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Alex Bilzerian
RT @WriteAheadLog: VCs: please less dinners and more lunches. It's much harder for parents to make it to a dinner. I want to meet your elite cadre of likeminded AI thought leaders, but my kids have booked my evenings for the next 18 years.
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Alex Bilzerian
Take the Nobel name off economics prize, say relatives https://t.co/DzikG75BxN
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Alex Bilzerian
'Hyperspectral imaging in wound care: A systematic review':
https://t.co/55h7zaBbVF
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Alex Bilzerian
RT @ChancesCards: Understand Fear:
Poker is all about maximizing value, but fear can cripple your ability to play well.
If you hesitate to bluff when it’s the right decision, you’re leaving money on the table.
If your opponents know you won’t bluff, they’ll exploit you because you’re predictable.
This makes it difficult for you when you want to get paid with your big hands.
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Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
RT @DimitryNakhla: Despite rallying +54% YTD, $BABA still trades for less than 15x earnings
#stocks #investing https://t.co/EDeVTiUWoL
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Stock Analysis Compilation
Bonsai Partners on Ubiquiti $UI US
Thesis: Ubiquiti's disruptive pricing strategy and strong profitability provide a clear path to compounded growth, making it an exciting long-term opportunity
(Extract from their Q2 letter, link to the full analysis in SAC#58) https://t.co/PM0s72HAsD
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Stock Analysis Compilation
YCG Investments on Fair Isaac Corp $FICO US
Thesis: FICO's strong pricing power and underappreciated earnings potential make it an attractive investment for long-term returns
(Extract from their Q2 letter, link to the full analysis in SAC#58) https://t.co/b5vrpX4c1a
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Librarian Capital
"London and New York cocoa prices in rare divergence as shortages bite" (FT) $HSY
London prices lower due to a stock of older, less favored cocoa
Also, "many" HFs were shorting cocoa in NY and now forced to close their bets
EU deforestation rules will reduce supply from Jan-25
London and New York cocoa prices in rare divergence as shortages bite https://t.co/HNeKpybGOu
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Hidden Value Gems
More extreme weather is just on of the factors behind the rising pressure on the grid (others include renewables, electrification and data centres).
Evidence of the need to invest more in the grid 👇
"SPP (US grid operator) rarely signaled the potential for power shortages before 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, it recorded more than 3,000 hours during which supplies were tight enough to issue advisory or emergency operating notices."
“We’re talking probably at least over the next five years that we’re going to continue to experience these challenges,” CEO said. “It takes years to build transmission, and it’s taking even longer now to build generation.”
$PRY.IM $ENR.DE
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Librarian Capital
"UK regulator pushes banks to give savers better value even as rates fall" (FT) $LLOY $NWG
"The announcement came a year after the FCA outlined a 14-point plan to push for banks to improve how they passed on recent interest rate increases to consumers"
https://t.co/wjKNp84AcL
Pete Davies (Lansdowne) on UK banks (LVIC, 7-Jun)
"I think UK banks, unhedged, make about a 30% Return on Equity at the moment, and yet the market assumes when the hedges fall off they will make 13-14% ... they are trading at just above book value"
$LLOY $NWG https://t.co/4sxFZDdQpH
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Quiver Quantitative
Tucker Carlson has said he’s done using ZYN, since the makers are big Kamala Harris donors.
I took a look at our data, and this seems like a bit of an exaggeration:
Have not seen ZYN PACs donate any money to Harris.
Have seen employees donate ~$20K.
https://t.co/RA7Q0LxMw8
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Stock Analysis Compilation
River Oaks Capital on Medical Facilities $DR US
Medical Facilities offers strong upside with aggressive share buybacks, cost reductions, and high cash returns to shareholders, all while nearing debt-free status
(Extract from their Q2 letter) https://t.co/tkgobGvOf0
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Hidden Value Gems
Quote of the day #89
Jeff Bezos on scale and shareholder value https://t.co/ROwcmjkO6E
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Stock Analysis Compilation
VGI Partners on CME $CME US
With a near-monopoly on U.S. interest rate derivatives trading, CME’s growth potential is tied to rising Treasury markets and increased volatility, making it a critical player in market infrastructure
(Extract from their Q2 letter) https://t.co/SD1L0dDC69
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Quiver Quantitative
🚨 UPDATE: Trump Media stock has now fallen 83% since Marjorie Taylor Greene made a purchase of ~$50K.
