I passed on Shopify at $94 and it's $149 fourteen weeks later. I did the full work to find out if I was wrong: P/E, FCF, Owner's Earnings it's still expensive.
Shopify's business is genuinely accelerating with 34% revenue growth and strong retention, but current valuation at $149 is expensive across all metrics: 100x owner's earnings, 80x FCF, and 72x forward earnings. Even the author's five-year intrinsic value model yields only 4.2% annual returns from current levels, indicating future gains are already priced in.