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Wall Street Wildlife Investing Podcast
Hosted by Krzysztof and Luke · EN
Stop gambling with your money and learn proven stock market investing strategies from two professionals with 40+ years of combined experience. Each episode provides expert financial advice, going beyond the hype to reveal the secrets to identifying the world's top-performing companies (and weeding out the trash).
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The Glowing Eyeball vs the Obesity Drug: $SPHR and $NVO Debated (E138)
6d ago00:50:23Tap to summarizeTwo companies making the world genuinely better — one a glowing eyeball printing money in the desert, the other a century-old drug giant that invented the obesity revolution. So why are both kind of terrible investments right now? Luke and Krzysztof go head-to-head on $SPHR (Sphere Entertainment) and $NVO (Novo Nordisk) in this week's King of the Jungle bull-bear debate — and the tension is real.🎯 Krzysztof bought $SPHR at ~$50. It's now $150. Is it a 3-bagger worth holding — or time to squeeze the last drop from the lemon?📊 $NVO is trading at 10x earnings while $LLY trades at 40x. Screaming value trap or generational discount? Luke makes the case — then almost talks himself out of it live on air.🌐 SpaceX IPO day sparks a bigger debate: why a company losing $10B still justifies a $2.2T valuation — and what most investors get wrong about forward-looking markets.🧠 "You can love a company and hate the stock." The uncomfortable investing truth both hosts keep circling back to — and what it means for YOUR portfolio.🚀 SpaceX vs Meta: Krzysztof breaks down why comparing current financials is almost meaningless — and the one bias both hosts admit they share about Zuckerberg's empire.💊 Novo Nordisk's Cagrisema failed its head-to-head vs Lilly. The stock dropped 45% in a year. Luke owns it anyway. Krzysztof has zero desire to touch it. Who's right?🎯 The Sphere's real constraint isn't content — it's geography. Luke makes the bear case: how many cities on Earth can actually host one of these things profitably?🤖 When good stories get too well-known, the edge disappears. Krzysztof shares why he's increasingly hunting investments he doesn't even *like* — purely on the investment case.Segments:00:00:00 Cold Open: Loving a Company vs Loving the Stock00:00:49 Intro + SpaceX IPO Day — Options Strategy & What Comes Next00:04:31 SpaceX vs Meta: Why Comparing Current Financials Misses the Point00:11:17 $SPHR Bull Case: How the Giant Glowing Eyeball Learned to Print Money00:15:33 $SPHR Bear Case: How Many Cities Can Actually Host a Sphere?00:22:39 $SPHR Verdict: Would You Buy at $150? (Krzysztof Answers Honestly)00:30:23 $NVO Deep Dive: Novo Nordisk — Cheap for a Reason or Generational Value?00:36:32 $NVO vs $LLY: 10x Earnings vs 40x — Is the Gap Justified?00:40:28 Why Luke Hasn't Sold $NVO Yet (And Why That Might Be a Mistake)00:46:51 The Meta-Lesson: When Knowing the Story Kills Your Edge**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$SPHR, $NVO, Novo Nordisk, Sphere Entertainment, $LLY, Eli Lilly, SpaceX IPO, Ozempic, Wegovy, semaglutide, weight loss stocks, value trap, growth investing, forward-looking valuation, position sizing, dividend investing, options strategy, implied volatility, biotech investing, love the company hate the stock, Meta vs SpaceX valuation, Las Vegas Sphere, compounding stocks
Transcribe →Is $EOSE an 11-Bagger That's Just Getting Started? (E137)
