It's time to do a little spring cleaning with your investing life. Botily full money starts now. Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. This is Motley Full Money. It's the Motley Full Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill and I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst Jason Moser and Ron Gross. Good to see you both. Happy spring.
现在是时候对你的投资生活进行一些春季清洁了。 Botily full money 开始了。每个人都需要钱。这就是为什么他们称其为钱。这是 Motley Full Money。这是 Motley Full Money 电台节目。我是克里斯·希尔,我跟 Motley Full 高级分析师杰森·莫泽和罗恩·格罗斯一起。很高兴见到你们两个,祝你们春季愉快。
Are you doing, Chris? Happy spring indeed. It is our spring cleaning special. We are using spring break as a chance to lean into the theme of spring cleaning because let's face it folks. It is not just our closets and our yards that benefit from spring cleaning. Our portfolios do as well.
So, Ron Gross, I'm going to start with you thinking about trimming the hedges here. What is a high flyer that you think investors might want to consider trimming in their portfolio? I'm going to go with five below.
Now, it's a fine company. I have nothing at all against it. So, I want to say that at the outset. I'm just saying the shares are up about 85% from its 52-week low. And at a market cap of around $11 billion, it's trading at 35 times forward earnings. Wow. Forward earnings guidance actually from the company of around 310 million. So, not an analyst. The company is actually giving you guidance there.
So, 35 times. Compare that to dollar general at 18 times, dollar tree at 21 times, Ali's bargain outlet at 23 times. Selling at a significant premium to similar types of companies. Now, things are going well. Sales for the full year were up 8%. They opened up 115 new stores. They're going to open up another 200 stores. So, it will grow. They don't have debt. They're buying back stock. So, again, nothing wrong with the company. All I'm saying is, may have gotten a little bit ahead of itself. It's if it's now an outsized position for you as a result, maybe a good one to trim.
所以,35倍。与 Dollar General 的 18 倍、 Dollar Tree 的 21 倍和 Ali's Bargain Outlet 的 23 倍相比,销售价格显著高于同类公司。现在,事情发展得很好。全年销售额增长了 8%。他们开了 115 家新店。他们还将再开 200 家店。所以,会有增长。他们没有债务。他们正在回购股票。所以,再次强调,公司没有问题。我只是想说,它可能有点过头了。如果这导致你拥有过多的头寸,可能需要适当减仓。
Well, and it's a good reminder, Ron, if you're wondering about the valuation of any given stock, taking a moment and comparing it to the valuation in your case with, look at 5 below a discount retailer compared to dollar tree, dollar general and Ali's bargain.
Well, don't get angry with me, Chris. Please, I am going to just to the outside. Let's say, don't trim. Right. If you have high flyers in your portfolio, what do we like to say here? Water your flowers, pull the weeds. Let those high flyers run. Now, in all seriousness, that's great in theory, but there is a point where those high flyers could probably start causing you to lose a little sleep at night.
And so, I will say, if you feel like you have overexposure to any high flyers, if they've run on you and they remain good businesses with questionable valuations, this could be a good time to right size that position. So, I'm not really calling out any names in this case because it is so specific in listening, Ron.
Well, deal with you later. It is a very personal decision, right? It is something that everybody kind of has to determine their own allocation and what ultimately lets them sleep at night. I think you spring is a great time to look at that. If you have a position that has run beyond your wildest dreams, it could be a good opportunity to take a little bit of that off the table and put that money to good use.
But if you've got high flyers and you feel like that business is still doing what you thought it would do, let those things keep running. My guess is that in this market in the last year or so we've had, there's not a lot of that going on.
Well, sports roll deals, but there could be the outlier there that you got in on something at their 52-week low. It's now double or even triple and you never anticipated that and you might want a trim. Right. And keep in mind, we're talking about trimming the hedges. We're not talking about ripping the hedges out of the ground and throwing them away.
Unlike this next category, Ron, which is when you're doing some string cleaning at home, you're probably throwing some stuff out. What is a stock that you think investors should consider throwing out altogether?
Now, not all of my colleagues agree with me here, but I never did and currently don't like Zillow. For me, too many mistakes from this management team and on this business, I don't want to be a part owner of it. As we know, most of us know, they had a completely unwind their eye-buying home business. That was a complete debacle. Thankfully, that is behind them.
