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THE INVESTMENT OF THE DECADE


THREE MUST-OWN STOCKS THAT WILL POWER BLOCKCHAIN’S 295,000% REVOLUTION

By Teeka Tiwari
THE INVESTMENT OF THE DECADE
THREE MUST-OWN STOCKS THAT WILL POWER BLOCKCHAIN’S 295,000% REVOLUTION
By Teeka Tiwari
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Most people familiar with the blockchain know it At its core, a blockchain is simply a decentralized,
as the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies. distributed online network.

That’s true… The blockchain’s main use has been The internet is a great example of this type of
to record crypto transactions. But that’s not the network. No no one owns the internet. And each
only thing it’s capable of. computer logged into the internet is a “host.”
Even if you shut down one host, it won’t shut
It’s a groundbreaking technology that we’ll even- down the entire system.
tually use to record any type of transaction. For
instance, you’ll be able to sell your car, home, or The blockchain works the same way.
even artwork on the blockchain. That’s why some
people are calling the blockchain the new internet. Today, the internet is a global network linking
millions of computers. There are nearly 4.5 bil-
Now, for most people, the blockchain is a difficult lion internet users and 1.7 billion websites.
concept to grasp. After all, it’s a new technology.
But don’t let that scare you. Everyone on the internet can communicate with
everyone else.
Consider this…
Think of the internet as an online postal service,
Imagine you’re back in 1970. And I tell you that and the blockchain as an online financial
more people would send mail electronically than services firm.
through mail carriers…
Like the postal service, the internet exchanges
You’d probably think that was incredible, too. Or communications between people. But it exchang-
you’d think that I’m crazy. es them much faster and more efficiently than the
postal service.
Fast-forward 50 years… and today, people send
more mail over the internet than through the Like a financial services company, the blockchain
postal service. exchanges value between people. But it exchanges
value much faster and more efficiently than a bank.
That’s the thing about groundbreaking technol-
ogy. In the early stages, we don’t always see how Today, we can instantly send text, voice, and vid-
it’ll change society. eo messages to anyone around the world with just
a click of a button.
So what exactly is the blockchain?
Soon, you’ll be able to exchange something of

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value online as well – like a stock certificate, land And 2020 is shaping up to be even better. Ac-
deed, or even a car title – with just the click of a cording to VC firm Insight Partners, the market
button. size for blockchain is expected to top $4 billion.

So just like how the internet revolutionized how Research firm MarketsandMarkets expects the
we exchange communications… the blockchain global blockchain market to grow at a compound
will revolutionize how we exchange value. annual growth rate (CAGR) of 66% over the next
five years to reach $55.5 billion by 2025.
That’s why the World Economic Forum has
projected that blockchain will store 10% of the And in this report, we’ve found three must-own
world’s GDP by 2027. That’s $8.6 trillion. stocks that’ll power this blockchain revolution.

Based on those projections, we could see block- The first company has positioned itself as the sole
chain technology soar 295,762% over the next “gatekeeper” of blockchain assets. You see, it’s
seven years alone – up from just $2.9 billion. the only company cleared by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) to trade blockchain
And the World Economic Forum isn’t alone. investments like cryptos.
Deutsche Bank also forecasts that by 2027, block-
chain systems will record transactions for about As blockchain goes mainstream… more investors
10% of global GDP. rush in… and new financial blockchain products
are introduced, this company will make a cut on
Meanwhile, global investment bank RBC Capi- every transaction.
tal Markets estimates the blockchain ecosystem
could be worth up to $10 trillion within the next Over the next three years, we believe this com-
10 to 15 years. pany will dominate the crypto exchange market.
And based on that alone, we think it could be an
So blockchain-based systems will impact easy triple.
businesses and our lives more than the internet
does today. The second company will disrupt the debit and
credit card industries with much safer “block-
And Wall Street is taking notice… chain-based” cards. We believe it can become the
next Visa of the payments industry.
According to investment analytics firm Crunch-
base, businesses did 472 deals in the blockchain Its stock has already climbed 8x since Febru-
space during the first nine months of 2019. This ary 2016. But we believe it could climb another
put the 2019 annual figure on pace to hit 629 16x from here – which would turn $5,000 into
deals – more than the total number of deals from $80,000.
2014, 2015, and 2016 combined.
And the third company has positioned itself to
This is going to lead to an absolute explosion in scoop up billions of dollars in revenue by supply-
the technology… and a flood of institutional mon- ing the hardware needed to power the blockchain
ey heading into this space. boom.

