# Any Stockpickers out there?
**URL:** https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203
**Category:** Investing / Portfolios
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203 "2022-03-25T19:04:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 68
### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1403 "2026-02-13T21:30:22Z")
> [@Abs\_max](#):
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> isn’t Anthropic these days the Numero UNO?
Anthropic has a decent entreprise/API footprint. OpenAI is miles ahead for consumer, Chatgpt is like a verb in many countries (similar to google, except they achieved this status in a couple of years).
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1404 "2026-02-13T21:30:43Z")
If I could buy shares in an AI lab it would be Anthropic.
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### Author:  [@gaijin](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/gaijin)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1405 "2026-02-13T21:42:07Z")
> [@nabalzbhf](#):
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> Chatgpt is like a verb in many countries
Not sure I agree with this statement. I couldn‘t name such a country.
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### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1406 "2026-02-13T21:50:22Z")
I’ve seen it in some ads in the street in Zurich (and heard non tech people say that in France).
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### Author:  [@Abs\_max](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Abs_max)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1407 "2026-02-15T10:07:20Z")
It all depends if AI will be like Google or Internet. One of them captured all the value and other one became public commodity.
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### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2026, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1408 "2026-02-15T10:37:40Z")
No idea what the future brings us (and personally I’d love a world with less quasi-monopolies, and I’m rooting for open weight and sovereign models, I think it should be a common good long term), was just pointing out the fact that ChatGPT become a global household name at unprecedented pace (and anthropic isn’t there yet, I think before their superbowl ad most non tech people hadn’t heard of them).
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1409 "2026-02-16T18:14:38Z")
I bought Valaris a few years ago, I knew the industry was in bad shape, but long term it would come good.
Unfortunately, it was in a financially precarious position and when covid hit, it spelled the end and they company went bankrupt and filed for Chapter 11.
It re-emerged in 2021 and finally the promise looks like it will be fulfilled:
Being early is the same as being wrong.
Being way too early can mean horrific losses.
This was such a bad stock for me. I managed to be too early, lose the whole investment in bankruptcy and also be too late as I thought there was still time to buy in, but Valaris announced acquisition by RIG today.
It was up some 335% post-bankruptcy. I did consider buying again post-bankruptcy, but once bitten, twice shy.
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### Author:  [@JEPG](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/JEPG)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1410 "2026-02-16T18:17:42Z")
FoMongoose
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1411 "2026-02-18T19:38:56Z")
OK. This SAASpocalypse sell off is too tempting. Bought today:
- TRI
- FDS
- RELX
- MORN
SPGI, MCO and MSCI are still holding up well.
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1412 "2026-02-19T10:01:06Z")
Saw this post today on the [reluctance of institutional buyers to buy the dip](https://archive.is/20260215093644/https://www.ft.com/content/2432a3ac-7dbc-4c5c-8921-3a34c2c68ccd) on SAAS.
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1413 "2026-02-20T16:57:12Z")
[Damn it feels good to be a meme-stock-trader.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIoPlLEXM2Y)
No wonder people love it trading meme stocks. Here I was buying value and dividend stocks whereas I should have been YOLOing on meme stocks the whole time. Next stop: 0DTE trading!
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### Author:  [@mabi](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/mabi)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1414 "2026-02-20T19:00:32Z")
I miss @anon17469660 and @cubanpete_the_swiss so I’m posting this US stock of the day in their honor 😢
edit: forgot to add the a nice photo of the company as @cubanpete_the_swiss would nicely do, here it is:
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1415 "2026-02-23T21:30:06Z")
> So far this year, more than one-fifth of constituent stocks in the S&P have gained or lost more than 20 per cent, with risers outnumbering fallers by approximately two to one, even though the overall S&P 500 index is roughly flat.
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> The gap between the chunky stock moves and the subdued performance of the index this month reached its highest level since the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2009, according to data from market maker Citadel Securities.
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> “Single stock dispersion is at extreme levels,” said Scott Rubner, an analyst at Citadel Securities. The threat posed by AI has “accelerated repricing across vulnerable business models, intensifying rotation even as headline [index] performance remains contained”, he added.
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> The sharp moves are making many traders wary after a lengthy bull run in stocks, but they are also throwing up attractive opportunities for stockpickers prepared to ride out the volatility.
Maybe 2026 will be the year of the stockpicker.
If I don’t outperform this year, maybe I’ll need to hang up my stock picking hat and switch to ETFs.
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### Author:  [@Mirager](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Mirager)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1417 "2026-02-24T16:27:24Z")
Market is - at this point - being quite stupid about it in my opinion. They’re well into value territory now.
Merck just announced [spinning off their oncology business](https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/girding-against-keytruda-cliff-merck-splits-oncology-standalone-business-unit) feels like stock shenanigans to me, but I could be naive.
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### Author:  [@conquestador](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/conquestador)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1418 "2026-02-24T17:40:33Z")
The separation of business units is a current trend to focus on the high profit margins of the new blockbusters. Pfizer will do the same again soon (after the spinoff of Viatris). The problem is that the process of managing the blockbuster is too expensive for simpler drugs without the high margin. That is also the reason why big Pharma needs drugs with ~3 billions revenues to justify the efforts. Products with revenues below 1 billions do not make sense for them and are ideally commercialized by mid size companies.
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### Author:  [@noname](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/noname)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1419 "2026-02-25T14:20:53Z")
anybody is following BKNG price action? any opinions? good candidate to pick?
they will also split the stock in april which usually helps, no?
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### Author:  [@dbu](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/dbu)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1420 "2026-02-25T14:32:16Z")
> [@noname](#):
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> they will also split the stock in april which usually helps, no?
Helps what?
One recent counterexample - Netflix?
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1421 "2026-02-26T17:35:03Z")
PhilMongoose touch of death strikes again.
I decided to sell IT and buy CRM. You can guess what happened next: IT goes up, CRM goes down. 😕
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### Author:  [@PhilMongoose](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/PhilMongoose)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1422 "2026-02-27T15:33:16Z")
caSAAStrophe buying continues. Bought ADP today. Probably still too early, but let’s see.
Bought ACN too. Almost at pandemic prices!
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### Author:  [@Mirager](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Mirager)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2026, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/any-stockpickers-out-there/8203/1423 "2026-03-01T08:55:49Z")
Berkshire [missed earnings in Q4 by quite a bit](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/28/berkshire-hathaway-brka-q4-2025-earnings.html?msockid=3f876ec205246ed11c127b3304226ff5). While I firmly believe in looking at the bigger picture, the sentence below made me wonder if without Buffett and Munger the peculiarities and irregularities of BRK will be viewed more critically than before, as I feel that this kind of language could fly when out of Buffett and Munger’s mouths, but not necessarily in today’s world. Don’t look down on your customers!
> “The amount of investment gains (losses) in any given quarter is usually meaningless and delivers figures for net earnings per share that can be extremely misleading to investors who have little or no knowledge of accounting rules,” the company said in its earnings release.
I’d already planned to continue plugging dividends into BRK.B but also to re-evaluate after Abel has been CEO for 12 months.
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