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25/11/2024 3:57 pm
MGA Wealth Management LLC
Standing Meeting
November 18, 2024
Attendees:
- Alec Klungle
- Michael Brimble
- Cody Yancey
- Teddy Anderson
- Boyd King
Agenda
Color Key: Completed | In Progress/Did Finish | Moved to Next Standing Meeting
- Bullshit
- TOUR Update
- Housekeeping
- Market Discussion
- How do we utilize our leverage?
- Fund Moves
Next Steps:
- All
Notes
- TOUR
- We will book before Christmas
- Last week of June
- Teddy will assist in finding a spot
Housekeeping
- We are going to move these meetings to Monday nights
Market Discussion
- AI will continue to be the big thing tech companies use to leverage their growth.
- MSFT, IBM, GOOG, AAPL will be in these headlines doing shit with AI.
- Where does the value of AI come in? What is going to be the AI “Revelation” in 2025?
- Chip manufacturers?
- Hardware/Structure
- Services
- AI Software
- ServiceNow
- SalesForce
- The Blue Ocean thing
- iPhone
- Things that the iPhone allowed to be built made so much money
- PLTR
- First good example of using AI as a service
- Best value will be brought toward businesses – Agile, smooth, efficiencies
- How does that come through in the Income Statement
- Next step will be bringing value to customers, but we don’t think that is going to happen in 2025
- We should be looking at companies that provide services to other businesses.
- B2B services that could be impacted by AI efficiencies
- Accenture
- ServiceNow
- PayCom
- Which of those are going to be able to bring value leveraging AI.
- Path to profitability for AI products
- Probably easier for consumer-facing products
- “Everybody’s an AI company”
- Financial Providers
- Can these be companies that leverage AI in a B2B capacity?
- Companies that can greatly diminish their workforce thanks to AI efficiencies
- More consolidation that occurs
- The Metas & Googles are going to start buying out competitors
- Consolidation of IP among the Mega-Caps
- Healthcare
- There is a lot of uncertainty around this right now with the new administration.
- Bobby Kennedy Jr. is now HHS secretary
- Nuclear
- GE Vernova
- Bought Hitachi’s nuclear business
- Diamondback Energy (FANG)
- Good energy play
- Good oil play
- With this new administration, there could be some very friendly policies for the oil industry
- Occidental Petroleum (OXY)
- Warren Buffet buying this stuff up
- Self-Driving
- Trump will be friendly to Elon Musk
- This will lead regulations to relax on self-driving
- Google owns Waymo – This could benefit them
- Cody buys Google
- Anthropic
Admiral Fund
- Do we want to take profits anywhere?
- Broadcom is a play to load up more on
- As AI grows, specialized chip producers will become more important
- Broadcom makes more specialized chips
- Get out of Intel and move that money somewhere else.
- Take a little bit of money off the table from WMT and find somewhere else to stick capital with a low beta
- Barbell Approach
- Growth part of the barbell is going to be the tech stocks like Microsoft & Google
- The safe, quality part of the barbell is low-beta stocks with dividend growth stocks.
- Companies with good entry point. With great yield and a dividend that is going to grow 5%/year for the rest of your life.
- Dividend Kings
- Call it 60/40 quality core dividend growth/value growth stock
The Trade Desk
- Eaton
Miscellaneous
- The purpose of hedge funds is not to beat the market. The goal of hedge funds is to provide a guaranteed return above the risk-free rate.