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Moody's Corporation is a regulatory-moated oligopoly wrapped in a compounding software business. The MIS ratings franchise holds the most durable structural position in financial services: NRSRO designation is a legal prerequisite for capital adequacy calculations in virtually every major financial market globally, the duopoly with S&P has been unbroken for over four decades, and the proprietary century-old default database cannot be replicated at any cost.Read more

MSCI is a Wide Moat compounding machine whose index benchmarks serve as the institutional standard for $16.5 trillion in global AUM, generating 75%+ recurring revenue at 93-95% retention rates and approximately 50% FCF margins. The investment thesis rests on three durable pillars: (1) permanent switching costs in the Index segment, where fund mandate rewrites, LP notifications, and derivative contract renegotiations make benchmark migration prohibitively costly for all but the most determined sponsors; (2) secular tailwinds from the continued growth of passive investing and the institutionalization of private markets, which expand MSCI's AUM-linked revenue with zero incremental cost; and (3) an emerging private assets franchise replicating the Index playbook in a $10 trillion+ private equity and credit market that currently lacks institutional-grade benchmarks.Read more

Recent news: As of April 2026, the SEC approved a FINRA proposal to eliminate the Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule, removing the requirement for a minimum balance to make more than three day trades in a five-day period. Instead of a flat equity requirement, new risk-based margin standards will require traders to maintain sufficient equity for their real-time exposure.Read more

When considering the hypothetical question of what I would buy in the aftermath of another global financial crisis–type event, a few key criteria come to mind. The ideal company should be financially sound, likely to be indiscriminately sold off alongside other financial stocks and well positioned to recover strongly regardless of the future direction of the economic system.Read more

LEO is a closed-end investment company (CEF). CEFs, unlike open-end investment companies, do not redeem their shares at net asset value.Read more

Business Overview Key Metrics Total: 9.5/17 +2✅✅ Projected Operating Margin: 65.63% +0 ⚠️ Projected 5-Year Revenue CAGR: 9.43% +2 ✅✅ Last 5-Year ROIC: 39.70% +1 ✅ Estimated Cost of Capital: 6.26% (lower than ROIC) -1 ❌ Last 5-Year Shares Outstanding CAGR: +0.15% +1 ✅ Projected 5-Year EPS CAGR: 12.38% +1 ✅ Projected 5-Year Dividend CAGR: 12.50% +1.5 ✅ Estimated Debt Rating: Aa3 +2 ✅✅ Morningstar Moat: Wide +0 ⚠️ Morningstar Uncertainty: Medium Business Valuation To calculate the intrinsic value of the company I'll use multiple methods: Discounted Cash Flows (DCF) - Intrinsic value is estimated by projecting its free cash flows over the next 10 years and discounting them to present value using the estimated cost of capital ; EPS Growth - the fair value is estimated by projected the Earnings Per Share CAGR for the next 5 Years and then, given its current and historic values of PE, come up with a PE for the 5th Year. This will give us its price 5 Years from now using the formula: Price = EPS x PE that we then discount using the estimated cost of capital; Historical P/E - we assume mean reversion to the historical P/E values; Historical EV/EBITDA - we assume mean reversion to the historical EV/EBITDA values.Read more

The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) is often viewed as slightly undervalued compared to the broader market, primarily due to its concentration in value-oriented sectors that trade at a discount to high-growth tech stocks. As of early 2026, VYM carries a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of approximatelywhich is significantly lower than the S&P 500's P/E, often hovering nearduring recent bull runs.Read more

Disclosure: At the time of writing, we are not shareholders in eToro Group (NASDAQ: ETOR). However: we are carefully studying the market situation at the moment and may buy via a GTC limit order when the market is right.Read more

1. The Paradigm Shift: Fixing a Broken System For decades, traditional consumer banking has been disconnected and frustrating.Read more