The Pragmatic Portfolio
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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
40.2%
Last twelve months vs prior twelve, equal-weighted across 21 holdings
Avg EBITDA Growth
75.2%
Earnings scaling faster than revenue; 17 holdings, 4 not yet meaningful
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
EV/EBITDA (LTM)
34.5x
Equal-weight look-through on trailing EBITDA; 13.8x on forward consensus EBITDA
P/E (NTM)
30.2x
Equal-weight look-through on forward consensus EPS; median 21.2x

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 3.3 times faster on revenue and 3.5 times faster on earnings than the S&P 500. 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
40.2%
S&P 500
12.2%
3.3× faster
EBITDA Growth
Pragmatic Portfolio
75.2%
S&P 500
21.3%
3.5× faster
EV/EBITDA (LTM)
Pragmatic Portfolio
34.5x
S&P 500
18.6x
1.9× premium
P/E (NTM)
Pragmatic Portfolio
30.2x
S&P 500
19.1x
1.6× 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 $0.87 across the S&P 500. The Pragmatic Portfolio delivers that same unit of growth at $0.46 — roughly half the price. That's the price of focus.

Pragmatic Portfolio
0.46x
34.5x ÷ 75.2%
S&P 500
0.87x
18.6x ÷ 21.3%
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
83.4%
EBITDA Growth
104.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
13.8x
P/E (NTM)
19.1x
Advanced Micro Devices
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
AMD
Rev Growth
39.5%
EBITDA Growth
74.2%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
37.5x
P/E (NTM)
55.9x
Taiwan Semiconductor
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
TSM
Rev Growth
30.6%
EBITDA Growth
34.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
12.3x
P/E (NTM)
20.3x
Coreweave
Data center capex
$405B · +57%
CRWV
Rev Growth
115.3%
EBITDA Growth
104.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
6.3x
P/E (NTM)
n/m
Oracle
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
ORCL
Rev Growth
21.6%
EBITDA Growth
46.6%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
9.3x
P/E (NTM)
15.9x
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
78.9%
EBITDA Growth
345.4%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
68.7x
P/E (NTM)
104.6x
Snowflake
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
SNOW
Rev Growth
32.0%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
92.6x
P/E (NTM)
146.5x
Datadog
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
DDOG
Rev Growth
31.5%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
74.6x
P/E (NTM)
110.6x
Figma
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
FIG
Rev Growth
43.4%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
53.3x
P/E (NTM)
82.1x
Salesforce
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
CRM
Rev Growth
11.2%
EBITDA Growth
15.9%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
11.0x
P/E (NTM)
15.6x
HubSpot
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
HUBS
Rev Growth
21.1%
EBITDA Growth
n/m
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
9.5x
P/E (NTM)
15.3x
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
32.5%
EBITDA Growth
52.3%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
61.0x
P/E (NTM)
81.8x
Pinterest
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
PINS
Rev Growth
16.6%
EBITDA Growth
15.6%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
7.3x
P/E (NTM)
9.4x
AppLovin
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
APP
Rev Growth
60.6%
EBITDA Growth
75.5%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
11.4x
P/E (NTM)
15.6x
The Trade Desk
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
TTD
Rev Growth
11.6%
EBITDA Growth
25.9%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
6.4x
P/E (NTM)
13.1x
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
29.4%
EBITDA Growth
79.7%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
16.0x
P/E (NTM)
57.6x
DoorDash
US restaurant industry
$1,500B · +4.1%
DASH
Rev Growth
33.6%
EBITDA Growth
72.2%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
17.8x
P/E (NTM)
28.4x
Toast
US restaurant industry
$1,500B · +4.1%
TOST
Rev Growth
23.0%
EBITDA Growth
83.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
16.4x
P/E (NTM)
20.4x
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
29.6%
EBITDA Growth
29.2%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
17.2x
P/E (NTM)
32.4x
Vital Farms
US egg market
$52B · +21.9%
VITL
Rev Growth
16.4%
EBITDA Growth
-80.6%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
12.0x
P/E (NTM)
n/m
Celsius Holdings
US energy drinks
$26B · +8.0%
CELH
Rev Growth
82.9%
EBITDA Growth
199.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
9.5x
P/E (NTM)
21.2x