This is my last Overview Of The Week as a 49-year-old man. I’m turning 50 on Tuesday.

It’s funny how we look at age. When you are 16, someone of 28 is old; when you are 28, someone of 40 is old; one of my best friends is 44 years old and he still thinks of old people when he hears the age of 50, even if his best friends are all that age.

I’m about to turn 50 but I still feel young and energetic. The fact that I love what I do definitely contributes to that, so I want to thank you all for making that possible!

The upcoming week is busy, with my birthday and a conference in Bonn on Friday and Saturday.

On Thursday evening, I will be one of the speakers in Ghent at the Clash der Beleggingsstrategieën. I have three more free tickets to offer. Just comment to this article if you want to attend for free.

And please, come say hi during the reception after the debate!

Articles In The Past Week

This is the fourth article this week. Let’s look back at the three previous ones.

The first article this week was an update on Chapters Group.

I’m not often proud of an article I write. Maybe three times a year or so. But my Nu Holdings article was one of those. If you haven’t read it yet, you can do that here.

Twice a month, I buy stocks for the PM Forever Portfolio, my real-money portfolio. In this article, you can find out which stocks I bought on Friday and why.

Memes Of The Week

No memes this week.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to David Gardner’s Rule Breaker Investing podcast. Every quarter, he has a game show called the Market Cap Game Show. Two contestants have to guess a company’s market cap best. It’s light, so I often listen when I’m cooking, but it’s really fun and you still learn something. You can listen to the episode here.

The markets in the past week

So, what did the markets do this week? Let’s have a look.

We see the same pattern again. The Russell 2000 was down 0.80%, while the S&P 500 was up 1.21% and the Nasdaq even 2.06%. Smaller companies usually feel more impact from interest rates, so this is logical.

The Greed & Fear Index remained in FEAR territory, but last week, it was at 29, while it climbed to 37 this week.

Quick Facts

1. Do higher rates really help?

Bill Ackman posted an interesting thought this week. He says that the presumption is that higher interest rates reduce inflation. And that has indeed always been the underlying belief. But what if, Ackman wonders, this time, there won’t be an effect now, because the demand for AI and energy is not affected by higher interest rates.

There is something to be said about this, I think. If you look at the last 45 years, we have seen a long cycle of lower interest rates.

There were some exceptions, but you can clearly see the trend, down. During that time, there was generally deflation and asset inflation. Those are expensive words and they need nuance. There was no deflation for many things, like education, but many technological devices and services dropped in price. At the same time, stocks became more expensive. That’s asset inflation. With low interest rates, that makes sense.

We will have to see how this evolves over time. But it’s something to watch.

2. AI finances, the first cracks?

The problem with AI is that some companies have taken on deep debt to invest in infrastructure. As long as they can pay that debt, that's no problem. Once that's no longer the case, look out below.

In that context, what happened to Oracle (ORCL) is, in hindsight, hopefully not the first crack. The company sent a ‘force majeure’ notice on Project Jupiter, the huge New Mexico AI data center tied to the $400 billion Stargate project it started with OpenAI, SoftBank, Nvidia, and other partners.

The problem is power for the site. The plan is to use Bloom Energy fuel cells powered by natural gas, but the pipeline needed to provide natural gas to the data center location doesn’t get the necessary permits.

Force majeure is usually used when something disastrous happens. Think of a war, a flood, or another natural disaster. Oracle wants to delay its payment until 2028, so it gets more time to get the pipeline permit. This makes credit markets very nervous. If you look at Oracle’s balance sheet, you probably understand why.

With $156 billion in debt, $37B in cash and equivalents and negative free cash flow, Oracle looks weak. And that makes markets nervous.

I have always said that if one pin falls in the AI companies, many others would follow. I thought of OpenAI mostly, but Oracle is a weak link in the chain as well.

The opening of the data center was foreseen in 2028, but it will probably be later. Such things happen, but if this makes a company invoke the force majeure rule, that company is financially weak. And that could be dangerous.

Now, I think you all know I’m not a prophet of doom and things can work out fine. But it doesn’t mean that we have to close our eyes to potential problems.

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It’s Saturday as I start writing this (writing is a lot of work, trust me), and I feel great.

I just rode my bike with some of my best friends. Not too far, 60 km (37 miles) as it was pretty windy.

But Potential Multibaggers is part of the reason I feel so good, too.

Two new picks in the past few weeks and I’m excited about both. I’m also happy to welcome the new Multis. Hi, there!

Let’s look back at the week.

Articles In The Past Week

This is the third article this week.

The first article this week was on the 15th and experienced Multis will know that this is the date for the Best Buys Now.

And of course, the second article was the first article about the new Potential Multibagger stock!

Memes Of The Week

I don’t know if you know The Babylon Bee. They always bring parodies on the news. I had to laugh with this one.

It’s funny because it’s true. Every time there’s new technology, people fear for their jobs. The paper trail goes back to at least the steam engine. But each technology has only brought more jobs. The problem is that the disappearing jobs are obvious, but the new ones are not, because, well, they are new. I often wonder how I’d explain what I do to someone living 50 years ago. It would basically be impossible.

The second meme is under the same theme: it’s funny because it’s true.

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Last week Dario Amodei from Anthropic said to slow down the frontier. Sam Altman and Elon Musk said they agreed, but then announced their new model and big shipments.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to an interview with Ian Cassel on the Yet Another Value Podcast. Ian Cassel is known for his Microcap Club and an authority when it comes to small caps. He wrote a book, titled Stock Picker, which I intend to buy and this interview only whetted my appetite for the book.

I was also a guest on a podcast this week, but in Dutch, so this will not be for everyone. It was a pleasure to be a guest on De Beursvoyeurs. You can listen to the episode here.

The markets in the past week

What did the indexes do in the week of the interest rate hike? The answer is: it depends which index you mean.

As you can see, the Russell 2000 was by far the biggest loser, with 1.50%. Usually, smaller companies see more impact from interest rates, so this is logical. The S&P 500 was nearly flat, at 0.08% off, and the Nasdaq was up 0.72%, mainly driven by the memory chip companies.

The Greed & Fear Index dropped even further into FEAR territory: from 33 last week to 29 now.

Quick Facts

1. End Of An Era: Buffett Steps Down

This week, we saw the end of an era. Last year, I witnessed live in Omaha that Warren Buffett stepped down as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He remained Chairman. Until this week, when Buffett announced that he steps down as the Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

The new Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway is Howard Buffett, the 71-year-old son of Warren Buffett.

Warren Buffett, aged 96, becomes Chairman Emeritus and remains on the Board.

Warren Buffett took over Berkshire Hathaway in 1965 and the stock returned a blistering 6,100,000% (!!) in 61 years. That’s a compound annual growth rate of about 20% per year, versus about 10% for the S&P 500.

Howard Buffett is not just ‘the son of.’ The letter to shareholders sums up his experience:

Howard Buffett has served since 1999 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a charitable foundation focused on global food security and conflict mitigation. He served as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger for the World Food Programme for nearly a decade.

He has been a director of numerous public and private company boards, including Agro Tech, Archer Daniels Midland, ConAgra Foods, The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Enterprises, FirsTier Financial, and Lindsay Corporation – including as Chairman of the Board.

While he has not taken up any operational role at Berkshire, he has been on the Board since 1993. That means that he will be important to continue the culture of the company. Buffett in his letter:

Howard has been a Berkshire Director for 33 years. That is a longer apprenticeship than I served before taking the reins at the age of 34. Greg runs the company; Howard will guard its culture and values – both worth more than anything on our balance sheet. Think of Howard as a policy the shareholders own and hope never to claim against.

Berkshire remains a company of old people, to put it disrespectfully. Howard Buffett is 71, the new CEO Greg Abel is 64, and Vice Chairman of Insurance Operations Ajit Jain is 75. So, this will probably not be the last replacement. As Buffett writes in his letter:

Father Time always wins. He has, however, been generous with me.

This is definitely the end of an era for Berkshire Hathaway and for investing in general.

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Anthropic's boss is afraid of frontier AI models, but so far, they have not killed the Overview Of The Week, so we are good up to now. :-) Let's go!

Articles In The Past Week

After a few weeks with many articles, this week was calm. This is just the second article.

The previous one was about Axon. You can find the analysis and the answer to whether the stock is a buy now here.

A New Potential Multibaggers Pick!

So, why only one previous article?

Let me start with the minor reason. I was at the Portfolio Day in Brussels on Wednesday, a conference for investment professionals. You can see a picture here from Brussels, together with Pieter Slegers (Compounding Quality), Kevin Schoovaerts (Atomical Capital), Sam Hollanders (Chess Capital) and Jurgen Vluijmans (JVL Communication), some of the people I go to Omaha with every year.

From left to right: Sam, Jurgen, Kevin, me and Pieter.

But that’s not the main reason that I only published one article. It’s much more exciting! I have been working on another Potential Multibaggers pick! I still have quite a bit of writing to do, but it will be published in the coming week. If I had to guess, I'd say Thursday.

You can start guessing what the pick is! :-) Hint: it’s on the Stocks On My Radar list.

Memes Of The Week

I made the first meme myself. I have often been made curious when I hear an analyst talk about his/her model. But when I see it, it’s just junk.

For Duolingo, social media has always been a great driver for the brand. For a while, it was less funny and less unhinged, but it seems management turned that back. When Apple released its iPhone Duo, this was the reaction Duolingo’s X account posted.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I (re)listened to multiple podcast episodes about the new Potential Multibaggers pick. There was also one that made me add a stock on the Stocks On My Radar list (see below).

But I also listened to Leandro of Best Anchor Stocks, my second newsletter that Leandro fully runs. If you don’t know Leandro, there’s a reason I started working with him almost 5 years ago. He’s very smart, does outstanding deep research and he can explain what’s important and what’s not. He did so in the most recent Chit Chat Stocks episode. He talks about two subjects: BBB Foods, a stock Leandro wrote about and invested in in January of this year, and which is up 50% since then.

The second part of the episode is about the robotics industry. If you haven’t read Leandro’s deep dive about robotics yet, I highly recommend it.

You can listen to the interview with Leandro here.

The markets in the past week

What did the indexes do this week? Most of us will guess the market dropped but by how much?

As you can see, the Russell 2000 was by far the biggest loser, with 2.41%. The S&P 500 was down 0.66%, and the Nasdaq fell 0.66%.

The Russell 2000 dropped much more than the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 because of rising oil costs. The Russell 2000 has more industrial companies, which means greater exposure to oil, which has been rising quite a bit recently. Those companies also face greater fear of an economic slowdown than companies fueled by AI.

The Greed & Fear Index dropped further into FEAR territory.

Quick Facts

1. Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon ask AI Slowdown

It was all over the news recently. The 27-year-old British researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just 4 months and wrote a post about it. It starts like this.

Source: X

In the thread that follows, he accused both Anthropic and OpenAI, his former employer, of irresponsible behavior. With self-improving AI, he argues the genie is out of the box because developers don’t know how to control it. As you can see, the post got more than 170 million views. He now has 290,000 followers, but before the post just a bit over 2,000. This post already caused a stir.

Four days later, Anthropic’s founder and CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier. In the essay, Amodei argues frontier labs should slow the pace of innovation because safety work is falling behind.

To start with, Amodei proposes permanent outside evaluators with deep access to AI labs. Next, he wants frontier companies in democratic countries to agree on safety standards and limits in AI progress, checked by regulation. The end goal is international collaboration, including China. I can tell you: this won’t happen. It’s impossible. On top of that, the timing makes it impossible to ignore the bigger picture.

Now, first, before the rest, many people in AI have been warning about the dangers of the technology. Amodei has been one of them for years, and the same can be said about Elon Musk and pioneer Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind, which was bought by Google.

But there’s another context as well. Open-weight models are improving fast and getting dramatically cheaper. As Guillermo Rauch posted recently, open models went from 28.4% to 62% of token volume through Vercel’s AI Gateway in just two months.

I mentioned earlier in my Duolingo article that the company could bring down its AI costs by 99% compared to the beginning, also by switching to open-weight models. Frontier model tokens are very expensive.

But of course, that raises a question. When the leaders of the most capital-intensive closed AI labs ask to slow down together, who benefits most? I had to think, as so often, of the quote from Charlie Munger.

OpenAI, X and Anthropic have by far the most money, together with Google and Meta. With Anthropic’s pending IPO, it could add another $100B of cash to its balance sheet. Regulation and controls favor those with money, not the new players.

On top of that, we have seen this move before. In March 2023, just four months after the launch of ChatGPT-4, Elon Musk signed the open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter talked about an “out-of-control race” and argued that development should stop until the risks were better understood.

Four months later, Musk launched his own AI company, xAI and another four months later, Grok was released, Musk’s own frontier model. In other words, it’s not crazy to think that it was developed in the same period Musk was publicly calling for the industry to pause. That could make him catch up, obviously.

There’s also an economic angle. It might slow down the capex race between the frontier models. Is this what Amodei wants his investors to believe? Regulation would definitely be hard for smaller competitors and for open models. Don’t forget that many of the open-weight models come from China (Kimi, DeepSeek, Alibaba’s Qwen, ...), which makes it easier to convince lawmakers to deem them ‘unsafe’ until proven otherwise. That clearly benefits the big frontier models.

