In this episode, Scott Becker covers six major business stories, including market performance, Bitcoin and Coinbase surges, Hims & Hers’ impressive growth, NVIDIA’s market rebound, Microsoft’s position in the market cap race, and the impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry.
Chapter 1: What stories are being covered in this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. These are six of the stories that we're following today. And thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. First, the markets are relatively flat today after just a great day yesterday, a great recovery day yesterday. So we'll see how the day finishes, but overall relatively flat.
Chapter 2: What is the current market performance?
Chapter 3: How did Bitcoin and Coinbase perform recently?
Chapter 4: What is driving Hims & Hers' growth?
Second, Bitcoin and Coinbase both jumped yesterday. Coinbase rose almost 9%, 8.5%. What a great day there. Third, Hims and Hers continues to rock and roll. It rose 27% yesterday. It's up more than 100% year-to-date. Valentine's Day may be driving the results of Hims and Hers. So that's what's going on there.
Chapter 5: What is NVIDIA's market status?
Fourth, Nvidia has scratched back to be up year-to-date after taking it on the chin after this deep-seek scare. Now it's a market cap of $3.3 trillion or so. It's squarely number two behind Apple and in front of Microsoft. Fifth, Microsoft is flat year-to-date and is a market cap of $3.05 trillion, putting it squarely in third place in the market cap wars.
Chapter 6: How is Microsoft positioned in the market cap race?
Finally, sixth, oil prices are rising as the U.S. says it's committed to reducing Iran's oil imports and, quite frankly, putting sanctions on Iran. So those are six of the stories we're following today. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very much for joining us.