🚀 Explosive Revenue Growth: We break down the companies putting up undeniable numbers in 2025. From Nebius $NBIS clocking 441% growth to the hottest data center plays. How do you distinguish a value trap from a rocket ship?
⚛️ The Nuclear Second Chance: Luke shares a painful investing confession – buying NuScale Power $SMR early, selling in frustration, and watching it go parabolic without him. But the nuclear thesis isn’t over. We discuss why the sector is heating up again and if there’s still time to get in.
🔋 Is Brookfield Renewable $BEPC the “safer” nuclear bet? We analyze the incumbent powerhouse with 51% ownership of Westinghouse, massive Microsoft contracts, and a juicy 4% dividend yield.
🌏 The “Ants” Are Marching: We kick off with a special welcome to our massive influx of listeners from South Korea. We dive into the “Ants” investing movement, why Korean retail investors are becoming a major force in global markets, and the specific sectors they’re targeting right now.
⚖️ Portfolio Triage: What do you do when one stock becomes half your net worth? Monkey breaks down why he finally trimmed his massive EOS position, while Luke discusses the psychological shift toward income stocks and better risk management. $EOSE
🤖 The AI Productivity Trap: A reality check on New Year’s resolutions. Monkey reveals how tools like Claude Code are changing the game for developers, but warns against the temptation to do “everything, everywhere, all at once.”
Segments:
00:00 Cold Open
00:48 The Korean Investing Community
07:28 Fastest Growing Companies of 2025
18:13 Luke’s Nuclear Power Journey: NuScale Power $SMR
25:56 Investing in Brookfield Renewable $BEPC
30:02 New Year’s Resolutions: Year in Review
39:46 Fitness & Health Resolutions
44:41 Final Thoughts & Closing
WSW – E116 – Video –
[00:00:00] Krys: I can study Italian and I’ve prepped my classes for Uni University and now I’m going to, work on my options course. And then we’re gonna do some philosophy and we’re gonna record the podcast
[00:00:10] Luke: I get to look at a lot of things and the very, very few things that I’m willing to go deep on. somewhat arbitrarily maybe and loosely but handpicked from a big pool.
[00:00:19] Krys: From the portfolio management standpoint, they were not mistakes. monkey, monkey’s, paw and, tail was pinned.
[00:00:26] Luke: I think we’re gonna chat today about some of the fastest growing companies in 2026. And I wonder how many of these are actually on the radar of our Korean friends?
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[00:00:52] Luke: This week on the show, how safe is it for international investors to invest in the us Given recent political chaos, which of the fastest growing companies of the past year plus investing in nuclear power, I’m revisiting.
[00:01:09] Luke: New scale power ticker, SMR, and I’m also revealing a nuclear stock I just bought last week. Christophe, how you doing, buddy?
[00:01:19] Krys: I am, never better badge. Good morning.
[00:01:23] Luke: Good morning.
[00:01:25] Krys: bright and earlier, a little usual, a little earlier than usual. I still see the sun rising behind you.
[00:01:31] Luke: Yes, sir.
[00:01:31] Krys: this year I wanted to, for this episode bring in some talk about resolutions and what is it that we think we’re gonna do better than we did last year, and how are we fairing in the first 18 days of said resolutions.
[00:01:49] Krys: So looking forward to checking up on you.
[00:01:52] Luke: but let me tell you why. If you, weren’t losing your mind, we did open the show in Korean. If you didn’t pick up that language, do you wanna tell me, should we tell guys why we’re open the show in Korea this week?
[00:02:04] Krys: Yes. Yes, we should.
[00:02:09] Luke: we, I got a Twitter post every month. I post my, my, my portfolio and all my trades of the last month, and they usually do pretty well. my one from a few days ago got picked up by Kim Sang investing. It looks like he’s a pretty prolific. Korean investor who’s well connected in the investing, world in South Korea, and we’ve now picked up a couple of hundred Korean investors following us, so you know if there’s enough demand for it.
[00:02:37] Luke: We’ve been playing with 11 labs. We might be down to publish a Korean language version of the podcast using 11 labs for our dubbing. What you think about that idea?
[00:02:48] Krys: Badge. This is a dream come true for monkey. I’ve always wanted to be big in Korea.
[00:02:53] Luke: Hey.
[00:02:53] Krys: total si total shift. in doing my annual review of best media or best shows, critics apparently absolutely loved this show called K-Pop Demon Hunters.
[00:03:09] Luke: that was like the one of the number one shows of last year. I got a whole bunch of friends, kids who were addicted to it.
[00:03:14] Krys: Yeah. so you dig it.
[00:03:17] Luke: I’ve seen an episode with a friend’s kid. Yeah.