And then there’s a legal argument which makes a lot of sense. The Hugging Face hack probably scared these companies. What if the bots had hacked a bank or a healthcare provider? What would the implications have been? For the internet, Section 230 protects internet platforms from much liability for third-party content. AI models don’t have such protection.

So, if these companies can show they use outside evaluators, document risks, and follow recognized safety procedures, it could help if something like a bank hack and theft happened. The companies can then claim they exercised good care and, therefore, are not negligent.

Now, all this doesn’t mean that AI has no potential dangers, but the accidents that have happened so far (see the Hugging Face hack I wrote about last week) are still contained. But also: I don’t believe that frontier models will just stop developing new models and that’s also not what Amodei says Anthropic will do. So I don’t think this has a chance. And I don’t think safety is the main reason. Control is. And if you think this is new... This is from more than 7 years ago, when Amodei still worked at OpenAI.

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PS: Just before I published this, I saw Mark Zuckerberg came out with a statement that AI development needs to move faster. So far for the American AI consensus.

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It’s Sunday and at Potential Multibaggers, Sunday’s Funday because that’s when you get the Overview Of The Week. Tomorrow, markets are closed for Labor Day, so you have extra time to read. Let’s dive in.

Articles In The Past Week

This is already the fourth article this week. Let’s look back at the three previous ones.

On Monday, I added to the PM Forever Portfolio, like I do every two weeks. You can find what I bought here.

The second article looked at Rubrik’s earnings and whether the stock is attractive right now. You can find it here.

In the third article, I analyzed the developments at TransMedics. You can read it here.

Memes Of The Week

Just one meme this week. Or more a joke, actually.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

I listened to three good podcast episodes this week.

Two were interviews with Gavin Baker. Gavin Baker is the founder, Managing Partner and CIO of Atreides Management. The fund invests in growth stocks, mainly in technology. Before he founded Atreides in 2019, Baker spent 18 years at Fidelity. He was a portfolio manager and also managed Fidelity’s venture-capital investing arm.

Gavin Baker was interviewed on The a16z Show from the venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz. Baker explains why many more data centers should be built, as failing to do so could cause token disparity. But that was just one of the many things he talked about. You can listen to the interview here.

The second interview with Gavin Baker I listened to was on Invest Like The Best.

The two together give you a pretty good idea of where we stand on AI.

The third podcast episode I listened to was with Doug Leone. He is a legendary venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital, which he joined in 1988. In 1996, the legendary founder of Sequoia, Don Valentine, made Leone the Managing Partner together with Michael Moritz. He backed companies like ServiceNow and Nubank. In the episode, he talks about Nubank’s founder and CEO David Vélez, by the way. You can listen here.

The markets in the past week

So, what did the indexes do this week? Let’s find out.

As you can see, the S&P 500 was up 0.09%, the Russell 2000 0.11% and the Nasdaq 0.40%.

Despite the slight move up, the Greed & Fear Index dropped to FEAR.

Quick Facts

1. Is The Market Cheap?

You have been hearing for years that the market is very expensive. Often this graph is used to prove that the market is expensive.

But there are reasons to believe the Shiller PE Ratio (or CAPE, cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings) no longer works well. The most important point is that companies now spend most on R&D and software. GAAP accounting sees this as an immediate expense, not an investment that can be written off over time. The fact that R&D and software are seen as expenses, not investments, means that earnings are understated. And that situation has become more and more so with modern companies. They are (or at least were before the big AI investments) not capex-heavy companies, like the railroads, car companies, and other capital-intensive industrials that used to be a much bigger part of the S&P.

There is another consequence. Companies can scale much faster than in the old days. The CAPE is ‘cyclically adjusted’ by looking at the average of earnings of the last 10 years. That was OK before modern times. If you wanted to scale, you needed time. Building new Walmart stores takes time. But nowadays, you can grow so much faster. If a company grows its earnings quickly, it’s not reflected in the CAPE because earnings from 10 years ago carry as much weight as current earnings.

Another reason that the CAPE is high is that the COVID period is still included. But the market is forward-looking. It doesn’t care anymore about the past.

Earlier this year, the Fed paper titled “The CAPE That Cried Wolf“ was published. What I wrote above is the conclusion of that paper. But it’s also very logical if you think about it. The paper estimates that earnings look 44% weaker than they would have been earlier. If you apply that to the current 42.38, the adjusted CAPE would be 23.7. Not cheap, but not extremely overvalued either.

That’s why I always love it when there’s a credible alternative data point. This is one.

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The PEG of the S&P 500 has not been this low since the 80s. Of course, you can say a lot about this. For example, this uses the forward PE and you have to believe the earnings forecasts. But I do and I think they are often conservative for many companies.

Now, of course, that doesn’t mean I say the sky is only blue. There are clouds in the form of interest rates that keep going up. Usually, this means that more expensive stocks will have a hard time keeping their valuations. That means they will either have to grow into their valuations faster or that the stock price will drop. We will have to see.

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They say meeting your heroes often turns out to be a disappointment. For me, it was even better than I could have ever imagined.

On Thursday, I got to spend a few hours talking with David Gardner in Dublin, and he even bought me a Guinness. I also got to wear his legendary jester hat for a moment.

I don’t know if many of you know him, but David Gardner co-founded The Motley Fool with his brother Tom in 1993.

He is an independent thinker in the stock market who has openly shown people how he picked dozens of stocks that went on to multiply many times over. He picked at least 7 stocks that went up more than 100x.

Nvidia is up 1,425x since he first bought it in 2005. That means every $1,000 invested turned into $1.425 million.

But it’s not really about the money. It’s about the way he approaches life.

He knows money is a nice bonus, but far from the most important thing in life. For example, he owns 679 board games and plays a game every single day, either in person or online.

There aren’t many people I truly look up to. A few years ago, I was standing just a few meters away from Bill Gates in Omaha, and it didn’t really do anything for me. While I have respect for what Bill Gates built out with Microsoft (how could you not?), I never saw him as a personal example of how to live a good life. Mind you, that was before the whole Epstein thing associated with him now came out.

David Gardner was a huge influence on Potential Multibaggers. I’d say Potential Multibaggers is 50% David Gardner, 25% Phil Fisher and 25% everyone else combined (with Peter Lynch and Charlie Munger leading that pack).

This is how David signed my copy of his book.

Every speaker tipped three stocks, so David Gardner did this as well. Two are Potential Multibaggers already: Mercado Libre and Axon Enterprise. I have been looking at the last one quite intensely lately. Not because David Gardner called it, but because the stock price is down so much: Intuitive Surgical. I will not be a Potential Multibagger, but I could see myself buying it for my portfolio. It’s having its second-biggest drop in the last decade.

Last month, I discussed the idea of buying Intuitive Surgical with a friend in this business. He had talked about this stock to doctors, all specialists. All knew and loved this brand and that’s usually a very good sign.

I also discussed the most recent Potential Multibaggers stock with David Gardner and let me tell you, he’s also very excited about this company.

That leads us to the next part of this Overview Of The Week.

Articles In The Past Week

This is just the second article this week, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t have enough to read. The first article of the new Potential Multibaggers pick goes deep and it’s as long as three typical articles. You can read it here.

Memes Of The Week

No memes this week, I thought. And then I saw this headline. It’s not meant as a joke, but it is one.

This is like excluding Lionel Messi from the 100 greatest soccer players, Usain Bolt from the 100 greatest sprinters and Tom Brady from the 100 best quarterbacks. In other words: utterly ridiculous. In the previous years, Jensen Huang had always been included, so it was a deliberate and extremely dumb intentional choice.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

Even the book I will be talking about has a link with David Gardner this week.

And, no, I’m not talking about his own book about investing, which I highly recommend. I have three copies. I have already listened to the audio version, I pre-ordered the hardcover version before it was out and let David sign that one. It will be on a bookstand in my library soon, next to my other investing idol, whom I look up to at least as much, if not more, for his life wisdom as for his investing: Charlie Munger. The third copy is the paperback version to annotate. I’m reading that one now and adding my own thoughts in the margins.

But I’m always reading multiple books simultaneously, and that’s the case right now as well. The book is called The Score.

I listened to David Gardner’s interview in his series ‘Authors In August’ and I decided to buy the book right away. I not that far yet, but I really like it already.

You can listen to the interview with C. Thi Nguyen here.

The markets in the past week

So, what did the indexes do this week? Let’s find out.

As you can see, there’s a discrepancy between the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq at one side and the Russell 2000 on the other hand. This is the reason.

As you can see, of the Mag7, only Tesla was down. This made the difference compared to the Russell 2000, where the Mag7 is obviously not in.

The Greed & Fear Index remained in NEUTRAL.

Quick Facts

1. The Nvidia Earnings

As many of you will know, I’ve been an Nvidia shareholder since 2017. In 2020, I sold a big part of my position to buy a car but I built up my position again from that point and multiple of my buys after that are also up more than 10x.

This week, the company reported its earnings. Let’s look at the numbers first:

The numbers:

• Revenue: +106% YoY to $96.2B, a $4.1B beat (4.4%).

• Gross margin: 75% GAAP and non-GAAP

• Operating margin: 66%

• Non-GAAP EPS: $2.22, a $0.13 beat, +128% YoY.

• GAAP EPS, fully diluted: $2.46, +128% YoY. This includes Nvidia’s stakes in other companies and that’s why non-GAAP is better in this case.

• Data Center: $89B, vs. consensus of $85B, +117% YoY and +18.3% QoQ.

  • Hyperscale $48.7B, +13% QoQ

  • AI Clouds, Industrial & Enterprise $40.3B, +25% QoQ and +138% YoY

• Edge Computing: $7.2B, +27.5% YoY, +13% QoQ.

• Operating cash flow: +57% to $24.1B,

• Free cash flow: +59% to $21.3B.

• Capital return: $20B buybacks, $6B dividends in this quarter. That’s 60% of the free cash flow vs. a target of 50%.

• Q3 guidance: Revenue $108B +/-2%, +12% QoQ and +89% YoY, $3.4B better than the consensus. Gross margin 74%.

• FY28 guidance: This was very strong: revenue growth of 70%, not comparable to the consensus of 44%.

This is crazy, never seen before. The fact that Nvidia, the world’s largest company, keeps growing by more than 100% is just breathtaking. It added nearly $15 billion in revenue sequentially and it said to expect to add another $12 billion next quarter.

This was the fourth consecutive quarter in which revenue growth accelerated, which is against all odds for a company of this size.

But the biggest news was that CFO Colette Kress guided for 70% revenue growth for next year. Wall Street looked like a fool with that 44% revenue growth consensus. To add to that humiliation, Nvidia’s executive said it would have doubled if there had been no memory shortage.

Probably, Nvidia will do better than that guidance again. So, it could end up with $680 billion in revenue next year. That’s more than Alphabet and Apple, with higher margins.

Seriously, who are the people who are bearish about either Nvidia or memory companies like Micron?

So, why didn’t the stock shoot up, as you would expect after such incredible earnings?

To be honest, I don’t know. Some pointed at the margin guidance. Nvidia sees them drop from 75% this quarter to 74% in Q3, 71%-72% in Q4, then 72%-73% for FY28. The culprit is memory, which sees “extreme pricing conditions.”

But seriously, if a company guides for 70% revenue growth, saying it would be above 100% without constraints, and you are bearish because of a margin that might drop (it’s just guidance), I think you focus on the wrong thing.

If you look at this, you also see something incredible.

I think it’s safe to say the consensus is too low, as not all analysts have already updated their guesstimates. But even with these, the stock is very cheap.

The forward PEG divides the forward PE by the growth. Lower than 1 is cheap, between 1 and 2 is fair, above 2 is expensive.

Nvidia has a forward PEG of 0.25 for this year (even if the company only reports in January). For next year, that’s 0.22. So, the stock is still incredibly cheap.

And if you think that Nvidia is not profitable, its profit in the last quarter was bigger than that of 12 iconic companies, including Apple, Walmart, and Coca-Cola.

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2. Warren Buffett Turns 96

Today, Sunday, August 30, Warren Buffett turns 96. He is not the CEO and Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway anymore, but he still goes to office every day. Recently, he announced that he was the one behind the big Alphabet investment, not Greg Abel. So, he is still very much active.

Last year, for his 95th birthday, I compiled 95 lessons from the investing GOAT. 95 quotes and a short takeaway from each. The document is chock-full of his best insights. You can find it here.

3. The Return of all Nasdaq 100 stocks

This week, I saw this and I think it gives a good overview of all the Nasdaq stocks.

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Last week, the title of the Overview Of The Week was “We Are Soooo Back” as I was back from my vacation in Sardinia. But...

On Wednesday, I’m already off again. It’s a bit ironic, isn’t it?

This time, I’m going to Dublin, to Investicon. If you happen to be there as well, please come say hi to me.

There are many reasons I’m going, but one of them is that I can meet one of my investing heroes, David Gardner.

