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"If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards." Peter Lynch

"The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share." Peter Lynch

$COTY Thread

$COTY CEO offering $PG Beauty post-mortem; saying "Coty as a platform is now ready for an inflection..." pic.twitter.com/is0Sf7RPod

— WTCM (@WTCM3) July 1, 2019

Read this thread and the comments below.Names mentioned $VEEV, $GPRO, $GILD, $MELI, SHOP, NVDA, NFLX, PI, TLND

Looking through the last 5 years of my trading activity to find lessons from the many mistakes I've made.

Disclaimers:
- some of this is "resulting" but I still think it is useful
- no positions in any of the stocks below

[THREAD]

— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) July 2, 2019

$BDX Thread

question to $BDX at Barclays conf 3/12/19: "A worry that I always felt in the investment community = was $BCR selling itself at a time of when they felt they were at peak growth. Can only Bard run Bard?"

— WTCM (@WTCM3) May 13, 2019

Good Discussion on long duration investments

What are your favourite examples of really long duration investment? eg: Akre in AMT, Stahl in TPL, Allmon in ADP, Kidd in ADI, Russo & Ruane in BRK, Jarislowsky in XOM, Sarofim in PM & INTC, Train in BAG, Polen in MSFT, Rowe in LUV.

— Coleman Hawkins (@colemanrhawkins) June 30, 2019

$SPOT Thread

Interesting to look back at the some of the commentary around Spotify’s acquisition of The Echo Nest (which led to the success of Discover Weekly) and see how Social has long been viewed as the missing piece. https://t.co/rpm6IzHPKm pic.twitter.com/COt8aQuYTq

— Paul Barnes (@LennyIce) May 31, 2019

Roots of Allen & Co

Roots of Allen & Co
Merchant bankers and venture capitalists, investing their own capital
In situations "conventional investment bankers wouldn't touch"
(NYT/WSJ from the 70's) pic.twitter.com/9ppfIZWyk1

— NeckarCap (@NeckarValue) June 30, 2019

Thread about Michael Ruhlman book Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

Fascinating book written by ⁦@ruhlman from inside the operations of a local grocery store, learning from its owners going about their business, receiving and merchandising food and contemplating the evolution of the food system and the central role played by the supermarket pic.twitter.com/91bzALZKs1

— cristina berta jones (@cristinagberta) June 29, 2019

Discussion about quality website for screening stocks

What is the best website or service which has high quality data for screening, pulling financial metrics (EV/EBTIDA, P/FCF, ROIC), and other data for doing analysis and research?

— Long Short Value (@LSValue) July 2, 2019

Browse Thousands of Company Profiles Link

This is an amazing free resource. Anyone know who wrote them all? https://t.co/eT5AcjaeIx

— Ensemble Capital (@IntrinsicInv) July 1, 2019

Collection of articles

Every now and then I read an article online that is so good that I make a note to save it. Here's my collection so far (in no particular order). Please add yours below.

Thanks to @TMFGebinr for the idea!

— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi) July 2, 2019

Selected Tweets

It's time for some tweets. You will find some interesting portfolios.

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"If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are." Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

"Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on." Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

"As the author Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things." Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Minion Capital Portfolio

YTD +23%, 5-yr cumulative +109%
5-yr SPX: 66%, NDX: 92%

Positions (in %)
MSFT - 10
SPGI - 9https://t.co/fpGCMn8ZKy - 9
GOOG - 8
MA - 6
BRK.B - 5
IAC - 5
AMT - 4
V - 4
ESTC - 3
COST - 3
IHI - 2
FSV - 2
AMZN - 2
ACN - 1.5
IHF - 1.5
NTDOY - 1.5
ILMN - 1.5
APH - 1
TYL -1
Cash - 21

— Minion Capital (@MinionCapital) July 12, 2019

Locked-Up Capital Portfolio

Here's my public portfolio heading into Q3:

AMZN 12.6%
GLIBA 10.9%
AMT 10.4%
MA 7.3%
COUP 6.8%
SBAC 6.2%
TDG 5.6%
HEI/A 5.4%
SHOP 4.7%
BABA 4.6%
NOW 4.1%
ROP 3.9%
TCEHY 3.7%
CRWD 3.2%
TTD 2.3%
SMAR 2.1%
JD 1.8%
NFLX 1.7%
AYX 1.6%
ZS 1.2%

— Locked-Up Capital (@lockedupcap) July 1, 2019

Matthew Cochrane Porfolio

End of June top holdings: AMZN (9.3% of portfolio), MA (7.4%), PYPL (7.3%), FB (7.0%), GOOGL (6.2%), SWKS (6.1%), DIS (6.0%), MSFT (5.1%), SQ (3.9%), HD (3.3%), GPN (2.6%), PAYC (2.6%), GLW (2.6%), HAS (2.5%), VZ (2.5%), SHOP (2.5%), EA (2.3%), MDB (2.1%), JPM (2.0%), ADBE (1.9%) https://t.co/3PGxTy512Q

— Matthew Cochrane (@FoolMCochrane) June 29, 2019

Matthew Frankel, CFP® Portfolio

I'll play. My top 10 stock holdings (July 1) are:
1. Howard Hughes Corp - 8% of my portfolio
2. Realty Income -6%
3. Apple - 6%
4. AT&T - 5%
5. Digital Realty - 5%
6. HCP - 5%
7. Markel - 4%
8. General Motors - 4%
9. Square - 4%
10. MetLife - 3%
Thoughts? What would you change?

— Matthew Frankel, CFP® (@TMFMathGuy) July 2, 2019

Puru Saxena Portfolio

Current portfolio -$ALGN $AMZN $BABA $BZUN $CRM $DOCU $EDU $ESTC $FB $GOOGL $HDB $HUYA $LYFT $MELI $NFLX $NOW $PINS $PYPL $SE $SQ $TAL $TCEHY $WCAGY https://t.co/9vd35PCF82

No hedges in place.

— Puru Saxena (@saxena_puru) July 13, 2019

Austin Lieberman Portfolio

1. June 2019 Portfolio Update: Up 9.63% +$60,043.

I share these to hopefully inspire people to begin living below their means (if possible) and begin investing as soon as they can afford to.

Investing does not have to be complicated. WE CAN DO IT.https://t.co/P3OEk4Dvrw pic.twitter.com/DQ65CLmBRK

— Austin Lieberman (@AustinLieb) June 28, 2019

Yield Curve

A chart about the yield curve... pic.twitter.com/F1BkfWNv07

— Maxfield on Banks (@MaxfieldOnBanks) June 29, 2019

Charstravaganza

Here’s Charstravaganza … more than anecdotes

(@smbccomics) pic.twitter.com/u6flKWUrP5

— Plan Maestro (@PlanMaestro) June 30, 2019

Some Quotes from RAILROADER: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison by Howard Green

1) Just Finished Railroader:

If Hunter Harrison were alive today we would surely see him wander the world fixing every railroad one at a time and in turn improving an important piece of each countries critical infrastructure.


An American born Canadian Hero. pic.twitter.com/RY3PTFSlqF

— Jerry Capital (@JerryCap) June 29, 2019

Motley Fool ROIC series

Great series on ROIC by @themotleyfool

1. Introhttps://t.co/MiIwv4es4Q

2. Better than ROE https://t.co/Wei5JsWZVi

3. Performance https://t.co/y8cGhDQECl

4. Decline https://t.co/zTz7ABCbl0

5. Equity isn't free https://t.co/wd20I0wq00

6. Cash's Role https://t.co/b76liGhGOr

— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) June 28, 2019