HNW Holdings Update
The HNW sleeve is designed to give equity exposure to a group of individual stocks that we think offer attractive prospects through a combination of yield, growth, quality, and reasonable valuations relative to large-cap peers.
Purchases:
Adobe, Inc. (ADBE) is a leading provider of software solutions for creative and marketing professionals. From our perspective, the company features the best of both the internet and software industries, as they have highly predictable and profitable revenue streams with a vast open-ended total addressable market (“TAM”), and exposure to broad technology trends. Given that ADBE is levered to major internet themes, including the digitalization of content, shift to mobile platforms, and consumption of video across numerous channels, we think that the stock has a long runway for growth and an expanded multiple.
Even after the recent stock run, we believe that the market continues to underappreciate NVIDIA Corporation’s (NVDA) business transformation from a traditional PC graphics chip vendor into a supplier into high-end gaming, enterprise graphics, cloud, accelerated computing, and automotive markets. We believe the company has executed consistently and has a solid balance sheet and free cash flow profile to drive growth, all while demonstrating what we deem as a commitment to capital returns.
Sells:
We are selling one of the original holdings in the HNW sleeve, BlackRock, Inc. (BLK) as we believe that the market is pricing in a lot of optimism right now. The stock continues to reach new all-time highs, given the recent tailwinds from the Fed, recent trends of a shift within product mix to lower fee core business, and its extended valuation. This holding is considered to be a “holding period winner” by Aptus, which means that it has outperformed our benchmark, the S&P 500, by more than 50% since its purchase date. With this, coupled with an extended valuation, we felt comfortable harvesting gains.
On the other end, we decided to sell one of our underperforming stocks, Waste Management, Inc. (WM), as management’s recent execution of its Advanced Disposal Systems, Inc. acquisition has been slow and more costly to integrate, all while the company was trying to navigate the effects of COVID-19. Furthermore, the company does not meet, from what we view, our rigorous growth criteria per our “Y + G Framework”. During our investment committee meeting, we discussed, ad nauseam, what we learned from this holding, as we will do our best to not make the same mistake again in the future.
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