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Confidential Report: An Analysis of Pershing Square Capital's Q3 2025 Portfolio and a Deep-Dive Value Investing Assessment of Its Core Holdings

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DeepValues Research, “Confidential Report: An Analysis of Pershing Square Capital's Q3 2025 Portfolio and a Deep-Dive Value Investing Assessment of Its Core Holdings” (Feb 19, 2026): Based on the 13F filing for the third quarter ending September 30, 2025 , Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. has solidified its investment philosophy into a refined, high-conviction strategy.

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Contents
  1. I. Pershing Square Q3 2025 Portfolio Overview
  2. Executive Summary: The Ackman Doctrine in Practice
  3. Key Portfolio Changes in Q3 2025
  4. Pershing Square Q3 2025 Full Holdings Table
  5. II. Deep-Dive Analysis: The Core Holdings (Buffett-Style Assessment)
  6. (A) Uber Technologies Inc. (UBER) | 20.25% Portfolio Weight
  7. (B) Brookfield Corp. (BN) | 19.21% Portfolio Weight
  8. (C) Alphabet Inc. (GOOG / GOOGL) | 18.56% Portfolio Weight (Combined)
  9. (D) Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (HHH) | 10.58% Portfolio Weight
  10. (E) Restaurant Brands International (QSR) | 10.04% Portfolio Weight
  11. (F) Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) | 8.73% Portfolio Weight
  12. (G) Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) | 5.77% Portfolio Weight
  13. (H) Hilton Worldwide Holdings (HLT) | 5.37% Portfolio Weight
  14. III. Analysis of Minor & Speculative Holdings
  15. A. Seaport Entertainment Group (SEG) | 0.79% Portfolio Weight
  16. B. Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) | 0.71% Portfolio Weight
  17. IV. Concluding Thesis: The "Ackman-Buffett" Synthesis

I. Pershing Square Q3 2025 Portfolio Overview#

Executive Summary: The Ackman Doctrine in Practice#

Based on the 13F filing for the third quarter ending September 30, 2025 , Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. has solidified its investment philosophy into a refined, high-conviction strategy. The portfolio, as disclosed, consists of only 11 total holdings with a reported market value of 14.64 billion USD. This structure reflects an evolution toward a classic value investing doctrine focused on acquiring substantial, long-term stakes in a concentrated number of high-quality, durable, and free-cash-flow-generative businesses.

The concentration of the portfolio is extreme and demonstrates a high degree of confidence in its core positions. The top 10 holdings account for 100% of the reported assets. Furthermore, the top five positions alone-Uber Technologies (UBER), Brookfield Corporation (BN), Howard Hughes Holdings (HHH), Alphabet Class C (GOOG), and Restaurant Brands International (QSR)-constitute over 70% of the total portfolio value.

The third-quarter filing is defined as much by its activity as its inactivity. The fund initiated no new positions and did not fully exit any existing holdings during the quarter. This lack of turnover signals a strong "hold" conviction, suggesting that Pershing Square believes its current holdings are, by and large, trading at or below their intrinsic value and represent the optimal allocation of the firm's capital.

Key Portfolio Changes in Q3 2025#

Portfolio adjustments during the quarter were minimal, consisting of four reductions. These changes appear to be minor rebalancing trims rather than a fundamental shift in thesis:

  • Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL): The most significant change was a 10% reduction in the holding of Class A shares. This decreased the position to 4,843,973 shares.

  • Minor Trims (<1%): The filing also revealed minor reductions of less than 1% in three other core holdings: Uber Technologies (UBER), Brookfield Corporation (BN), and Restaurant Brands International (QSR).

The 10% trim in Alphabet (GOOGL) is a particularly nuanced adjustment. This reduction, a minor rebalancing of a position that in aggregate (Class A and Class C) represents a substantial 18.56% of the portfolio , occurred concurrently with 13F filings that unveiled a new position in Alphabet shares by Berkshire Hathaway.

This divergence between two prominent value investors is not a simple bull/bear disagreement. A more likely explanation centers on differing views of capital allocation and portfolio construction. Alphabet has signaled a massive capital expenditure "arms race" to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure, with 2025 capex guidance raised to a range of 91 billion to 93 billion USD. Pershing Square, having already realized significant gains on a mature 18.56% position, may be prudently trimming to manage risk and lock in profits, perhaps questioning the long-term return on invested capital (ROIC) of such massive spending. Berkshire, conversely, is initiating a new stake, signaling a long-term belief that this aggressive capex is a necessary and value-accretive investment to widen Alphabet's formidable economic moat for the next decade.

Pershing Square Q3 2025 Full Holdings Table#

The following table details the complete 11-security portfolio held by Pershing Square Capital Management as of the September 30, 2025, filing date. Data is synthesized from the firm's 13F filing.

