QAV AU 852 — Growth Over PE: The Metric That Ate 2025

by Cameron Reilly | Dec 31, 2025 | Australia, Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

The final QAV episode of 2025 is a wide-rang­ing year-end wrap that blends port­fo­lio per­for­mance, mar­ket struc­ture, and deep­er sys­tem think­ing. Cameron and Tony review an excep­tion­al six-month run for QAV port­fo­lios, with mul­ti­ple stocks deliv­er­ing triple-dig­it returns, before drilling into what actu­al­ly drove those results. Tony presents a data-heavy “Pulled Pork” analy­sis that iso­lates growth over PE as a poten­tial explana­to­ry fac­tor behind this year’s out­per­for­mance, rais­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a future refine­ment to the QAV scor­ing sys­tem. The con­ver­sa­tion then moves through glob­al mar­ket per­for­mance, lead­er­ship changes at Wood­side, takeover dra­ma at HUM, crowd psy­chol­o­gy, hous­ing con­straints, and the eco­nom­ics of mod­ern media, clos­ing with books, TV, and reflec­tions on how fast time now seems to move.