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Is TDOC a takeover target of AMZN?For all fundamental reasons the success of Teladoc is noble but you can see from this accumulation/distribution chart that someone is heavily accumulating the stock. There are multitude of reasons this could be happening. One super exciting and others very typical of trading in growth companies. So let's start with my far flung idea. Amazon is pushing aggressively to get into the healthcare space. There was talks of Amazon buying a large insurance provider such as Aetna. A much more reasonable acquisition, and one that would be the perfect fit to stair-step them into the space is Teladoc. Teladoc conducts medical exams entirely online and over the phone. They boast almost 20 million customer accounts around the world and have an opportunity in the U.S. alone to do at least 75 times their current volume of consultations. What better place for people to find that than the Wal-mart of the online world. Amazon. For that matter if Wal-mart took notice they would also be a suitor. Catalyst 2: Short interest. For a long time short traders were rooting for Teladoc to fail because they were spending heavy to acquire competitors and pushing growth over all else. Well those bets have not paid off at all. As a matter of fake with an estimated 38% of the float short we could see a short squeeze for the record books playing out before our eyes. Catalyst 3: The future prospects for TDOC without it being sold. Even with no buyer TDOC has grown over 100% this year with their own internal marketing push and the acquisition of their second biggest competitor. They are insurmountably the leader of the pack in tele-medicine. They are the uber of doctors if you will. They are in the critical mass stage. Twenty million customers turns into 50 million real fast when people start to tell their friends how their doctors 'visit' fell from $160 to $40. There is no doubting it is a disruption of the mega status quo and several of those companies have gone on to be worth 60-100 billion dollars. That is a 30x-50x from today's 3.8 billion dollar value. *** These opinions are my own and not meant to be financial advice. I am currently long TDOC calls.
NYSE:TDOCLong
by pohaus
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Walmart (WMT) - Flipping The Cart ! - 5/18/2018Unfortunately Walmart is not Amazon and nobody should expect its stock to rise by buying a loss making company in the name of growing market share. Walmart's acquisition of Flipcart ( Indian online seller like Amazon ) is a lottery for Flipcart's owners and headache for Walmart's share holders. Important question is how can one compete with a company which really doesn't want to make profit !! So as the things were standing, in coming years, Flipcart might have gone bankrupt after fighting with Amazon. In this scenario, WMT can be sucked back to its previous boring range of $60 +/-10. In fact boring ranges of good companies are more easy and lucrative to trade. Can't wait for that !
NYSE:WMT
by BombayBulls
4
Walmart Bull + $85 TargetWalmart's earning reports are due within a week and they are coming up as close competitors to Amazon. They recently acquired Flipkart in a needy but brilliant move to try taking more control in the emerging e-commerce market. Given that they were positively skewed to the left and are now facing a negative correlation, it may not look good. However, the recent acquisition of Flipkart, the market share they already owned in the retail industry and the fact that many of their retail competitors are losing ground looks like positive market potential. However, some analyst could claim these as assumptions or informational bias in looking at the outcome of the data. That being said, given the recent trend-lines in price with medium risk, an $85 short call seems imminent and highly likely.
