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What You Should Know About MMORPGs

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The Valuentum analyst team talks about the Chinese gaming industry and the financials of Tencent (TCEHY) and Netease (NTES), in particular. Both generate strong free cash flow and have solid balance sheets, but there are myriad risks to consider, too. ~5 mins. Podcast no longer available. Transcript as follows. Chris Araos: Welcome to Valuentum’s podcast. This is Christopher Araos, and joining us today is Brian Nelson and Kris Rosemann. Today, we’re going to talk about the MMORPG landscape in China. Brian? Brian Nelson, CFA: Thanks for that Chris. I think just to give a little bit of background MMORPG stands for massively multiplayer online role-playing (PC-client) games. Wow, that’s a mouthful. These are very, very popular games across the globe … Read more

SEC Proposes Barring the Chinese Units of the Big 4 Accounting Firms for 6 Months; A Washington-Beijing Scuffle; Neither Firm-Specific, Nor Is It “New” News

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On Thursday, Reuters reported that SEC Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot believes “Chinese units of the global ‘Big Four’ accounting firms (KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst and Young) should be suspended from auditing U.S.-listed companies for six months in an escalation in a long-running dispute over regulators’ access to documents.” Though the accounting firms have indicated that they intend to appeal against the ruling, the article did unnerve investors in many US-listed Chinese stocks, including Baidu (BIDU), which notes Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP as its principal external auditor. This is not “new” news. Baidu goes to great lengths to highlight this scenario as a risk in its 20-F on page 32, with potential de-listing (not bankruptcy or … Read more