"In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, it is a weighing machine."
- Warren Buffett
"The idea of excessive stock market competition destroying the pricing mechanism has some validity, but it’s not a total disaster.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The point I am making is that the companies with the safest earnings predictability are the ones with the highest moat or competitive advantage.
These will oscillate between over and undervalued around their Earnings per share trend.
Overperformers capture the company growth which is reflected by the EPS growth long term as well as the mispricing to intrinsic value.
If a company grows eps at 15% and a short term issue gives you a 35% discount your 10y gain equals 18.5%/y only by going back to equilibrium.
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$BAC remains an asset I gladly own, returning a 3%+ dividend which equates to 6 figures per year in dividends which I will gladly use to increase existing positions and further compound.
It allows me to diversify within a space that until now I could not justify owning.
$BAC really crystalizes what I am trying to share about my investing philosophy.
Buying companies with the biggest competitive advantage and best fundamentals at a discount when people hate or panic out of a space.
SoftBank moves to sell down most of its Alibaba stake.
Softbank made $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group.
Softbank will cut its exposure to the Chinese ecommerce group to just 3.8% from about 14.6%.
At the end of February, SoftBank had only 98mn shares of Alibaba left to sell.
With forward sales, SoftBank generally lends its Alibaba shares to a broker, which sells the shares over a period of days or weeks. The broker takes a fee before returning the proceeds to Softbank.
This is not the first time they sell $BABA
In August 2022, Softbank reduced its stake in Alibaba to 14.6% from 23.7% by settling prepaid forward contracts.
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