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Viga Liu

💼TradingKey U.S. Stock Analyst

🏅CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)

🎓University of Waterloo | Actuarial Science (Finance Focus)

📊Stocks | Macro Strategy | Cryptocurrencies

Summary

Viga is a CFA charterholder and equity research analyst at TradingKey Investment Research, specializing in U.S. tech: semiconductors, AI, software, and crypto.

Areas of Expertise

Fundamental Analysis: Researches companies in semiconductor, AI, software sectors, deeply analyzes earnings and industry trends
Macro Research: Tracks Federal Reserve, inflation, liquidity, and related key futures Instruments
Multi-asset Strategy: Analyzes opportunities in global asset allocation and rotation
Crypto Market Research: Focuses on mainstream crypto assets, studies market trends and macro correlation
Market Insights: Regularly writes in-depth company reports and market special topic analysis

Experience

TradingKey｜U.S. Stock Analyst 2024 - Present

Total 120 articles

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Breaking AI's Energy Bottleneck: NuScale SMR, Pioneering a New Nuclear Era

【In-Depth Analysis】TradingKey - Forget the image of massive nuclear plants costing billions and taking decades to build. While they’ve long been the backbone of the grid, they’re starting to feel clunky in today’s fast-evolving energy landscape.

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] UnitedHealth (UNH): Can the Healthcare Giant Recover After Its Epic Collapse?

Once a Wall Street sweetheart, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) dominated the US healthcare industry with its unbeatable vertical empire, spanning insurance, clinics, pharmacies, and data analytics.

Coinbase: The Crypto Stock Even BTC Skeptics Can’t Ignore

TradingKey - Deribit acquisition expands Coinbase’s dominance in crypto derivatives, adding institutional clients and global reach. Fair value ranges from $224–$299 based on current growth, with $500+ reflecting long-term growth potential but significant uncertainty.

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Reddit's Monetization Struggle: Is the Business Model Sustainable?

However, platforms like YouTube and TikTok (videos) or Pinterest (images) have figured out how to generate significant commercial value, text based platforms like Reddit inherently have a flaw to monetize, and when you add issues like user resistance to ads and censorship, it gets even harder.

A Slice of Victory: Why Domino’s Has Won Investors’ Hearts and Appetites?

Even if its P/E makes Buffett frown, for those willing to accept a premium, this pizza is worth a bite, to slowly savor its future.

Apple FY2025 Q2 Earnings Preview: Can It Thrive in a Trade War Storm?

TradingKey - As Apple ready to release its Q2 FY2025 earnings, the tech giant stands at a crossroads, navigating a landscape shaped by robust fundamentals, escalating trade tensions, and intensifying competition. With its iconic brand and formidable cash flow, Apple remains a cornerstone of the...

Amazon Q1 2025 Earnings Preview: Navigating Tariffs, E-commerce, and Cloud Growth

TradingKey - Amazon is gearing up to unveil its Q1 2025 earnings, and investors are buzzing with anticipation. The market generally expects the company's revenue to be between $151 billion and $155.5 billion, a YoY increase of about 5% to 9%. Operating profit is expected to be between $14 billion...

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] From Alarm Clocks to EVs: Why Texas Instruments’ Chips Are Your Next Big Bet

Yet despite TI’s pervasive influence, its stock price has lagged behind the semiconductor industry’s AI-driven boom. Can this defensive giant with a steady dividend and strong cash flow capitalize on the market recovery to regain its former glory?

Tesla Q1 2025 Earning Report Review: Autonomous Driving and Robotics Lead Future Growth

TradingKey - Tesla's Q1 2025 earnings results revealed short-term financial pressure, with core data lower than market expectations, and both revenue and profitability facing challenges. Against the backdrop of sales and profit pressure, Musk remains confident in Tesla's future.

Tesla's 2025 Q1 Earning Report Preview: A Critical Moment of Hope and Challenge

TradingKey - Tesla's 2025 Q1 financial report will be released on April 22. As a leader in the global electric vehicle industry, its performance has attracted much attention from the market.

TSMC's Q1 2025 Earning: Technological leadership and AI demand drive continued growth in performance

For investors, TSMC's current valuation has not yet fully reflected its growth potential in the AI chip market. It is recommended to pay attention to its progress in 2nm process mass production and CoWoS capacity expansion.

ASML 2025 Q1 Earnings Report Analysis: Robustness, Caution and Uncertainty

Although ASML's financial situation remains robust, driven by high-margin EUV systems and strict cost management, macroeconomic uncertainties, especially tariffs, and the cyclical slowdown in semiconductor demand have caused some concerns about near-term growth.

TSMC 2025 Q1 Outlook: AI-Driven Growth and Supply Chain Breakthrough Amid Tariff Pressures

As the world's leading semiconductor foundry, TSMC's Q1 2025 revenue reached NT$839.254 billion, a year-on-year increase of 41.6%, exceeding market expectations and in line with the company's guidance of NT$820 billion to NT$846.24 billion.

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Tesla's 2025 tariff impact and valuation outlook

TradingKey - Trump's tariff policy has led to rising costs for electric vehicles and energy storage, intensified market competition, and declining demand in China and the United States.The company is heavily dependent on China's rare earths and batteries and needs to accelerate local production...

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Marvell Technology (MRVL): Betting Big on ASICs Amid Challenges

Marvell's AI ASICs deliver efficiency benefits but contend with constrained market share (10-15%) and concentrated demand.

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] AppLovin: The Secret to Explosive Growth Through AI and Acquisitions

Through key acquisitions (MAX, Adjust, MoPub), AppLovin evolved from a mobile game ad platform to an industry-wide platform, expanding its technology, user base, and market reach.

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Coinbase: The Next Chapter of Crypto from Trading to Consumer Apps

Our valuation estimates its intrinsic worth at $75–$87 billion, suggesting meaningful upside potential from its current market cap of $50 billion. While risks such as regulatory uncertainty and crypto market volatility remain, Coinbase’s diversified revenue streams and strong execution capabilities

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Snowflake: Leading the Charge in Cloud Data Innovation

Snowflake’s cloud data platform outpaces competitors with its scalable, cross-cloud architecture and cost-efficient storage-compute separation, setting a new industry standard. Cortex AI and Snowpark help NRR at 126%, positioning Snowflake as an AI/ML frontrunner.

[IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS] Salesforce: Will Salesforce Be Replaced by AI or Leverage It to Lead?

AI Opportunity and Risk: Salesforce’s decade-long AI investment and Agentforce leverage its clients, but AI could reduce seat demand and commoditize offerings.Moat vs. Agility: High switching costs secure its enterprise base, yet its size may slow adaptation to AI-native competitors.

CrowdStrike Q4 FY25: Fading Growth Momentum Tests a Cybersecurity Titan

CrowdStrike delivered results that, while surpassing consensus estimates, revealed a concerning slowdown in key growth metrics.

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