The greatest lesson I took from Munger is not about investing but about resilience.
He lost his 9 year old son to cancer. He lost his eye. He lost most of his money in a divorce. His fund had 50%+ drawdowns, and yet every day, he got up over and over again to keep compounding.
Sometimes understanding deep realities of a business can earn you significant alpha:
$PTON is a fucking iPad glued to a bike.
$OPEN is a home flipping business.
$CVNA is a used car dealership.
$SHOP is just Canadian $WIX.
Crypto is a ponzi scheme.
In all seriousness, I don't know how you can look at the results from $MSFT $AAPL $GOOG and soon to be $FB and $AMZN (although the last is a big ?) and conclude that indices with big weightings in these companies are somehow going to "mean revert" 30/40/50% lower.
This is Marc Andreessen.
He created the first popular internet browser.
Now he invests billions in startups at his VC firm, a16z.
Here's his 9-step guide on how to build a startup:
"If you look at all the great investors that are as different as Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, Ken Langone, they tend to be very, very concentrated bets. They see something, they bet it, and they bet the ranch on it."
Druckenmiller made a big bet on NVDA
Dying because you worked 140 hours a week is not a “communication issue”.
Employees have limited power against their corporation, their MD, their VPs etc.
It is 100% the duty of the employer and the higher ups to ensure they are not working people to death.
Not gonna lie if the US military/CIA pulled an accounting trick to find $6.2 billion to pay to a mercenary group to overthrow one of the most powerful dictators in the world, that is a conspiracy theory to be damn proud of as an American.
@chamath
@wmcintyre84
@tiltwave
Which ones have worked dude?
$open is down 90%
$clov is down 90%
$space is down 75%
$sofi is down 22%
You’ve blamed the fed, you’ve blamed investors, but you’ve never blamed yourself for structuring shitty deals. Well, not shitty for you of course.
The top 10%ile income in Canada is around $175k. With that income and $100k saved you can afford a home priced a little under $700k.
The average house price in Canada is $760k.
So a top 10% earner with a sizeable savings cannot afford the AVERAGE house in this country.
Taxes 1:
$MSFT - tax on computing
$V/ $MA - tax on consumption
$VRSN - tax on the internet
$ICE, $CME $CBOE $MXTX - tax on the concept of a market
$MASI - tax on sickness
$ADBE - tax on digital creativity
$MSCI / $SPGI - tax on passive investing
$MCO $SPGI - tax on corp. debt
I'm seeing a lot of "2020 is the worst year ever" comments. I can think of a few, somewhere around 1939-1946 that might have been worse for a lot of people.
Toughen up.
This is a $GOOG model from 2010. Today, Google generates ~2x the FCF modelled while still growing in the teens vs. a terminal multiple of 10x FCF applied in 2020.
This is how you alpha. As a long-term investor.
She literally believes god told her to start ARK. That is why it’s called ARK. She is literally schizophrenic.
Why anyone listens to her crazy religious fundamentalist nutjobism is beyond me. She is not a sane woman.
CATHIE WOOD ON CNBC JUST NOW:
Host: Where do you see $TSLA Tesla stock in 5 years?
Cathie Wood: $2000.
That would put Tesla at about a $5T marketcap in 5 years.
$FB achieved their first $1 trillion 17 years after founding. I believe that is the record. Google took ~22 years, Amazon took 26 years, Microsoft took 33 years, Apple took 42.
Can we all agree that Zuck is the damn GOAT yet?
The CFA is a bit like a tattoo, it hurts like a bitch while you’re doing it, and afterwards you’re proud you went through the pain but eventually you begin to question why and question whether you want to get it removed (stop paying the dues).
So, if you think AWS is worth 20x EBITDA, or ~38x earnings (operating income less 17% tax), you are getting retail, a business that demonstrably does have a positive value, for free today. $AMZN
If you get rich with grift and blood money, there is no amount of substance that can repair the sucking wound in your soul.
He knows what he did, gets called out for it publicly all the time, and has to live with that the rest of his life.
Starting with $100k at say age 30, saving $50k/year and compounding at 12% (which is not easy!), you'd have almost $10 million in 25 years. I figure that's enough to retire.
But nobody tryna get rich slow no mo'
Becoming increasingly convinced that the biggest struggle in investing is not investing, it's watching people get rich gambling and not wanting to FOMO YOLO.
Value investors: idiot investors will pay anything for stocks!
Growth investors: idiot investors will buy any crap if it's crappy enough!
Macro investors: markets are crazy, bubbles everywhere.
Actual investors: dude I just look at individual situations and try to make money.
This sentence does not mean anything.
One reason to read lots of transcripts is you find 95% of CEOs talk like this. They use jargon because they have not thought deeply about anything; they don’t know how to create value. People who cannot explain a complex subject simply
“The thing we didn’t do enough of is really attack the occasional customer with delivering and communicating value to them in a more aggressive manner,” said Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan, speaking on the chain’s declining market share in the U.S.
