11th October 2019

Orbis Investments: When expectations and reality diverge

On July 17th, something odd happened in the stock market. Netflix released its quarterly results, reporting that revenue had grown by a whopping 26% year-on-year. That is equivalent to doubling revenues every three years, and it puts Netflix squarely among the fastest-growing 10% of companies globally. But stranger things have happened than Netflix growing quickly. Almost immediately, the company’s stock fell more than 10%.

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Rathbones Asset Management - The Sharpe End podcast: Fresh Intel

A month into Andy Burnham’s tenure as Prime Minister, the team are asking what he could possibly do to turn the UK economy and stock market around. Next, we explore the rally in software stocks, as improving growth expectations reignite enthusiasm for some names in the sector that many had written off just a year ago. Finally, this month’s stock spotlight is Intel – a company that helped build the modern technology industry and is now attempting an ambitious turnaround as a crucial beneficiary of the broad AI infrastructure build-out.

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