
Thairry frcm ravy 🇨🇭
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Estée Lauder has been one of the great quality compounders of the last thirty years. From IPO to its 2022 peak, the stock was up more than 4,000%. Then China happened. The peak-to-trough was an 87% drawdown. From $374 to $48. The company is the same. The brands are the same. The customers are still buying eye cream. The price just had to figure out what to do without a Chinese growth engine for a while. A great business in a bad year is just a cheaper version of itself.












In the twenty months leading up to the March 2000 peak: • Nasdaq 100: +290% • Berkshire Hathaway: -45% The greatest investor of all time underperformed the most exciting index of his generation by 335 percentage points in less than two years. Many sold Berkshire to buy tech. You know how the story ended. The Nasdaq crashed 80%. Berkshire recovered and kept compounding. By 2004, Berkshire was up 430% from the start of that period. The Nasdaq was up 270%. Buffett didn't change. The crowd did. The crowd lost.











