paydawg said:
momopi said:
I'm eyeing WDC (owns Sandisk) STX and HPE. People working from home still need hard drives and SSD's, and companies still need enterprise services.
HPQ and XRX are cheap but people working from home rarely needs to print office documents. I think with what happened in recent months more people will migrate from print documents to electronic docs.
This is why stocks like DOCU have performed so well lately. That stock is on fire. I'm kicking myself for not getting in when it was about 130/share.
I think DOCU is a great stock to buy (earlier) for the quarantine. But I have some doubts regarding the long term outlook. I've used DOCU for real estate docs a number of times and ran into bugs and issues, but those are easily fixed. What concerns me is how the company makes money and the low barrier of entry in this segment.
Consider, it may be a large task to service e-sign documents for many segments, but a competitor only needs to service one (or more). For example, someone else -- such as redfin, zillow, trulia, realtor.com, opendoor, or corelogic could come up a competing e-doc service specific to real estate and eat DOCU's market share. Same applies for other market segments. What if Ernst & Young and Experian wanted a piece of the action? I don't believe DOCU has high level of customer loyalty. Also unlike netflix, it's not like you can have exclusive license on common RE purchase or legal forms.