[00:03:21] Krys: so I have it all queued up to, to watch and, it’s the sensation and ca you know, so anyway, it’s time for us to, yeah. Make more bridges with our Korean friends. I’ve always wanted to visit. I’ve had a lot of deep close friends in my life who are Korean. I always thought it’s it’s, what am I, what are we waiting for this year, Vegas next year.
[00:03:47] Luke: Let’s go to soul. Let’s do it.
[00:03:49] Krys: Let’s do it.
[00:03:51] Luke: there is, so I did a bit of research. I had no idea. There is actually quite a big retail investment crowd in Korea and they affectionately, I hope this isn’t insulting. This is literally what Gemini told me, chatting yesterday. They collectively know, call themselves.
[00:04:07] Luke: Ants, gamey, and like an, they call themselves ants because like they are small, individually but terrifying, collectively and incredibly hardworking. And it’s almost like there’s five or 6 million highly engaged, active individual investors in South Korea who are actually invested in a lot of the same companies.
[00:04:29] Luke: You and I are like really interested in big tech. these guys and girls are digitally native, hyper connected. and they can, as a group, like they can move the prices of even mid-cap US companies. So this is actually a really interesting community for us to, like start to have a conversation in.
[00:04:49] Luke: guys and girls in South Korea, if you’re watching the show, hello and, we look forward to talking to you in the future.
[00:04:56] Krys: Absolutely. this is so obvious, the digitally native part especially, I’ve never been, so I only know based on representations. I hope this isn’t the stereotype, but I understand, especially young Koreans as very tech savvy, obviously, but also just deeply connected and caring about their digital worlds, and so investing in 2026, seeing, especially if you think about it like a very complex chess game, of course it would make sense to people with, fast technology and access to all the information.
[00:05:35] Krys: What was the, Korean company that, the Korean company that’s like a mini Amazon coupon?
[00:05:44] Luke: Oh, Coupang. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:46] Krys: Yeah, so we still, we looked into their e-commerce stuff sometime back, I think should look into that company. Actually. I haven’t studied it in some time, but anyhow. I love, I suppose maybe it’s the idea that multiple different kinds of communities have their own very different frameworks, but when you overlap, some of them, the us we have Europe, there’s our Aussie friends. If you add the Korean community than from multiple angles, we probably triangulate a little closer to, some good insight.
[00:06:26] Luke: Yeah, def definitely open to, other interesting Korean investment ideas. ’cause I do wanna get like a bit more geographically diversified. I’m still incredibly. US centric in my portfolio.
[00:06:38] Krys: I also, I, this is also maybe silly, but because I’m a Zen student and I’ve seen, Japanese characters all the time, and I always have envy of that particular. form of language and the way it looks visually. One day badge. I wanna see Team Monkey written in, in Korean.
[00:07:06] Luke: You, can you yet again, buddy? You can make your own merch and you can make it in any language you wanna make my own mech, I want our fame to carry us so that all of a sudden there’s Team Badger and Team Monkey in Korean. That’s how we know we’ve made it. When you didn’t have to make it yourself and
[00:07:23] Luke: Okay.
[00:07:25] Krys: one day, whether it be aspirational.
[00:07:28] Luke: it, I think we’re gonna chat today about some of the fastest growing companies in 2026. And I wonder how many of these are actually on the radar of our Korean friends? ’cause there’s some international names here.
[00:07:41] Krys: Bad. You and I had a little chat about, where exactly are these numbers from? I checked it against the A ai, I think there’s some discrepancies here, but loosely, approximately, I would assume that these are the growth rates based on last year’s revenue changes. And we also talked about okay, what do we do with this thing? And I
[00:08:04] Luke: just if you’re not on YouTube, let’s explain what we’re looking at a little bit. So you’ve got like a top, I don’t know, by eye, like 30 or so companies ranked by last 12 months revenue growth. So very top of the list actually is one of yours. Neas Ticket, NBIS. 441% revenue growth. So that’s, maybe from a small base, but that’s still pretty substantial, like almost five Xing your revenue.
[00:08:32] Krys: Yeah, and what the, and the other thing is the basic metrics, market cap, price per sales, price per earnings, how much the company has gained, and then the relative metrics of, price moving averages and some technical stuff. No, I did sell neas in the King of the Jungle portfolio because my conviction in iron is much higher.
[00:09:01] Krys: So took my big gains and sold it.
[00:09:05] Luke: And I see iron there on the list, probably position eight or nine with 122% revenue growth.
[00:09:11] Krys: Yeah. Not bad. So I think the meta approach to this graphic is, will be most useful for our listeners. The first thing I, I meaning like, how might we use something like this? Because any beginner, I think would make maybe an obvious mistake, which is to say, you should invest in the ones that are growing fastest.
