by Matt Brice | Oct 26, 2018 | Ideas, Investment Journal
VRSN reported their quarterly results last night with a brief 30 minute conference call (you could also read the transcript in about half that time). The remarkable thing about VRSN is really how unremarkable it is. The business is highly focused on managing the .com...
by John Huber | Sep 18, 2018 | Ideas
I have been buying shares of Altaba (AABA) over the last couple weeks. Altaba is the leftover stub that used to be Yahoo. It is now basically a holding company that owns stock in Alibaba. The NAV of AABA trades for a sizable discount to their stake in BABA. And even...
by John Huber | Sep 7, 2018 | Ideas, Investment Journal
Here is a note I sent to my investors just now, and I wanted to share it here with readers. Below is a copy of the note. Dear Investment Partner: I hope you had an enjoyable summer. I wanted to send a brief note with a few comments. One, I took a trip to China over...
by Matt Brice | Aug 27, 2018 | Ideas, Investment Theory
Facebook's one day drop on July 27th was impressive. It marked the largest ever loss of equity value for a U.S. listed company. However, to achieve such a feat requires a large market cap before such a day, quite an impressive feat on its own. This feat was only...
by John Huber | Aug 22, 2018 | Ideas
Yet again, another incredibly mundane title.... but I'll be optimistic when I say let's continue with some (hopefully) more interesting thoughts -- at least interesting to me if no-one else :) Last week, I wrote a post on my trip to China. For those who haven’t read...
by John Huber | Jul 22, 2018 | Ideas
There was an interesting press release that came out this week at Berkshire Hathaway. I wanted to post some very brief thoughts, but first just a quick introductory comment that might be somewhat related to the topic... I was writing some thoughts for my mid-year...