Ticker Company Name Share Class Shares Held Market Value (USD) % of Portfolio
UBER Uber Technologies Inc. Common 30,270,518 $2,965,602,629 20.25%
BN Brookfield Corp. Common 41,020,231 $2,812,711,332 19.21%
HHH Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. Common 18,852,064 $1,549,104,821 10.58%
GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C 6,324,031 $1,540,217,750 10.52%
QSR Restaurant Brands International Inc. Common 22,915,496 $1,469,762,723 10.04%
AMZN Amazon.com Inc. Common 5,823,316 $1,278,625,494 8.73%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A 4,843,973 $1,177,569,836 8.04%
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. Common 21,541,177 $844,196,554 5.77%
HLT Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. Common 3,030,578 $786,249,760 5.37%
SEG Seaport Entertainment Group Inc. Common 5,023,780 $115,145,036 0.79%
HTZ Hertz Global Holdings Inc. Common 15,241,127 $103,639,663 0.71%
Total Reported Assets $14,643,293,767 100.00%

II. Deep-Dive Analysis: The Core Holdings (Buffett-Style Assessment)#

(A) Uber Technologies Inc. (UBER) | 20.25% Portfolio Weight#

Pershing Square's largest position is a significant bet on the continued dominance and financial maturation of the world's largest mobility and delivery platform.

1. Business Analysis: The "Go-Anywhere" Platform#

Uber operates as a capital-light technology platform that functions as a digital marketplace intermediary. It does not own the vehicles or directly employ the drivers, which minimizes asset ownership and reduces overhead costs, allowing for rapid scalability. The business is built upon three primary, synergistic pillars :

  1. Mobility: The core ride-hailing business that remains its backbone, connecting riders with drivers.

  2. Delivery (Uber Eats): A high-growth segment that extends the platform's logistics capabilities into food, grocery, and other retail delivery.

  3. Freight: A logistics platform that leverages the same marketplace principles to match carriers (trucks) with shippers.

Revenue is generated primarily through a commission (a "take rate" of 20-30%) from each fare or transaction, in addition to flat booking fees, service fees, and a rapidly expanding, high-margin advertising business on its platform.

2. Economic Moat: The Compounding Network#

Uber's durable competitive advantage, which Morningstar rates as "narrow" , is a classic and powerful economic moat based on network effects.

This moat is not a simple, single-sided network. It is an indirect or cross-group network effect. The value proposition for riders (lower wait times, lower prices, global reliability) increases as more drivers join the platform. Concurrently, the value proposition for drivers (less downtime, higher earning potential) increases as more riders use the platform. This creates a virtuous cycle that is difficult for smaller competitors to break.

Furthermore, Uber's strategy has intelligently deepened this moat by adding a third side to the network: merchants (restaurants and grocery stores) via Uber Eats. This creates a powerful, three-sided "flywheel":

  • Uber's massive base of over 150 million monthly active users attracts merchants to the platform.

  • More merchants increase the platform's value and utility for users, driving engagement.

  • This increased user activity creates a dense, compound network of mobility and delivery opportunities for drivers, reinforcing the value proposition for all three sides of the ecosystem.

Quantitative data confirms this moat is strengthening. Key metrics used to measure network effects-monthly active platform consumers, total trips, and trip frequency-are all at "all-time highs and accelerating". This is supplemented by a secondary moat: a powerful, intangible brand asset. The "Uber" brand has become synonymous with the entire ride-hailing category, with users often saying "just Uber there" even when using a competing service.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: The Pivot to Profitability#

The investment thesis is an explicit endorsement of "top-quality management" , referring to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. His tenure represents a critical strategic pivot from the "growth-at-all-costs," controversy-laden Kalanick era to a disciplined focus on sustainable, long-term profitability and free cash flow generation.

This pivot has been executed successfully and is now bearing fruit. The company's financials show a dramatic reversal:

  • Profitability: Net income swung from a staggering 9.14 billion USD loss in 2022 to a 1.89 billion USD profit in 2023.

  • Free Cash Flow (FCF): This is the key metric. The asset-light model's cash-generating power, now that it has achieved scale, is immense. Annual FCF has exploded from 390 million USD in 2022 to 3.36 billion USD in 2023, and again to 6.90 billion USD in 2024.

The ultimate proof of this new, disciplined capital allocation strategy is management's commitment to shareholder returns. The 7 billion USD share repurchase program announced in February 2024 signals a mature, shareholder-aligned management team confident in its future FCF trajectory. This is precisely the kind of "capital-gushing" business a value investor seeks.

4. Financials & Valuation: Deceptively Cheap#

The capital-light model is now producing exceptional returns. Key profitability metrics have turned sharply positive, with a trailing-twelve-month (TTM) Return on Equity (ROE) of 73%, Return on Assets (ROA) of 5.16%, and Return on Investment (ROI) of 7.88%. This is a massive improvement from the deeply negative returns of 2022.

On the surface, Uber's valuation appears shockingly cheap. It trades at a TTM P/E ratio of approximately 11.5x to 11.8x. This is a small fraction of its primary competitors, Lyft (which trades at a ~61x P/E) and DoorDash (at a ~101x P/E).

This low P/E multiple is somewhat misleading, as it is based on recently achieved and still-volatile GAAP earnings. A forward P/E estimate of ~17x or a P/FCF ratio of ~28x are more normalized valuation metrics. However, even on these measures, Uber compares favorably, boasting a TTM FCF margin of 18.0% versus 14.4% for DoorDash.

Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) models for a company at this inflection point are highly sensitive to growth and margin assumptions, leading to wildly divergent intrinsic value estimates. One conservative DCF analysis arrives at an intrinsic value of 65.10 USD per share (suggesting it is 30% overvalued at a 92.95 USD price) , while a two-stage FCFE model estimates a value of 170.51 USD (suggesting it is significantly undervalued).

