Analysts estimate that China is at least five years away from chip independence, but it is having initial luck on lower-end chips, like the flash memory used in smartphones. Since the focus is on building self-reliance, not necessarily profitability, China’s chip push could spell pricing-related trouble for entrenched rivals like South Korean giants Samsung Electronics (005930.Korea) and SK Hynix (000660.Korea), and U.S.-based Micron. Micron is less diversified than Samsung and could also lose out if China begins to favor Asian suppliers to hedge its bets. Micron declined to comment on China’s chip initiatives.
Athos Capital Ltd trimmed its holdings in Gridsum Holding Inc – (NASDAQ:GSUM) by 74.5% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 72,656 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 211,748 shares during the period. Gridsum accounts for approximately 0.2% of Athos Capital Ltd’s holdings, making the stock its 22nd largest holding. Athos Capital Ltd owned approximately 0.29% of Gridsum worth $162,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Make sense. Thanks for that. Like I said helps with your extensible portfolio given this current environment. And we may have sort of touched on this a little bit in your comments and some of your answers. But given you remain prudent to operate below your targeted leverage range, could you please lay out some parameters or conditions both internal and external, you would consider operating at both the lower end and the top end of new target range in 2019?
The companies are still grappling with their own challenges—China’s economic slowdown is denting Alibaba’s sales, increased investment and marketing are pressuring Baidu’s margins, and regulations around gaming loom over Tencent’s stock. Those challenges are now reflected in the stocks. The three companies lost a total of $229 billion in market value last year, and each trades below its five-year price/earnings ratio. They may be China’s—and investors’—best hope for remaining part of the global tech landscape.
On the balance sheet side in March, we completed a small secondary equity issuance that was immediately created from earnings and book value basis with year-over-year return on net value of 12.1% versus the return on equity based on net income of 11.6% for the full year.
One shared kitchen startup, Panda Selected, plans to announce on Friday a $50 million investment from a group of international backers. The Beijing-based company is snapping up real estate to get ahead of local rivals and a deep-pocketed competitor from Los Angeles run by Travis Kalanick, the billionaire co-founder of Uber Technologies Inc.
For the week, the Dow was up 0.6% -- extending its winning streak to nine. The Nasdaq was also up for the 9th straight week, finishing up 0.7%. The S&P 500 was up 0.6% for the week.
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Congress has introduced bipartisan bills to ban the sale of U.S. chips and components to Huawei and other Chinese telecom companies breaking the law or violating sanctions. Lawmakers finding common ground on the issue illustrates the magnitude of the threat, which has been complicated by U.S. companies turning to China’s 1.4 billion consumers for growth.
PNC has been the topic of a number of research reports. Bank of America lowered shares of PNC Financial Services Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 10th. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price target on shares of PNC Financial Services Group to $150.00 and set an “average” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, January 17th. Credit Suisse Group decreased their price target on shares of PNC Financial Services Group from $150.00 to $146.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, December 7th. Goldman Sachs Group lowered shares of PNC Financial Services Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price target for the company from $154.00 to $144.00 in a research note on Monday, January 7th. Finally, Morgan Stanley cut their price objective on shares of PNC Financial Services Group from $147.00 to $135.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 8th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, thirteen have issued a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company. The stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $145.45.
US officials are also increasing the size of their delegation to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month with the aim of dissuading other nations from buying from Huawei. The US team plans to stump for other providers, such as Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia, according to one of the officials, according to a separate Bloomberg report.
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