Seeking Alpha by Adding Beta

Almost 9 months back, I wrote in my blog on how Tesla is like Apple of car industry . That was when TSLA stock was around 80+ with market cap of around $10 Billion. Fast forward 9 months and TSLA stock is hovering around 210 with market cap of close to $25 Billion. And during these 9 months lot of things have changed for US economy as well as Silicon Valley. Bubble type valuations are back with FB buying WhatsApp for $19 Billion (nearly 1000 times annual revenue) and market rewarding FB in taking this bold step. While all this is happening, Apple lovers (including myself) are patiently waiting for iPhone 6 and iWatch (not for iTV). Apple as company is doing great but in these growth hungry world, stock is not getting any love. It's trading at P/E of less than 10 (after accounting for cash on balance sheet). Why? Because heyday of growth are over at Apple. Even to grow at 10%, Apple needs to not only maintain the momentum in iPhone and iPAD but also find additional product category...

It is very rare to say public thanks to a public official But given what Mr. Bernanke has done as Fed chairman over last 5 years during financial crisis and almost single-handedly saved America (and to some extent) world economy from another depression, he deserves Thanks. Mr. Bernanke retired on Jan 31 and effective today he has become private citizen. I am sure he is proud of his achievements of saving world economy and most importantly saving millions and millions of jobs when politicians in Washington were fighting each other and doing nothing. We should consider ourselves fortunate that we had a student of depression era has Fed Chairman and was daring enough to follow un-conventional (and many times controversial) policies to prevent America from falling into another depression. For that Thank you and wish you best of luck Mr. Bernanke! This weekend is SuperBowl weekend. While we are little dis-appointed that 49ers did not make into SuperBowl, it's always fun to watch the B...