Asif Suria, Author of "The Event-Driven Edge in Investing: Six Special Situation Strategies to Outperform the Market" and Founder and CEO at Inside Arbitrage, joins the podcast for the second time to discuss his thesis on Pebblebrook Hotel Trust $PEB, as well as his thoughts on insider activity post-election.

You can buy your copy of Asif's new book, "The Event-Driven Edge in Investing: Six Special Situation Strategies to Outperform the Market" here: https://www.amazon.com/Event-Driven-Edge-Investing-Strategies-Outperform-ebook/dp/B0CN3PF1SW?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1zuikMLb5MN1aQVWodj1ww.Nui4P_rilsWES5p1FNmoTnd5v0myqxSeQautyazGgno&qid=1715709920&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=andrew613880e-20&linkId=376c305fd243b22988ebba35edf5ecee&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

Chapters:

[0:00] Introduction + Episode sponsor: Fintool

[2:13] What is Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and why are they interesting to Asif

[6:18] Insider purchases at Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

[9:44] What Asif is seeing with Pebblebrook Hotel Trust that the market is missing

[13:56] $PEB portfolio

[18:56] Management claim on 11-14% ROI growth investment / NAV numbers from their November 2024 investor presentation

[23:20] Competitive landscape - why $PEB over other hotel companies / Share buybacks

[28:07] What keeps Asif up at night about his $PEB thesis and investment

[29:50] Management incentives

[36:12] AirBnB risk?

[37:59] Special Situations in general: What have insiders been looking at post-election / sectors Asif is seeing a lot of insider buying currently and elevated insider selling

[44:28] Spin-offs

Today's sponsor: Fintool

Fintool is ChatGPT for SEC Filings and earnings calls. Are you still doing keyword searches and going to the individual filing and using control F? That’s the old way of doing things before AI. With Fintool, you can ask any question and it’s going to automatically generate the best answer. So they may pull from a portion of an earnings call, or a 10k, whatever it may be and then answer your question. The best part- every portion of the answer is cited with the source document.

Now- if you’ve tried to do any of this in ChatGPT you may know that the answers are often wrong or hallucinations. The way Fintool is able to outperform ChatGPT is their focus on the SEC filings. If you’re an analyst or a portfolio manager at a hedge fund, check them out at https://fintool.com?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=yavb&utm_content=podcast280

#85 - YC Partner AMA at the Female Founders Conference