
At the Hard Assets, Low Obsolescence webinar I talked about one question most value screens still can't answer.
Here's the question - and why it matters.
Take a financial data platform trading at 15x earnings, and a Class I railroad trading at 15x earnings. Same multiple. Same screen. Completely different investment.
The railroad owns thousands of miles of right-of-way that took decades to build and can never be replicated. AI makes it run better. But you can’t transport physical goods over AI.
The financial data platform sells analysis, aggregation, research tools – the kind of cognitive work AI is now doing at near-zero cost. That low earnings multiple may not be a bargain. It could be the market pricing in a structural threat.
And it's not just data platforms. Look what's happened in the last 24 months:
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*Share price data sourced from Bloomberg and public market data, 2024–2026. Single-session moves reflect intraday or closing price changes on the dates noted. Past market events are not indicative of future results.
Close to $2 trillion in software equity value wiped out — driven by intelligence becoming dramatically cheaper.
A stock can look cheap because the market missed something. Or it can look cheap because the market already figured out that AI could hollow it out.
Your standard value screen — price-to-earnings, price-to-book, dividend yield — can't tell the difference.
That's exactly what HALX is built to filter for.
- Matt
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