⁠InsideArbitrage
The acquisition of Consolidated Communications Holdings $CNSL by Searchlight Capital Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation was completed on December 27, 2024.

It took 438 days for the deal to be completed. https://t.co/LNjjKtpKE9
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⁠Stock Analysis Compilation
Stock Analysis Compilation #69 is in your inbox 🔥
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21 stock pitches from the best hedge funds & newsletters : $AVGO $CROX $ENPH $EVO $TUSK $MDB $ORLY $BTU $NYT $TMDX $UBER $VVV $YETI and many more https://t.co/KduzDyvsp9
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⁠Investing visuals
Palantir $PLTR stock: a bold prediction of how I think its stock chart will look like🔮

Details in comments https://t.co/wblJeJtfu0
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⁠App Economy Insights
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⁠Quiver Quantitative
Nancy Pelosi has lost $3.1M in the stock market today, per our estimates: https://t.co/wKSJ6m13fY
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⁠Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
A quality valuation analysis on $MSCI 🧘🏽‍♂️

•NTM P/E Ratio: 36.97x
•10-Year Mean: 35.81x

•NTM FCF Yield: 2.97%
•10-Year Mean: 3.21%

As you can see, $MSCI appears to be trading near fair value

Going forward, investors can receive ~3% LESS in earnings per share & ~7% LESS in FCF per share 🧠***

Before we get into valuation, let’s take a look at why $MSCI is a quality business

BALANCE SHEET🆗
•Cash & Short-Term Inv: $497.07M
•Long-Term Debt: $4.48B

$MSCI has an ok balance sheet, a BBB- S&P Credit Rating, & 7.81x FFO Interest Coverate

RETURN ON CAPITAL✅
•2020: 28.6%
•2021: 26.5%
•2022: 33.0%
•2023: 35.2%
•LTM: 38.1%

RETURN ON EQUITY🆗
•2020: (231.5%)
•2021: (239.3%)
•2022: (148.6%)
•2023: (131.4%)
•LTM: (134.1%)

*Negative ROE due to heavy use of debt

$MSCI has strong return metrics, highlighting the financial efficiency of the business

REVENUES✅
•2013: $0.91B
•2023: $2.53B
•CAGR: 10.76%

FREE CASH FLOW✅
•2013: $0.28B
•2023: $1.21B
•CAGR: 15.76%

NORMALIZED EPS✅
•2013: $2.16
•2023: $13.52
•CAGR: 20.13%

SHARE BUYBACKS✅
•2013 Shares Outstanding: 121.07M
•LTM Shares Outstanding: 79.24

By reducing its shares outstanding 34.5%, $MSCI increased its EPS by 52.6% (assuming 0 growth)

MARGINS✅
•LTM Gross Margins: 82.0%
•LTM Operating Margins: 53.6%
•LTM Net Income Margins: 43.1%

***NOW TO VALUATION 🧠

As stated above, investors can expect to receive ~3% LESS in EPS & ~7% LESS in FCF per share

Using Benjamin Graham’s 2G rule of thumb, $MSCI has to grow earnings at an 18.49% CAGR over the next several years to justify its valuation

Today, analysts anticipate 2025 - 2027 EPS growth over the next few years to be less than the (18.49%) required growth rate:

2025E: $17.07 (13.6% YoY) *FY Dec
2026E: $19.39 (13.4% YoY)
2027E $21.64 (12.0% YoY)

$MSCI has a great track record of meeting analyst estimates ~2 years out, but let’s assume $MSCI ends 2027 with $21.64 in EPS & see its CAGR potential assuming different multiples

36x P/E: $779.04💵 … ~9.7% CAGR

35x P/E: $757.40💵 … ~8.7% CAGR

34x P/E: $735.76💵 … ~7.7% CAGR

33x P/E: $714.12💵 … ~6.7% CAGR

As you can see, $MSCI appears to have double-digit return potential if we assume >36x earnings, a level near its 10-year average multiple of 35.81x

However, this assumption doesn’t leave us with any margin of safety despite $MSCI wide moat, exemplary capital allocation, & linearity in its EPS & FCF

Today at $606💵 $MSCI appears to be fully valued

$MSCI flash crash in April was one of the best times in the last 10 years to accumulate shares (as I suggested in an analysis I shared then)

I’ll be interested in accumulating $MSCI if it trades closer to $500💵 or at 30x NTM estimates (~18% below today’s price) where I can reasonably assume double-digit return potential while relying on a 30x multiple

#stocks #investing
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𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄‼️: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥® 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭.

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𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐛𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢�[...]

�𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲.
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⁠Stock Analysis Compilation
Lakehouse Capital on Wix $WIX US

Thesis: Wix is unlocking significant growth by tapping into the DIFM market, enhancing its product suite, and improving margins

(Extract from their Q3 letter) https://t.co/l6jY4MSeXn
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⁠Startup Archive
Jeff Bezos on how to build a business strategy

“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” And that is an interesting question… But I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two.”

Jeff argues:

“You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery. They want vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, ‘Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.’ Or, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish you’d deliver a little slower.’ Impossible. And so we know the energy we put into these things today will still be paying dividends for our customers 10 years from now.”

He gives AWS as another example. It’s impossible to imagine AWS customers asking for a less reliable or more expensive service.

”When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it… The big ideas in business are often very obvious, but it’s very hard to maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. But if you can do that and continue to spin up those flywheels and put energy into those things, over time, you build a better service for your customers on the things that genuinely matter to them.”

Video source: @awscloud (2012)
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