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I journal on my stock positions before buying. Mag7 Principal. Concentrated portfolio and evidence-based research. Outperformed SP500 by 2x in prev. 3 years.

Beigetreten Şubat 2023
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@SixSigmaCapital I 100% am of the belief that Trump will pull off a maximum PR maneuver and make April a green month, to celebrate the one year liberation day anniversary. So I’m with you on the flip of the direction
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As promised here's the $CRSR story. The bull and bear cases and why I think Corsair is mispriced at $5 a share (0.4x P/S) and 600M market cap. I hold about 2% of port in Corsair. WHAT THEY DO Corsair provides performance components, peripherals, and computing solutions across consumer, education, government and engineering/manufacturing segments. Corsair splits its business into two segments: peripherals and components. The peripherals segment covers everything a gamer or creator touches directly, including keyboards, mice, headsets, controllers, capture cards, Stream Decks, microphones, cameras, and sim racing gear. This segment captures 33%, or $492M for FY25 total revenues. The components segment covers the hardware inside and around the machine, including PSUs (power supply unit), cooling, cases, DRAM, prebuilt gaming PCs, laptops, and AI workstations. This captures 67% of their total revenues, or $980M FY25 revenue. Before we go further, let's address the elephant in the room. Corsair is down -83% in the last 5 years, from $33 to just $5 a share. SO WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED? In short, they could not sustain a positive operating income. FY22: -$55M loss FY23: +$9.7M profit FY24: -$50M loss 2023 saw strong demand for gaming following post-pandemic recovery and 2024 saw regression to the mean. If you can't sustain net-positive operating income, then it signals operational weakness either due to execution or cyclical demand, and raises doubts about the company's long-term viability, signalling if this company will even exist in the future. WHAT HAPPENED IN 2025? Corsair achieved positive GAAP operating income of $2.1M, that's a +104% YoY swing to positive. They achieved this through a combination of operational efficiency improvements, better inventory holding, improved supply chain management and aided by a tailwind of increasing demand by consumers. Internally it's likely they cut down on bureaucracy, accelerated decision making, reduced weeks of cover for their inventory and held their vendors or logistics team to a higher bar. Many reasons hide behind "operational efficiency" and "strategic inventory" which is why I don't like to focus on it if management themselves aren't clear about it. But let's move on to something that management IS clear about: Product innovation. They launched over 100 products in 2025 including new PC cases, pre-built desktops, controllers, voice focus software and their Galleon 100 SD Keyboard with built-in stream deck. This is a company that is focused on leading not with accounting gimmicks but with value added products. But let's not butter them up completely and address some meaningful tailwinds that was out of Corsair's control, but benefited Corsair. Demand is picking up again. A critical component in gaming is GPUs, and the two biggest players, AMD and NVIDIA have confirmed that the gaming segment is ramping back up: -AMD: "Gaming business revenue was $843 million, up 50% year-over-year, primarily driven by higher semi-custom revenue and strong demand for AMD Radeon GPUs." -NVIDIA: "Gaming revenue $3.7 billion, up 47% YoY, driven by strong Blackwell demand" Now that we know what happened in 2025, let's move on to BULL CASE🐂 Gaming segment is cyclical, we see accelerated in demand and Corsair has both the branding, distribution and inventory to deliver the demand and maximize this cycle. Additionally, from a product perspective, they want to shift the focus to the Elgato brands Stream Deck: Thi La (CEO): "Stream Deck is a central component of our plan, evolving from a creator tool into a shared control layer across productivity, gaming and sim racing. The successful launch of our Galleon keyboard at CES 2026, one of the most awarded product launches in our history" Stream deck has a broad appeal: -Content creators and streamers (switch scenes, trigger sound effects, better overlays) -Podcast and radio hosts -Video editors -Corporate presentors They're trying to decouple themselves from the tight cyclical grasp of the gaming segment. Additionally, they authorized a $50M stock repurchase program. Its first in history. If executed at today's prices would be almost 10% of their market cap. But unfortunately, this only gives about 1.5 years benefit since stock-based-compensation (SBC) was about 33M in 2025. Further, they are guiding to $1.3 to $1.5B revenue and $100-115M adjusted EBITDA for 2026. This translates to: -5% revenue YoY driven from global semiconductor shortages and +6.9% growth YoY from the midpoint $107M. It's important to note that the +6.9% YoY growth comes at the backdrop of an already +84% improvement in adjusted EBITDA. Finally, institutions are all making small bets on Corsair. Top funds like DE Shaw, Millennium Management, State Street and Point72 Asset management and many others all either initiated new positions or bought millions in shares (see snip). BEAR CASE 🐻 The reason why the market has not rotated into Corsair is because they are afraid this is simply a repeat of 2023. 