Boring Stocks, Bonkers Returns: QAV AU #926
On this week’s show we wrap up the financial year and the numbers are, frankly, bonkers: the AU model portfolio is up nearly 29% for the year, the Light portfolios are up nearly 36% as a group, and the US model is up 44% against a 20% S&P. Tony then does a Pulled Pork on EVZ Limited, a small engineering fabricator that has gone from 16 cents to 65 cents in 12 months and just landed on the buy list. We also get into the warning signs stacking up on Wall Street, from margin loans up 50% to the Bank of International Settlements calling out AI data centre spending as a potential GFC-style meltdown risk.
OIL THAT: QAV AU #925
This week we cover the Iran oil sanctions waiver and what it means for the oil price, plus debrief on selling our oil stocks (Karoon, Viva Energy, Brookside) ahead of what turned out to be a nasty drop. Tony does a Pulled Pork on ASX-listed labour hire and training firm Ashley Services Group (ASH), a thinly traded turnaround story with a strong owner-founder and a QAV score of 0.24. We also note the passing of Alan Greenspan, the Credit Corp / Humm deal falling apart, and end-of-financial-year portfolio numbers that have the dummy portfolio well ahead of the index.
Major Feelgood: QAV AU #924
On this week’s show, we wade through a big news cycle: the US-Iran peace deal that forced us to dump our oil stocks, the SpaceX IPO trading at a jaw-dropping 1,750 times PROPCAF while losing money, and the brief Korean stock market circuit breaker that felt a little too dotcom-era for comfort. Tony does a Pulled Pork on Suncorp Group, freshly returned to the buy list after divesting its banking arm to ANZ, and I run the numbers on the Dogs of the Dow versus QAV over five years.
Tobias Carlisle Soldier of Fortune: QAV AU #923
Episode Overview This week we catch up with Tobias Carlisle, who joins us to talk about his new book, Soldier of Fortune: Warren Buffett, Sun Tzu, and the Ancient Art of Risk-Taking. Tony and Cam quiz Toby on the three big Berkshire deals the book...Beds, Banks and Bionic Men: WEB Travel in the AI Age: QAV AU #922
This week Tony’s back from the horse sales and dives straight into a Pulled Pork on WEB Travel Group, the B2B hotel bed-banking business spun out of the old Webjet. We also cover negative gearing changes and how they compare to what Paul Keating tried in the late 1980s, plus a listener question on Servcorp’s recent price wobble, portfolio comparison notes from listener Toby, and the usual after-hours chat covering Topgolf, Bugonia, Spider Noir, and the eternal genius of Steve Austin running in slow motion.