[00:09:37] Krys: And obviously that’s just too simple because you need to contextualize everything.
[00:09:42] Luke: It’s not bad though. Like it’s that has one thing to look at. That is a useful thing to look at. I think McKinsey or someone famously did a study, I know like decades ago looking for what were the. Metrics that drove like successful companies, and I think overwhelmingly the most important thing was revenue growth.
[00:10:04] Krys: Maybe step one is to get myself acquainted, at least in passing with each of these companies, because that will end up serving me well over 2026 in the following way. Let me spell this out a little bit. With information overload, it’s easy to come across a ticker and you either say to yourself, okay, I don’t know that one, therefore I don’t care. Yeah, to have that kind of, you just protect yourself from too much. But the moment you say, take, I don’t know, five, 10 minutes to at least just learn what ticker X does, then the next time you see it, it’s not so easy to dismiss. So you’re basically learning a language, right? You just add, you just expand your vocabulary a little bit.
[00:10:58] Krys: And so what I would probably do ne next with this image. It is, feed it into an ai machine and ask it to give me, I don’t know, paragraph or two very high level summaries of what each company does. And then I would take, what, two hours of my time and I would learn all of these. Now, some of these, I know, I’d say I know 65% of them, but then all of a sudden I’ve learned 35% new basics.
[00:11:30] Krys: Yeah. And over time, and obviously we’re, looking at companies that are doing very well, meaning growing very quickly. So some of these literally might be the best performer in 2026, like staring you in the face. We don’t know. But that first step in literacy, meaning oh, cool. and to use an example, I’m looking at this chart here.
[00:11:54] Krys: I see something called Caer, CDLR. Growing at 70% market cap of 1.6 billion. Sweet spot for Monkey Ps of only 2.6 and lost 16% last year. So there’s something funky going on with this company. What is it? What’s it do? I’ll take the five minutes. I’ll learn. Maybe I’ll, I see it again. Somehow I revisit
[00:12:23] Krys: and build right, build the repertoire a little at a time.
[00:12:26] Krys: And before you know it. What might you do next? Badge with, with this data?
[00:12:32] Luke: Like I barely recognize any names on here, if I’m honest. Like the one or two, like I own two or three of these, but they’re right at the bottom. Nvidia, Palantir and Rocket Lab and Iron. I recognize one or two tickers. I couldn’t tell you what they do and, but the large majority, I’ve never heard of these before.
[00:12:51] Luke: Yeah, like your exercise sounds valuable. I
[00:12:54] Krys: have an assignment
[00:12:54] Krys: for you.
[00:12:54] Luke: thing. Go,
[00:12:56] Krys: Because it’s actually one that I’ve come across before, I just ran outta bandwidth. And time number three on this is Fly Aerospace.
[00:13:05] Luke: Firefly Aerospace. Yep.
[00:13:07] Krys: yeah. I’m sorry. Firefly Aerospace. This is a company that’s actually located just outside of Austin, and it’s being t Tooted as an, a Rocket lab.
[00:13:20] Krys: like a cousin of RO Rocket Lab. Now, here’s the thing. I really don’t know. Rocket Lab nearly as well as you do. And when I read their slide deck, it’s all shiny and good, but relatively speaking, you’re the expert here. I would love for you. For example, this is teamwork, right?
[00:13:39] Krys: Since you have the much deeper base of understanding, why not, put fly Firefly Aerospace on your, to investigate, Tab and then come back on another Wall Street Wildlife episode and say, Hey, is this little up upcoming? Does it have a shot? Is it, why? Why would you invest in it versus Rocket Lab?
[00:14:00] Krys: Who
[00:14:01] Luke: let me, lemme take my process because it’s incredibly quick, right? I could get through this list in an hour, I reckon. ’cause I’m, I literally. if I can read a one line description of a company and 99% of the time I’m gonna go, nah, not interested. it’s very rare that somebody makes me go, oh, actually that sort of makes sense.
[00:14:20] Luke: That is something the world wants more of. I can’t see any like immediate barriers. like it’s straightforward enough that I’m willing to do more than literally like 30 seconds of thinking time. Most companies don’t get more than 30 seconds out me, so I could get through this whole list and do that same thing.
[00:14:36] Krys: thing. Okay.
[00:14:37] Luke: I’m not saying that’s a good process.
[00:14:39] Krys: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:14:40] Luke: like that’s is a process. it’s certainly freaking efficient. and the consequence is the upside is I get to look at a lot of things and the very, very few things that I’m willing to go deep on. like there, they’re in some ways like somewhat arbitrarily maybe and loosely but handpicked from a big pool.
