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Lawrence Hamtil

@lhamtil

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Business collector🚬🏋️‍♂️🛩️. Tweets are not financial advice & should not be construed as solicitations. They are for informational purposes only.

Leawood, Kansas

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Joined May 2015

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@lhamtil

Lawrence Hamtil

5 years

Most moats are overrated, and the most durable moats are found in industries where chance of technological disruption is minimal (rails, airports), regulatory hurdles are insurmountable (tobacco), & growth is so low it doesn't attract competition (old industrials)

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@lhamtil

Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

Chiropractors after inventing crossfit

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4 years

It's always the ones you least expect

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Orlando Sentinel

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4 years

Man with machete tattoo on face accused of machete attack

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My guess is that Toyota shareholders will thank him down the line

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Toyota Chief Says ‘Silent Majority’ Has Doubts About Pursuing Only EVs

“Because the right answer is still unclear, we shouldn’t limit ourselves to just one option,” said Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corp. president.

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2 years

Interest rates aren't high enough

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Lawrence Hamtil

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"This is an Otis elevator, a company formed in the 1850s by Elisha Otis who invented the first practical safety elevator. The elevator industry is pretty consolidated, and most of the revenues come from servicing existing installs, so it's popular among the quality growth crowd."

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These two walk into your elevator What’s your opener?

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Lawrence Hamtil

6 years

Ladies, if he: -is 122 years old -possesses no utilities -has his daily fortunes cited by mathematical illiterates in points, not percentages -lost 4% of his value this week He's not your man. He's the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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3 years

My wife taking me shopping for clothes

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5 years

Somebody just sent me this and it's as good a market summary as any

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4 years

2021 feels

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5 years

Capital gains tax should be 0%.

@CNBCnow

CNBC Now

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NEW: White House considering tax incentive for more Americans to buy stocks - sources (via @kaylatausche )

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

Sure, there was a lot in between, but this pretty much sums it up for me

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4 months

many such cases

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

I'm not a TLSAQ guy, but it's just crazy to me it is a $1 trillion company alongside companies generating 10x, 9x, etc, its revenue

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3 years

Energy guys with a ~40% YTD total return advantage

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1 year

could be related idk

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

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Men have paid off a significant portion of their student loans since 2009. Women have not.

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6 years

Seeing a company on your watch list get bought for a 50% premium

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faith

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What’s worse than a heartbreak?

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

Just a reminder that gas stations are mostly sole proprietorships, often run by immigrants, and they make almost no money on gas sales.

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@greg_price11

Greg Price

2 years

Biden: "To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, Ukraine. These are not normal times. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump. Do it now."

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Some friends sold their house in KC for $500k. Had been listed for $420k. They had so many bids they asked the bidders to submit an essay on why their bid should be accepted. I've never heard of such a thing, but apparently it's not that uncommon.

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Ryan Maue

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With the implosion of SVB, the planet could literally be at stake. 1,500 companies in climate tech were venture backed at the bank.

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3 years

Seems like it

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4 years

$FB investors wondering why price action doesn't reflect fundamentals Tobacco investors:

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

The whole world can be ending and there will still be someone pitching $BABA in the timeline. Respect

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

All i see is one country that's been to the moon and a whole bunch that haven't

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History Defined

@historydefined

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A map of every country in the world using a MM/DD/YYYY date format.

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3 years

Maybe it's not the Fed. Maybe your stocks were just grossly overvalued.

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1 year

Investors at an emerging markets investment pitch, 1958

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@lhamtil

Lawrence Hamtil

4 years

The reverse Chamath: tobacco, defense, pharma

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4 years

Women really think it's ok to live like this

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3 years

Coming in hot today

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Lawrence Hamtil

5 years

I'm not falling for this again

@WFLA

WFLA NEWS

5 years

Is your meth contaminated with coronavirus? This Florida police dept. will test it for free

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

I've been meaning to do this for a while, so here's a non-exhaustive list of books I recommend about various industries 1/ Skunk Works about Lockheed Martin specifically, and useful for the defense industry in general

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2 years

Fedex warning about the economy used to be an annual event

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Lawrence Hamtil

6 years

I must be doing something wrong. I get up at 4:30 every morning to work out, I get < 6 hours of sleep, and I eat nothing but cage free farm animals. However, I am still not a billionaire. Where did I go wrong?

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Lawrence Hamtil

9 months

Inside you are two wolves

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Patrick Blumenthal

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Northrop Grumman made both of these vehicles.

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4 years

these will never get old

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2 years

How in the world was $HOOD ever worth almost $60 billion

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Lawrence Hamtil

6 years

Me checking my portfolio today

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Lawrence Hamtil

6 years

Wow he's taking the Amazon news pretty hard

@CWilliamson44

Chris Williamson

6 years

Just another day in New York City.

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.” ― John D. Rockefeller nothing but respect for this king

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that punishing high achievers by taking away honors classes will not fix what ails our education system

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To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes

Supporters say uniform classes create rigor for all students but critics say cuts hurt faster learners.

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Lawrence Hamtil

4 years

There are two kinds of people in this world

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Very normal, very cool to see very large companies rocketing up or plummeting 10-20% every day

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

This is a dumb study. These rich guys paid tens, even hundreds of millions in taxes and you come up with a bullshit metric like tax relative to wealth growth to get clicks

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@eisingerj

Jesse Eisinger

3 years

NEW: Today @ProPublica presents The Secret IRS Files. We have obtained a vast trove of never-before-seen tax data on thousands of the richest Americans covering more than 15 years. (THREAD)

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2 years

Inflation lower than expected at 8.5%

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3 years

Oil won't stop rising until Goldman calls for $200

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3 years

Retvrn

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3 years

min vol investors today

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3 years

Every time i look at what seems like a promising stock then see its current valuation

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@lhamtil

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4 years

Here's this year's market analysis in meme format

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

Always interesting to think that in 1776, John Adams was 40, George Washington was 44, and Thomas Jefferson was just 33.

