CapEx

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2021 by Bruce Martin · across every show →

Everything said about CapEx, oldest first

Aug 19, 2021
Disclosure
Martin: Still Lake Capital targets regular businesses at 10x EBIT minus CapEx
“I try to buy businesses, non-financial, regular businesses at 10 times EBIT.less CapEx.”
Bruce Martin Aug 19, 2021 ▶ 43:05 Bruce Martin – Still Lake Capital [Manager Meetings, EP.7)
Jun 3, 2024 positive
Insight
Fink: Investors prefer incremental business transformations over five-year CapEx bets
“And really what investors are looking for is not that people can't transform their businesses, but that they do it in an incremental way, in a way where you take small steps, You make sure they work and you get better and better over time rather than I'm going…”
Anne-Marie Fink Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 10:53 Anne-Marie Fink - Cutting Edge Pension Investing at SWIB (EP.389)
Sep 15, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Meli: AI CapEx infrastructure will be overbuilt
“The CapEx will be overbuilt. Infrastructure, highways, all these things, you ultimately in a CapEx cycle, you just don't know if today you're in the third inning or eighth inning.”
Adrian Meli Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 33:21 Adrian Meli – Active Equity Excellence at Eagle (EP.459)
Mar 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Grantham: AI CapEx is larger than any peacetime program in history
“AI Moving at warp speed, involving a greater CapEx program than has ever happened before outside of war.”
Jeremy Grantham Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 46:57 Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
Jun 8, 2026 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Jain: Mag 7 historical capex was $1.5T; next 3 years project $3T
“The cumulative capex of all these MAG companies in their history is one and a half trillion dollars. Think about it. Now they're talking about three trillion in just three years.”
Rajiv Jain Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 33:04 Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
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