[00:15:02] Luke: But what it does mean, the consequence is I end up passing. On a ton of really great opportunities ’cause I just dismiss them out of hand. But that’s a princess. I like, I that’s a princess. I follow.
[00:15:13] Krys: since investing is personal in some phase of life, I think a process like yours is really smart. You protect yourself from too much, you know what you’re good at. You don’t let the weeds in, you just don’t bring garbage in, fewer decisions to make, right? And in other phases of life, you wanna go exploring and you wanna just maybe even, learn about the world. So even from that perspective, I wanna know what these companies are doing. Why are they growing so fast? what contribution are they making? And all of a sudden I’m just having fun learning stuff. And some of these might really catch my eye. By the way, a lot of these badge are data center type companies.
[00:15:58] Krys: monkey has a lot of these. on, I know a lot of these because I’ve been in the data center space.
[00:16:05] Krys: For two years now. any, do any of these, do I wanna say anything else? I love that lemonade is on here. This is a new, very high conviction pick for monkey, also added to the king of the jungle portfolio.
[00:16:22] Krys: Boy do I love their future. So glad they’re on this list. Okay. Also MP materials, by the way, I don’t have it in King of the Jungle, but I’ve been selling puts on MP materials in my real life portfolio. Our Patreons, who will take Monkeys Options course will learn a lot more about selling puts, but MP materials for short recently as, let me explain it, badge via, Concrete example, apple gave them a huge contract, I think $500 million worth, and they provide access to rare materials that are needed for basically all kinds of manufacturing processes. And in the current geopolitical climate with China and the US fighting one another to access rare materials without which you can’t make all the downstream stuff.
[00:17:22] Krys: It’s positioned really beautifully in. Major revenue and contracts and margin expansion and so forth. So to see that it’s up 145% in revenue over the last year makes sense, and I think it’s only going gonna go higher. So anyway, explore, see if any of these companies strike your fancy and if you’re one of our patrons, let us know In the jungle Lounge, what you discovered.
[00:17:50] Luke: Alright, Christophe, let me, it’s not on your list, but let me tell you about investing in nuclear power because I feel like a bit of a sucker that maybe I got a break. Do you remember? Way, way back in 2022? I recommended. New scale power ticket, SMR as my seven investing recommendation.
[00:18:13] Luke: I was pretty proud of that one because I think I was like, I hadn’t seen any other analysts, nobody on Fin Twi talking about it. I think I was one of the first to get to it and I, got to it like not long after they iPod. so I was pretty early to that. And then like essentially they’re, they’re the only company with approval from the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. but I I gave up on them in July, 2024.
[00:18:40] Luke: Because they’d lost like their major customer uams in Utah and it just looked like such a long journey to commercialization. Like I figured, oh, I’ve just got into this too early and like I felt like a sucker. ’cause As you can see on the diagram on screen, I bought a, I bought like around.
[00:19:01] Luke: 2022. I held it through to about 2024. I got my, money back and then the stock went parabolic. Literally, like just after I sold it. and I could have been sitting on a three x, I’ve got a do over ‘ cause the stock has now come back down
[00:19:17] Krys: I need to interrupt you for a second to ask your commentary is, like an idiot you sold in July 24, but you had a reason.
[00:19:26] Luke: I did. Yes I
[00:19:27] Luke: did.
[00:19:27] Krys: was your reason for selling?
[00:19:30] Luke: they’d lost a major customer.
[00:19:32] Luke: Yeah. And like commercialization, actually, like it’s pre-revenue company essentially. Like they make tiny revenue, but it’s not on their core thing. Like their core business model is to build these modular reactors and then operate them.
[00:19:45] Krys: That doesn’t sound like a bad reason to sell. honestly,
[00:19:50] Luke: I agree. But then it was just before that was just when the world was going, oh crap. Like we need more energy. And nuclear power is like an interesting source of energy. yeah. And so things went parabolic, but they’ve come back to earth and they’ve come back to let’s look at a quick update on where the company is.
[00:20:10] Luke: And I’ve just done like a very light bit of refreshing so. in May last year, they got another approval from the NRC for their, larger reactor design, 77 megawatt design. So that’s good. Like still moving forwards, getting approvals. And then they had a commercial breakthrough, which I’ve missed. so in September last year, just a few months ago, they’ve picked up a new agreement in Tennessee to deploy six gigawatts of SMR capacity.
[00:20:44] Luke: So that’s significant. It’s still, it’s just like a, it’s like a paper contract. they have to execute on it. It’s still be, a long way to get to generating money for that. But they now have a customer back on the table. Which was my main concern. And interestingly, the reason the stock has come back to earth and I’ve almost got a do over on my sale when I sold to almost, buying just a little bit higher a year later.
