Let's learn where to invest from our daily habits, that can impact on trends of listed stocks.
Let's consider Facebook and Twitter
Twitter (TWTR ) is very similar to a virtual press office. It's the perfect communication tool for companies, celebrities, politicians and for this very reason it is very popular among journalists. Facebook (FB ) is more a community, where everyone interacts and it is easier to be a player. In absolute numbers there is a wide gap: Facebook users worldwide are more than 1.6 billions where Twitter's are 350 millions. And if we consider that Facebook is also owner of Instagram and WhatsApp, it's easy to understand which is the favorite social network.
And by looking at the stock charts, we have a further confirmation: FB is much better than TWTR.
Now, if we focus on which is the most popular search engine between Yahoo! (YHOO ) and Google (GOOG ) or if there are more Yahoo! Mail or Gmail accounts, the answer is easy. Considering Gmail vs Yahoo! Mail, we have a 3:1 ratio; whereas we don't need numbers about the search engines: Googling is a neologism whose meaning is "to search the Internet", and it's enough to show us the clear winner. And if we also consider the Google ownership of YouTube and Android, we can easily erase any remaining doubt.
By looking at the stock charts we see that GOOG (that is Alphabet inc. i.e. Google holding company) is dramatically outperforming Yahoo!, in the last one and a half year.
But what if somebody argue that these reasoning are evident? We could answer that simply considering carmakers activity, this superficial considerations are failing immediately. A car's choice is effectively more depending on personal tastes and incomes and it's not based on mass behaviour. So, if we compare some of the automotive companies, the results are similar.
The original idea is not simply to do comparison, but to look for mass behaviors. So that speaking of the automotive sector a clever idea is to compare it to Tesla (TSLA ), the high-tech and exclusive electric car. Again, the chart tells us that this cutting edge company is really outperforming the whole sector.
Finally... Google Maps is a navigation app with a steady growing usage, as it is free and very effective, especially on real time traffic conditions. As Google (GOOG ) also owns Waze (another very popular free navigation app), the question is: who is suffering from this? Maybe the paid GPS services such as Garmin (GRMN ) and TomTom (AMS: TOM2)?
Again, It's easy to reach a conclusion, just by looking at the charts.
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