“Success is not final; Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” Churchill. Value/Growth/Div Stock Investor, Fan of #HTTC#Nats#ALLCAPS
The market thinks hyperscaler capex is a mistake.
It’s not.
$META, $AMZN & $MSFT aren’t spending because they’re forced to.
They’re spending because demand for compute is breaking supply.
We are not in a “capex bubble.”
We are in a capacity shortage.
Bill Ackman gets it.
Most of the market doesn’t.
Ok now things are getting really ridiculous for $PYPL from a pure numbers pov.
Management expects ~$6B FCF fy26 and are deploying $6B share purchases.
Basically all of FCF.
Current share price is $41.70. Market cap 36.5B.
If they bought back at current price, that’s a WHOPPING ~1/6 shares outstanding (16.5%).
We assume earnings and everything literally stays the same.
Last year had 882M shares, $5.34 EPS.
After full buybacks, we get 736M shares…
and $6.39 EPS.
+19.7% increase in EPS. In one year.
With no earnings growth.
Insane.
Black pilot, West Point graduate, and combat veteran Wesley Hunt delivered a masterclass response:
“Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here.
I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Suggesting that Black pilots, engineers, doctors, or leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard.”
He ended with a powerful line:
“Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.”
This is the kind of clarity and backbone America needs right now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂
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Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, and turns 96 this month.
One of his most well-known quotes is: "Do not let the old man in."
That line became a personal motto about aging, discipline, and refusing to mentally give up. It came from a conversation about staying active, staying curious, and continuing to move forward no matter your age.
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday and many more ahead.
Novak Djokovic: "I hope Fonseca becomes the next big thing. He has the potential. He's very professional and is pre-conditioned for success. He has amazing talent and firepower and all of Brazil cheering him on. I hope he wins many Grand Slams." 🇷🇸🇧🇷
An epic battle, Joao. And a hard-fought victory you deserve. Best of luck for the rest of the tournament and the incredible career you have ahead of you.
As for Paris… tu as mon coeur 🫶🏼
THE MOMENT JOÃO FONSECA BEAT NOVAK DJOKOVIC AT ROLAND GARROS.
The first teenager to ever beat Novak in a Grand Slam.
And he did it on his mom’s birthday.
We just had a front row seat to history.
The superstar has arrived.
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Milton Friedman:
“Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before.”
“Nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.”
Obama spent $34 MILLION and 18 months trying to fix the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and FAILED.
Biden proposed $300 MILLION and 3 years for the same job.
Trump fixed it for $2 MILLION using simple industrial coating in ONE WEEK.
That's the difference between someone laundering money and someone who actually builds things.
This might sound crazy but… $SOFI HAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY to be a $100+ stock long term. A $50+ stock within 5 years. It comes with risk but the opportunity and execution is impressive.
They arrested the President of the United States of America 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, spied on his campaign, sabotaged his first term, jailed his supporters, raided his private residence, censored him, gagged him, tried to bankrupt him, and attempted to remove him from state ballots.
When all of that failed they tried to assassinate him not once but four times.
And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for them to save democracy.