When Charlie Munger was a boy, he described an encounter he had with an older man who seemed to work very little but had a lot of money. Curious what the man did he questioned the line of business he was in and discovered to his surprise he “rendered dead horses.” What Charlie learned from the conversation was less about horses and more about how one man got rich because he was the only player in that market.
When Buffett was asked about his brief foray into buying and subsequently selling McDonald’s stock decades ago he made a comment that offered a rare insight into the framework he uses to evaluate the long-term merits of a firm. While it’s well-known that he likes a company to have an enduring competitive advantage, it’s not as clear to many what that actually means.
Zooming out is often quite helpful in providing insights as to where the market is likely to go. When we examine a chart of the S&P 500 now on a weekly basis, a clear uptrend from mid-2022 has formed.
So too has a strong resistance line been created at close to the 4,800 mark both at the end of 2021 and the end of 2023.
If one analyst is to be believed, today should mark the top in the market. Cem Karsan pinpointed January 17, 2024 a few months ago as the day when market tailwinds would subside in favor of market headwinds, but how could he be so specific in his date selection? And will be be right?
Imagine a company generating $210 billion in revenues, what do you think it would be worth? To give you a clue, Alphabet produces $297 billion in revenues and is worth almost $1.8 billion. Can you take a stab now at what this other firm is worth?
There is lots of information you need to answer the question so we’ll cut to the chase and share with you that the company in question,
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To be the best sometimes you simply have to follow the best and see what they are doing. That old adage applies to trading Nvidia recently when, on the same day, both Oliver Kell, who posted a 941.1% gain to win the US trading championship a few years ago, and Mark Minervini bought it.
Mark has famously become one of the most successful traders of all time,
When you find an investment manager overseeing $1.2 billion, it warrants further investigation when they bet one fifth of their entire portfolio on a single stock. Yet that’s exactly the conviction that Impactive Capital demonstrated by betting 20.4% of their portfolio on an automotive retailer.
Amid the universe of thousands of stocks, what is it that Impactive portfolio managers saw in Asbury Automotive that motivated them to allocate $457 million of their fund to it?
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Usually cable stocks should be avoided like the plague. The trend towards cord-cutting has been unrelenting as streaming services like Netflix came to the forefront over the past decade. After all, why pay $80 per month when you can pay $10 for a range of movies on your favorite streaming platform?
But most of the well-known cable companies compete against each other in city environments and have to fend off stark competition.
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of Nvidia but perhaps the smartest stock to buy now is Alphabet (GOOGL). Across the gamut of products and services offered by Alphabet, a whole new world of revenues opens up when AI is factored in.
We delve in to explore just how large the opportunity is for Alphabet and potentially for shareholders over the next few years.
When it comes to energy stocks, some names leap off the pages. Exxon, Valero, Conoco Phillips are all well-known but what about the lesser known names, is there an opportunity to find one trading at bargain basement prices there?
We stumbled across one such firm that likely has never crossed the radars of most investors.
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