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Pitch The PMLive 002: Is $ZM the Next Stealth AI Winner?This episode is a replay of a webinar recorded on May 15th, where Ed Moya interviews Doug Garber, founder of Pitch the PM and Westport Alpha. Doug walks through his 10-step Variant View Checklist to make the case for Zoom ($ZM). Once seen as a COVID-era relic, Zoom is now a misunderstood, cash-rich business with sticky enterprise traction, product expansion into UCaaS, and a setup that offers asymmetric upside if growth reaccelerates.1. What ACTION do I want the Portfolio Manager to take?Doug owns $ZM after hearing Sean Emory pitch it in Episode 2...2025-07-2449 minPitch The PMCigar Butt Morphing into a Compounder: 50% of NAV & Pivoting to Higher Return IndustriesIn this episode of Pitch the PM, Doug welcomes Mark Layton, CFO of Mammoth Energy Services (NASDAQ: TUSK), to explore one of his highest conviction investment ideas and his first of twenty lifetime “Buffett punchcard” investments. This small cap company ($132 MM market cap) is valued below cash levels ($150 MM) with the market giving the company no credit for its existing businesses or underutilized equipment that was recently valued at $145 MM by an independent appraiser. The company recently exited its largest industrial business for $110 MM (more than 3x MOIC), has its land drilling rigs held for sale and subsequent to the...2025-07-0946 minPitch The PMPalantir ($PLTR): Irrationally Overvalued - Could Significant Index Rebalance be the Catalyst to Break it?In this episode of Pitch The PM, host Doug Garber sits down with Adam Parker, founder of Trivariate Research, to discuss one of the market’s most buzzed-about stocks—Palantir (PLTR). Parker brings a sobering view of why PLTR’s irrational valuation could be set to crack on a significant index rebalance. After increasing over five fold over the last year and reaching a market cap of over $300 billion, PLTR is slated to be removed from the Russell mid-cap index where it is over an 8% weight. The discussion spans index rebalancing mechanics, passive investing distortions, and what it means when a $3...2025-06-1840 minPitch The PMJAZZ: Value with an Oncology Catalyst - 5x Risk-Reward RatioWelcome back to another episode of Pitch the PM. In this episode, Doug speaks with biotech expert, Sriker Nadipuram from Critical Value Asset Management, about Jazz Pharmaceuticals Although outside Doug’s typical investment lane, the conversation highlights shared frameworks and rigorous research methodologies. Sriker unpacks Jazz’s business model, detailing its base business in neurology and the high-potential oncology pipeline. They examine the firm’s risk-reward setup, political uncertainty from tariffs and drug pricing, and why the market may be overlooking a potentially transformational oncology outcome in 2H’25. Tune in to learn more about JAZZ’s value proposition amid healthcare...2025-06-051h 00Pitch The PMLive 001: NVDA: Understanding the Bear CasePitch The PM Live Doug Garber breaks down his thesis on the future of NVIDIA using his Variant View checklist. He draws on insights from his recent episode with Gil Luria and incorporates real-time analytics from our show sponsors 5 key points discussed:✅ Customer capex from a couple Big Tech customers is flattening out sequentially and that should make it hard for NVDA to continue to beat already high expectations for +$4B of QoQ revenue growth. The debate is how much will others absorb?✅ The S+D for GPU's is already seeing PRIC...2025-05-1558 minPitch The PMInside The Process Of A Successful Portfolio ManagerA couple of weeks ago, Pitch The PM host Doug Garber had the opportunity to interview on the Searching Smarter Podcast at Selby Jennings. Selby Jennings is doing great work with Searching Smarter, so be sure to catch their latest episode here: https://youtube.com/@selbyjennings8854?si=xxoGyPPIopsnhMcN📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for research updates and new high-conviction episodes from top PMs & Analysts. https://pitchthepm.beehiiv.com/subscribe------------The old paths to becoming a portfolio manager are fading. The bar is higher, the competition sharper, and the ski...2025-05-0650 minPitch The PMNvidia ($NVDA): As Good as it GetsWelcome to Pitch The PM where host Doug Garber is joined by Gil Luria, Head of Technology Research at D.A. Davidson for a deep-dive on NVDA.— — — —📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for research updates and new high-conviction episodes from top PMs & Analysts. https://lnkd.in/ekkxjp6z— — — —In this episode of Pitch The PM, Doug and Gil candidly debate where Nvidia is in the GPU cycle, how Nvidia came to dominate the advanced chip market and what the road map looks like for advanced chip supply and demand. Gil outlines the current state of the...2025-03-191h 19Pitch The PMPool Corp ($POOL): Reverse Engineering Berkshire’s Investment, Buying a Great Company in a LullIn addition to presenting high-conviction investment ideas, we also reverse engineer great investors’ theses to improve our process. Pool Corp. has a leading position in a good industry and has demonstrated the ability to consistently grow FCF/share in the mid-teens with a high ROIC. The current post-COVID pool industry downturn has led to negative sentiment, and long-term investors of great companies such as Berkshire see this as an opportunity to buy a great company at a “fair” price. We use a reverse DCF to impute that consensus expects FCF to grow in the mi...2025-02-1337 minPitch The PMZoom ($ZM): Growth Acceleration, A CatalystHello and welcome back to Pitch The PM, where we debate high-conviction investment ideas with top PMs using our 10 Step Variant View Investment Checklist. — — — —2-2.5x Return Potential. Post the COVID stock bubble, a laser-focused management team at Zoom worked to transform from a single-product company to an Enterprise platform. Revenue growth acceleration from low single-digits to high single-digits could be the catalyst for positive earnings revisions and potentially multiple re-rating.In the second episode of Pitch the PM, ex-Citadel Analyst & Millennium Senior Portfolio Manager Doug Garber is swayed by Sean Emory’s ZM pitch. S...2025-02-061h 24Pitch The PMBarnes & Noble Education ($BNED): 3x Return Potential on TurnaroundIn the first episode of Pitch the PM, ex-Citadel Analyst & Millennium Senior Portfolio Manager, Doug Garber, grills, Analyst, Alex Nuta's BNED pitch. The Analyst uses the 10 Step Variant View Investment Checklist to convince his PM that BNED has the potential to be a 3-bagger. 2024-12-2151 min