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Unpopular trades Part XXI

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Were sold:

$AAPL (+1.31%)

Apple is overvalued in my opinion, no longer particularly innovative and while the debt is rising, the equity continues to fall. I could of course be wrong, but then I would still have one position less in my portfolio (54) and in the end I still have a lot of Apple thanks to the ETFs.

$IBM (+0.88%)

$WM (+1.58%) 🥹

$HPQ (+2.61%)

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Rheinmetall was purchased $RHM (+2.04%)

Hindenburg Research has several specific & intended accounting
errors at Super Micro Computer $SMCI

found. Hindenburg Research is a short seller fund, that investigatively focuses on companies that actively defraud or have violated laws.

I would like to explain in this post what the allegations are.

• Super Micro has already received revenue before the delivery of goods and for partial deliveries recognized. This practice is contrary to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and can lead to an artificial inflation of revenue numbers.

• There are hidden transactions with the companies Ablecom and Compuwarethat are linked to the CEO of Super Micro and his brothers and his brothers. These connections were not properly disclosed, which could have transparency and integrity of the company's financial reporting, Hindenburg said.

• After settling previous SEC violations, Super Micro has reinstated executives involved in prior accounting scandals accounting scandals. This is a disregard for compliance.

• There are allegations that Super Micro circumvented internal controls in order to sales and profit margins to inflate sales and profit margins.

In addition to these accusations, Super Micro also has other problems which I will explain here.

• Loss of Tesla $TSLA as an exclusive customer was a major backlash. Tesla was an important customer and has reduced its dependence on Super Micro and instead signed significant contracts with Dell
  $DELL instead, according to reports from May
  2024 and statements by Elon Musk emerged.

• Super Micro admits that large tech companies, such as Amazon and Digital Ocean, are hardly represented anymore. Amazon has terminated the collaboration due to delivery problems terminated. Digital Ocean has also turned its back on Super Micro and joined Dell switched to Dell.

What's more, the quality of some products is poor.

• Genesis Cloud is described on the Super Micro website as a "success story" but both current and former employees report disastrous technical experiences.

• GMI Clouda start-up provider in Asia and the USAreported an error rate of 17,5% for its orders of 256
  Super Micro servers and after less than a year switched to HP $HPQ (+2.61%) .

• An employee of NexGen Clouda Nvidia
  $NVDA (-2.05%) partner, reported that up to 50% of the Super Micro orders received from Super Micro firmware problems had firmware problems.

• Several former employees and channel partners have confirmed that the poor after sales service of Super Micro is preventing the company from retaining customers. One former salesperson described service as the company's Achilles heel.

Earnings times today (+6h for CEST) ⏰

$NVDA (-2.05%)

$CRWD (+4.23%)

$CRM (+1.64%)

$AFRM (+5.49%)

$OKTA (+1.91%)

$FIVE (+2.47%)

$PSTG (+1.62%)

$HPQ (+2.61%)

$NTAP (-6.51%)

$VEEV (+0.85%)

$NTNX (+4%)

$VSCO (+6.18%)

$APLD

$IREN (+8.89%)

Real-time results & analysis: https://t.me/Aktien_Stammtisch

Earnings next week

$LI (-1.39%)

$CHWY (-2.13%)

$NVDA (-2.05%)

$CRM (+1.64%)

$CRWD (+4.23%)

$HPQ (+2.61%)

$OKTA (+1.91%)

$AFRM (+5.49%)

$IREN (+8.89%)

$DG (+2.91%)

$DELL (+3.53%)

$LULU (+2.99%)

$MDB (+2.62%)

$ULTA (+2.88%)

After the good increase of$TSLA (+4.47%) I sold Tesla and made 2 new transactions. Namely $HPQ (+2.61%) and still $ANET (+0.48%) Because in my opinion both companies could achieve a decent price increase in July, or what do you think?

