Network Effects🕸️ : Marketplace, Data and Platform
Cost Moats💰: Switching Costs, Sunk Cost and Cost Advantages
Cultural Moats👩👩👧👦: Brand and Tradition
Resource Moats💼: Intellectual Property, Knowledge and Regulatory
Data and Marketplace Network Effects in action⬇️
Big returns from LT positions in great Co's is what we all aim for.
Clearly understanding what makes a specific Co great (Moat, Mgmt, Trends, Optionality...) & what's actually contributing to all that growth, Fin results & LT stock prices is a very enjoyable/rewarding process.
Overall an excellent article with great visuals and tons of (theoretical & practical) information and a framework that's immensely useful when doing Fundamental/Quality analysis of Companies. 👏👏
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Investing in its purest sense (Analysis of Intrinsic value, buying with Margin of Safety) has been out of fashion recently, but here's an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning the core concepts.
h/t @Vintage_Value👏
On Seeking Alpha, "Integrator" (not sure about Twitter presence) is one of my favorite authors along with @FromValue @andrescardenal @EconomyApp
Bert Hochfeld
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Few of my fav articles of his.
1⃣ The 5 Elements That Make For An Outstanding Business
-Seek Economic Moats in any investment
-Having an awareness of your circle of competence
-Investing for the ultra long term
-Take advantage of a bargain hiding in plain sight
-Preservation of Capital, Above all
3⃣ 5 Common Mistakes In Evaluating High-Growth Companies
-It has already gone up so much.
-Fearing short interest
-Fearing future Competition
-Fearing stock dilution due to secondary offerings
-Fearing current losses
LESSON #1: Government policy can greatly affect your investment portfolio, for good or ill.
LESSON #2: Bull markets climb a wall of worry.
LESSON #3: Don’t fight the Fed. Adjust your portfolio when money is tight, and again when money is easy.
LESSON #4: Gold is money and the best insurance against an inflationary future and bad government policy, but don’t go overboard buying gold. (Not for everyone, but the author mentions that it should be done only as insurance. I guess Bitcoin is the proxy for it these days).
1) On limitations of traditional DCF & other analysis (that assume low terminal growth & mean-reverting) when it comes to exceptionally durable businesses.