All right, now let's move on and talk about the third stock that has had a lot of updates coming out and this one is Marcato Libre. Marcotta Libre stock recently peaked over $2,000 per share and it has been hovering around this range now which I think is great to see and more than overdue and I still believe that Marcato Libre is extremely undervalued in the market and as I have said previously I think that it is still one of the stocks offering the most value across the entire market right now as well.
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Um, I'm a big fan of Mac Libra or we both are. Um, and the business model behind it.
Um, when you look at Mac Libra, they give you everything that you can wish for um, regarding to their loan book and all of that stuff.
whereas it used to be the same for MacB but then they push into new loans. Um that means the loans are are larger. The loans are not only for the next 12 weeks, but they're actually for the next 12 months.
And all of that structurally increases the likelihood that some loans will fail.
Mercado Libre reached an important milestone surpassing $10 billion in revenue representing 50% year-over-year growth in its most recently completed quarter. Management recently implemented a new strategy lowering the threshold for free shipping adding convenience to consumers.
So when Mercado Libre started this strategy, I was optimistic that it would be successful because of what I've seen from Amazon and so far it has been successful with revenue increasing meaningfully.
So, with that, let's jump right into our first stock, which is going to be Marcato Libre, stock ticker Mi. This is a name that I've really liked and really started pushing back at the start of June when I published a video titled I'm buying every share I can. And in that video, I covered Marcato Libre.
Next one. Mercado Libé. I didn't buy at 1500. Now, we are at 2,000. Good results. Everything looks okay. Credit issues. as there are issues if nothing happens over a few months then those issues subdue and we are back to the story of growth so I'm leaving it there
Marcato Libre has its own fintech business that is largely the same as Newbank. But I think that Marcato Libre actually has some competitive advantages because it has even more data on its customers because a lot of its customers also use its e-commerce platform.
So Marcato Libre can see what its customers are spending money on on the e-commerce platform as well and get even more insights and data there. Additionally, Marcato Libre's fintech business did $15 billion in revenue in the trailing 12 months, which puts it roughly two quarters behind where New Bank is.
Or in other words, it's almost the same size as New Bank today. But Marcott Libresy's entire business is valued at around 100 billion in the stock market right now. So for an extra $30 billion I am getting roughly the same size fintech business maybe delayed by about 6 months.
The largest e-commerce platform in Latin America a massive media and subscriptions business and also a massive highly profitable and rapidly growing advertising business. Again all of that for an extra roughly $30 billion.
So I think that Marcado Libre has a little bit of a stronger moat, much more tailwinds and just a much more diversified business too. So I think that the premium for Marcato Libre is more than justified and I think that Marcato Libre is even cheaper in the market today than New Bank.
You know, the the two public market companies that come to mind when I hear this as loose parallels aside from Capital One and like, you know, the hey, is this Capital One in '94 or 2006 comps, the two that come to mind would be MELI, MELI, Mercado Libre, and Kaspi, K A S P I.
And I I MELI I think is a little bit of a different business. I think they have more retail focus as well, but they they do have a fintech segment here. And both have been kind of catnip for investors in a similar way to this, you know, you you can look at fund letters and people and I think smart investors there.
And both haven't worked out as well as I think they would have, you know, both are still growing nicely, ROEs on both are nice.