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Casey: Adjusted EBITDA is a bogus metric that ignores real stock comp expense
“But it's such a bogus metric. You know, the stock-based compensation, which is ignored in that metric, that's a real expense. And you all know it's a real expense, because if you weren't allowed to use stock-based comp, you'd have to pay cash comp, ok?”
Casey: Mature tech companies should initiate dividends to reward stock-comped staff
“I happen to be one of the heretics who thinks dividends are amazing. Like, I love it when companies initiate dividends, and I think the companies love it when they have dividends, too. It's like giving everybody who has stock comp a raise, right, in cash that …”
Casey: Capital Group avoids investing in companies with overly high margins
“There's a lot of companies I won't invest in because they're not investing enough, right? I'm like, your margins are too high. I don't think you're being aggressive enough about future investments. And if you lowered your margins and it showed some progress on…”
Capital Group's Mark Casey holds Bitcoin exposure in equity portfolio
“As an equity portfolio manager, there's not too many ways to be involved in Bitcoin in your portfolios, but I have one, and, ah, I'm looking for others.”
Mark Casey: Capital Group is buying AI choke points across chips, clouds, and models
“And then what I'm mostly looking for, where are the choke points right now? And there's a bunch. It's semiconductors and semiconductor capital equipment. There's only a handful of companies that are good at that. There's only three big public clouds. There's o…”
Casey: Capital allocation is a learnable, critical CEO skill
“One of the unheralded skills that CEOs can really study is capital allocation. You know, if you have a 20 PE stock, and you grow your earnings 12 or 13% a year, after a decade, your earnings will add up to 90% of the market cap the day you started as CEO. So t…”