Outstanding Investor Digest __exclusive__ May 2026

Your largest position is a European cigarette manufacturer. ESG? Hermit: Morality is not investing. The stock yields 8%, management buys back 5% annually, and the user base is addictive. The stock price ignores the fact that declining volume is already priced in. The surprise is price elasticity . They raise prices 6% a year. Math wins.

You sold a popular cloud stock at 30x revenue in 2024. It has since doubled. Regret? Hermit: None. Opportunity cost is the ghost that haunts the impatient. I rotated into a Japanese exchange (TSE: 8697) trading at 9x earnings with a 40% payout ratio. The cloud stock had gravity. The exchange has a monopoly on volume. I’ll take toll roads over rockets. outstanding investor digest

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We feature a forgotten memo from a Baltimore-based deep-value shop, a transcript of a dinner with a UK-based "slow growth" compounder, and a sharp critique of the private credit bubble. Feature: "Cash is not trash; it is optionality." The stock yields 8%, management buys back 5%

Confidential Draft – For Qualified Subscribers Date: April 2026 Theme: “The Art of Patience: Compounding Through Dispersion” 1. THE LEADER: Editor’s Note By the OID Editorial Team