Deep down in the filings of an $8 billion money manager is a holding that has the potential to rise by as much as 41%.
William Jones isn’t a name familiar with many investors as Warren Buffett or Ray Dalio may be but the enormous assets under management demand a closer look as to what he’s picking and why.
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Buffett may be richer than Stan Druckenmiller, but he can’t claim a perfect trading record without a single down year as the founder of Duquense Family Office can.
And in its latest filings, Duquense has snapped up a company that is so far under most radars, it likely is invisible. That company is GE Vernova (GEV) and it’s got some bullish catalysts that may well be worth spending a little time on to see if they compel you to buy as they did Stan.
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While the market has generally been trending higher this year with various bumps in the road, Starbucks has had an altogether different journey and remained largely flat over the past 12 months. Worse still, until its recent CEO switchover, it had been decidedly under water.
The fundamentals have been fairly underwhelming for some time as earnings reports have revealed.
As ever more customers are turning to online retail, global e-commerce revenue is projected to grow at an annual growth rate of 9.5%, reaching an astonishing volume of $6.48 trillion by 2029.
Among the most promising e-commerce firms now is arguably one of the original pioneers in the space, eBay. Here’s why.
Today, music streaming accounts for 84% of music industry revenue, and the sector is still growing. Revenue is expected to reach $30 billion by 2025, and the popular audio-streaming Europe-based platform Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) is leading the way.
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An old Buffett adage goes something like this “we don’t have to be smarter than others, we have to be more disciplined” and what’s true for the investing world goes for the trading world too.
In that realm, champion traders have to watch stocks like a hawk. Waiting for the precise moment for breakouts to occur and then pouncing on them when they do.
A lot is made of Buffett’s approach to investing but it can be simplified to a level even a 12-year old understands.
While it’s easy for sophisticated investors to get caught up in the weeds of price-to-earnings multiples, competitive advantages, book values, and balance sheets, there is arguably a much simpler approach Buffett has taken to investing that can be applied by just about any investor willing to spend a little time musing on the topic.
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Buffett says he doesn’t time the market but when you look at his past moves, it’s clear that the old sage uses metrics that happen to coincide well with smart market timing.
Take his purchases at the bottom of the market in 2008-09 when he deployed almost 50% of his cash pile within the space of just a few weeks in October 2008.
On August 1st, Intel released its Q2 earnings report, much to the chagrin of longtime shareholders.
In the release, the company reported a 1% year-over-year revenue drop alongside a quarterly net loss of $1.6 billion. Much more concerning was the company’s plan for a cost reduction campaign that involved layoffs, reduced capital expenditures and a suspension of the company’s quarterly dividend.
If one market analyst is to be believed, the path of the market that will lead to most pain will involve a move higher from the early August lows followed by a sharp correction in September and October, repeating a pattern not seen since 1998.
Back then July marked the high and October the low,