The Hermit
More than research. The operational diary of a holding company executing deals, managing private & public assets, and investing in overlooked listed small caps.
- Top in Finance
- #209
- Paid leaderboard
- #403
- Subscribers
- 12K
- Paid subscribers
- 100+ paid
- Badge
- Bestseller 100
- Followers
- 37K
- Paid plan
- $30/mo
- Recommends
- 81
- Podcast
- Yes
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Most-mentioned tickers
Symbols named in the headline of a post from the last 30 days, most-covered first. The number is how many of those posts mentioned it.
Read from 4 post headlines in the last 30 days. A newsletter that names a company only in the body of a post will not appear here, and a mention is not a recommendation — it only means the symbol came up.
Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
12K on Sep 10, 2026 → 12K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #209 today · #208 a week ago · #201 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 42 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 40%
- Best rank seen
- #198
- Rank, 7 days
- −1 place
- Rank, 30 days
- −8 places
- Followers added
- +868
- Posts
- 12
- Reactions per post
- 14
- Reactions tracked
- 391
- Tickers covered
- 12
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 12, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 27 posts
in tracked posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: How to Invest When You’re Not a Full-Time Investor — 51 reactions on Sep 29, 2026.
Recent posts
- Baseline. An honest review of a product we like
- BN;CL #3: Gold, China and Hopium
- Something Bad’s About to Happen
- Talking to the Man Guarding the $154m Cash Pile. OMS Energy Technologies ($OMSE) Insight Direct from the CEO.
- 26Q3. Reviewing 19 Names
- [$TSSI ] Mechanics of Dell’s AI Rack Margins
- 09/26: Golden Shovels
- Gains, Losses, and Espresso
- [$OMSE ] The Ignored $154m Cash Mountain
- How to Invest When You’re Not a Full-Time Investor
- [$GREEN ] Aglomerating Tiny Local Monopolies
- Auto Logistics & Subprime Check: Carvana, Copart, and Credit Acceptance (Q3 2026)
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Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Source for this page: The Hermit. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Oct 21, 2026.