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
41.1%
FY2025 vs FY2024, equal-weighted across 19 holdings
Avg EBITDA Growth
56.0%
Earnings scaling faster than revenue
Aggregate Industry Spend
$12.0T
The 2025 spending opportunity ahead of the Pragmatic Portfolio
Avg Industry Growth
14.9%
Equal-weighted growth of each holding's market
Avg EV/EBITDA (NTM)
31.4x
Median 24.9x — forward consensus EBITDA; excludes Figma (n/m)
Avg P/E (NTM)
42.6x
Median 30.3x — forward consensus EPS; excludes Coreweave (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 six 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
41.1%
S&P 500
6.9%
6.0× faster
EBITDA Growth
Pragmatic Portfolio
56.0%
S&P 500
11.6%
4.8× faster
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
Pragmatic Portfolio
31.4x
S&P 500
17.0x
1.8× premium
P/E (NTM)
Pragmatic Portfolio
42.6x
S&P 500
20.9x
2.0× 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 $1.47 across the S&P 500. The Pragmatic Portfolio delivers that same unit of growth at $0.56 — nearly three times cheaper. That's the price of focus.

Pragmatic Portfolio
0.56x
31.4x ÷ 56.0%
S&P 500
1.47x
17.0x ÷ 11.6%
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
65.4%
EBITDA Growth
65.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
20.5x
P/E (NTM)
25.5x
Advanced Micro Devices
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
AMD
Rev Growth
34.2%
EBITDA Growth
27.1%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
38.9x
P/E (NTM)
49.5x
Taiwan Semiconductor
Global semiconductors
$791.7B · +25.6%
TSM
Rev Growth
38.5%
EBITDA Growth
32.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
10.5x
P/E (NTM)
22.5x
Coreweave
Data center capex
$405B · +57%
CRWV
Rev Growth
167.9%
EBITDA Growth
153.3%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
36.0x
P/E (NTM)
n/m
Oracle
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
ORCL
Rev Growth
8.4%
EBITDA Growth
8.2%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
13.6x
P/E (NTM)
22.5x
Cluster II

Putting AI to Work Inside the Enterprise

Four 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.

4 Businesses
Palantir
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
PLTR
Rev Growth
56.2%
EBITDA Growth
98.8%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
79.0x
P/E (NTM)
108.0x
Snowflake
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
SNOW
Rev Growth
28.7%
EBITDA Growth
133.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
45.0x
P/E (NTM)
85.0x
Datadog
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
DDOG
Rev Growth
27.8%
EBITDA Growth
13.9%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
42.0x
P/E (NTM)
60.0x
Figma
Enterprise software
$1,220B · +11.5%
FIG
Rev Growth
41.0%
EBITDA Growth
2.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
n/m
P/E (NTM)
78.5x
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
30.1%
EBITDA Growth
36.7%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
75.0x
P/E (NTM)
68.0x
Pinterest
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
PINS
Rev Growth
15.8%
EBITDA Growth
23.1%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
13.5x
P/E (NTM)
11.5x
AppLovin
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
APP
Rev Growth
16.4%
EBITDA Growth
65.9%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
22.8x
P/E (NTM)
29.1x
The Trade Desk
Global advertising
$1,140B · +9.0%
TTD
Rev Growth
18.5%
EBITDA Growth
20.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
13.0x
P/E (NTM)
10.5x
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
38.6%
EBITDA Growth
59.4%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
22.5x
P/E (NTM)
34.7x
DoorDash
US restaurant industry
$1,500B · +4.1%
DASH
Rev Growth
28.1%
EBITDA Growth
38.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
50.5x
P/E (NTM)
31.5x
Toast
US restaurant industry
$1,500B · +4.1%
TOST
Rev Growth
26.0%
EBITDA Growth
69.7%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
22.5x
P/E (NTM)
25.5x
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
27.9%
EBITDA Growth
31.4%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
27.0x
P/E (NTM)
63.0x
Vital Farms
US egg market
$52B · +21.9%
VITL
Rev Growth
25.3%
EBITDA Growth
31.5%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
4.7x
P/E (NTM)
12.2x
Celsius Holdings
US energy drinks
$26B · +8.0%
CELH
Rev Growth
85.5%
EBITDA Growth
156.0%
EV/EBITDA (NTM)
28.5x
P/E (NTM)
28.8x