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Jungfraubahn has had a Return on Equity of 6-7-8% over the years and the stock has offered a CAGR of 7-8%. I understand that there is no competition and the business will probably be there 100 years from now, but that fact alone has not led to great returns.

I think you might enjoy reading this one from Buffett back in 1977. http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Inflation-Swindles-the-Equity-Investor.pdf

The chart and the heading don't really match, do they? I found this to be interesting https://behavioralvalueinvestor.com/blog/warren-buffett-pcc Gary makes an attempt at uncovering the profits after the acquisition (I don't know if they're disclosed on the AR, but from the article it doesn't seem so).

Any ideas on what Warren meant when he said that he was right on his opinion that Precision Cast Parts would "earn good returns on net tangible assets" but that he had made a mistake "in judging the average amount of future earnings"? If the earnings are lower than expected, shouldn't the return on assets be lower as well?

Thanks for your answers. Could you please explain it as if I were 3? thanks

Hi guys, any idea why the number of Apple shares differs from the Annual Report (907,6M) and the 13F (887,1M)? Thanks, Cheers

Hi Packer, when you say "yield", you're referring to Dividend yield, right? Because you could be talking about the yield at which the company/REIT is acquiring its buildings. One thing is the dividend yield, the other is the actual building yield (rent/total cost of the building). Is this correct?

Thanks Bizaro, but how do you know that number?

Hi guys, I'm trying to model Dillard's financials and I got stuck in the Property Plant & Equipment. I wonder if someone can help me. I've attached an Excel File so you can see what I'm talking about: A- Gross PP&E B - CAPEX C - Cash from the sale of PP&E D -Gross PP&E (+) capex) (-) cash from the sale of PP&E E - Difference between D (-) A If one adds last year's Gross PP&E to this year's CAPEX, one should get this year's Gross PP&E, right? Maybe not. If the company has been selling assets, one should also subtract the cash from those sales, right? The thing is, when I do that math, the row "E" should show a "ZERO", but it's far from that. Why does this happen? The only reason I can think of is that each year there are assets that become completely depreciated, thus disappearing from the books entirely. Am I thinking correctly? Am I missing something? Thank you [/img] Dillards_Modelling.xlsx

Thank you wabuffo, but I just realized how stupid my thinking was. Nothing to see here. ::) ::) ::)

I'm drawing a blank here. How can the "Changes in Inventory" be positive on the cash flow statement? If the inventory decreases on the Balance Sheet, doesn't that mean that it went through the COGS, thus not needing to go through the CF Statement? Thanks

Thank you very much for your answers guys. I'm not really into shorting, I just wanted to learn about short squeezes (maybe to benefit from them in the future), but it seems that there is much lingo that I don't understand, many operations that I wasn't aware of, much information that isn't easily accessible and (according to you guys) a lot of practice needed. I'll just google it so I can learn the basics so I can have a conversation with you guys ;)

Thank you very much for your help Gregmal. I'll be reading your comments slowly over the coming days so I can learn. Do you know of any bibliography I can read about short squeezes? Thank you

Thank you very much for your answer. I'll digest it slowly given that I'm new to this. I was looking at Dillard's example and I was trying to understand this chart: https://iborrowdesk.com/report/DDS Does this mean that there are only a few thousand shares that are available for borrowing? I would say that the fewer shares available for borrowing, the higher the cost of borrowing, right? But by looking at the chart, it doesn't seem exactly correlated. What makes the price go up and down?

Hi everyone, I'm new to short squeezes and I hope someone can help me out. Without a Bloomberg Terminal, how can an investor know the number of shares that are being shorted (in real time)? How does one know when shorts are covering (other than by the rise in share price) and how many shorts are actually covering? Does anyone have good resources on this? Thank you all