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to talk to him (I hope so) but I know for sure I can listen to him. That’s not the only reason I go. It’s also to meet some people and exchange ideas about the stock newsletter business.

Now, does that mean you won’t get any new articles in the upcoming week? No, not at all. To the contrary.

I have been researching stocks quite a lot recently, as I mentioned a few times in our community and in the Overview Of The Week. That crystallized in a new pick.

It will be released in the first part of the week. Those articles go deep and that means they are a ton of work. I'm still working on it and I don't know how much time I will need, but I'd love to publish before I leave to Dublin.

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I don’t know how much time I’ll have to write for the rest but I will be back for next week’s Overview Of The Week.

Articles In The Past Week

This is the fourth article this week. Let’s look at the three previous articles.

On Monday, I added to my PM Forever Portfolio. In this article, you can find what I bought.

In the second article, I analyzed the Mercado Libre earnings.

The third article was an analysis of Tempus AI. Is the stock still attractive after the big surge, partially caused by the Moderna news this week? You find the answer here.

Memes Of The Week

Two memes this week.

This is the first.

This one was shared with me by multiple people.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to two episodes of Invest Like The Best.

First, I listened to the episode with Ben Thompson of Stratchery.

He had an interesting story about AI. Almost 90 minutes long, but not a minute too long. You can listen to it here.

I also listened to the episode with Gavin Baker. He is Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Atreides Management. That hedge fund has $7 billion in assets under management. Before Baker started it, he was a portfolio manager at Fidelity and did very well with his deep knowledge about semiconductors and tech. He talks about the state of AI investing. You can listen to this episode here.

The markets in the past week

Sometimes, there’s a discrepancy between your portfolio and the indexes. That’s why I find it interesting every week how the indexes did.

As you can see, the indexes were down. The S&P 500 lost 1.43%, the Russell 2000 1.65% and the Nasdaq 2.05%.

The Greed & Fear Index dropped from GREED to NEUTRAL.

Quick Facts

1. The Robots Are Coming!

This week, I saw this graph.

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The robots are coming and the estimates grow hard.

Of course, as an investor, and especially of growth stocks, you have to follow such trends. Right now, I don’t see a great way to invest in robots, except for Tesla, but there, the robo optimism is probably baked into the stock price. If you have ideas in this space, feel free to let me know!

This is especially interesting because the second technology is often even more decisive than the first. What I mean is that LLMs are great and such, but I don’t think they will change the world as much as something that has an impact in our day-to-day personal life. The internet paved the way for the smartphone and that changed our lives much more than the internet had already done.

I think that robots will be much more decisive for AI than LLMs. It’s the real-world application of AI. As with all things, that will bring good and bad things with it.

2. The Biggest User Of AI Tokens? AI Agents!

a16z, the famous venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz, published this chart this week.

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This is pretty crazy to see. Because if robots will have a big impact on our daily lives, agents have that potential as well. I would love to have fully personalized AI agents that know me and what I want.

We don’t have that yet, but as you can see, the number of AI agents has exploded and their consumption of AI tokens as well. They now use almost 5x more tokens than humans.

That also means that what many say is wrong. There is no AI bubble. The infrastructure companies all say they have contracts for 5 years out. Not at a fixed price, mind you. The customers just want to make sure they have supply. Right now, companies like Micron and Nvidia can’t make enough chips to satisfy the demand. If you think that will suddenly drop off a rock, you probably don’t follow this closely.

And yes, I know open models are taking market share. Here’s the chart of token use of open-source models vs OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Some see the ramped-up use of open-source models as a sign of oversupply. Please, don’t share this opinion. It shows huge ignorance. For many open-source models, you even need much more tokens, from 1.5x as many to as much as 10x for simpler tasks. The difference is that you don’t have to pay Anthropic or OpenAI so much for their premium models.

More and more, agents route tasks to the optimal model. For simpler tasks a cheaper model, for the most complex problems, the frontier models. But they all need chips. A ton of chips. That’s why I think the current pessimism you hear (and I have been hearing for three years) is too early. For memory, we are only in the first year of the cycle. It can easily take 5 or 6 years in total. And yes, I’m fully aware that’s long, a so-called supercycle, but this is one if I ever saw one.

The only caveat is that if there are restraints, people get creative and maybe someone comes up with an alternative or a workaround for the (memory) chip shortage. If that’s not the case, I don’t see any indication that companies like Micron will continue to benefit from the huge demand.

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The Overview Of The Week is back!

While I announced that there would be no Overview Of The Week for two weeks. Many Multis missed their weekly write-up and I got dozens of messages about why there was no OOTW (or other articles). I see that as a great compliment. When they heard I was on vacation in Sardinia for two weeks, for the first time that long in over a decade, I got many friendly messages from people wishing me a fantastic vacation.

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And it was great. I’m essentially always ‘on’ and I ‘work’ 7 out of 7. I put ‘work’ between hyphens because it doesn’t feel like work. This is what I love doing. But switching off completely for two weeks was really refreshing! I feel like my energy reserves are back to where they should be. I prioritized sleep (of which I often don’t get enough), reading, playing chess, swimming and enjoying the beautiful island and coast of Sardinia. For once, no earnings, no stress, and no pressure to publish. I think you can already see this week that it’s paying off for you as well, as this is already the fifth article this week. Let’s look back at the four previous ones.

Articles In The Past Week

The absolute priority I had set for myself was the earnings analysis of The Trade Desk earnings. I took my time to dig deep and you can find the result here.

The second article was about another company that didn’t have great earnings, Celsius. You can read that analysis here.

Even during my vacation in Sardinia, I kept up my Duolingo streak. I mostly do chess now, but also sometimes Italian. I analyzed the most recent earnings in this article.

Yesterday was the 15th of the month and traditionally, that’s time for the Best Buys Now. They are doing great so far this year, beating both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq convincingly, by 13% and 12.5% on average.

With the new Best Buys Now, I feel confident I can keep up the winning streak. You can find the selection here.

Memes Of The Week

No memes this week.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

I didn’t read anything that had to do with the stock market during my vacation, and as for podcasts, I listened to a few, but in Dutch. For those who can listen in Dutch: De Beursvoyeurs Zomer, with my friends Jurgen Vluijmans (about Bill Ackman) and Pieter Slegers (about Warren Buffett).

I also listened to Philippe Gijsels talk about William O’Neil, which made me decide to read O’Neil’s book. I’ve had it for years but never started it. I still have to finish another one (a manuscript of a friend I’m proofreading) and then I will learn more about O’Neil’s CAN SLIM method.

The markets in the past weeks

Let’s check.

It was a great three weeks, as you can see. The Nasdaq won 7.02%, the S&P 500 5.04% and the Russell 2000 4.72%.

The Greed & Fear Index jumped from FEAR territory before I left to GREED.

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Aaaah, it’s Sunday again. Every week you get the Overview Of The Week and every week, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do writing it.

Before we dive in, I’m leaving on holiday starting Wednesday. Sardinia is a great place to blow the dust off my Italian. I studied the language 30 years ago, but the last time I spoke it was 12 years ago.

It’s the very first time since I launched Potential Multibaggers as a paid service 6 years ago that I’m taking almost 2 weeks off.

That means there will probably be no Overview Of The Week next week and the week after that. But there might be an odd article. Writing is one of my favorite activities next to reading, so maybe I can’t resist the temptation. But in the first place, I want to be present with my family and the friends who join us. So, it is possible that you don’t get any articles in the next two weeks. Next to my Italian, my chess game should improve in those two weeks as well.

I’ll be on our internal discussion platform for paid Multis but probably not as much as usual. And I might post some vacation posts in our Casual Corner channel, the only channel that’s not about investing.

Multi Flo (and countless other Multis) have noticed that when I’m not at home, the markets tend to react very negatively to that, so brace yourself for the next few weeks. You could find some buying opportunities.

Articles In The Past Week

This is only the second article this week. One of the main causes was the abundance of material Axon has put out since the earnings. But it was a great investment of my time. I had already done a deep dive when I picked Axon, of course, but this taught me a lot more about the future of the company. And it left me even more optimistic about the company.

You can read the article about Axon here.

Next to that, I also continued my deep dives in some companies that are on the watchlist and could become a new pick. Don’t expect it any time soon.

Memes Of The Week

Just one meme this week. Not as much an investing meme, but still funny. Thanks for sharing, Multi bep.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I did some catching up with one of my favorite podcasts, Invest Like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy.

Very often, I don’t know the guests, but they always are very interesting. The first episode I listened to was with John Kim, on money raising. It was great to hear the other side of investing, which is not often talked about and how it is a game of trust. You can listen to it here.

The second episode illustrated what I like about this podcast. It was totally different and went in all directions but all interesting. Jeremy Giffon argued that internet fame, and especially that on X, where you have to have an opinion, is now worth more than money. But that was just one thought. You can listen to the full episode here.

The markets in the past week

Let’s check.

The Nasdaq continues to be the biggest loser, down 2.13%. The Russell 2000 lost 1.09% and the S&P 500 0.61%.

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The Greed & Fear Index stayed in FEAR territory.

Quick Facts

1. Optimism and Creative Destruction

This is not really a quick fact, but a quick thought.

One of the things I repeat over and over again is that optimism wins. That’s not naive but reality. If you look at history. Things just get better over time, with shorter periods of setbacks. Very much like the stock market, in other words.

But it’s also a warning signal for investors. Very often, the companies that play on defense lose. The new and better paradigm will almost certainly win and if you don’t adapt, you’ll be disrupted and perish. Joseph Schumpeter called this creative destruction, the idea that the economy can only stay vital when the new destroys the old.

That’s also how you have to look at the Mag7 capex boom. The risk of NOT investing so much is much higher than that of investing too much. Multiple Mag7 executives have already said this aloud, but many investors don’t seem to realize that it’s either going all-in or be disrupted. That’s why Alphabet announced more investments and that’s why others will invest more as well. They know that their very existence is at stake.

Morgan Stanley still expects a big jump in capex in 2027, but only a small one in 2028.

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2. The Worst July In 22 Years?

This week, I saw this table.

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This is about the Nasdaq. As you can see at the top, the average gains for July are 3.45% but right now, it’s down 7.08%. If this holds, it would mean the worst July month since 2004.

But you should also see this in the context of April and May, which were exceptional. You can’t have higher upside with deeper downside. The Nasdaq has been much more volatile than the S&P 500, but which would you prefer to have held in the last 20 years?

This is something many investors still don’t appreciate enough. The short-term volatility is the entrance price you pay for higher long-term returns. So, the choice is yours. What will you focus on? The short-term drops or the long-term climbs?

I see that most choose the short term. 99% of the news about investing, be it on mainstream media or social media, is about the short term. That leaves an edge for investors who look at the long term. It sounds easy, but it’s not. You have to have the stomach for it.

By the way, this image also fits into this picture. You have to know that the S&P 500 is up 8.5% and the Nasdaq 7.5%.

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In other words, up to now, the average individual investor is underperforming the indexes by about 20%.

Just to be sure, this is not looking down on the individual investor, as I am one myself. Every single investment strategy will underperform the indexes at certain moments and sometimes for a few years in a row. Look at the year before the dotcom bubble popped and how Warren Buffett did compared to the Nasdaq 100.

That’s an underperformance of 122%. But look at the next three years.

It’s important that you know what game you play and that you accept the ups and downs that come with every approach. The current winners are tomorrow’s losers and vice versa. That’s why yearly returns don’t mean anything.

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It’s Sunday again and it’s summer. I hope you enjoy both and that this Overview Of The Week even enhances that enjoyment.

Before we go into the rest of the content, two things.

First, you will notice that this Overview Of The Week is early this week. That’s because tonight (here) I want to watch the World Cup final.

Secondly, normally, I would have been at Chapters this week, but the evening before I was traveling to Hamburg, I decided not to go. The reason was, in the first place, my health. I had felt very tired after returning from Vail a few weeks ago and I decided to listen to my body. Secondly, I found out that there was a live stream of the Capital Market Day this year. Of course, I missed the direct contact and conversations with management, but as I had that last year, I thought I could skip a year. I’m feeling less tired now and that is more important. And you can still expect my article on my insights from the Capital Markets Day of Chapters in the upcoming week.

Articles In The Past Week

This is the third article this week.

The first article was the Best Buys Now article.

In the second article, we analyzed the Rubrik earnings.

Memes Of The Week

Maybe you have seen this picture of a 19-year-old Lionel Messi giving a bath to a baby Lamine Yamal. The two protagonists of the World Cup final did a Unicef campaign.

I saw a great parody of this picture.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I started a new book called Endure.

The book explores the limits of human performance. It basically challenges that physical barriers are fixed. Think of pain, fatigue, heat and other limiting factors. It says that the brain is much more important than the physical limits and we can endure more than we think. I only started it and I’m very curious to read more.

The markets in the past week

I saw many X accounts blowing up a lot this week. Here are a few.

This again shows how dangerous a non-diversified, leveraged portfolio is.

But the markets didn’t do that badly, of course.

Still, the Russell 2000 dropped 0.52%, the S&P 500 1.55% and the Nasdaq 2.9%, which is quite a bit for an index drop in one week.

