitcoin. The entire market turned into a carnival, I'm not sure old rules apply. For fucks sake people are trading futures on NFT's.
It's the same game, different rules. People nowadays don't care about the shit that made the companies picked by Berkshire Hathaway successful, like brand recognition or quality, they are about, what, glitter and noise? It's naked gambling on how insane it can all get, and I think there's even odds on the bubble going nuclear and us all getting paid with NvidiaBux a year from now.
Bitcoin is basically just gold but digital. It's sucking away investment capital; one of the chief criticisms against it is that deflation discourages business investment.
Your investment in mutual funds is also an investment in Nvidia which is also an investment in OpenAI. But bitcoin/gold isn't contributing to the value of anything else.
More tech companies :
Oracle
$713.58 B Market Cap
$59.01 B Revenue
$18.07 B Earnings
$180.44 B Assets
$155.78 B Liabilities
713.58/18.07 = 39.48 years
Google
$3433 B Market Cap
$371.39 B Revenue
$140.07 B Earnings
$502.05 B Assets
$139.13 B Liabilities
3433/140.07 = 24,51 years
Apple
$3991 B Market Cap
$408.62 B Revenue
$130.21 B Earnings
$331.49 B Assets
$265.66 B Liabilities
3991/130.21 = 30,65 years
Microsoft
$3769 B Market Cap
$281.72 B Revenue
$123.62 B Earnings
$619.00 B Assets
$275.52 B Liabilities
3769/123.62 = 30,48 years
Amazon
$2674 B Market Cap
$670.03 B Revenue
$85.15 B Earnings
$682.17 B Assets
$348.39 B Liabilities
2674/85.15 = 31,40 years
Meta
$1602 B Market Cap
$178.80 B Revenue
$81.23 B Earnings
$294.74 B Assets
$99.67 B Liabilities
1602/81.23 = 19,72 years
Bank
JPMorgan
$848.45 B Market Cap
$175.65 B Revenue
$71.04 B Earnings
$4552 B Assets
$4195 B Liabilities
848.45/175.65 = 4,83 years
You divided by revenue, not earnings like the others.
For consistency:
848.45/71.04 = 11.943 years
Edit: same with your Microsoft calculation
Thanks, corrected Microsoft
AMD
$415.98 B Market Cap
$29.60 B Revenue
$2.47 B Earnings
$74.82 B Assets
$15.15 B Liabilities
415.98/2.47 = 168,41 years
TSMC
$1522 B Market Cap
$88.34 B Revenue
$42.91 B Earnings
$239.88 B Assets
$81.82 B Liabilities
1522/42.91 = 35,47 years
Aramco ( this one is below 10 yay )
$1671 B Market Cap
$461.56 B Revenue
$193.21 B Earnings
$659.66 B Assets
$212.28 B Liabilities
1671/193.21 = 8,65 years
This guy does nothing but bet that the market will crash. Not to say we aren't in a bubble, but this doesn't mean it's about to pop
He's predicted 12 of the last 2 market crashes
He also lost big on Teslur
What's the ETF or index to bet for AI bubble burst?
While I want both to be true, he's betting against governments wanting actionable intelligence on each and every citizen (although the moat there is shallow, easy for someone else to start a race to the bottom) and massively parallel processors becoming less valuable (remember how smoothly they switched from crypto to AI?, remember when you could buy a gaming video card for less than the rest of your computer, likely another bubble in the wings) plus the whole circular investment is propping up the entire US economy situation, the epitome of too big to fail (without the whole US economy going tits up, which given the current situations is distinctly possible). Actually 8:2 sounds ballpark, but I doubt he's not hedging his bets.
While I want both to be true, he’s betting against governments wanting actionable intelligence on each and every citizen
Not at all... governments can keep that even if ALL commercial AI disappears today. The gov wanting this would keep the tech alive but not commercially viable at all; if anything, the gov would prefer to have it all to themselves and keep whatever advantage it's supposed to provide.
AI, in and of itself, if not more privacy intrusive than: cellphones, facebook, google suite, etc
Governments that think AI can reliably automate this don't understand the technology.
being against governments wanting
A thing they already had and this doesn't help with
but the infra!
That burns out in like two years
but the ponzi scheme can't collapse!
...
A thing they already had and this doesn’t help with
Sorry to necro, but I guess that should have been
governments wanting plausibly deniable, legal implication free, actionable intelligence
as to the others, valid enough, though I doubt they'll be burning out chips (if you cool them properly and server farms do, they become outdated far before they die, even @ <4nm...). Ponzi, yup, sure is, in spades, but that's the finance game now.
I was just watching some videos about China's system they've already been exporting for a tenth of the price
A billion? With what money? A quick search says he’s only worth 1/3 of that. If he’s shorting it he’s gonna be toast.
There is a big media event now to post scary news about the stock market, and push bitcoin and tech stocks down.
Happens now and then when the big investors want to get in cheaper.
Ive seen this dance a lot of times now.
Well then they should post more because it doesn't look like prices are dropping.
Do you know who this guy is?
Welp, I just shorted a bit. I guess bears think alike, or something..
Is it really a bubble?
A lot of the money is coming from the bank accounts of big tech not investors
A concerning amount of investor money in the market is riding on the wellbeing of a few big tech companies. And it got that way because the absurd valuations of those companies is built on speculation that AI will change the economy and company X will benefit from that for reason Y. When it becomes clear that either AI will not change the economy or that company X will not benefit greatly from said changes, that valuation will pop and investor assets will lose value. I'd call that a bubble
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