The Rational Cloning: Weekly Ideas #41

Tweets That Make You Go… Hmm 🤔

Welcome to the 41st edition of the Rational Cloning Newsletter (Weekly Ideas Series).

Helping you discover the best ideas of others.

Happy cloning.

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Weekly Investment Ideas

Dave Waters @alluvialcapital

Anybody got a weird security or three I can check out this weekend? There are only so many hot dogs to eat and fireworks to set off. Gonna need some other entertainment. The smaller and less liquid the security, the more I like it.

Compounding Quality @QCompounding

Some undervalued quality compounder stocks according to Goldman Sachs:

The Thinking Investor @IrrationalMrkts

Current Portfolio: $8909.T Shinoken $ATZ.TO Aritzia $BABA Alibaba $BHC.TO Bausch Health Companies $DRM.TO Dream Unlimited $INMD InMode $MU Micron $QFIN 360 Digitech $TCEHY Tencent Holdings LTD $TOI.V Topicus Zero disposals. Will be adding $EVVTY

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Tweets That Make You Go… Hmm 🤔

Greenwald Capital @LeoGreenwald

Between Wednesday- Friday $BRK purchased 8M more shares of $OXY ~$58/ share.. Total ownership of 163M shares total, 17.3% ownership.

Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker

1) Interesting data from MF at GS this morning. Energy and Comm Services sectors are both at 30 year low valuations relative to the overall market. Energy cheaper in absolute terms Comm Services essentially just GOOGL, FB, T, VZ, CMCSA, CHTR, DIS, NFLX (85%ish of the index).

Value Idea Log @ValueIdeaLog

Epic due diligence from Buffett on $MCO. Didn’t meet with anyone.

1 Main Capital @1MainCapital

Wild to see the lack of supply response. Any energy specialists have any pushback on why this may be wrong? Private operators picking up the slack from pubcos?

Special Situations @Fred_McFeely

Chart of the day:

VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags

In hindsight, VCs comparing themselves to Michael Jordan was probably the top

zerohedge @zerohedge

FTX to buy BlockFi for $25MM, a 99% discount from the $4.8BN Series E valuation in July 2021: CNBC

HorizonKinetics @HorizonKinetics

Observation #45: Lost refining capacity since March 2020 Since mid-2020, the United States has lost the ability to process over 1 million barrels of crude per day. This is the largest drop on record.

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Check out previous issues of Weekly Ideas👇 

• The Rational Cloning: Weekly Ideas #40

• The Rational Cloning: Weekly Ideas #39

• The Rational Cloning: Weekly Ideas #38

• The Rational Cloning: Weekly Ideas #37

• The Rational Cloning: Weekly Ideas #36

And check out previous issues of Mosaic Musings (now The Rational Cloner’s Library)👇

• Mosaic Musings #3: Royalty Companies: Inflation, I win; Disinflation, I Don’t Lose Much. [Inflation Crisis Series]

• Mosaic Musings #2: Disinflation → Inflation Inflection Point? [Inflation Crisis Series]

• Mosaic Musings #1: Tin [Molecule Crisis Series]

The Rational Cloner’s Library

• Table of Contents

• Fertilizers

• Royalty Companies

• Tobacco

• Black Stone Minerals (BSM)

Authored Books

• Nick and Zak's Adventures in Capitalism: Words of Wisdom from the Nomad Partnership Letters

• The Little Book of Investing Ideas: A Curated Collection of Investing Wisdom