What’s like post Covid 19 and investment?
By: Roy Hood
Tags: Covid 19, Investment, Pandemic, Stocks

What’s like post Covid 19 and investment?

The pandemic of corona virus is unprecedented and will people’s life permanently. This change will also accelerate the ongoing technology revolution. The boost of technology made two Industrial Revolution, hence sharp up the modern western Industry Civilization. Starting from 70s, 80s, with the great fortune accumulation and image as world leader during WWI and WWII, US society entered deindustrialization stage and transfer its manufacturing capacity to low cost countries like Japan, Korea, then China, Latin-countries, while it focus on High-tech industry which centered by Silicon Valley and capitalism by wall-street. There’ lot of stories behind that and I will write another blog about that.

Artificial Intelligent become more and more important in people’s life. And now, with the development of pandemic, capital realizes that human labor become less reliable for every industries, Service Industry (Hospital, Restaurant, Hotel etc.), Food Packing Industry, Manufacturing Industry. Human labor could get covid but robot not. To strive maximize the productivity and keep the flow, more and more industries will equipped with robot and robotics. Of course, this doesn’t robot won’t have problem, but a lot of big corporate could live with that. Although, this’s really a controversial topics that involved a lot like polices and ethics, this’ll be a irreversible trend. Several ETFs and stocks relative to are Ubot, ISRG, Tesla, APTV. Tesla is well known for its chief marketer Elon Musk who also own SpaceX. Tesla’s core competition edge is its battery and auto-pilot, these’re far from perfect and there’s some other guys out there that are going close. But with the great dream of its founder, people believe in what its vision. Tesla’s stock price jump from $70 to $654 in one year term. This stock will still fluctuate with good news and bad news, but still keep growing. UBOT is a direxion ETF the Daily Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Automation Indx Bull 2X share holding index of Nvidia, Intuitive Surgical, ABB, Fanuc and so on. It’s a good tooling if one would like to invest in AI and robot but don’t have time to research individual stocks. It has tremendous grow this year, with 52 wk low at 30.1 but 52 wk high. I personally bought UBOT at a discount price and hold until now. Intuitive Surgical is the largest of the pure-play robotics stocks. And investors who got in early have done very well. ISRG stock has gained some 9,400% in the 20 years since its initial public offering. The company’s Da Vinci platform is unquestionably the leader in the space, and has helped to create the robotic surgery market itself. APTV is less known than the aforementioned, however, I also have a good experience with this stock. I will write another story to introduce these AI stock to do a complete analysis.

A lot of business has been locked down more or less, and people’s life go virtual. This force business go virtualization as well. Therefore, people go online shopping for household items, supply, grocery, even car, house and other assets. Don’t get me wrong, this trend already exist before covid-19, but I find that it’s push a long way since the beginning of pandemic. Zillow, Carvana, Teladoc, Amazon etc. are the stocks that play big role in it.