Latest quarter results did exceed their outlook, but total revenue was down 19%. So they did better than they thought, but they were still down 19%. The clients in their internet media technology business, in their mortgage business, mortgage revenue down 65%, their premier agent business, down 20%, visits to the site during the quarter, down 5%.
Their vision is to build the Housing Super App. Okay, let's see how they execute. I'll be watching alongside with all of you.
他们的愿景是建立一个住房超级应用程序。好的,让我们看看他们如何执行。我会和你们所有人一起观察。
Trading at 16.5 times, adjustity, but 44 times forward estimates, because if you use current estimates, it won't work because they're actually not making any money, too, you'll get an NA or an NM in that category right there.
The skepticism, just dripping from that whole diatribe, Jason, it was unbelievable.
Jason,你那番话里的怀疑,简直是滴滴答答的,令人难以置信。
What about you? What's the stock investors might want to throw it all together?
你呢?股票投资者可能想要将它们全部抛掉?
I will say, Ron, I think I agreed, you said Super App. Every year was a couple of years ago when we heard Super App, but we thought, wow, that's all of the opportunity in the world, and a couple of years later, you kind of realize that's just a canned statement that doesn't really have any vision, so to say. I think I'm on board with you there.
Chris, I look at my personal portfolio. I continue to hold a small position in underarmour. Every once in a while, I ask myself, why? I just don't know. For a long time, it was such a good performer, and then it just fell off of a cliff. They've had a number of different thesis-breaking events. I continue to think I probably haven't sold it because I'm just lazy, but I also look at it and Chris, like we've said before, they've made good stuff. I can't understand why they've not been able to get over that hump. To me, the big question really continues to be Kevin Plank, and how tough is he actually to work for?
They've got a new CEO stepping in and Stephanie at Coleman Lennart's. Can she make a difference? Maybe? I don't know, but at this point, how big of a difference can she make if Plank is really the one behind the scenes calling the shots, because he is really, ultimately, the owner of the business still.
Will I sell these shares? I'm probably going to be lazy and not, but still. I will probably ask myself this question, again, next spring. Why haven't I sold these shares yet?
Let's turn positive, Ron, in the spirit of Marie Kondo. What is a stock or a business that sparks joy in you?
让我们秉承玛丽·康多的精神,转向积极向上的态度,Ron。哪些股票或企业能唤起你的喜悦之情呢?
Well, I am a broken record on Costco, but is truly a company, I really admire, and I'll go through why. I love the culture that they have created, Jim Senegal back in the day, and it continues today. They value employees, customers, and shareholders.
They offer a tremendous value proposition to the customer. They've got a membership model where 75% of their operating profit actually comes from the membership fee that we all are more than happy to pay each year.
They have pricing power. It allows them to periodically raise those membership prices, which again, fall right to the bottom line. They average about a price hike about every five and a half, five and a half years. I think we'll do for one soon, so keep an eye out for that. I love their 90% renewal rate. It keeps those recurring revenues pouring in.
They have the ability to continue to expand, even online in a big way, I believe. They have 848 warehouses, 584 of them in the US. Stocks never cheap, because I'm not the only one that loves this company, but at 32 times forward earnings, it's cheaper than it has been in the past. You're paying a premium price for a premium company. And on a valuation basis, cheaper than five below.
Well, this one sparks joy in me because it's something that's worked out very well for our members in Chris. That's ultimately why we're here, right?
这个让我很开心,因为这是对克里斯会员非常成功的事情。这就是我们在这里的根本原因,对吧?
I look to the top performer in my next gen Supercycle service. This one that focuses on 5G and connectivity. The top performer, no, Chris, it's not Apple. Ron, it's cadence design system.
I know probably no one out there has even heard of this business. And I think that actually is a little bit of an advantage there. I flies under the radar, but it's got a very strong competitive position. It's got software, the hardware, the intellectual property that ultimately helps its customers.
One of these big semiconductor companies, these companies are building these electronic products that we use every day. They serve these end markets from consumers, hypersteel computing, 5G communications, automotive industrial. The list goes on and on. And if you look at the last five years, the company has grown revenue and annualized rate of 13% with net income up and even more impressive 33%.