2023 saw a positive operating income on the tailwind of high demand, and 2024 saw all that money evaporate and then some. What if the same thing happens again? It very well could. I don't want to expand too much on other bear cases because just this one captures multitude of factors: -Company value tied to cyclical demand -Compressing margins due to competitions -Lack of execution by management -Being majorly controlled by EagleTree at 50% ownership But ultimately, all of it is represented in the metric of operating income. THE BOTTOM LINE The company needs to prove itself. Operating income is fragile at just $2.1M, already guiding 2026 revenue lower and its unclear whether the shift of focus to D2C and non-gaming segments will work. But this is a company that is STILL guiding to $1.4B revenue at a 600M market cap. They are priced to near bankruptcy and I fundamentally believe they are mispriced. I do not think they will go bankrupt, and I do not think they will become innovators overnight. I think they will remain a household name with brand recognition that will carry them into new segments and I believe that because of that they will go higher. Also, both La and Szteinbaum bought 50,000 and 100,000 shares in Nov 2025, so that helps my bottom line statement too 😉
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@PositionJournal another thing I would add that comes from their larger scope (product width) is via their software icue, when you own a few corsair things (fans, pump, etc) you often times find people buying more products (headset, mouse, keyboard) to take advantage of their ecosystem.
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@Antoniokolstee @schinskytrades Spot on. I really like the D2C transition. Why pay Amazon or other platforms for a cut when you already have the brand recognition and customer trust? Typically people siphon off Amazons brand to get their customers to trust them, this is not the case
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@PositionJournal @schinskytrades they have been increasing their D2C revenues consistently for more than 5 years. Their newest acquisition(s), Fanatec and Drop, was 100% D2C and they plan to introduce some of the SKUs into physical locations but overall much of it remains D2C.
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@pepemoonboy I think long term Meta will do amazing. But short term pain will persist as Zuck executes and pivots x.com/positionjourna…
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$META bulls totally miss how slow moving large organizations are and how they don't deliver instant yields after a major pivot or strategy shift. Don't expect instant rebounds. Here's the real timeline most investors miss, speaking from experience YEAR 1: Planning, heavy investment, internal deliberation, what will we do, when, why and how (Meta announces $70B in CapEx, rolls out Llama foundation model, begins massive integration of AI into their platforms). Market gets hyped on the announcements in AI such as promise of increased AI investments and stock often rallies on the vision. Year 1 passed, we saw highs of $750-780 in 2025 YEAR 2: Execution kicks in based on the plan. But the markets have already been ecstatic and they expect results and fireworks NOW. But true returns will only be delivered late Year 2 at best. You cannot expect Year 1's vision to have delivered returns. That means the rally to $750 was unjustified fundamentally. In Year 2, $META announces they're still executing to the plan and everything is fine, but the cash balance dropping from billions of CapEx coupled with revenue not materializing now SHAKES UP THE MARKET. This is when hope fades, selling pressure hits, and the stock gets punished. We saw this play out when Meta announced earnings this year and stock popped from $666 to $738 (+10%) and only for it to fade back down even lower, to now $617. A -16% drop despite amazing results, why did this happen? Because we are impatient investors, we need our money now, we need to see the future, today. YEAR 3: If execution is near-PERFECT, returns finally start to materialize and potentially explosively. But honestly, taking just 1 year to execute to core objectives is unrealistic. This is easily observed once you've seen the inner workings of how a Mag7 operates. I think we are in Year 2. Zuckerberg is executing, returns on investments will not be meaningful yet, but market hype and money will outflow, as it already happened dropping from $738 to $617, and will likely continue to outflow. But in reality, the company is improving. My message for you: $META bulls you are going to have to be much more patient. Expect more short-term pain. This is a long-term hold, record revenue, AI tools already at scale in ads and a clear path to frontier model releases. Wait it out until Year 3, to see if Zuck nailed the execution.

