Alphabet's earnings growth makes its valuation look attractive. It trades at 21x forward earnings and a 0.47 PEG while EPS grows 34% year over year; shares are down almost 9% year to date. Search still grows 12% and Cloud grows 103%, undercutting the concern that Search will sink the business. x.com  x.com 

Apple's roughly 40 times trailing and 37 times forward earnings make the shares too expensive ahead of next week's results. A short looks reasonable, though a sell-the-news reaction after earnings remains uncertain. x.com  x.com 

Stocks with very high price-to-sales ratios, such as SpaceX, Snowflake, Palantir and Trump Media, are worth avoiding because higher price-to-sales has historically led to lower returns. Their annualized ratios are about 64.5, 20, 56.5 and 400. Growth investors are better served by Micron over SpaceX, Salesforce over Trump Media, Nvidia over Palantir and Alphabet over Snowflake. These companies' innovation is impressive, but valuation matters. x.com  x.com 

Alphabet's core Search growth is slowing while AI spending surges, making the selloff look deserved despite fast Cloud growth. Search growth fell from 19% to 17% to 12% over three quarters; Search now represents just under half of revenue. The stock could fall to $250, though Amazon is the preferred buy. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Apple's roughly 35x forward earnings premium looks unsustainable. If fear around the AI trade fades, its gains could stall or reverse. x.com  x.com 

Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Visa, Mastercard, ASML, TSMC, Costco and Apple are wonderful businesses worth holding forever at a fair price; none is cheap, and that is the point. Each has a durable moat: Search and YouTube, 3.6 billion daily users, enterprise switching costs, CUDA, card-payment toll booths, the only EUV machines, leading-edge chipmaking at scale, Costco's 92% renewal rate and Apple's 2.5 billion devices. Most pair high margins and returns on capital with strong growth. … Show more

Costco's premium multiple looks unsustainable, at 40 times next-twelve-month earnings with EPS growing only about 10%. Stocks with PEG ratios like that are not worth owning, as multiple cuts at former compounders such as FICO and Intuitive Surgical showed. x.com  x.com 

Quality and price favor these eight stocks. Amazon improves as its multiple falls; Uber generates serious cash flow; Netflix is more profitable at a lower multiple; ServiceNow grew amid multiple compression. SoFi's appeal hinges on earnings near management's long-term expectations. McDonald's ranks among the world's highest-quality businesses at one of its more reasonable valuations in years. AI disruption weighs on Adobe's valuation; Brookfield compounds assets at a comfortable long-term price. … Show more

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, JPMorgan Chase and UnitedHealth are stocks worth holding forever. They aren't the flashiest names and won't deliver the best returns, but they offer consistency and can be counted on to keep growing for decades. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

S&P Global may be boring, but it has one of the more interesting setups: after falling about 20% year to date, it trades at about 22x forward earnings versus a five-year average of about 29x. Nine tracked fund managers bought or added to it. x.com