Sean Peche: Despite tanking, Netflix is NOT a value stock – and no, I'm NOT buying it

Loading player...
Sean Peche is happy that value investors like himself are emerging from the wilderness, but says share price wipeouts like Netflix don't suddenly transform 'growth' stocks into investment opportunities. Using Netflix as a reference point, he cautions that although now ex-growth, the company's shares are still trading at three times revenues - and after accounting properly for content costs, its profit margins are very low. In this instructive interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, a long-time Netflix fan, the Ranmore Funds founder explains why he will NOT be following supposed bargain hunters into buying Netflix shares. Indeed, he reckons the numbers from the world's dominant movie streaming business are a warning of more shocks next week when the really big tech companies' quarterlies are released. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Apr 2022 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

He built a $1.5bn bank. Now Revolut, Discovery Bank and PEP are circling

In this interview with Irakli Rekhviashvili, Tyme Group co-founder Coenraad Jonker gives his take on what actually protects a digital bank once the competition catches up, and why he thinks the old rules of banking no longer apply. On competitive advantage, he says: "I'm saying to my guys increasingly, I…
11 Sep 7AM 50 min

BNC#9 | Masie Q&A: Eskom's extra gigawatts are AI's gateway into SA economy

Stafford Masie says the AI industry is not actually running out of electricity, it is running out of places to plug in. The real bottleneck for OpenAI and Anthropic in the United States is grid connection points that can absorb the violent power swings inference computing demands, without blowing transformers…
10 Sep 11AM 39 min