We've finally release KPI's on Qualtrim.com (key performance indicators). I think it looks so good. It's only limited to a few stocks right now but will be expanding rapidly. Here's an example of how the revenue by segment looks for Amazon, with the four key pillars of the company.
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Happy investing everyone!
One piece of feedback I've received is I spend too much time talking about the same companies (ones I own and carefully monitor). I agree with this criticism. Upcoming next week I'll be covering a list of companies I do not own and doing in-depth analysis on them. If you have any companies in particular that you would like to get my take on, leave a comment and I will consider it.
Hot take: Boeing's next CEO should have 100% of compensation tied to keeping their number of safety build quality incidents below Airbus.
If it's below, pay them well, if it's above, zero pay.
Are stock market valuations getting to a tipping point?
One observation I have always thought is funny:
People are quick to acknowledge the S&P500 and QQQ are very difficult to beat, some say it's nearly impossible to beat.
But investors rarely point out that the index never looks at PE ratios or valuations, ever. The Index only market cap weight stocks.
How can an index, that does not factor in valuation at all, do well over such a long period of time? Isn't it essential to be focused on valuation to have a winning investment strategy?
The answer is the index gives more weight to more successful companies as they grow, meaning that an index will naturally prioritize holding compounders as the largest positions and they will never sell them based on valuation.
The index structure of prioritizing winners and holding them long-term is the winning strategy.
The error that individual investors so frequently make is doing the exact opposite of the index:
- They prioritize low-quality "cheap" companies that eventually fall off.
- Instead of selling losers, individual investors buy them up, because they're "cheaper" than the winners.
- They sell winners because they have become too expensive, selling out of winners leads to a portfolio full of losers.
- They are hyper-focused on valuation while the index, which beats out individual investors, has zero focus on valuation.
Individual investors do the exact opposite of the index, and then point to the index and say "look, nobody can beat the index! It's too difficult!!".
I'm not suggesting that all valuations should be ignored. But perhaps a greater emphasis on holding winners, selling losers, and investing with a longer-term perspective would help the average investor's return.
Costco just declared a $15 special dividend. Based on the amount of shares I have, that's $1,297 for me. On top of a 39% return this year.
This is a $6.7 billion dividend, with a starting cash balance of $17 billion, and long-term debt and lease liabilities of $9 billion. Meaning that even after paying this enormous dividend Costco will still have more cash than debt.
They also grew EPS above expectations and revenue in line. This is what a compounder looks like.
Just hit 300,000 subscribers. Thanks so much to everyone who follows along!
I don't plan on making a video about this. But I wanted to post it here for the sake of transparency.
Who will end up with the Bellagio?
One area I need to personally improve on more: My text replies. People have told me I can come off as defensive or confrontational in comment replies, and I agree.
The worst part is I don't feel that way at all when writing them, this has been something I have struggled with for a long time. My wife even told me while dating that she couldn't tell if I was upset or not sometimes through text because I wouldn't use emojis when texting her!
When I'm in person, there's no confusion, people know I'm not being confrontational or defensive because there's tone and context. But through text, I have the bad tendency to say things very matter-of-fact. I try to reply to many comments and sometimes I don't put enough care into the tone of them, I say things matter-of-fact which can sound cold and argumentative.
It's something I'm going to work on improving in the future. And if I've come off that way in the past, my apologies. I really do appreciate all of your comments and input.
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