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I think $META is currently the biggest steal in the market right now. I don’t care what anyone says.
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Politically speaking, especially with the mid-terms, Trump may look to make April the greenest month we've seen in a while. A total reversal of 2025 liberation day, by timing the announcement of multiple completed trade deals, targeted tariff relief on key allies, and fresh pro-growth executive orders right around the April 2 anniversary. This is to be able to say something like: “One year passed since Liberation Day, and the DOW is at record highs of xxK" If you think he's not able to, you forget that the market has "settled in" to the shocks of tariffs and all the fiasco from 2025. He very well could reset us to go higher.
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Today was the date I have been waiting for since January. 3/19. Here is everything that happened today & what may next. 🧵

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Zuck has made plenty of mistakes in the past. But the structure, network effects and branding of the product offering of Meta is so strong that you really can't mess it up. But there is nuance, I do believe further short-term pain awaits for Meta, not because of anything wrong, but just due to the nature of a Mag7 organization pivoting to a new strategy. Market expects results today, but we are at least a year away from seeing meaningful results.
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Added to $META. $META's core business is a big beneficiary of AI, disruption risk is near zero, and no matter the macro conditions, Zuck has shown he is ready to take bold steps, either with cost-cutting or investing; this time will be no different. Reaching humans in the age of AI agents via the web will become a premium over the next few years. $META's platforms value capture will only continue to grow.
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@pepemoonboy Keep doing what you're doing brother and then hit them with a year-end screenshot showing your hard work!
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The amount of hate this post got, only to fast forward a month and $HOOD is now trading lower than what I sold it for. In the meantime, I used the proceeds from my $HOOD sell to profit on $AAOI, $TSEM, as well as multiple other options trades… This is why no one should ever act like they know when the top or bottom is…because they don’t.
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Today is a sad day for me. I’ve decided to part ways with a large portion of my $HOOD shares. Not because I’ve lost conviction in the company. I still believe in the business and in Vlad’s leadership. But I’m staying disciplined to my macro thesis. I believe the next few years could be severely impacted by economic headwinds. If consumers have less capital, they have less to invest. And if they have less to invest, platforms like Robinhood feel that pressure. AI is advancing at an incredible pace. I believe it will drive productivity, but I also believe it could accelerate unemployment faster than we’re prepared for. Less disposable income across America means less money flowing into stocks. It’s that simple. I could be wrong. I genuinely hope I am. But I’m positioning for what I believe is coming. I’m building my fortress. Before trimming, I held 2,500 shares. Now I hold 1,400 shares, still one of my largest positions at roughly 20% of my portfolio. What am I doing with the cash? For now, I’m staying patient. Holding tight. Adding to $GLD. Observing. If the environment unfolds the way I expect, I want to be in a strong position to act decisively. Godspeed, fam.

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$META was one of my best investments, that I stupidly didn't size up appropriately. From 2022-2023 I was buying Meta from $100-$200 per share, the market was in full meltdown mode, damn near calling the company bankrupt. Fast forward to 2026, panic is setting in and were at $595 (-10% YTD) I wont make the same mistake again :)
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$META bulls totally miss how slow moving large organizations are and how they don't deliver instant yields after a major pivot or strategy shift. Don't expect instant rebounds. Here's the real timeline most investors miss, speaking from experience YEAR 1: Planning, heavy investment, internal deliberation, what will we do, when, why and how (Meta announces $70B in CapEx, rolls out Llama foundation model, begins massive integration of AI into their platforms). Market gets hyped on the announcements in AI such as promise of increased AI investments and stock often rallies on the vision. Year 1 passed, we saw highs of $750-780 in 2025 YEAR 2: Execution kicks in based on the plan. But the markets have already been ecstatic and they expect results and fireworks NOW. But true returns will only be delivered late Year 2 at best. You cannot expect Year 1's vision to have delivered returns. That means the rally to $750 was unjustified fundamentally. In Year 2, $META announces they're still executing to the plan and everything is fine, but the cash balance dropping from billions of CapEx coupled with revenue not materializing now SHAKES UP THE MARKET. This is when hope fades, selling pressure hits, and the stock gets punished. We saw this play out when Meta announced earnings this year and stock popped from $666 to $738 (+10%) and only for it to fade back down even lower, to now $617. A -16% drop despite amazing results, why did this happen? Because we are impatient investors, we need our money now, we need to see the future, today. YEAR 3: If execution is near-PERFECT, returns finally start to materialize and potentially explosively. But honestly, taking just 1 year to execute to core objectives is unrealistic. This is easily observed once you've seen the inner workings of how a Mag7 operates. I think we are in Year 2. Zuckerberg is executing, returns on investments will not be meaningful yet, but market hype and money will outflow, as it already happened dropping from $738 to $617, and will likely continue to outflow. But in reality, the company is improving. My message for you: $META bulls you are going to have to be much more patient. Expect more short-term pain. This is a long-term hold, record revenue, AI tools already at scale in ads and a clear path to frontier model releases. Wait it out until Year 3, to see if Zuck nailed the execution.

