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In his latest Q2 2021 shareholder letter, David Einhorn discussed why he believes inflation is not transitory saying, “we remain positioned on the other side, as there are and we believe there will continue to be too many dollars chasing too few goods and services.” He also discussed why value … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

In his latest Q1 2021 Shareholder Letter, David Einhorn discusses the Fed, performance drag on the short side, what fuelled the GME short squeeze, and indications that the tide has turned from growth to value. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: Has the tide turned from Growth to Value? After … Read More

In his latest Greenlight Capital Q4 2020 Shareholder Letter, David Einhorn discusses why stocks become overvalued, citing three types of ‘valuation indifferent investors’ who don’t consider valuation as part of their investment process. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: This begs the question as to why a stock might trade … Read More

At the Value Investing Congress in 2009, David Einhorn gave a presentation titled – Liquor Before Beer… In the Clear”, in which his main topics included the two basic problems on how government is designed. He also discussed one of the biggest investing lessons he learned from Stanley Druckenmiller. Here’s … Read More

In David Einhorn’s 2006 speech at the Value Investing Congress he provided some great insights on the importance of focusing on low ROEs in capital intensive businesses. Here’s an excerpt from the speech: Coming back to my main theme. I believe it is very important to analyze ROE and marginal … Read More

In his latest Q3 2020 Letter, David Einhorn discusses why he believes September 2, 2020 was the top and the bubble has already popped, which means investor sentiment is in the process of shifting from greed to complacency. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: As for the question of sanity, … Read More

In his book – Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time, David Einhorn discussed the importance of exiting a position when you think you’re wrong, relative-return versus absolute-return investing, and one of the lessons he learned from Joel Greenblatt when it comes to position sizing his portfolio. Here’s … Read More

David Einhorn has released his Q1 2020 results in which he discloses that The Greenlight Capital funds (the “Partnerships”) returned -21.5% in the first quarter compared to -19.6% for the S&P 500 index. After a good start in 2020 he explained the events of the quarter as follows: We began … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

In David Einhorn’s most recent investor letter (Q4 2019) he highlights the fact that Greenlight Capital Funds have returned 13.8% in 2019 compared to 31.5% for the S&P 500. He also discusses the significant outperformance of growth stocks vs value stocks over the past three years, saying: We tend to … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

In his latest Q3 2019 Shareholder Letter, David Einhorn, discusses how he successfully shorted Netflix, and his ongoing bear case for the company. It provides a great insight into how top investors analyse these companies. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: Our Netflix (NFLX) short was another material contributor as … Read More

We’ve just been re-reading David Einhorn’s book – Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short Story, in which he discusses how Greenlight’s research process reverses the analytical framework that most traditional value investors use. Einhorn also provides insights into his portfolio construction. Here’s some excerpts … Read More

One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More