The Investing Week Ahead: 12/6/21

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In this post, we’ll cover:

• Hot IPOs taking place this week

• Quarterly financial reports worth reading

• Investor events to keep an eye on

• Major economic releases

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The Investing Week Ahead - Too Long, Didn’t Read:

Billions will be raised via this week’s initial public offerings, all eyes on fast-growing tech companies as they release their quarterly earnings, a few CEOs in our coverage universe will be participating in investor conferences this week, and we’ll see just how “transitory” inflation was during the month of November.

IPOs to Watch this Week:

Two massive companies are raising billions this week during their public debuts - one built for digital payments in Brazil and another for constructing multi-cloud infrastructure globally.

• Nu Holdings (NU):

This Cayman Islands-based company founded to “develop an online platform for providing commonly used financial services to consumers in various Latin American countries” is planning to raise $2.5 billion this week through an IPO.

The company generated $612 million in revenue in 2019, $737 million in 2020, and is on track to rake in $1.4 billion in revenue this year - with roughly 48% gross profit margins. This company has a track record of effective marketing - with market expense as a percent of revenue hovering around mid-single digits.

The company’s total addressable market of consumer credit in Brazil is on pace to grow by +30% within the next few years (depicted below) - blazing a clear runway for Nu Holdings to continue their outstanding revenue growth.

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• HashiCorp (HCP):

This California-based company founded to “create a range of infrastructure services (IaaS) for cloud IT deployments for the purpose of simplifying and automating IT operations” is planning to raise $1.1 billion this week through an IPO.

If that was all mumbo jumbo to you, like it was to me, here’s a more detailed (20-minute long) video of their CEO explaining more of what they do.

The company generated $121 million in revenue in 2019, $211 million in 2020, and is on pace to generate $300 million in revenue this year - all with 84% gross profit margins. The company has shown strong execution on growth by their management team given their spend on sales and marketing as a percent of total revenue since 2019 has decreased from 74% to 63%.

The company is still operating at a loss - but their operating margin has improved dramatically from -47% in 2019 to only -28% this year.

Key Earnings Announcements:

After seeing companies like DocuSign and Asana lose so much of their enterprise value after reporting earnings last week, high-growth tech stocks will be all people have their eyes on this week. 

December 6: MongoDB (MDB), Coupa Software (COUP), GitLab (GTLB)

December 7: AutoZone (AZO), ChargePoint (CHPT), PagerDuty (PD), Stitch Fix (SFIX)

December 8: UiPath (PATH), GameStop (GME), Udemy (UDMY)

December 9: Oracle (ORCL), Costco (COST), Broadcom (AVGO), Lululemon (LULU), Chewy (CHWY)

December 10: Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO)

Investor Events:

No real rhyme or reason to the events taking place this week - just try keeping your head on a swivel. 

December 6-8: Raymond James Virtual 2021 Technology Investors Conference

Notable Participants:

• Dell Technologies (DELL)

• Cisco Systems (CSCO)

• Chegg (CHGG)

• GoPro (GPRO)

• Coursera (COUR)

• NXP Semiconductors (NXPI)

December 8: CEO of Southwest Airlines (LUV), Gary Kelly, presents at the company’s 2021 Investor Day

December 9-10: Deutsche Bank Virtual AutoTech Conference

The conference will bring together corporates and investors to discuss current interests in the autotech sector. In addition to management participation, the conference will include panel discussions and one-on-one interviews. I’m hoping to find materials on the Nvidia (NVDA) management team’s presentation.

Major Economic Updates:

Trade balance, job reports, and inflation data - this week will be rocky. 

December 7: US Balance of Trade for October from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

December 8: US Job Openings for October from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

December 10: US Consumer Price Index for November from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Have a great start to your week!

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