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Just want to put this out there, Doing nothing is also a strategy. Honestly, probably the best move is usually doing nothing Don’t get shaken out by Mr. Markets bipolar volatility
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@MaterialsHound Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Hope it made things a little bit clearer from the business and product roadmap perspective. Otherwise all I’ve been reading is the GPU utilitization and ARR targets and people were missing the bigger picture
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The bear case in this article deserves honest attention because if the AI spending cycle corrects, $NBIS deployed $5B in capex into a market that may not absorb it. Empty data centers with hardware obligations are the worst outcome for a capital intensive business who's taking on debt. On top of that, just two hyperscaler contracts with Microsoft and Meta represents more than double their entire market-cap. Any tension or fallout or competing priorities by Microsoft or Meta means Nebius revenue trajectory falls off a cliff. It's an unlikely scenario, but within the possibilities. I am as long as I can get on this company at +40% of port. But keep an objective mind
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@MorbidlyOhBeast Its on the stock detail page on Robinhood, right after analyst ratings, does it not show for you?
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I just feel like we are one Andrew Dudum insider stock purchase away from short sellers needing a $HIMS teleconsultation
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If you look at it from a perspective of a bailout then how I view it is RJ providing a compelling business case and long term vision every time he’s speaking to the CEOs of these companies. Hes selling something and they’re buying and committing billions I also believe long term that this might be one of the most compelling Physical AI plays out there and just that keeps me on board Plus I love that it’s American manufacturing
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It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Uber has 5-7 other partners it's working with to add to it's robo-taxi fleet. I think the 1.2B deal includes the 300m already committed. The rest of the 950m is milestone-based disbursed over the next 5 years (2031). In essence, Uber is taking a risky bet and bailing out RIVN by giving them the capital to make the R2. Not sure how I feel about it, honestly. I think the R2 is supposed to retail around 50k for the base model. Gross profit per vehicle for Rivian is probably going to be around 4k. The equity deal buys Rivian time and stems their cash bleed. What are your thoughts?
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3.5 million miles of road with hands free driving enabled Custom silicon chips designed specifically for physical AI An autonomy platform that enables their AI to be trained on huge data sets to eventually achieve level 4 autonomy Founder led with a PhD in mechanical engineering and now a $1.25B investment from Uber What’s not to love? $RIVN
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I have two medium risk, high reward positions I’m contemplating about which one to add to I’ll keep the post short because I usually write too long anyway. $RIVN - betting on American 🇺🇸 manufacturing, clean, reliable and loved cars, with self driving only 1.5 years behind Tesla and margins meaningfully boosting profits. The market always needs a #2 in every segment — and Rivian is it. $HIMS - NVO not only dropping suit but partnering up means both companies thought through a comprehensive gameplan. Dudum reconfirmed the 6.5B commitment by 2030 and growth overall is not slowing down. This private litigation was the biggest overhang, FDA commissioner already provided favorable comments and I think the DOJ will be a slap on the wrist if it even goes anywhere. I’m trying to journal my thoughts to really think it through — what bull and bear angle (short answers fine) am I missing?

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@CultusPater @nikitabier I think you're right, the community/subreddit function is probably what's driving all the views just because its a targeted viewership
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Its primarily due to reddit sub-reddit structure and algo, up voting makes content go viral faster. Also, for investing topic, reddit is mostly retail investors that lurk in reddit all day. Twitter draws more institutional investors wanting quick breaking news that affects macro or geo political outlook. They are two different ecosystems with radically different users types and different algo reward systems.
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@nikitabier Need your help. I stand by my below statement. Reddit algo truly gives a fair shot at high-quality content. I took the same 4 posts from X and posted it on Reddit, almost half a million views. Do we really have a shot only if we're a reply guy?
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@nikitabier @elonmusk I'm finding that Reddit algorithm rewards content quality and niche fit better. While X's algorithm rewards account authority and velocity Genuine question: how can small X creators be discovered without relying on bigger accounts? Reddit -Account created 10 days ago -Article posted 2 days ago -Posted X article with no images -136K views X -Account created Feb 2023 + Verified -Article posted 2 days ago -With images (implying higher engagement/retention) -500 views My X article was dead on arrival, while my Reddit article, with exact same content, received a fair shot.

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@Brownmoose @nikitabier I like X more than Reddit so ideally want to post here. Also I think people on X are nicer lol Since Elon is particularly interested in algo improvements, this is a moonshot plea for Nikita
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