The investment thesis is therefore not based on a simple DCF calculation. It is a qualitative, Buffett-style bet that the company's economic moat (the network effect) is durable and widening, and that its management (Khosrowshahi) is a rational and aligned capital allocator who will prudently manage the "gushers" of free cash flow the platform is now producing.

(B) Brookfield Corp. (BN) | 19.21% Portfolio Weight#

Pershing Square's second-largest holding is a long-term, deep-value investment in one of the world's preeminent real asset investors and capital allocators.

1. Business Analysis: The "Real Asset" Berkshire#

Brookfield Corporation is a leading global investment firm with a 100+ year heritage as an owner and operator of assets. With over 1 trillion USD in assets under management (AUM) , its business is a compounding machine built on three core, synergistic pillars :

1. Asset Management: This is the capital-light, fee-generating business (which trades partially under the ticker BAM). It earns stable "fee-related earnings" (FRE) and performance-based "carried interest" from institutional clients. 2. Wealth Solutions: This is the high-growth insurance and wealth platform. This business provides Brookfield with a massive, low-cost, and "perpetual capital" base (i.e., insurance float) to invest. This segment has already scaled to 1.7 billion USD in distributable earnings. 3. Operating Businesses: This is where Brookfield deploys its own principal capital, owning and operating a vast portfolio of "real assets that form the backbone of the global economy," including infrastructure, renewable power, and real estate.

2. Economic Moat: The "Ecosystem" Flywheel#

Brookfield's economic moat is unique, formidable, and self-reinforcing, described by the company as the "Brookfield Ecosystem". This ecosystem is nearly impossible to replicate and is built on several factors:

  • Scale and Reputation: Its 100+ year history and "A-" credit rating provide unparalleled access to global deal flow and financing.

  • Operational Expertise: As a long-term operator, not just a financier, it has a proven reputation for "investing in complex and distressed businesses" and acting as a counter-cyclical buyer when competitors are forced sellers.

  • Information Advantage: Its global footprint across 50+ countries gives it "real-time visibility into the forces shaping the global economy," from leasing data to energy usage trends.

  • Capital Structure: It strategically employs "asset-level financing" , using non-recourse debt to finance individual assets, which shields the parent corporation from liability and provides a flexible, low-cost source of capital.

This ecosystem creates a powerful flywheel: The Operating Businesses (Pillar 3) generate stable, inflation-linked cash flows and proprietary market data. This operational data and expertise attract institutional capital to the Asset Manager (Pillar 1). The FRE and carried interest from Pillar 1 are then reinvested. The new Wealth Solutions business (Pillar 2) adds a massive base of permanent insurance float, supercharging the entire cycle.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: The 19% Compounder#

The investment thesis is, at its core, a bet on CEO Bruce Flatt, who is widely regarded as one of the world's premier value investors and capital allocators.

The track record is the ultimate proof: Brookfield has delivered 19% annualized returns over 30+ years , or as stated elsewhere, "15%+ annualized returns to shareholders for over 30 years". This is a truly elite, long-term compounding record.

Shareholder alignment is exemplary. The firm's partners and senior management team hold a 10% insider ownership stake in the company, worth approximately 16 billion CAD. Bruce Flatt himself holds 15.9 million shares. This structure ensures that management's incentives are perfectly aligned with long-term, fellow shareholders.

A recent example of this masterful capital allocation is the agreement to acquire the remaining 26% interest in Oaktree Capital Management. This move, which brings Howard Marks' world-class credit platform fully into the fold, is structured to be immediately accretive to FRE and non-dilutive to shareholders. It solidifies Brookfield's dominance in private credit, one of the fastest-growing alternative asset classes.

4. Financials & Valuation: The "Complexity Discount"#

For a complex holding company like Brookfield, GAAP Net Income is often "noisy" and unrepresentative of true economic performance. The key metric for value investors is Distributable Earnings (DE), which represents the cash flow available to be paid out or reinvested.

Brookfield's DE is strong and growing, rising 18% over the last twelve months and 15% for the full-year 2024. The company has a massive 177 billion USD of deployable "dry powder" (capital available for new investments).

The entire investment thesis hinges on what is known as the "complexity discount". The market, struggling to value the three distinct (but synergistic) business pillars, consistently values BN at a significant discount to its intrinsic, or Sum-of-the-Parts (SOTP), value.

Brookfield's own management is explicit about this discount. In the second quarter of 2025, the company repurchased its own shares at an average price of 49.03 USD. In the press release, management stated that this price "represents a 52% discount to our view of intrinsic value at quarter end of 101.52 USD".

Pershing Square's investment is therefore a clear, deep-value bet. Ackman is not attempting to time the market; he is acquiring a large stake in a business that has compounded capital at 15-19% for decades, run by a perfectly-aligned, world-class allocator, at a price that management itself states is 50 cents on the dollar.

(C) Alphabet Inc. (GOOG / GOOGL) | 18.56% Portfolio Weight (Combined)#

Alphabet is a core, long-term holding for Pershing Square, representing a bet on one of the most dominant economic moats in the digital economy.

1. Business Analysis: The AI-Powered Ecosystem#

Alphabet is a collection of businesses , with its value concentrated in Google Services and Google Cloud, all of which are being systematically integrated with its advanced AI.

