diary:2024-12:2024-12-19

reading journal:

some stocks mentioned: Canadian asset manager Brookfield, Nike, CMG, Restaurant Brands International, Fannie Mae

Real estate broker Douglas Elliman
- 7,000 agents
- a spinoff from cigarette maker Vector Group at the end of 2021
- fifth-largest real estate broker nationwide
- the industry leader is Compass with a market cap of \$3.6 billion
- average selling price on homes it brokered was \$1.6 million this year
- CEO is Michael Liebowitz
- its competitors are Compass, Re Max Holdings
Anywhere Real Estate , which owns Corcoran Group
Berkshire operates Home Services of America, one of the largest residential real estate brokerage firms in the country

iShares Bitcoin Trust
- ticker: IBIT
- AUM: \$42 billion
- started in Jan 2024
- competitors: the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund
Alison Hennessy, the director of exchange-traded products listings at Nasdaq
The Options Clearing Corp. settles options trades

Chris Murphy, co-head of derivatives strategy at Susquehanna International Group

market cap: \$96 billion based on basic shares outstanding, \$110 billion using a fully diluted share count
MicroStrategy is now one of largest U.S. companies not in the S&P 500 index.
leading gold miners, Barrick Gold and Newmont

asof 2024-11-20, MicroStrategy owns 331,200 bitcoin
market cap: \$106 billion based on basic shares outstanding, \$120 billion using a fully diluted share count

Nasdaq 100 is composed of the 100 largest nonfinancial companies in the Nasdaq Composite index
Nasdaq uses Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB), a product of FTSE International Limited, as the basis for its classifications.
QQQ has about \$325 billion in AUM