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Dear Inotiv, My name is Jong Ik Kwon, DVM , a graduate of Seoul National University College of Veterinary Medicine. Earlier in my career, I worked for Kwangdong Pharmaceutical as a Clinical Research Manager (CRM) for two years , where I gained direct experience in clinical development, regulatory processes, and pharmaceutical operations.Read more

Update as of 10 April: As written here in February, Delta is the leading carrier among the major US airlines and keeps that pole position even amidst the tariff-induced turmoil. True, the carrier had to jettison its record guidance for 2025 it had issued in January; still, Delta made a gross profit of roughly 1 cent per available seat mile in the traditionally weak winter quarter when other airlines struggle to turn any profit at all (my calculations from an adj.Read more

☁️Business Overview Key Metrics Total: 11.5/17 +2 ✅✅ Projected Operating Margin: 36.47% +1 ✅ Projected 5-Year Revenue CAGR: 11.50% +2 ✅✅ Last 5-Year ROIC: 26.80% +1 ✅ Estimated Cost of Capital: 10.24% (lower than ROIC) +1 ✅ Last 5-Year Shares Outstanding CAGR: -2.53% +1 ✅ Projected 5-Year EPS CAGR: 13.22% +0 ⚠️ Projected 5-Year Dividend CAGR: 8.68% +1.5 ✅ Moody's Debt Rating: Aa2 +2 ✅✅ Morningstar Moat: Wide +0 ⚠️ Morningstar Uncertainty: Medium Alphabet is a growing company presenting a projected solid revenue and EPS growth above 10%, a wide moat resulting in an operating margin between ~30-40% and good capital allocation displaying a return on its invested capital (ROIC) almost 3 times the estimated cost of capital. The fact that it has been buying back shares during the previous years is always nice to see.Read more

At the current price of ~210 USD, the market is valuing FactSet as a certain victim of generative AI (“SaaSPocalypse”), completely ignoring the company’s structural transformation over the last 5 years. FactSet no longer sells just access to stock prices (which can be commoditized); it sells operational infrastructure built on four strategic pillars that are extremely hard for a chatbot to replace: Cobalt (Private Markets), CUSIP (Global Standards), Vermilion (Reporting), and Portware (Execution).Read more

Corporate Structure and Strategic Architecture 1. Capital Recycling: An Operational Necessity, Not Financial Engineering The heart of Brookfield's business model is not a passive "buy and hold" strategy, but an active "buy, improve, sell, and repeat" cycle.Read more

️Business Overview Total: 7/17 +1 ✅ Projected Operating Margin: 16.15% +1 ✅ Projected 5-Year Revenue CAGR: 10.89% +1 ✅ Last 5-Year ROIC: 10.00% +1 ✅ Estimated Cost of Capital: 9.26% (lower than ROIC) -1 ❌ Last 5-Year Shares Outstanding CAGR: +1.26% +1 ✅ Projected 5-Year EPS CAGR: 16.89% +0 ⚠️ Projected 5-Year Dividend CAGR: N/A +1 ✅ Moody's Debt Rating: A1 +2 ✅✅ Morningstar Moat: Wide +0 ⚠️ Morningstar Uncertainty: Medium Amazon transformed retail. Its solid operating margins (above ~10%) reflect more the other growing higher margin segments (cloud - AWS) rather than the lower margin business that is retail.Read more

While Nvidia captures the headlines, AMD is capturing the "spillover." The AI accelerator market is projected to reach $400 Billion by 2027. AMD does not need to beat Nvidia to win; it only needs to capture 10-20% of this massive TAM (Total Addressable Market).Read more

This is one of three major benefits the company brings to the table: As I just briefly explained, the company has a high-margin business model, as it does not incur drilling costs. The Permian is home to almost half of all onshore horizontal rigs in the United States.Read more

Company Overview Founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, and Nathan Gettings, Palantir Technologies emerged from the shared vision of transforming how data could be used to solve complex problems. Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and a prominent venture capitalist, brought his knack for identifying transformative opportunities.Read more