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Palantir Technologies (PLTR) continues to hold its lead in megamarkets of data analytics and AI with strong financial performance and value creation through strategic developments. In Q3 2024, Palantir reported a record net income of $144 million , the highest quarterly profit since its founding.

Key Takeaways I'm bullish on Microsoft as a business, its most profitable days ahead Growth avenue: revamp current products with AI, increase offers on Azure cloud Not leader in cloud infrastructure, but dominant in SaaS productivity suite Highest potential growth industries: CRM & ERP, gaming, healthcare Teams: Microsoft's true super app, pushing to make it as prevalent as Office 365 Catalysts Business Catalysts Enhancing the family of apps with AI. By now, most of the investing world regards Microsoft as a leader in AI.

My main narrative for CRWD: · When founder and CEO George Kurtz founded CRWD in 2011, Cybersecurtiy Software, was nothing new, but with several pain points for customers: reduced system performance, updates needed to be installed, for each problem you needed a different software, so you dealt with silos, … · So he build a fully cloud-based platform, named Falcon. It has a modular concept, and customer pays within an abo model only the contracted modules.

Digital Transformation Specialist and IPO Consultant, HeartCore Enterprises Catalysts -Products or Services that Could Move Sales or Earnings Meaningfully 1. Growth: The global Customer Experience Management (CXM) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15.2% from 2024 to 2032, positioning HeartCore positively in this sector.

Catalysts Products or Services that Could Move Sales or Earnings Meaningfully Generative AI (GenAI) : Accenture reported $3 billion in new GenAI bookings in FY'24, including $1 billion in Q4. GenAI revenue was nearly $900 million for the full year, up significantly from FY'23.

Key Takeaways Adopting new technology like AI, AR/VR and browser-first cloud software will keep Adobe on top of the creative industry. AI Integration will empower commercial users and help onboard new users by making workflows simpler.

Key Takeaways Competition from free Office Productivity software will likely cause seat growth to decline for home and commercial customers Increased smartphone compute power and diminishing compute needs will see Notebook sales decline A shift towards PC and mobile gaming will be detrimental to Xbox console sales and services Catalysts Stagnating Growth in Microsoft Office Revenue Microsoft’s Office suite has been a staple in workplaces and home offices for years, but competition from free cloud-based alternatives like Google Docs and other vendors like Apple, Cisco Systems, Meta, IBM, Okta, Proofpoint, Slack, Symantec, Zoom, and numerous web-based and mobile application competitors are jeopardising this key revenue stream. The issue for Microsoft here is simple; what matters most to customers is convenience, cost and simplicity, and with Office providing a similar product at an elevated price for consumers means that plenty of users which switch to alternatives like Google Moreover, there was a significant price hike in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 business prices by as much as 20 percent in March 2022.

Key Takeaways Slowing growth and margin pressure by new tech will force low return reinvestment Buying Figma is cheaper than competing, but regulators may block Experience Cloud is a growth story, but not Adobe's strong suit High-quality business, but high-growth perception is unsustainable and will likely subside Catalysts Company Catalysts Margins compressing from AI-driven design The adoption of AI-driven design - the $63B TAM can improve as more people utilize creative works, but the profitability of such projects may decline due to the higher availability of AI driven design. This may result in more revenue but lower profitability for Adobe.

Key Takeaways Efficient software, accelerated computing, and AI, will benefit a growing cybercrime industry State actors are getting more involved in digital warfare which may be a weak point of the West Successful data breaches and cybercrime work in favor of spreading awareness for cybersecurity spending CrowdStrike’s move towards an all-in-one solution addresses the complexity pain-point of customers Catalysts Cybersecurity Threats Are Entering A New Era Cybercrime is the other side of the coin of technological development and is expected to keep advancing at an unknown pace in the future, this makes companies like CrowdStrike well-positioned to help. They predict attackers will continue to target large companies "Big Game Hunting", internet-connected devices (edge devices) and end-of-life products (EOL).