According to Crunchbase News, venture capital Already, major car makers like Honda are work-
(VC) investment in blockchain startups reached ing with this company. And big institutions are
nearly $1.6 billion last year. buying shares.

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The stock has already started a big move, shoot- Over the last several years, the company diversi-
ing up 57% in the last six months alone. fied its revenue stream.

But this is just the beginning. Conservatively, it Today, 43% of ICE’s revenues come from data
could triple over the next three years. And we services. ICE licenses indexes, software, termi-
believe it could even do much better. nals, and other data sets to financial institutions.
The result of this dominance shows in ICE’s stel-
With all this in mind, let’s get to them... lar stock market performance.

Must-Own Blockchain Stock No. 1: When ICE went public in 2005, its market cap
Intercontinental Exchange was $2 billion. Today, its market cap is $54
billion. That’s 24% compound annual growth
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) owns 12
– crushing the S&P Global’s 15.5% and the Nas-
global exchanges, including the largest in the
daq’s 13.7%.
world – the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
And the company’s visionary CEO, Jeffrey Spre-
It also provides markets for stocks, derivatives,
cher, has been the driving force behind its growth
interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, metals,
and innovation.
and agricultural commodities.
Fortune once dubbed Sprecher as a “disrupter
Think of ICE like a global casino operator.
par excellence.” That’s because he “stands alone
It takes a little piece of every trade on every ex- as the leading force in modernizing the world’s
change it owns. Unlike a casino operator, though, exchanges in recent years from open-outcry pits
it takes on no risk. When somebody wins, it’s the into super-efficient electronic marketplaces.”
loser who pays the winner.
Sprecher spearheaded ICE’s recent blockbust-
ICE is there to ensure the buyers and sellers have er project: Bakkt (pronounced “backed”). It’s
a market they can operate in. a global platform for trading digital assets that
launched last year.
That’s how ICE makes its money. It rakes in
trading fees from its primary exchange business. ICE partnered with several big guns on the Bakkt
They might be pennies, half-pennies, and half of project, including Microsoft, Boston Consulting
half-pennies… But they quickly add up. Group, Starbucks, Fortress Investment Group, Ea-
gle Seven, and Susquehanna International Group.
With 40% profit margins, ICE pulled in earnings
of $2 billion on $5.2 billion in revenues over the And Bakkt is continuing to build a secure plat-
last year. form where global institutions can store, transact,
trade, and transfer digital assets.
The company is also the leading global exchange
for commodities – including futures contracts for For example, on the institutional trading product
oil, natural gas, sugar, cotton, and coffee. side, Bakkt launched its one-day, physically set-
tled bitcoin futures contracts in September 2019.
Its old-school trading and clearing fee model It’s seen as much as $40.8 million in daily trading
accounts for 58% of the company’s revenues (in- volume since then.
cluding 10% from listing fees). It dominates the
exchange business, but management isn’t resting And we expect that to grow exponentially…
on its laurels.

