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Tyler Crowe

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

If I was being most generous, and to Lou's point of, if you're not an evangelical and you're just managing an asset, you could kind of almost draw the line of this being like a mortgage reek, where you basically buy and sell mortgages, you issue equity and debt when your price is higher than your net asset values, and then when

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

You know, you're trading at a discount to that.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

You sell down some of your net assets to basically you have to be willing to sell under that.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

Yeah, it's it's the it's playing both assets to what is at a premium at any given moment.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And that, you know, it happens in other industries.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

It happens a lot in the finance industry.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

It happens in real estate, happens in commodities trading all the time, you know, trading one asset based on value or discount to the other.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

What that works, unless to lose point, you're an evangelical who says, I'm never going to sell this because, you know, you say Bitcoin yield, but Bitcoin doesn't yield anything.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

The price goes up, the price goes down.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

You're going to have to pay cash somewhere.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And that's going to either come from issuing equity or selling your position.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

And that's where it gets really complicated here, because unless they're actually willing to be like, yeah, we're just a asset manager, basically, it would make sense.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

The point that I think is making it so challenging is it's not just like selling equity or buying down equity.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

You start adding in debt, you start adding in dividends.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

It becomes a little bit more complicated right now.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

I wouldn't say that MicroStrategy is in some huge distress here.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

I think they still traded a little bit of a premium to net asset value.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

This is according to their website.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

How trustworthy that is, I don't know.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Alphabet’s $80 Billion Flex

That's not something you have to report and the SEC is going to tsk you if you're not doing it completely right.