Seeking Alpha by Adding Beta

It's Avengers Mania across the board with movie breaking all records in multiple countries (even in non-English speaking countries like India and China) and already collected over $1.2 Billion in 3 days! That's a juggernaut which would rule the box-office for next few weeks and would easily cross $2 Billion in matter of days. Looking at similar "culmination" events, 2019 turning out to be year of culminations. Let's look at these: Starwars:  Started in 1983 and after 8 movies, final episode is coming Dec 2019. So this saga is wrapping up after 36 years of fan-mania. It would be interesting to see if it will break "End Game" records. Avengers: It started with first Ironman Movie in May 2008. After 21 movies over 11 years "Avengers: End Game" brings all stories together. While this may be called as "End Game", I am sure Disney/Marvel will keep on churning new superhero movies. Now it's just matter of time, if there is Marvel a...

From the title, one would wonder did I change narrative of my blog and started blogging on dance style or what? Well - yes and no. I like movies, music and of course nice choreographed songs (even though personally I am absolutely not good at dancing). DISCO was one of the major trend in early 80s and gave world some of the exciting dance moves! One of the bollywood producer Karan Johar also seem to like DISCO style and tries to mix one of the song with DISCO style in his movies. Check out It's time to DISCO song in Kal Ho Na Ho. But this blog is about investing. So let me explain what DISCO means. DISCO is new acronym coined by me to cover stocks which are relatively old tech/media companies but doing exceedingly well especially in 2019 and would be relevant in 21st century. All of these companies with exception of one are more than 30 years old and most importantly they are also dividend paying companies with yield ranging from 1.5% to 5%. These companies (with exception of o...

You must be wondering what would be "The Greatest Show" on the planet we call The Earth! Many events would qualify for this honor. For college basketball fans, it would be March Madness which wrapped up last week (Virginia won). Then there was the biggest comeback in any sports with Tiger Woods winning Masters at Augusta. This would be his first major win since Jun 2008 - even before longest running bull market started. At age 43 and after a gap of 11 years, this can definitely be "biggest comeback" but does not qualify as greatest show. Last time he won any major was when Game of Thrones was only books! Now for "Game of Thrones" fans, first episode of final season which aired on Sunday Apr 14 could be called big show with highest TV ratings. But hey, those many people watch an average Indian soap-opera or an IPL match. Now 2019 IPL (Wildly popular 20 over cricket tournament between 8 teams in India) comes close to "Greatest Show" which happens ...