So that outperformance is no accident. And I'm thrilled for all of our members who've been along for the ride on that one.
所以,非凡的表现不是偶然发生的。我为我们所有一起经历过这个过程的团队成员感到兴奋。
Coming up after the break, a few stocks that are poised for a comeback. Details next are stay right here.
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Chris Hill here with Jason Moser and Ron Gross. It is our spring cleaning special. We're recording this one a little earlier than usual. Springtime is all about rebirth, renewal.
So Jason, what is a stock or industry that you believed is poised for a comeback? Well, we talk a lot about the war on cash and with these two companies, I'm choosing here, you would think over the last year cash is winning. And I just, you know, let's not be too short term focused. You're right. I'm looking at big, thin tech, PayPal and Block. I think these companies are poised to see better days.
You saw a short report recently on Block. We've seen a number of problems over PayPal recently. Clearly they're undergoing leadership transition. And the one year chart of both companies is horrendous. I mean, Blockdown around 50% PayPal down something like 36%. These are still both very respectable businesses with tremendous tail ones that they're playing into. So I clearly some challenges they're dealing with over the last year plus I think they're poised for better days ahead.
Ron, what about you? You know, I haven't talked much recently about my biotech basket that I started building way back in 2017. And it was on fire for a while. But now after almost six years, it's actually down 2%. The basket's focused on gene therapy to refresh some listeners' memories. And I'm by no means a biotech expert, but I bought the basket because I felt gene editing would be the future of medicine. And I do still believe that.
But biotech is very volatile and the entire sector has been very weak since January 2021. Rising interest rates have been a major headwind and the more so for earlier stage companies having cash has been helpful. It's really key for these companies. But even if you have cash being five years or so from market is a headwind too. The payoff is just too long versus near term rewards. So working through that all will take some time. Interest rates coming down will help. And I do think this will eventually happen.
Pick up an MNA would be huge. The recent Pfizer Seagandale was encouraging. So I'm sticking with my basket. If you don't want individual stocks, I recommend the XBI ETF as a great way to play the sector. Just real quick on the MNA activity, Ron. When you look at this basket of biotech stocks that you have, are there some that part of the thesis for you is they might be an acquisition target? Yeah, two of them have already been taken out. But that was earlier in the basket, maybe before 2020. Since then, I've had no acquisition activity in my holdings. But some of them, I think, are probably ripe, especially once their cash comes down to a point of where they're somewhat in trouble and easy to bargain with, they make easier acquisition targets.
April showers bring me flowers. But let's face it, April showers just bring a lot of rain. And so with that in mind, Jason, what is a stock for a rainy day? And think in terms of 2022 and what a rough year for the market and investors it was.
So a stock for a rainy day for me is a stable stalwart business that provides ballast. Yes, you were going through last year. There were some stocks, hopefully, in your portfolio that helped you sleep at night. And I'm going to round out the world on cash basket here, Chris, actually, because when I looked at Visa and MasterCard, both actually and positive return territory over the last year, down only slightly in 2022, out performing the market handily, I felt really good as an owner of these companies.
When you look at the five and 10-year charts, it becomes more apparent. You just want to own these and go to sleep at night. And you're going to hold on to them for a long time. I think there's all sort of people chirping out there about disruption and crypto and they're going to be left behind. And yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember these are big companies with a lot of resources, right? They're the ones that are investing in a lot of this stuff. These opportunities that come along the way, they're not sitting on their collective dust doing nothing.
I mean, they got the resources to invest in this evolving space, massive networks of users all around the world, and data indicates that more card users continue to use their cards more. So the tail ones are very clear. It's just so difficult to disrupt massive networks like these. And I think that's why we saw these these two companies. We saw their shares hold up so well in 2022. I remain an owner of all four that I've mentioned here in intent to remain a holder for hopefully years to come.
Burke Sheer Hathaway, though. I do know it's boring and Warren and Charlie aren't going to be around forever, but it's a collection of more than 60 wonderful businesses, including BNSF Railway, Geico, Mid American Energy, Clayton Holmes. My personal favorite, Dairy Queen, Love Dairy Queen. Insurance is about 20% 7% of the business. Railways and energy 9% each manufacturing 25% each. Nicely diversified across sectors.
