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Michael B.'s avatar

Danke Mav, sehr gut!

Berkshire Buffett charts and insights were top top!

Daniel Invest's avatar

Thanks a lot Mav, great as always!

Christos V (Simply Finance)'s avatar

Great work here per usual. Interesting to see Aerospace & Defense outperforming the S&P's over the last few decades. Also, very refreshing to hear someone else tell the truth about Gold. It just hasn't proved to be a good investment over the decades compared to the alternatives.

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

glad to hear, indeed as you say, cheers!

James Twidale's avatar

Hi Maverick,

Nice free content and well presented. If I view this and your SP500 valuations link in this post you come to the conclusion that you don’t see US equity as overvalued despite showing almost every metric being above its average and in many cases by some margin.

Curious how you justify that position after making those observations. Other than being wary of being carried out for being underweight US if it continues grinding up.

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Hi James,

glad to hear, great questions and observations ... will cover that very likely in the next edition, cheers!

Dan @ AIStartupJobs.com's avatar

Thanks for sharing some lovely data Maverick.

When looking at Berkshire I often question what will happen to the stock after the inevitable comes with Warren himself. It held me back from investing back in 2020 and makes me question if it's worth putting any money there for the next decade.

Any thoughts considering you are an existing investor and the risks around it?

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Welcome Dan!

I will stick with Berkshire, the foundation and business model that Warren and Charlie have built for decades is and will be solid also in the future imho.

Cheers!

K2D's avatar

Thanks, very interesting!

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Welcome, glad to hear. Helps if you spread the word around regarding my work and research.

Thank you!

Rekha's avatar

Love this. Especially the charts on Snowflake and Germany vs Germany. You always generate a unique and useful viewpoint. Amazing Research!! One thing I am not very clear about, is the Risk management and Hedging chart.

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Glad to hear Rekha, cheers to that :).

RM & Hedging chart message is: when market is going up and up, euphoria is present, then hedging via buying Put options is a good idea in general, yet it it also then when most market participants 'hate' buying Puts ... when markets are going up, Put options are cheap to be bought (hedge), when market go down, Put options are expensive to be bought in order to hedge ... so one must aim to do the opposite: hedge/buy insurance when things are great and most are not interested to do it

Hidden Gems Research's avatar

Love this

Colin Shen,CFA's avatar

Snowflake (SNOW) kind of 'snowflakey' via their Stock-Based Compensation (SBC)? SBC = 41% of revenue in the last quarter ... Can't AI make SBC go down? ;)

I think SBC is an attractive incentive for the software engineer to create more productive AI. LOL

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

ha, good one Colin, cheers :)

Investing's avatar

Good job!

Real Investing's avatar

Thank you!

Paul Vasdekis's avatar

Great work I always look forward in receiving your research.

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Glad to hear Paul, cheers to that :)

j55x5's avatar

As always, grateful for the time and dedication to bring quality information, thank you very much and much success.

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Welcome Jacobo, thank you for your message and wish, very glad to read it :).

P.S. indeed quite some time is indeed to make things happen

Adrian Knoblauch's avatar

Snowflake's sbc is insane, good insight & also the submarine fleets, thanks!

Maverick Equity Research's avatar

Big indeed ... I bet they say in conf call it's 'inline with the peers' ;)). Welcome, cheers!

Investing Musings's avatar

Top top, thanks Mave!

Dividend Growth Investing's avatar

Awesome! Danke schon!