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You see, when institutions complete daily futures operating income, earnings per share (EPS), and
trading with Bakkt, they receive actual bitcoin. cash flow.
This is different from Chicago Mercantile Ex-
change (CME) and Chicago Board Options Ex- But there’s still more room for growth in the
change (CBOE) contracts, which are cash-settled years ahead. As mentioned, the company will
futures contracts. continue to launch new products that’ll earn more
fees. Fees from Bakkt’s crypto trading alone could
This is monumental because it allows financial add billions more to ICE’s bottom line.
firms to deal directly in crypto assets, not crypto
derivatives. ICE has set itself up to be the epicen- Over the next three years, earnings could double
ter of serious institutional crypto trading. just based on the profits generated by the Bakkt
platform.
And the stakes are massive. ICE is the first glob-
ally recognized company to offer crypto custody But even without Bakkt, ICE is a stock we want to
and trading for institutional investors. own. You see, ICE is fundamentally undervalued.
It trades at a 40% discount to its exchange-oper-
In the crypto space, similar first movers were ator peers and a 22% discount to its market data
Coinbase (the most popular crypto exchange for provider peers...
individuals) and Binance (the major Chinese
crypto exchange). These two tiny companies op- Factoring in the crypto component, and the stock
erate in a tiny ecosystem. could trade nearly three times higher from where
it is today.
It’s estimated that there are only 35 million cryp-
to buyers. Yet between the two, they made prof- Operating as a traditional exchange and data pro-
its of over $1 billion last year. That’s more than vider, ICE has been a marvelous stock to own.
Deutsche Bank – the 148-year-old German bank
It sports an annualized return of 23% since its
– made that year.
2005 IPO. That’s 2.5 times the S&P 500’s 9%
So as crypto trading goes mainstream, we think over the same span. And we even get a 1.1% divi-
ICE could emerge as a global linchpin offering dend to boot. That’s just about unheard of from a
crypto trading services to a worldwide base of growth stock.
500 million stock buyers.
With ICE, you have all the upside of the crypto
And as ICE sees demand for its bitcoin futures market wrapped up in a traditional exchange pow-
product ramp up, it’ll launch other crypto trading erhouse that’ll go on making billions in profits with
products, too. or without the crypto market (which could become
the largest alternative asset class in the world).
In fact, it’s already launched the Bakkt Ware-
house (which provides safe custody of bitcoin for Owning ICE today is a no-brainer. Regardless of
all institutions)... bitcoin cash-settled futures in the potential upside of its Bakkt division, it’s a
Singapore… and the first regulated options con- stock you want in your portfolio.
tract for bitcoin futures.
Action to Take: Buy Intercontinental Exchange
This is all showing up in the company’s bottom (ICE).
line… ICE had a strong 2019, with its stock was Buy-up-to Price: $110 per share
up 24.3%. The company set records in sales, Position Size: Up to 1%
Asset Allocation: Equities