Obviously from an investment perspective, big positions in Amics and Bank of America and Apple, Oxygen and Petroleum. A succession plan is in place. Greg Able will be the head of the company one day. He currently heads up the Energy Division. He's Vice Chairman of the board. Investing side is well in hand with Todd Combs and Ted Wessler managing sizable portfolios for Burke Sheer. Only 1.8 times tangible book value, $129 billion in cash, compounded value at almost 20% rate over 57 years. It allows me to sleep well at night. It is my largest position.
显然地,从投资的角度来看,我在Amics、Bank of America、Apple、Oxygen和Petroleum中拥有大量的头寸。公司已有继任计划,Greg Able将有一天成为公司的领导。他目前负责能源部门,并担任董事会副主席。投资方面由Todd Combs和Ted Wessler管理大量的投资组合,为Burke Sheer服务。公司资产只有1.8倍的有形账面价值,持有现金1290亿美元,在57年内的复合增长率接近20%。这让我可以安然入睡。这是我最大的投资头寸。
Ron, you're right. Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger. They're not immortal, although they seem like they are at times. But it really does seem like while they're not going to be around forever, this business and the blueprint for running it, both in terms of the acquisitions they make and the investments that they make. It seems like that is set up about as well as any succession planning I can think of in recent memory. A great from a complete from an operating side of the business.
A great my only concern is future acquisitions. Warren Buffett is a master in identifying the right companies at the right price. Let's hope that that continues well into the future.
我的唯一担忧是未来的收购。沃伦·巴菲特是在正确的价格上识别正确公司的大师。希望他能一直持续下去。
All right, last but not least Jason, one actual cleaning tip. It can be specific, it can be more general enough with the investing. Let's help folks with an actual cleaning tip.
Well, okay. So this is something, my wife a year or so ago, turn me on to this thing. I do most of the cooking in the house and I just do a lot of the cleaning as well as the dishes of least. Maybe you could just say the kitchen is my domain, Chris. But one thing she got me turned on to this dish, a dish soap bar. Instead of buying the plastic bottle filled with the dish liquid, you can buy these dish soap bars and it's just like a bar of soap. And so you're saving, you know, having to buy and either trash or hopefully recycle that plastic container. But you also, I tell you what, it lasts a lot longer because with the liquid, you just tend to overuse it. I've really become a great proponent of this dish soap bar and they come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. So keep on the lookout for them. If you find one, give it a try. You may become a believer like I am.
Ron? Two weekends ago, my wife went to visit my son at college and I had the house to myself. As we do, Jason, I cooked up a whole bunch of Italian food in a thick red tomato sauce. Here's where the story goes south. Stick with me. I decided I decided I was an adult and I could make the adult decision to eat in the family room in front of the TV. And the fan was going perfectly until a big dollop of tomato sauce dropped onto our new carpet. Well, thank goodness for Google. Here's what you do. You mix two cups of cold water with one tablespoon of clear liquid detergent, apply a generous amount, blot it up, rinse. It's like it never happened.
Let's go to our memo in the class, Dan Boyd, Dan. Any thoughts on what you've heard or a cleaning tip of your own? So recently, I've had to take a part of vacuum to get some crackers that my son had dropped. And I realized that you can clean the filters in a lot of these modern vacuums that don't use bag filters. So I did that, cleaned it, let it dry for 24 hours. And now my vacuum works like it's brand new. You're not getting that on Bloomberg.
Jason Moser, Ron Gross, thanks for being here. Thanks more after the breaks to stay right here.
Jason Moser,Ron Gross,感谢您们出席。在休息后,再次感谢您们留在这里。
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Welcome back to Motley Full Money. I'm Chris Hill. Howard Marx is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oak Tree Capital Management. Warren Buffett is said of him. When I see memos from Howard Marx in my mail, that's the first thing I open and read. Back in January, Motley Full Senior Analyst, Bill Mann caught up with Marx to talk about his recent memo entitled Sea Change, as well as China's effect on inflation here in the US, and the winners and losers in a world of higher interest rates.