The coming week summarized:

Monday:

• New home sales (January)
• Quarterly reports from Workday ($WDAY (+1.59%) ), Zoom Video Communications ($ZM (+6.05%) ), Domino's Pizza ($DPZ (+2.31%) ) and Unity Software ($U (+6.22%) )

Tuesday:

• Orders for durable goods (January)
• S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index
• Consumer Confidence (February)
• Quarterly reports from Lowe's ($LOW (+1%) ), ONEOK ($OKE (+1.38%) ), Bank of Montreal ($BMO (+0.76%) ), American Tower ($AMT (+1.83%) ) and AutoZone ($AZO (+1.86%) )

Wednesday:

• Gross Domestic Product of the USA (first revision of the fourth quarter)
• US trade balance (January)
• Retail inventories (January)
• Wholesale inventories (January)
• Quarterly reports from Salesforce ($CRM (+1.64%) ), Snowflake ($SNOW (-0.29%) ), Royal Bank of Canada ($RY (+1.19%) ), HP ($HPQ (+2.61%) ), TJX ($TJX (+1.55%) ), Paramount Global ($PARA (+4.43%) ) and Monster Beverage Corp. ($MNST (+1.5%) )

Thursday:

• Personal Consumer Price Index (PCE)
• Initial claims for unemployment benefits
• Pending home sales (January)
• Statements by Atlanta Fed President
  Raphael Bostic, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester
• Quarterly reports from Anheuser-Busch InBev ($BUD (+0%) ), Dell Technologies ($DELL (+3.53%) ), Toronto-Dominion Bank ($TD.PR.P ), Hewlett Packard Enterprise ($HPE (+2.51%) ) and Best Buy ($BBY (+3.53%) )

Friday:

• Statements from Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, Federal Reserve Board Gov. Christopher Waller, Atlanta Fed President Bostic and San Francisco Fed President Mary C. Daly
• Quarterly reports from RadNet ($RDNT (+0.97%) ), Plug
  Power ($PLUG (+2.72%) ) and FuboTV ($FUBO )

Top up

My #boersengehandelteralltag

At 5:30 a.m. the alarm clock of my $AAPL (+1.31%) iPhone wakes me from sleep, thank $VER (+0.43%) thank it that it is also light in the house. Nothing works without electricity.

The first way leads to the bathroom where, besides water, I only find products from $ULVR (+2.51%)
$PG (+2.87%) and $BEI (+1.44%) to my skin. A praise to the $OMV (+0%) - without fuels it would be quite cool in the house. Thanks to Biotherm Brick from $WIE (+0.45%) the heat also stays where it should be.

While the hot coffee from $NESN (-0.05%) unfolds its aroma, I quickly check all accounts and deposits that I have all at Easybank, a brand of the $BG (+0.58%) . Since I am not the only one in the family, whose $V (+0.36%)
$MA (+1.29%) and cell phone contract from $TKA (+0.06%) run on my account, a daily balance check is not a disadvantage😉

Should not grad be one of my 3 home office days of the week, then I jet with my car from $VOW3 (+1.09%) built over perfect roads from $STR (+0.71%) to the office 50km away.

In the office as well as in the home office I sometimes start the notebook from $HPQ (+2.61%) Thanks to docking station, flat screen and Co we are well equipped everywhere. If something is missing, I can choose from a wide range of products thanks to webshop integration in our $SAP (+0.54%) Procurement Suite, I can choose from a wide range of products from $HPQ (+2.61%)
$BC8 (-0.12%) and $AMZN (+0.78%) order what I need.

Once the systems are up and running, communication takes place via all the channels that the $MSFT (+0.96%) office package offers. It can also be exhausting when, in parallel to MS Teams video calls, the flood of chats and e-mails bursts upon you... "follow the sun" there are always colleagues active somewhere.

Through cloud solutions from $AMZN (+0.78%) and $GOOG (+0.19%) access to all documents is possible at any time. A curse and a blessing at the same time - such a short blackout in between would also be something. After 8-12 hours, depending on how the day goes, it's off home, or just down to the kitchen.

When I then see my 3 girls, I ask myself why I'm not all-in at $ZAL (+6.44%)
$YOU (+0.23%)
$ADS (+1.49%)
$NKE (+3.14%) and Co? How much do you actually have to buy to be entitled to a supervisory board position?😵

Now I would like to conclude by thanking my wife, who today at breakfast promised me her full support in my WM blockade, we will now on all game days Christmas movies on $NFLX (+1.03%) watch (Insider Tip - All-in $NFLX (+1.03%)
-no investment advice - the author is not invested - rather subscribed).

So that's it from me. And now off to the mountains to enjoy the beautiful November weather...

PS: since we have quite strict social media guidelines, I do not mention my employer. I myself am or was once an engineer for electronics and then drifted in the direction of purchasing. After many interesting years in strategic purchasing in industry and automotive, I am now still responsible for this area in a supporting capacity. I am responsible for all processes in the source-to-pay area, including the further development of the associated system landscape. Through my work in purchasing I got to know the joy of company analyses, so the way to the stock exchange was not far away.