"We're gonna let WeWork exclude SG&A from EBITDA?"
"It's an add-back for them"
"How is it an add-back?"
"Jerry all these big companies they add-back everything"
"You don't even know what an add-back is"
"Do you?"
"No"
"But they do. And they're the ones adding it back"
So just to recap: the fed gave us near-zero rates for a decade and we spent all the money on things like grocery delivery and ape pictures instead of food, housing and energy supplies.
Geniuses.
@ChrisBloomstran
Fuck, tell me about it. A Google search of “Gates” the founder of Microsoft, brings up some third-rate pedestrian rationing mechanism. The world has gone mad.
Facebook is the type of buy you'll get the chance to tell your kids about someday:
"Kids, I bought Facebook at $220 per share"
"Oh wow!! What's Facebook?"
I see lots of people talking about bitcoin in the face of this selloff.
Please, do your research before you rush to judgements. When you do the work properly and understand the opportunity of $BTC as an investment, you come to realize that it's worth absolutely nothing.
@ChrisBloomstran
And not to mention, when I misspell “Buffet”, we don’t get the oracle. NOOO, we get some shitty American cultural food occasion. The world is insane.
Alright, I might come to regret dropping this, but I think $SHOP is a screaming short going into earnings. $FB says on their call that IDFA hit ecom the hardest. Shopify merchants rely heavily on Facebook for lead gens. Shopify is only down 3% since facebook reported.
$NFLX in November "Squid game is truly a testament to the benefits of global scale in the streaming wars. Only Netflix can do what they do."
$NFLX now "Debt-ridden, no moat, ex-growth domestically and facing increased competition from other services. Overvalued shitco."
The weirdest part about Toffoli is how historically reckless the Canucks have been with UFA spending. Of all the times to tighten their offseason spend, they chose the exact moment that a good player wanting to return was available for cheap.
Unbelievable opportunity. $FB is currently priced as if it were highly capital intensive and facing significant headwinds in the core business with suspect capital allo….
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An unbelievable turn of events, but I’ve just been told Bill Belichick is going to be joining Apollo. Heard saying:
“It really is the golden age of private credit. I’m seeing senior secured opportunities with tight docs at 15%+. Going back to football makes no sense right now”
The fact that $V puts up 60% operating margins on $20 billion+ in revenue is still mind blowing. As is the fact that they require almost no growth capex and maintain an incredible moat.
Quality isn’t everything in investing, but it’s often hard to imagine a better business.
Honestly, no idea why I bother doing any investing research. I can literally just buy a monopoly at 27x TTM FCF with >35% operating margins in its core segment and able to CAGR FCF/share @ 20% a year for the foreseeable future.
Little niche name we’ll call schmoogle.
$BYND continues to make every effort to remind you that it's the Michael Jordan of shitty businesses. 0.2% gross margins. $97.6 million loss from operations. Just an absolute garbage business run by a pumper.
We’ve decided to hire a CEO for All-In.
Old media is broken. Talking heads, selling ads, inciting anger, with one-sided discourse has become tiresome and is deeply damaging the social fabric.
We want to tackle this error and create a new kind of media and live events brand
I like to spend time going through investment ideas from smart people that broke miserably. As I do this, I see one mistake responsible for a vast majority of them: calling a low-quality company cheap relative to overvalued comps.
Man, a tough quarter for $btc. We'll have to see what management says on the call, but in the meantime, I don't know that I have to revise my model. Gonna be an interesting name to watch...
Been digging a bit through $GOOG's IPO. It's pretty crazy to me. Basically:
- Grew topline 11x over previous two years
- Had $450 million in cash (~2.4% of market cap)
- EBIT margins: 14%, 54%, 36% over 3 years prior.
- Traded at 33x '05 EPS,
Here's the I/S from Google's S-1
So wanted to share….just accepted a buy-side job I’m super excited about.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) this is going to mean a lot less tweeting out of me on specific names starting in the next few weeks. Will remain somewhat active though, and still a DM away!
Elliotte mentions how Panthers are letting Cam Lawrence go and "those guys kinda grew up with Vancouver ties, I wonder if you're the Canucks if you should be looking at that."
#BringComputerBoyzHome
JP Barry : Canucks have cap issues, I dont think we can do long term deals for Petey and Quinn. We have starte dthe dance, we are engaged in talks.
