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Match Group: Is Finding Love a Good Investment?
September 14, 2025 | Swiping right is a pop‑culture catchphrase, but it’s also a business generating billions of dollars in profit. Match Group (MTCH), owner of Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and a handful of other dating apps, is my pitch to Daniel this week, given its leading share of an online-dating duopoly rivaled only by Bumble. The question I wanted to know, though, is whether helping people find love is actually a good business?
Dell: Overlooked AI Growth Story?
September 7, 2025 | Dell has been around for a long time, over forty years, and it’s one of the rare hardware names that not only survived but actually emerged bigger than ever.
Ferrari: High-Speed Compounder
August 31, 2025 | Enzo Ferrari insisted his company would “always deliver one car fewer than the market demands.” That single sentence explains almost everything about a business that sells barely 14,000 automobiles a year, yet enjoys gross margins north of 50%, trades for a price-to-earnings ratio that would make most software founders blush, and has turned every dollar invested at its 2015 IPO into nearly ten today.
