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Phaetrix's avatar

Great list — but let’s be honest: nobody knows their “10 forever stocks.” Even the Avengers had casualties. A decade from now, at least 2–3 of these names will stumble, and pretending otherwise is how investors end up overconfident and under-diversified.

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FluentInQuality's avatar

Of course, there will be cycles of significant changes. This will make or break businesses. But, I am confident these will continue to battle and be the last ones standing (making is almost forever) 😉

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Fred PM's avatar

Very well presented and very good selling points

Would add Fair Isaac to the list.

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FluentInQuality's avatar

Thank you, Fred! It’s been also on my list for a while now.

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Cody's avatar

How do you see Kaspi ($KSPI) comparing to Mercado?

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FluentInQuality's avatar

I haven’t dived deep enough into the business to make a clear cut statement on this.

On first sight, Kaspi look excellent as well. Their payments, marketplace, and fintech revenue is growing high rates. Their take rate, TPV, and active users as well.

Overall a strong business for as far as I’ve looked into it.

Definitely worth keeping an eye on out. Their very similar and it wouldn’t surprise me if Kaspi will dominate its respective country and neighboring countries.

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Oliver | MMMT Wealth's avatar

Nice list man!

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FluentInQuality's avatar

I appreciate it, brother!

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Wayne Cunny's avatar

This was a great right up. My question is why single out $V when $MA has more global exposure?

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Wayne Cunny's avatar

No need to bundle as I was just curious if you unearthed something I wasn’t aware of. To your point they are both excellent holdings.

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FluentInQuality's avatar

Fair question! This boils down to personal preference. Visa and Mastercard are both fantastic companies. Visa excels in some areas, and Mastercard excels in others. Both would be solid picks! Next time I'll bundle those two for simplicity, haha.

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DIY Investor's avatar

Nice list! Some of them seem overvalued forever.

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FluentInQuality's avatar

A wonderful list, yes! Most are, yes. It is up to us to decide what premium we deem worth it for the company. 😄

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