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Digging into the most recent top and bottom
Important Note: Due to the recent market lines, Q3 2019 growth was impressive. Total net
sell-off and volatility we’re seeing now over revenues grew 44% year-over-year to $1.3 billion.
the coronavirus outbreak, we will not be And adjusted earnings hit $131 million – up 85%
using stop losses on these positions. Instead, year over year.
as part of our risk-management strategy, we
recommend a position size of up to 1% for Plus, the company is continuing to roll out one
these picks. With lots of runway ahead, we innovation after another:
don’t want to let market volatility shake us
out of these long-term plays. • Square Stand (2012): Turns the Apple iPad
into a complete point-of-sale system (POS)
Must-Own Blockchain Stock No. 2: Square
• Square Capital (2014): Offers business
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launched financing to merchants
Square (SQ) with Jim McKelvey in 2009.
• Square Payroll (2015): Automatically han-
Their goal was to simplify the transaction process dles payroll and taxes
between merchants and customers.
• Cash App (2015): Allows person-to-person
At the time, small- and mid-sized retailers had no money transfer
options other than to use “merchant accounts.”
• Square Register (2017): A faster, more
These accounts involved long contracts, onerous
powerful, all-in-one POS
fees, and pricey rental devices.
• Square Crypto (2019): Dedicated to the
But that all changed in 2010, when Square de-
growth of the crypto ecosystem
buted its Square Reader.
And while these business parts are very valuable
It’s a little “square” device that plugs into a smart-
by themselves... combining them will unlock sig-
phone or tablet. You can swipe your card through
nificant value.
it for payments. In fact, you’ve likely used this
device before at cafés or other small shops. No other company commands both merchants
and consumers in the space the way that Square
This debit and credit card reader revolutionized
does. It has a huge competitive advantage.
the payment-processing industry for smaller
retailers… Take Square Capital, for example…
It’s cheap and easy to use. And users weren’t It monitors Square transactions to proactively ap-
bound by the hassle of contracts. Rather than proach merchants for loans. Merchants can then
charging monthly fees and set-up costs, Square borrow money and pay it back through a small
simply charges a 2.75% fee on every transaction. percentage of sales. It’s genius.
And it’s been a successful method for the com- Square can weed out risk by approaching only
pany. In 2018, Square processed $85 billion in strong retailers. And by taking a fixed percentage
payments. In 2019, it was on pace to hit over of daily sales, the repayment plans are basically
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Others have taken notice, too. In fact, fintech Dorsey believes we can solve many problems with
company Stripe launched Stripe Capital to piggy- blockchain. He’s even said, “Bitcoin has a high
back off of Square’s idea. probability of becoming the internet’s native cur-
rency or the basis for all payments made online.”
But Square’s major upside is in its blockchain-en-
abled Cash App. What’s more, Dorsey was just awarded a patent
for real-time swapping between crypto and fiat
It’s a digital wallet where users can send, spend, currencies. This means a merchant would be
store, and invest money. And in 2018, it added the able to accept crypto, but still receive U.S. dollars
ability to buy and deposit bitcoin. (Square assigns during transactions.
a small transaction markup for the convenience.)
This is the kind of innovation that’ll break down
Cash App did $339 million in bitcoin revenue the barriers for buying everyday goods with cryp-
in the first nine months of 2019 – up from $114 to. And it’s why I believe Square will become the
million during the same period in 2018. That’s “next Visa.”
almost 200% year-over-year growth.
While the general public hasn’t caught on to the
So Square has made it incredibly easy to trans- company’s potential, some of Wall Street’s smart
act in bitcoin. In fact, it’s estimated that Square money has...
absorbs 10% of all bitcoin supply daily.
Square’s board includes heavyweights from top
And over the last year, the Cash App consumer VC firms – like Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital,
base has grown by more than 100%, with an esti- and Google’s Gradient Ventures. Even former
mated 25 million users. Plus, Square has done so Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has a seat.
with very low customer acquisition costs.
And Vanguard, Blackrock, Fidelity, State Street,
While big banks and credit card companies pay and Morgan Stanley have stockpiled a total of 67
millions of dollars each year for advertising, Cash million shares.
App’s peer-to-peer system has seen a viral net-
work effect grow its user base. Whether it takes 10 years, five years, or less, SQ
has the potential to climb 16x from here. And
With this in mind, Square stands to benefit from now’s the time to get in, before the rest of the
accelerating U.S. digital wallet adoption. Digital investment world catches on.
wallets not only lower the cost of customer acqui-
sition… they also enhance user experience. Action to Take: Buy Square (SQ).
Buy-up-to Price: $100 per share
Fully monetized, Cash App could reach 200 mil- Position Size: Up to 1%
lion customers in the next few years. That would Asset Allocation: Equities
allow Square to rival the big banks and credit
card companies.
Important Note: Before we removed our
And this is only beginning. Dorsey firmly stands stop losses on these blockchain plays, we
behind the blockchain and crypto movement... were stopped out of our initial position in SQ
due to the volatility we mentioned above.
In 2019, he launched Square Crypto. Its develop-
ers aim to build out a crypto ecosystem... make However, we still strongly believe the com-
bitcoin easier to use... and increase adoption.