[00:21:10] Luke: So they have a, large, like a partnership with a company called Floor, F-L-U-O-R, Fluor Corp. And Flor had a big holding in new scale. Evidently new scales like volatility, like floor is like this big industrial, boring, just getting it done company, and that’s in that space.
[00:21:34] Luke: but their own share price has been swinging around in an uncomfortable manner because of the volatility of their holding in SMR. So they’ve, sold a chunk of their SMR stock and they’ve announced that they’re gonna sell the rest of their SMR stock. By middle of 2026. So you’ve got like a big overhang, essentially, like the market knows a ton of shares, like 30% of the company is gonna be sold back into the market over a period of time.
[00:22:01] Luke: So that’s kinda holding the share price down. So there might be an opportunity here to get back into SMR perhaps when that floor, sale, as it makes its progress and we start to, wear the impact on the stock price. So it’s on my radar again.
[00:22:16] Krys: Now badge. Okay. Follow up. and I know you’re not, I know there’s more work to do with, researching this, but I always thought, one of the bear cases against investing in the sector, which monkey dabbled in very gently with LightBridge and A SPI and nuclear fuels. Is that kind of like the quantum world, it’s still a long ways away.
[00:22:48] Krys: roughly speaking before commercialization and revenue. And so what the market is pricing now is the immense potential. But then you have all this dilution as you’re talking about why, to me that’s a sensible reason to stay out. Why? Why? What’s the, what’s your counter to that? Why might not that not matter as much anymore?
[00:23:15] Krys: Is the progress being expedited enough you think?
[00:23:19] Luke: It is interesting. I don’t know. I need to go and do like properly refresh my dd, but the world is different to when I first recommended this back in 2022 and bought it myself because like the. That the pressing need for energy is now, it’s like on the top table in the US and clearly you have to have tight, strong regulations around stuff like nuclear power, like fusion reactors.
[00:23:49] Luke: Sorry. No, not fusion reactors. That’s the future fish reactors. ’cause they like older fish and reactor designs. we have had ma massive disasters like Chernobyl for kashima. All sorts of things. but modern FIS and reactors are safe, modern reactor designs, but you still gotta have some, you’ve gotta have some governance and oversight like the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
[00:24:15] Luke: But I imagine like the US government ary putting their finger on the scales quite hard now and saying if we can unlock power. Faster, get your head out of your ass and let’s like move this stuff forward, so let’s expedite it. So yeah, like macro is on their side much more than it was in 2022, so I think that’s what’s different. But your question stands like it’s still like it’s a long way out. Even if they had all the support in the world, it’s probably like the early 2030s before that actually. Bye. generating electrons and making money, so that’s a long time.
[00:24:53] Krys: Yeah, and just as one point of comparison, my second largest position, A STS is also pre-revenue, but at least the date there is 26 into commercialization. We’re early 27. That’s, the market as always being forward looking by around a year and a half, you’re already within striking distance.
[00:25:15] Krys: Whereas if we’re talking about what, 2030? Four years, three years. That’s a little, that’s a little bit of the hope. A little hot, heavy on the hope and light on the execution, and that’s why I would tread carefully in terms of establishing a big position in something like this
[00:25:34] Luke: Oh totally this. This would never be a big position for me, but I think it possibly has a rollback in the portfolio. Can I tell you, just before we close this topic, let me tell you about a company I have bought in this space. So nuclear power, but totally the other end of the market. So I was looking at Constellation Energy for a little while, and then while I was doing my research there, I ran into Brookfield.
[00:25:56] Luke: And Brookfield is like a holding company with an asset management arm and like a management arm. And they’ve got like the, they’ve got part of the company Brookfield Renewable, which is ticker BEPC. And that’s the bit of the company that actually builds and operates. Old style, like the traditional legacy style, massive nuclear fishing reactors.
[00:26:21] Luke: and a couple of interesting things, put this one on my radar. So evidently they did a big deal with Microsoft about over a year ago to deploy over 10 gigawatts to Microsoft from one, from one of the big old, legacy style nuclear power reactors. And then they also own 51% of Westinghouse.
[00:26:44] Luke: And like Westinghouse have a ton of experience in building and operating reactors. They’re like a very old company. And but that, ownership stake of Westinghouse puts them as being like the main beneficiary of the US government’s recent framework to triple nuclear capacity by 2050.
[00:27:05] Luke: So, they’re in a prime spot. And you could almost characterize these guys as being like. like the incumbent nuclear power versus I suppose like the paper reactor companies like New Scale, like they’re embedded. They’ve got the technology, they’ve got the knowhow, they’ve got the track record.
[00:27:24] Luke: so yeah, so I picked up a stake in BPC and not just all of that, like it fits my, in my desire to have more income investments in my portfolio. ’cause BEPP PC pays like a nearly a 4% dividend yield. That’s pretty handy.
