Monthly Letters

2024


October

Chart Pack: What we saw, read, and analyzed this month


September

Chart Pack: What we saw, read, and analyzed this month


August

Chart Pack: What we saw, read, and analyzed this month


July

LASP Capital 4-Year Anniversary


June

Chart Pack: What we saw, read, and analyzed this month


May

Chart Pack: What we saw, read, and analyzed this month


April

Chart Pack: What we saw, read, and analyzed this month


March

Q4 2023 Earnings Summary, Elastic, Chewy, Investment Philosophy


February

Q4 2023 Earnings Review: PINS, MELI, CPNG, NU; January 2024 CPI Inflation Data


January

Q4 2023 Earnings Review: AMZN, GOOG, META, MSFT; Valuation Multiples for CHWY, CPNG; Dec. 2023 PCE Inflation Data


2023


December

2023 Performance Review, Q3 2023 Earnings Season Review, Elastic, Chewy, Etsy, “Higher for Shorter?”


November

Q3 2023 Earnings: HUBS, NU, MELI, ETSY, CPNG; LASP Portfolio 2-Year Drawdown Analysis


October

Q3 2023 Earnings: MSFT, GOOG, META, AMZN, PINS; AI Summary at Big Tech; “Magnificent Seven” Multiples


September

Q2 2023 Earnings Season Review, Severe Multiple Compression (vs. Pre-COVID), “Higher for Longer” Interest Rates


August

Macro Pressures; Q2 2023 Earnings: Amazon, HubSpot, Coupang, Chewy, Etsy; AI in the “Real World”


July

Q2 2023 Earnings: Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta Platforms; LASP Capital 3-Year Anniversary


June

Q1 2023 Earnings Season Review, Growth Rates and Margins, May 2023 Inflation Data (U.S. CPI)


May

Q1 2023 Earnings Highlights: HubSpot, Etsy, MercadoLibre, Coupang, Nu Holdings


April

LASP Portfolio Value Creation Drivers, Observations from Beginning of Q1 2023 Earnings Season


March

SVB Collapse, February 2023 Inflation Data, Q4 2022 Earnings Season Review, “The Year of Efficiency” for Tech Companies


February

Current Economic Slowdown, January 2023 Inflation Data, Observations from Q4 2022 Earnings Season


January

Predicting Stock Prices in 2023, Inflation / Interest Rate Outlook, Expensify (NASDAQ: EXFY) Investment Thesis


2022


December

Chewy Q3 2022 Earnings, Investment Perspectives, 2023 and Long-Term Outlook


November

Observations from Brazil, Q3 2022 Earnings Season (cont'd), Inflation Data, Zendesk Take-Private


October

Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon Q3 2022 Earnings


September

Long-Term S&P Profits Trajectory, Famous Investor Quotes, Aug. 2022 CPI Data, Zendesk Take-Private


August

Q2 2022 Earnings Season Review, HubSpot, Elastic, Chewy


July

Two-Year LASP Portfolio Review, Macro Commentary from Q2 2022 Earnings Season, Long-Term Investment Horizon (per Howard Marks)


June

Final Q1 2022 Earnings Season Review, Fundamental Value Creation vs. Stock Price Change, Zendesk Take-Private


May

Free Cash Flow vs. Growth, Example Returns Math (HubSpot), Macro Business Environment


April

Continued Multiple Compression


March

Macro Volatility, Final Q4 2021 Earnings Season Review, Chewy


February

Q4 2021 Earnings Season Update, Zendesk, Pinterest, HubSpot, Big Cloud Growth, Long-Term Investment Horizon


January

Interest Rates, Pinterest, Chewy, Zendesk


2021


December

Year-End Review: Fundamental Performance and Multiples


November

Etsy, HubSpot, Pinterest, Farfetch, E-Commerce / SaaS / Cloud Growth


October

Zendesk's Acquisition of Momentive, Digital Ad Market, Pinterest


September

Macro Volatility, Chewy, Alibaba, China


August

Q2 2021 Earnings Season, Earnings Beats / Misses, SaaS Acceleration, Etsy, HubSpot, eXp


July

LASP 1-Year Anniversary, Start of Q2 2021 Earnings Season, Pinterest, Digital Ad Industry


June

Chewy, Elastic, Smartsheet, Etsy


May

Inflation, Q1 2021 Earnings Season, Etsy, Hubspot, Dropbox


April

Start of Q1 2021 Earnings Season, Pinterest, Alphabet, Zendesk, eXp World Holdings


March

Increasing Treasury Yields, LASP Investment Philosophy, MercadoLibre, Coupang, Chewy


February

Stock Market Bubble, Q4 2020 Earnings Season, Etsy, Pinterest, LASP Approach to Valuation


January

Big Growth at Big Tech, Managing Valuation Risk


2020


December

Key Metrics Across the LASP Portfolio


November

Etsy, Pinterest, Zendesk, Alibaba, Slack


October

Pinterest, Etsy, Alphabet, Chewy, Teladoc, MercadoLibre, LASP Strategy "Back Test"


September

Multiple Compression, Slack, Unity Software, GoodRx


August

Approach to Monthly Letters, Salesforce, Pinterest, Facebook, Etsy, Alteryx