{"id":2156,"date":"2020-05-08T17:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:39:27","slug":"this-post-covid-world-is-what-were-building-for-explains-shopify-and-the-stock-jumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This post-COVID world is what we&#8217;re building for&#8221; explains Shopify and the stock jumped!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) stock shot up after <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/shopify-announces-first-quarter-2020-110000204.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">releasing impressive Q1 2020 results:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revenue in Q1 2020 soared 47% to $470 million, way ahead of analysts estimates and of their own guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company posted a surprise profit: adjusted net income came in at $22.3 million, or $0.19 per share. Analysts were expecting an adjusted net loss of $0.18 per share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gross merchandise volume (GMV) jumped 46% to $17.4 billion, with gross payments volume (GPV) of $7.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here comes a fantastic number which underlines the value Shopify is creating for its merchants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GMV through point-of-sale (POS) channels plunged 71% between March 13 and April 24 when physical stores were closed, but Shopify&#8217;s retail merchants were able to replace 94% of those sales on average with online sales!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means an impressive immediate and accelerated shift away from brick-and-mortar toward online purchasing which certainly saved a lot of shops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This post-COVID world is what we&#8217;re building for and we have shifted accordingly.<br \/>Shopify&#8217;s world view has not changed. Our conviction that merchants need to be able to sell to their buyers wherever they may be remains as true today as it was a decade ago&#8221; explained COO Harley Finkelstein on the conference call!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shopify continues to invest heavily in its Shopify Fulfillment Network, which was announced last summer and launched its \u201eShop app\u201c last week, an aggregated e-commerce marketplace that will compete more directly with Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shopify&#8217;s balance sheet continues to be very strong. At the end of last quarter they had cash and cash equivalents of $2.36 billion and no meaningful debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the beginning of 2020 Shopify&#8217;s share price has risen 77%!<br \/>Is Shopify still a buy at today&#8217;s price?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shopify&#8217;s stock is valued at an impressive price\/sales ratio of 53 which means that a lot of the future is already priced in.<br \/>But on the other hand Shopify has an enormous potential to become the no.1 platform for independent online merchants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore it could be wise to wait until the stock price will possibly decline further following today&#8217;s anouncement of a secondary offering of 1&#8217;850&#8217;000 shares or when the general mood at the stock market turns negative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) stock shot up after releasing impressive Q1 2020 results: Revenue in Q1 2020 soared 47% to $470 million, way ahead of analysts estimates and of their own guidance. The company posted a surprise profit: adjusted net income came in at $22.3 million, or $0.19 per share. 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