Public Companies
This is the holding-company that owns famous businesses such as: Geico, Dairy Queen, and See's Candies
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
This country is the biggest competitor in terms of AI development.
China
This popular currency lost around 10% of its value in 2025.
USD
Explain what Revenue, EPS, and Market Cap are.
Revenue- pure sales that the company makes (before expenses)
EPS- earnings per share: remaining money left after expenses per share.
Market cap- The size of the company: Share price * # of shares
Leonardo DiCaprio starred in this famous movie about a pump-and-dump scheme.
The Wolf of Wall Street
This Tech Giant was the first company to hit a $3t market cap.
Apple (AAPL)
This company is valued as one of the largest private firms, and they've made billion-dollar agreement deals with Fortune 500 companies.
OpenAI
Name the 2 most famous people from the "Paypal Mafia"
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel
Describe the P/E ratio, P/S ratio, P/B ratio.
P/E is a multiple of earnings, P/S is a multiple of revenue, P/B is a mulitple of book value.
Is popular for the "buy what you know" strategy.
Peter Lynch
These foreign companies basically create each other's moats and are as close as you can get to monopolies.
ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
What LLM caused NVDA's stock to fall nearly 10% within a week due to its release? Why?
Deepseek- because this model claimed to have been developed much more efficnetly than any other model at the time and brought into question the need for excessive spending on NVDA GPUs.
This company fell 99% from 2022-2023 and miraculously recovered over 11,000%.
Carvana (CVNA)
What is a dividend king?
A company that has increased dividends consistently for over 50 years.
The man behind the largest ponzi scheme in Wall Street history.
Bernie Madoff
Name ALL Magnificent 7 stocks.
Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla
Much of the top AI talent came from this company (some of them still remain at the company)
GOOGL
Who was the last chairman of the Federal Reserve who gave in to political pressures and kept interest rates low? What did it lead to in the following years?
Arthur Burns/Nixon. Keeping rates low led to the great inflation and stagflation of the 70's.
Explain the difference between pricing and valuing an asset.
Pricing ex. House- it's price depends on the prices of other houses around it.
Valuing ex. House- taking the cash that the house will generate over a period of time and discounting it to find what value the house will provide.
Who is Mr. Market?
A fictional character made by Ben Graham that represents the erratic/emotional nature of the stock market.
Established in 1602, this company is widely considered the first to ever issue public stock.
Dutch East India Company
This man is considered the Chuck Norris of tech.
Jeff Dean
The CEO of this mega-cap company made a short statement that crashed this sector by about 40% in a single day. Who made the statement, and what sector crashed?
Jensen Huang (CEO of NVDA) crashed the Quantum Computing sector on Jan. 7th, 2025 when saying that they would be useful in about 10-15 years.
Walk me through a DCF.
1. Project out future cash flows.
2. Determine the discount rate via WACC
3. Estimate the terminal value (TV) of all cash past the already projected period
4. Sum together the discounted cash and discounted TV.
5. Add current cash, subtract current debt, and divide by shares outstanding to get intrinsic value per share.
Who created the first quantitative strategy-based hedge fund? What was the fund's name?
Jim Simmons & RenTech (or Renaissance Technologies)