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Palantir

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  1. Maybe I'm being bitchy, but does anyone else think Brit Cool should stop giving advice and interviews until she has actually done something?  She's 30 years old and the only thing I'm aware of her having done is hire the husband of a friend of hers to run Benjamin Moore and subsequently fire him when he cheated on her friend with a secretary.

     

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/advice-buffetts-30-old-hand-174812229.html

     

    Now I ain't saying she a gold digger,

    But she ain't messin' with no broke...

  2. So I 'm interviewing for an ER position and they have asked me to do the second step, which appears to be a modeling test. My guess is that this commonly involves updating a model with a press release, and writing a note. I was wondering if anyone could point me to where I would be able to find examples for the model as well as the PR note. I have BIWS models, but I don't know if they are as relevant to this.

     

  3. We should NOT be looking at their performance on a YoY basis but using a 5 year yardstick similar to Buffett.  As Graham eloquently said, “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

     

    Tks,

    S

     

    I'm not sure if Ted Weschler is having a good year being that he a a pretty considerable position in GM which has been terrible this year

     

    Isn't it something like a 7 year yardstick now?  I thought he changed it when 5 years didn't work so well.  Maybe I'm wrong.

     

    It's now a "market cycle" if I remember correctly.  ;D

  4. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the US with this.  One thing I saw said that 15-30% of Africans might have an immunity to this due to the fruit they eat, or through secondary contact with animals there.  That is their body has had a very small exposure that they developed antibodies against. 

     

    This is not true.  Ebola has been a very rare illness, what you are thinking of is Malaria.

  5. Yeah, Ebola is not an airborne disease, and is only spread through contact with bodily fluids. The people who are usually in trouble are healthcare workers and caregivers. Saliva doesn't have a high viral load, so I personally would not worry.

  6. These guys keep forgetting that Buffett uses leverage through a holding company structure which means his returns are not comparable to those who are running funds. I think it's obvious that somebody running a public MF like Peter Lynch is going to have a different return profile than somebody investing insurance company float...If we use Fund Manager Buffett rather than Grandpa Buffett, he'd be closer to where Greenblatt is.

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    Huh?  You lost me. As a value investor you want growth in IV and/or closing of gap between market price and IV. My point was what are dividends?  They are a return of capital.  Dividends don't create high return.  The business has to do that.  Dividends are just one way for the businesses returns to be allocated.  When paying a dividend there is no net change in IV.  A $10 stock that pays a a $1 dividend is all else equal, now a $9 stock.  IV is the same (10 = 9+1).  Your value is now a $9 stock plus the $1 dividend (less taxes on the dividend).  So you may be slightly worse off due to taxes.     

     

    Dividends are one way that the gap between market price and IV closes. You have a stock with an IV of 10, and a price of 5 (Gap =5). You get a dividend, IV moves to 9, and price becomes 4 ex dividend. Now the gap between IV and your investment is 9-4-1 = 4.

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