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Absolutely. The key is not to treat the $1.12B revenue / $2.68 EPS headline as normalized HHH earnings, because Vantage was only consolidated from June 4–30 and The Park Ward Village condo sales created a large one-off contribution. The underlying MPC and operating-asset numbers are much more useful for judging the business.
HHH Q2 2026 vs Q2 2025
Metric Q2 2026 Q2 2025 YoY
Revenue $1.12B $260.9M +330%
Net income $158.4M -$12.1M +$170.5M
EPS $2.68 loss Huge swing
MPC EBT $134.7M $102.4M +32%
Operating Assets NOI $70.5M $68.9M +2%
Vantage net earned premiums $97.2M
Vantage underwriting income $4.7M
Vantage investment income $11.0M
*Only 26 days of Vantage ownership, so do not annualize these numbers directly. HHH explicitly warns that the stub-period results aren't representative of the future run-rate.
The important part: MPC
MPC = Master Planned Communities.
Think of this as HHH owning huge amounts of land and infrastructure in places like Summerlin, Bridgeland, Teravalis and Ward Village, then selling parcels to homebuilders, commercial developers, etc.
HHH doesn't necessarily build every house itself. It creates the community, infrastructure and amenities, and then monetizes the land over many years.
The really encouraging number is MPC EBT of $134.7M, +32% YoY from $102.4M. That's much more meaningful to me than the huge revenue headline because it shows the underlying land-development machine is producing more profit.
Pricing is also strong. During H1 2026, HHH sold 206.7 residential acres at ~$1.2M/acre, compared with 621 residential acres at $890k/acre for all of 2025. So they're selling fewer acres but at substantially higher prices per acre.
NOI is different
NOI = Net Operating Income.
It's basically:
Property revenue − property-level operating expenses = NOI
It excludes things like corporate overhead, interest expense and taxes, which makes it useful for seeing how the actual properties are performing.
HHH's Operating Assets generated $70.5M of NOI, versus $68.9M last year, so only +2% YoY.
That isn't spectacular growth, but remember these are mature-ish recurring assets: apartments, office, retail, etc. The important thing is that HHH is gradually building a recurring income base rather than relying entirely on selling land.
And that's where the Berkshire/Ackman angle becomes interesting.
Then there's Vantage
This is the huge structural change.
HHH paid approximately $2.1B for Vantage, a specialty insurance/reinsurance company, and funded part of the transaction with $1B of preferred stock issued to Pershing Square.
Vantage contributed during just the 26-day stub:
$97.2M net earned premiums
$4.7M underwriting income
$11.0M investment income
$20.8M pretax loss
95% combined ratio for the stub period
Again, I wouldn't extrapolate the $20.8M loss. It's a tiny period, affected by acquisition accounting and other items.
The Park Ward Village effect
This is another reason the $2.68 EPS number needs context.
HHH completed The Park Ward Village, with 97% of units closed during the quarter, generating $226.6M of net proceeds after debt repayment.
That's excellent cash generation, but condos are inherently lumpy. You can't say:
> "$2.68 EPS × 4 = $10.72 annual EPS."
That would be a bad valuation method.
What actually changed?
I'd summarize the quarter like this:
2025 HHH:
Real estate developer with valuable land + recurring operating assets.
2026 HHH:
Real estate developer + specialty insurer/reinsurer + investment portfolio + Pershing Square capital allocation.
And the real estate business itself is getting stronger: MPC EBT +32%, NOI +2%, strong land pricing, and $226.6M of condo proceeds.
HHH also ended Q2 with approximately $2.65B of cash and equivalents, $515M of undrawn Bridgeland capacity and another $1B of undrawn property-development commitments.
So personally, I wouldn't buy HHH because "earnings beat by X%." I'd buy the sum-of-the-parts story: valuable land that can be monetized for decades + growing recurring NOI + Vantage's insurance float + Pershing Square potentially allocating that capital.
That's much closer to the actual investment thesis than the headline EPS.
Please give me yr opinion and insights