Hi QAVVERS,

Aus­trali­a’s All Ordi­nar­ies fin­ished the five-day peri­od around 9,127, post­ing a mod­est gain of 3.28% from the week’s open­ing lev­els despite a chop­py ride along the way. The Iran was seems over… for now.

US mar­kets were also pos­i­tive, with the S&P 500 clos­ing around 7,498.

So, let’s get into my week­ly updates and see where we are at.

All the Best,
Cam

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QAV MYTH KILLERS

28 TRILLION DOLLARS!

The hottest IPO in his­to­ry hap­pened this week: Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPCX). We already talked about it a bit on the pod­cast, but in case you haven’t lis­tened to it, here’s my take on it.

As a sto­ry? It’s incred­i­ble. You have to hand it to Elon. He shoots for the moon (or Mars).

As a busi­ness? Who knows? Maybe it’ll live up to Elon’s dreams and take a big chunk of the $28.5 tril­lion “TOTAL ADDRESSABLE MARKET” (TAM) that it’s claim­ing it’s chas­ing (“…the largest TAM in human his­to­ry”).

As an invest­ment? It’s an exer­cise in insane spec­u­la­tion. And you’d have to be com­plete­ly nuts — or like a punt — to put mon­ey into it at those prices.

In the Unit­ed States, a Form S‑1 is the ini­tial reg­is­tra­tion state­ment required by the U.S. Secu­ri­ties and Exchange Com­mis­sion (SEC) for com­pa­nies going pub­lic. And here’s the kick­er buried in the SPCX S‑1: 93% of that head­line TAM is AI — the bulk of it some neb­u­lous “enter­prise AI appli­ca­tions” buck­et. The rock­et busi­ness, you know, the entire rea­son the com­pa­ny exists, is bare­ly 1% of the num­ber on the slide.

But what does it all mean?

Let’s put it in some con­text.

Glob­al GDP in 2025 was rough­ly $117 tril­lion. SpaceX’s TAM is about a quar­ter of every­thing every human being on Earth pro­duces in a year — and that’s after exclud­ing Chi­na and Rus­sia, so it’s an even big­ger share of the econ­o­my it actu­al­ly claims to address.

SpaceX’s 2025 rev­enue was $18.7B. In oth­er words, they’re today cap­tur­ing a frac­tion of one per­cent of the mar­ket they say they’re chas­ing.

On the pod­cast, I said the PROPCAF on SpaceX is 1750x. But my math was off — I was using the Q1 cash­flow num­ber, not the trail­ing-twelve-month one (serves me right for try­ing to shoot off a quick Tik­Tok on a Mon­day). It’s actu­al­ly a much more rea­son­able… 370x. As a reminder — we don’t look at any­thing over 7x. We often say a 7x PROPCAF means the com­pa­ny could pay back your buy price in 7 years. Based on its cur­rent oper­at­ing cash­flow, which is near­ly all from the Star­link (ISP) busi­ness, SPCX would take 370 years to pay you back.

Worth more than Amazon

This week, SPCX leapfrogged Ama­zon to become one of the most valu­able com­pa­nies on the plan­et. Think about that for a sec­ond. Ama­zon’s annu­al prof­it is around four times SpaceX’s entire rev­enue — and yet SpaceX is worth more. Go fig­ure that one out.

Speak­ing of the TAM, Aswath Damodaran, Pro­fes­sor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Busi­ness, and author of many books on val­u­a­tion, wrote a pret­ty inter­est­ing pre-IPO analy­sis. He said the TAM “bor­ders on fan­ta­sy” and “…I won­der what an entire­ly Grok-writ­ten prospec­tus would have looked like, and whether we would have noticed the dif­fer­ence.” When your address­able mar­ket is a quar­ter of world GDP, you haven’t told the investor any­thing about the busi­ness, you’ve told them you’d rather they did­n’t look at the busi­ness. It reminds me of the old dot com days when every busi­ness plan claimed their goal was cap­tur­ing 1% of the glob­al mar­ket for this or that sec­tor. It was com­i­cal. Appar­ent­ly SPCX is tak­ing the same approach. I know Tony has already referred to Elon as a Bond vil­lain, but seri­ous­ly, I nev­er thought he was Dr Evil.

As for what the future holds for space and AI — nobody knows how these things are going to play out. I’m pret­ty sure Chi­na is going to play a pret­ty big role in both, as well as EVs and robot­ics. If AI takes over every white col­lar job, will that mar­ket be worth $22.7T? I have no idea. But it’s a big “if” either way.

And is Elon Musk a sta­ble-enough guy to pull it off? I have my doubts.

What would it take for QAV to invest in SPCX?

