Aus dem Q2 2019 Aktionärsbrief von IAC
Reinvesting in our existing businesses through lower margins or delivering less immediate profit
will inevitably be judged more harshly by the market than reinvesting through share repurchases
or new and riskier investments such as acquisitions or minority investments. Paradoxically, the
market applauds a riskier bet involving more capital, while harshly judging an investment with
less capital and often dramatically less risk when it impacts quarterly profits. But to us, a dollar
of investment is a dollar of investment no matter how the accounting works, and we usually have
better information guiding investments into our own operations than into businesses currently
owned by others. Regardless, we always have and always will make the best risk-adjusted bets
we can, independent of near-term market reactions.
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The vision to see, the courage to buy and the patience to hold