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I’m Daniel Sparks. I write about the companies, people, and decisions that move money. A long-running partnership with The Motley Fool. A healthy curiosity about what comes next.
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A quiet stock price. A business that keeps moving. The case for looking beneath the chart.
An operating-business view of Berkshire: earnings, capital allocation, and what the company’s own buybacks tell us about price.
Low fees, a broad basket of businesses, and time. Sometimes the simple idea is the interesting one.
A plain-English look at compounding and the appeal of low-cost indexing, with context on why past returns aren’t a promise.
A warehouse club and a chipmaker walk into the same valuation. There’s a reason for that.
A comparison of durable membership economics and rapid chip-industry growth, showing why similar multiples can price very different businesses.
The contracts are impressive. The cost of delivering them deserves equal attention.
An earnings analysis that follows the backlog through construction, financing costs, and depreciation before reaching a valuation judgment.
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The research makes it a story.
I’ve written about business and investing for a living since 2013, primarily for The Motley Fool. My beat spans technology, industrials, financials, and consumer goods.
Before that, I served as a U.S. Army noncommissioned officer, 2007–2011. I also own and serve as chief investment officer of Sparks Capital Management and hold an MBA from Colorado State University.
Sparks Strategies LLC is the business behind my writing: the research, editing, and daily discipline that get a finished piece onto an editor’s desk. The byline is also the accountability: the judgment and the finished work remain mine.
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Filings, earnings calls, and company releases. Start with the original record.
What changed? What does the price assume? What might the market be missing?
Company analysis, earnings coverage, and explainers, written with respect for the reader’s time.
Same-day earnings coverage, considered analysis, and explainers all need a dependable editorial rhythm. I write to each publication’s house standards, carry feedback into the next draft, and make the editor’s handoff as clean as the reader’s experience.
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Comments for reportingI’ve attended Tesla’s Solar Roof, Model 3, and Model X unveilings and toured its Texas, Nevada, and Fremont factories. I’ve also asked Elon Musk questions at a Tesla press conference and during a Tesla earnings call.
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