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DoorDash: Can It Keep Delivering Returns?
December 7, 2025 | We don’t typically even bother looking at companies with 100x P/E ratios, especially when said business has double-digit stock-based comp as a percentage of revenues, but wow, DoorDash is growing fast, dramatically improving its business quality and, well, who would want to bet against society becoming lazier and more reliant on delivery?
S&P Global: The Company behind the Stock Market
November 30, 2025 | Every investor eventually faces a simple question: Do I accept market-like returns, or do I take on the risk of underperforming in pursuit of outperforming? If you’re reading this newsletter, chances are you’ve chosen the latter — at least to some degree. And when we talk about “the market,” the reference point is almost always the S&P 500, the index built on the largest and most successful companies in the United States.
Booking Holdings: The Traveling Compounder
November 23, 2025 | In the last year of doing this newsletter, Daniel and I have developed a fondness for owning the “best of the best.” Today’s pick, Booking Holdings, is another such quality compounder that, unsurprisingly, doesn’t necessarily trade at a bargain price tag. Yet, is it still attractive enough to earn a spot in our Intrinsic Value Portfolio of stocks?
TransDigm: A Conglomerate of Monopolies
November 16, 2025 | The aerospace industry is a notoriously difficult place to build a great business. Cyclical demand, high capital intensity, and constant regulatory scrutiny make it a graveyard for compounding returns. But not for everyone. Hidden inside this complex ecosystem is one of the most remarkable compounders in market history — TransDigm.
Robinhood: The Amazon Prime of Gen Z’s Finances?
November 9, 2025 | Robinhood has earned a bad name in some people’s view, and it has deserved much of the criticism it’s gotten, but I actually think its name is very fitting: the company has arguably done as much as any fintech to “take from the rich, and give to the poor,” living up to the ideals of Robin Hood (the fictional character), namely by bringing commissions on stock trading down to zero for millions of retail investors.
Salesforce: Agentforce vs. AI
November 2, 2025 | If you work at a large American company, there’s a good chance you use this company’s software every day. If you’re not in the corporate world, there’s an equally good chance you have no idea what this company does.
MSCI: Passive Investing’s Big Winner?
October 26, 2025 | If you’ve ever owned an international index fund, there’s a good chance you’ve quietly been paying MSCI. Not directly, but through the fund’s expense ratio, the asset manager kicks a sliver of those fees back to MSCI for the right to track its benchmark, which are the gold-standard metrics for measuring many aspects of financial markets globally.
Copart: The 100-Bagger Junkyard
October 19, 2025 | Do you know the narrative that boring companies make the best investments? Copart is one of the best examples of that. Actually, it’s almost a 400-bagger since its IPO.
FICO: The Algo Behind America’s Credit
October 12, 2025 | This is the story behind that three-digit number that can determine which credit cards you’re approved for and the interest rate on your mortgage, as well as the wide-moated ‘tollbooth’ business that charges a tiny fee each time your credit rating is passed on.
DoorDash: Can It Keep Delivering Returns?
December 7, 2025 | We don’t typically even bother looking at companies with 100x P/E ratios, especially when said business has double-digit stock-based comp as a percentage of revenues, but wow, DoorDash is growing fast, dramatically improving its business quality and, well, who would want to bet against society becoming lazier and more reliant on delivery?
S&P Global: The Company behind the Stock Market
November 30, 2025 | Every investor eventually faces a simple question: Do I accept market-like returns, or do I take on the risk of underperforming in pursuit of outperforming? If you’re reading this newsletter, chances are you’ve chosen the latter — at least to some degree. And when we talk about “the market,” the reference point is almost always the S&P 500, the index built on the largest and most successful companies in the United States.
Booking Holdings: The Traveling Compounder
November 23, 2025 | In the last year of doing this newsletter, Daniel and I have developed a fondness for owning the “best of the best.” Today’s pick, Booking Holdings, is another such quality compounder that, unsurprisingly, doesn’t necessarily trade at a bargain price tag. Yet, is it still attractive enough to earn a spot in our Intrinsic Value Portfolio of stocks?
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