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"BDL Capital Management holds zero long exposure to artificial intelligence, warning that unchecked hyperscaler capital expenditure and passive fund flows have created valuation excesses mirroring the 2000 TMT peak."
BDL Capital Management maintains that long-term equity investment success requires both robust growth and verifiable profitability, leading the firm to completely avoid artificial intelligence infrastructure investments while aggressively building exposure to neglected high-quality European compounders. The firm observes severe speculative excesses across global financial markets reminiscent of the 2000 technology bubble, fueled by price-insensitive passive index flows and unsustainable hyperscaler capital expenditure. Hyperscalers have escalated infrastructure investments toward six trillion dollars over five years, reaching the limits of operational free cash flow self-funding and accumulating massive off-balance-sheet lease obligations. In response, the manager has established zero long exposure to AI ecosystem beneficiaries. Instead, the firm is capitalizing on severe market polarization by deploying capital into mispriced market leaders across consumer staples, healthcare, and enterprise software platforms. These target businesses generate operating margins exceeding twenty percent and returns on capital employed above thirty percent, yet trade at deep valuation discounts not witnessed in more than a decade. Year-to-date through late May 2026, flagship strategy BDL Rempart gained 2.9% net of fees, while BDL Convictions generated 4.4% net of fees, positioning both portfolios for significant multiple expansion when market leadership rotates away from speculative momentum.
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