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The Trump Trade No One Is Talking About" - sharing this e-letter early b/c it's so timely. The last few days have been rough for the market, especially the many super expensive tech stocks. Of course, our Zombie Stocks got crushed and that portfolio did great. Not surprisingly, a few more Wall Street strategists jumped on the bearish bandwagon. But, do we know if this is it…is it the correction that everyone with a fundamental hair on their head knows is coming, knows we need? I’m going to reveal a few special ideas in this letter: - Trends from our proprietary macro research, usually reserved for our Institutional clients, - The real impact of a Trump presidency on the markets, - The best stocks to buy and sell in this market. About 15 years ago, a very smart client told me that corrections are not caused by valuation or anything related to fundamentals. He said you need a liquidity crunch to catalyze a sustained correction and a bear market. Do you think regulators and politicians have picked up on this idea? Haha! We’ve seen unprecedented liquidity pouring into our markets and economy ever since COVID. Unprecedented. Take a look at Figure 1 and see the huge jump in assets on the Federal Reserve Bank’s balance sheet when COVID hit. Compare that jump to the one during the housing crisis. It looks 3-4x larger. It appears that regulators and politicians really leaned into the idea of flooding the economy with money during COVID after seeing how well it worked in 2009. Also, note that the excess liquidity pumped into the system in 2009 was never taken out. Quite the opposite, it only went higher before the next big jump during COVID. I think regulators and politicians are liquidity junkies now. They’re hooked like a drug addict on the short-term fix-all for any economic problems: give the economy more money. Figure 1: Total Assets on the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Remain Elevated <see full report> Looking at a shorter time frame, we see that the Assets have been coming down this year though not by a lot. We are nowhere near getting back to pre-COVID levels, and I am not confident that we ever will. Looking at a shorter time frame, we see that the Assets have been coming down this year though not by a lot. We are nowhere near getting back to pre-COVID levels, and I am not confident that we ever will. Figure 2: Total Assets on the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Are Coming Down <see full report> So, why is the market still going up if the Federal Reserve Bank is reducing its balance sheet? Answer: because the Federal government is putting fiscal stimulus into the economy faster than the Fed is reducing its balance sheet. Figure 3: Federal Debt Has Skyrocketed <see full report> Figure 4 plots the total Federal debt ... the trend for Federal debt is going up at the same rate or faster than what we saw in 2023. https://lnkd.in/gCjcfsx3

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Guess which S&P 500 company has the most understated earnings? not $AMZN $TSLA $MSFT $MSTR $AAPL $NVDA https://lnkd.in/gm9p_-Uc Street Earnings, as reflected in Zacks Earnings, are marketed as being adjusted to remove unusual income and charges. Our Core Earnings[1] show Street Earnings fail to account for a material amount of unusual income and charges, which distorts investors’ view of profitability across the S&P 500. This report shows: 1. the prevalence and magnitude of overstated Street Earnings in the S&P 500, 2. that Street Earnings (and GAAP earnings) are flawed and not adjusted as promised, and 3. the S&P 500 company with the most overstated Street Earnings and a Very Unattractive Stock Rating. 210 S&P 500 Companies Overstate EPS by More than 10% See full report for details

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David Trainer's most popular e-letter "Fake News Is Cheap for a Reason" is below. We see so much fake news ... it’s hard to know what is real. Same is true of stock research. Wall Street might be the OG of fake news. You deserve better. I'll show you how to get it. In this letter, I am going to show you clear examples of how misleading Wall Street and other research can be. I’m also going to show you how opaque their research is. Then, I am going to show you how our research is better and throw in a few free stock ratings. Now, you may be asking yourself, why do I keep giving away so much valuable information in these letters? The answers: 1. We genuinely believe in improving the integrity of the capital markets. 2. We hope to get your business one day. The same cannot be said about our competitors. Here’s the proof that they give away bad research on the cheap. Remember, when the product is free, you’re the product. Have you ever read the Disclaimers at the end of a Wall Street research report? You’ll be surprised at what you might find. I have an example for you. From page 8 of a recent report from RBC Securities on Chord Energy Corp (CHRD). The investment bank admits their research: 1. does not have to be accurate and 2. can be conflicted because the author’s compensation comes from a bank that makes money from investment banking. Figure 1: Disclaimers from a Wall Street Research Report Get the rest of the e-letter here: https://lnkd.in/ghUaruZA

We often say that no one can match the depth & rigor of our research. Here's a short video showing why that is true with one of the Stock reports we update daily for over 3,000 stocks: https://lnkd.in/gKn677TF. Hint: the report is on Amazon ($AMZN).

Last week's e-letter from David Trainer is available for free now here https://lnkd.in/gX4mvsY3 Here's a snippet: "If there’s one thing we learned from yesterday, it is that your money is not safe. You wake up one day and poof, the market sells off huge, triggered by some weird stuff in Japan. At the same time, CNBC’s Jim Cramer continues to tirelessly push a bullish thesis on anything that moves. And, Wall Street pundits unabashedly reinforce the message that everything is fine: “We’re your trusted source for navigating the markets.” How many of you got an email from Seeking Alpha with the subject: “Markets are down – we’ve got you covered”? Right, sure. Those messages are little consolation for the unexpected losses in your portfolio. It’s like these firms forgot they were bullish a few days ago, and you shouldn’t be surprised by their bearish take today. There is no honor among thieves. If you think I’m coming on too strong, bear with me for just a minute. I am going to share with you the best, quickest tutorial on Wall Street. Then, I am going to explain what sparked the big sell off the last few days First, I need to be sure you have the right context for what’s happening these days. I promise to keep it short and sweet with a movie clip that is worth a million words. I will also, as usual, provide several specific stock ideas. But, I will not pretend that I have all the answers. Wall Street firms and advisors like to make you think everything is taken care of. They’ve done the work. Their ratings are reliable. They’ve done their diligence and scrubbed the numbers. And, they keep telling us that we can trust them even though time and again, we learn that we can’t. This scene from the movie The Big Short is one of my favorites of all time because it so perfectly shows why you cannot trust Wall Street. If you’ve not watched this 87-second clip before, you are in for a treat. And, you better be sitting down. ----more in the full letter: https://lnkd.in/gX4mvsY3

News alert: valuation matters today! Our DCF models are an incredibly powerful valuation tool as many of you who’ve seen our Reverse DCF Case studies know (see them here: https://lnkd.in/giE2MqAF). And, I have some news about those models. In case you’ve not seen, the team is hard at work making a lot of cool updates to our website and research tools. One of my favorite is the new charting tools for the Decision Page in our reverse DCF models. Words alone can’t do this update justice; so I put together a short video for everyone to see. Hey, I’m not a video producer, and I’m not getting an Academy awards for this video, but I think it gets the job done. In this short video, I am going to show everyone exactly why Tesla's stock ($TSLA) valuation is ridiculous. I welcome anyone to take the other side of that argument after watching this video. https://lnkd.in/gGN54RMS

Our CEO David Trainer is joining CNBC's Power Lunch to talk mega cap stocks with Kelly Evans at ~2pmET. 👀