In less than two years, Instagram Stories went from no users to 400 million. The Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) subsidiary launched Stories in August 2016, and by January 2017 it had 150 million users. For reference, Snap (NYSE:SNAP) ended 2016 with 158 million daily average users through the last three months of the year.
Instagram recently announced that daily active users of Stories surpassed 400 million, more than doubling Snapchat's recent number of 191 million in the first quarter. Instagram Stories is growing considerably faster than Snapchat, too: It's up about 150 million users from this time last year, a 60% increase. Snapchat's user base increased just 15% year over year in the first quarter.
And things seem to be getting worse for Snap. Snapchat active users declined in March compared to February, and management couldn't provide any encouraging words for the second quarter. As Instagram Stories continues to grow in popularity, it presents an increasing challenge for Snap.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Affirm Holdings, Inc.(AFRM)
Affirm Holdings, Inc. operates a platform for digital and mobile-first commerce in the United States and Canada. The company's platform includes point-of-sale payment solution for consumers, merchant commerce solutions, and a consumer-focused app. Its payments network and partnership with an originating bank, enables consumers to pay for a purchase over time with terms ranging from one to forty-eight months. As of September 30, 2020, the company had approximately 6,500 merchants integrated on its platform covering small businesses, large enterprises, direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar stores, and companies. Its merchants represent a range of industries, including sporting goods and outdoors, furniture and homewares, travel, apparel, accessories, consumer electronics, and jewelry. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Shares of Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ:AFRM) rocketed 34.4% on Friday after the payment network's fiscal 2021 fourth-quarter growth metrics dazzled investors.
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However, to be fair, smaller lenders that also cater to millennials like Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ:AFRM) have higher price-to-book value (P/BV) multiples. Affirm’s ratio is 7 times its book value and SLM Corporation (NASDAQ:SLM), a student loan company, has a P/BV ratio of 2.79 times.
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Shares of CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) fall despite strong second-quarter profits and raised guidance. Live Nation Entertainment's (NYSE:LYV) second-quarter results have the CEO excited for 2022 and 2023. In this episode of MarketFoolery, Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser analyzes those stories and discusses Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) new partnership with Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ:AFRM).
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Top Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY(HNHPF)
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. provides technology solutions in Japan, Ireland, the United States, Singapore, China, Taiwan, and internationally. The company manufactures, sells, and services connectors, cases, thermal modules, wired/wireless communication products, optical products, power supply modules, and assemblies for use in the information technology, communications, automotive equipment, precision molding, automobile, and consumer electronics industries. It also manufactures automobile wires/electronic devices and electronic components, as well as machinery and equipment; offers solutions for autonomous driving systems, new energy power, and IoV systems; and provides services of planning, advisory, and business management, as well as software and electronic information application, logistics, export processing, construction, leasing, and information/software services. In addition, the company manufactures and sells application modules and network cables assemblies; develops educational technology; holds patent applications; manufactures and trades in portable cameras; and retails office machinery and equipment, and electronic appliances. Further, it is involved in the reinvestment in the businesses relating to robots, automatic equipment, molds, parts, and accessories and corresponding services; software development, repair and after-sale services, and rental services of robots; leasing services. Additionally, the company manufactures and sells computer and data processing equipment, WIFI cards and modules, CFTVs, DVRs, Bluetooth modules, set-top boxes, and optical network terminals. It is also involved in the data storage; manufacturing of wire or wireless communication; installation of computer and satellite TV channels; and provision of mobile phone services, as well as telecom-related business. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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FNDE currently has roughly 370 holdings, the top 10 of which account for 24% of the fund's assets. Those stocks include TaiTaiwan Semiconductor (TSM), Hon Hai Precision Industry (HNHPF) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (IDCBY). Like many emerging-market funds, it's most heavily weighted in China (25%), followed by Taiwan (18%) and Russia (13%). It's also extremely concentrated in financials and energy, which together make up about 47% of assets.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: ClearOne Communications Inc.(CLRO)
ClearOne Communications, Inc., a communications solutions company, develops and sells conferencing, collaboration, and streaming multimedia systems for audio, video, and Web applications. It develops, manufactures, markets, and services a line of audio conferencing products for personal, tabletop, premium, and professional uses by businesses and organizations, such as enterprise, healthcare, education and distance learning, government, legal, and finance organizations. The company also offers various residential products under the NetStreams DigilinX brand and commercial products under the VIEW brand, which deliver the Internet protocol (IP) A/V experience by streaming high definition audio and video, and control over TCP/IP networks. Its audio and video, and control solutions support virtually various digital or analog sources, including high definition audio and video content sources, and an unlimited number of networked end points on existing IP networks and infrastruct ure. In addition, the company manufactures and sells media carts for audio and video conferencing. It serves end-users, including small and medium-sized businesses, educational institutions, government organizations, and individual consumers primarily through a network of independent distributors who in turn sell the products to dealers, systems integrators, and other value-added resellers, as well as through a network of residential electronics dealers. ClearOne Communications, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Akoustis Technologies (NASDAQ: CLRO) and Clearone (NASDAQ:CLRO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
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Fabrinet (NASDAQ: CLRO) and Clearone (NASDAQ:CLRO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
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Top Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Veeva Systems Inc.(VEEV)
Veeva Systems Inc. (Veeva), incorporated on January 12, 2007, is a provider of cloud-based software solutions for the global life sciences industry. The Company offers solutions for a range of requirements within life sciences companies, including multichannel customer relationship management, regulated content and information management, master data management and customer data. The Company offers solutions to areas, including the Veeva CRM family of applications for multichannel customer relationship management to enable coordinated and personalized customer engagement through multiple touch points; Veeva Vault for regulated content management and information management solutions to enable the management of content-centric processes; the Veeva Network master data management solutions for the management of customer master and product master data, and Veeva's data and data services offerings, including Veeva OpenData for customer reference data and Veeva KOL Data for data.
