LOGO Quicktakes

LOGO Quicktakes

By Eric Clark, LOGO InvestorBusinessInvesting
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LOGO Quicktakes episodes

  • Heico: WOW Earnings

    Heico stock has lagged, a very rare thing. That was the opportunity. Here's a quick summary of the wow quarter and the guidance. The business is on solid footing and the stock is wildly under-owned. There's alot more to like than just crowded AI stocks. HEI is one. This is NOT financial advice, this is for educational and informational purposes only. Please do your own research.

    7 min
  • Lilly: It Just Gets Better Over Time

    The powerful forward story is the pipeline built to answer the only real bear concern—concentration. The first answer is Foundayo, the newly approved oral GLP-1 pill, the only one dosable anytime without food or water. A pill is a step-change in scalability: no cold chain, no injection, far cheaper to manufacture, and the key to unlocking hundreds of millions of patients globally and in primary care—early uptake shows ~80% of scripts going to new-to-class patients. The second is retatrutide, a triple hormone agonist that delivered ~28% weight loss over 18 months in Phase 3, approaching surgical outcomes. Behind them sits a 42-program Phase 3 engine, spanning expanding indications (sleep apnea, heart failure, MASH-a dangerous form of fatty liver disease where fat builds up in the liver and eventually causes inflammation and liver damage.) And then theres, Alzheimer’s, oncology, and immunology. There's So much in Lilly's pipeline to like. This is NOT financial advice. This is for educational and informational purposes only. Please do your own research.

    6 min
  • Shopify: Another Compounder on Sale

    What makes Shopify special begins with a cultural transformation that is widely underappreciated. After its 2022 reset, Shopify sold its capital-intensive logistics arm, narrowed focus to its core platform, and embraced radical operating discipline—CEO Tobi Lütke’s mandate that teams prove a job cannot be done with AI before requesting new headcount. The result is three consecutive years of flat-to-declining headcount while revenue grew ~30%+ annually, with operating expenses falling to 37% of revenue. This is a company spending less on people while shipping faster, and it is the engine behind the swing from cash-burning growth to ~$2 billion of annual free cash flow and a new $2 billion buyback.
    This is NOT financial advice. This is for educational and informational purposes only. Please do your own research.

    6 min
  • AVAV: Drones & More Drones

    What makes AeroVironment special is the breadth it assembled at exactly the right moment. Its Switchblade family—the 300, for personnel and light targets, the 600, as a man-portable “tank killer”—is among the only loitering-munition lines with real combat history and an active U.S. Army production pipeline, including a recent ~$186 million order for next-generation Block variants. This is the recurring “razor-and-blade” model defense has long lacked: AI-guided munitions consumed in volume and reordered continuously. A-V also fields the workhorse Puma and JUMP-20 drones with deep installed bases across allied militaries. The company became globally important because of Switchblade loitering munitions. These are essentially: drone + missile hybrids. They fly, scout, identify targets, then strike directly. This changed modern warfare because they are much cheaper than traditional missiles, highly mobile, portable, and extremely effective. Ukraine made Switchblade famous globally.

    The transformational move was the May 2025 acquisition of BlueHalo, which extended A-V from a small-drone maker into a multi-domain autonomy platform spanning directed energy, space communications, cyber, and electronic warfare. Few competitors can offer the full kill chain—detect, track, and defeat—across both drones and counter-drones from a single vendor.
    This is NOT financial advice. This is for educational and informational purposes only. Please do your own research.

    5 min
  • Kratos Defense: As timely as it gets

    In hypersonics—arguably the single most urgent gap in U.S. deterrence—Kratos is a prime contractor on the Pentagon’s MACH-TB 2.0 flight-test program and is expanding ground-test capacity. Whoever owns the testing infrastructure for an entire weapons class owns a recurring, capacity-constrained toll road, and Kratos is building exactly that. Add a fast-growing space and satellite business (a 3-to-1 book-to-bill quarter and a $446.8 million Space Systems Command award), microwave electronics, and directed energy, and the company becomes a diversified arsenal of next-generation capability rather than a single-product bet.

    The financial trajectory confirms the thesis is converting. First-quarter 2026 revenue grew 22.6% to $371 million; backlog hit a record $2.0 billion on a 1.6-to-1 book-to-bill; and the opportunity pipeline swelled to roughly $14 billion. The growth ahead is a conversion story: turning that pipeline into full-rate production. As generational programs move from development to volume, fixed-cost absorption should lift today’s thin ~2% net margins meaningfully—on 20%+ revenue growth, even modest margin expansion compounds into outsized earnings power.
    This is NOT financial advice. This is for educational and informational purposes only. Please do your own research.