  1. Google Services: This is the core profit engine, generating the vast majority of revenue. It includes Google Search, the Google Ads business, YouTube, and Android.

  2. Google Cloud (GCP): This is the primary growth driver. In Q3 2025, Cloud revenues grew an impressive 34% year-over-year to 15.2 billion USD. It is the established #3 global cloud provider.

  3. Other Bets: These are long-term, high-risk, high-reward ventures, most notably Waymo in the self-driving space.

The company's full-stack approach to AI-from custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips to its Gemini models -is being integrated across the entire ecosystem. This includes AI Overviews in Search, Vertex AI for cloud customers, and consumer-facing apps. This integration is driving query growth and user engagement.

2. Economic Moat: The Data Fortress#

Alphabet possesses a "wide economic moat" , arguably one of the most durable in the world. This moat is not a single advantage but a series of mutually reinforcing pillars:

  • Network Effects (The Data Moat): This is the primary moat. Google's dominant 90%+ global search market share creates a "data moat" that is unmatched. More users provide more data; this data is used to refine the search algorithms, which delivers better results; better results attract more users. This is a virtuous cycle. Similarly powerful two-sided network effects exist for YouTube (connecting creators and viewers) and Android (connecting developers and users).

  • Intangible Assets: The "Google" brand is a verb, and its search algorithms and AI models are technological assets of immense value.

  • Switching Costs: The moat is defended by high switching costs. Advertisers have built their entire marketing strategies around the Google Ads platform, making it costly and difficult to leave. Likewise, enterprise customers who build their infrastructure on Google Cloud face prohibitively high costs and disruption to migrate to a competitor like AWS or Azure.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: The AI Capex "Arms Race"#

CEO Sundar Pichai's leadership is defined by his steady hand and his strategic navigation of the "AI-first" pivot. This has created a significant capital allocation dilemma, forcing him to balance two massive, opposing financial forces.

  1. Massive Reinvestment: Pichai is engaged in an "AI arms race" with Microsoft and Amazon. Defending the moat and capturing future growth requires staggering levels of investment. Capital expenditure forecasts for 2025 have been repeatedly raised, from 75-85 billion USD to a stunning 91-93 billion USD.

  2. Massive Shareholder Returns: Despite this spending, the core business is a cash-flow "fortress." Management is returning enormous amounts of capital to shareholders, including a 70 billion USD share repurchase authorization and the initiation of the company's first-ever dividend in 2024.

As discussed, Pershing Square's 10% trim of GOOGL likely reflects a classic value investor's skepticism of such monumental capex, questioning whether it will generate the high ROIC of Google's past.

4. Financials & Valuation: A Fortress Balance Sheet#

Alphabet's financial health is pristine. The balance sheet is a fortress, with a massive net cash position and a negligible debt-to-equity ratio of 0.09.

Profitability and returns are exceptional. While the 10-year median ROE is 14.6%, the 2024 ROE was 32.9% , demonstrating its quality as a compounder. The company generated 72.7 billion USD in free cash flow in 2024.

The stock trades at a TTM P/E ratio of ~27x , which is in line with, or slightly above, its 5-year average P/E of ~23x. This suggests it is reasonably priced for a company of its quality, dominance, and growth prospects. While some conservative DCF models suggest the stock is overvalued , a 2-stage FCFE model estimates a fair value of 238 USD, implying a 29% discount to its 169 USD price at the time of analysis.

Pershing Square's position is a core, long-term bet on one of the world's most dominant economic moats. The investment thesis assumes this moat is strong enough to not only withstand the AI transition but to be strengthened by it, allowing the company to continue generating enormous, high-return cash flows for the foreseeable future.

(D) Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (HHH) | 10.58% Portfolio Weight#

This is arguably the most significant and revealing position in Pershing Square's portfolio. It is not a passive investment; it is the vehicle for Bill Ackman's "next act" and a strategic pivot to a new business model.

1. Business Analysis: From MPCs to "Berkshire 2.0"#

Howard Hughes Holdings has historically been a unique real estate development company. Its primary business is owning, managing, and developing large-scale, long-duration Master Planned Communities (MPCs).

These "crown jewel" assets are irreplaceable, award-winning communities, including:

  • The Woodlands®: A 28,000-acre community in Houston.

  • Summerlin®: A large-scale community in Las Vegas.

  • Ward Village®: A 60-acre coastal community in Honolulu.

These MPCs function as "cash-flow engines". They generate predictable, long-term revenue from three primary streams: 1) MPC land sales to homebuilders, 2) Rental revenue from a portfolio of operating assets (office, multifamily, retail) built within the communities, and 3) Condominium sales, particularly at Ward Village.

2. Economic Moat: The Irreplaceable Land Bank#

The economic moat of HHH is tangible, simple, and powerful: it owns a massive, irreplaceable portfolio of entitled land in some of the most desirable, high-growth markets in the United States.

The barriers to entry are, for all practical purposes, infinite. A competitor cannot recreate a 28,000-acre, fully entitled, multi-decade community like The Woodlands. The decades of zoning, permitting, and land aggregation required to build these "cities" create a regulatory and scale-based moat that cannot be breached.

