Research

Level Set – The Un-Inverted Playbook

The 2-year US government bond has been offering a higher yield than the 10-year bond for 19 months now, and it stands to reason that at some point it will “un-invert.” It has been compelling to buy the shorter duration bonds relative to the 10-year yield for a while. Moreover, it seems risky to us

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Analyzing IPOs

The last two years we have seen the fewest back-to-back years for initial public offerings of greater than $1 billion since 2008 and 2009.  2021 was a record year driven largely by SPACs, and also correlated to the highest nominal GDP in the US in nearly a half century.  Tighter financial conditions, concerns about an

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Monthly Digest – October 2023

Detailed in our October 29th Level Set, our current highest conviction investment ideas are: Overweight Energy. Energy has low earnings expectations, compelling valuation, favorable demand / supply dynamics, and is not loved. This is our top investment idea for the next two to three years. We would own E&Ps, integrated oil companies, and oil services.

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Level Set – Our Highest Conviction Investment Ideas

While there is ample uncertainty about the overall market direction, with a laundry list of concerns, including geopolitical risk, dysfunction in Washington, higher bond yields, and mixed earnings results, we contend there are ample opportunities to generate alpha on both the long & short side. As we wrote in early October, in our ‘What Happened

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Level Set – Opportunities Where Stocks Are Near COVID Lows

In searching for stock ideas, we have noticed stocks in several industries have not generated substantial shareholder value when compared to stock market lows of March of 2020. Rate sensitivity, GLP-1s (Ozempic), shrink and other trends have certainly emerged over the last 3.5 years pressuring some stocks and industries disproportionately, but we thought we’d scour

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Consumer – A Level Set of Trivariate’s Views

The State of the US Consumer Recently generalist investors have been asking us about the state of the US consumer. A strong retail sales figure has some investors questioning whether “good news on the economy is bad for stocks” because it alters their expected Fed path. Others are more generally curious about revenue potential for

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