    5 min
  • BLDR: Builders FirstSource

    In the spirit of being a contrarian, we cant ignore a huge, important industry like homebuilding without looking at some tremendous value opportunities. Yes rates are important and home affordability dynamics need to improve but when we see dreadful sentiment, high quality brands on sale, builders first source is down 65% from the cycle highs, and a differentiated, highly valuable business model that’s also an interesting potential acquisition for a bigger company, we get excited and we have patience because the margin of safety appears to be in our favor.
    This is NOT financial advice. This is for educational and informational purposes only. Please do your own research.

    6 min
  • Service Now - Contrarian stock - Asymmetric opportunities

    ServiceNow's position for the next decade should be even more important than its importance over the last decade. The stock is down, insiders are buying, stock based comp is getting contained and the ai engine is getting warmed up. Currently, Revenue is growing at 20-plus percent annually with best-in-class net retention rates — meaning existing customers spend more each year without ServiceNow adding a single new customer. By 2030, ServiceNow has guided to being a 30-plus-billion-dollar revenue company with operating margins above 30 percent as AI agents become the standard method of enterprise workflow execution. That’s strong earnings, free cash flow and revenue growth, and none of that possibility is priced in the stock today. The company that owns the workflow layer of the enterprise owns the platform on which AI agents will operate for a generation. ServiceNow owns that layer.

    Important Information

    Investors should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund’s statutory and summary prospectuses, which may be obtained at LogoETF.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.


    6 min
  • Costco: Boring Is Beautiful

    Costco's management built a genuine obsession with the member, a willingness to sacrifice margins to deliver value & loyalty, and a long-term orientation that makes quarterly guidance feel like noise. The balance sheet is pristine. Returns on invested capital are consistently above 20 percent. The store base is young in international markets. The membership fee increase cycle has just been initiated and it offers a sneaky inflation hedge over time. And the demographic tailwind — as millennials in their prime household spending years join Costco in record numbers — is only beginning. In a structurally inflationary world where every household is scrutinizing every dollar, the value proposition of a place that guarantees the lowest price on a broad selection of high-quality products is not cyclical. It is permanent. Costco is not a retail stock. It is one of the few consumer businesses that genuinely compounds intrinsic value over every economic cycle.

    Important Information

    Investors should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund’s statutory and summary prospectuses, which may be obtained at LogoETF.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

    7 min
  • Blackstone: Out of favor, great price

    Blackstone stock has been a massive outperformer since the March 2009 bottom, after a difficult IPO in late 2008 just before the financial crisis. The price of admission when investing in this group is occasional cyclical downswings and some big drawdowns even when the actual businesses aren't nearly as cyclical as the 1980s LBO era. Those have all been wonderful buying opportunities and we think this pullback will prove no different. Important: This stock and industry is NOT for the get-rich-quick crowd, there are plenty of private credit headlines today, but investors get paid an attractive dividend of roughly 4%, that has solid dividend growth as the business fully recovers. This giant is resting, even while gathering a staggering amount of assets every 90 days. All of these assets will one day generate fees when the capital is deployed. The longer the stock stays stagnant while assets under management swell, the bigger the recovery period in the stock will be.

    Important Information

    Investors should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund’s statutory and summary prospectuses, which may be obtained at LogoETF.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

    6 min
  • Applovin: This chart is ready

    AppLovin's financial profile is one of the most compelling in technology: gross margins above 80 percent, operating margins expanding through 70 percent and we think they are sustainable and can expand even further. It gets better, free cash flow conversion is incredibly high, revenue per employee is over $4 million per person (almost unheard of), and we expect revenue to keep growing above 30 percent annually with no signs of deceleration on the horizon. Important: every single company grows differently and with a different cadence over time, high & linear growth without any hiccups is rare but any temporary slowdown we view as a wonderful opportunity to aggressively acquire more shares. The growth runway is staggering, and the stock has been held back this year due to the hatred of anything related to software. Right now, the stock is down 25% YTD and we think theres at least 20% upside near term. Technically, the stock looks ready to resume its uptrend so don’t sleep on this stock, particularly right now. We also think the loathing of software stocks will one day turn to a love affair as the broad, automatic disruption of the best software stocks narrative gets turned on its head. Theres some exception values in software today, its impossible to know when the markets will care, but to date, generally theres been virtually zero evidence of any ai-disruption in most business models.

    Important Information

    Investors should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund’s statutory and summary prospectuses, which may be obtained at LogoETF.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

    7 min

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