The Pragmatic Portfolio
Current Holdings
The Pragmatic Portfolio

Businesses that monetize the megatrends shaping the world.

The Pragmatic Portfolio is a concentrated stake in powerful businesses operating at the center of rapidly growing markets. Their growth becomes yours. Operating performance leads. Valuations follow.

The thesis — Find the megatrends. Identify the businesses already capturing them at scale. Buy them when the market puts them on sale. Concentrate. Hold while the cash flows compound. The market always follows.
Avg Revenue Growth
42.1%
Last twelve months vs prior twelve, equal-weighted across 21 holdings
Avg EBITDA Growth
81.0%
Earnings scaling faster than revenue
Aggregate Industry Spend
$12.0T
The 2025 spending opportunity ahead of the Pragmatic Portfolio
Avg Industry Growth
14.6%
Equal-weighted growth of each holding's market
Avg EV/EBITDA (NTM)
30.2x
Median 17.2x — forward consensus EBITDA
Avg P/E (NTM)
40.3x
Median 20.9x — forward consensus EPS; excludes Coreweave and Vital Farms (n/m)

Higher growth.
Higher valuation.
Cheaper per dollar of growth.

The market knows these are better businesses — and prices them accordingly. The Pragmatic Portfolio carries a real premium to the index because it's earning it: growing four times faster on revenue and nearly five times faster on earnings than the average S&P 500 company. But even after that premium, on a growth-adjusted basis the Pragmatic Portfolio is meaningfully cheaper than owning the index. These businesses are winning in the real world. The stock prices will follow.

Revenue Growth
Pragmatic Portfolio
42.1%
S&P 500
10.4%
4.0× faster
EBITDA Growth
Pragmatic Portfolio
81.0%
S&P 500
17.1%
4.7× faster
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
Pragmatic Portfolio
30.2x
S&P 500
15.5x
1.9× premium
P/E (NTM)
Pragmatic Portfolio
40.3x
S&P 500
22.4x
1.8× premium
The Resolving Math
EVG — the price you pay for a point of growth.
EVG = EV/EBITDA ÷ EBITDA Growth

Lower is better. The market is pricing each unit of growth at $0.91 across the S&P 500. The Pragmatic Portfolio delivers that same unit of growth at $0.37 — nearly two and a half times cheaper. That's the price of focus.

Pragmatic Portfolio
0.37x
30.2x ÷ 81.0%
S&P 500
0.91x
15.5x ÷ 17.1%
Cluster I

Building the AI Substrate

Five businesses physically constructing the chips, foundries, racks, software, and cloud capacity the AI economy runs on top of. The activity is build. The megatrend is a multi-trillion-dollar buildout of compute infrastructure unfolding across this decade.

5 Businesses
NVIDIA
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
NVDA
Rev Growth
70.7%
EBITDA Growth
87.5%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
16.7x
P/E (NTM)
20.9x
Advanced Micro Devices
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
AMD
Rev Growth
35.0%
EBITDA Growth
29.7%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
50.5x
P/E (NTM)
60.7x
Taiwan Semiconductor
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
TSM
Rev Growth
30.6%
EBITDA Growth
21.7%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
12.4x
P/E (NTM)
19.0x
Coreweave
Data center capex
$405B · +57%
CRWV
Rev Growth
129.9%
EBITDA Growth
137.3%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
8.4x
P/E (NTM)
n/m
Oracle
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
ORCL
Rev Growth
17.4%
EBITDA Growth
25.4%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
9.7x
P/E (NTM)
14.9x
Cluster II

Putting AI to Work Inside the Enterprise

Six businesses weaving AI into how large organizations actually operate — analyzing their data, watching their software run, designing their products, building their applications. The activity is operationalize. The megatrend is the migration of AI from demo to deployment inside the institutions that run the economy.

6 Businesses
Palantir
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
PLTR
Rev Growth
67.7%
EBITDA Growth
364.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
55.5x
P/E (NTM)
77.6x
Snowflake
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
SNOW
Rev Growth
31.1%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
78.5x
P/E (NTM)
125.4x
Datadog
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
DDOG
Rev Growth
29.5%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
72.4x
P/E (NTM)
99.2x
Figma
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
FIG
Rev Growth
41.4%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
61.4x
P/E (NTM)
73.5x
Salesforce
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
CRM
Rev Growth
11.0%
EBITDA Growth
13.4%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
9.2x
P/E (NTM)
11.3x
HubSpot
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
HUBS
Rev Growth
21.1%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
8.7x
P/E (NTM)
13.9x
Cluster III

Rebuilding Discovery, Decision, and Purchase

Four businesses rebuilding the layer between people and the things they buy. The activity is rewire how billions of consumers find, evaluate, and transact — a layer being rewritten in real time as AI becomes the new intermediary between intent and inventory.

4 Businesses
Shopify
Global e-commerce
$6,420B · +6.8%
SHOP
Rev Growth
31.8%
EBITDA Growth
36.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
48.5x
P/E (NTM)
58.8x
Pinterest
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
PINS
Rev Growth
16.3%
EBITDA Growth
37.2%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
8.5x
P/E (NTM)
11.6x
AppLovin
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
APP
Rev Growth
66.4%
EBITDA Growth
74.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
18.1x
P/E (NTM)
22.4x
The Trade Desk
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
TTD
Rev Growth
15.5%
EBITDA Growth
33.5%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
5.3x
P/E (NTM)
8.6x
Cluster IV

Modernizing the Activities of Everyday Life

Three businesses replacing legacy ways of doing daily things — learning a language, ordering from a local merchant, running a restaurant — with modern, AI-enabled platforms. The activity is replace what came before. The megatrend is the long migration of ordinary life from analog and fragmented onto integrated software stacks.

3 Businesses
Duolingo
Global EdTech
$404B · +16.3%
DUOL
Rev Growth
35.5%
EBITDA Growth
108.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
14.2x
P/E (NTM)
17.8x
DoorDash
US restaurant industry
$1,500B · +4.1%
DASH
Rev Growth
31.0%
EBITDA Growth
111.3%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
18.6x
P/E (NTM)
30.5x
Toast
US restaurant industry
$1,500B · +4.1%
TOST
Rev Growth
23.4%
EBITDA Growth
146.4%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
17.2x
P/E (NTM)
20.2x
Cluster V

The Reset at the Cooler Door and the Drive-Thru Lane

Three businesses capturing generational consumer-behavior shifts in food and drink as category winners. The activity is take share where the category is being rebuilt. The megatrend is not AI — it is younger consumers fundamentally rewriting what they eat, drink, and trust, faster than incumbents can respond.

3 Businesses
Dutch Bros
US out-of-home coffee
$50B · +5.0%
BROS
Rev Growth
28.4%
EBITDA Growth
38.9%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
24.7x
P/E (NTM)
63.2x
Vital Farms
US egg market
$52B · +21.9%
VITL
Rev Growth
26.4%
EBITDA Growth
12.6%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
83.3x
P/E (NTM)
n/m
Celsius Holdings
US energy drinks
$26B · +8.0%
CELH
Rev Growth
123.3%
EBITDA Growth
98.2%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
11.3x
P/E (NTM)
16.5x