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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Is AI Taking Tech To The Top?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

With the Nasdaq up nearly 6% in May, tech seems to be soaring. Will earnings from CrowdStrike and Salesforce add to the AI hype? (00:21) Tim Beyers discusses: - If happy days are here again for the world of tech. - Why the market might be missing the greatness in CrowdStrike’s earnings. - How Marc Benioff found religion when it comes to cutting costs at Salesforce. (19:29) The war on cash is evolving. Jason Moser explains how the financial times keep changing and what it means for fintech. Companies discussed: CRWD, CRM, AAPL, MA, SQ, PYPL, V Host: Deidre Woollard Guests:Tim Beyers, Jason Moser, Alex Friedman Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

May was big for tech. Could June be even bigger? You're listening to Motley Full Money.

0:18.0

Welcome to Motley Full Money. I'm Deidra Wallard and I'm joined by Motley Full Analyst

0:24.8

and buyers. Hi Tim. Hey Deidra, fully caffeinated. Ready to go? Lot of earnings. Lot of tech. So we've

0:32.6

got a shiny new month here last month, big month for tech and the NASDAQ, more tech focused

0:38.4

up nearly 6% QQQ which is going to be used for this other measure of tech growth. That's up 14%

0:44.9

for the trailing 12 months. I mean I don't want to get too optimistic here but I've our happy days

0:50.8

here again or should we be a little bit cautious about what we're seeing? We should be a lot bit cautious.

0:57.9

I'm not saying that's not to be the hey get off my lawn guy here. I'm just saying that these things

1:07.8

tend to come in spurts and we should expect that there will be skepticism, there will be some reports

1:15.5

that disappoint. No, I don't think we're at happy days or here again. That's not the moment

1:24.6

that we're in. What we are in is where things are starting to normalize a little bit, supply

1:30.4

chains may have loosened up a little bit and they were really tight. Maybe there's some normalize

1:35.9

spending here. So good players that are well positioned that have done the work to become more

1:44.4

profitable, more efficient. We're seeing those companies maybe doing a little bit better. The market

1:49.2

may not be recognizing it yet and that's okay. What's important is that some of these companies

1:55.4

are getting structurally better. That's nice to see. Well you just mentioned the market might not be

2:00.7

recognizing it and that's sort of a little bit of the theme that we saw for a couple of companies

2:05.2

I want to talk to you about today. First one being CrowdStrike. It seems pretty great. Revenue

2:12.0

up about 42% who doesn't like that. Maybe a little bit of decelerating growth but the market

2:17.2

didn't like this one so much. Why? It looks like because the forecast for annual recurring revenue

2:25.2

just wasn't up to snuff like the market won. It's something closer to 48% that's not what we got.

2:30.8

So whenever the market is forecasting high growth for a forward looking metric like annual

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