Sea Limited: Playing Offense
Remember when Sea Limited was almost done for? The pandemic darling had burned through cash like there was no tomorrow. Interest rates were rising. Consumer spending was cooling. The company…
PayPal: Let Alex Chriss Cook
PayPal continues to execute on its strategic shift under CEO Alex Chriss, who took over in September 2023. The company deliberately prioritizes profitable growth over raw volume expansion, particularly its…
Buffett’s Brutal Truth About the Liberation Day Sell-Off
The market drawdown from Liberation Day on April 2, 2025 now looks like a passing nightmare. The S&P 500 fell roughly 12% from the close on April 2nd to its…
Buffett’s Wisdom: 12 Critical Insights from Berkshire Hathaway’s 2025 AGM
It has been an incredible six-decade run for Warren Buffett. This year, Buffett shares his perspective on his record cash position, thoughts on DOGE, the trade war, AI impact and…
The Trade Desk: From Unstoppable to Uncertain
A 60% stock plunge in just 10 weeks. The first missed guidance in 33 consecutive quarters. A UI redesign that customers actively dislike. What happened to The Trade Desk’s seemingly…
The Trade Desk: Navigating Advertising’s New Complexity
Our lives today are increasingly better, but also getting increasingly complex. In the 1990s, advertising was simple. Television with a handful of major networks, radio, print, and billboards dominated the…
The $100k Stock Market Shopping List
Dear Steady Compounders, I’ve made a change to our publishing schedule this month. Our next Insider Stocks update was originally planned for Friday, April 18th, but I’m bringing it forward…
How I’d Invest $100k During This Market Drawdown
I’ve recently received this question from a Steady Compounding Insider Stocks member: First off, I’m jealous. A portfolio with mostly cash as we enter a market drawdown? Yums. But more…
Why Do We Run When Stocks Go on Sale?
It’s fascinating how when the market keeps climbing, everybody wants a piece of the action. But the moment it starts declining, suddenly nobody wants anything to do with it. This…
An Unprecedented Shift in the Global Economic Order
The global economic landscape is shifting beneath our feet. For decades, we’ve watched as supply chains stretched across continents, manufacturing concentrated in specialized hubs, and goods flowed freely across borders….
Lululemon: The Tide Isn’t Turning (Yet)
In a previous article ($), Market is Optimistic About Lululemon, I highlighted how management had promised business would return to normal once inventory levels improved and new products hit the…
Amazon: What Doesn’t Change
Jeff Bezos once shared a profound insight at the 2007 Amazon shareholder meeting: “I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that…