cageybee77 said:
This looks like a pipe-dream scenario to me.......they lose lots of money
So did Netflix.
And Roku actually turned a profit this quarter in today's earnings.
Their revenue growth is outstanding.
They are still growing like crazy. It's hard to price growth stocks. PE ratios become meaningless. Netflix had PE ratio in the hundreds for a while but revenues grew into it and the share price never really cratered.
ROKU is a market maker. They are the Amazon of the streaming space bringing viewers and content providers together. That's why I've been long Roku since it was a $70 stock. Uber and Airbnb are also examples of market makers.
Roku is also the market leader in the streaming platform space. It's their niche, not a side project like it is at Amazon or Apple.
I still don't understand how people don't see Roku's dominance. They are now the gatekeepers between content producers and viewers. Traditional cable subscriptions are in decline, and those viewers are moving to streaming platforms like Roku, and streaming content providers like Netflix.
I think Roku will eventually have a market cap larger than than Comcast and Netflix. It only makes since that they would as Roku replaces cable and also is agnostic to content providers (Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO). In the streaming future the largest market maker should have a larger market cap than the market participants.
In mature sectors the leader usually has 60-80% market share, I think Roku is at 50% last I saw, with the 2nd and 3rd place each around 20-25%. Roku's market share isn't guaranteed to increase, it could still be overtaken, but I don't think Apple TV or Amazon fire stick are going to surpass it.