TAM Total Available Market Myths
We’re the Next Amazon – This NEVER Ends Well: We believe “Total Available Market” stories and obsession with stocks that grow fast are as overhyped today as in 1999 ...
Financial Stocks: Best Stocks to Buy for 2022?
Buy Financial Stocks vs. the Index? FACT: Bank of America earns 30x the profits of ZM, but BAC is only ~3x bigger Sometimes the greatest investment ideas can come ...
Macro Aware & The Need for KCR’s Equity Duration Tool
A Critical New Metric to Estimate Risk & Return: KCR does not make macro forecasts, but we are “macro aware” – inflation has never been more topical Our piece ...
Difference Between Growth and Value Stocks Looks Like an Opportunity
For a basic explanation of value v growth stocks skip below the chart The chart below shows the 3-year performance spreads between Growth and Value have reached levels last ...
Differences Between Growth & Value Investing
The Duration Crisis: The light blue line shows the correlation between value stocks and the US Long Bond The navy blue line shows the correlation between growth stocks and ...
Best Credit Card Stocks Today: Cheap Stocks with Low Expectations?
Top Credit Card Stocks: A Cheap Way to Capitalize on High Expectations, Part I Today’s Chart for The Curious shows the PE ratio of the S&P 500 minus the ...
Trading Strategies to Preserve & Grow Wealth
Drawdowns: “If you buy things you don’t need, you will soon sell things you need.” -Buffett Our first newsletter of 2021 suggested it might be a great time to ...
Sun Microsystems, The Greatest Quote & The Rise of the Reckless
Sun Microsystems Inc: A Lifetime Lesson in Valuation Market cap of firms trading > 10x price to sales is now +$10 trillion Investors who paid 10x P/S to buy ...
How to Learn About Investing in Stocks: Rule #1
KCR believes bear market strategies today suggest a speculative mania similar to the internet bubble. “Rule #1: Never Lose Money, Rule #2: Never Forget Rule ...
Fast Growing Stocks & Profiting from Patience: Bullish America, Bullish Berkshire & Bearish the Index
Similar to the peak of 2000, people are wondering if Buffett & Munger have lost their touch? As documented by CNBC, Berkshire has underperformed the S&P 500 Index by ...
Buy or Sell Tesla Stock? A Quick Answer to a Behavioral Question
Should You Sell Tesla Stock & The High Cost of “Anchoring” Anchoring, or the act of placing too much emphasis on an arbitrary number is a well understood human ...
Warren Buffett’s Market Cap to GDP
"Be FEARFUL when others are GREEDY" –Warren Buffett: The chart below is Buffett’s favorite broad market valuation tool – Market Cap/GDP – a Kailash topic discussed here When stocks ...