This land bank provides decades of highly visible cash flow. The Q3 2025 results are a testament to this engine's power: the company contracted 1.4 billion USD in future condo revenue from pre-sales at Ward Village and generated a record 205 million USD in MPC Earnings Before Tax (EBT).

3. Management & Capital Allocation: The Ackman Takeover#

This is the single most important component of the investment thesis. The HHH position is the result of an active, strategic move by Ackman to take control of the company and its cash flows.

In May 2025, Pershing Square made a 900 million USD cash investment into HHH at a price of 100.00 USD per share. This price represented a massive 48% premium to the stock's closing price on the prior trading day.

This was not a passive investment; it was a buyout for control. The transaction gave Pershing Square a 46.9% ownership stake. Simultaneously:

  • Bill Ackman was named Executive Chairman of the Board.

  • Pershing Square's CIO, Ryan Israel, was installed as HHH's new Chief Investment Officer.

The stated strategy is an explicit and direct copy of the Berkshire Hathaway model :

  1. The core MPC business (run by the existing, successful team led by CEO David O'Reilly) will continue to operate as the "cash flow engine."

  2. HHH, the holding company, will now be run by Ackman and Israel.

  3. Ackman and Israel will redeploy the "substantial and growing excess cash" generated by the MPCs to "acquire controlling interests in high-quality, durable growth" private and public companies.

  4. The plan also includes building an insurance business to provide a low-cost "float" for future acquisitions, directly following Buffett's playbook.

Ackman paid a 48% premium not just for the land, but for control of its cash flow. He is the new management. The bet is that the market misunderstands HHH as a cyclical real estate company , when it has now transformed into a diversified capital allocation vehicle run by one of the world's most visible investors.

4. Financials & Valuation: SOTP (Assets + The Allocator)#

The 900 million USD cash infusion "materially improves Howard Hughes' credit profile and strategic and financial flexibility". The underlying MPC business is performing exceptionally well, with Q3 2025 Net Operating Income (NOI) up 5% and full-year 2025 Adjusted Operating Cash Flow guidance raised to 440 million USD.

A traditional valuation of HHH is now obsolete. The market currently values it as a real estate company, with a P/E ratio of ~16-18x. Analyst price targets of ~98 USD are based on this old paradigm.

The true investment thesis is a Sum-of-the-Parts (SOTP) play:

  • Part 1: The intrinsic value of the existing MPC real estate assets and their decades of predictable, high-margin cash flows.

  • Part 2: The option value of Bill Ackman as a world-class capital allocator, using that FCF to acquire new, high-quality businesses.

Ackman believes the market is ascribing little to no value to Part 2. His own 100.00 USD per share buy-in is his effective price target. He has argued that HHH's starting position is "vastly superior" to where Berkshire Hathaway began in the 1960s.

(E) Restaurant Brands International (QSR) | 10.04% Portfolio Weight#

This position represents a classic value investment in a portfolio of durable brands that are undergoing a significant, capital-intensive turnaround.

1. Business Analysis: The Capital-Light Brand House#

Restaurant Brands International (QSR) is one of the world's largest quick-service restaurant companies, with over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries. It was formed in 2014 through the merger of Burger King and Tim Hortons, driven by 3G Capital.

Its business model is exceptionally "asset-light". Over 98% of its restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees. QSR (the parent company) generates high-margin, predictable, and capital-light revenue primarily from two sources:

  1. Royalties: A percentage of sales from all franchised stores.

  2. Franchise Fees: Fees for new restaurant openings and license renewals.

The portfolio consists of four globally recognized, iconic brands: Burger King (Home of the Whopper), Tim Hortons (a dominant cultural brand in Canada), Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, and Firehouse Subs.

2. Economic Moat: The Franchisee Flywheel#

QSR possesses a "narrow moat" built on two main advantages:

  • Intangible Assets (Brands): The primary moat stems from the brand equity of its flagship products (the Whopper, Tim Hortons' coffee, the Popeyes chicken sandwich), which are globally recognized and drive consumer demand.

  • Capital-Light Model: This is the structural moat. QSR does not pay the capital expenditures to build and maintain its 32,000+ stores; its franchisees do. This creates a powerful flywheel: QSR can dedicate its capital to high-return activities like marketing, brand building, and technology. This drives consumer sales, which in turn generates more high-margin royalty revenue for QSR. Franchisees, seeing the brand's success, then use their capital to build more stores, growing the entire system at minimal cost to QSR. This model produces a high return on tangible capital of 43.3%.

This moat is "narrow" because QSR faces intense, direct competition from heavyweights like McDonald's and Yum! Brands. This competition has manifested in weak performance, with RBI traffic falling 3.3% in Q3 2025 and Burger King and Popeyes posting negative same-store sales in Q1 2025.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: The Post-3G Turnaround#

The legacy of its 3G Capital founding is a highly leveraged balance sheet. This is the primary risk. The company operates with a high debt-to-equity ratio of approximately 3.0x to 4.0x and a high debt-to-EBITDA ratio of ~5.9x. Interest expense consumes a significant portion of operating income.

The current investment thesis is a bet on the new management team, led by CEO Josh Kobza , which has pivoted from 3G's historical cost-cutting focus to a strategy of reinvestment in the brands. This turnaround plan includes:

  1. "Reclaim the Flame" (Burger King US): A 700 million USD investment (through 2028) in "Royal Reset" (remodels, tech upgrades) and "Fuel the Flame" (advertising). This includes deploying AI-powered drive-thrus and self-service kiosks.

