Berkshire shares compounded at 56% annually from 1975-1985.
Buffett made hay in the 70's.
WaPo was selling for ~3x EBIT. Ad agencies were sub 2x EBIT. GEICO, See's etc.
Portfolio snapshot in 1985:
Wow... this is insane.
Google crushed earnings by so much, it's TTM P/E ratio fell from 24x to 16x overnight.
In the blink of an eye, Google now trades at its CHEAPEST valuation since Jan 2015.
It now ranks in the top 20% of lowest P/E names in the S&P 500... ๐ถ๏ธ
$GOOG $GOOGL
$UBER is cheap.
โ Pelosi bought calls
โ Ackman has 15.7% of his portfolio in it
โ David Tepper nearly tripled his stake to ~6.3 million shares
Use this information however you want.
Charlie Munger lived to 99.
Two decades longer than most billionaires.
He was asked, near the end,
what the shortest path to happiness was.
His answer had nothing to do with money.
"There's no better way to be happy
than getting your expectations down.
It's much easier than getting your results up."
Everyone spends their life on the right side of that sentence.
Trying to lift results. More money. Better job. Bigger house.
Munger spent his on the left side.
Quietly lowering the bar for what he needed
in order to feel that he had enough.
Then he watched everyone else chase him
while he sat still.
Serious question:
After spending close to $100B in CapEx in the past year (excluding the $45B this quarter):
How is it possible the Depreciation charges for $GOOG are only $7.1B; literally UP only $1B since CYQ4.
Can anyone make sense of that???
Rare chance to buy Google below Pelosi's entry ๐
3 politicians bought $GOOGL this year and haven't sold:
โข Nancy Pelosi (D)
โข Cleo Fields (D)
โข Ro Khanna (D)
Pelosi alone put up to $1,000,000 in on Jan 16 at ~$330
And here's where it gets more interesting
Khanna is the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Cyber Subcommittee, which authorizes funding for active Pentagon contracts held by Google Cloud