The Greed & Fear Index dropped further into FEAR territory.

Quick Facts

1. Kimi K3: DeepSeek 2.0

As a Belgian, the first association I have with the name K3 is this hugely popular children’s music group called, you guessed it, K3 (named after the three original members, whose names all started with a K: Karen, Kristel and Kathleen.

But this week, a different K3 got on the stage, not just in Belgium and the Netherlands, but worldwide. Kimi K3 is a big new AI model from the Chinese company Moonshot AI. It was launched on July 16, 2026. It’s intended to be fully open-source, with weights promised for July 27.

But the main shock came from the fact K3 outperformed American in some tests. Especially the Frontend Code Arena test was a shock to many.

Kimi K3 also came close to Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s Sol overall.

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There are several concerns about the frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but it ultimately comes down to lower costs and open-source.

Here you can see that costs are much lower.

In times when AI budgets skyrocket, this may be an important factor for many companies with heavy coding work or running agents.

The open-source part means that everyone with GPUs can adapt it and run it privately, remove usage limits, and build on top of it.

Kimi K3 beats the other models on frontend coding, long coding sessions, at a thrid of the price and soon without limits (because of the open-source part). That means OpenAI and Anthropic will either have to keep dropping their prices, which will hurt them as they already lose money, or make much better models, which is also expensive.

Of course, this shocked the US tech scene, just like DeepSeek did. But it’s probably also very similar to DeepSeek that it is really good for AI. In January 2025, I wrote a full article about DeepSeek.

This is a sentence I wrote in that article: “It’s also clear that DeepSeek did something Chinese companies are good at: copying.” Read that sentence again, but replace DeepSeek with Kimi.

I have not checked it myself this time because it’s probably already fixed anyway, but you could see this everywhere on the net.

This works through distillation. Distillation starts with insights from another model by sending inputs to the teacher model and recording the outputs. Those outputs are then used to train the student model, in this case, Kimi K3.

Probably, Moonshot AI has done this through Anthropic’s API. This clearly violates the terms of service of the models, but you can’t block it.

This is clearly negative for Anthropic and OpenAI. They make a lot of money on their top models, and companies may choose to host their own models based on Kimi. But this is not so bad.

As Gavin Baker reasons, if only OpenAI and Anthropic controlled the whole AI market, they might end up buying too much of the supply. Think of areas where there is more demand than supply: chips, power, data center capacity etc. If there are more players, there’s a bigger market. That’s why Nvidia’s Jensen Huang supports open-source models. They need the same hardware, and more competition means less pricing power from customers.

On top of that, Kimi K3 is not very efficient with tokens. In other words, it uses more words/thinking than some rivals. The real cost per finished task is higher than it looks.

Don’t forget that LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Llama, etc.) have never been seen as the end goal but as an intermediary step on the way to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

American companies will now adopt to this new reality as well and get a kick in the behind to keep innovating as efficiently as possible, just like with DeepSeek.

But this kind of X post is very, very misleading.

First, you only see the spending of a few companies. Secondly, this is also about inference, the application of the AI. If you have the top model, but there’s not enough capacity to run it, your lead is completely worthless. The US companies show they lead to China, not that they are less efficient.

What does this mean for chips, memory, and power? That there will only be needed more of it. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink even thinks that there will be futures for those three classes soon. That means they are seen as a new asset class. He thinks it’s important enough to treat it as a scarce commodity essential to the world economy, like oil, and therefore it should be able to be traded and hedged. Weird times.

I also think that there are some deals to be done with the fallen angels in the last weeks. Think of Micron, for example. The stock is off 30% from its highs, but Morgan Stanley thinks the company’s gross margins will jump from a whopping 85% already to 89.5%.

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It’s healthy that there is a pullback, but I think that will be it, a pullback, not the start of the ‘popping of the AI bubble’ as many claim. Of course, there’s never certainty in markets, but from following it this closely, I don’t see the signs in reality that many claim the stock prices give.

On an aside, it was also announced that Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, wants to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange soon, using the momentum of the K3 release. At the same time, it’s collecting money from the private market, by finalizing a round that values it at $30 billion. Its competitor, DeepSeek, is also rumored to be planning an IPO soon.

2. Volatility And What It Might Mean

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The US and Belgium are out of the World Cup. The Iran war is back (again), oil is expected to spike again and Senator Lindsey Graham suddenly passed away at the age of 71. People got killed by fires in Spain and the situation in Ukraine is still awful. And there was much more to be sad about this week.

But if you look at the history of our species, things have only improved. The short term often looks dire, but over the long term, it’s simple: Optimism wins. There are horrible episodes in our history (think of the wars, famine, diseases and so much more), but over the long term, life gets better. If you have not read the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling, I can only recommend it wholeheartedly.

Many things went really well this week. People got married, got children, got a new job, or heard they were cured. But there’s a huge filter that eliminates all those things. It’s called the dramatic attention filter. If it’s not dramatic, it just doesn’t reach you.

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That’s also how the stock market is. You often hear about the bad things, or the things that have the potential to be bad. But you don’t hear how so many thousands of companies do outstanding things to serve their customers, to improve their products, yes, even to make this world a better place. As investors, that’s what we bank on, and it’s this that sets us apart from traders. Traders need the drama to profit. We want the quiet performance over the long term.

Articles In The Past Week

This is the third article this week.

In the first one, I analyzed Chapters Group’s results in more detail.

The second one was not really an article but a webinar of 35 minutes in which I talked about Mercado Libre, my biggest position. You can find it here.

Memes Of The Week

This is the first meme this week.

No comment, haha.

Our Multi Meme King Flo posted this one.

When cab drivers play with leveraged positions, we are usually much closer to the top than to the bottom.

Then there was the Terry Smith situation. He has a big fund, Fundsmith, and he changed his approach dramatically. More about it later in this OOTW. First, the memes.

I made this meme myself.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

Every now and then, I feel a bit tired or drained, and when I want to listen to a podcast at such a moment, or I do it when I have to pay too much attention to what I’m actually doing (like cooking something I haven’t cooked before), I listen to a light podcast episode.

For me, the Market Cap Game Show, a quarterly returning game show on David Gardner’s Rule Breaker Investing podcast, is the ideal combination of light entertainment and still learning something.

The concept is simple: two contestants guess the market cap of a company. You can listen to the most recent Market Cap Game Show here:

The markets in the past week

During the summer, I always check my portfolio less frequently, which I actually think is a good thing. So, what have the indexes done this week?

As you can see, the pattern we have already observed a few times in the last few weeks was back: the big difference between the Nasdaq and the S&P on the one side and the Russell 2000 on the other side.

The Russell 2000 dropped 0.61%, while the S&P 500 was up 1.23% and the Nasdaq 1.74%.

The Greed & Fear Index is based on the S&P 500. Therefore, it was not unexpected to see it climb to NEUTRAL from FEAR.

Quick Facts

This week, there was a lot to do about Terry Smith’s letter to shareholders, in which he changed his approach. Multi Gorki summarized it very well on our platform for paying Multis:

The reason is simple: Terry Smith lost a lot of his AUM (assets under management). AUM is now £12.3B, down from £29B in 2021. That’s down 58%. Ouch. But the fund has underperformed the index in the last 5 years, so that’s not really surprising.

This is also the reason why funds often underperform the index. At the moment they want to buy more, when their stocks are undervalued, they have to sell because people are asking for their money back. And reverse as well: when there’s a ton of money available to invest (like in 2021), a big majority of stocks are overvalued.

This is what Smith changed. From ‘do nothing’ to a turnover of 52% in a single quarter, that’s wild.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I think it was time Smith did something. More, even, he should have done something earlier already. I think he forgot a bit that the market prices stocks for growth and forward potential.

Take Zoetis, for example. In the last 5 years, it grew its revenue by 3% per year on average. That’s just not a company that will outperform.

With some price hikes, EPS growth averaged 6% per year over the last 5 years, which is still below the S&P 500 average (8.3%).

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Congratulations to the USA for its 250th birthday. It’s incredible what happened in those 250 years and how the country became the leader of the free world.

This is just the first article this week. There are multiple reasons for that.

The first is my jet lag after my week in Vail. On Monday and Tuesday especially, I really felt it, but even now, my biological clock is not reset yet.

Usually, it takes me just two days to recover, but the altitude in Vail probably plays a role. The village lies at more than 2,500 m (more than 8,200 ft) and the mountain even more than 3,500m (11,500 ft) and you definitely feel that. My Garmin watch warned me that during my first night, my oxygen level was just 85% and that I was either sick or at high altitude.

The second reason is that we had a belated birthday celebration for our daughter. Her birthday was three weeks ago, the day before the exams started, so we only had a small family celebration then (I wrote about that in the OOTW as well). Now, she had time to celebrate with her friends. We went to a trampoline park (the girls called it a “trampo park”) and they went swimming in a subtropical swimming pool with multiple glides and a wild river ride. There was a sleepover as well.

The first two reasons why this is the first article this week are personal, in other words, but the third is not. I went into research mode this week, and maybe (!) there’s a new pick crystallizing. It’s not sure yet, and if I decide to release a new pick, it may not be in the upcoming week. We’ll see. But I learned a lot this week and I enjoyed it.

I’ve also been working on an earnings review, but it’s not fully finished yet. I might have pushed it out yesterday if I really wanted it, but it didn’t feel finished enough yet. It needs some sanding, so to speak. So, probably, that’s an article I will publish tomorrow. At the same time, the Muse doesn’t come on command, so maybe it could be later this week.

It’s something I don’t often talk about, but I really try to make my articles as good as possible. I used to play guitar and sing and I composed my own songs. Some came in 15 minutes, some took months before they were finished. With articles, it’s less extreme (I have never written an article in 15 minutes and never worked on one for months in a row) but it’s a bit the same process. It’s only finished when it feels finished, not before.

Sometimes, I almost don’t change anything from the first draft, sometimes the rewriting takes more time than the writing. The Chapters Group is in the second category. The reason I don’t often talk about this is because it doesn’t matter for you. The article should always be good, full stop, whether I struggled with it or not.

That’s also why I still write the old-fashioned way. AI can’t make articles that are anywhere near satisfactory for me. It’s way too middle-of-the-road, faceless, without character. I also see it immediately in other people’s articles or X posts.

Let’s dive into this handwritten Overview Of The Week!

Memes Of The Week

Just one meme this week, shared by our Meme King, Flo.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to Chris Mayer, the author of the great book 100 Baggers talk about his new book The Investor’s Odyssey in Investing By The Books. You can find the episode here.

Because of this, I saw that the previous episode of Investing By The Books had Tom Russo on Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, a fantastic investing book by Phil Fisher and one of the books that inspired me the most for Potential Multibaggers. I have not listened to that one yet, but it’s on my list for the upcoming week. You can find it here.

The markets in the past week

So, what did the indexes do this week? Let’s check.

As you can see, the Russell 2000 was down 0.46%, but the S&P 500 was up 1.76% and the Nasdaq 2.12%.

The Greed & Fear Index is still in FEAR but it’s up from EXTREME FEAR last week.

Quick Facts

1. SK Hynix On The Nasdaq

On Friday, SK Hynix will start trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SKHY.

There’s a huge memory boom going on, as many of you will know and that is visible in the numbers. Bernstein estimates that SK Hynix could post a 90.9% gross margin in its DRAM business for Q2. Others see around 80%, so this is a surprising call. In Q1, this was already at a record 72%.

HBM remains the main thing, but conventional DRAM and NAND prices are also shooting up. And SK Hynix is a great player. If it had been on the American markets years ago, I would have bought it. I didn’t want it when it traded on the Korean market because of the lack of top-notch info and the costs associated with buying there.

Now, we will get an easier way to buy the stock, as SK Hynix is scheduled to begin trading on Nasdaq this Friday, July 10.

The offering could raise as much as $29.4 billion. SK Hynix plans to invest in new fabs and manufacturing equipment to add capacity.

I don’t think I will buy shares soon, but I’m happy it comes to a big market. And if I buy, I will let you know, of course.

2. AI Capex Slowing? Nope

There have been some voices saying that the AI capex boom is slowing.

Last week, I shared this.

And the average token pricing is down as well, albeit moderately.

But using cheaper models and lower token pricing has not resulted in slowing the AI infrastructure spending. Usage is growing much faster than prices are declining, according to JP Morgan.

JPMorgan estimates that token usage on OpenRouter jumped a whopping 70% month over month (!) in June, up 20x from last year. The message is simple: cheaper AI makes users use it much more.

Chinese and other low-cost models are winning a larger share of token volume, as already mentioned last week. In particular, developers, startups and AI agents use them. U.S. models accounted for only 35% of usage in June, down from 56% in April.

But the money tells a different story. Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI still collected more than 85% of total spending. Customers appear willing to pay higher prices for the strongest models when performance matters.

The hardware market shows the same thing. Rental prices for Nvidia’s A100, H100 and B200 all increased in June. The A100 rose 6.3% from May, while the H100 posted its seventh consecutive monthly increase. Even older GPUs remain valuable as companies match each workload with the most economical chip. This is pretty crazy if you know that the A100 was launched in May 2020 and the H100 in March 2022. That also means that Michael Burry’s call that 5 years of depreciation time was egregious is simply ignorant.