  2. Tim Hortons: A focus on operational execution to improve service speed, with some locations achieving 28-second drive-thru times.

  3. International Growth: This remains a key strength, with international system-wide sales growing 12.1% in Q3 2025. A new joint venture with CPE will invest 350 million USD to triple the Burger King store count in China by 2035.

Management is targeting 8%+ annual adjusted operating income growth and returned approximately 1.0 billion USD to shareholders in 2024.

4. Financials & Valuation: A Levered Value Play#

While the high debt is a significant risk , the business generates stable and predictable FCF (1.3 billion USD in 2024) , and the debt load appears manageable, with an interest coverage ratio of 4.29x.

The stock trades at a TTM P/E ratio of ~24-25x. While not objectively cheap, this is reasonable for a high-quality, fee-based business in its sector.

The investment thesis rests on a margin of safety. DCF models, which factor in the successful execution of the turnaround, suggest the stock is undervalued. Fair value estimates cluster in the 81-82 USD range. This represented a significant margin of safety from its Q3 2025 price of ~64 USD. This is a bet on durable brands and a credible management turnaround. The high leverage, while a risk, provides a "kicker": if the 8%+ growth target is achieved, the returns to equity holders will be significantly amplified.

(F) Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) | 8.73% Portfolio Weight#

This is a new 2025 position for Pershing Square , representing a complex, SOTP-based bet on the two most dominant platforms in the Western world: e-commerce and cloud computing.

1. Business Analysis: The Twin Engines of AWS and Ads#

Amazon's business model is a symbiotic duopoly of two dominant engines :

  1. E-commerce & Retail: The vast consumer-facing business, including online stores, the third-party marketplace, Prime subscriptions, and physical stores (Whole Foods).

  2. Amazon Web Services (AWS): The dominant #1 provider of cloud computing infrastructure.

A surface-level analysis is misleading. While retail and third-party sales account for the vast majority of revenue , the true profit and value drivers are AWS and Advertising.

  • AWS: This high-margin segment (19%+ growth) generates only ~15-18% of total sales but has historically contributed 50-60% of Amazon's entire operating profit.

  • Advertising: This is the "hidden growth engine". This unit grew 23.5% in Q3 2025-faster than AWS-and generates operating "margins that rival AWS".

These two high-margin, high-growth businesses (AWS and Ads) are growing faster than the lower-margin core retail business , creating a powerful tailwind for future profitability.

2. Economic Moat: Scale, Switching Costs, and "Prime"#

Amazon possesses a "wide economic moat" derived from multiple, reinforcing sources:

  • E-commerce Moat (Scale & Logistics): Amazon's unrivaled scale, low-cost operations , and its massive, sophisticated fulfillment and delivery network have created the "Amazon Effect" -a standard of speed and price that competitors cannot replicate.

  • AWS Moat (Switching Costs): As the clear market leader with 29-30%+ market share , AWS benefits from extremely high switching costs. Enterprises build their entire technology stacks on AWS, making migration to a competitor a prohibitively expensive, risky, and complex endeavor.

  • Network Effect (The Prime Flywheel): The Prime ecosystem, with over 300 million global members , is a powerful network effect. Prime members spend more, which attracts more third-party sellers; more sellers expand selection, which makes Prime more valuable and attracts more members. This flywheel locks in customer loyalty.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: Jassy's "Day 1" Capex Bet#

CEO Andy Jassy, the former head of AWS, is a "Day 1" acolyte of Jeff Bezos's "long-term" philosophy: invest heavily in inputs (capex) to secure future dominance.

Jassy's capital allocation strategy is defined by one thing: an aggressive, all-in bet on AI infrastructure. Like Google, Amazon is in a capex "arms race." Jassy is projecting capital expenditures will exceed 100 billion USD in 2025 , with the "vast majority" dedicated to building out AWS capacity for AI.

His rationale is clear: he views AI as a "once-in-a-lifetime type of business opportunit[y]" and a "key driver of profitability". He has assured investors that this spending is not speculative, stating, "as fast as we're bringing it in, right now, we are monetizing it".

Pershing Square's new 2025 investment is a clear endorsement of this strategy. The thesis is that this 100 billion USD+ in annual capex is not a value-destructive race to the bottom, but a necessary, high-ROIC investment to build an unassailable moat in the next era of technology.

4. Financials & Valuation: A Sum-of-the-Parts Case#

Amazon's balance sheet is strong. Its 130.9 billion USD in total debt is well-supported by over 113 billion USD in trailing-twelve-month operating cash flow and a rapidly expanding equity base. FCF has also recovered dramatically, reaching 38.2 billion USD in 2024.

A consolidated P/E ratio of ~33x is a misleading metric for such a complex business. Amazon must be valued on a Sum-of-the-Parts (SOTP) basis.

The SOTP thesis is that the market is undervaluing the combination of AWS and Advertising. These two high-margin, high-growth businesses are "hidden" inside a lower-margin retail company.

This SOTP view is necessary to reconcile wildly divergent DCF models. A conservative FCF model, for example, yields an intrinsic value of just 71 USD (suggesting 72% overvaluation). Conversely, a 2-stage FCFE model arrives at 272.24 USD (suggesting 10.3% undervaluation).

