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Author: Berkfan   😊 😞
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Subject: Capital allocation woes
Date: 05/06/26 10:22 AM
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Folks, today DVA is surging, we all know Ted has owned for decades, its a buyback machine. Throwing to the side the ethics/ethos of the company, I know folks here aren't impressed with the company.

I'm talking strategy here. SIRI is similar in many ways to this from a financial point of view.

$15B of stocks were purchased this past quarter, that is a high amount.

Greg will be fine, let him have to own, or sign off on what Ted does, Ted doesn't want publicity, he wants to sit and analyse.

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Author: ppant   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Capital allocation woes
Date: 05/06/26 10:31 AM
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$15B of stocks were purchased this past quarter, that is a high amount.

Au contraire,$24B of equities were sold in the same quarter so they were net sellers of equities.
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Author: Cardude   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Capital allocation woes
Date: 05/06/26 10:47 AM
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I don't understand the wholesale selling of all/most of Todd's positions. Were they all bad?
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Author: ppant   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Capital allocation woes
Date: 05/06/26 10:52 AM
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I don't understand the wholesale selling of all/most of Todd's positions. Were they all bad?


Not entirely surprising. Buffett did the same thing when Lou Simpson left. All his positions were liquidated and I remember him saying that was because he wanted a clean slate and he could not have the conviction that the original manager had in positions he didn't understand.

The 13-F is not yeat out so it is hard to know if he has done the same thing this time. It would be a shame if they dumped visa, mastercard etc based purely on who originally bought them.
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Author: Berkfan   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Capital allocation woes
Date: 05/06/26 12:24 PM
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I understand the net sales, yes they were net sellers of equities. But, when was the last time they found $15B of stocks to buy? OXY back in 2022

likely sold all of Todd's stuff, but added to or either initiated new positions.
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