[00:27:39] Krys: Ooh, this is good badge. thank you for bringing this to our attention. if I heard you correctly, our investors should roll up their sleeves and look into be PC Brookfield Renewable Corporation.
[00:27:56] Krys: Correct.
[00:27:56] Luke: Yeah.
[00:27:57] Krys: And I wouldn’t mind to all our Beasties listening, if anybody out there with enough chutzpah, dig into this, maybe make us a slide deck.
[00:28:07] Krys: Tell us what it is that Badger sees in this company, and let’s get some of our community know how, especially to any of the engineers and people who know the space deeply. Tell us what
[00:28:20] Luke: we do. we did a first pilot session of your options course, and I won’t name any names, but we had a really interesting collection of Patreons join us for that. And one of our Patreons is a fusion engineer working on fusion reactors. So super interesting. I’m looking forward to, hearing more from him in the future.
[00:28:42] Krys: That’s right. You know who you are. I guess we, we don’t need to call you out by name, but if you’re listening, get us some good due diligence on, on some of, these new Badger candidates. Please and thank you. Awesome badge. it’s, the start of the year still. We’re recording on January 18th, but we never got around to talking about resolutions, even though we do, we did our predictions, but not so much our resolutions.
[00:29:15] Krys: And, I don’t know, I think it’s good mental hygiene. It’s good. It’s good to take a look at yourself and see what you thought you would do in, the past year, what you wanna do better this year. So you wanna take a little bit of, You wanna take, you wanna assess ourselves a little bit? What is it we wanted to do last year?
[00:29:39] Krys: How did that go, and what are our goals for this year? That’s the topic on hand.
[00:29:43] Luke: And yeah, we made three resolutions each last year, so we’re gonna recap those. And I guess I’ve got one new one for this year. I hadn’t thought too deeply about this topic.
[00:29:52] Krys: All right. for me, I swore that I would not sell eos. And, I failed, but it was only because I had to, I think it started getting over 50% of my portfolio in the king of the jungle, and at some point it just becomes wildly irresponsible. So I trimmed in, stages. I think some of those cells, all of those cells technically were mistakes from the pure, price kept going up standpoint, but.
[00:30:28] Krys: From the portfolio management standpoint, they were not mistakes. And monkey, monkey’s, paw and tail was pinned. I just could, I could not sell, but it’s still like 40% of my portfolio with all the tailwinds and so I’m looking forward to some serious gains, throughout 26. I’m gonna try real hard not to sell anymore though.
[00:30:54] Krys: Side note. I own two call options both July and January 27th. Both of them are now in the money, and so if I’m gonna sell something, it’s probably gonna be the July call. Once it, flourishes, to free up some bananas that way.
[00:31:16] Luke: I don’t forget to tell me when I should sell the option that you made me buy when I lost the bet a few months ago.
[00:31:23] Krys: What? What’s the date on that?
[00:31:26] Luke: 27 something. Not sure.
[00:31:28] Krys: Oh, good. Oh, so you’re going to Yeah. Monkey’s gonna continue making you rich. Good. That’s what I’m here for. How about you? Badge.
[00:31:39] Luke: I, my first resolution was I was gonna put aside a chunk of my, cash allocation that I know I’m never gonna reinvest and just segregate it out from my portfolio tracking. And I haven’t done that ’cause I, dunno, it’s a bit boring. It just feels a bit like cheating maybe. if I’ve, I’m on like 23% cash right now, like that’s pretty hedged.
[00:32:04] Luke: And that’s just, that’s just honestly how I’m running the portfolio. So I know this is gonna drag down my CAGR that I’m very proud of, 22 year cagr, but so be it. I suppose like this is the nature of becoming an old or wiser, more risk conservative investor that you have a bit more cash on sidelines.
[00:32:25] Krys: So not really a fail.
[00:32:28] Luke: No, I think I decided that was a bad resolution. A bit like your do not sell eos. That’s a bad resolution. And I think you’ve correct to have disregarded that one.
[00:32:38] Krys: very good. Badge Number two on monkey’s resolutions Last year was to have fewer tabs open on his Google Chrome machine. I failed, and at the beginning of this year, I closed a lot and I grouped them into folders. So technically fewer are open visually, but when I open the folder, outcome 20 more. And I’m sad to, to report to you that I am miserably failing again this year.
[00:33:11] Krys: My tabs are completely outta control. And in, this actually speaks to my overwhelming resolution for this year. I had one. I have one job badge to slow down and basically do fewer things, but the things I do just do it more deeply, deliberately, not like a orangutan, and I’m failing
[00:33:46] Luke: Okay.