Pershing Square is clearly siding with the SOTP/growth case. The investment is a bet on owning two of the world's best businesses (AWS and Ads) at a reasonable price, with the added benefit of owning the Western world's dominant e-commerce platform.

(G) Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) | 5.77% Portfolio Weight#

This position is a long-term holding in a high-quality, high-ROIC compounder that is currently experiencing a cyclical slowdown, providing a rare entry point.

1. Business Analysis: The "Company-Owned" Control Model#

Chipotle's business model is unique and, in the QSR industry, contrarian. It owns and operates 100% of its 3,400+ restaurants.

It does not franchise. This capital-intensive model is the foundation of its economic moat, as it gives Chipotle total control over its supply chain, employee training, restaurant operations, and, most importantly, its brand promise. All revenue (99%+) comes directly from food and beverage sales at these company-owned locations.

2. Economic Moat: The "Food with Integrity" Brand#

Chipotle has a "wide economic moat" that is built almost entirely on the intangible asset of its brand.

The "Food with Integrity" motto, which emphasizes fresh ingredients and no artificial preservatives , resonates deeply with consumers and allows CMG to command premium pricing. This powerful brand identity fosters a "cult-like" customer loyalty and "notable customer loyalty".

The moat and the business model are inextricably linked. It is because Chipotle owns all its stores that it can rigidly enforce its "Food with Integrity" promise. A franchisee, by contrast, might be tempted to cut corners on ingredient quality to boost margins, which would erode the brand. Chipotle's company-owned model protects the brand, which in turn reinforces the moat, allowing for sustained pricing power.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: Defending the Brand#

The company is currently facing its first significant test since its post-E. coli turnaround: a consumer-led slowdown in 2025.

  • The Slowdown: Macroeconomic pressures on its key demographic (25-35-year-olds with sub-100k USD incomes) have caused a "trade-down" to cheaper QSRs.

  • The Results: This led to a comparable restaurant sales decrease of 4.0% in Q2 2025 and a transaction decline of 0.8% in Q3 2025.

Management's response to this slowdown is the core of the long-term thesis. Rather than chase lost traffic with discounts, CEO Scott Boatwright has explicitly refused to compromise the brand's premium positioning. He stated clearly: "Value as a price point is not and will not be a Chipotle strategy".

This is a critical, long-term, moat-defending decision. Management is consciously sacrificing short-term traffic and sales to protect its long-term pricing power and brand integrity. This is precisely the kind of rational, long-term-oriented management that a value investor like Ackman seeks.

4. Financials & Valuation: The "Pricey" Fortress#

The company-owned model, while capital-intensive, has produced a "fortress" balance sheet. Chipotle has a history of operating with "no debt" (or, more recently, very low and manageable debt levels ).

The model is exceptionally profitable, generating a high ROE of 45% and a historically high ROIC (often 18-25%). It is a free cash flow machine, generating 1.5 billion USD in 2024.

Chipotle always appears expensive on a P/E basis. However, the 2025 slowdown has created a rare valuation opportunity. The stock's current TTM P/E ratio of ~27x is dramatically below its 5-year average P/E of 62.5x.

While most DCF models, which are heavily influenced by the near-term slowdown, show the stock as overvalued , the investment thesis is clear. This is not a "cheap" stock. It is a bet on one of the highest-quality, highest-ROIC, debt-free brand compounders in the world, acquired at a valuation that is historically cheap relative to itself. The 2025 slowdown provided the "margin of safety" to own this premium asset.

(H) Hilton Worldwide Holdings (HLT) | 5.37% Portfolio Weight#

This holding is a prime example of a "Buffett-Munger" style business: a capital-light, fee-based model with a powerful network-effect moat and a shareholder-obsessed management team.

1. Business Analysis: The "Capital-Light" Fee Machine#

Hilton's business model is brilliantly "asset-light" or "capital-light". With over 8,600 properties globally , Hilton does not own the vast majority of its hotels.

Instead, it functions as a brand licensor and hotel manager. Its revenue is "resilient" and "fee-based" , generated by collecting high-margin, recurring franchise and management fees (royalties) from the third-party owners who actually bear the capital cost of the real estate. This highly scalable, capital-light model drives approximately 95% of Hilton's Adjusted EBITDA.

2. Economic Moat: The Honors Loyalty Network#

Hilton's primary economic moat is a powerful, self-perpetuating network effect driven by its loyalty program, Hilton Honors.

This program has over 200 million members. This massive, loyal customer base creates a "flywheel" that benefits both Hilton and its partners:

  1. For Owners: Hotel owners must join the Hilton system to gain access to these 200 million+ loyal customers. This access drives higher, more stable occupancy and allows them to earn a 15% RevPAR (Revenue Per Available Room) premium over non-branded competitors.

  2. For Hilton: These "satisfied owners" , in turn, use their own capital to fund the development of more Hilton-branded hotels. This drives Hilton's "leading organic net unit growth" with "de minimis use of capital" from Hilton's own balance sheet.

Hilton's asset-light moat is further protected by a powerful secondary moat: its "world's most valuable hotel brand" status, which gives it immense pricing power and makes it the preferred partner for hotel developers.

