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Right Trend, Wrong Stock

2025/3/29
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Ricky Mulvey
作为《Motley Fool》播客主持人,Ricky Mulvey 提供对各大公司财务表现和未来发展的深入分析。
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Ricky Mulvey: 我在节目中讨论过,投资者有时能正确预测趋势(例如,人们会搬到阳光地带),但由于购买价格过高或公司缺乏可持续竞争优势,最终股票表现不佳,例如MidAmerica Apartments。 Patrick Badolato: 我同意Ricky的观点。除了价格因素外,所投资公司的竞争优势也至关重要。即使趋势存在,如果公司缺乏可持续竞争优势,也可能失败。 Patrick Badolato: 我们课堂上广泛讨论过这个问题。近年来,我们用送餐上门和植物肉类作为例子。送餐上门反映了消费者对食品便利性和产品优选的需求。植物肉类则反映了人们饮食偏好的转变。 Blue Apron的案例说明了高增长率可能源于低基数和高促销活动,而非可持续的商业模式。高促销成本导致客户留存率低,难以维持收入增长。此外,Blue Apron销售的是商品而非品牌产品,利润率低,客户获取成本和最后一公里配送成本过高。 Beyond Meat的案例也类似。其收入增长和利润率提高是由于渠道扩张,而非消费者对植物肉类需求的持续增长。依赖第三方分销商使其面临被竞争对手超越的风险,并且渠道扩张的增长模式难以持续。大型肉类生产商如嘉吉公司拥有强大的分销渠道,对Beyond Meat构成潜在威胁。 投资者应谨慎对待林奇式的投资方法,并深入研究公司的单位经济效益、竞争对手和可持续竞争优势。评估竞争对手时,不仅要考虑直接竞争者,还要考虑那些拥有更强大规模和能力的潜在竞争者,例如现有基础设施。先发优势并非总是优势。

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This chapter explores instances where investors correctly identify a trend but still experience losses. It uses the examples of the Sunbelt apartment market and the meal kit and plant-based meat trends to illustrate how getting the trend right doesn't guarantee investment success.
  • Investors correctly identified the Sunbelt migration trend but lost money due to overbuilding and shifting remote work patterns.
  • The meal kit and plant-based meat trends were correctly identified, but investment outcomes varied due to other factors.

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Investors weren’t exactly wrong to be excited about the companies trying to make meal kits and plant-based meat cool. But they sure haven’t made any money from those bets. So … what went wrong?

Patrick Badolato is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the McCoombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches Accounting. He joins Ricky Mulvey for a conversation about companies that have opened the door for genuinely exciting opportunities, but haven’t yet been able to figure out a workable business model. They also discuss:

Expanding your definition of competition.

Why Blue Apron and Beyond Meat haven’t taken off like their IPO investors hoped.

Whether Coca-Cola is at risk of becoming a “Cabbage Patch concept.”

Companies/tickers discussed: KR, ACI, BYND, MCD, KO, NVDA, CELH, PEP, YETI

Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Patrick Badolato

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

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