2w ago01:11:26Tap to summarizeTwo years ago, Badger called EOS Energy garbage. Monkey wouldn't shut up about it. Today, the stock is up 1,000% and the story is just getting stronger. This week on Wall Street Wildlife, we settle the $EOSE vs $AXON bet, dissect a rights offering that could make or break $EOSE shareholders, and go live on SpaceX IPO day to watch history happen in real time.🚀 SpaceX opens at $160+ on IPO day — Badger and Monkey called it live, almost to the dollar, and neither can quite believe it📊 $EOSE is up 1,000% since the bet was made — but was it 3,000% at the peak, did Monkey leave serious money on the table?💀 The rights offering explained: dilution is coming for $EOSE shareholders — but is it actually a gift in disguise, or a warning sign?🎯 Badger bought back into $AXON after cutting it — what changed, what still bothers him, and why Motorola just became a threat worth watching🧠 Why can't two investors who trust each other actually pull the trigger on each other's best ideas? The psychology of the "stock tip problem"🦫 Monkey's Samantha Rabbit vs. Monkey daily stock-picking experiment: week three update, early surprises, and a new options data module for Patreons🌴 The show identity question: are WSW just two animals shooting the sh*t, or is there a responsibility to say more when a stock goes up 450%?Segments:00:00:00 Introduction & SpaceX IPO Day Live00:02:05 SpaceX Price Bet: Badger vs. Monkey (Live)00:05:30 What Is Wall Street Wildlife Actually For?00:11:35 Samantha Rabbit vs. Monkey: Week 3 Update00:19:26 How to Start Investing (Badger's On-Ramp Principles)00:21:00 The EOS Energy vs. Axon Bet: Two-Year Results Revealed00:27:01 $EOSE Deep Dive: Rights Offering, Cerberus & Frontier Power USA00:49:31 $AXON Deep Dive: Why Badger Sold, And Why He Bought Back01:01:38 Motorola vs. Axon: The Counter-Drone War Begins01:03:25 SpaceX IPO Price Confirmed Live — $2 Trillion Valuation $SPCX01:05:07 SpaceX: Top 5 Company in 8 Years? Badger vs. Monkey**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$EOSE, $AXON, SpaceX IPO, rights offering, long-duration energy storage, zinc batteries, Cerberus Capital, Frontier Power USA, counter-drone investing, Dedrone, Motorola Solutions, reverse DCF, stock-based compensation, position sizing, dilution explained, investing psychology, stock tip problem, $ASTS, Kelly Criterion, retail investor on-ramp, options strategy, King of the Jungle portfolio, Wall Street Wildlife, WSW, growth investing, contrarian investing, $SPCX
Transcribe →Is the SpaceX IPO a Trap for Retail Investors? + $NU + $MRLN (E136)
3w ago01:04:47Tap to summarizeSpaceX is finally going public and it might be the most hyped IPO in a generation. But does that make it a buy, a trade, or a trap? Luke and Krzysztof have completely different plans, and neither one is obvious. This week also covers a tiny autonomous aviation startup that jumped 30% on a massive red day, why Luke dumped $WISE and owns $NU instead, and why the easy money on big IPOs is almost never made by the people watching from home.🚀 Luke owns SpaceX *already* — but he's locked out, taxed, and has zero control over what happens next. His plan is more complicated than you'd think. $SPCX🎴 Krzysztof refuses to be a long-term SpaceX holder — and instead wants to swing trade the IPO hype with options. Is he right to ignore the Rocket Lab lesson?🎯 The musical chairs problem: why retail investors almost always arrive after the easy money is gone — and what to do about it.🤖 A tiny pre-revenue company called $MRLN (Merlin) jumped 30% on one of the worst market days in months after a US Special Operations milestone. Krzysztof bought it impulsively. Was it genius or madness?🎓 Is autonomous flying actually *easier* to solve than self-driving cars? Krzysztof makes the contrarian case and braces for pushback from a pilot in the Patreon community.💰 Luke sold every share of $WISE after the AML scandal deepened and explains exactly why a 2-3 year regulatory headache makes it uninvestable right now, even if the business model is sound.📊 $NU (Nubank) serves over 135 million customers, more than half of all adults in Brazil. Luke breaks down why it's trading at just 13x forward earnings despite 40% loan book growth, and what the real bear case actually is.