YouTube: CEO Susan Wojcicki Logs Off

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube for the last nine years, is stepping down. The video site has exploded under her watch, and its $29.2 billion in ad revenue last year accounted for about 10% of Google parent company Alphabet’s total sales.

But Wojcicki’s time at the company far predates YouTube—in fact, she was Google’s 16th employee. She was also its first landlord: In 1998, Wojcicki rented out her garage in Menlo Park, CA, to Google’s co-founders for $1,700 a month.

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What is the “Direct Listing” Process on Wall Street?

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

On The “Direct Listing” Process

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Direct Listings Once Looked Like a Threat to Traditional IPOs. Now They're an Option for the Few. | Barron's

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We’ve talked about Wall Street, IPOs, the OTC market and secondary public offerings before. So, now may be a good time to discuss the direct public listing.

The Direct Public Listing

Companies that want to do a public listing may not have the resources to pay underwriters, may not want to dilute existing shares by creating new ones or may want to avoid lockup agreements. Companies with these concerns often choose to proceed by using the “direct listing” process, rather than an IPO.

Direct Listing Process (DLP) is also known as Direct Placement or Direct Public Offering (DPO)

In DLP, the business sells shares directly to the public without the help of any intermediaries. It does not involve any underwriters or other intermediaries, there are no new shares issued and there is no lockup period.

The existing investors, promoters and even employees holding shares of the company can directly sell their shares to the public.

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However, the zero- to low-cost advantage also comes with certain risks for the company, which also trickle down to investors.

For example there is no support or guarantee for the share sale, no promotions, no safe long-term investors, no possibility of options like greenshoe and no defense by large shareholders against any volatility in the share price during and after the share listing.

Assessment:

The greenshoe option is a provision in an underwriting agreement that grants the underwriter the right to sell investors more shares than originally planned by the issuer if the demand proves particularly strong.

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USA HEALTHCARE QUALITY: Confidence Down

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Confidence in the caliber of the American health system has never been lower

A GALLUP POLL

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ANNUAL GALLUP HEALTHCARE QUALITY REPORT

More than one in five adults (21%) living in the US now rate the country’s healthcare as “poor” quality—a record high, according to Gallup’s annual health and healthcare poll.

Less than half of all respondents (48%) surveyed in 2022 said they’d rank the quality of healthcare in the US as “excellent/good”—a new low since Gallup began tracking the issue in 2001. (That’s down from 50% in 2021 and a record high of 62% in 2010 and 2012.) About a third (31%), meanwhile, said they’d rate the quality of US healthcare as “only fair,” a slight drop from 35% in 2021.

Gallup partially attributed the drop in perceived quality to politics, noting that “Republicans’ positive ratings have been subdued since President Donald Trump left office.” Other likely factors, the organization offered, could be “changes to healthcare that have taken place amid the Covid-19 pandemic or curtailed access to abortion since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.”

Survey Reports:

  • Respondents reported a rosier take on the care they personally receive. Over 70% rated it as “excellent/good” compared to 6% who rated it as “poor.” But that high “excellent/good” mark is still down from 76% in 2021 and 82% in 2020.
  • Costs remained a point of contention in 2022. Less than a quarter (24%) of respondents said they were “satisfied” with the total cost of healthcare in the US, and this proportion is on par with rates from the past two decades. But only 56% of those surveyed reported being satisfied with the total cost they pay for care—the lowest level since 2016.
  • One in five respondents think the US healthcare system is in a “state of crisis” (20%) or has “major problems” (48%).

EDITOR’S NOTE: As a former CPHQ [Certified Physician in Healthcare Quality], I find this report alarming and confusing – David EdwardMarcinko MBA CMP

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What is an ADR / SPDR Receipt?

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS AND S&P RECEIPTS

By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA CMP®

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AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPT (ADR) = A receipt evidencing shares of a foreign corporation held on deposit or under the control of a U. S. banking institution; it is used to facilitate transactions and expedite transfer of beneficial ownership for a foreign security in the U.S. Everything is done in dollars and the ADR holder doesn’t have voting rights; essentially the same as an American Depository Share (ADS).

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A Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt, or SPDR, is a type of exchange traded fund that began trading on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) in 1993 when State Street Global Advisors’ investment management group first issued shares of the SPDR 500 Trust (SPY).

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S&P: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2011/01/12/on-standard-poors-depository-receipts/

S&P Index: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2011/01/15/spdrs-vs-index-mutual-funds/

S&P TAX: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2011/01/30/do-spdrs-yield-tax-advantages/

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