Porter’s Journal

Every week, the team at Porter & Co.’s Sunday Investment Chronicles 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…

The Emerging Lindy Screen is not for the faint of heart. Finding enduring, forever-compounding businesses is difficult enough on its own. But this week, we’re taking it a step further – identifying the Lindys before they become household names, while they’re still misunderstood, contrarian, or dismissed as failures.

The last great computer revolution (the internet boom) was run by multiple companies that controlled the key enabling technologies: Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. With the parallel processing revolution, Porter writes, it’s all Nvidia.

Warren Buffett’s greatest secret – to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy when others are fearful – is largely ignored because, first of all, a frothy market that’s going higher virtually every day looks like the best time to make a lot of money in stocks.

Since the early 1970s, three major bull markets have ended in “fire” – an overheating economy. And three were caused by “ice” – a sudden deflationary collapse. Porter ponders what will happen with the current bull market.