albertez

albertez t1_j26c89p wrote

Unprofitable tech and fintech, unprofitable retail, SaaS companies trading at 30x revenue, SPACs, meme stocks, etc. There is a huge amount of loss making trash in the market that is begging to be shorted.

Homebuilders face a tough 2023, but they are wildly profitable and cheaply valued today and have balance sheets that should stand up well to a big downturn in demand, with margins that are so good that they’ll likely still be profitable even if revenue craters.

Nobody knows anything, but feels like looking for blowups in this sector is unnecessary when there is so much low hanging fruit.

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albertez t1_j267wy4 wrote

Everything I ever read about Chubb makes it seem like the best run business in the sector. And they seem to consistently have best in class underwriting ratios.

I like insurance companies, and I have long positions in several, but Chubb has been and I think will continue to be my biggest by far.

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albertez t1_j237t8p wrote

They’ve all actually been very prudent about deleveraging in anticipation of a coming storm.

They have been making so much money. It’s going to be a bad 2023, but I don’t know how low you really expect them to go. They all have clean balance sheets and trade at discount valuations because everyone is already expecting homebuilding to be a mess next year.

It would have to be really catastrophic for puts to print wildly.

Just feels like there is way too much garbage out there to bet against to really need to dig for stories like this, where wildly profitable companies with clean balance sheets and discount valuations are going to have a widely anticipated bad year because of macro stuff. Just bet against the garbage instead.

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