If you had any doubts still, yes: the Chinese reopening is real.
Not sure markets have fully incorporated its implications for global growth & inflation, and therefore for several asset classes.
even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns 18% on capital over 20 or 30 years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you’ll end up with a fine result. So, the trick is getting into better businesses.” - Charlie Munger
One of my favourite investment quotes of all time comes from Charlie Munger. It changed the way I look at companies during a valuation. Instead of looking for the most undervalued company, I now look for companies that can allocate capital the best, and maintain a high ROIC.
“Over the long term, it’s hard for a stock to earn a much better return than the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns 6% on capital over 40 years and you hold it for those 40 years, you’re not going to make much different than a 6% return...
“.. the heads of many companies are not skilled in capital allocation. Their inadequacy is not surprising. Most bosses rise to the top because they have excelled in an area such as marketing, production, engineering, administration, or, sometimes, institutional politics.” – WB
@DilBradly I also hold Alphabet, but my worry is not that Google won't maintain search engine dominance. It's that both chatGPT and Bard are going to hurt the search engine ad revenue as a whole. I don't think Bard is going to be able to replace the ad revenue Google will lose.
Chinese companies have began to make a comeback in the first 2 weeks of 2023! Will it continue?!
Alibaba: Up 27.21%
Tencent: Up 7.21%
Prosus: Up 14.57%
https://t.co/oC1SvKAE6u: Up 10.34%
PDD: Up 14.75%
Baidu: Up 16.66%
#stocks#StockMarket
$Meta has bought back ~101,000,000 shares at an average price of ~$208/share in the first 3 quarters of 2022. Comparing that to last year when they bought back 136,000,000 shares at an average price of $329/share.
They have $17.78 billion in authorized buybacks available.
#Meta
We've added a historical PE Ratio page to the financials section of our website! This allows you to quickly compare current PE Ratio to the historical average. It's currently still in beta and free to use
https://t.co/EpNSza6w1A
#StockMarket#stocks#pricetoearnings#AAPL
For more metric comparisons such as Book Value, Price To Book, Price to Sales, Share buybacks, Cashflows, and a full timeline of the CCP tech crackdown (and corresponding market cap drops) visit our blog post at https://t.co/cY5tOHxJXp
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Alibaba has a market cap below $270 billion for the first time in 5 years. Let's take a look at how their financials have changed during that time.
https://t.co/cY5tOHxJXp
$BABA #Alibaba#StockMarket#stocks
That means they can potentially buy back 2.63% of the outstanding shares at current prices!
I'm also hoping to see an expansion of the buyback program in the next quarter.
#BABA#alibaba#StockMarket#stocks $BABA
Highlights from #Alibaba buyback program:
- Repurchased 10.1 million ADS for $1.4 billion USD ($138.61/share)
- Bought back 42.2 million ADS for $7.7 billion over the last 9 months
- Approx $7.22 billion remaining to be bought back before end of 2022
$BABA #StockMarket#Stocks