Client Letters

For the last 30 years, Dock Street has written over 500 client letters with our investment insights, philosophy, responses to world events, and more. Many of Dock Street’s letters will now be shared here as well.

  • Trying to understand Wall Street skeptics

    Is Artificial Intelligence just another bubble? The answer seems to be “yes” for many technology stock analysts. Listening to tech company […]

  • What’s happened since January?

    Earlier this year, the markets were shocked by a Chinese AI model called DeepSeek. Lots of hasty conclusions were drawn by the media […]

  • September and October are often difficult for stockholders

    September is historically the worst month for stocks and October has provided investors with some of the most historically […]

  • Something we haven’t heard lately

    Nearly ten years ago, I needed to call one of our largest clients at the time to let him know that his […]

  • The Monoperator Business

    The natural state of capitalism is a hyper-competitive race to the bottom in both prices and profit margins. Think Walmart, Costco, and Amazon. These […]

  • The persistent worry about economic decline

    One careful reader of our April letter on uncertainty (The Tariff Panic) asked why I argued […]

  • Your May statement contains some pleasant surprises

    If you began a South Seas cruise in early February and forgot your cell phone, and then ignored the news […]

  • All businesses are not the same

    We spend a lot of time discussing great businesses, because that’s what we believe will produce the best investment results. But […]

  • And not by over trading

    For most professional investors, managing risk means trading. Generally, that means selling something that has some potential for loss and buying something […]

  • Buffett says goodbye

    It is safe to say that Dock Street wouldn’t have happened without Warren Buffett. I certainly didn’t start out as a Buffett style investor. […]