Magnificent Seven

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 6, 2023 by Allison Thacker · said 15 times in 9 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Ted Seides (9), Michael Mauboussin (2), Shannon O'Leary (1), Kristin Kolurgis-Roland (1), David Zorub (1), Baroness Dambisa Moyo (1)

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Everything said about Magnificent Seven, oldest first

Nov 6, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Thacker: S&P 500 Reliance on Magnificent Seven Is Not Healthy
“And maybe you put up on your wall when you say a hundred percent or 95% of the S&P 500 year to date performance is from the magnificent seven. That's not normal. That's not a healthy sign.”
Allison Thacker Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 9:35 Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Sands Capital holds five of the Magnificent Seven, excluding Apple and Tesla
“And at the firm wide level, we own five of the seven across our various different portfolios. But two of them, in this case, Apple and Tesla are companies that we have not embraced.”
Brian Christensen Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 46:35 Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
Feb 19, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Mauboussin: Magnificent Seven Economic Profit Exceeds Market Cap Share
“When you take a look at the economic profit, so return on capital, less cost capital spread times invested capital, the economic profit Of the Magnificent Seven, it's actually larger than their market cap representation.”
Michael Mauboussin Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 40:03 Michael Mauboussin - Pattern Recognition and Public Markets (EP.370)
Jun 3, 2024 positive
Insight
Fink: Extension strategies help active managers navigate highly concentrated stock markets
“Particularly last year with the magnificent seven and the stock market being so dominated by seven companies, it's been hard to be active because so much of your allocation gets eaten up by just even having a market weight in those seven. So what we find by lo…”
Anne-Marie Fink Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 32:29 Anne-Marie Fink - Cutting Edge Pension Investing at SWIB (EP.389)
Mar 23, 2026 bearish
What-if
Grantham: AI rally aborted the full crushing of the 2022 super-bubble
“The invasion of chat and AI ruined my perfectly good bear market. I still got a bear market. It was way over 20% decline, but it wasn't the crushing of a super bubble that would have happened. Without the great investment associated, the capex associated with …”
Jeremy Grantham Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 45:32 Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
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