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Date: January 8, 2026 Ticker: BABA (NYSE) "The sleeping dragon wakes up, and it's speaking binary." Alibaba is violently pivoting from a legacy e-commerce utility into an AI-first infrastructure giant. The "User-first" restructuring is finally stabilising the bleeding in Taobao/Tmall, while the Cloud intelligence unit is posting triple-digit AI revenue growth.Read more

GameStop’s Q1 2025 financials, combined with an amazing shareholder community, just showed its takes-money-to-buy-whiskey strategy at work, demonstrating its status as a compelling investment as the retail investors have been saying for years while fighting a corrupt legacy media, bots, social media manipulation and hedge funds. Gamestop delivered a stellar adjusted EPS of $0.17, beating estimates by 325%, and achieved a $44.8 million net profit, reversing last year’s $32 million loss.Read more

Amazon (AMZN) enters 2026 materially misunderstood by the market. My valuation of $450 per share implies the stock is approximately 48% undervalued, not because Amazon is executing poorly, but because the market is mispricing intentional margin compression driven by some of the most strategically sound investments in the company’s history.Read more

MINISO Investment Thesis This analysis is based on the MINISO 2024 Q4 and 2025 Q1 earnings call presentations and the provided transcript. # Catalysts MINISO has several key growth drivers that could meaningfully impact sales and earnings: Global Store Network Expansion: The primary catalyst is the aggressive and ongoing expansion of its store network, both in China and, more significantly, in overseas markets.Read more

Bull - Growth in miles driven increases the wear and tear on vehicles, requiring more maintenance and repair work to keep them on the road, benefiting LKQ. LKQ’s collision business could see rising demand from increasing auto claims as more drivers return to the road following the COVID-19 pandemic.Read more

Catalysts Strong Growth Momentum GigaCloud’s marketplace GMV has grown rapidly, now surpassing US$10B annually, with revenue maintaining double-digit growth. 2024 revenue was about US$1.16B , up ~65% YoY.Read more

Amazon is a company of two sides - A high tech, high margin side, comprising its AWS, Advertising and subscription services segments; and its more traditionally known low margin, high volume stores and third-party seller segments. These two sides form a cohesive whole.Read more

Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) occupies a rare position in e-commerce. It is neither a mass-market retailer nor a logistics powerhouse.Read more

Alibaba delivered solid FY2025 results with revenue growing 6% to RMB 996.3 billion ($137.3B). Key highlights include core e-commerce (Taobao/Tmall) customer management revenue growing 12%, Cloud Intelligence revenue accelerating to 18% growth, and AI-related products achieving triple-digit growth for the seventh consecutive quarter.Read more