Memory is even crazier. JPMorgan says the price for 16-gigabit DDR5 has shot up 740% over the past year. AI servers need more memory capacity and bandwidth, while HBM production consumes manufacturing resources that might otherwise serve conventional DRAM. That’s why there’s so much demand for Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung.

Storage suppliers like SanDisk, Western Digital and Seagate also benefit from prices far above last year’s levels, but NAND has started to soften a little bit.

So, up to now, the consistently higher infrastructure still demands bigger and bigger demand from customers.

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I’m starting to write this Overview of the Week in the back of an Uber, driving to Denver Airport.

I’m not constantly glued to my screen, as the scenery is simply too beautiful.

It’s Saturday afternoon here now, and I will arrive home around 4.30 pm on Sunday. I know I’ll need a few days of recovery from the jet lag. Those of you who have been flying east know that that’s always the worst, as you ‘lose’ time while flying.

I loved the conference a lot again. The best thing about it is not necessarily the ideas, but the conversations with some of the world’s smartest and most successful investors. They are great at poking holes in your thesis, asking the best questions and adding valuable context.

As I already shared last week, I presented about Mercado Libre.

If you want my full presentation, you can download it in the paid part of this article.

Articles In The Past Weeks

Because of my stay in Vail, this is just the second article this week. I know you are used to more, but most services don’t provide half as much content as I do for this price.

On Monday, I published the Topicus earnings analysis, updated the Quality Score and valued the stock. You can read that article here.

By the way, Constellation Software was widely discussed during the conference. ;-)

Memes Of The Week

Two memes this week. They may be outside some people’s comfort zone, so feel free to scroll past them. But I found them too funny not to share.

This is a parody of Benjamin Graham’s book The Intelligent Investor.

The second one is about SpaceX.

I don’t know much about technical analysis, but this one looks pretty correct, haha.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

On the flight to Denver, I read about 70% of this book on Nubank. It’s self-published, and that means that there are a few things a good editor would have weeded out (like a paragraph that’s repeated), but it’s well-written and great to get extra insight on the company. I intend to read the rest on my flight home, although I might also try to sleep.

The markets in the past week

How did the markets do this week? As I was fully immersed in the conference, I actually have much less of an idea than I normally do. Let’s have a look.

That’s pretty crazy. The Nasdaq was down 4.6% this week, while the S&P 500 only lost 1.95% and the Russell 2000 was up 1.02%. I can’t remember such a big difference between the weekly returns of the indexes.

The Greed & Fear Index dropped to EXTREME FEAR.

Quick Facts

1. Apple Wants To Buy Banned Chips

Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to buy memory chips from China’s CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies).

The Pentagon has classified CXMT as a Chinese military company. Apple reportedly contacted the Commerce Department more than a month ago and has also approached White House officials and political allies. Its goal is of course to lower the cost of memory. But I doubt that this will be successful. CXMT is blacklisted because of its ties with the Chinese military. I would be very surprised if the White House approves this. I mean, do you want almost every American to have a Chinese spy chip in his pocket? I don’t think so.

At the same time, Apple raised prices for iPads and MacBooks, saying it could no longer absorb the jump for the expensive memory chips.

Source

2. $100K Is More Than 10% of the Journey to $1 Million

Compounding growth is a hard concept to understand and I saw a great post this week that shows how many get it wrong.

Suppose you want to go to $1 million. On paper, $100,000 is only 10% of $1 million. But measured in time, it can represent more than 25% of the goal.

If you invest $10,000 a year and earn an average annual return of 7%, it would take 30.7 years to reach $1M. The first $100,000 would take 7.8 years. That means the first $100,000 consumes about 25.5% of the total timeline.

Then compounding starts doing more of the work and things speed up. Going from $900,000 to $1 million takes only about 1.35 years, almost six times faster than reaching the first $100,000.

At the start, things may feel slow, because most of the growth comes from your own contributions. Later, the compounding returns accelerate.

The first $100,000 is the hardest. Charlie Munger already said that.

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I’m going to start this Overview Of The Week in the same manner as last week: happy Father’s Day! Last week, we celebrated it in Belgium but today, the US and many other countries celebrate fathers.

I hope you enjoy or enjoyed your day if you are a father and celebrating this day. With Juneteenth, it was a long weekend.

In the upcoming week, I’m going to Vail, Colorado, for the Intellectual Investor conference of my good friend Vitaliy Katsenelson. This is a picture from two years ago.

As you see, the group is not that big, and that’s on purpose. It’s on an invitation-only basis, and Vitaliy doesn’t accept more people. That’s why the presentations are a bit longer, and you get to know the people much better. The level is very high, and it’s a joy to be invited again.

I’m already looking forward to the presentations. Mine will be about my biggest holding. Seasoned Multis know that this is Mercado Libre. This is the title page of my presentation.

As I’m flying to Vail and back this week, I will have a bit less time to write, but it will be a very inspiring week. In such weeks, the soil gets fertilized, so to speak. I don’t often get direct investment ideas, but I can talk about certain topics, themes, and technologies with people with deep knowledge, and that sometimes triggers an idea.

Articles In The Past Weeks

This is the third article this week.

In the first article, I selected the Best Buys Now for this month. So far, the selection had a good start.

In the second article this week, Zack and I analyzed CrowdStrike.

Memes Of The Week

Just one meme this week, shared by the Potential Multibaggers Meme King, Flo.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to a very interesting podcast episode of Stock Club. Guests were Neeraj Khemlani and Matthew Ankrom, the people behind the book The Coffee Can Investor.

They talk about what it takes to find 100 baggers. You can listen to it here.

The markets in the past week

How did the markets do in this four-day week?

As you can see, it was another volatile week but the indexes ended in green. The S&P 500 was up 0.93%, the Russell 2000 gained 1.22% and the Nasdaq 2.43%.

Weirdly enough, the Greed & Fear Index remained firmly in FEAR territory.

Quick Facts

1. The SpaceX IPO (pt. whatever)

I get some questions, some pretty arrogant, on how wrong I was on the SpaceX IPO.

This is supposed to be the evidence on how wrong I am.

Well, you can guess I got the majority of the questions on Tuesday, June 16, when the stock was up 25% from where it opened, not on Thursday, June 18, when it was just up 13% from that open.

I don’t know how many times I have to repeat it, but I’m not a trader and I’m not interested in short-term returns. I’m an investor, not a trader. Investor comes from the Latin

I studied Latin for 6 years (and now on Duolingo again as a refresher), and that means I know the origin of the words speculator and investor. They are not the same.

The Latin word speculator means an observer, a spy or someone who examines something. But that’s inherently short-term. Later it was used for someone who anticipates future developments and takes a short-term position based on that judgment.

People who have listened to the fantastic David Gardner will know the origin of the word investor. It comes from the Latin word investire, which means: to clothe. If you invest in a company, you wear the clothes of that company, as it were, as if you become a part of the team. That’s totally different and inherently meant for the long term.

So, I don’t care a bit what the SpaceX IPO does over the short term. What I do know is that I could see myself become an investor if the stock drops a lot. And for those who think that’s not possible, don’t forget that in the next few months, the market will be flooded with shares. Right now, the float is just 4%-5%, but that is about to change pretty quickly. This is the vesting schedule.

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If the stock drops a lot in the next year, I might consider investing in SpaceX. Right now? No, thanks, not interested at all.

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Because of a technical flaw, this Overview Of The Week was not published yesterday. I’m very sorry, but here it is.

Happy Father’s Day to all Belgian fathers!

Yes, in Belgium, we celebrated this a week earlier. If you are Dutch, American or in many other countries, it’s next week. If you are in Switzerland or Lithuania, it was last week.

My wife and daughter spoiled me this morning with a delicious breakfast.

Articles In The Past Weeks

In the past weeks, you got four articles, but this week, the pace dropped a bit and this is ‘only’ the third article this week.

In the first article, I looked at Kinsale and its Q1 results.

Yesterday, you got an analysis of the outstanding Cloudflare results.

Memes Of The Week

This week, you couldn’t ignore the SpaceX IPO. And of course, this meme is as true as it is funny.

This is another one about the SpaceX IPO.

Because of the IPO, Elon Musk became the first trillionaire ever. The difference with the other billionaires is so big that we are all actually closer to Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos than they are to Musk. Pretty crazy. That gave rise to this meme, I guess.

This week, there was also the launch and suspension of Fable 5, the version of Anthropics Mythos for the general public. The American government thought it was too dangerous for foreign use, including Anthropic’s own overseas employees. Pretty wild. That’s when you get situations like this.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to The Compound and Friends. The theme was the state of the market and why the knockout punch everyone expects doesn’t come. Interesting stuff.

Oh, one tip, if you are only interested in the investing stuff, you can start at minute 10. Before that, they talk about basketball and other things. You can listen to the episode here.

The markets in the past week

Last week, the market indexes lost quite a bit, mostly because memory stocks dropped sharply. How about this week?

As you can see, it was a volatile week and the indexes only got in the green on Thursday and Friday. The S&P 500 was up 0.65% and the Nasdaq 0.70%. The Russell 2000 was up 3.90%, which is actually what you want to see, as it means the market strength is broadening. If you don’t know what I mean, I refer to the podcast episode above.

Weirdly enough, the Greed & Fear Index dropped further into Fear territory.

Quick Facts

1. The SpaceX IPO

Last week, I said not to buy the SpaceX IPO. This week, some said that I was apparently wrong. I think they read me wrong, haha. I’m not a trader. I’m an investor. There’s a fundamental difference between the two.

Now, some also thought I said I would never invest. I have not written that in any way or form.

I just never invest in IPOs.

This is what I wrote in 2020 already:

Why I never buy IPOs

I wait for at least 2 quarterly results, preferably even more, but normally at least 8 or 9 months after the IPO. There are several reasons for that.

1. FOMO or fear of missing out: a lot of investors don’t want to miss out on the next ‘hot’ stock but fear of missing out is not the best investing principle. You buy a stock not because the company executes so well or because you are impressed by the conference calls but simply because so many people tell you it’s so exciting.

There seems to be huge social proof and as human beings, we’re very susceptible to social proof. If so many pundits are upbeat about it, it must be a good investment, right? Well, maybe. But wait for it and you can have proof in the quarterly results. You can judge for yourself then instead of believing others.

2. The bank-fueled hype machine: banks buy the shares of companies that want to IPO and then sell them at the IPO. That means that if the bank buys for $31, like nCino and shares jump 150% that they pocket that difference. That’s why they will do everything in their power to push everyone in the industry to hype stocks before the IPO. And you know how it goes in a business where everybody knows everybody: most will simply do what they’re expected to do and will contribute to the hype. As an outsider, I am a bit more skeptical.

3. Execution. Very important: I want to see how a company executes under the eye of the world for at least a few quarters. Public scrutiny is something else than operating as a private company. The expectations come from outside analysts now and missing earnings in your first few quarters paints a whole different picture.

4. The lock-up period: After 6 months (mostly) the lock-up period expires so insiders can sell as many shares as they want. Management and early investors often seek to cash out at least a part of their holdings and that means that millions of shares flood the market.

5. Price drops: That selling often causes the price to drop, so plenty of time to buy then. I’ll give some examples of the best stocks, although I picked them randomly. I just had a look at them and they fitted into a pattern that I often see.

This is Shopify in its first 6 months of trading:

Then look what happens over the next three months, after the lock-up has expired:

In investing, patience is a virtue. Don’t be the ball but be the player that controls the ball. And think who can take advantage of hyping you up for an IPO.

I added more examples than just Shopify, but I didn’t want to make this too long.

That’s why this visual is so good.

Now, it’s very hard to pinpoint the exact buy point before it goes up. But I can wait out ‘dead money,’ unlike funds, which are judged on their quarterly performance.

So, if SpaceX’s stock drops enough, I might be interested. But don’t expect a second Tesla. Why not, you may ask? Well, because of this.

A whopping 25,420% gain? Up more than 250x? That would mean SpaceX would have to grow into a company with a market cap exceeding $500T. To give you some perspective: the total market of all American stocks is $79.5T, and the market cap of the whole world is $136T.

I’m happy to wait for the drop. And I’m pretty sure it will come. When? It could already start in three months, but more likely between 6 and 9 months.

Now, if you hold IPOs long enough, that can still work out. Look at this table. But also look at the difference in P/S between SpaceX and the rest of the IPOs.

But of course, there is Elon Musk. He knows how to pump the stock of his companies. I mean, if you can keep up this stock's momentum with those fundamentals, you can do it with another stock as well, right?

Now, I’m not dunking on Elon. That would be utter stupidity. Long-term Multis also know I owned Tesla in the past but took my gains. I admire Elon deeply and after reading Walter Isaacson’s great Elon biography, that admiration even grew.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t say Elon’s a stock pumper. Part of that is naive optimism, as he always thinks that things will be rolled out much faster than possible. Just like Steve Jobs, he has a reality distortion field. That’s a power, as he can bend reality into the shape he wants it to be over the long term, but over the short term, it makes them almost impossible to work with and irritating when it comes to setting expectations.

