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We ran the full quantitative case - CapEx scale, the monetization gap, off-balance-sheet liabilities, depreciation understating, and the energy ceiling.
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J.P. Morgan estimates the AI infrastructure buildout requires $650B in new annual revenue just to achieve a 10% return.

Current AI-attributable revenue: $50 - 150B annually.
That is a gap of between 4x and 13x, depending on your assumptions.

Bain's number is starker: $2 trillion in annual AI revenue required by 2030.

The math is not ambiguous.

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$CSGP is perhaps the most interesting setup in your coverage right now. After 39 years of pure reinvestment and zero capital returned to shareholders, Florance just cut https://t.co/WJPLPbJCTa capex, completed the first buyback in company history ($505M, with a new $1.5B authorization), and four insiders bought stock in the open market in the same two week window, all above the current price.

The thesis is shifting from full reinvestment to disciplined reinvestment plus distributions, right after a brutal drawdown. That combination of insiders buying + buybacks accelerating + capex falling doesn't show up together very often.

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@Invesquotes Deserved. Great content, thorough research.

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@DrewCohenMoney Deserved. Great content, thorough research.

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Our question then becomes, if these companies scale back growth Capex, where does maintenance Capex stand today for them to remain competitive? And thus, what would the normalized FCF be.

[Alex Corrino @AlexCorrino]

This is a hell of a chart from @Nomura

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Full breakdown of NRP's royalty model, capital structure rehab, and valuation:
https://t.co/vMNonz2Ium

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$NRP Natural Resource Partners in one number: 85% FCF margins.
No operating risk. No CapEx. No environmental liability. No labor costs.
The lessee handles all of that. NRP just collects the royalty check.
It trades at less than 7x FCF. 15% FCF yield. Nobody covers it.

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$NVR NVR pioneered the land-light homebuilding model in the 1980s. The rest of the industry called it conservative and kept loading up on land.
NVR stock since 2001: +5,000%. A 51x return. ~18% annualized.

It took a financial crisis for $DHI, $LEN, $PHM, and $TOL to copy the playbook.
They have now. Wall Street still hates the sector.

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@lisaabramowicz1 @DRBCurtis @BloombergTV API prices down 99.7% since GPT-4. The pricing power that was supposed to fund the buildout is the thing collapsing fastest.

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$SPCX who's holding the bag?

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Most investors screen for high ROIC. Few ask: reinvested where?
A 20% ROIC that generates zero FCF because it must reinvest everything to stay relevant is a trap, not a compounder.
The reinvestment runway matters as much as the return itself.

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"It's a bubble. It's not a bubble. It's a bubble. It's not a bubble..."

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@TimothyBuffett @DutchInvestors Yup. Hence why it's unsustainable without putting the business at risk

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@Mr_Derivatives Depends on how cheap it is within the 100 or 200 first days. If it's an obvious bargain, why wait.

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Guess the business (without cheating...)

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@long_equity Take moat widths more seriously.

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@HiddenMonopoly The moat matrix. Enjoy.

https://t.co/4ZDm8hwnSx

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Vertical depth is the only hedge against the commoditization of LLMs. As models become interchangeable, the moat shifts to industry-specific semantic definitions. If you own the definition of a "work order" or a "claims authorization," you control the "System of Action" that every generalist agent must plug into.

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