The Company's professional services include implementation and deployment planning and project management; requirements analysis, solution design and configuration; systems environment management and deployment services; services focused on advancing or transforming business and operating processes related to Veeva solutions; technical consulting services related to data migration and systems integrations; training on solutions, and ongoing managed services, such as outsourced systems administration. The Company offers Veeva Commercial Cloud for the commercial function of life sciences companies.
Multichannel Customer Relationship Management
Veeva CRM, the Company's multichannel customer relationship management solutions, allow pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to market and sell to physicians, other healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations across multiple touch points, including in-person, e-mail and online. Veeva CRM provides specialized functionality, such as prescripti! on drug sample management with electronic signature capture, the management of complex affiliations between physicians and the organizations where they work, and the capture of medical inquiries from physicians. The Company has designed and built a specific application for each mobile device platform it support, including Apple iPads, Windows 8 and 10 mobile devices, Windows-based laptops and tablet personal computers (PC).
The Company's Veeva CRM and Veeva Medical CRM enables physician-facing employees, such as pharmaceutical sales representatives, key account managers and scientific liaisons to manage, track and optimize interactions with healthcare professionals utilizing a single, integrated solution. Its Veeva CLM provides closed-loop marketing capabilities for use in in-person interactions with physicians. Veeva CLM allows customers to replace paper-based materials with interactive electronic marketing presentations while controlling the storage, distribution, presentation and tracking of promotional materials. Its Veeva CRM Mobile is a mobile application that runs on the Apple iPad and the Windows 8 and 10 platforms, combines the key functionality of Veeva CRM and Veeva CLM to provide users with functionality that helps maximize productivity in the field. Veeva CRM Mobile was designed to provide the functionality needed for pharmaceutical field sales representatives and other users to finish tasks in locations, such as hospitals and physicians' offices, whether or not an Internet connection is available. Its Veeva CRM Approved Email provides for the management, delivery and tracking of regulatory compliant e-mail communication between sales representatives and physicians.
The Company's Veeva CRM Engage provides closed-loop marketing capabilities for self-directed physician interactions via the Web. The Company's Veeva CRM CoBrowse provides closed-loop marketing capabilities for Web-based presentations to physicians led by the sales and marketing staff of life sciences co! mpanies. ! Its Veeva CRM Events Management enables the planning, management and execution of group meetings with healthcare professionals, and helps life sciences companies track and manage spending in order to meet transparency reporting requirements. Its Veeva Align enables life sciences companies to manage the allocation and alignment of sales and marketing resources to customers across various communication channels and define multichannel plans of action.
Regulated Content Management and Collaboration
Veeva Vault, its cloud-based content and information management solution, is used by its customers across commercial functions, including medical, sales and marketing, and research and development (R&D) functions, including clinical, regulatory and quality. Veeva Vault consists of over nine business applications and its Veeva Vault Platform. Veeva Vault applications each include a data model, deep functionality, and pre-defined workflows required to support specific industry processes. Veeva Vault can be deployed as an integrated solution across multiple applications, enabling its customers to manage various important documents and related data in a single, global system. The Veeva Vault Platform was built with the content and information management requirements of the life sciences industry in mind, including audit trail capabilities that record actions and updates enabling customers to manage their regulated content and data in a compliant manner. In addition, the Veeva Vault Platform offers functionality across various the Veeva Vault applications, such as searching, content viewing and annotation, workflow and approvals, electronic signatures, reporting and open application programming interfaces to allow for integration with other systems. The Veeva Vault Platform also includes a configuration toolset that allows customers to create their own Veeva Vault applications.
