How Nvidia Passed Microsoft In Market Cap To Become The Most Valuable Public Company & More

Last week, on 19 June 2024, I was invited for a short interview on Money FM 89.3, Singapore’s first business and personal finance radio station. My friend Willie Keng, the founder of investor education website Dividend Titan, was hosting a segment for the radio show and we talked about a few topics:

  • Singapore Telecommunications’ and KKR’s joint-investment of S$1.75 billion in ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (Hints: Singtel’s share of the initial investment is S$400 million and should not cause Singtel to struggle financially in any way if it does not work out; ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has a portfolio of 95 data centres, but it is a private company so it’s hard to tell how much value Singtel will be getting in exchange)
  • The drivers behind Nvidia’s rise to surpass Microsoft in market cap to become the most valuable public company in the world (US$3.3 trillion market cap), and the potential risks and challenges the company might face (Hints: In my view, Nvidia’s rise is driven by the interplay of enthusiasm over AI and the company’s excellent business results; the risks faced by the company include potential pricing-pressure from a key supplier, and competing products from its main customers) 
  • How I identify value opportunities in the US stock market when market indices are at record levels (Hint: The way to look for opportunities is to look at a stock as a piece of a business and figure out the economic value of the underlying business)
  • How I manage investing risks (Hint: It starts with defining what risk is, and isn’t) 

You can check out the recording of our conversation below!


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