Viewpoint: Bullish
Oracle Corporation provides products and services that address enterprise information technology (IT) environments. The Company’s businesses include cloud and license, hardware, and services. Its products and services include enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings that are delivered worldwide through a variety of flexible and interoperable IT deployment models. Its cloud and license business markets, sells, and delivers a spectrum of enterprise applications and infrastructure technologies through its cloud and license offerings. Its hardware business provides a selection of enterprise hardware products and hardware-related software products, including Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware offerings, operating systems, virtualization, management and other hardware-related software, and related hardware support. Its services business provides consulting services and advanced customer service. It sells to customers all over the world.
NIKE, Inc. is engaged in the designing, marketing and distributing of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories and services for sports and fitness activities. The Company’s operating segments include North America; Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA); Greater China; and Asia Pacific & Latin America (APLA). It sells a line of equipment and accessories under the NIKE Brand name, including bags, socks, sport balls, eyewear, timepieces, digital devices, bats, gloves, protective equipment and other equipment designed for sports activities. It also designs products specifically for the Jordan Brand and Converse. The Jordan Brand designs, distributes and licenses athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories predominantly focused on basketball performance and culture using the Jumpman trademark. The Company also designs, distributes and licenses casual sneakers, apparel and accessories under the Chuck Taylor, All Star, One Star, Star Chevron and Jack Purcell trademarks.
McDonald’s Corporation operates and franchises McDonald’s restaurants. The Company’s restaurants serve a locally relevant menu of food and beverages. Its restaurants are owned and operated by independent local business owners. Its segments include the United States, International Operated Markets and International Developmental Licensed Markets & Corporate. Its International Operated Markets segment includes its operations in markets, such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Its International Developmental Licensed Markets & Corporate segment includes markets in over 80 countries, as well as corporate activities. Its digital offerings include drive thru, takeaway, delivery, curbside pick-up and dine-in. Its menu includes hamburgers and cheeseburgers, the Big Mac, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese, the Filet-O-Fish, the McChicken and other chicken sandwiches, Chicken McNuggets, World Famous Fries, salads and others.
Mastercard Incorporated is a technology company that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses across the world, enabling them to use electronic forms of payment. It allows users to make payments by creating a range of payment solutions and services using its brands: MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus. It enables a variety of payments capabilities (including products and value-added services and solutions) over its multi-rail network among account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments and others, offering customers one partner for their payment needs. Its products include consumer credit, consumer debit, prepaid, B2B accounts payable, commercial point of sale, disbursements and remittances, and others. It offers additional payment capabilities that include automated clearing house (ACH) transactions (both batch and real-time account-based payments). It also offers other services, such as cyber and intelligence solutions.
IREN Limited is an Australia-based company, which owns and operates data centers powered by 100% renewable energy. Its facilities are optimized for Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence (AI) cloud services, and other power-dense compute. Its data center mining facilities are in Canal Flats, Mackenzie, Prince George and Childress. Bitcoin Mining provides security to the Bitcoin network. Al Cloud Services provides cloud compute to Al customers, approximately 1,896 NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs. Its Canal Flats facility is in the Canadian Rockies, 100 kilometers (km) from Cranbrook regional airport and 500km east of Vancouver. Its facility is in Prince George, the city in northern British Columbia, located 500 km north of Vancouver. Its facility is located in Childress County, Texas, over 250 miles northwest of Dallas and in close proximity to multiple wind and solar generating facilities in the region. Its Childress operations comprise 200 Mega Watt of operating data centers.
Intuit Inc. offers a financial technology platform that helps consumers and small and mid-market businesses prosper by delivering financial management, compliance, and marketing products and services. It also provides specialized tax products to accounting professionals. Its offerings include TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. Lacerte, ProSeries, and ProConnect Tax Online. Its Global Business Solutions segment serves small and mid-market businesses around the world, and the accounting professionals who assist and advise them. Its Consumer segment serves consumers and includes do-it-yourself and assisted TurboTax income tax preparation products and services sold in the United States and Canada. Its Credit Karma segment serves consumers with a personal finance platform that provides personalized recommendations for credit card, home, auto, and personal loan, and insurance products. Its ProTax segment serves professional accountants in the United States and Canada.
