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Cool little titbit, but @KoyfinCharts quietly released support for leveraged model portfolios this week ahead of the expected follow-up release that will support leverage and short positions.

Did someone say "Generational Buying Opportunity" yet?

The Nasdaq 100 PE vs. the US 10Y

$BABA Alibaba is up 62% YTD

The Gen Z mind cannot comprehend this.

Some investors read footnotes. Most don't.

POV: The S&P falls 3%

People who sell courses on how to get rich through trading stocks are great........................................................................................................................................................at showing you how to lose money while taking yours.

$LSEG The London Stock Exchange Group free cash flow vs. share price.

Babe, wake up, new Mauboussin paper just dropped. www.morganstanley.com/im/publicat...

At the peak of its power, Etsy was valued at $37.6 billion back in late 2021. A few years and an 81% drawdown later, the business is now worth $6.4 billion.

$PLTR Palantir recently started repurchasing shares (blue bars). (share count is +8% over the time frame of this chart, fyi)

US vs. Canada GDP per capita began to uncouple hugely in 2019. Why?

Americans are seething they didn't think of this first

Top 10 fintwit interaction. Hall of Famer.

My kind of value investing: Was in a nice restaurant/wine bar a few years back and tried this Lambrusco. It was ~£12 for a glass and ~£60 for a bottle Truly delicious stuff Got home, surfed the web, found it for £12.50 a bottle and now regularly import crates of the stuff

These are the best-performing European stocks over the past decade. I'd bet most don't know more than ~5 names on this list. (excludes <€750m market cap)

These are the best-performing UK stocks over the past decade. I own one of these. (excludes <£750m market cap)

The UK's FTSE 100 is outperforming the US's S&P 500 so far in 2025. The last time the FTSE outperformed the S&P 500 in a calendar year was 2022. The time before that... 2016.

$META If you don’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best

Bill Ackman's (Pershing Square) core principles, scribed in stone.

$CPR Campari Holdings has been cut in half recently, going through a patch of poor FCF that should inflect soon, some noise in managerial changes too. Business is still solid, valuations are at 10Y lows.

The 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 accounted for nearly 40% of total market capitalization and nearly 60% of total index returns in 2024

Peter Lynch on why most retail investors have the wrong mindset. "There's always been this position that the small investor has no chance against the big institutions. If they believe this theory that the small investor has no chance, they invest in a different format".

The average European employee's workday

No matter what skill or profession, the end game always appears to come back to simplicity. "Simplicity is the secret to everything - the more you add, the more you're taking away” - Marco Pierre White

Don't eat fast food, buy it

David Tepper on managing work and life: "If you skip some family thing, you won’t get it back. If I do a trade, I’ll do another trade. I can always do that. But if I miss some big family event, I can’t get it back".

$SBUX Starbucks is up a cool 21.2% so far in 2025. The market must believe in Brian Niccol's turnaround plan...

$PYPL PayPal's current share repurchase authorization (~$20 billion) represents ~26% of the market cap as of yesterday's close ($77 billion).

When I originally shared this back in 2022, a lot of investors resonated with it. It's funny that many go through the same (or similar) process.

Legalized duopolies are one helluva' drug $MA $V

What other industries/products has this happened in?

$PTON Old enough to remember the period in the pandemic when some suggested that $AAPL buying Peloton at ~$25 billion was good business.

Berkshire Hathaway's cash reserve has grown to a record high of $325 billion. As a % of market cap, that's ~32%, comparable to levels seen in 2020 and 2005.

Wife: "Why do you waste so much money on La Croix?" Me:

$LULU Lululemon is up 62% over the last 6 months, around about the time everyone started to say it's the next Under Armour.

$META Mark Zuckerberg states that "this will be the year when we understand the trajectory for AI glasses as a category". "This will e a defining year that determines if we're on a path towards many hundreds of millions and eventually, billions of AI glasses, and glasses".

Consoling oneself in the mirror after realizing you should have bought $AAPL in 1984 instead of not being born yet

Remember when Teladoc acquired Livongo Health for $18.5 billion in 2020? $TDOC is now valued at $1.8 billion.

Favourite drinking game to play during earnings season

Wow, big dog is instantly taking a hard stance on crime

The notional volume of $TRUMP coin over the last 24 hours is $44 billion. For context, here is the daily volume of the largest company in the world by market cap, $AAPL Apple, over the last year. (aware this isn't even remotely apples-to-apples).

Luxury stoinks are ripping this morning

Freetrade agrees to be acquired by the IG Group $IGG

$GRG Greggs surpass £2 billion in annual revenue for the first time on the back of a strong Q4.

$COST Costco's forward PE (49.3x) and EV/EBIT (37.7x) over the last 20 years. Stock is up 2,678% (18.1% CAGR) over the same time frame.

$AAPL Apple's PE (33.0x) is almost two standard deviations above the 10Y mean (20.9x). What are you paying for?