Veeva Vault applications primarily for use by research and development departments of life sciences co! mpanies i! nclude Veeva Vault eTMF, which is an electronic trial master file application that manages the repository of important documents for active and archived clinical trials and also enables collaboration between the life sciences company sponsoring the trial and its outsourced partners; Veeva Vault Study Startup enables life sciences companies to manage the process of activating investigator sites for clinical trials, accelerating time to first patient enrollment and automating complicated processes while helping to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and connectivity with Vault eTMF; Veeva Vault Investigator Portal, which manages the collection of documentation and collaboration among trial sponsors, trial sites and the researchers conducting the trials, known as investigators; Veeva Vault QualityDocs enables the creation, review, approval, distribution and management of controlled documents, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs), manufacturing recipes and specifications, and Veeva Vault Submissions, which helps life sciences companies to gather and organize all the documents and other content that will be included in a regulatory submission to a healthcare authority, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Company's Veeva Vault Registrations enables life sciences companies to manage, track and report product and registration information around the world, including registration status, variations, health authority questions and commitments and certification requests. Its Veeva Vault SubmissionsArchive is an authoritative source for submissions and correspondence that stores published submissions in a secure, globally accessible repository. Its Veeva Vault PromoMats enables life sciences companies to manage the end-to-end process for creation, approval, distribution, expiration and withdrawal of commercial content across the digital supply chain. Its Veeva Vault MedComms provides life sciences companies with a single, validated source of medical content across mu! ltiple ch! annels and geographies.
Master Data Management
Veeva Network Customer Master, the Company's cloud-based customer master and data management solution, is designed to help life sciences companies create and maintain a single, complete and accurate record of the healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations. Veeva Network Customer Master is an industry-specific, cloud-based customer master software solution that de-duplicates, standardizes and cleanses healthcare professional and organization data from multiple systems and data sources to arrive at a single, consolidated customer master record. Veeva Network Customer Master comes pre-configured with a data model that is specific to life sciences and supports global harmonization, as well as country, market and regional data specifications within a single system. Veeva Network Customer Master also includes an intuitive user interface, free text search and filtering capabilities, and the ability to track and measure data quality and operating efficiency through key performance indicators.
Veeva Network Customer Master can be used with Veeva OpenData to simplify the process of data delivery to customers and provide bi-directional integration of requests for data enrichment. Additionally, eeva Network Customer Master can be operated in what it refers to as private mode when data from third-party data providers is uploaded to the Veeva Network solution. In private mode, the bi-directional integration between Veeva Network Customer Master and Veeva OpenData is disabled. Veeva Network Customer Master is also fully integrated with Veeva CRM in order to make the healthcare professional and healthcare organization data available to sales and marketing users. The Company's Veeva Network Product Master is a cloud-based product master data management offering to help life sciences companies create complete and accurate product master records.
Data and Data Services
Veeva OpenData Customer Data pro! vides hea! lthcare professional and healthcare organization data that includes demographic and license information, affiliations, and other key data, such as digital profiles crucial to customer engagement and compliance. Its Veeva OpenData Compliance Data identifies and assigns healthcare professional specialty information and license status, including expiration dates, which are required to the compliance processes with respect to certain life sciences activities, such as confirming drug sample eligibility and assigning sales territories. Its Veeva OpenData Data Services manage healthcare professional and healthcare organization data. Its Veeva OpenData Email Services provides e-mail data and e-mail rental services to help improve outreach to healthcare professionals through digital channels. Its Veeva KOL Data and Services provide profile information for important healthcare professionals and other stakeholders, gathered from their conference presentations, published research, clinical trials, grants, articles and social activity.
The Company competes with Oracle Corporation, IMS Health Holding, Inc., EMC Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, OpenText Corporation and Informatica Corporation.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jason Hawthorne, Rachel Warren, and Steve Ditto (tmfbo]
We asked three Fool.com contributors which stocks in the sector they believe are the best buys this month. They chose Danaher (NYSE:DHR), Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV), and Editas Medicine (NASDAQ:EDIT). Here's why.
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Veeva Systems Inc (NYSE:VEEV) insider Eleni Nitsa Zuppas sold 946 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, March 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $114.66, for a total transaction of $108,468.36. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 11,738 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,345,879.08. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website.
- [By Brian Stoffel]
The two companies we're comparing today -- pharmaceutical cloud specialist Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) and inbound-marketing guru Hubspot (NYSE:HUBS) -- have both benefited from this trend. And shareholders have reaped the rewards: On average, the stocks have quadrupled over the past three years.
- [By Brian Stoffel]
The pharmaceutical industry has a runaway winner when it comes to providing cloud services: Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV). The company reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2018 on Tuesday and results were more of the same: double-digit growth in revenue with impressive leverage in earnings.
Top Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Squarespace, Inc.(SQSP)
Squarespace, Inc. operates platform for businesses and independent creators to build online presence, grow their brands, and manage their businesses across the internet. The company offers websites, domains, e-commerce, tools for managing a social media presence, marketing tools, and scheduling capabilities. It serves small and medium-sized businesses, and independent creators, such as restaurants, photographers, wedding planners, artists, musicians, and bloggers. Squarespace, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Brian Feroldi (TMFTypeoh)]
We've got quarterly updates from companies we've talked about plenty on the show -- Squarespace (NYSE:SQSP), Wix (NASDAQ:WIX), and The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD). In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, host Dylan Lewis along with Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi explore the stellar results from each business and why they didn't seem to matter to the market.
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