A new example of this came today when Elon replied to a post on X.

To be honest, I would be surprised if SpaceX’s revenue would be greater than $1T in 2031. I can’t say it won’t reach that in, let’s say 2038 or so, but even that is very uncertain.

Sometimes, people have trouble seeing the negative pendant of geniuses, but I don’t. It makes these incredible people, who change the world we live in, much more human to see them multi-faceted, just like we are all not one thing, but many things at the same time.

2. There’s TSMC And The Rest

This week, I saw this image.

This again shows how important TSMC (TSM) is for chips. All other foundries combined only have a quarter of the whole market.

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Pfew... Yesterday was a deep red day. After such a day, I appreciate the weekend even more than in other weeks.

And of course, weekend also means a new Overview Of The Week.

Articles In The Past Weeks

We are keeping up the pace. This is again the fourth article this week. Let’s look back at the three previous articles.

In the first article this week, I presented you the second part of the deep dive on the newest Potential Multibaggers pick. It’s already up 30%, but if you want to hold for the long term, reading this can help you decide if you still want the stock.

In the second article of the week, we dissected Celsius Holding’s earnings.

Yesterday, I published the third article of the week, another earnings deep dive. This time, the outstanding Datadog earnings reflected the fundamental change the company has undergone over the last few quarters. We looked at what changed.

Memes Of The Week

It’s funny how people react to this section. Some people love it and others hate it. Now, if you hate it, you can scroll past this section, but if you love it, you would have to miss the memes otherwise, so I’ll keep them in.

This is not really a meme but from the Potential Multibaggers community. The Friday bloodbath left some traces, haha.

Bryan Johnson, the millionaire health freak who became even more famous because of the Netflix documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever, also posted a stock market meme about Friday’s market action.

I also laughed hard with this one because it’s so true for so many investors.

This one went viral on X because of the funny cross-reference between the comics and movies and the chip company.

The high token costs also created a few memes, like this one.

Earlier this week, the market was much better than Friday and this inspired Multi bep for this funny thought.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to an episode of David Gardner’s podcast Rule Breaker Investing. David Gardner is one of the best investors of the last decades. He has picked multiple 100+ baggers like Amazon, Tesla, Nvidia, and several others. And yes, he kept them.

He recently turned 60, and in that context, he made an episode titled “60 Thoughts As I Turn 60.“ He puts them in three categories: investing, business and investing. Recommended!

The markets in the past week

The markets were down substantially, by 2.5% for the Russell 2000, 2.8% for the Nasdaq a whopping 5.1%.

Last week, I wrote:

In exactly two months (March 31 to now), the Nasdaq is up a whopping 29.71%. That’s crazy. And unsustainable.

I hate the word correction, because it implies that the market has done something wrong. But right now, I think a correction would be welcome.

Now, sometimes, you have to be careful what you wish for. But what feels bad for the short term can be very healthy for the long term.

The Greed & Fear Index dropped from Greed to Fear.

Quick Facts

1. Don’t Buy SpaceX’s IPO

What a coincidence (not). Just a week before SpaceX’s IPO (scheduled on Friday), the company announced that Google will rent computing power from SpaceX for $920 million per month for 32 months. That means an additional $ 29.44 B in revenue.

But mind the details. It’s $920 million per month. Not a $29.44B contract. The difference is in this sentence:

After December 31, 2026, the agreement may be terminated by either party upon 90 days’ notice.

Google owns 6% of SpaceX. At the expected IPO value of $1.75T (yes, a T), that means that it has an investment of $105B in SpaceX at that valuation. So, it’s not that it doesn’t want to help SpaceX.

It even inspired someone to make this GIF. It’s a bit cynical, but you can’t say it’s total nonsense.

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And some other suspicious things are going on. This for example.

If you still believe price targets, please let this convince you to stop attaching any credibility to them.

But back to SpaceX and why you shouldn’t buy the IPO. It’s quite simple. You are the exit liquidity. That’s a fancy name for being the sucker to pay insiders, VCs and early investors at peak hype valuations.

Before the Google deal, SpaceX traded at 94 times the 2025 revenue. That’s not a typo. 94x forward revenue, not profit. That’s bonkers.

Suppose that SpaceX grows its revenue by 50% without the Google deal. That’s very strong growth. That would mean $28B in revenue. Add one year of Google revenue and you have $39B. Very strong, but that still means SpaceX’s valuation is 45 times revenue.

If someone wants to buy Potential Multibaggers for 45 times the forward revenue, please contact me.

Still not convinced not to buy the SpaceX IPO? Look at this.

Ok, if you want to buy, I know what you are going to say: SpaceX is an exceptional company. Well, here are some other exceptional companies like Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Facebook, Shopify, Palantir, and multiple others.

Source

Focus on the last column. The stocks of these outstanding companies that went public that year dropped by 55% on average within a year.

I may buy SpaceX at some point, but not at the IPO.

2. Bullish For Nvidia

I don’t know if people think about what happened in the context of Nvidia. This is pretty important.

SpaceX doubles the price of operation to rent out its GPUs to Google. This means two things:

1. There are still not enough GPUs to quench the chip thirst. Nvidia ramps up its production continuously, but it can’t follow the demand. Google decided, therefore, to rent the GPUs from SpaceX.

2. This also shows that Nvidia’s GPUs are probably better to run Gemini on than Google’s own TPUs. Why would Google pay double the market price for GPUs if its own TPUs are cheaper than that market price to start from. It would simply make no sense.

Jensen Huang has said on several occasions that Nvidia’s Blackwell costs twice as much as an ASIC chip, of which Google’s TPU and Amazon’s Trainium are examples. So that means Google pays four times as much for GPUs as it would if it simply deployed its own TPUs.

There is something interesting that Jensen Huang adds to the price. He says that even if Blackwell is twice as expensive, the compute power, efficiency, energy efficiency, etc., means that Nvidia’s GPUs are twice to eight times as effective. Google seems to admit that with this rent.

3. An Earnings Bubble?

This week, I read this interesting post.

The argument is simple and correct. While many compare this to the dotcom bubble, probably because AI a revolutionary tech innovation, this looks more like the build-up for the Great Financial Crisis.

These charts are shared to convince people that this is different than the dotcom bubble.

Source

Do you know why that’s convincing? Because it is different than the dotcom bubble.

In the buildup to the Great Financial Crisis, banks and home builders also posted big earnings gains. But they poked them up with very risky behavior.

Now, don’t get me wrong. What happened then was much riskier than what happens now. Now, the financial system will probably not in danger.

What I mostly mean is that people want to predict the next bubble by making it fit into the mold of a previous one.

Right now, I have the same opinion as the takeaway of what I showed you earlier. Yes, this is a bubble. Yes, it will pop. But probably not now yet.

4. When Good News Is Bad News

Over the short term, the market doesn’t trade on the economy but on interest rates.

We saw a big drop in the indexes this week. Most of that was from Friday. The Nasdas lost dropped 4.18% in a single day. The reason? The job report came in, and it blew all expectations out of the water. The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May, double the expected figure.

The market had been counting on rate cuts, but with higher interest rates and this strong jobs report, the odds of a rate hike are higher than of a cut.

But there’s a caveat. The job report looks like a blow-out economy, but if you look closer, there’s something else going on.

Just to be clear, the trend is cooling. Higher-wage cyclical jobs are still shrinking, and those are usually a better indicator of the trend, not people temporarily hired for the World Cup.

The takeaway for Multis? Nothing about the fundamentals changed this week. The price is a fickle market trying to price a company’s next decade and more. That’s an impossible exercise and that’s why emotion over the short term matters a lot. In the long term, a company’s return is determined by fundamentals, though.

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I hope you had a great week. To round it off, or to start it, here’s a new Overview Of The Week. We’ve got quite a bit to cover, so let’s start right away.

Articles In The Past Weeks

This is the fourth article this week. Let’s look back at the three previous articles.

In the first article this week, we saw that the numbers Hims & Hers posted were actually much better than they appear at first glance. It shows why deep research matters.

In the second article of the week, I showed which position I trimmed and the ten stocks I bought.

Yesterday, I published the third article of the week. This time, we looked at a stock that I rate a strong buy.

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Memes Of The Week

Here’s the fresh harvest of the best stock market memes.

Here is the first one already.

And this one went viral as well.

Multi Bep made this great one specifically for Potential Multibaggers. At the same time, I think it’s very generally applicable.

Multi Rule No.2 posted this one, a variation on a classic.

The last one was posted by Multi Julien. It’s not an actual meme, but sometimes, reality feels like a meme.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

This week, I listened to an episode of David Senra. He interviewed Rick Rubin. I love music and Rubin has produced some of the best work of the best artists.

He worked with the Beastie Boys, Slayer, Metallica, Public Enemy, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash (the legendary American Recordings series), Nine Inch Nails, Tom Petty, System Of A Down, Sheryl Crow, Rage Against The Machine, Macy Gray, Jay Z, Slipknot, Neil Diamond, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park, Weezer, Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kayne West, Neil Young and many, many more.

But he is not just a producer. Sometimes, he resembles a zen master. His life takes are fantastic. You can listen to the episode here.

The markets in the past week

So, what did the markets do in the past week?

Once more, the indexes were up. The S&P 500 was up 1.47%, the Russell 2000 was up 1.75% and the Nasdaq 2.39%.

In exactly two months (March 31 to now), the Nasdaq is up a whopping 29.71%.

That’s crazy. And unsustainable.

I hate the word correction, because it implies that the market has done something wrong. But right now, I think a correction would be welcome.

The Greed & Fear Index remained in Greed territory once more.

Quick Facts

1. The Most Expensive Market Ever

I’m still torn about this market.

On the one hand, the valuations are crazy. Just look at this chart, for example.

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So, if you combine all of these valuation methods, we have the most expensive market ever. So, sell, right?

Well, not so fast.

First, I think quite a few of the used metrics are flawed. Market cap to GDP, for example. It’s often called The Buffett Indicator because Buffett called it “probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment.” And look where we are right now.

232%. If you know that 100% is considered fair and anything above 120%-130% (opinions differ) expensive, what is this market? Nonsense?

Well, not so fast.

First, the market has been expensive, based on this indicator, since 2012. If you had used it for market timing purposes, you would have lost a ton of money. This is how $10K has done since that ‘overvaluation’ started.

There are multiple reasons for the disconnection and for why the Buffett Indicator no longer works.

One is that many American companies get more of their revenue from global markets than in 2001, when Buffett wrote about the market cap/GDP indicator. Apple, Microsoft and many other companies get more than half of their revenue from abroad now and that is not included in the GDP, as that is Gross Domestic Product.

Secondly, it also doesn’t account for the higher gross profit margins companies have.

So, I wouldn’t attach too much weight to the Buffett Indicator. Of course, there will always be someone telling you that you should have known, based on this indicator or any other, when the eventual drop comes. But those people probably didn’t make much money for a long time, so pity them instead of paying any attention.

The Buffett Indicator is just one metric that doesn’t work anymore. Price/Book is also flawed. Companies need less capital in general to earn a ton of money. If you have a cybersecurity company, for example, you may need some data centers but you don’t even have to have your own. You could rent capacity from Amazon, Microsoft or Google (among others). Compare that to Coca-Cola building another factory.

And that’s also the reason the price-to-sales ratio doesn’t work anymore.

This market is expensive, for sure. But always be careful with charts like these.

2. A Very Cheap Market

As I just said, how you look at the market really depends on your perspective. This chart, for example, uses the gold price to evaluate markets and it says that markets are very cheap right now.

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I think F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quote is important in this context:

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

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It’s Sunday Funday time again!

Yes, a new Overview Of The Week. Without too much ado, let’s dive in.

Oh, don’t forget your tea or coffee! :-)

Articles In The Past Weeks

This is the fourth article this week. I’m keeping the pace high.

In the first article this week, we did a deep dive on the Nu Holdings earnings and looked if this was a good time to start a position or add to it.

We did the same thing with the Sea Ltd. earnings.

Yesterday, I published the third analysis this week. This time, we looked at Tempus AI. I analyzed the earnings, set up Selling Rules, updated the Quality Score and looked that the valuation. Is it a buy? You can find out here.

Memes Of The Week

Last week, there were most memes ever since I started compiling them. But the selection of this week is not wrong either.

This is the first one, about the SpaceX IPO.

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Here’s another one about the SpaceX IPO.

This is not a meme, but I still include it here. It’s the first time a part of an S-1 makes it in the meme section of the Overview Of The Week. Congratulations, SpaceX! This TAM (total addressable market) thing is the most ridiculous thing I have seen since the WeWork IPO.

Flo is our Meme King, but this week, his meme game was great again. His comment was: “This will get the stock moving.” It’s hilarious.

This is not a meme, but I found it funny enough to include it here.

Nvidia had its earnings this week. This meme played on that.

Brad from Stock Market Nerd also had a funny meme. The new favorite hedge fund trader is Leopold Aschenbrenner (first pic).