欢迎回到Motley Full Money,我是克里斯·希尔。霍华德·马克斯是橡树资本管理公司的联合创始人和联合主席,据说沃伦·巴菲特很欣赏他的备忘录。当我在邮件中看到霍华德·马克斯的备忘录时,那是我打开并阅读的第一件事。今年1月份,Motley Full资深分析师比尔·曼与马克斯交谈,谈及他最近的备忘录《革命性的变革》,以及中国对美国通胀的影响,以及在高利率环境下的赢家和输家。
You put out a memo in December, it was called Sea Change. And in Sea Change, you describe what you see in 53 years of investing only third really, the dawn of the third era of investing. Now, obviously in that period of time, we've seen lots of fads, we've seen lots of trans, but in this case, we're talking about something that is a total transformation. And we have felt it too, but I wanted to take the opportunity to ask you to talk about what it is that you see that's happening and why you think it's happening now.
I think, Bill, since the global financial crisis, which ended in 2009, we've been living in a world which was engineered to be an easy world. Some of the manifestations may not have been intentional.
The Fed had to save the country and the world from the global financial crisis. It did so by drastically lowering interest rates and increasing liquidity through quantitative easy, the buying of bonds. And those two changes had many roundifications. And they made the world an easy place. And unusually, unnaturally, easy place for the 13 years from the 09 through the end of 21.
What do I mean? Well, first of all, of course, it was very easy to borrow money and it was cheap to borrow money. And borrowers did not have to commit to extensive documentation or restrictions. What we call covenants tended to disappear.
Now, the reason for this is largely because the reduction of interest rates reduced the returns on very safe instruments like cash, T-bills, high grade bonds to the point where people who investors, especially institutions that need six or seven or eight percent a year couldn't use those things. They had to move out the risk curve in order to get the kinds of returns they needed. And that made their capital readily available to riskier companies at low interest rates.
The accommodative monetary policy that I described supported the economy. So we had the longest economic recovery in history. It supported the markets. We had the longest bull market in history. The declining interest rates increase the value of all assets. The theoretician says that the value of an asset is the discounted present value of all the future cash flows. If you lower the rate at which you do the discounting, the present value of future cash flows goes up. So assets became more valuable. It became, it was very difficult to default or go bankrupt in this accommodative environment. So the rate of defaults and bankruptcies was very low.
In the prior crises I had managed money in, 1990-19102, we had two years of double digit defaults in the high-obon universe. In this case, we only had one again because of these accommodative policies. You can always go get more money.
Exactly. Money was available. Yeah, a zombie company which consumed money where the debt service requirements exceeded the cash flows. As you say, it could burn money every quarter, but it was very easy for them to get more money.
So an easy going environment and the main point of the memo sea change is that, number one, obviously, in 1980, I had a loan outstanding from a bank and I got a slip from the bank saying the rate on your loan is now 22 and a quarter. It seems like a lot. 40 years later, I was able to borrow it to a quarter. So I just think that interest rates don't have much further to go on the downside. So that phenomenon is largely over.
And I think that for various reasons, the Fed is not going to go back to the ultra low interest rates of the last 13 years. So we're back more to, in my opinion, a more normal environment, where it's not easy to get financed. Some people can, some can. It's not as cheap. There may be some covenants involved. It's not so easy to avoid the fault in bankruptcy. It's not so easy to avoid recession. It's just going to be a little more challenging time.
Now, if people say, I want to go back to normal. Let's go back to normal, like 2015, 2016, 2017. That was not normal. We are in normal. This is normal. The new conditions that I describe are normal. The conditions of the last 13 years were abnormal.
There was a brilliant chart. And I should send it to you. It was provided to me. The Bank of Japan did it. And it showed that the interest rates over the last 13 years worldwide were at 700 year lows. Probably longer than that. But they sort of ran out of the capacity to track from the beginning of recorded history in which interest was a formalized thing. We were at a 700 year low.
And what's really interesting to me, so I got my start in investing in Japan. It was the early 1990s. And so it was a very, a very incredible time to be an investor. In Japan, never did learn that lesson. Or at least they have pushed it off that the types of cleansing that you're talking about, bankruptcy is good. Bankruptcy, it hurts.