🌴 Krzysztof offers to document his live SpaceX options trades in real time for Patreon Dolphins. Tune in if you want to watch a philosopher-investor try to outsmart the hype machine.Segments:00:00:00 The Musical Chairs Problem With IPOs00:01:06 SpaceX IPO Week — What's Actually Happening00:05:45 Luke's SpaceX Position: Locked Up, Taxable & Out of Control00:09:24 Luke's Plan to Build a Real $SPCX Position00:12:26 Krzysztof's Contrarian Take: Swing Trade the Hype, Don't Own It00:20:21 $MRLN Merlin Inc — Autonomous Flight for the US Military00:24:00 Is Autonomous Flying Easier Than Self-Driving Cars?00:33:39 The Bear Case for Merlin: No Revenue, 200x Sales00:39:53 Why Luke Sold All His $WISE Stock00:45:07 $NU Nubank — Banking Half of Brazil at 13x Earnings00:53:14 The Nubank Bear Case: Loan Book Risk in a Developing Market**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Keywords:SpaceX IPO, $SPCX, IPO investing, retail investor traps, IPO hype cycle, Merlin Inc, $MRLN, autonomous aviation, autonomous flight, military tech stocks, Wise AML scandal, $WISE, Nubank, $NU, Brazil fintech, neobank investing, options trading IPO, swing trading, pre-revenue stocks
Transcribe →Welcome to the Wall Street Wildlife Investing Podcast
3w ago00:01:03Tap to summarizeWhere the worlds of technology, business, finance, stock markets, and animal spirits collide.Perfect for those who know there’s an intelligent and principled way to become wealthy but haven’t yet had a good jungle guide, Luke ‘The Badger 🦡’ Hallard and Krzysztof ‘Monkey 🍌’ Piekarski bring you investing insights and principles to help you better understand how to make $$ money in the stock market.Wall Street Wildlife is a gateway to deep, quality investing research and principles.Are you ready to become a beast of an investor? 🦁
Transcribe →Is IREN Becoming a Serious AI Cloud Contender? + Buying SpaceX Pre-IPO + $WISE (E135)
4w ago01:17:18Tap to summarizeThe AI infrastructure land grab is accelerating — and this week, Krzysztof drops a deep dive into his #1 portfolio holding that rewrites the bull case entirely. Meanwhile, Luke's longtime fintech darling just got hit with a half-billion-euro money laundering investigation on the same week it relisted on NASDAQ. Timing couldn't be worse. Here's what's really at stake:🤖 $IREN just went from Bitcoin miner to potential hyperscaler — and NVIDIA's $3.4B bet on their Sweetwater site might be the most important data center deal you haven't heard about🎯 Krzysztof holds $IREN at 21% of his King of the Jungle portfolio — and after this earnings call, he's not trimming. Here's why that conviction is earned, not reckless📊 The revenue miss that spooked the algos vs. the thesis that actually matters — why Krzysztof calls it a "nothing burger" and what would change his mind🌐 $IREN vs. CoreWeave vs. Nebius: the neo-cloud battle nobody's framing correctly — and the one financial metric that makes CoreWeave a no-touch for Monkey💰 $WISE drops 18% on AML bombshell — Luke worked in global anti-money laundering for a major bank, and his read is genuinely alarming. This isn't a dip-buy moment🎴 SpaceX IPO ticker confusion is already making people rich — the meme crew is running a pump on Virgin Galactic $SPCE and it's equal parts hilarious and predatory🧠 What would Rafa Nadal's grit look like in a retail investor? The question that reframes every market downturn you'll ever faceSegments:00:00:56 Welcome + Episode Overview00:02:25 Rafa Nadal Documentary: The Grit Investors Are Missing00:09:53 Monkey vs. Samantha the Rabbit: AI Stock Picker Experiment Update00:14:31 Daily Investment Decisions — Good Habit or Bad Habit?00:23:02 SpaceX IPO Ticker Trap: The $SPCE Meme Pump Explained00:30:29 $IREN Deep Dive: From Bitcoin Miner to NVIDIA's Chosen Partner00:43:00 $IREN vs. CoreWeave vs. Nebius: Why Krzysztof Chose the Land00:59:31 $IREN Position