A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
the next social network is a prediction market where your feed is ranked by accuracy not engagement. the person who is right 80% of the time gets seen while the person who is loud gets buried
typical chem co segments:
Advanced Materials: a highly cyclical commodity chemical
Performance Products: also a cyclical commodity chemical, but China has 2000% excess capacity of this one
Specialty Solutions: best way to model this segment’s margins is short natural gas + a negative shock for an inexplicable shutdown that’s never guided to & happens whenever something good is going on in the rest of the business
Precision Compounds: this repackages stuff from the other segments & sells it, allowing them to play with internal pricing to show steady margins so value investors can fool themselves into a sum-of-the-parts story once or twice every cycle
Engineered Applications: this is actually kind of a good business, but it’s 1% of EBITDA & they’ll sell it to PE for 6x in a couple quarters
@hurdle_rate Currently a 20 document limit I believe so it won’t last long. You can combine notes in word and then upload it again and again as 1 doc. So have a running news doc, notes doc, etc. Also works well with annuals and quarterly results as you get one repository for results
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