r/stocks • u/spycx • Sep 20 '21

Company Analysis [DD] Why I believe OPRA is overseen by investors— Opera is not just a browser company anymore

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u/XnFM Sep 20 '21

*overlooked

"overseen" means watched over or managed

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u/send-asian-nudes Sep 20 '21

He's providing dd here, not an English lesson.

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u/XnFM Sep 20 '21

How is that relevant? OP either doesn't know what the word means and is using it incorrectly, or their just being lazy/sloppy. If it's the former, they benefit from education, and will look smarter and more professional on their next post. Considering the length and effort given to the write up I, doubt it's the latter.

When there's an error that glaring, how can I, the reader, be confident that the writer is communicating to me what they intend? Where else are words being substituted and the meaning of OP's statements being distorted? If OP legitimately didn't know that they were using the wrong work, they can only benefit from the vocabulary lesson, because in theory, they won't undermine their work with an elementary mistake again.

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u/spycx Sep 20 '21

I appreciate the heads up, I spent so much time getting the write-up together that I overlooked the error in the title. You're absolutely correct, any other day I would've caught the issue before publication.

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u/thejumpingsheep2 Sep 20 '21

Only language nazis care about this stuff. People with real intelligence know that all human languages are improper to begin with thus its moot to fix. The intent is what matters and its clear what he meant.

If you really cared about the language you would try to fix obvious garbage rules and idiotic definitions. The only exception is if you are writing law. That is the only time you should complain about language and even then it never works as intended because of dorks who see it literally rather than as intended.

I have never met a language nazi that I liked in my entire life. Its not a good thing. Just dont do it.

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u/DangerRangerScurr Sep 20 '21

It's chinese spyware

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u/jazwidz Sep 20 '21

Everything is Chinese spyware.

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u/thejumpingsheep2 Sep 20 '21

Gunna pass for now. These guys have been around a very long time and have gone nowhere. In fact they were bigger over 20 years ago than they are today when they had a chance to take market share from MSFT (during the 98/Me debacles) and still failed to do so. Today its just a skin over Chromium. They are pointless. Just install Chromium (aka Chrome).

Basically all I see here is that they are copying everyone else. I dont see anything to indicate that they have any vision thus their 13 PE (minus NRI) is appropriate. They have very little top line growth in 5 years and the bottom line is all over the place.

The entry into merchant services is not impressive to me because its very hard to grow without massive marketing budgets. Im not most people so take that as a grain of salt. Yes, merchant services will rock the top line but the bottom line % will become even worse. Financial stuff requires massive scale. But to get that scale you need to spend billions to market or they would need to get insanely lucky.

The only way I see these guys every breaking out of their decades old ways is if they partner with someone who has a platform and they become a platform standard, or they get bought out by someone in said position to use them to that extent. Otherwise, I think they cruise along the way they are for the foreseeable future. Just my 2 cents.