[00:33:47] Krys: and I’m failing.
[00:33:49] Luke: no harm in having a bit of monkey about you.
[00:33:52] Krys: He, but I have a culprit. Can I tell you why I’m failing? It’s not because of my character. My character is impeccable. I’m failing because the ai, whatever it is making me feel like anything and everything is possible right now. So I’m getting out of bed.
[00:34:14] Krys: I’m rolling out of bed, Okay. I can study Italian and I’ve prepped my classes for Uni University and now I’m going to, work on my options course. And then we’re gonna do some philosophy and we’re gonna record the podcast. And the AI is banging things out here and, it’s my God, it’s like anything is possible, but the temptation to really just.
[00:34:39] Krys: protect the boundaries and the attention. It’s not an easy, it’s not an easy, the temptation is strong with this one. The force is strong with this one badge.
[00:34:51] Luke: Yeah, you’ve introduced me to another L level of using ai. I thought I was a bit of master, like playing with things like Gemini and Grok and like doing like deep research. But actually you’ve you’ve now started vibe coding stuff with Claude Code and Anti-Gravity and your option, the, like that app you’ve built for your options course is actually incredibly impressive.
[00:35:17] Luke: Like it’s a proper learning base with simulators. there’s a really valuable tool there I think a lot of people will get benefit from. and I’m just, I’ve only seen like session one or four sessions. We’re doing part two of the pilot run today, so I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the tool and playing it with it myself when you release it.
[00:35:37] Krys: I am serious about this resolution. Actually, I think this is not just a cutesy thing. we’re rambling on about, and I say this from my, Zen background. I think all investors will become better versions of themselves. It if whatever they do, whichever style they pick, they’re not doing it manically.
[00:36:02] Krys: And so this real need in 2026 to somehow fight the forces of everything everywhere, all at once. The people probably that build the best things or succeed the most in their stock picking will be the ones that could like you to, to your great credit, say, this is my process. This is what I’m doing, and I’m not going to get overwhelmed.
[00:36:31] Krys: To whatever extent that’s possible. And yeah, this is serious. I don’t know. To our YouTube, watchers, you could see monkey put on a special hat. for this episode, it’s, a, you could see I have a little slothy and the goal is to not have goals, which is a very zen idea. Let’s, make 2026.
[00:36:55] Krys: The year monkey does less.
[00:36:56] Luke: I got a resolution that’s not a million miles away from that one. ’cause I said last year I would say no even more and declutter the admin and minutia from my life. I have done, I did a pretty good job of that. much to my wife, chagrin. ’cause it’s like a bunch of stuff I would do around the house that I no longer do.
[00:37:16] Luke: I’m, carrying this one forward. I think there’s more I can do. And I think now you’ve opened my eyes with, like the power of anti-gravity as like a development platform, like an agent management platform. I’m gonna start building a whole bunch of stuff, that will optimize my life and do stuff.
[00:37:34] Luke: And I was, we, I was thinking maybe we should get like a virtual. Pa a, support for the podcast. At some point we’ll be able to afford that, but now we don’t need that. We just need to like train agents to be able to help us run the show. yeah, I’m on that now. Thank you for opening my eyes to.
[00:37:49] Krys: Yeah, absolutely. That’s brilliant. This is a little plug also for my latest, sizable position, UiPath. This is what that company’s helping big enterprises do is, basically integrate all of the moving pieces into one layer. And I think it’s a fascinating. Direction that all the A agents, AI agents, it’s not about which one will win, it’s how can you coordinate your own life to help them work together.
[00:38:21] Krys: And we’re at the very beginning of this. My third resolution badge last year was what? More jiujitsu, less running. sadly I got pretty badly injured, in Jiujitsu, and so I ended up falling back on the running. But I have bad news for you. My own AI assistant called me an idiot just the other day because, because instead of being reasonable and saying I’m now getting old, I got to slow down. I’m now weight training and running and taking jiujitsu classes at night. And my body is barely hanging on. Like you might not see it, but there’s duct tape under underneath these layers. So I don’t know. My resolution this year was like to do less, go deeper, maybe really focus on the jiujitsu and no, instead I added daily double sessions like a fool.
[00:39:27] Luke: let me tell you about one of my resolutions, ’cause my third resolution links into that. So it’s like there’s a strange and link here. So my last resolution last year was to do more venture capital. and I, and aside, made investments in the last year in OSA meat who are like lab grown meat and whoop, who is like the, the activity tracker.
[00:39:53] Luke: and my whoop on my wrist is telling me I need to do more strength training. ’cause I mostly just do like cardio. I mostly just run. so now I’m, I did a project in lockdown or like a challenge in lockdown where I tried to build up to doing like a thousand pushups, thousand sit ups, thousand squats. It was like one session.
