Cristia Calle Mercado
Cristia Calle Mercado @CCalle

Performance
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37.22%2025
2025
27.02%2024
2024
35.02%2023
2023
-8.81%2022
2022
2.78%2021
2021
33.51%2020
2020
0%2019
2019
0%2018
2018
0%2017
2017
1.55%2016
2016
-49.84%2015
2015
5.14%2014
2014
49.8%0%-49.8%
Cristia Calle Mercado
๐”๐ฅ๐ญ๐š ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’% ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ $ULTA (Ulta Beauty Inc) is going up more than 14% today thanks to a great earnings release yesterday. Comparable sales went up by over 6%, and revenue was up over 12%. When we bought Ulta, sales were slowing down and the market was very pessimistic about the... Show More
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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ฌ Most of the time, I buy the most hated stock for my portfolio. It happened to me when I bought $META (Meta Platforms Inc), and everyone said that they were doomed with TikTok. It happened when I bought $UBER (Uber Technologies Inc.), and everyone said that... Show More
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๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐œ๐ค? ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ž Many investors try to predict what company is going to be the next big thing. The next $AAPL (Apple), the next $AMZN (Amazon.com Inc), or even the next $TSLA (Tesla Motors, Inc.) Thatโ€™s a valid goal,... Show More
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๐™๐™ƒ๐™€ ๐˜ฝ๐™€๐™Ž๐™ ๐™„๐™‰๐™‘๐™€๐™Ž๐™๐™ˆ๐™€๐™‰๐™ ๐™”๐™Š๐™ ๐˜พ๐˜ผ๐™‰ ๐™ˆ๐˜ผ๐™†๐™€ ๐™๐™Š๐˜ฟ๐˜ผ๐™”: I expect $WISE.L (Wise Ltd) to return 300% Over the next few years, of course. The company, as you see in the picture below, has been growing its revenues and net profit steadily. Why? Because they have built a massive network... Show More
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๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ž๐™ฃ-๐™™๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™’๐™„๐™Ž๐™€: I've shared before my analysis on Wise, but in this article, I focus especially on the moat that the company has built, the competitive landscape of the industry, and how stablecoins can affect the company. Check it out on the Substack that... Show More
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๐–๐‡๐€๐“ ๐ˆ๐… ๐ˆ ๐‹๐Ž๐’๐„ ๐Œ๐˜ ๐Œ๐Ž๐๐„๐˜? That's the big question every beginner has. Also, many people always recommend investing the money "you can afford to lose". So that doesn't help, either. Instead, you have to invest the money you can afford to see vary in the short term.... Show More
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๐™๐™ƒ๐™€ ๐™ˆ๐™Š๐™‰๐™๐™ƒ ๐™’๐™€ ๐˜ผ๐™‡๐™’๐˜ผ๐™”๐™Ž ๐™๐™„๐™‰๐™„๐™Ž๐™ƒ ๐™„๐™‰ ๐™‹๐™Š๐™Ž๐™„๐™๐™„๐™‘๐™€: Since I started investing in February 2020, December has been a month when the portfolio has ๐˜ผ๐™‡๐™’๐˜ผ๐™”๐™Ž finished in green. Some people know the December uptick in the stock exchange as "Santa's rally." This year,... Show More
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๐™๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™ช๐™—๐™—๐™ก๐™š๐™จ: Weโ€™ve seen in the past years how overvalued companies have fallen like a rock. An example of that is $PTON (Peloton Interactive) . If you invested at the peak of the bubble, back in 2021, today you would have lost 95% of your investment. A bubble... Show More
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๐˜ฟ๐™€๐™‹๐™Š๐™Ž๐™„๐™ ๐™Ž๐˜พ๐™ƒ๐™€๐˜ฟ๐™๐™‡๐™€๐˜ฟ: Dear copiers, Today is the last day of the month, so I've already scheduled my monthly deposit for tomorrow when the day starts. I will be increasing my portfolio by about ~5.2%. ๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™™๐™ค ๐™–๐™›๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™„ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™›๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ? 1-... Show More
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๐๐Ž๐•๐„๐Œ๐๐„๐‘ ๐…๐ˆ๐๐ˆ๐’๐‡๐„๐’, ๐–๐„ ๐’๐“๐ˆ๐‹๐‹ ๐Ž๐”๐“๐๐„๐‘๐…๐Ž๐‘๐Œ: November finishes, and the portfolio keeps performing better than the $SPX500 since inception in February 2020, before the pandemic, and also better than the best value investor in history: Warren Buffett and his company $BRK.B... Show More

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Spain
Strategy: Value

Finance professional with +6 years experience as CFO Using knowledge to increase wealth
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