Sizing: Is 21% of a Portfolio Ever Justified?01:01:26 $WISE AML Scandal: Luke's Inside Take from His Banking Past01:13:09 Would Luke Buy or Sell $WISE Today? Live Portfolio Decision**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$IREN, $WISE, $SPCE, SpaceX IPO, NVIDIA data center, AI infrastructure investing, anti-money laundering, AML compliance, neo-cloud stocks, CoreWeave vs IREN, Nebius vs IREN, Sweetwater data center, position sizing, conviction investing, retail investor psychology, investing grit, Rafa Nadal investing mindset, AI stock picker experiment, King of the Jungle portfolio, pre-IPO meme pump, Mirantis acquisition, data center power moat, Wise PLC investigation, fintech regulation risk, Wall Street Wildlife
Transcribe →What Four Expert Investors Own Right Now $NVDA $AXON $CRWD $ASTS $RKLB $VOO (E134)
May 3001:29:40Tap to summarizeFour investors. Four wildly different portfolios. One crossover episode that gets uncomfortably honest about conviction, concentration, and whether the rules of investing have actually changed. Wall Street Wildlife's Luke and Krzysztof team up with Bear and Drowsy from Shooting the Bull Pod — and the result is one of the most candid portfolio conversations we've ever recorded.🤖 One investor is sitting on a 43% Nvidia position — and his defense of it might actually change your mind about concentration risk🎯 Bear vs. Drowsy vs. Badger vs. Monkey: four real portfolios laid side-by-side, and the differences are stark — who's right?🌐 Has the Law of Large Numbers been repealed? $NVDA at $5T, Micron hitting $1T, Anthropic at $1T private — is gravity still a thing?🧠 The trimming problem: why Bear sells too early, why Drowsy almost never sells, and the psychological trick that separates long-term winners from hyperactive traders🚀 $RKLB and $ASTS under the microscope — are space stocks the real opportunity hiding in plain sight, or another 3D printing moment?💀 A mea culpa on NeoClouds: Drowsy admits they "got it completely wrong" on Nebius — and what that confession reveals about investing humility $NBIS🎓 Krzysztof's evolution from quality-compounder to rock-flipper: the philosophical pivot that explains everything about his portfolio today🌴 Dark horse stocks nobody's talking about: Hinge Health, Oddity, MercadoLibre, Sterling Infrastructure, Palo Alto Networks — the roundtable gets spicy at the end $HNGE $ODD $MELI $STRL $PANWSources:Shooting the Bull podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qH1zzezA4EnHHGibgzJlbGrowth Stock Investing subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthStockInvesting/Segments:00:00:00 Four Investors, One Portfolio Showdown — The Crossover Begins00:05:14 Golden Age of Individual Investing? AI, Community & the New Edge00:07:54 Is This 2021 Again? What's Different (and Scarier) About This Rally00:15:19 Defending a 43% $NVDA Position — Drowsy Makes His Case00:23:10 Portfolio Concentration Debate: Quality Giants vs. Rocks & Rubble00:35:40 Krzysztof's Confession: Why He Abandoned Blue-Chip Investing00:43:03 $RKLB Sleep-at-Night Numbers & How Luke Actually Manages Risk00:59:26 The Practical Trick That Stops You From Trading Too Much01:05:00 $ASTS Deep Dive: Is Space the Most Overlooked Sector Right Now?01:16:18 NeoClouds, Nebius & the Stocks They Got Wrong01:20:01 Final Roundtable: One Stock Each That Deserves More Attention**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********To portfolio track like Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$NVDA, $RKLB, $ASTS, $CRWD, $AXON, Nvidia concentration risk, position sizing, portfolio management, Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile, Hinge Health, Oddity ODD, MercadoLibre, Nebius, NeoClouds, law of large numbers, trimming stocks, investing psychology, growth stock investing, Shooting the Bull Pod, AI infrastructure stocks, Micron trillion dollar, SpaceX IPO, technical analysis investing