And I think that it feels bad. But in some ways, our country works best because we are really good at rewarding well invested capital and punishing poorly invested capital. And in the last 13 years, that accommodative environment made that something. You could step through it.
You know, I said in one of my memos during the pandemic that fear of bankruptcy is to capitalism as fear of hell is to Catholicism. It's what makes us on the straight and adult. It's what makes us make prudent decisions. And if you're not afraid of bankruptcy or default because the conditions are so benign and you believe that there's always a put from the fed in which they'll bail you in the economy out, then you don't have to be so prudent. So, you know, that's the downside and that creates moral hazard and all those things.
More with Howard Marx after the break. This is Motley Full Money.
中场休息后继续听霍华德·马克斯的节目。这里是莫特利富财经。
Hey, yeah. Working from running to the other and all points in between. Took a job through mix with the bed. Well, I might have water turned the wine. Yeah. Took a job through mix with the bed. Money, water turned the wine. Yeah. Then I took a job through mix with the bed. Yeah.
Welcome back to Motley Full Money. I'm Chris Hill. Let's get back to my colleague Bill Mann's conversation with Howard Marx.
欢迎回到Motley Full Money。我是Chris Hill。现在让我们回到我的同事Bill Mann和Howard Marx的谈话。
There is a word that you didn't write in C-Change. To me, it was in the background and the word is China because when you're talking about, when you're talking about a 13-year period, I think you're generally talking about, you're generally talking about an interest rate environment, but the 40-year period you're talking about primarily the impacts of globalization and for a 40-year period, we had the capacity and the endless desire to export inflation to China. Is that time over as well?
Well, I would rephrase. I wouldn't say we exported inflation. I'd say we exported a sourcing, which had the effect of fighting inflation. I think there was a 25-year period there, maybe it was something like 1990 to 2015, when consumer durable prices overall declined by 40%. And it didn't happen because the US production got cheaper. It happened because we imported more and more and more from Asia. When we talk about durables, we're talking about appliances and things of that nature, TVs. The raise your hand if you have an American-made TV. The point is, it's a coffee table. This was the period that coincided with what I call China's economic miracle.
I'm not going to put you on the spot, but do you know how much Chinese GDP is up in the last 42 years? It's something like, so you mean aggregates? How many what percentage, or how many times has it doubled? Has it tripled? Oh, I think it's like eight times. It's 100 times. So I was really wrong. In 1978, you did put me on the spot by not putting me on the spot. In 1978, as I recall, Chinese GDP was 177 billion dollars. And most recently, it was 17.8 trillion. So that's 100x. And our business made China rich and allowed them to move people from the farms to the cities and into manufacturing from agriculture and so forth. But it's largely over. Ironically, there are a lot of people who want to do outsourcing who say, now, China's too expensive. Because the Chinese miracle raised the per capita income and the wage in China. And you can't get worked on as cheaply over there anymore as you used to. Right on a yield basis, it doesn't really work out any right? Exactly.
So you have people going to countries other than China, the anomalies or Bangladesh or examples. But then you have the fact that the pandemic demonstrated that we have to worry about sources of supply. So there's a force going on now called the globalization, which is a reverse hole of the sourcing abroad in some small ways. But that will stop or undo the progress against inflation that globalization produced. So you can't have it both ways. It can't be both ways. And you're exactly right that it was a continuum. And if you, if raising China's economic standards was a goal. And from the outset, from both sides, it was a goal. Richard Nixon looked at China and said, having a China in poverty is not it's not helpful for anybody. So it was absolutely a policy goal. But they've done it. You are at the point now where China is no longer competing on price. Now if inflation, if inflation average, I don't, I'm not 100% sure on this data. But if it averaged 2% a year in this country in the last 30 years. And that benefited from the process I described in which durable prices went down by 40%. What would inflation have been if durable prices hadn't gone down by 40%? And if durable prices are not going to go down by 40% in the years ahead, what will inflation be? And so I think we may have a slightly higher normal rate of inflation than we did over this period.
So you do agree with me that we exported inflation inflation. I'm still stinging from the fact that my guess at the exponents were, you know, for how much China has grown was so far off. But it does so. I mean, even if you know your, even if you know your stuff, exponential math or exponential factors are really, really hard to contemplate.
