🚨 BREAKING: The arena will soon be known as The Exxon Mobil Center, Exxon announced on Wednesday. The name change will occur Dec. 25 and is part of a 20-year agreement that believed to be the largest venue naming rights deal in U.S. history to date.
It’s Sept 19, 2014.
Meghan Trainor is all about that bass and Taylor Swift is shaking it off.
Alibaba is the fastest growing retailer in the world.
You invest $10,000 at the IPO.
9 years pass.
Revenues grow from $5.5b to $123.6b.
Your investment is now worth $8,426.
$BABA
"Apple reportedly completes production tests for AR/VR headset with a final release apparently planned by the end of the year.” $AAPL $FB
Even with Meta’s massive head start, I still think there’s a very good chance Apple just walks in and crushes Zuck’s dreams.
Charlie Munger is savage: "I don’t agree with you. I think the Chinese companies are stronger than ours and they’re growing faster. And I have investments in them and you don’t. And I’m right and you’re wrong. (laughter) Well you can laugh, but I just spoke a simple truth."
Instead of getting my 7 year old niece yet another toy for her birthday, I'm giving her one share in Disney that will vest when she turns 18. (This will also be her Christmas present). I'm pretty sure she will consider this her worst gift tomorrow.
Exactly one year ago tomorrow, Bill Nygren laid out his bull case for $GOOGL.
His view was that its stated PE of 29x was misleading and in reality was closer to 15x.
I updated his methodology to today's numbers: 12.8x.
If you are wondering why Tobi is having a Twitter melt down. Imagine paying the people you work with $330 million in stock options just last year and having it near worthless today. Oh and you personally lost $10 billion in less than 6 months. I get it. $SHOP
For everyone regretting not buying a megacap high growth tech stock like $GOOGL at 20x forward earnings ex-cash. $FB is trading at that exact level right now. ($303.6 - $32 cash / '22 est $13.58)
dear lord...
$baba
"I regard Alibaba as one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. I got charmed by their position in the Chinese internet and didn’t stop to realize, they’re still a gawd-damned retailer.” - Munger (Feb 15, 2023)
“Every crisis we have is always the worst crisis we’ve ever had. If you have a long term plan, these things come and go. You can capitalize on these situations.” - Bruce Flatt $BAM
"Paul Buchheit, the former Google employee who created Gmail, wrote in a series of posts on Twitter that (post ChatGPT) the company may be “only a year or two away from total disruption.” $GOOGL
Buffett pushed the idea that consumer moats like Coke and Gillette were wonderful businesses with wide moats. However, tech platform businesses supersede these examples. I can go a year without a coke and I don't care what razor I use. I can't function without Google's products.
It’s September 1992.
Bill Clinton has just won the DNC.
Sister Act is bringing in millions at the box office.
The number one song is November Rain by Guns N’ Roses.
You invest $1000 in Barrick Gold.
31 years pass.
Your stock is now worth $989.60
$GOLD
Remember in 2016 when .000017% of Chipotle customers had 'gastrointestinal issues' and the stock got cut in half?
Turns out it was a great buying opportunity; stock is up 5x since.
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit asked for ‘free burrito coupons’ as part of their settlement.
$AAPL "That homescreen is some of the most valuable real estate in the world. Fifth Avenue will never come close to that. You've got hundreds of millions of people with loads of buying power and it's part of their daily habit. That real estate is worth a fortune." - Buffett 2018
Every big macro interview ends with the guest highly confident that a decade plus trend is just about to reverse. It rarely does but it always sounds intelligent at the time, especially when they finish their argument with some random piece of anecdotal evidence.
The breakup $FB bear case is actually the bull case. Zuck is obsessed with Ancient Rome, he even named his 2nd daughter August. Zuck will never breakup his own empire. Regulators can! If just Insta were spun out at $SNAP's multiple, its market cap would be greater than all of $FB
Most chilling lines from
#BRK2020
:
"Our cash position of $124b isn't that huge."
"Index funds will do fine over 20 or 30 years."
"People did not think in the fall of 1930 that they were in a great depression."
Buffett is an eternal optimist but this is very clearly a warning.
25,000 followers, thanks FinTwit 🥳! I don't know how to thank you other than offering the Patagonia hedge fund vest. Leave a like and I'll randomly choose one of the names tomorrow.
just got off a flight with a guy from Toronto who owns multiple investment properties 🏘️ that were acquired by levering equity. Said he’s bleeding cash but not too worried because immigration ensures it will be successful if "he can just keep holding on."
My best CFA memory was 2 minutes before it started, a guy in the bathroom dropped his calculator into the urinal. Everybody saw it happen and we all knew what had to be done. He picked up that BA II Plus and walked right out.
My favorite crypto story is PonziCoin which described itself as “the world’s first legitimate Ponzi scheme” and encouraged people to buy and then “shill this coin heavily to your family and friends like a fucking sociopath.” It increased 300x before collapsing.
In 2017, Bill Nygren presented a number of adjustments to reflect $GOOG's real PE. Instead of 29x, his was 15x. "I've read a lot of arguments about the multiple the Google business deserves, but not once has it been below-market." I've tried to update it:
Instead of getting my 7 year old niece yet another toy for her birthday, I'm giving her one share in Disney that will vest when she turns 18. (This will also be her Christmas present). I'm pretty sure she will consider this her worst gift tomorrow.