Thanks. Yep, I’ll stick to those.
NVDA… I took notice. But every stock started small. So it’s not totally out of context.
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This is the table you were thinking of, right?
While it didn’t really do great in the past 5 years, the results seem acceptable longer term.
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It’s not just me!
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Well, the exercise is quite different. It’s more an alternative for a buy and hold for dummies strategy with some home biased, if this kind of strategy can exist, outside of ETFs. It might not be the strategy adopted by you or 
, it aims at potentially less return for some simplicity trade-off.
You are quite convincing on Swiss stocks and I doubt those would change in two days. For what would be “our” intl stocks, i.e. US and world ex-CH, big cap, it may be more challenging but there are some candidates… (which might as well be brk portfolio or brk itself).
Since diversification does not need thousands of stocks and ETFs have their… ahem…flaws, we might think of mustachian v2 investing.
Haha, me three, I’ll expand @Your_Full_Name ‘s quote to “everytime I see their logo in some toilet between Oslo and Cape Town!”
Ubiquitousness to rival brands like Coca-Cola etc.
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I love Geberit. I used to own it. The numbers are good, but the problem is that the company is distributing 60% of earnings (more at the moment) and is using about 25% of earnings for buybacks, that they do at any price. It is overvalued. They destroyed value in 2021 with their buybacks. I’d love to control it and reinvest their earnings into more interesting opportunities directly on the group level.
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After the last vote, I wouldn’t buy GEBN. I am not sure what will happen after the Eigenmietwert will be removed and you can’t detract some costs from taxes. People will stop updating their house or try to save some money when building it. Or not.
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In 2024, sales in Switzerland accounted for 11%. Assuming that half of sales are for private households, changes to Eigenmietwert are a rounding error for Geberit I would think.
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I just saw it in the new “Action” store.
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Sold PEP for KDP today.
Hope you did it after the 4% pump I saw happened yesterday!
I’ve owned Holcim in the past and would like to own it again but consider it too expensive for now. So started looking for alternatives and found Persimmon: lower PE, higher div yield, analyst ratings point to upside potential on the price (vs. downside on Holcim), low debt… am i missing something? any other alternatives in this space?
Yeah, Holcim looks a little expensive.
Persimmon …
A little too cyclical for me, personally.
I prefer to look at earnings estimates as those tend to be more accurate.
These look fine even though the estimates have been trending down over the past 6 months (for the earnings next year and in 2027).
If the stock price returned to its fair multiple (of 15xP/E) then you’d look at nice returns.
How do folks like FactSet? It powers the data behind FASTgraphs (and probably every quantative financial instituiton with more than two equity portfolio managers) and came down recently because of an earnings miss and (probably?) some AI fear.
The AI fear is (IMO) overblown. I’ve for the past year or so kept asking the different LLMs about historic financial data of various companies and they always disappoint me, not just slightly, but almost always annoyingly.
Anyway, too little of a dividend for me at the current valuation, but maybe someone else finds this interesting.
Edit: I came across FactSet via Chuck Carnevale who did a more detailed analysis on his YouTube channel here: FactSet: Evaluating the Recent Decline — Time to Buy or Stay Away | FAST Graphs
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I’m not sure why it was valued at 26x, but at 17x it is worth a bite.
And for those who want a degenerate gamble, they can join me in buying SOC. It’s an offshore oil company that has been banned from landing its oil. So this is a pure bet that they can resolve the legal issues and send the oil.
And just like that it is up another 3.7% today. FML.
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Sure, but KDP is up over 50 bps today!
Looking at CPB today. Look’s attractively priced.
NESN up 7.5% today on announcement of job cuts and optimisim for growth even though total sales were down compared to the same period last year.
Hmmm that’s why CHDVD is up then