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A great write-up on Japanese Pump manufacturer Yamada from the always excellent Wintergem Blog

Interesting write-up on Kistos PLc, a UK Energy company from Moram

An interesting (follow up) write-up on Nintendo and progress made over 24 months

The Fundoo professor with an interesting case study on IFRC, an Indian specialty lender

A good reminder that successful long term investing is not easy, quite the contrary

Kikkoman Soy Sauce bottles have become collector’s items in the US

The Spanish Olive harvest has been pretty bad again, making olive oil (much) more expensive

Book review: “The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and The Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend “

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“The Fund” is in short an absolute tear-down of both, the legendary Macro Hedge Fund Bridgewater and its equally famous founder Ray Dalio. There is an old saying that you don’ want to know how the sausage is made and in this case this is more than fitting to what happened behind the scenes at Bridgewater.

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All Norwegian Shares Part 14 – No. 196-215

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Freshly motivated by Rob Vinall’s kind reference, let’s kiss more frogs in the Norwegian share market to see if we find a princess or two.. I expanded the amount of randomly selected companies to 20 per post as this allows me to finish the serieswith 4 posts overall. This time only two stocks made it on the preliminary watch list. Enjoy.

196. Reach Subsea

Reach Subsea is a 95 mn EUR market cap marine service company that seems to concentrate on “subsea services”, such as pipeline expections, reservoir monitoring etc. As far as I undestand, these services are mostly geared towards the oil and gas industry.

The stock has performed very well since a near death experience early 2020 and has made 5x since then:

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DEME (ISIN BE0974413453) – A Contrarian Opportunity to bet on Offshore Wind

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Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH !!!

Expectation management: If you like either/or: super cheap companies /  high margins / capital light / short term catalysts / recurring revenue / low earning volatility / High dividends / share buy backs / companies with products in the supermarket  → THIS IS NOT FOR YOU.

Elevator pitch:

DEME, a Belgian Marine Engineering Group, is a contrarian, secular growth /mean reversion story. Current results are noisy, but growth, especially in offshore wind installation is intact and accelerating. A combination of strong growth and improving margins could lead to a tripling of EPS over the next 5 years.

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A great manifesto for the “slow and boring” way of investing

Staying Rational on glass packaging companies Vidrala and Veralia

Moram pitches “The One Group Hospitality”, a US small cap restaurant operator

The Brooklyn Investor with some good thoughts on interest rates, stock valuation and some interesting book reviews

In interesting overview on Japanese Coporate profits and debt from James Montier

“Space Solar” sounds crazy but could be a thing in the nearer future (Google search result)

Josh Barro thinks that Ozempic/Wegovy is a bigger deal than AI

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Q3 Report from Gehlen Bräutigam with some interesting small cap profiles

Everything you ever wanted to know about the stock market in Bhutan (!!)

Howard Marks thinks that Corporate Credit is the place to be

A very critical review of Impact Investing by Prof. Damodaran

A very deep dive into electricity markets and why there is the chance that things are improving (US based, but applicable elsewhere)

Emerging Value likes German beverage small cap Berentzen

Jeremy from Foxcastle Holdings on French Small Cap Boa Concept

All Norwegian Shares Part 12 – Nr. 166-180

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Less than 100 stocks to go after this post…I took some time to continue because I lost a full post to the bloody WordPress editor. As the random generator picked some quite interesting stocks this time, I had written quite a lot. This verson is shorter, but 5 stocks are worth to “watch”. I am still optimistic to finish before year end. Enjoy !!!

166. Zaptec

Zaptec is a 175 mn EUR market cap 2020 IPO that is surprisingly trading above its IPO price. According to Euronext, Zaptec is a “technology company within Electric vehicle (EV) charging systems in Europe. The company develops EV charging systems for multi and single-family homes and office buildings.”

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Prof. Damodaran with an epic post on valuaing intangibles and the Birkenstock IPO

FTAlphaville with some interesting details on the Metro Bank recapitalization plan (search result)

A good reminder from Wolfgang Klement: Admitting mistakes is hard, but the most constructive option

A funny Twitter thread showing that “investing” into random Lego sets outperfoms most VCs

A very interesting deep dive into the Spirits industry

Lots of action in the Spin-off Universe

A very interesting deep dive into the science of plastics eating Bacteria


Performance review Q3 2023 – Comment: “How tall should your hurdle be ?”

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In the first 9 months of 2023, the Value & Opportunity portfolio gained  +6,5% (including dividends, no taxes) against a gain of +8,3% for the Benchmark (Eurostoxx50 (25%), EuroStoxx small 200 (25%), DAX (30%), MDAX (20%), all TR indices).

Links to previous Performance reviews can be found on the Performance Page of the blog. Some other funds that I follow have performed as follows in the first 9M 2023:

Partners Fund TGV: -0,9% (as of Sep 15th)
Profitlich/Schmidlin: +12,9%
Squad European Convictions 5,7%
Frankfurter Aktienfonds für Stiftungen +4,9%
Squad Aguja Special Situation +2,4%
Paladin One -4,7%
Alphastars Europe +4,9%

Performance review:

Within a quarter, the YTD performance jumped from close to the bottom of the peer group to second position. Looking at the monthly returns, it is not difficult to see that especially August and September were in relative terms very good:

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