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Jan 30, 2025
Meta Platforms’ Earnings Surge in Fourth Quarter
Image Source: Meta Platforms. Meta Platforms’ earnings growth was phenomenal in the fourth quarter, and we like its ability to drive strong free cash flow, despite higher capital spending. Total dividend and dividend equivalent payments were $1.27 billion and $5.07 billion for the fourth quarter and full year 2024, respectively. Though Meta is not a big dividend payer, we like its dividend growth prospects and include shares in the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio.
Jan 5, 2025
Keeping the Horse Before the Cart: Valuentum’s Economic Castle™ Rating
Image shown: An examination of the problem that might arise by focusing exclusively on companies that have economic moats, or sustainable and durable competitive advantages.Without an economic castle, an economic moat doesn’t matter. Let's examine Valuentum's Economic Castle™ rating.
Jan 1, 2025
The Price-to-Earnings Ratio Demystified
Let's examine the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. The key takeaways are: 1) without using a discounted cash-flow model, the P/E ratio that should be applied to a company's future expected earnings stream can never be appropriately calculated, and by extension, 2) when investors assign an arbitrary price-to-earnings multiple to a company’s earnings (based on historical trends or industry peers or the market multiple), they are essentially making estimates for all of the drivers behind a discounted cash-flow model in one fell swoop (and sometimes hastily). As earnings for next year are often within sight and can be estimated with some confidence (though this certainly varies among firms), calculating the price-to-earnings ratio via a discounted cash-flow process, in our opinion, is of far greater importance than worrying about whether a firm will beat or miss earnings in its next fiscal year. Because the P/E ratio is a discounted cash-flow model that considers the long-term qualitative dynamics of a particular entity, cash-flow analysis remains the first and most important pillar of our Valuentum Buying Index. And finally, investors cannot ignore valuation analysis or the future. Valuation is an important driver behind stock prices, and it is based on future expectations that can only be estimated. This is just a fact of the markets.
Dec 27, 2024
Alert: Changes to the Newsletter Portfolios
Image Source: Mike Cohen cc by 2.0. We are making some changes to the newsletter portfolios. We continue to believe that large cap growth and big cap tech is the place to be, and we’ll be further tilting the portfolios in that direction.
Nov 4, 2024
Meta Platforms Expects Significant Capex Growth in 2025
Image: Meta’s capital spending continues to be on the rise, but its free cash flow generation remains robust. Meta Platforms put up excellent third quarter results with strong free cash flow generation. The company’s balance sheet also remains very healthy with a substantial net cash position. However, management spoke of continued capital spending growth, which will weigh on free cash flow generation in the coming periods. The company also noted cost pressures in depreciation and operating expense growth for next year, putting a damper on the excitement surrounding its third-quarter earnings beat. Though cost pressures should be expected, Meta Platforms remains a net-cash-rich, free-cash-flow generating powerhouse.
Aug 1, 2024
In the News: MO, META, QCOM, PSA, ALB
Image Source: Meta Platforms. Altria's improved performance will be weighted to the second half of 2024. Meta Platforms remains a free cash flow generating powerhouse. Qualcomm's free cash flow has been impressive as well. Public Storage cut its funds from operations (FFO) outlook on weak customer move-in rents driven by the competitive environment, while Albemarle continues to suffer from reduced lithium market pricing.
Jul 7, 2024
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May 31, 2024
Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of May 31
Let's take a look at firms raising/lowering their dividends this week.
Apr 4, 2024
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Mar 5, 2024
Alphabet or Microsoft in Artificial Intelligence with Respect to Search? We Like Both
Image Source: SEO. It’s very likely that, if Google search is eventually disrupted, much of the disruption would come from Microsoft given its deep pockets and existing search engine Bing. We continue to include both Alphabet and Microsoft in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio as a hedge in this regard. If any share shifts do occur away from Google search, they’ll likely accrue to Microsoft, and with both Alphabet and Microsoft large components of big cap tech and the stylistic area of large cap growth, considering the Schwab Large Cap Growth ETF may be worthwhile. We like both Alphabet and Microsoft and view any share shifts as net neutral to our exposure in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio.


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