Jonathan Tepper

15 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 7, 2019 by Jonathan Tepper · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Oct 7, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Goldman Sachs Is the Only Major Bank Using Leading Economic Indicators
“And then if you look at, like, the big banks, only Goldman has a few leading indicators. Most economists, like the Fed, ignores them. The Wall Street banks ignore them.”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 15:23 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Tepper: About two-thirds of US industries have significantly less competition
“And the issue was he was trying to look at for the median industry. Are there fewer competitors? Is there less competition at the national level today versus 10, 20 years ago? And the answer is for about two thirds of industries, the answer is there's a lot le…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 24:41 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 neutral
Insight
Tepper: Global Liquidity Indicators Lead Stock Prices by Six to Twelve Months
“And those are very, very useful because they tend to lead the economic leading indicators themselves by about six months, and they tend to lead asset prices too. So we have a lot of our liquidity indicators will lead commodity prices. They'll lead even stock p…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 16:41 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Tepper: Most US states have a health insurance duopoly or triopoly
“The McCarran-Ferguson Act essentially Devolved regulation down to the state level, which meant that the state insurance commissioners are the ones who decide things, so you essentially have a duopoly or three players in almost all states when it comes to healt…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 34:52 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 negative
Insight
Tepper: Many Oligopolies Exist Due to Regulation Rather Than Economic Scale
“There are just many industries where there's absolutely no reason why they should be a duopoly or an oligopoly. And a lot of this comes down to regulation. And so the myth of capitalism in my mind is that we're not really looking at a true capitalist system be…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 26:12 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 positive
Insight
Tepper: Economic Inequality Stems from Lack of Competition, Not Capitalism
“What Piketty talked about certainly does happen, which is that you end up with an increase in inequality. And it doesn't come because there's a fatal flaw in capitalism. It comes because essentially there's not enough competition. Capitalism itself is not func…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 27:38 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 negative
Insight
Tepper: Guru-driven macro forecasting is not repeatable or transferable
“I don't want to denigrate some of the gurus who I still admire, but I thought that that's not repeatable. They might be able to hire someone and train them and teach them, but it's probably like a one-off. And I thought surely the best thing to do is to create…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 20:54 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Oct 7, 2019 negative
Insight
Tepper: High corporate margins stem from pricing power, not efficiency
“That paper itself started tied the high profit margins to competition and pointed out that it's not because these firms are just that much better and more efficient. They're getting a higher return on assets and it comes from scale. Rather, they end up with pr…”
Jonathan Tepper Oct 7, 2019 ▶ 24:54 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
Mar 18, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Tepper plans to close Prevatt Capital to prioritize capital-weighted returns
“But as a business, what I'd love to do is to Close the fund to outside investors. Focus on long-term capital-weighted returns, not just time-weighted returns.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 48:30 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
Mar 18, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tepper: There are only 500 to 600 natural monopolies globally
“Broadly, globally, I think there's between 500 to 600 companies, and some markets are obviously a little harder to invest in than others internationally.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 24:09 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
Mar 18, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Tepper: Semiconductor valuations are unattractive relative to fundamentals
“And the valuations today are certainly not at all attractive relative to the fundamentals in many cases.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 45:14 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
Mar 18, 2024
Disclosure
Tepper: Prevatt manages nearly $450M with five people and won't add staff
“We have four analysts plus myself. So five at the firm, arguably we might be overstaffed relative to our assets, which are approaching four hundred fifty million, but we don't have to hire more as we get bigger.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 28:13 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
Mar 18, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tepper: US corporate profit margins driven by rising industrial concentration
“It's not the only reason, but it's certainly a very important reason was the rise in industrial concentration in the U S. So the rise of monopolies, duopolies and oligopolies.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 20:21 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
Mar 18, 2024
Disclosure
Tepper: Prevatt Capital averages 16 stocks across its portfolio
“So 10 to 20 stocks, but we've really averaged sort of 16 over the life of the fund.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 32:37 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
Mar 18, 2024 negative
Insight
Tepper: Investing with CEOs holding outsized voting control is generally ill-advised
“Being in a relationship with a CEO who has outsized control relative to their shares is generally not a good idea.”
Jonathan Tepper Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 44:15 Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
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