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7 years

Has someone already made this?

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3 years

My wife when i say something i shouldn't in public

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3 years

Growth guys reminiscing about this time last year

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Given what I know about Eastern Europeans this is perhaps two days' worth?

@tobaccoinsider

Tobacco Insider

@tobaccoinsider

3 years

Philip Morris International donates 500,000 packs of cigarettes to the Ukrainian army $pm $mo $bats $bti

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4 years

😂

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3 years

Mom, i made it

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Happy Halloween, especially to the sin investors out there

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3 years

2022 so far

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Lawrence Hamtil

6 years

Just one man's opinion Nine Circles of FinTwit Hell 1. Mutual fund vs ETF 2. Active vs passive 3. Adviser fees 4. Hedge Funds & PE 5. Points vs % 6. QE and ZIRP 7. Buybacks 8. Crypto 9. $TSLAQ

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Lawrence Hamtil

1 year

Very few things symbolize man's taming of the planet than a giant platform that resists the ocean's attempts to swat it away while it sucks oil from the ocean floor like a hydraulic mosquito

@FedeItaliano76

Federico Italiano

@FedeItaliano76

1 year

The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs 1. Brage oil field, located in the North Sea 120 km northwest of the city of Bergen

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4 years

not my best effort, but might as well

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2 years

Team crunchy. Who's with me

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

I mean $XOM $CVX and $COP combined earned ~$45 billion less than $AAPL the last year or so

@TheTranscript_

The Transcript

@TheTranscript_

2 years

President Biden on ExxonMobil: "We're going to make sure everyone knows Exxon's profits. Exxon made more money than God last year...They’re not drilling... they’re buying back their own stocks & making no new investments. Exxon, start investing, start paying your taxes" $XOM

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

I've got to say he has my support here

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3 years

I've heard this stat several times, but it's always a bit shocking: From 2011-2013, China consumed more cement than the US did in the entire 1900s

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3 years

Me reading everyone posting their YTD performance

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2 years

what a difference a year makes

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6 years

I guess we know Bezos's answer

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3 years

we're all in this together

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1 year

"Inflation is decelerating... ...because the economy is slowing down"

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3 years

Going to demand the buyers of my house swear off ESG and squat 100 kilos minimum

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3 years

The naming committee

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@LevineJonathan

Jon Levine

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3 years

ICYMI — WHO told me the decision not to name any variants after "Xi" was to avoid possible "stigma" to anyone who might be named that

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2 years

Wow it's amazing we beat them to the moon

@MAstronomers

Curiosity

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It is probably easier to teach a dolphin quantum physics than to teach you!

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By age 40 you should have a bulging disc, a trick knee, and talk to your buddies about acid reflux

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Bezos planning the next Blue Origin launch: "Alexa, call the Pentagon" "OK. Buying Peloton" (Sorry; best i could do)

@CaraRLombardo

Cara Lombardo

3 years

. @WSJ scoop: Amazon is speaking to advisers about a potential deal for Peloton, which other suitors are also circling $PTON $AMZN

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

Narrator: it was not like selling Apple

@laurenthomas

Lauren Thomas

3 years

Loop Capital says that selling Peloton stock now would be like dumping Apple when it cut the price of the iPod. 👀 $PTON @jesserpound @CNBCPro

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Lawrence Hamtil

4 years

Must be a value investor

@BriannaWu

Brianna Wu

4 years

I literally just held my husband crying, repeating “It’s over,” again and again. This has been the worst four years of my life.

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3 years

Sign of the times

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3 years

this one's true tho

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

"It's called momentum investing, T. Basically you just buy whatever's been going up or some shit. Supposed to work on the short side, too"

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Investors love studying the successful guys like Buffett and Lynch, but I'm curious to read postmortems on promising but ultimately failed investors. Any suggestions?

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Lawrence Hamtil

6 months

How it feels to top off your wiper fluid and check your tire pressures

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Lawrence Hamtil

8 months

I don't care about space exploration, AI, and all that jazz. I want affordable supersonic travel

@AirplaneCentral

Aviation Facts

@AirplaneCentral

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Concorde’s fastest ever transatlantic crossing was on February 7, 1996 when it completed the JFK to London Heathrow sector in just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds. #Aircraft #Aviation

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@lhamtil

Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

So it looks like the pandemic was ultimately harmful for tech in the sense that it led to a misallocation of capital, whereas it was ultimately beneficial for energy as it enforced capital discipline. There's more to it than that but not a lot more.

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Lawrence Hamtil

3 years

Gotta respect the $BABA bulls in my feed

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4 years

I feel like this is as good an explanation as any

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Lawrence Hamtil

4 years

The four stages of the bear market -Quoting Mike Tyson -Quoting Buffett -Quoting Nietzsche -Quoting Kierkegaard Think we're somewhere in the Nietzsche phase now

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Lawrence Hamtil

5 years

A house

@scheplick

stef

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I want to buy some negative yielding assets. Which one do you recommend most?

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@lhamtil

Lawrence Hamtil

5 years

When your deep value stocks make a run at reaching previous highs

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Lawrence Hamtil

2 years

40 is probably more than the halfway point for most people. It's useful to reflect back on how you got here, who helped you along the way, and, importantly, the friends and family members who sadly didn't make it this far. Be grateful for each day, & make them all count.

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@lhamtil

Lawrence Hamtil

1 year

American hard & soft power in one image

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@paul_hundred

Paul Hundred, GED

1 year

My girl, my car, my truck. My lifestyle.

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When I was your age, this was our Artificial Intelligence

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2 years

You guys know the rules

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