Michael Batnick
speaker
8,604 appearances
41 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Michael Batnick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 11.
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the growth side, like your companies tend to be high single digit mid-teens growers.
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Like you are investing in businesses that you believe are good companies.
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So let's get into the current environment because it is a very interesting time to be an investor.
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AI stuff aside, well, obviously involved, but there's just a lot of things happening in the market.
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So one of them in 2026 in particular is that one of the better performing investment strategies this year was to buy the junkiest stocks.
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and I do mean like quantitatively junky, and short the most highest quality undervalued businesses.
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So Julian Klimochko has a chart that shows the Goldman Sachs most shorted basket is up 40% year to date.
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The most shorted, so companies that hedge fund managers are saying are the biggest pieces of crap while the, so I'm sorry, so the most shorted basket is up 40%.
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So the long short,
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is down 23%, which is unbelievable.
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And I think McDonald's is a great example of this.
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McDonald's is in free fall right now.
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I would think that this is a quality business, not just me saying it's quality, but if you look at return on equity and the things that are quantifiable, it is a quality business.
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And yet the stock is in free fall.
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It's down 23%.
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29% over the last 144 days.
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It peaked, I think, in February.
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And this sort of crash is really rare.
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You had this during COVID, I believe.
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