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MSCI: Passive Investing’s Big Winner?
October 26, 2025 | If you’ve ever owned an international index fund, there’s a good chance you’ve quietly been paying MSCI. Not directly, but through the fund’s expense ratio, the asset manager kicks a sliver of those fees back to MSCI for the right to track its benchmark, which are the gold-standard metrics for measuring many aspects of financial markets globally.
Copart: The 100-Bagger Junkyard
October 19, 2025 | Do you know the narrative that boring companies make the best investments? Copart is one of the best examples of that. Actually, it’s almost a 400-bagger since its IPO.
FICO: The Algo Behind America’s Credit
October 12, 2025 | This is the story behind that three-digit number that can determine which credit cards you’re approved for and the interest rate on your mortgage, as well as the wide-moated ‘tollbooth’ business that charges a tiny fee each time your credit rating is passed on.
Manchester United: Valuing a Football Empire
October 5, 2025 | If you’re as much of a football fan as I am, I know you’ll enjoy this newsletter. If you think football is called “soccer” and have never watched a Manchester United game, well, you might still be interested in my comparison of European and U.S. football, as well as why NFL teams tend to dominate the Forbes list in terms of valuation.
Universal Music Group: Cashing In On Music Rights
September 28, 2025 | Every time a Peloton instructor cues up Bad Bunny, a TikTok teen lip‑syncs Olivia Rodrigo, or a Netflix trailer taps into ‘70s music nostalgia, one constant happens in the background: Universal Music Group gets paid.
Berkshire Hathaway: Valuing Buffett’s Legacy
September 21, 2025 | Today you’ll finally get to know the business behind the philosophy. And if you already know Berkshire inside and out, well… you might want to stay for some anecdotes.
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.
DoorDash: Can It Keep Delivering Returns?
December 7, 2025 | We don’t typically even bother looking at companies with 100x P/E ratios, especially when said business has double-digit stock-based comp as a percentage of revenues, but wow, DoorDash is growing fast, dramatically improving its business quality and, well, who would want to bet against society becoming lazier and more reliant on delivery?
S&P Global: The Company behind the Stock Market
November 30, 2025 | Every investor eventually faces a simple question: Do I accept market-like returns, or do I take on the risk of underperforming in pursuit of outperforming? If you’re reading this newsletter, chances are you’ve chosen the latter — at least to some degree. And when we talk about “the market,” the reference point is almost always the S&P 500, the index built on the largest and most successful companies in the United States.
Booking Holdings: The Traveling Compounder
November 23, 2025 | In the last year of doing this newsletter, Daniel and I have developed a fondness for owning the “best of the best.” Today’s pick, Booking Holdings, is another such quality compounder that, unsurprisingly, doesn’t necessarily trade at a bargain price tag. Yet, is it still attractive enough to earn a spot in our Intrinsic Value Portfolio of stocks?
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