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2025 Market Overview
This is a holiday week, so I’m writing this up today on Wednesday as the markets will be closed tomorrow and I won’t be doing anything market related on Friday. This newsletter will be dedicated to covering trends in markets and industries.
In this first article of the newsletter, I will lay out my public portfolio and the small mini-thesis behind those positions. In future newsletter articles, I will summarize these updates to just anything important for names in the month.
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Here is the public portfolio for this week for full transparency:
No changes in any positions this week as I had limited capital to make any buys.
As noted in my Youtube and my X account bios, I’m a long term value investor who looks at short term technicals just to make sure I make good long term buys. My goal is to find 10x-100x multi baggers that provide very large gains to net worth and wealth.
This past week has been a whirlwind for the stock market. Risk on assets fell early in the week quite hard and then have recovered nicely. BTC lost $100k support and even $90k support, but as of the time of this article, has regained $90k and continues to climb.
Investors had a HUGE rally in GOOG 0.00%↑ shares, and year to date returns on GOOG 0.00%↑ are sitting around 65%, and even more when looking at trailing twelve month data. There has been SO MUCH news regarding GOOG 0.00%↑ explaining this huge increase in price:
Probably the biggest thing is the anti-trust legal win for GOOG 0.00%↑ where they were allowed to keep chrome and their search intact while having to share search data with competitors.
The second biggest piece of news was that they released Gemini 3.0, a wonderful LLM model based on most metrics, and that they trained this version with just TPUs and not NVDA 0.00%↑ GPUs.
These TPUs are now going commercial and both Anthropic and META 0.00%↑ will be using them for specific inference tasks. This is a HUGE game-changer as NVDA 0.00%↑ is holding the lead in the chip market.
They announced Willow which is a 105-qubit processor which reduces error and was able to solve a complex calculation in under 5 minutes that would take 10 septillion years with classical computers.
Waymo has expanded enormously into new markets and started freeway driving in several cities as well
They had their first ever $100 billion quarter seen in their last earnings report.
This is just some of the positive news surrounding GOOG 0.00%↑ recently and shows why the stock is well on it’s way to a $4 trillion market cap.
My other names have been holding up pretty well. In non AI news, HCC 0.00%↑ and TDW 0.00%↑ reported earnings earlier this month. Make sure you check out my HCC 0.00%↑ article I wrote after their latest earnings. You can find that article here.
TDW 0.00%↑ shares rose in price to almost $60 per share and then fell afterwards on market and oil weakness. The long term looks very promising for TDW 0.00%↑ based on the company fundamentals and the long term outlook on offshore oil.
Finally, I added PYPL 0.00%↑ shares this month after doing valuation analysis on PYPL 0.00%↑ . These shares are extremely undervalued and with the underlying business continuing to get better, I think it is the perfect time to get in with a relatively small amount of capital and test the waters.
That’s it, until next month!
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