This post is long overdue. I am capturing what I bought, I sold and trade in and out in 2025 to keep a record of my move. I would like to review these moves in 3, 5 or 10 years. You can tag along.
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Full Exits or Large sales
At the beginning of the year, I sold long time 2009 holding Intuitive surgical as it was trading at more than 100x earnings. Did the same with 2018 Trade desk which was also trading at the same level. To my regret, I fully exited Tonnellerie Francois Freres at a loss after going through the January report and the way they buildup the inventory and debt and made late cycle over-investment in these difficult time. I also sold the vast majority of my Amazon shares at it was trading at 40x earnings and I was seeing a lot of head winds this year (tariff, labors issues) and mistrust of the new CEO (Andy Jassy).
The current state of the top 15 positions is avaliable in this link:
First Half Buys
With the proceeds, in the first half of 2025, I made significant purchases in Bombardier, Google, LVMH, Eurokai and Rolls Royce, this is rank in order of importance.
The following posts for the rationale:
On Bombardier:
A timely post! Bombardier - Leading Private Jet Vendor in a Duopoly caught in a Tariff Storm
Warning: 25% Tariff Update
On Google when it was trading at 150$:
Google by numbers
Hope you find my personal notes useful - read the disclosure below. Do your own research.
On LVMH when it was trading at 495
Eurokai has been extensively covered by
Eurokai post from MemyselfandI
For more background on my first 100 bagger you can also check this Q&A post:
Second half 2025 Buys
Very recently, I decided to pull the trigger on two spirits company: Pernod Ricard and Cuervo.
I made the following posts related to these stocks:
Cuervo - the #1 Tequila company at discount
This stock has about only 500m USD of float (14% of total capitalization) and is trading mainly on the Mexican stock exchange, as such I decided to post this only on wintergems.com without sending an email abroad nor link it to social platform. Only avid readers monitoring wintergems.com will caught this post.
Trade in Trade out
I made a few not very smart move along the way: I bought into legacy fintech Fiserv hold it for about a month with a loss but thankfully avoided the October fallout.
I went all in in Net Net Kikukawa thinking I could take a few % of the stocks and start convincing the management to do massive buyback. I decided to exit as this is not my cup of tea.
I also bought a lot of Synopsis at 382$ to exit when it rebounded to 450-460$ level as I dont want to be overexposed to AI bubble.
2025 will close in 2 months, time to rest and let the companies do the hard work for the rest of the year. Bombardier will publish its Q3 results Thursday.








Dodging that FI fallout before the 47% crater was definitely smart timing. Sometimes cutting losses quickly on a position that doesn't feel right is the best move even if the rationale isn't fully clear at the time. The whole fintech payment processor space seems to be going through a majr reevaluation right now with increased competition and margin pressure. Better to be on the sidelines than catching that falling knife.
Wow, great write up.
Selling a stock after so long is something I aspire to do one day.
I really love your call here, you would never buy it at p/e 100, so you should sell it, even after holding for so long.
I personally would really love a whole write up on this:
"I went all in in Net Net Kikukawa thinking I could take a few % of the stocks and start convincing the management to do massive buyback. I decided to exit as this is not my cup of tea."
What about it is not for you, how does one even go about it?
Do you know people that have experience in that.
Thanks.