Whose moat is being destroyed by PayPal?! Find out on this week’s PlayingFTSE Show!

Underperformance from Steve this week. Doesn’t matter which one – it’s true of both of them…

We’ve had a viewer request to take a look at Nike. And it’s a good one – the stock has been falling, but is it cheap enough to buy?

Steve D’s been taking a look at what might be the start of a long process. But Steve W has an idea for how to structure a way in…

The S&P 500’s big tech stocks reported this week. And Steve W has a run-down of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft.

Strong cloud growth is reassuring investors about high capex. But why has the stock market been sending one of them lower?

Mastercard is one of Steve D’s newer investments. And the latest results show a business that keeps on moving forward.

There are no points for making things more difficult than they need to be. So why do investors buy anything apart from Mastercard and Visa?

Only on this week’s PlayingFTSE Podcast!

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► Timestamps:

0:00 INTRO & OUR WEEKS

8:01 NIKE

32:42 BIG TECH ROUNDUP

50:33 MASTERCARD

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