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largest, most disruptive trends in technology:
pany will benefit from the blockchain revo-
lution. So we’re closely monitoring SQ as a • Artificial intelligence (AI): AI is a key
potential buy again. And we’ll likely be able foundational technology for the next gen-
to reenter at an even better price. eration of the internet. The total address-
able market could touch $10 billion in
When we do initiate a position again, be sure the next few years. And Nvidia has a 99%
not to use a stop loss. Instead, use a position share of the chips used in deep-learning
size of up to 1% as part of your risk-manage-
programs (a type of AI).
ment strategy. With lots of runway ahead, we
don’t want to let market volatility shake us
• Autonomous driving: The company’s
out of this long-term play.
processors will be widely deployed in
self-driving cars as the world moves to-
Must-Own Blockchain Stock No. 3: Nvidia ward autonomous transport. Honda, Audi,
Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Volvo, and Volk-
Nvidia (NVDA) makes cutting-edge hardware swagen have all partnered with Nvidia.
and software for computers. Its chips – also known
as graphics processing units (GPUs) – are the driv- • Gaming: Gamers want instantaneous
ing force behind everything from mobile phones to system responses. And Nvidia’s GPUs
personal computers and even game consoles. and algorithms render the highest-quality
graphics at the fastest speeds. The compa-
Of course, there’s competition (Advanced Micro ny now commands about 70% of the $150
Devices, Intel, Qualcomm, etc.)... But Nvidia global video game market.
makes best-in-class GPUs and has the dominant
market share. In fact, we haven’t seen this type of • Supercomputers: Nvidia’s DGX Sys-
monopoly in the semiconductor space in decades. tems are over 100x faster than standard
supercomputers – for a fraction of the
Noted business magazine, Fast Company has cost. Common uses include weather fore-
called it the “Most Innovative Company.” MIT casting, cancer research, and oil and gas
Technology Review has included it in its list of exploration. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and
the world’s “50 Smartest Companies.” other big players have long teamed up with
Nvidia on supercomputer tech.
And Harvard Business Review says it has the
“World’s Best Performing CEO.” Now, these systems didn’t exist five or 10 years
ago. Yet today, they’re becoming ubiquitous
Now, Nvidia has a $150 billion market cap... an-
across many industries. And over the last five
nual revenue of almost $12 billion... 13,000 em-
years, Nvidia’s stock is up over 1,120%.
ployees… and a staggering 1.6 million developers.
But there’s still room for it to march higher.
It’s been cranking out hardware and software for
25-plus years. Its platform is installed in hun- You see, there’s one technology Nvidia is also
dreds of millions of computers and is available powering that Wall Street analysts aren’t paying
from every server maker. Plus, it powers 136 of attention to: crypto mining.
the Top 500 supercomputers in the world.
Cryptos are a decentralized system of digital
Simply put, Nvidia’s GPUs are powering all the money. And tokens must be “mined.” Basically,

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your computer constantly tries to solve complex stay. With lots of runway ahead for crypto prices,
math problems. If it succeeds, you’re rewarded in Nvidia is set to benefit.
crypto, like bitcoin. For
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Even without the crypto mining element, I’m con-
Think back to 2017, when the crypto market fident the stock can double or triple in the next
soared and bitcoin was up 1,200%-plus. This surge three years. After all, Nvidia is leading the charge
in crypto mining put pressure on the GPU market. in several disruptive technologies that’ll ramp up
in the years ahead.
Everyday folks jumped into the mining market,
hoping to strike it rich. In turn, Nvidia had to And if it is able to capitalize on crypto mining, it
increase its GPU supply – and prices – to meet could go up much more. So if you want to tap into
demand. the most innovative trends in technology, Nvidia
is the clear choice.
Now, this trend slowed at the end of 2018, when
bitcoin fell more than 70%. But bitcoin has since Action to Take: Buy Nvidia (NVDA).
recovered – up 85% in 2019. And the trend in Buy-up-to Price: $350 per share
GPU demand is sharply reversing again, too. Position Size: Up to 1%
Asset Allocation: Equities
It’s a trend we expect to continue as bitcoin prices
continue to rise and crypto shows it’s here to

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