Transcribe →Is This $2.4B Biotech About to Explode? + $MELI & $ISRG (E133)
May 2401:18:03Tap to summarizeThree stocks, three debates, one ticking clock. This week on Wall Street Wildlife, Krzysztof drops a live biotech catalyst with a 24-hour window, Luke defends his 20-year 'sugar daddy' holding, and a Latin American e-commerce giant is quietly being stress-tested. Plus: Krzysztof reveals a wild AI experiment he's launching in public — and betting real money against it.💊 Luke's been holding $ISRG since 2006 without selling a single share — but is robotic surgery's best growth already behind it, or is this still the future of medicine?📊 Medtronic just got FDA clearance. Competition is finally arriving at Intuitive Surgical's door — and margins are showing it. How worried should long-term holders be?🧬 Krzysztof makes a live, time-sensitive case for a $2.4B biotech with a catalyst dropping the very next day — and explains why the market may be badly mispricing it. $RLAY🌐 $MELI is growing revenue at 49% year-over-year — so why has the stock been going south? Luke explains the deliberate margin sacrifice and why he's still buying anyway.🧠 Luke admits he expects $MELI to keep falling for six months... and bought more anyway. Krzysztof calls this a contradiction. Luke disagrees. Who's right?🤖 Krzysztof built an AI he named Samantha Rabbit, designed specifically not to lie to him — and he's putting $5/day on himself vs. the machine in a 6-month public stock-picking contest!Segments:00:00:00 Cold Open: The Future of Surgery & Live Biotech Catalyst00:01:13 Intro + King of the Jungle Portfolio Review00:05:52 Community Portfolio Update: 11 Nominations & Why Pitching Changes Everything00:11:28 $ISRG Deep Dive: Is Intuitive Surgical Still Worth Owning After 20 Years?00:20:28 $ISRG Bear Case: Competition, GLP-1s, and Flat Margins00:30:46 Relay Therapeutics: The Biotech With a 24-Hour Catalyst00:44:42 Relay Bear Case: One-Trick Pony or Magical Molecule?00:54:48 $MELI Deep Dive: Is Mercado Libre's Investment Phase a Buying Opportunity?01:05:37 $MELI Bear Case: Emerging Market Risk & Shrinking Margins01:12:09 Big Reveal: Krzysztof Builds an AI Stock Picker & Bets Against It**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$ISRG, $MELI, Relay Therapeutics, Intuitive Surgical, Mercado Libre, robotic surgery investing, biotech catalyst, PI3K inhibitor, GLP-1 impact on surgery, Latin America e-commerce, emerging market stocks, AI stock picking, position sizing, biotech binary event, razor and blades business model, gross margin compression, compounding stocks, long-term investing, King of the Jungle portfolio, community portfolio, Wall Street Wildlife, growth investing, contrarian biotech, clinical trial investing
Transcribe →Four Stocks, Two Hosts, Zero Sugarcoating — Bull vs. Bear (E132)
May 1701:02:24Tap to summarizeFour companies. Two hosts. One brutal question: which stocks deserve your conviction right now, and which ones are just good stories hiding ugly fundamentals? This week, Luke and Krzysztof go bull-vs-bear on four names — and the conclusions might surprise you. The "too hard pile" is getting bigger, and maybe that's the smartest move in this market.🎴 Luke's brutal poker night becomes the perfect metaphor for today's market — when momentum matters more than fundamentals, what does that mean for your portfolio?🤖 $IREN just landed a $3.4B contract with NVIDIA itself. Is this the ultimate validation of the AI infrastructure thesis — or is the dilution quietly eating your returns?💊 $TMDX is down 40% in months, but the business is saving lives and expanding into Europe. Is the market throwing away a generational compounder?📊 $TTD looked like an untouchable compounder — until Amazon showed up charging 1% vs. 20%. Is The Trade Desk a falling knife or a forever-broken business model?