Donnie and Dhali
CHEK TV
Here are combined industry market caps by 2030 according to ARK:
- $100 trillion for AI
- $30 trillion for autonomous vehicles
- $10 trillion in robotics
- $3 trillion for genomes
- $50 trillion for digital wallets
The combined market cap of the S&P 500 is ~$40 trillion today
Arkk $TSLA model has $200 billion in cash on the balance sheet in 2025. That’s a cool 5x TTM Tesla REVENUE or ~3x $GOOG TTM free cash flow. Amazing stuff.
I've often said you can't derive intrinsic value for $BTC. In the face of the pullback, I thought it was worth looking at.
I've realized I was wrong. You can model intrinsic value for bitcoin. This is why you always do your own work.
Everybody’s buying the dip in shitcos. We got 500k follower accounts saying things like “Affirm is my pick going into earnings. They just announced a huge partnership with visa, which should be huge.”
Am I the only one who thinks UK annual reports look like home decor magazines with more numbers? They're just so bad for digging out the important drivers. Every time I look at a UK business, I gain appreciation for US 10Ks.
Thinking about dotcom and 2021 makes me realize that a charlatan telling retail investors to “stick it to the man” is one of the biggest tell-tale signs of a mania.
I'm pretty sure 95% of people thought "how can that be a good business?" the first time they heard the $ROKU pitch. There's a lesson in there somewhere about overthinking.
Chatted with a friend yesterday who runs a digital ad business. Anecdotal, but here's what he said:
- $GOOG is far and away the best.
- IDFA has made $FB mobile way harder - but still doable.
- He's never run a $TWTR ad
- Bing is good for seniors who can't install chrome
Was just thinking that Christian Ehrhoff may be the most underappreciated Canuck of the last few decades. Elite defensemen and people act like he was an above-average second-pairing guy.
Here's an idea: have no view on inflation or rate hikes and just buy well-capitalized businesses with pricing power at a reasonable multiple of free cash flow.
Too many people remain anchored to the high price/NTM revenue multiples we’ve seen.
As a reminder, in a sane world 10x forward revenues is abnormally high.
Was thinking tonight…90% of screwups I’ve made in investing come from not asking two questions:
1) is the piece of information I’m looking at critically important for an investment outcome or is it just noise?
2) Is the narrative I’ve created supported by hard evidence?
*Oaktree taking over Inter Milan*
Howard Marks "As I said in my previous memo, while this may be the time to be aggressive in the transfer window, this also may not be the time to be aggressive in the transfer window"
Just went through another thesis that claimed a company was cheap relative to its vastly superior (and occasionally overpriced) comps. Thought a Lisa Simpson presentation meme was in order:
Alright y’all, a $RICK model via Dropbox (and possibly a writeup - not that you needed another one) is coming soon. Just working out the kinks on the model. Think a company trading at <10x normalized maintenance FCF + able to grow FCF/share >25% is too compelling not to writeup.
Think a lot of people need to hear this: backing nascent technologies through the public markets is arguably the worst performing equity strategy of all time.
My deeply held belief is that $FB actually trades at $450 per share, they’ve just manipulated the stock exchange so that regulators think their stock is underperforming.
When I value a FAAMG (or $V), I always get pushback on the exit multiple. I thought I’d clear a few things up.
Skip all of this if you’re taken an intro to finance course, but basically, start with the terminal value function:
MVE = CF*(1+g)/(r-g)
Been glued to this thing all weekend. Well worth it for identifying the unsuccessful management teams that appear to have it all together. Yet to finish, but definitely should be up there with the outsiders + cable cowboy on a reading list (h/t
@PythiaR
for the rec)
$SQ diluted the hell out of their shareholders to acquire a shitco and people act like Jack Dorsey is somehow a different CEO at "Block" than he is at $TWTR.
So maybe I'm missing the deep reality of the business, but I can't see how $RDFN isn't a zero. Sales + 63% YoY in H1, and operating margins somehow got even MORE negative. Company burned ~$180 million in cash with $379 million in left on the b/s and $326 mill in avail facilities.
We don't really talk enough about how crazy some of the convert deals in Q1 2021 were. 80%+ conversion premiums and 0% coupons all around $BYND, $ABNB, $PTON, $TWTR....