There are only two ways a 370x PROPCAF becomes a 7x mul­ti­ple. Either the cash flow climbs to meet the price — and only if the share price nev­er ris­es again, because the moment it does, the tar­get runs away from you. Or the price falls to meet the cash flow.

To get there at today’s price, SpaceX would have to throw off about as much cash as Apple, Microsoft and Alpha­bet gen­er­ate com­bined — just to reach the ceil­ing of QAV’s buy zone.

Pos­si­ble? I guess so.
Am I going to bet on it?
Not like­ly.

Speak­ing of Dr Evil… have you seen this?
Appar­ent­ly Mike Myers is gear­ing up for anoth­er instal­ment of Austin Pow­ers. Maybe this time, Dr Evil will be work­ing for Elon.

STOCK ANALYSIS OF THE WEEK

With oil becom­ing a sell, I had to sell a bunch of stocks from the Light port­fo­lios this week and you can see my Light post here.

I also had to replace a bunch of oil stocks in the U.S. Light port­fo­lio this week. U.S. mem­bers can read about them here.

On the full Aus­tralian pod­cast this week, Tony did a pulled pork on Sun­corp (SUN), fresh­ly back on the buy list after divest­ing its bank­ing arm to ANZ. Have a lis­ten via the pod­cast link down below if you want his full analy­sis.

On the Amer­i­can episode, I did a pulled pork on Aeromex­i­co (AERO), Mex­i­co’s nation­al air­line. It’s new­ly list­ed on the NYSE, trad­ing below its IPO price, and screen­ing at a Pr/OpCaf of just 1.55. The pod­cast link is down below if you want the full break­down.

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BUY LIST

Each week, we pro­duce a buy list based on our val­ue invest­ing sys­tem that we share with our QAV Club mem­bers. The intend­ed pri­ma­ry pur­pose of this buy list is for club mem­bers to use as a ref­er­ence for com­par­ing their own buy list. In the­o­ry, all of our buy lists should look pret­ty sim­i­lar each week.

QAV Val­ue Invest­ing Buy List (AU) 2026-06-13

Below is a link to the US list for this week (avail­able exclu­sive­ly to our U.S. Club mem­bers):

QAV Val­ue Invest­ing Buy List 2026-06-14

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PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE

We com­pare our per­for­mance to what we think is the most rel­e­vant bench­mark (SPDR 200 in Aus­tralia, S&P500 in the USA), but if you’re new to invest­ing, these com­par­isons might not mean much. Instead, you can com­pare our per­for­mance to the top-per­form­ing Super Funds in Aus­tralia and see why an ama­teur active investor (who has a sys­tem to fol­low) can out-per­form most of the “pro­fes­sion­als”.

We pub­lish a fresh per­for­mance snap­shot once a month. Week­ly noise does­n’t tell you much in a val­ue-invest­ing sys­tem — what mat­ters is the trend.

June 2026 per­for­mance snap­shot.

Trades this week

Aus­tralian Dum­my port­fo­lio:
No trades this week.

Amer­i­can Sum­my port­fo­lios:
15/06/2026 BUY — AERO
15/06/2026 SELL — KNOP

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Become a QAV Light Member today and start your investing on the right track

If you want to find out what we’re trad­ing in QAV Light each week, sign up to become a mem­ber. You’ll get an email from me every Mon­day let­ting you know what we’re buy­ing and sell­ing in that port­fo­lio. You can choose to copy our trades or not. It’s the eas­i­est way to start your rules-based invest­ing career… and you don’t even need to know the rules. I’ll fol­low the rules for you. It’s a good first step to even­tu­al­ly becom­ing a QAV Club mem­ber and learn­ing how to run the sys­tem by your­self.

QAV LIGHT: You don’t need to build it to tell the time.

(Note: Amer­i­cans inter­est­ed in join­ing QAV Light or Club please go here instead.)

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THIS WEEK’S EPISODES

Major Feel­go­od: QAV AU #924

AERO: The Mex­i­can Air­line

STOCK NEWS AND UPDATES

COMMODITIES

This week the big changes to com­modi­ties were the fol­low­ing:

Com­mod­i­ty	Sta­tus
Cop­per	BUY
Zinc	BUY
Tin	JOSEPHINE
WTI Crude	SELL

DISCLOSURE

Please review our trad­ing and dis­clo­sure pol­i­cy.

SIGNING OFF

That’s a wrap on anoth­er week of hunt­ing for val­ue wab­bits in a mar­ket that con­tin­ues to fluc­tu­ate like my iron lev­els. As Tony said this week — we might be back to buy­ing oil stocks once the Iran deal falls apart… but that’s a sto­ry for anoth­er day.

SSDD!

• Cam

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That’s it for the week!

QAV A GOOD SHAREMARKET!

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