So what we're suggesting and what you're suggesting in C change is that it is that a lot of the things that have not worked for the last 13 years maybe are about to.
Great example. High yield bonds. That's one of the, that's really where I started as a money manager in 78. And it's a big part of what we do here at Oak Tree.
And about a year ago, they yielded for something. And that was the low return world. They were not useful to the institutional client trying to make 6, 7 or 8, who would invest in low quality debt to make for something.
Well, today it yields about 8. That's a usable rate of return. So that's just this very simple example of what you're talking about.
嗯,今天的回报率大约为8%。这是一个可用的回报率。这只是你所说的非常简单的例子。
The, the available, the ability of returns now that I would describe as helpful or ample. They're not the highest I've ever seen. They're not. I wouldn't describe them as the most generous, but at least they're usable.
Another example is one of the things we invest in here and are well known for is distressed debt. Well, guess what? There wasn't much to stress. If you could just keep raising capital. Yes, right.
Yeah. So, so, you know, the default rate in my first 30 years in that position, the default rate averaged to around 4% a year. In the last 13 years, averaged something more like 2. So very little default, not much for default, distressed debt funds to do.
So we raised a smallish funds and they had moderate returns. Not our dream environment. Yeah.
所以我们筹集了一些小资金,它们有适度的回报。不太符合我们的梦想环境。是的。
It sounds to me Howard like you were describing a much better environment than we've had in a long time for, for pensions. Yes. For pulled money. Yeah. Did they have struggled so much for the return for their current obligations?
What are some of the other areas you think will benefit from the new world order?
你认为新世界秩序还会惠及哪些其他领域呢?
Well, it's basically everything on the lending side of the equation. That's one. So ranging from cash, which now has a few percent positive return through treasuries, through high grades, through high yield, private lending.
Now yields, low double digits. It used to be mid-high single digits. Distressed debt funds should be able to make more money in a more target rich environment.
And then there is the one off here and there. If you want to look at the things that have been heard, an example is the emerging markets.
然后还有一件事情,就是这里和那里的特例。如果您想看已经听说过的事情,比如新兴市场。
The emerging markets face significant challenges. They've incurred a lot of debt, denominated, and dollars. And they don't have that much access to dollars.
This low return world, the hunt for return on investors part, allowed made dollar capital available to the emerging markets through loans, which was not as not normally been the case.
这个收益低的世界,投资者寻求回报的行为,通过贷款向新兴市场提供了大量美元资金,这在以往并不常见。
So they'll struggle with paying those off those loans. But the securities are starting from a cheap place. If you cheap enough, they're going to go up. I'm not saying that.
But there are two piles of securities or assets. There's one pile that everybody knows about, feels they understand, feels good about, feels are seemingly and prudent and they're optimistic about.
但是,有两堆证券或资产。有一堆是每个人都知道的,感觉理解,感觉良好,似乎是谨慎和乐观的。
Then there's another pile of things that people don't know about, don't understand, don't feel good about, think are unseemly and they're pessimistic about which pile contains the bargains.
It's the latter. Now that's not to say, I want to say very clearly for your viewers and listeners, that's not to say that everything on the latter pile is a bargain. But that's but the bargains are in that pile.
I've made a living for 50 odd years buying things on that pile, buying and doing the things other people didn't want to do.
我用那堆东西挣了50多年的钱,买了不少别人不想碰的东西,也做了一些别人不愿意做的事情。
So you get to China. What's the word that people have been applying to China for the last year or so? Uninvestable.
那么你来到了中国。人们最近一年快要把什么词用于形容中国呢?那就是“不适合投资的”。
Yeah, I like to hear okay. I like to hear that because I say okay, nobody else is willing to do it. That means there's not much optimism in the prices. That means the prices may be low, maybe too low. Let's take a hard look.
That's going to do it for this week's Motley Full Money Radio Show. The show is mixed by Dan Boyd. I'm Chris Hill. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time.
这就是本周的Motley Full Money广播节目了。节目由丹·博伊德混音。我是克里斯·希尔。谢谢收听。我们下次见。