Everyone in finance is on a group chat about the SpaceX IPO right now. Bankers, founders, retail kids on Robinhood, my barber. The roadshow deck has leaked four times. CNBC has had a countdown clock running for nine days. The pricing range is $400-$450 and people are talking about it like it’s already $800. A guy at the gym asked me how to get allocation. I do not know how to get allocation. Nobody does. I am sitting in my apartment looking at a stock that trades 60 shares a week on the pink sheets. It’s a 94-year-old company that makes a part that goes into a thing you’ve used today. P/E of 6. Pays a dividend. The CEO is the founder’s grandson. The annual report came as a PDF I had to download from a Geocities-looking webpage. The most recent news article about the company is from 2019 and it’s about the chairman’s wife winning a flower show. I tried to look up the float and the answer was “approximately 84,000 shares” which is a number my brokerage account can move. Nobody on earth is talking about this stock. Nobody will be talking about it next year either. Elon will land on Mars. The valuation of SpaceX will be discussed in the same sentence as the GDP of medium-sized countries. My ticker will print another quarter. The dividend will hit my account on a Tuesday. I will not tell anyone. That is the whole point.
@litcapital You do realize there’s real institutional demand for these deals right? $80bn isn’t just being dropped on retail… imagine going up on $80Bn with no visibility from serious institutions
@ErnestWongBWM Feels like the info is never nuanced enough, likely leads to most just glancing by the material and not absorbing anything… speed to info = speed to move onto the next thing
@ronmortgageguy@Comm_Solution BoC doesn't have a dual mandate, while I agree that it seems on the surface that raising rates in the face of a recession is unwise in theory it shouldn't play a role (it should and will) but on the surface it won't...
I’ve not seen a masterclass away in Europe this good since Roy Keane v Juventus
Totally adapted to the demands of ordering in a second language
The greatest to ever do it
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@LeveragedLayman Problem is there’s no real incentive to do it, anyone with any real professional success can’t be lured… risk/reward isn’t there sadly