Full portfolio holdings up on Quiver. https://t.co/Pq0CvzbvJ3
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Alex Bilzerian
RT @bookletboy: "It is almost always gambling that enables one to form a fairly clear idea of a manifestation of chance; it is gambling that gave birth to the calculus of probability; it is gambling that this calculus owes its first faltering utterances and its most recent developments;" 1/2 https://t.co/ar5DIwinYj
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Alex Bilzerian
RT @mamekebi: https://t.co/nQ8Qnkm7SP
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Alex Bilzerian
Hyperspectral imaging:
https://t.co/G0uOoryZVY
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App Economy Insights
$META Meta just announced Movie Gen.
🎬 Text-to-video up to 16 seconds.
✨ Personalized videos via images.
✏️ Precise video editing via text prompts.
Not available publicly (like Sora). But Meta is becoming OpenAI faster than OpenAI can become Meta. https://t.co/RiE9kzavSn
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Quiver Quantitative
Here are the members of Congress who have made the most money in the stock market today, per our estimates.
Senator Pete Ricketts made $1.3M, off the back of his large position in $SCHW.
Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney both made ~$700K.
Track all portfolios on Quiver: https://t.co/LU3rMpwHXS
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App Economy Insights
🇺🇸 How America Spends Money
Just like a company, the US government has financial statements:
💰 Money comes in (mainly through taxes).
💸 Money goes out (to fund various programs).
Check out our full breakdown. 👇
https://t.co/i56CLKGImw
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Quiver Quantitative
🚨 JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Representative Josh Gottheimer has disclosed a purchase of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals stock, $CRNX.
He appears to have bought in the day before they announced the submission of a new drug application to the FDA.
Gottheimer is the first politician we have seen trade this stock.
It's a fairly small company, with a market cap of just over $4B.
We'll be watching this.
Follow along for updates, or track politicians' portfolios on Quiver.
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Stock Analysis Compilation
Regal Partners on Ferrotec Holdings $6890 JP
Ferrotec’s strong position in the semiconductor supply chain, paired with upcoming IPOs of Chinese subsidiaries, presents a compelling growth story
(Extract from their Q2 letter) https://t.co/0xflMK1ScS
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Librarian Capital
"Campari’s Top Investor to Buy Up to $111M in Shares, Citing Market Value" (WSJ)
"Lagfin owned 51.4% of Campari’s $CPR ordinary shares and held 82.5% of its voting rights"
https://t.co/8oBP4USxw6 https://t.co/vRTyCL8UaA
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Stock Analysis Compilation
The London Company on Bruker $BRKR US
Bruker’s innovative instruments and strong capital allocation create a compelling growth story driven by life sciences and proteomics research
(Extract from their Q2 letter) https://t.co/Xq2Embw6am
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Librarian Capital
Capital cycle, US beauty specialty retail edition
Ulta Beauty $ULTA: "More than 1,000 new points of distribution opened in the last 3 years .... More than 80% of our stores have been impacted by 1 or more competitive opening ... with more than ½ impacted by multiple" (FY24Q2) https://t.co/KWMBRhkeAx
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Librarian Capital
"Retail is a very tough business. Practically every great chain-store operation that has been around long enough eventually gets in trouble and is hard to fix"
- Charlie Munger, in Alice Schroeder's "The Snowball"
cc: $ULTA https://t.co/jlnm0d10l9
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Librarian Capital
Ulta Beauty $ULTA: Easy to forget shares were already in a ditch before COVID-19 hit US in 2020
Comp sales growth went from +11% to 5% in 2017-19
Shares fell nearly ~30% in H2 2019 https://t.co/vXnQoimkpE
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Stock Analysis Compilation
Hedge funds' best ideas #10 is in your inbox 🔥
(link below)
Baron Capital / Conestoga / Davis fund / Donville Kent / Edgepoint / Equam / FPA / Harris Associates / Legacy Ridge / Munro / Warden Capital https://t.co/k3Ou8mZANl
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Quiver Quantitative
RT @InsiderRadar: 🚨Insider Trading Alert
Energy Vault Holdings, NRGV, sees first major insider buy in years:
🔹CEO: ~$261,000 purchase on Sept 13
🔻Company received NYSE non-compliance notice for trading below $1 on Sept 13, with 6 months to regain compliance. https://t.co/AYruU4Emp7
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