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 The Bear Case vs The Bull Case for Megacap Tech

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[SPEAKER_00] Megacap stocks have been some of the biggest winners in the market, but does that make them a smart move for someone pursuing financial independence? With huge valuations, strong cash flows, and increasing concentration in major indexes, there's a compelling argument for both sides.

[SPEAKER_00] Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the BiggerPockets Money Podcast. My name is Mindy Jensen, he's Carl Jensen, and with me as always is my doesn't-have-many single-stocks co-host, Scott Trench.

[SPEAKER_02] Hey, I'm so excited to be here with you and Carl today to talk about this subject, and Carl and I had a great conversation about this at lunch the other day, so we're going to be hashing out some of those points here. And just to frame the debate at the highest level, 11 companies make up about 38% of the S&P 500, actually 9 companies make up about 38% of the S&P 500 in the Megacap tech complex.

[SPEAKER_02] These companies are NVIDIA, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, TSMC, which is not in the S&P 500, but is a major semiconductor manufacturing company, Broadcom, SpaceX, Meta, Tesla, and Oracle. And also call out that SpaceX is not yet in the S&P 500 following their recent IPO. But these 11 companies add up to about $32 trillion in market cap value, $33 trillion in market cap value, and $30 trillion of that is in the S&P 500, or about 40% of the S&P 500.

[SPEAKER_02] And these companies are richly valued. I think the aggregate multiple is well north of six to seven times of total sales for this aggregate. It gets worse if you exclude Apple, for example, as many people want to argue, and it gets even worse if you exclude the sellers like NVIDIA and TSMC.

The Bear Case vs The Bull Case for Megacap Tech

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The Bear Case vs The Bull Case for Megacap Tech

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.