We’re long $RRX, report at https://t.co/TO3tuc29aF. Regal Rexnord is a power transmission / motion control powerhouse that offers an excellent way to play the upcoming “Physical AI” boom, incl both industrial automation & humanoids, plus a fast-growing data center power biz. 1/8
$ICE The market worries that the advent of novel derivatives and other financial products will disrupt the moats of the incumbents. On the contrary, the likely reality is that all this innovation is merely additive and on net will makes them even better businesses than they already are. $CBOE $CME $MIAX
$BBW is a beautiful example of what I would argue is superb capital allocation by management, specifically through intelligent buybacks executed at sensible prices.
Operating income has been not grow and remained flat at $66m/yr for the past 4 years. At the same time, shares declined from 15m to 13m (roughly 9%).
The business itself hasn’t changed, it doesn’t grow, but each remaining shareholder now owns a larger percentage of it. That is exactly what intelligent capital allocation is supposed to accomplish.
The most interesting part is that EPS still grew about 5%, even though income is flat. Nothing magical happened and there was no financial engineering. Management simply reduced the shares outstanding at sensible prices instead of empire building.
Simply put, the business has no growth, but earnings grew 5% because of intelligent capital allocation. I write a lot more about capital allocation and a plethora of other topics in 40 chapters so keep an eye out for my upcoming book which will be out soon.
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@ADILXFCB@FabrizioRomano@TonyAuspi Yes, and won the cup with them, he also lost the Bundesliga title in the last game only by goal difference, same points