"The Five Rules of Successful Stock Investing" by Pat Dorsey is one of the best books for individual investors (Top 5 in my opinion). Excellent summary of that book. h/t @suru27 👏
Some of Co.'s cited obviously change over a period of time, due to changes in trends, Customer preferences, Management issues and so on. No list is permanent.
Analyzing a Company (This section's summary obviously cannot be fully captured in few bullet pts) ⬇️
✔️Growth
✔️Profitability
✔️Financial Health
✔️Risk Factors
✔️Management
Analyzing Management. ⬇️
Most important factor in my opinion, as they're the ones defining the culture/vision/strategy and empowering the employees to serve the Customers while balancing all other factors. Even more important in today's Tech enabled world.
Be your own detective when analyzing Financial Statements. ⬇️
Valuation Basics⬇️
This is where most people trip up. Learning to contextualize Valuation based on the specific Co.'s characteristics (Quality/Growth-past & future/Management/Financial Strength/ROIC & runway/Moats....) is definitely more art than science.
Intrinsic Value basics ⬇️
If you're a long-term investor dealing with individual stocks, buy and read the whole book if you can.
The overview of all the important concepts and analysis of various Industries is very useful and highly practical.
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We went thru US and Eurozone recession fears, three US Presidential elections, Brexit, Terrorism events, many Taper tantrums, a deadly Pandemic and many more major events/headlines and here we are.
I take screenshots like these during Bear Markets and extreme volatility periods (took many during GFC, Fall 2011, Feb 2016, 4Q-2018, March 2020...) as a reminder that whatever is the news of the day will blow over and the real issues (GFC/COVID...) will get resolved with time.
I love my Tech names for a majority of my Portfolio (BigTech, Small Tech, HW, SaaS, E-Commerce, FinTech, Consumer Tech), but there's plenty of great Co's outside of these.
Few of the other Sectors & my fav names in there.⬇️
✔️US based
✔️Tech (in a traditional sense) is not the main product of these Co.'s although they leverage it.
✔️Many of these have a mix of some of these below characteristics
✔️Great products/services
✔️Long-term oriented Mgmt teams
✔️Customer obsession
✔️Differentiated Biz Model
✔️Durable demand
✔️Innovative culture
✔️Lean operations
✔️Good Financial governance
✔️Very moaty or critical in their value chain
✔️Mkt (S&P) beaters over the 5/10 yr periods
"40 invaluable investing lessons" by Tony Deden (Chairman of Edelweiss Holdings) is such a great read for long-term investors. Worth re-reading once an year.
The "50 FINANCE BOOKS" section on this blog has excellent summaries & notes for some of the best investing books. 👏 (Couldn't find the Twitter handle of the author to credit).
Thread below with some of my fav ones from the list. ⬇️
“Just a slight change in a golfer’s grip and stance may improve his game, so a little more emphasis on buying for keeps, a little more determination not to be tempted to sell … may fatten your portfolio."
My first 1⃣0⃣0⃣ bagger. Finally.... Love you $LULU 💕
I'll not pretend to be an expert on 100 baggers (this is a nominal win, read Pt11), but will just share some general and some specific lessons I came across thru my holding of $LULU.
12 Lessons from the 12 year journey. ⬇️
1⃣Be open minded : Good ideas can come from anywhere.
Fresh from reading Peter Lynch's "One Up On Wall Street" back in Dec'08 I wanted to pick one branded athletic retailer. $NKE $LULU $SKX might have been the choices.
I read up few free articles on Motley Fool and elsewhere and the basic analysis was good enough for me to get started.
What attracted me to $LULU back then was
-Yes, it's catchy name to begin with
-Small but a leader in a growing Healthy Lifestyle trend
-Founder led