🧠 Why do smart investors refuse to say "I don't know"? Krzysztof makes the case that the "too hard pile" isn't weakness — it's your edge.🌐 $LMND reports 71% revenue growth and the stock drops 20% from after-hours highs. What the algos saw that retail missed — and the financial engineering hiding behind the headline numbers.Segments:00:00:00 Cold Open: Shame, Stories & the Investor Ego00:00:54 Intro + Luke's Poker Night Disaster00:05:01 Narrative vs. Fundamentals: When Story IS the Investment00:07:04 $RKLB Brag: Luke's 25-Bagger in Rocket Lab00:09:17 $TTD: Is The Trade Desk a Falling Knife?00:13:12 Amazon Is Eating The Trade Desk's Lunch — The 1% vs 20% Problem00:20:22 $LMND: Lemonade's 71% Revenue Growth Hides a Messy Truth00:27:07 Why Lemonade Crashed After a "Great" Earnings Report00:35:14 $TMDX: The Company Keeping Organs Alive (and Why the Selloff Is Wrong)00:43:55 $IREN: NVIDIA Just Wrote a $3.4B Check — What That Really Means00:53:41 The Dilution Problem: Is $IREN Being Straight With Investors?00:59:06 Wrap-Up: Two Dogs, Two Donkeys & the Too Hard Pile**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$TTD, $LMND, $TMDX, $IREN, $RKLB, The Trade Desk, Lemonade insurance, TransMedics, IREN AI infrastructure, Rocket Lab, programmatic advertising, Amazon advertising, AI data centers, organ transplant investing, narrative investing, too hard pile, falling knife stocks, NVIDIA ecosystem, dilution risk, free cash flow manipulation, stock-based compensation, growth investing psychology, position sizing, King of the Jungle portfolio, Wall Street Wildlife
Transcribe →Is $WISE About to Explode on the NASDAQ? (E131)
May 1000:20:11Tap to summarizeThe largest UK fintech is abandoning the London Stock Exchange for the NASDAQ — and Luke thinks it could be an inflection point. This solo deep-dive makes the bull AND bear case on one of his highest-conviction holdings, right before the dual listing goes live. Here's what every investor needs to know before May 11th.💰 Why $WISE is ditching London for the NASDAQ — and what it means for shareholders who already own the UK listing📊 The numbers behind the conviction: 27% volume growth, 22% more active customers, and a take rate that keeps falling on purpose🎓 How Wise actually moves money across borders — the elegant infrastructure trick that lets them undercut every bank on the planet🎯 Luke's reverse DCF breakdown: what growth rate the market is currently pricing in, and whether that's a gift or a trap💀 The bear case we can't hide from: falling take rates + rising costs = a business model that only works if volume growth never stops🤖 Stablecoins and the Genius Act — is crypto a real existential threat to $WISE, or just a question every investor asks and never acts on?🌐 The index inclusion catalyst: why Russell 1000 membership in 2027 could trigger a wave of institutional buying nobody's talking about yetSources:Shooting the Bull with Drowsy and Bear: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qH1zzezA4EnHHGibgzJlb?si=XkN43t9ZRUuAD8Mh2RMvzg&nd=1&dlsi=a7c955266e91477fSegments:00:00:00 Welcome — Solo Episode & What's Coming to WSW00:01:21 What Is Wise and How Does It Actually Work?00:04:08 The NASDAQ Dual Listing: Dates, Mechanics & What Shareholders Need to Do00:09:05 $WISE Key Numbers: Volume Growth, Customers & Take Rate00:11:08 Rising Costs: Investment in Growth or a Warning Sign?00:12:44 $WISE Valuation: Reverse DCF & The Inflection Point Thesis00:14:54 Bear Case #1: The Take Rate Trap00:15:48 Bear Case #2: Stablecoins & Crypto — Real Threat or Overhyped?00:18:11 Luke's Conviction: 4 Years as Customer & Shareholder**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$WISE, Wise PLC, NASDAQ dual listing, fintech investing, cross-border payments, stablecoins, Genius Act, take rate, reverse DCF, index inclusion, Russell 1000, Wise platform, fintech stock, London Stock Exchange, UK fintech, free cash flow, institutional buying, crypto vs fintech, position sizing, high conviction investing, compounding moat, growth investing, Luke Hallard, Wall Street Wildlife
