Monthly Archives: June 2023

All Norwegian Stocks part 10 – Nr. 136-150

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And on we go. With this post, I have passed the 50% threshold, so I am very optimistic to finish this before year end. This time, two stocks qualified for the preliminary watch list. Let’s go:

136. Norbit

Norbit is a 305 mn EUR market cap company has three distinct segment of which “Oceans delivers tailored technology to global maritime markets, Connectivity provides wireless solutions for identification, monitoring and tracking, while PIR offers R&D services, proprietary products and contract manufacturing.”

The company IPOed in 2019, and contrary to the 2020 IPO vintages, the share price has done quite well:

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Verdad thinks that systematically shorting one day options could generate Alpha

Chemical companies are facing big fines for PFaS/ Forever Chemicals in the US (Hello Bayer !!!)

Already a few weeks old, but Prof. Damodarans post on what makes banks risky and the sequel on how to value bank stocks ar both worth reading

Clarke Square Capital thinks that now is the time for Lastminute.com to shine

Marc Andreesen (not surprisingly) thinks that AI will save the world

Ben Thompson is a big fan of the new Apple Vision Pro

And all you need to know about Farmland investing

Handelsbanken revisited – Learnings and what to do now ?

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This has become a quite long and somehow rambling post. If you look for “actionable investment advice”, then you don’t need to read this.

Background: Handelsbankon on the blog since 2015

One of the great things of an Investment Blog/Journal is that one can easily revisit everything that one has written years ago when I want to look at a stock again.

Handelsbanken is a stock that I have covered quite often since 2015. Initially, I compared Handelsbanken to Deutsche Bank in 2015, claiming that Handelsbanken is a much better run “quality bank” compared to Deutsche Bank and that Deutsche Bank, despite the much cheaper valuation, most likely the worse investment. This is how Handelsbanken has performed against Deutsch Bank and the European Banking index.

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Great stock write up collection from Capital Employed

A new study seems to show that correctly identified sin stocks (Alcohol, Tobacco, Gambling) have positive alpha

Swen Lorenz shares some experiences from an investor trip to Turkey

An interesting deep dive into LSE after the Refinitiv take over from Marathoner

A good intro into the economics of “Big Gaming”

How will “Uncle Carl” Icahn’s endgame look like for IEP after the Hindenburg “attack” ?

Despite the “advice” of many financial pundits, writing covered calls is destroying value in the mid- and longterm