QAV 808 — The Value Investor’s Lament

by | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

In this episode of QAV, Cameron and Tony nav­i­gate the car­nage of report­ing sea­son, where many QAV stocks have tak­en a beat­ing. They dis­cuss the bru­tal mar­ket reac­tions to earn­ings miss­es, the under­per­for­mance of val­ue stocks rel­a­tive to growth, and what the lat­est results say about the over­all mar­ket sen­ti­ment. Despite the doom and gloom, there are bright spots, includ­ing Berk­shire Hathaway’s lat­est results and a few stand­out earn­ings reports. Tony also revis­its the con­cept of mar­ket tops and how investors should be posi­tion­ing them­selves.

QAV 807 — Half Year Havoc

by | Feb 19, 2025 | Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

Half year reports are play­ing their usu­al hav­oc on some of our stocks, as results dis­ap­point the mar­ket. But is the mar­ket over-react­ing in some cas­es? Tony thinks so. We’re also talk­ing about the RBA’s deci­sion to cut inter­est rates and how that affects our invest­ing deci­sions. Stocks cov­ered today include FND, AMP, CVL, PPM, and Tony’s deep dive is on FSF. He also answers a lis­ten­er’s ques­tion about bor­row­ing to buy shares. After hours includes dis­cus­sions about Baby­lon, the ACO, rac­ing updates and fast­ing.

QAV 806 — The Reilly Indicator

by | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

In QAV Episode 806, Cameron and Tony cov­er key mar­ket updates, includ­ing Elon Musk’s $97B bid for Ope­nAI, Trump’s steel tar­iffs, and the resur­gence of iron ore as a buy. They ana­lyze port­fo­lio per­for­mance, not­ing that long-held stocks tend to out­per­form, and dis­cuss Nick Scali, Beach Ener­gy, and Sev­en West Media’s earn­ings. Cameron unveils the ‘Reil­ly Indi­ca­tor’, sug­gest­ing that a lack of sell sig­nals could indi­cate an impend­ing mar­ket cor­rec­tion. They revis­it the ‘Crazy Girl­friend Rule’ for stocks that repeat­ed­ly dis­ap­point, explore the impact of COVID lows rolling off charts, and debate when bad news stops being a red flag. The Pulled Pork seg­ment exam­ines Grange Resources (GRR)—a strong per­former but with a loom­ing mine clo­sure. The episode wraps with fun dis­cus­sions on horse rac­ing, Al Paci­no, and flat-pack fur­ni­ture frus­tra­tions.

QAV 805 — Whack A Mole

by | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

In this episode record­ed on Feb­ru­ary 4, 2025, we dive into the impact of recent US tar­iff imple­men­ta­tions and their imme­di­ate retrac­tion. We also dis­cuss the res­ig­na­tion of Res­olute Min­ing’s CEO fol­low­ing his deten­tion in Mali and its effect on the company’s share price, TK explains the Ricar­do effect on nation­al eco­nom­ic strat­e­gy, the col­lapse of Mosa­ic Brands, reg­u­la­to­ry approval for FND, and a ‘Pulled Pork’ seg­ment on Aure­lia Met­als (AMI), cov­er­ing the com­pa­ny’s his­to­ry, cur­rent sta­tus, and future pro­jec­tions amid the boom­ing gold prices. In After Hours, they offer trib­utes to Mar­i­anne Faith­ful and dis­cuss pop cul­ture, includ­ing ‘Rogue Heroes’ and ‘Inland Empire’, Nazi pro­pa­gan­da and 20th-cen­tu­ry Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture.

QAV 804 — The DeepSeek Black Swan

by | Jan 29, 2025 | Blog, Investing Podcast, Podcast Episodes

In this episode of QAV, Cameron and Tony dis­cuss a vari­ety of top­ics, from Tony’s trip to Tas­ma­nia and adven­tures at MONA to Cameron’s kitchen mishap with a man­dolin slicer. The con­ver­sa­tion tran­si­tions to mar­ket insights, includ­ing the impact of the Chi­nese AI sys­tem DeepSeek on glob­al mar­kets and Nvidia’s sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket cap loss. The duo explores key invest­ment sto­ries like Lind­say Australia’s stock per­for­mance and Wash­ing­ton H. Soul Pattinson’s involve­ment, as well as dis­cussing pathol­o­gy ser­vices com­pa­ny ACL and its chal­lenges in a gov­ern­ment-reg­u­lat­ed envi­ron­ment. The episode clos­es with reflec­tions on the late David Lynch and his cre­ative lega­cy.

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