Transcribe →The AI Math Is Brutal – Is Half Your Portfolio Already Dead? + $POET's Wild Week (E130)
May 301:07:44Tap to summarizeLuke sold two stocks this week. Not because earnings disappointed or guidance missed — but because he ran the numbers on what AI actually does to software valuations, and the math got uncomfortable fast. Meanwhile, Krzysztof turned a 70% options loss into a breakeven exit... then watched the stock moon another 60%... then crater 50% — all in the same week. This is what investing in the AI era actually feels like.💀 Monkey's $POET call option went from genius to idiot to genius in 7 days — a masterclass in what NOT to do with options, and the one trading rule that could have saved him🎓 Badger breaks down the DCF concept most investors ignore: why a 5% annual "AI death probability" can slash a company's fair value by nearly 50% — and why that math should terrify SaaS investors🤖 "It's not that AI will build a better ServiceNow — it's that you won't NEED ServiceNow" — the Kodak fallacy hiding in plain sight across your portfolio🎯 Luke sold $CRM and $ZS this week — hear exactly why, and whether $CRWD is next on the chopping block🧠 The ostrich investor, anchoring bias, and why knowing what can go wrong is the most valuable skill in your arsenal right now🌴 Community portfolio 6-month check-in: $WISE up 23%, the overall portfolio down 12% — and why that's not the pointSources:King of the Jungle Spreadsheet: https://www.patreon.com/posts/150190962The Investor's Mirror (iOS App): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/investors-mirror/id6760048070Segments:00:00:00 Cold Open: AI Is Killing Companies — Not Replacing Them00:00:54 Intro + Luke Bought a Motorcycle (Investing Adjacent, We Promise)00:10:57 Monkey's $POET Options Debacle: From 70% Loss to Breakeven to... 50% Drop00:21:43 The SaaS Apocalypse: How AI Rewrites Software Valuations00:33:39 Why ServiceNow Might Not Need a Replacement — It Just Disappears00:41:34 Luke Sold $CRM and $ZS — Here's the Exact Reasoning00:54:52 Is $CRWD Next? The CrowdStrike Question00:57:32 Community Portfolio 6-Month Review: $WISE, $TTD, and What's Next**********If you want to see our furry faces, this podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@WallStreetWildlife?sub_confirmation=1**********SUPPORT THE SHOW AND BECOME A PATREON:wallstreetwildlife.com**********Follow us at:x.com/7LukeHallardx.com/7FlyingPlatypus**********Fiscal.AI is the Complete Stock Research Platform for fundamental investors. With its beautiful design and institutional-quality data, Fiscal AI is incredibly powerful and easy to use.Get 15% off any premium plan with:fiscal.ai/wildlife**********Monkey’s “Zen, Nietzsche, How to Live” Substack:firephilosophy.substack.com**********To use the same portfolio tracking tool as Luke, check-out:portseido.com/?fpr=lukehallard**********Disclosure: Wall Street Wildlife hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation**********Fed up with the stock market giving you a hard time?- Invest like seasoned pros with over 40 years in the game- Discover the world's leading companies- Sharpen your best investing practices and ditch the worst- Learn how to start investing- Essential investing principles to boost your returnsKeywords:$POET,$CRM,$ZS,$CRWD,$WISE,$TTD,SaaS apocalypse,AI disruption stocks,software valuation,DCF terminal value,options trading mistakes,AI death probability,ServiceNow AI risk,Salesforce disruption,Zscaler analysis,CrowdStrike AI,community portfolio,position sizing,anchoring bias,options psychology,retail investor mistakes,Kelly Criterion,compounder investing,growth stocks 2025,AI investing,$NU,$IREN,$NOW
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