[00:40:12] Luke: So I did that in 2020 and it’s pretty hard. it was interesting to do that. So I’m now back doing that again ’cause my whoop is telling me I need to do more strength work. So I’m up to A hundred of each. Every morning I need to like gradually ramp that so I can do like the thousand. that’s my plan for the next couple of months.
[00:40:31] Krys: Very good badge. I’m so happy to hear that you don’t know this, but in my graduate school days, I at one point became a certified strength trainer, assistant person, have to take a bunch of stupid tests, and, people in their forties, fifties, especially sixties, those who really begin strength training avoid the really poor, health span issues of their later decades.
[00:41:03] Luke: Right on.
[00:41:04] Krys: It’s so crucial. and it’s not about, it’s not, when you’re 20 and 30, you’re getting beach bod stuff. It’s not about that. But when you strengthen your calves and your arms and shoulders and stuff, you’ll fall less and your hips won’t break, and all of this stuff that happens later. So glad, you’re, getting back on that.
[00:41:27] Luke: Should we say you’ve got any resolutions for the year to come?
[00:41:32] Krys: yeah, I pretty much, already talked about it. Slow down, and I’m failing.
[00:41:38] Luke: You got any investing related resolutions?
[00:41:41] Krys: I wanna find the sweet spot for our investors to see that once you have a portfolio that’s larger like ours, have now become, you gain more, pardon upon more options with what to do with a larger portfolio, which includes learning how to use options and to do it skillfully and out of principle. And so my resolution is to share those. Insights with our Patreons and YouTube channel watchers.
[00:42:13] Luke: And with me, I’m happily a, Guinea pig on your options course, so it’s good stuff.
[00:42:18] Krys: and one more. One more. And to practice more gratitude.
[00:42:21] Luke: Oh, okay. Very good. Yeah.
[00:42:23] Krys: If you practice gratitude, you complain less. And if you complain less things just are better.
[00:42:29] Luke: Nice. That’s a good one. That’s a good one. I’ve got a boring one, but I think it’s gonna be quite important this year. I need to get serious about understanding income stocks. So I’ve currently only got 3% of my investments in like dividend paying companies. That’s incredibly low. And so I wanna double that by the end of this year.
[00:42:50] Luke: And maybe triple it to 10%. If so, the, the large majority of my wealth is in an is in isis. It’s like a individual savings account, like a tax, it’s like a Roth tax efficient account in the uk. With the UK government are making noises about taxing interest on cash in isis. As I said earlier, I’ve got like over 20% cash allocation, so that’s like a, there’s quite a lot of income rolling in every month.
[00:43:19] Luke: That’s currently like tax free, potentially will get taxed. ’cause the, you UK government’s got like a goal of getting, making people investors and then like they, if they have, money in this isis, but they just got it in cash, they’re not really investing. so yeah, like strip, so goal of doubling my income to 6% allocation, but maybe tripling it to 10%.
[00:43:42] Krys: Wow. So what I heard you say is that your resolution for 2026 is to finally reach the age of reason and sell all your Greg sausages.
[00:43:50] Luke: No, the opposite. Greg’s is an income stock, so I need to double or triple. Yeah.
[00:43:55] Krys: I’m just squeezing your shoes. I’m just, maybe that’s a, that’s my real resolution. Get Badger to sell his, greasy shadowy sausage company.
[00:44:10] Luke: I gotta give you something to Snipe at anyway. more, it’d be more like nuclear investments than sausage rolls, but basically stuff that pays me like a bit of income. Yeah, that’s the plan or.
[00:44:22] Krys: All right. I hope all our Patreons are having a, great start to their 2026. We wanna hear your resolutions investing where otherwise. So hit us up on Wall Street wildlife.com. Join the kick ass community we’ve built. Are, you ready to become a beast of an investor?
[00:44:41] Luke: whoa, I thought you weren’t using that as a tagline. I thought you were gonna come up with a new closeout line for me.
[00:44:46] Krys: Ah, okay. So let’s go to, what we settled on last year. Don’t die.
[00:44:51] Luke: Don’t die. Be grateful and don’t die. Hey, can I just share before we close, one thing that we are both grateful for is our partnership with the incredible fiscal ai, the essential stock research platform. We use it every day. We used it to prepare today’s pod. That was, that. SMR was like a graphic from fiscal ai.
[00:45:10] Luke: if you go to fiscal.ai/wildlife, you’ll get free. A fiscal pro and a 15% discount if you upgrade, that’s fiscal.ai/wildlife. Go on then don’t die. And are you ready to become a beast of an investor?
[00:45:27] Krys: Your journey starts somewhere.
[00:45:30] Luke: somewhere probably here.
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