This is not the meme, but funny anyway, because it’s true.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

It’s been a while since I shared a book here. Not that I stopped reading, but I also read a lot about other subjects. For example, I just finished The Obesity Code by Jason Fung. It really helped me to better understand GLP-1s. Not that that is the subject, not at all. But if you understand the problem better, you understand the solution better.

I also read about many other subjects and also novels, usually combining five books or more at the same time.

But before I share a book here, it should have something to do with investing. If you want me to change that, let me know.

In 2024, I read The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby. The subtitle says it all: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future.

It may sound a bit boring, maybe, but it’s a phenomenal book.

That’s why I also didn’t hesitate to buy Mallaby’s new book The Infinity Machine. Again, the subtitle says what it’s about: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. I only started it yesterday, but it starts out really great.

The markets in the past week

So, what did the markets do in the past week?

The Russell 2000 is almost always the most volatile index and that was the case again this week. It jumped 2.72%. The S&P 500 was up 0.88% and the Nasdaq 0.45%.

The Greed & Fear Index remained in Greed territory.

Quick Facts

1. AI Bubble Signs

Let me show you a chart that bothers me more than I would like. The Information put together the spending commitments of OpenAI and Anthropic to the four big U.S. cloud providers, as a share of those providers’ total revenue backlog.

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OpenAI alone has committed $280B to Microsoft and $300B to Oracle. Anthropic has $100B at Amazon and $200B at Google. Add it up and these two companies make up 43% to 54% of the entire revenue backlog at Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and Amazon.

Read that as what it is. Half the future revenue of these giants comes from two companies that don’t make any money. Anthropic spends about $3 to make $1, and that’s before staff, before electricity, before anything. Microsoft put $300B into capex and realized $18B in AI revenue.

You know me, I’m not a doomthinker. But I also don’t live with my head in the clouds. I know that these huge companies have gigantic resources. So, I’m not saying they will crack. But what if OpenAI gets into trouble, for example?

We already know about the circle. Everybody’s revenue is everybody else’s cost. OpenAI buys from Microsoft and they buy from Nvidia. Meanwhile, many enterprises paying for this are burning their annual AI budgets in four months with no measurable return.

I’m not saying it ends tomorrow. These things run far longer than you would think. But there are other signs as well.

2. DeepSeek Moment 2.0?

Something else that makes the AI ecosystem look fragile is this. It comes from the same player that first shocked the world with its much cheaper and technically differentiated AI. This is what it announced this week.

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It’s Sunday again and that means the Overview Of The Week’s back!

The markets are always uncertain, but lately, with AI and its (supposed) consequences, it’s more uncertain than usual. But sun or rain, bull or bear, up or down, the Overview Of The Week is here!

I’ve written a lot this week and I was happy with this comment from Multi Kamran:

Thank you Kris ... one of your very best analysis! All the analysis articles since you came back from Omaha have been beyond awesome!!! Something happened with you when you visited us in the US!!

And yeah, in a way, I feel the same. I got soooo much energy from Omaha. It was my third visit and by far the best. And the two previous ones were already so great! It feels almost like a rejuvenation process, haha. Talking to fellow investors, newsletter writers, portfolio managers, company management, people working at family offices and so many other professional and passionate investors really fed my enthusiasm.

On top of that, the event I organized with Pieter Slegers (Compounding Quality) and Brian Feroldi (Long-Term Mindset) also made me realize how much my articles mean to some people. I sometimes read that here (see Kamran’s comment above, for example), but hearing it in real life cranks up the good feeling for longer.

In Omaha, maybe 20 or 25 people also recognized me and wanted a picture with me. No, I’m not talking about my picture with Mohnish Pabrai, haha. Ordinary people whom I don’t know came asking for a picture with me, saying that they love Potential Multibaggers. That really felt great, and so, if you ever see me in real life, don’t hesitate to come talk to me.

On top of the wonderful experiences in Omaha, I had been on holiday in Egypt two weeks earlier. That definitely also helped.

And I see more opportunities now, which I like more than if stocks are expensive.

But enough about me, let’s dive into what you are here for.

Articles In The Past Weeks

This is the fifth article this week. Let’s look back at what you got before.

The first article this week was the earnings deep dive on TransMedics. The stock dropped about 40% over the last two weeks. You can read here if that means it’s a buy now.

Another stock that dropped a lot this year is Shopify. It’s down almost 50% fropm its highs in 2025. Same question, same approach: an earnings deep dive.

Friday, it was the 15th of the month and you know what that means: the Best Buys Now. This time, in a slightly new format.

Yesterday, you got my article about Mercado Libre. It’s another earnings deep dive that talks about the context of the margin compressions and negative free cash flow. You can read it here.

Memes Of The Week

There’s a good harvest of memes this week. It’s the longest selection since I started this.

This is the first one.

The second one laughs at the arbitrary nature of trade patterns.

For the third one, you have to read the text at the bottom first, the JPM assumption.

It’s funny to laugh with other people, but real intelligence shows when you can laugh with yourself. So, this is about many of us. :-)

And I think we all know this situation.

I made my own meme with this image.

And this shows that token costs hurt.

And we don’t stop yet. Here’s the next one already.

And the last one this week.

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Interesting Podcasts Or Books

The Compound and Friends is a podcast that is sometimes a bit chaotic, but the takes are always interesting. I listened to this week’s episode about the Nasdaq euphoria. You can listen to it here. I also listened to an episode of the great podcast series Founders. David Senra talks with Eric Jorgenson, the author of The Book of Elon, about, you guessed it, Elon Musk. It’s an interesting conversation on how Elon Musk functions.

The third podcast I listened to and that I want to recommend (I listened to more) was an older one that was still on my list. In the podcast In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of the largest single investor in the world, Norges Bank Investment Management, talks with interesting guests and Reid Hoffman is such a guest.

Hoffman was at Apple in 1994, founded a social network company called SocialNet in 1997 and was part of the Board of PayPal when it was founded. He became the COO of the company in 2000 and was part of the PayPal mafia, as the group was called. He then founded LinkedIn in 2002 and joined the Board of Microsoft in 2017, after Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016. He was also one of the first who gave capital to OpenAi in 2016 and joined the Board until 2023. Since then, he co-founded and funded several AI startups.

You can listen to the conversation here.

The markets in the past week

This is what the markets have done in the past week.

As you see, the S&P 500, up 0.13%, and the Nasdaq, down 0.08%, didn’t move much. The Russell 2000 dropped 2.37%.

The Greed & Fear Index remained in Greed territory.

Quick Facts

1. Why This Is Not Like The Dotcom Bubble

Last week, I wondered if the top was near. This week, I want to add some more thoughts about this.

First, I don’t think this is like 2000 yet. Markets are not as expensive as they were back then. I hear some people saying that. It’s nonsense. For example, Cisco traded at a forward PE of 150 at the time. Nvidia now? About 27. That’s a difference.

Maybe you think that this was the exception, but that’s not true. Look at this chart shared in the episode of The Compound & Friends I already referred to.

As you can see, the valuations were much, much more expensive back then. Now 59% of companies in the Nasdaq trade at a PE between 20 and 40. Back then, 76.4% was either unprofitable or traded at a PE above 60. So, no, this is not the same as the dotcom bubble.

This is another aspect of it, margins.

So, back then, 10% of the companies had negative margins. Now? None. There were no companies with margins between 50% and 100%. Now? 20.4%. If you look at 25% margins or more, then it was just 25.3%. Now 70.6%.

Things have changed. We live in the information economy now, not the mostly industrial economy of more than 25 years ago.

On top of that, there were hundreds of IPOs by companies that had one thing in common: they said they were internet companies and had no revenue yet.

Maybe you have seen this chart.

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It looks pretty scary, right? But with what you know now, it’s extremely unlikely that the market will drop 80% and take years to recover like back then.

Of course, a drop is always possible, but don’t be afraid of a dotcom scenario. Or at least not up to now.

Productivity is already scaling now, unlike then, the valuations are not like they were then.

For commodity products like memory, there will definitely be a bust at some point. I’m talking about Sandisk, Micron, etc. When? No idea. But if you look back at EVERY single infrastructure outbuilt in the past, that happened at a certain moment.

You saw the same in the infrastructure buildup for the internet. It’s not that we suddenly used less bandwidth in the early 2000s, to the contrary, but there was overcapacity because of efficiency jumps in internet delivery.

I think the same will happen now. I’m not worried about companies like Nvidia and AMD, as they have truly differentiated chips, but memory chips aren’t as high-tech as state-of-the-art GPUs. That’s just demand and pricing and if you look at the history of chips, especially those, they have always had a boom-and-bust cycle. Look at these charts and you will see what I mean.

This is Sandisk.

Look at revenue. It had a great jump, of course. But now look at net income. It was still negative in Q2 2025 and in Q1, it was already at $3.6B.

Ok, look at Micron.

Sure, Micron started at a higher income base. But, it’s the same pattern, revenue is up big, but net income much more. You can see that in the CAGR of 124.5% revenue growth, but 396.5% net income growth.

How is that possible? Simple. Pricing. Memory chip prices have ballooned because there is a shortage of memory chips. Once that imbalance is fixed, prices will drop by two-thirds or more. The question is when there will be more supply and/or when there are AI efficiency gains. I don’t foresee this going away anytime soon, so if you are a trader, I think there’s more juice in this lemon than you might think.

As for the market, I see two scenarios: the market will go down soon or it will continue to go up, haha. I’m making fun of it, but I mean it seriously.

Either the market lets off some steam soon (meaning in the next few months), which would be healthy, or the melt-up continues and that will only make the drop bigger.

But history seems to suggest that there will be a drop.

Beware: just because that’s what historically happened doesn’t mean it will now. But it’s possible. As always, we’ll have to see.

I get questions about where the system could break. Well, I don’t know. There are always many possibilities. Think of a black swan event, which is inherently unknowable. Or it could be spiking inflation. Or maybe it’s this.

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The earnings expectations for the S&P 500 for the next 5 years are now at 21%. That’s very high. Any disappointment there and the stock market tumbles. That’s how this game is played. And I don’t think it’s too crazy to expect lower EPS over the next 5 years. We all know about the gigantic capex the Mag7 and others are taking on now for data centers. You can’t extrapolate that line to the next five years and maybe some have, which could influence the average expectation.

Or will it be the new Fed Chair that causes pessimism in the market? I saw this graph.

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I should add again that I generally don’t draw too many conclusions from such charts. As so often, correlation is no causation. But still, it’s interesting to see.

I think that everyone who has followed me for some time knows I’m generally very optimistic. But I can’t close my eyes for certain things. That’s not optimism but pink glasses. I look at reality as it is and I believe things will turn out well. I do now as well, even if the stock market does not do great over the next few months or so. It will be a temporary hiccup. If it comes, that is.

2. Which Companies Are Interesting Now?

As you know, I invest in other stocks than the Potential Multibaggers as well. For newer readers, you could see that in the Best Buys Now article and in my portfolio, which is linked there.

In that context, I find this chart interesting. I had not seen it before I bought for my portfolio this week, but look, two of the stocks I bought are above the second line, the highest quality. Nvidia is, not surprisingly, the king of the heap.

I think if you look at the AI bottlenecks, you see that multiple big winners. And Coatue put that in a great visual.

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In the past 15 years or so, the Mag 7 has performed phenomenally, but will that continue? Their margins are no longer that high because of the huge investments they make and it’s very questionable if they will return in the first years, if they return at all.

On the other hand, they know that they have no other option. They have to spend to stay in the race. If they don’t do it, they will definitely be disrupted and that could cost them their existence as a relevant company.

Now, I know this still doesn’t really answer the question in the title of this paragraph. Which stocks are interesting now? Interesting and attractive are not the same, of course. I see a lot of interesting stocks that I wouldn’t want to touch now. On the other hand, there are also more attractive stocks because the AI trade drew money from elsewhere, mostly, but definitely not only, SaaS. Look at these two beauties, for example.

Just saying.

3. The SpaceX IPO

The new milestone for the market has a date: June 12. SpaceX will have its IPO on the Nasdaq on that day under the ticker SPCX. The company aims at a valuation of $1.75T to $2T.. That’s insane. It wants to raise $75B, which makes it by far the largest IPO in history.

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And no IPO without hype. After all, an IPO must be sold. Analysts called this a ‘Netscape’ moment. The Internet browser went public in August 1995. The shares were planned to go public at $14, were offered at $28 with a last-day change, opened at $71, reached $75 and closed at $58. It’s seen as the start of the dotcom bubble.

And yes, the peers of SpaceX immediately had incredible gains this week. Just look at these two: Rocket Lab and AST Spacemobile.

But the exceptional size of the IPO also has disadvantages. cut both ways. Some fear that the IPO will vacuum up even more liquidity from other places. SpaceX holds thousands of BTCs, and there is a fear that crypto traders will prefer SpaceX over crypto.

And talking about that, there’s a new Fed Chairman period. Look at this.

Now, as with so many things in the stock market, this is correlation, not causation. I think the SpaceX IPO could have a bigger effect on crypto than a new Fed Chair.

