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This is Porter & Co.’s Sunday Investment Chronicles. Every week, the Porter & Co. research team pores over thousands (and thousands) of articles, reports, social media posts, analyses, regulatory filings, and anything else we can get our hands (and eyes) on to understand what’s happening in the world of investing and finance – and to uncover the most original, compelling, and double-head-fake ideas…
… and we curate the best of those here. We do it all the old fashioned way: Hours of reading and brainpower (no AI curation here). We read everything – for you.
In Case You Missed It
In Monday’s Daily Journal, Big Secret analyst Ross Hendricks provided an actionable put-selling trade that readers could act on right away. This included a step-by-step guide detailing a live example available in the market, which ends with one of two outcomes: either owning shares in one of the world’s best businesses or earning a double-digit annualized return on invested capital. Said Ross:
It’s the closest thing you’ll find to a free lunch on Wall Street: a strategy that can consistently deliver double-digit returns on capital, where the only downside is buying a stock, you already want to own, at a discounted future price.”
Monday’s Journal was part of an introductory lead-up to the launch of Porter & Co.’s Trading Club in the coming weeks.
Porter followed up on the Trading Club theme in Wednesday’s Journal, by plucking a trade from his personal portfolio to help demonstrate to readers how selling puts works. He wrote:
To explain what these opportunities look like and how to trade them, I’m going to describe how I use the options market to establish major positions in my portfolio, while, at the same time, generating safe cash returns that are vastly more than you can earn in fixed income.”
He also addressed the risk nature of such trading. Following the right strategy, he said, is a lot safer than owning government bonds, adding…
I should be able to generate close to $500,000 in annual income, which is a whole lot more than I can get in safe, short-duration fixed income.”
On Thursday, we released a Big Secret On Wall Street update with a look at Trump’s first 100 days, writing:
Our hope is that… the administration is able to strike deals with major trading partners that would achieve its goals while reducing tariff rates substantially. However, this outcome is still incredibly uncertain… which means volatility is likely to continue.
Over the longer term – assuming the U.S. can avoid a full-blown trade war – we remain optimistic about the administration’s goals to cut burdensome red tape, free up private industry, and unleash American energy and technology innovation.”
We also updated the “Trump Secret Stock” portfolio… and we made a few changes to it. This includes moving two positions to holds… selling two positions that have not performed as expected… and adding two recommendations to the Trump basket… Plus we share our “3 Best Buys,” stocks in the portfolio that are at particularly attractive prices at the moment.
And Porter ended the week in Friday’s Daily Journal by reviewing the performance of Berkshire Hathaway the day before Warren Buffett addressed the annual Berkshire meeting. Porter offered a solution for Warren Buffett that would make shareholders very happy. He wrote:
I believe the board of Berkshire Hathaway has a fiduciary obligation to break up the company.
There are three units that could easily become independent businesses: BHE, BNSF Railway, and its Manufacturing, Service, and Retailing segment (“MSR”). The MSR unit is dominated by Precision Castparts, Marmon, and Lubrizol.”
He concluded by saying:
Wouldn’t that be a wonderful way for Warren Buffett to retire? Paying a 30% dividend and resetting Berkshire for the next generation! That would be the greatest drop the mic moment in the history of the capital markets.”
The Best Things We Read Last Week
Out of the hundreds of sources of investment, finance, and economics news and insight we regularly review – our Bloomberg terminal, hedge-fund letters, annual reports, the financial news media, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings, investment newsletters, newspapers, X (Twitter) threads, conferences, podcasts, and more – here’s what we’ve read that we think you might find interesting.
Markets And Economics
The Legends Speak
Investment Ideas
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Corporate Bonds And Credit
Consumer Credit
Special Situations: Activist Investing, Spinoffs, Arbitrage, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), And More
Precious Metals
Energy
Bitcoin And Crypto
P.S Tough times call for tough tactics… (and massive profits?)
I (Paul Ash) have just interviewed a private millionaire who uncovered some strange movements in the market… It’s a market phenomenon that happens every Friday. One that he’s used week after week to rack up double and triple-digit trades… And considering that his track record boasts an amazing 97% win rate… even in today’s market, I’d say it works pretty well. Great for him- but what does that mean for YOU? With all the uncertainty and fear flowing through the markets today, he’s finally agreed to open up about this strategy so other regular investors can use it too. Want in on the action? Consider THIS your personal invitation.
