Weitz Investment Management, an investment management firm, released its “Hickory Fund” third-quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the third quarter, the fund returned -9.07% compared to a -3.44% return for the Russell Midcap index. The third-quarter returns declined due to investors’ perception of anticipated Federal Reserve policy actions. In addition, you can check the top 5 holdings of the fund to know its best picks in 2022.
Weitz Investment Management discussed stocks like Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) in the Q3 2022 investor letter. Based in Englewood, Colorado, Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) operates a communication business that operates through GCI Holdings and Charter segments. On October 26, 2022, Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) stock closed at $79.51 per share. One-month return of Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) was 2.90% and its shares lost 53.11% of their value over the last 52 weeks. Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) has a market capitalization of $12.169 billion.
Weitz Investment Management made the following comment about Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) in its Q3 2022 investor letter:
“We believe this to be the case for Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) (owner of 26% of broadband provider Charter Communications). As one of the Fund›s largest positions and its outsized impact as the top detractor for the quarter and year-to-date periods, a more detailed discussion of our continued optimism is warranted.
Investors have apparently extrapolated that Charter’s recent string of lackluster broadband customer growth portends zero (or negative) growth into perpetuity. Skeptics point to early customer wins for wireless broadband offerings and fiber-network operators’ plans to aggressively expand their footprints as evidence that Charter’s (and cable operators’, generally) ability to add subscribers is permanently impaired. We disagree. Wireless broadband will likely continue to win customers in areas where wired infrastructure is unavailable or by expanding the market to new customer segments (e.g., construction trailers, food trucks, etc.). That said, the carriers face an important trade-off, as fixed wireless is a lower-return usage of scarce network capacity. As fixed and mobile data usage inexorably grow, we believe carriers will prioritize their traditional mobility business at the expense of expanding their fixed wireless base. With respect to growing competition from fiber-to-the-home operators, Charter’s footprint is already roughly 40% overbuilt and has been competing successfully for over a decade. As fiber companies look to enact previously announced expansion plans, inflationary pressures for labor, equipment, and funding costs may reduce their ultimate appetites…” (Click here to read the full text)
Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 27 hedge fund portfolios held Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) at the end of the second quarter which was 26 in the previous quarter.
We discussed Liberty Broadband Corporation (NASDAQ:LBRDA) in another article and shared Alphyn Capital Management’s views on the company. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q3 2022 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
In this piece, we will take a look at ten recent IPOs in micro cap stocks.
There are a variety of benefits and drawbacks to listing a firm’s equity for trading on the stock market. The single biggest benefit of the process called an IPO, is that it allows management to raise large amounts of funds and investors to potentially profit by seeing their existing stakes multiply in value. At the same time, the IPO process also brings in a variety of constraints. Publicly listed companies are subject to corporate financial reporting requirements of the jurisdictions in which their shares trade. At the same time, share prices can be a volatile affair, and while investors stand to gain significantly if their companies are well received by the market, they also risk equally massive losses should the opposite occur.
Warren Buffett never mentions this but he is one of the first hedge fund managers who unlocked the secrets of successful stock market investing. He launched his hedge fund in 1956 with $105,100 in seed capital. Back then they weren’t called hedge funds, they were called “partnerships”. Warren Buffett took 25% of all returns in excess of 6 percent.
For example S&P 500 Index returned 43.4% in 1958. If Warren Buffett’s hedge fund didn’t generate any outperformance (i.e. secretly invested like a closet index fund), Warren Buffett would have pocketed a quarter of the 37.4% excess return. That would have been 9.35% in hedge fund “fees”.
Actually Warren Buffett failed to beat the S&P 500 Index in 1958, returned only 40.9% and pocketed 8.7 percentage of it as “fees”. His investors didn’t mind that he underperformed the market in 1958 because he beat the market by a large margin in 1957. That year Buffett’s hedge fund returned 10.4% and Buffett took only 1.1 percentage points of that as “fees”. S&P 500 Index lost 10.8% in 1957, so Buffett’s investors actually thrilled to beat the market by 20.1 percentage points in 1957.
Between 1957 and 1966 Warren Buffett’s hedge fund returned 23.5% annually after deducting Warren Buffett’s 5.5 percentage point annual fees. S&P 500 Index generated an average annual compounded return of only 9.2% during the same 10-year period. An investor who invested $10,000 in Warren Buffett’s hedge fund at the beginning of 1957 saw his capital turn into $103,000 before fees and $64,100 after fees (this means Warren Buffett made more than $36,000 in fees from this investor).
As you can guess, Warren Buffett’s #1 wealth building strategy is to generate high returns in the 20% to 30% range.
We see several investors trying to strike it rich in options market by risking their entire savings. You can get rich by returning 20% per year and compounding that for several years. Warren Buffett has been investing and compounding for at least 65 years.
So, how did Warren Buffett manage to generate high returns and beat the market?
In a free sample issue of our monthly newsletter we analyzed Warren Buffett’s stock picks covering the 1999-2017 period and identified the best performing stocks in Warren Buffett’s portfolio. This is basically a recipe to generate better returns than Warren Buffett is achieving himself.
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