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Amazing

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Jun 20Liked by Jake LaMotta

great piece. To add on the energy section, secondary beneficiaries for increased electricity demand would be copper (transmission lines) and surrounding metals used in electronics to meet the needed throughput through the increased demand. Perhaps also land/regions that have cheap electricity will have some sort of pricing power, especially if they build data centers on these lands. Another interesting phenomena that could be seen is the dual use of bitcoin miners for mining bitcoin during bull cycles and using them as AI centers during bear cycles or just dual use depending on which has more demand

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For sure, there are a lot of second order ways of playing this theme!

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Jun 20Liked by Jake LaMotta

Phenomenal post.

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Thanks!

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Great post! It’s interesting to see we think quite similar and are viewing/buying similar companies. I’ve been buying NRP recently ( I just wish I found it sooner) and I’ve had Clipper on my watchlist for a while.

One question.

What makes you comfortable understanding pharmaceutical companies? I’ve only ever invested in one pharmaceutical company (HROW which has worked out great) but I find them extremely hard to understand as they normally have very complex products. Would you say you understand the field well or do u do a lot of research into each company? Thank you

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Thanks!

I have very real limitations when it comes to the science, but I think there are times here and there where you can sniff out a very clear +EV bet despite such limitations. I tend to limit myself to either 1) event-driven stuff or 2) situations where there are several high probably shots on goal such that the risk is spread out across the pipeline (e.g. ROIV, which basically trades at cash, and has an enormous pipeline of drugs and various catalysts, making it very difficult to lose).

As far as the more speculative biotech stuff goes, I will very rarely get involved unless there's some dynamic satisfying #1 or 2 above. With Mereo, my cost basis is 90 cents and given two late stage assets, the probabilities clearly made this positive EV at that market cap; on top of that, I got involved during Rubric's activist battle, which gave this a bit of an event angle. There's also been a long telegraphed spin/parternship/divestiture angle for the second major asset alvelestat, which takes away some development risk for one of the two assets. Beyond that, i think you can get working familiarity with certain drugs with enough time and effort and the rewards can be well worth it.

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Very interesting. Thank you for the response!

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Jun 23Liked by Jake LaMotta

Great post! St. Joe Company ($JOE) or Canterbury Park ($CPHC) may be interesting land / real estate companies. Dream Unlimited Corp in Canada also owns some MPC assets as well as a hodgepodge of other real estate assets.

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Jun 22Liked by Jake LaMotta

Incredible post, don't stop!

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Amazing post again, man. Every investor should read this once every quarter.

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🫡

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Jun 21Liked by Jake LaMotta

Thanks Jake, great stuff!

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Jun 20Liked by Jake LaMotta

If you want to go hairier, AHT is calling your name.

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Do you have writeup about $MREO? can you reccommand somebody who has?

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I don’t have one and I’ve never seen one. Rubric Capital’s activist letters from 2022 are good for framing, and then I would look to Mereo’s investor deck + Ultragenyx presentations on Setrusumab. There’s also a good bit of commnetary now on Twitter

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why capitalize g&a for clipper and why would it bring nav down. sorry i just found that line a bit difficult to understand

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Don't necessarily need to, but that G&A is an inherent part of the structure, so unless you were to liquidate/sell off the assets for private market value, calculating the NAV strictly on NOI without backing out that cost overstates what fair market value is for this company is within its public company structure. But yeah that doesn't need to be done, particularly if you just want to understand what each asset is worth in isolation for a SOTP calculation.

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thanks makes a lot of sense. what was your logic for 7% yoc for dean. never heard of that term before. thx

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The company has noted that Dean would be built out to the same yield on cost as pacific was, which was around 7% - ie (stabilized NOI/Cost)

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thx for the quick reply. i appreciate the help. i am an amateur when it comes to valuation. your writeups are very insightful. podcast on businessbrew was very interesting. i think someone on seeking alpha mentioned some of your work too in regards to clipper.

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Thanks for sharing and happy to help.

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