
“Their relative p/e is the cheapest they have been in 20 years,” Ainslie asserted. He also said they have especially high free cash flow yields spreads compared to Baa-rated bonds. Meanwhile, he thinks the group will benefit from the weaker dollar. Ainslie says tech is the only industry that gets more than 50 percent of its revenues from foreign customers.
He also pointed out the huge amount of cash on the companies’ balance sheets. He says it is being used for buybacks and acquisitions. In fact, announced buybacks are up 240 percent year to date. Ainslie said five tech stocks are important holdings: CommScope, Dell, Amdocs, Hewlett-Packard and Marvell Technology Group.In fact, at the end of the second quarter, he was the second largest holder of CommScope and the fourth largest holder of Marvell, his sixth largest holding overall.
Ainslie is the son of an Episcopalian headmaster who was recruited by Tiger founder Julian Robertson right out of the graduate school at the University of North Carolina--Robertson’s alma mater.