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Robotti Value Investors argues that the market's AI obsession has created a compelling mispricing in physical assets. While AI platforms trade at valuations embedding decades of flawless execution, the physical infrastructure required to support AI—power generation, transmission, copper, steel, and natural gas—remains largely ignored despite surging demand after years of underinvestment. The manager avoids paying extraordinary prices for AI winners and instead owns the forgotten real assets necessary to enable technological change. Key positions include Subsea 7, which is merging with Saipem to create a global offshore energy leader with extensive backlog and pricing power, and Builders FirstSource in building products distribution. The North American industrial renaissance driven by abundant low-cost natural gas provides a structural advantage for energy-intensive industries. The manager buys these real assets through public companies at discounts to replacement cost and below private market valuations, with capital deployed alongside owner-operators. The strategy requires patience as fundamentals improve ahead of narrative recognition, but when recognition arrives, it tends to happen quickly.
The market's obsession with AI has created a mispricing opportunity where capital flows into digital platforms at extraordinary valuations while the physical infrastructure required to support AI remains undervalued, creating an asymmetry between narrative and reality in favor of real assets.
The manager expects the fundamentals beneath the physical economy to continue improving even while narrative recognition lags, with recognition likely to arrive quickly when it does. The most durable participation comes from owning real assets through public companies at discounts, held with patience alongside aligned operators. The asymmetry between enthusiasm concentrated in AI platforms and necessity accumulating in physical infrastructure represents a compelling multi-year opportunity.
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