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Seek the Kingdom first, everything will be added to u/ Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it—Proverbs 13:11

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$CSU Jonas Construction Software & CSIPay introduce Jonas Collect, embedded payments built right into Jonas. Customers pay their invoices, by card/bank transfer. Every payment reconciles back to original invoice. No separate portal, no re-keying, no manual matching at month-end.
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$CSU Dark Matter Technologies buys House Numbers’ agentic AI platform & the team behind it. The technology uses AI agents on live loan files to make mortgage origination faster & cheaper for homeowners & lenders, while meeting the controls required in a regulated industry.
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$AP.UN.TO Allied Properties REIT Deloitte Summit (400 West Georgia, Vancouver): 96% leased end Q3. Latest shoot at end Oct: massive empty space?! Tenants are paying for empty space??? What's going on?!
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Daniel Foch (@danielfoch) profile pictureDaniel Foch
@danielfochOct 29
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$TOI.V buys Lexpera, a leading legal information and publishing provider that operates operates in Slovenia, Croatia, & Turkey, from a PE fund. 110+ employees $CSU
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Most consulting firms' revenue is growing faster than headcount. No surprise. It's quite consistent with what I've expected earlier. $ACN $GIB $FCN
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$BRK Buffett: "There is no question, as the Bible says, the meek shall inherit the earth. The question is: Will they remain meek after they inherit the earth?" $FFH Watsa: "There is no limit to what a person can do or where they can go if they don't mind who gets the credit."
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When hedge funds shorted $FFH massively... Prem Watsa: "Consider your trials pure joy." "Life is a series of adversities and each one is an opportunity to behave well, instead of badly, is a very, very good idea." His faith gave him a lot of strength "I would not diminish it."
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$CSU Vela LatAm buys Gestión en Tecnología e Información ( GTI ), a Costa Rican company specializing in electronic invoicing software & payment methods.
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$FFH Prem Watsa "We have only 13 people in our head office, we don't have the time to answer these telephone calls. Come to AGM & ask any questions directly." "If you cannot handle short-term fluctuations, then perhaps we are not the stock for you."
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$FFH Prem Watsa talks about his early days in Canada "I'd come from India where there are people all over the place. I am used to a lot of people and lousy cars. In London (Ontario). I saw no people. You see cars on the street, beautiful cars. But you can't see a single soul."
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"As an immigrant, you have to do that: You're at the bottom. My kids were born here in Canada. I tell them they have one major negative in their upbringing- they weren't immigrants."
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"The biggest factor in India might be who you knew, but in Canada the biggest factor was just you. Anything was possible." In the meantime, he just had to learn who the Maple Leafs and Canadiens were-and learn to wear long underwear.
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$SPGI explores a potential spinoff of financial data & AI units
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$FFH Prem Watsa's signature quotes "Work as hard as you can, as though everything depended on you. Pray as hard as you can, as though everything depended on God." "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
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$LIFCO -12%, despite insider buying ahead of results FCF +21% cagr since 2014 IPO (17% since 2019) rev +8% (6% M&A, 2% organic, 1% FX) lost a customer who moved to non-EU suppliers (1 off?) slower M&A this yr (8 deals so far) 1x leverage (plenty room for M&A) 3%+ FCF (not cheap)
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$ROP rev +8%, organic +7% 18 of 21 software hav agentic products agentic GPM matches software GPM hospital AI committees, budget cycles slow AI adoption $436m bolt-ons grew>overall biz buybacks paused to deleverage & preserve M&A cash PE sellers capitulating on valuations $CSU
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Was Canadian asset manager Connor, Clark & Lunn (CC&L) taking a short position on $VIT-B against a long position on $CSU? The VIT-B short position (shorted Oct 2, bot back on Oct 7) didn't work in CC&L favour. CC&L has taken VIT-B shorts on and off in the past.
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$VIT-B Vitec Q3 sales +15% organic: +4% (CPI price increases), +6% w/ Q1 M&As 10Y sales cagr +19% Q4 M&As: ZMartek, AtermIT COO role eliminated CEO working directly w/ VPOs CFO absorbing some support functions margin tailwind: AI lowers R&D %sales CC&L exited short pos $CSU peer
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$VIT-B Vitec Q3 sales +15% organic: +4% (CPI price increases), +6% w/ Q1 M&As 10Y sales cagr +19% Q4 M&As: ZMartek, AtermIT COO role eliminated CEO working directly w/ VPOs CFO absorbing some support functions margin tailwind: AI lowers R&D %sales CC&L exited short pos $CSU peer
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Imagine government servants do this... Politicians don't get a paycheck for running a deficit. Tie their salaries to the budget: zero surplus, zero pay.
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@InvesquotesOct 21
Copart $CPRT new CEO pay package looks on the surface like textbook alignment, but there are some caveats. The structure is basically... - Jay Adair takes a $1 salary, no bonus and no new equity for 10 years. - He gets instead one 20M-share option in four tranches, with strikes at $26.27, $35.03, $43.78 and $52.54. The option has a 5-year cliff, a clawback if he leaves early, and his gains are locked up until year 10. So basically... - Stock flat → he earns $0. - Stock 2x → he earns ~$263M. My "concern" is the timing of the option issue, which evidently impacts the existing holders more than it does the recent holders. Jay Adair came back as CEO on July 31, with the stock near multi-year lows around $28, down from ~$52 in mid-2025. The strikes are anchored to the depressed price in which he (opportunistically?) became CEO. This ultimately means that... - Tranche 1 pays on any rebound, so many shareholders might still be underwater while he makes millions (this has no simple solution as setting the bar at ATH would also not be fair) - The “ambitious” top strike of $52.54 is roughly where the stock already traded in 2025... - “Doubling the stock” mostly means getting back to where it was without any new value creation - Over 10 years, a 2x is roughly ~7% a year Now, a founder-family CEO taking $1 and betting everything on the stock is rare and definitely better than nothing, but the design matters too and reality is more nuanced than it appears. As designed, Jay Adair could earn hundreds of millions simply by returning Copart to where it was before he came back. Still subject to shareholder approval!
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$LMT total backlog +63% book-to-bill 4x led by PAC-3 contract multiyear contracts protect threat-led demand building ahead of customer requirements on autonomous aircraft inflation-linked price escalators, cash-flow neutrality, & long durations minimize risk of budget cuts
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