$FRC, a best in breed company who built an incredible customer service machine with fantastic customer retention and market share gains, run by an honest management team is now up only 7% from their IPO 13 years ago.
Congrats to the $baba bulls who bottom ticked it yesterday.
So sorry to the $baba bulls who tried to bottom tick it a week ago, and a week before that, and a few days before that, and some time before that, and a while before that and…
$msft $googl $gfl $spgi $mco $tdg $csu.to $Che equal weight go to sleep for 10 years.
That probably outperforms 90% of the people doing deep DD and trying to guess semi-meaningless business minutae.
Anyone who has worked in finance longer than 5 minutes knows you can torture numbers to tell whatever story you want. In fact, thinking that you don’t buy stories but buy numbers IS a story you tell yourself to feel better about the fact you probably buy stories.
The reduced gravitational pull from fewer fat people on Ozempic will cause the moon to leave earths orbit, the atmosphere to dissipate, and all life on earth to end.
I love how crypto is basically straight up admitting it's a Ponzi scheme now.
Clever reframing from "it's not a Ponzi scheme" to "so what if it is, Ponzi schemes are the future of money and actually not bad."
Howard Marks: “We’re in an asset bubble. It’s everything. It’s not particular to high-yield bonds or bonds or stocks. It’s real estate, it’s private equity, it’s everything...How do you make a decent return in a low return world? The answer is: it’s hard.”
Analyst: Can you guys tell me what free cash flow will be next quarter?
Company: well, free cash flow is the cash left over after we've paid all expenses, and next quarter will be April to June 30th.
Analyst: alright, that's helpful, thanks.
The bcom/b school-> banking -> investing route often produces good but not great investors because the entire culture of b school -> banking is all about fitting in and thinking like all the other suits.
The best investors are more like artists.
The ability to go through shit and get up and keep moving forward is the greatest ability you can have, particularly if you can do it cheerfully.
Being smart, talented, well connected helps. But it all means nothing if you don’t get back up after life knocks you down.
Druck understands a fundamental truth:
Being long winners is how you win.
You can get spicy shorting losers and doing macro, but over time, most of your money will come from winners winning.
Stanley Druckenmiller’s latest 13F just goes to show how much of a GOAT he is.
The dude preached recession and a hard landing.
But still somehow owned both $NVDA and $LLY in size.
And killed it.
We are not worthy.
🐐
Buffett didn’t have Twitter.
If you curate it right, it’s the equivalent of having a bunch of people reading 20,000 pages and telling you the exciting things they found. You just need to follow people who are good at finding the gems.
i interned at google, and it was the most unserious place i've ever worked.
full grown adults playing in ball pits, going down slides, and sneaking their family of 10 in to get free dinner.
Look, the guy was probably the head of macro.
We can know this because:
Only a head of macro would be so stupid as to blow up their career publicly having a petty argument with a billionaire.
@BearForce_Won
@Kartiktweet
@rabois
@John_Hempton
@HighyieldHarry
It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and smells like a duck and has duck written on it and everyone thinks it’s a duck but actually it’s an integrated platform that improves the consumer homebuying experience and is for sure not a duck.
To figure out what $Nvda is worth we simply take the $4b revenue beat, annualize it, assume 100% incremental margins, and apply 100x earnings to the multiple and that’s how the stock is up 20% AH.
Easy.
$V does $11 in FCF/share in 2024, 4% FCF yield = $275 stock. Generates $25/share in cash between now and then. Gets you ~14% CAGR from here over the next 3 years.
Literally just sitting there in plain sight.
$mtch is a 5 year double send tweet.
$iac is also cheap.
$now is getting there. With a 5 in front I think it's close to a 5 year double.
$adsk is cheap (wc and SBC stans sit the fuck down)
$v/ $ma are inexpensive
$pypl probably works as a trade.
If we hit $140 on $dis get long.
"What if we get inflation and multiples revert!"
$GOOGL: bro we trade at 20x core earnings and are growing like 15% a year, what the fuck are you tripping on.
"I have not seen this level of demand for automation technology to improve productivity because in an inflationary environment the only deflationary force is software" - Satya Nadella $MSFT
The number of FAANG is a bubble @ 30x earnings, tech is dead, inflation is back, we're all doomed takes I'm seeing makes me want to get balls long FAANG.
Joel almost explains it right, I think.
You want the highest roic x the most reinvestment possible, and you want to buy it to as close to the value of invested capital (or below) as possible.
That's all investing is.
I come back to this idea:
Own $pgr, it’s better than Geico
Own $tdg it’s better than Precision
Own $cp it’s better than BNS
Own $pep it’s better than KO
Own $jpm it’s better than WFC/BAC
Own $msft its better than Apple
Own $cnq its better than Oxy
Own $v its better than Amex