Outstanding Investor Digest May 2026

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Your largest position is a European cigarette manufacturer. ESG? Hermit: Morality is not investing. The stock yields 8%, management buys back 5% annually, and the user base is addictive. The stock price ignores the fact that declining volume is already priced in. The surprise is price elasticity . They raise prices 6% a year. Math wins. outstanding investor digest

We open this issue with a paradox: In an era of passive mania, active management’s edge has not disappeared—it has magnified . The dispersion between the "Magnificent" winners and the "Forgotten" value traps is the widest since 1999. This issue is not about predicting the next crash. It is about . Disclaimer: This is a fictional report for illustrative

Confidential Draft – For Qualified Subscribers Date: April 2026 Theme: “The Art of Patience: Compounding Through Dispersion” 1. THE LEADER: Editor’s Note By the OID Editorial Team Your largest position is a European cigarette manufacturer

You sold a popular cloud stock at 30x revenue in 2024. It has since doubled. Regret? Hermit: None. Opportunity cost is the ghost that haunts the impatient. I rotated into a Japanese exchange (TSE: 8697) trading at 9x earnings with a 40% payout ratio. The cloud stock had gravity. The exchange has a monopoly on volume. I’ll take toll roads over rockets.

We feature a forgotten memo from a Baltimore-based deep-value shop, a transcript of a dinner with a UK-based "slow growth" compounder, and a sharp critique of the private credit bubble. Feature: "Cash is not trash; it is optionality."