Americans Spent 16% More This Holiday Shopping Season

今年假日购物季美国人比去年多消费了16％

—than last year. It counts the five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday. Almost 190 million shoppers took advantage of the heavy discounts being offered during that time, according to data from the National Retail Federation.

该数据计算的是从感恩节到网络星期一这五天里的消费额。全美零售业联合会(National Retail Federation)的数据显示，在这一期间有将近1.9亿购物者借打折季之机购买了商品。

And online shopping dominated. In fact, more people made purchases online than in stores. Even Black Friday has now moved into the online realm. For the first time, it had more online shoppers than Cyber Monday.

而且网上购物是主要方式。实际上，在网上购物的人数多于在实体店购物的人数。购物者现在甚至在黑色星期五那天也在网上购物，网上购物人数首次超过网络星期一的购物人数。

In October, Slack Said it Had 12 Million Users

Slack称10月份用户达到1200万

This evening, the workplace-messaging platform is set to report its fiscal third-quarter earnings. That means investors will get another update on Slack’s user numbers.

今晚（12月4日），这一工作场所讯息平台将公布第三财季财报。这意味着投资者将了解到更新后的Slack用户数量。

Slack Technologies (WORK) is under pressure to show big growth. Last month, Microsoft (MSFT) said that its competing software called Teams now has 20 million active users—that’s way more than what Slack has.

Slack Technologies(WORK)在实现大幅度增长方面正面临压力。微软(Microsoft, MSFT)上个月称，其产品Teams现在拥有2000万活跃用户，比Slack的用户多。

So, Slack investors could use some good news tonight. The stock is down 42% since the company’s IPO in June.

因此，Slack的投资者今晚可能可以得到一些好消息。该公司6月份进行IPO以来，股价已经下跌了42％。

Beyond Meat is 10 Times More Expensive Than an Index of Similar-Size Companies

Beyond Meat的市盈率是同类公司的10倍

That’s relative to estimated earnings next year. And that hefty valuation is keeping one analyst from Oppenheimer on the sidelines.

这是相对于明年的预期收入而言的。如此高的估值导致奥本海默(Oppenheimer)的一位分析师对该股一直处于观望状态。

It’s not that the analyst, Rupesh Parikh, doesn’t appreciate Beyond Meat’s product assortment and innovative approach. He also calls the company a great brand in the fast-growing alternative meat category.

这并不是说分析师鲁佩什·帕利克(Rupesh Parikh)不看好Beyond Meat (BYND)的产品分类和创新方法，他还称该公司是快速增长的人造肉公司中的杰出品牌。

But, Parikh says, it’s just hard to justify buying Beyond Meat (BYND) at its current price. Others seem to feel the same way: Only about 25% of analysts covering the company, have a buy rating on the stock.

但是帕利克称，很难以目前的价格买入该股。其他人似乎也持相同看法：在分析研究该股的分析师中，只有大约25％的分析师给予该股“买入”评级。

翻译 | Anqi

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