The S&P 500 is up 14% & Wall Street is celebrating record highs. But beneath the surface, something very different is happening. A staggering 85% of S&P 500 stocks are trading at least 10% below their all-time highs, and some of America's biggest names have been smashed. Bryce & Ren unpack the invisible crash hiding behind the AI boom, explain why a handful of stocks drive most market returns, and explore Charlie Munger's 200-week moving average rule for finding opportunities. Plus, Australia's $44 billion Firmus IPO falls apart, Samsung's profits are exploding, and the boys share what they've learnt about the future of robotics from New York.
In this episode:
00:00 The Invisible Crash Hiding Behind Record Market Highs
02:30 Firmus Pulls Its $44 Billion IPO: What Went Wrong?
07:30 Wall Street Hits New Highs & AI Earnings Accelerates
11:41 Why 85% of S&P 500 Stocks Are Down
15:42 Which 4% of Stocks Drive Long-Term Market Returns
18:20 Charlie Munger's Long Term Investing Rule
21:01 Netflix, Nike & Other Beaten-Down Stocks
24:30 The Mag Seven: Which Stocks Are a Buying Opp?
Stocks & ETFs Mentioned: Maas Group (ASX: MGH), Woolworths (ASX: WOW), Coles (ASX: COL), Cochlear (ASX: COH), Argo Investments (ASX: ARG), SK Hynix (KRX: 000660), Samsung Electronics (KRX: 005930), The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD), AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP), Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FICO), CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU), Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT), Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), General Electric (NYSE: GE), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nike (NYSE: NKE), Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD), Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)
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