An Innovator from the Beginning Descartes Systems Group (NASDAQ: DSGX) has been helping global multimodal supply chains since 1981. Based in Waterloo, Canada, DSGX didn’t go public until 1998 in Canada and 1999 in the US. That initial foray into the markets was just in time to catch the rising wave of the dotcom tsunami….
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This Is Prime Time for United Rentals United Rentals (NYSE: URI) is the largest construction equipment rental company in the world. It owns 13% of the North American share for equipment rentals. In total, the company manages some 660,000 pieces of rental equipment with a total value of approximately $14.2 billion (Wikipedia.org). It employs nearly…
You see the founder of Costco (NASDAQ: COST), Jim Sinegal, worked for Sol Price, the founder of Price Club. Sinegal then teamed up with Jeffrey Brotman, a lawyer and part of a retail family in Seattle. They followed the model that Price Club began, big box stores where it was membership only and offered low…
History of Google and Alphabet GOOGL has a Silicon Valley fairytale beginning. Two relatively unfocused Stanford University graduate students in the Department of Computer Science, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were searching for dissertation topics and decided to investigate the “mathematical properties” of the World Wide Web – a somewhat unspecific focus. Their interests focused…
A GPU for All Seasons One stock that’s emblematic of the powerful shift that has brought us where we are in this Digital Age is NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA). In the early days of the digital revolution, it was all about central processing units (CPUs). They were the brains of the computers integrating and disseminating code…
Apple History The story of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is well known. I’ll give you a short recap here, but if you want a really good read on the topic, check out Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography on Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a teenager in the 1960s, growing up in the Silicon Valley neighborhood of Los Altos….
Visa Inc (NYSE:V) is coming up on its fifth anniversary in the Trend Portfolio. V is moving quickly into the fintech world where it is now competing with companies like other Trend Portfolio favorites Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the payments and increasingly fintech space. The thing is, Visa is coming at it from…
AMZN Stock Proves Itself Worthy in Good and Bad Markets for Smart Investors Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder, Jeff Bezos, was born Jeffery Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico and was raised by his mom and stepfather, Miguel Bezos, mostly in Texas and later in Florida. From an early age, he showed an extremely high level of…
IDEXX Labs Is Perfectly Positioned for Decades of Growth…and It’s a Bargain! Four decades ago, IDEXX (NASDAQ: IDXX) began in Maine. Today, IDXX is part of the S&P 500, has more than 10,000 employees, and operates in 175 countries. That’s quite a journey, but it’s also a testament to how much in demand its products…
How Did Tesla Come to Be? Would you be surprised to know that although Elon Musk was a founder of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), he wasn’t there from day one. Rather, he was the first investor. The original idea for the company came from Martin Eberhard. In fact, Eberhard may have been the first person to put…