But back to SpaceX. MSCI and other index providers warn that SpaceX’s giant IPO will force big changes to benchmarks. Passive funds will have to buy massive amounts of the stock, and that could distort the market allocations for months. For months, meaning for six months, when the lock-up period ends. Then dozens of funds will dump SpaceX shares on the market.

Why? Because they are so overweighted SpaceX. They invested in private rounds and couldn’t sell. Scottish Mortgage Investment Fund (Baillie Gifford) for example, has a position of probably bigger than 15% of the fund and at this valuation probably more than 20%. They will want to take a big part of those gains. And they won’t be alone.

That could have effects for the market in another way. If all the money flows out of SpaceX, it could flow back into the market, into other stocks and that cause a new stock market impulse towards the end of the year.

Of course, that’s just theory. In theory, reality is easy, but in reality, it’s not.

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Tuesday afternoon, I got back home from Omaha (and fell asleep on the couch within 15 minutes of my arrival; jetlag is real).

That’s also the reason you didn’t get an Overview Of The Week last week, so this is one for two weeks. Shoutout to Mark for always being there to assist me with the OOTW!

An OOTW of two weeks means we’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s dive in right away!

Articles In The Past Weeks

Last week, I published my article on Celsius and you can expect a new one soon, as the new results are already out.

This week, this is already the fourth article.

The first one was about Omaha, Berkshire and 5 lessons. I hope to see you next year in Omaha, the festival for investors.

The two other previous articles were on earnings, both of stocks that have seen big declines recently.

On Friday, you got a deep dive into Duolingo’s earnings. And yesterday, I published my theory about the battle The Trade Desk is waging.

Memes Of The Week

Multi Flo is the Meme King, as we all know. And he proved that again this week by sharing this, asking what stage of the cycle we are in?

And Flo knows his classics.

I also had to laugh with this one. I sent it to some value investors. :-)

We all know about the Hanta virus by now. But we don’t have to worry about it, haha.

Markets are not the same anymore. Or are they?

Multi Dheeraj shared this funny one.

I laughed out loud with this one.

This is the last one of the rich harvest this week. You need some reading but it’s worth it.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

I read Atomic Habits on the plane to and from Omaha. It’s a classic and maybe that’s why I had expected a bit more of it, but it’s still a good read.

The markets in the past week

As you can see, the Nasdaq was up 5.68%, the S&P 500 by 3.26% and the Russell 2000 by 2.66%.

More thoughts about this later in the article.

I don’t think it’s a big surprise that the Greed & Fear Index is in Greed territory.

It actually feels more like extreme greed.

Quick Facts

1. Are We Near The Top?

This is what I wrote two weeks ago:

This is a weird market. Despite Iran and the ensuing energy crisis, the indexes are at all-time highs. The fact that this is exceptional can be seen in this Bank of America chart.

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I want to point out a few other elements to show how exceptional this market is, and probably not in a good way.

While the S&P 500 is at all-time highs, just 42 of the 500 stocks contribute to the upside performance. Usually, that’s around 100. That means that the average stock in the S&P 500 has been struggling.

Just look at this chart.

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Based on the following metrics, US stocks appear expensive or very expensive right now. This is a Charles Schwab table.

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And this is another one that shows markets are expensive.

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As you can see, only Health Care trades at a normal level vs the 30-year trend. All the rest is expensive. As for the last decade, Materials, Health Care, Energy and Financials are more or less around the 50% mark. Again, everything else looks pretty expensive.

Now, we all know AI could boost productivity a lot and that could mean that what looks expensive could be reasonably priced in hindsight. But I think AI will need a breakthrough moment for that like DeepSeek was one. With the AI-related stocks, especially semis, going vertically, the stock market keeps frontrunning AI efficiency gains. That’s normal, but it also means the expectations could be inflated too much. But even if that is the case, it could mean there is another leg up.

Someone asked Grok a good question.

Someone asked an intelligent follow-up question, though. And that shows how hard market-timing is.

Something else that might illustrate the forming bubble is this.

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As you can see, the defensive sectors have the lowest market cap ever, even smaller than in 2000. And that is with Walmart at a forward PE of 45 and Costco at a forward PE of 49.

Michael Burry, who has predicted 27 of the last 3 bear markets, said that the markets feel like the last months of the 1999-2000 bubble. I don’t agree and this guy on X pointed out that Burry is often bearish.

This starts to feel like 2021, though. I even got questions from some Multis on “why I missed AI completely” while I’m long AMD, TSMC, Nvidia, ASML, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Broadcom, BESI, and others. I also pointed out the opportunity for Micron about 400% ago.

In 2021, the rise of meme stocks led me to make my worst investment ever: Skillz. It was a tiny position in my portfolio (less than 0.1%), but it still stings that I was fooled into believing the market conditions were normal.

But back to the market.

This is the Schiller CAPE ratio:

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At the same time, even if you only poured all of your money into the Nasdaq 100 exactly at the top of the tech bubble (which would be a pretty awful strategy), you would still have averaged a yearly return of 8.2% at this moment.

That is the power of long-term investing.

There are many warnings out there now. Look at this one, for example.

As everyone knows, correlation is not causation, but there are quite a few signs pointing in the same direction.

This is another one.

But this doesn’t mean you should time the market. There’s also this.

If so many people are hedged, that can have the opposite effect and there could be a gamma squeeze. When you buy a call, market makers (think of Citadel) sell it to you, but they have to buy the underlying stock or ETF. That drives up the prices, causing more calls and Citadel and others buying more stocks. That causes the gamma squeeze.

But at the same time, such high call volumes have often marked tops. And a lot of the calls are zero-day calls, which are the most volatile of them all. It’s not particularly a sign that the markets are healthy, but that there is a lot of speculation. But you probably didn’t need this explanation to know that. You can also see that in this chart. It shows that high-beta stocks hit an all-time high relative to the S&P 500. The “safest” stocks hit all-time lows.

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But there are counterindicators as well. If you look at the IPOs, for example, you don’t see a boom there yet. At the same time, I have already said multiple times I believe there is a bubble in private markets, with companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Loveable, Stripe and other companies mostly linked to AI. That could explain why there is no surge in IPOs.

But with SPACs, NFTs, web3 and other crazy stories in 2021, it went pretty wild. I don’t have the feeling we are there yet.

But you can’t really know and the best thing is to keep investing. But if you are worried about the markets, you might have some bigger cash cushion now.

2. ServiceNow Dead? Nvidia Doesn’t Think So.

At ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 in Las Vegas, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went on stage with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott to show how the two companies want to partner to make enterprise AI more than just some chatbots.

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ServiceNow launched Project Arc, an autonomous desktop agent. The system can figure out tasks, write code, use enterprise apps, access files and terminals, and adapt when workflows change. Instead of using rigid automation scripts, the agent works more like a human employee who has to deal with unexpected situations.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said software is moving into a big new market. Factories, logistics, warehouses, and supply chains will all be automated with AI. He said that the entire factory will be a robot and it will be managed by AI agents. The partnership between Nvidia and ServiceNow is based on that vision. ServiceNow will take of the rules, approvals, and workflow management for AI agents, while Nvidia provides the chips and secure software environment that lets the agents run safely.

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said many companies are deploying AI without proper controls, creating major security risks. The Project Arc platform is a safer way to scale agentic AI across the enterprise.

Huang also said agentic AI requires about 10x more compute than earlier generative AI systems because agents must reason, use tools, and execute tasks continuously in real time. Of course, that’s a huge driver for Nvidia chips.

FedEx was there as well. The company served as a real-world example of this. The company already runs millions of ServiceNow workflows monthly while building AI-driven digital supply chain systems.

This is interesting, as we all see the limitations of current AI applications at the enterprise level.

3. 1 In 8 Americans Now Use GLP-1 Drugs

I saw this graph this week.

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12.4% of Americans are already on GLP-1. That’s wild if you think that just over a year ago, in February 2025, that number was 5.8%. I think we are just at the beginning of this trend.

As usual, Fiscal ai has the data precisely.

This shows that Eli Lilly is winning the battle with Novo Nordisk. And with retatrutide, a so-called triple G receptor agonist (GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon) in Phase 3 trials and label expansions (think of alcoholism, for example), I think the stock is interesting here. “Reta,” as it is already known, showed even greater weight-loss effects (up to 28.7% of body weight), as well as type 2 diabetes (not surprisingly) and knee osteoarthritis.

Retatrutide may be even a bigger blockbuster than Zepbound and Mounjaro. Novo Nordisk might look much cheaper, I wouldn’t want it in my portfolio. Look at the revenue growth projections for the next two years.

Compare that to Eli Lilly:

And I think that the 2027 estimates will be way too low if the company can release retratrutide in 2027, which is expected.

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It’s Sunday and that means the Overview Of The Week again. On Tuesday, I am leaving for Omaha for the Annual General Meeting of Berkshire Hathaway.

It’s the first time without Warren Buffett, but I am still looking forward to it. To be honest, the Berkshire AGM is OK to follow live, but you can probably follow it better through the livestream. The really fantastic thing about Omaha in that week is that everyone who means anything in investing is there and there are numerous events in the days around the AGM.

I have the honor of inviting you to two of those.

The first is one I organize with Pieter Slegers and Brian Feroldi. On Saturday evening from 8.15 pm to 10.15 pm in the speakeasy Howard & Fine, inside Moe & Curly’s Pub And Grill.

Please register if you want to come.

You can do that here.

I hope to see you there!

Secondly, my friend Vitaliy Katsenelson organizes a FREE BREAKFAST in Omaha on Sunday, May 3. He allowed me to invite every single one of you. Important: if you want to go, you have to let him know. No registration, no breakfast. But it’s totally free. Don’t wait too long, because, while there is a big capacity, I think it will be full fast. I will be there as well. You can register here.

One last announcement: since I will still be in Omaha next week, there will be no Overview Of The Week next Sunday.

Articles In The Past Weeks

This is the third article this week.

The first one was about ServiceNow.

In the second one, I combined the Best Buys Now and the additions to the Forever Portfolio. You can read that article here.

Memes Of The Week

Four memes this week. The first one plays on Bitcoin’s weak performance over the last year.

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If you want to know why I’m a long-term investor, this is one of the reasons.

I also had to laugh with this one.

Flo shared this one about ServiceNow.

Interesting Podcasts Or Books

I listened to a very interesting Invest Like The Best podcast episode this week. The guest was Dylan Patel and if you want to have insights on the edge of AI and chips. You can listen to it here.

The markets in the past week

The Russell 2000 was up 0.36%, the S&P 500 0.55% and the Nasdaq 1.50%.

The Greed & Fear Index surged incredibly in the last weeks. It was at 9 on the 14th of April, now it’s already at 66, in Greed territory.

Quick Facts

1. An Exceptional Market?

This is a weird market. Despite Iran and the ensuing energy crisis, the indexes are at all-time highs. The fact that this is exceptional can be seen in this Bank of America chart.

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A portfolio of 25% in stocks, bonds, commodities and cash is up 26%. That is the highest return since 1933, when the stock market was still suffering from the results of the Great Depression. That shows that these are not normal times. On the other hand, are there “normal” times in investing?

But at the same time, the fact that there’s a fast recovery after a crisis is not that exceptional. Look at this overview.

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Investors often panic, but just focus on the long term, not the short term. Not that focusing on the long term is easy.

Now, just to be clear, the recovery has been remarkable. The S&P 500 is up 12.5% over the last four weeks and that was the 20th-biggest 4-week jump since 1950.

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2. Tech? Tech! Well, Some Tech.

The S&P 500 at all-time highs is not that crazy if you see that the earnings estimates for this year and next year keep going up. But the crazy thing is that almost all of the estimate upgrades come from three sectors: energy, materials and tech.

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As you can see, tech is very resilient, with EPS estimates up already 11% this year and 15.1% for next year.

But of course, tech is divided into multiple subdomains. If you look at the companies that

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As you can see, Micron alone is responsible for 51% of the EPS revision for the S&P 500. That’s totally nuts and it shows in what exceptional times we live. Add Broadcom and you already have 61%.

And it’s not just Micron. Semiconductors now make up 14% of the Total US stock market cap. That’s up 3x in three years and double as much as during the dotcom bubble. Crazy times.

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3. Charlie Munger and Howard Marks

I’m showing this X post completely, as it is important.

An overwhelming majority of people are focused on the short term, even if they think they are not.

One of the biggest investing mistakes you can make is selling winners too early. That’s why I always err on the side of holding too long, not selling too early. Selling too early can feel right over the short term but can be a huge way of missing out on the best investment of your life.

4. Earnings In The Upcoming Week

Normally, I do this at the end of the article, but this time, I put it here, as the upcoming earnings week is pretty crazy, especially on Wednesday, when Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet all publish their results at the same moment. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Brookfield, and KLA Corporation also report at the same time. Apple and Mastercard report on Thursday and Spotify, Visa and Robinhood report on Tuesday.

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What a week! In total, 172 S&P 500 companies report in the upcoming week, so I think it’s fair to say this is the most important earnings week for the market when it comes to Q1 2026 earnings.

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