Checked out the $ATZ.TO Flatiron store this week. Maybe their nicest one yet. Biophilic and beautiful.
Investor day coming up in 10 days.
Feel like a bit of a AI head fake. Rumours of Anthropic revenue decel in August plus $MSFT/$META digestion news well understood. Meanwhile enterprise adoption is actually starting. Funding concerns aside (which are real - it’s all a confidence game after all), seems like demand drivers are in place. My 2 cents. Looking forward to earnings season.
Took a while but $PFE is starting to get the respect it deserves (a minor amount). Should be at 52 wk highs this morning.
The $PFE q1 was the best quarter they’ve reported since COVID. New drugs driving sales, COVID drugs below. Long term outlook (post ‘28) way above street.
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We are trusting the guy who (maybe?) screwed Floyd Mayweather?
"Mayweather sued Rechnitz et al alleging $175M fraud"
Replying to @tsxman
This stuff is very convoluted and obv looking at filings only tells a part of the story. My interpretation is Black Spruce owed $ to Rechnitz/Mayweather... when Mayweather sued Rechnitz - Black Spruce witheld payment in case it was determined that how that payment was to be shared (which was in dispute). I am using AI to help sort through this and understand - feel free to disagree but Black Spruce as plaintiff and motion 001 indicate they brought forward the motion, likely to absolve from future claims between Mayweather and Rechnitz.
$SALT.NE worth a watch
New salt mine in Newfoundland first one in North America in 30 years bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/…
Wayne gets it (this 👏 was 👏not 👏 a👏 political 👏comment👏)
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Jamie Murray retweeted
#BREAKING: Canada unexpectedly shed nearly 70,000 jobs in September vs expectations for nearly +10,000 jobs
The unemployment rate ticked up to 6.5% from 6.4%
Job losses were steep in both full time and part time
IMPORTANT: Canada lost 70,000 *PUBLIC* sector jobs, while the private sector *increased* by 24,100
Jamie Murray retweeted
Canadian investor and philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky dies at age 101 bnnbloomberg.ca/business/eco…
$ATZ.TO gonna comp 20% again this Christmas?
Replying to @MWG_Jamie
Plugging in $1.3M sales for Q3/27 - I estimate comps are running high teens rate starting to lap the 2025 acceleration to 30%+. With typical earnings beats, comps could be 20%+. Street sitting closer to 10%.
Beat and Raise $ATZ.TO
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Getting more constructive on $ATZ.TO down here. Alt data still looks strong - street modelling slowing comps with lapping of big FY26 but upside in sales and margins if they do 10%+, investor day coming in October. Flush with cash. We had trimmed about half our position >160 but adding again.
Plugging in $1.3M sales for Q3/27 - I estimate comps are running high teens rate starting to lap the 2025 acceleration to 30%+. With typical earnings beats, comps could be 20%+. Street sitting closer to 10%.
You love to see it
Replying to @borrowed_ideas
A few things:
"DoorDash typically builds whereas Uber usually buys" - The facts don't support this opinion. Uber didn't deploy any capital on M&A between 2022 to 2024, while organically establishing category leading positions across Mobility and Delivery globally. Meanwhile, nearly the entirety of Doordash's international business is built on fairly expensive acquisitions (Wolt, Deliveroo), and it has acquired substantials assets to expand into new verticals as well (Sevenrooms, Grub Campus etc). If you add up the deployments, you'll find that Uber has deployed a significantly smaller portion of its FCF on acquisitions than DD has, while delivering steady ~20% growth off a much larger base.
"Uber doesn’t seem to be buying cheaply either"
Every dollar of Gross Bookings is not created equal. We have successfully executed on a barbell strategy where products with high ticket size and margins allow us to invest behind affordable products that drive acquisition and frequency for the platform. Additionally, our Uber for Business offering has delivered sustained, strong traction. ezCater has a nearly 10X order size relative to a typical delivery order in the US, and is accretive to Delivery margins outright. We expect more upside post synergies (and potentially more as it's plugged into U4B distribution and goes global). Beyond the strategic merits, financially, it delivers a better return than buying back our own stock, which is a bar we continue to hold for any evaluation.
Build vs. buy.
Catering is an operationally complex business. When an office admin orders lunch for their hungry team, you better deliver! That means a distinct product experience, work on merchant ops, as well as a specialized effort with couriers and set up specialists. That doesn't mean it can't be built, but this acquisition leapfrogs Uber well ahead. Combined with our distribution and global footprint, an acquisition allows us to scale this category much faster.
Uber vs. Expedia.
I guess it needs to be said - Uber is not Expedia! Post COVID, Uber has compounded topline at over 20% and bottomline at over 70% (CAGR 2022-2025).