3. Management & Capital Allocation: The FCF Return Engine#

CEO Christopher Nassetta has executed this asset-light strategy with discipline. The business model is designed to "drive significant free cash flow" , and Nassetta's primary job as a capital allocator is to return that FCF to shareholders.

The execution is flawless. In 2024 alone, Hilton returned 3.0 billion USD to stockholders through a combination of share buybacks and dividends.

A sophisticated analysis of Hilton's balance sheet reveals what appears to be a flaw, but is in fact a feature of its capital allocation. The balance sheet shows negative shareholder equity (to the tune of -4.89 billion USD).

  • A surface analysis would call this a sign of financial weakness.

  • A deeper, Buffett-style analysis recognizes this as a sign of extreme capital allocation efficiency.

  • The business is capital-light; it does not need to retain earnings to fund its growth (its franchisees do that). Therefore, the most rational and shareholder-friendly action is to return 100% or more of net income to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.

  • These massive, sustained buybacks have driven the accounting metric of book value negative. However, the company's underlying FCF generation is so powerful that its debt is "well covered by operating cash flow" (21.8% coverage). The negative equity is an accounting artifact of a highly successful and efficient capital return program.

4. Financials & Valuation: Paying for Predictability#

The fee-based model is highly profitable and gushes predictable cash flow. FCF is strong and has grown steadily, from 1.58 billion USD in 2022 to 1.70 billion USD in 2023, and 1.82 billion USD in 2024.

This quality does not come cheap. The stock appears expensive on a TTM P/E basis at ~39x. A P/FCF ratio of ~26x is a more appropriate metric for this FCF-focused business. DCF analyses, which are sensitive to terminal growth assumptions, are deeply conflicted and mostly suggest the stock is overvalued.

The investment thesis is qualitative. Pershing Square is paying a premium P/FCF multiple for an extremely high-quality, predictable, capital-light business. It has a powerful network-effect moat and a management team that has proven to be a disciplined and efficient allocator of capital on behalf of its shareholders.

III. Analysis of Minor & Speculative Holdings#

The two remaining positions in the portfolio are non-core and represent a combined 1.5% of reported assets. Their small size indicates they are not central to the "Buffett-style" investment thesis but are likely legacy or opportunistic holdings.

A. Seaport Entertainment Group (SEG) | 0.79% Portfolio Weight#

This 115 million USD position is a legacy holding directly related to Pershing Square's main investment in Howard Hughes. HHH's portfolio included the Seaport in New York City , which was subsequently spun off as a separate public company. This 0.79% stake is the remainder of that corporate action, not a new, active investment.

B. Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) | 0.71% Portfolio Weight#

This 104 million USD position is another non-core holding. The business of car rentals is extremely capital-intensive (requiring the purchase and maintenance of a massive vehicle fleet) and highly cyclical. This business model is the antithesis of the high-ROIC, capital-light, fee-based moats seen in UBER, HLT, QSR, and BN. Its presence as a 0.71% "stub" position suggests it is a legacy holding, possibly from its 2021 bankruptcy emergence, and not a strategic, long-term component of the portfolio.

IV. Concluding Thesis: The "Ackman-Buffett" Synthesis#

Bill Ackman's Q3 2025 portfolio, as disclosed, reflects a clear, mature, and disciplined "Buffett-Munger" style of investing. The strategy is defined by a series of core principles:

  1. Extreme Concentration: The portfolio is a collection of only 8 core ideas. This is high-conviction investing, where deep research into a few "great" businesses is preferred over broad diversification.

  2. A Focus on Durable Moats: Every core holding possesses a powerful and durable economic moat, which protects its long-term profitability:

    • Network Effects: UBER (three-sided platform), HLT (loyalty program), GOOGL (data/search), and AMZN (Prime/Marketplace).

    • Intangible Assets (Brand): CMG (Food with Integrity), QSR (global brands), HLT (most valuable hotel brand).

    • Scale & Cost Advantages: AMZN (logistics), BN (global capital access).

    • High Switching Costs: GOOGL (Cloud) and AMZN (AWS).

    • Irreplaceable Assets: HHH (entitled land banks).

  3. Preference for Capital-Light FCF: A clear preference for business models that gush free cash flow without requiring heavy capital reinvestment (HLT, QSR, UBER, and BN's asset manager).

  4. Aligned & Rational Management: A deep focus on shareholder-oriented management teams that are either proven, world-class capital allocators (Flatt at BN, Nassetta at HLT, Jassy at AMZN) or are demonstrating rational, long-term, moat-defending decision-making (CMG's refusal to discount).

The investment in Howard Hughes Holdings (HHH) is the ultimate expression of this philosophy and represents the potential "endgame" for the entire strategy. With the 900 million USD (48% premium) buy-in, Ackman has ceased to be a passive 13F investor and has become the capital allocator. He has effectively acquired his own "modern-day Berkshire Hathaway".

He is using the predictable, high-margin, and irreplaceable cash flow "engine" of HHH's MPCs as his own permanent capital "float" to acquire other durable, high-quality businesses. The other seven core holdings in the Pershing Square portfolio do not just represent good investments; they now serve as a public roadmap for the type of high-moat, high-ROIC businesses that Ackman, in his new role as Executive Chairman of HHH, will likely target for acquisition in the decades to come.

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