NYSE:WMTShort
by gamer456148
Wal-Mart $2 Bucks from Strong Support, Entry into India. . .Many believe India and China are the future of retail. Wal-Mart seems to agree, and on 5/9 announced a $16 billion USD bid for a 77% stake in Flipkart, India's premier online retailer. Wal-Mart paid up to beat out Amazon for this exposure to Asian retail. Will it be worth it? Luxury retail is in great demand but everyday retail is struggling, especially in the United States. Wages remain stagnant, consumers are turning more and more to debt, and western countries don't offer much in the way of growth for retailers (indeed, several retailers have been driven to bankruptcy in recent years). Wal-Mart provides a place for the everyday consumer to buy everyday products, but margins can only continue to compress as: 1. the cost of goods rises with a consumer that can't handle increased costs passed onto them, and 2. WMT fights to reorganize to take market share in attractive online and Asian markets. Wal-Mart needs to catch up to compete with Alibaba and Amazon in markets with growth potential, and seems to be taking the right steps to do so. In the short-term, that could be bad for share price - or is the "bad" already baked in, and are traders\investors ready to pay up for Wal-Mart stock? Wal-Mart has to compete for its share of fruitful markets, even if it means margin compression. Looking at the technicals, Wal-Mart has abruptly fallen to near strong support in and around $81 USD. WMT reports Q1 2018 earnings on 5\17, and it's conceivable the numbers can't come in much worse than the downside upset from Q4 2017's earnings call back in February. Is disappointing news baked in to the price already, with Wall Street already expecting a little pain as Wal-Mart transitions into the company it needs to be to take on Amazon and Alibaba in shifting online and global markets? WMT paid up to jump in to growing East Indian (and Chinese) retail - it more or less had to, and "had to" isn't a good place to be when negotiating deals - but will an exploding Asian retail scene lead to explosive moves upward in the price of WMT shares? The move up may or may not be today or tomorrow, but presently, the company's decisionmaking seems to bode well for Wal-Mart's future. Please like, follow, and share, and maybe we can have fun and do great things together. Thanks again! See it on the site: holsturr.com/category/markets/charts/ ** For speculative and research purposes only - good luck! **
NYSE:WMTLong
by holsturr
Wal-Mart WMT looks like it presents an opportunity to buy in at heavily discounted prices. To the tune of 20% off. Normally I would be interested in buying nearly anything that is 20% off. Pull up this chart and look at it on the Weekly time frame. It appears as though our bearish trend might not be over and is just beginning. Fundamentally I like Wal-Mart and I think that their entry into the meal kit service will present a great opportunity to increase store traffic. Noticed large institutional buying of WMT in Q4 2017, and although positions are starting drown this likely appears to be a buy and hold opportunity. I think the retail market will continue to grow in 2018 as we saw the highest retail sales growth in more than a decade (Q3 2017).
NYSE:WMTLong
by QuantTrading
THE WEEK AHEAD: HD, CSCO, TGT, BBY, WMT, GPS, AMAT EARNINGSWe have bevvy of retail earnings announcements next week as the full season tapers off: HD announces earnings on Tuesday before market open with a background implied volatility of 23% (top quarter of 52-week range). CSCO -- Wednesday before market open with a background of 27 (near 52-week high). TGT -- Wednesday before market open, at 36 (top quarter of 52-week range). BBY -- Thursday, before market open, at 53 (near 52-week high). WMT -- Thursday, before market open, at 25 (near 52-week high). GPS -- Thursday, after market close, at 44 (above middle, but below top quarter of 52-week range). AMAT -- Thursday, after market close, at 41 (near 52-week high). I generally prefer playing earnings where the background volatility exceeds 50%, and it's in the top-quarter of its 52-week range, implying that the best candidate for an earnings contraction play would be BBY with AMAT close behind/worth watching for an increase in implied volatility running into the announcement. Broad-market exchange-traded fund-wise, there isn't much to play: the Brazilian exchange-traded fund continues to print implied volatility percentages at or above 30% (currently, 35-ish), followed by the petro exchange-traded fund, XOP (34). For non-earnings individuals, TEVA (72/upper end of its 52-week range) continues to garner my attention, along with CTL (56), which -- post-earnings -- maintains high volatility. The majors -- well, there isn't much to look at. IWM leads with a background implied of 16, which is basically tied with the QQQ's at 16. SPY comes in at a paltry 13 ... . On the volatility product front, the first /VX future trading at or above 16 is out in May (184 DTE), meaning that a <90 DTE VIX Term Structure trade isn't in the offing for me. However, the VXST/VIX ratio finished Friday's session somewhat elevated (.92), so it's worth keeping an eye out for any >1.00 pops in which to consider Contango Drift trades, particularly as we wind into a rollover with VIX spot trading at 11.29 relative to the Nov contract's 11.60 (2 DTE).
NYSE:HD
by NaughtyPines
WMT - Short from $77.53 to $72.53; $77.50 September Puts WMT is going down after its recent earnings release. It has huge insider selling & overall looks very good as short. We think it has good downside potential, and to play this we would consider September $77.50 Puts which are $0.85 * Trade Criteria * Date First Found- August 24, 2017 Pattern/Why- downward momentum short Entry Target Criteria- Break of $77.63 Exit Target Criteria- $72.53 Stop Loss Criteria- $81.07 Please check back for Trade updates. (Note: Trade update is little delayed here.)
NYSE:WMTShort
by AcornWealthCorp