"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 👏

My fav slides in the thread below. ⬇️

slideshare.net/suru27/book-su…
The 5⃣ Rules to Follow ⬇️ Image
7⃣ Mistakes to Avoid ⬇️ Image
Why Moats are important ⬇️ Image
Sources of Economic Moats ⬇️

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. Image
Analyzing a Company (This section's summary obviously cannot be fully captured in few bullet pts) ⬇️
✔️Growth
✔️Profitability
✔️Financial Health
✔️Risk Factors
✔️Management Image
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. Image
Be your own detective when analyzing Financial Statements. ⬇️ Image
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. Image
Intrinsic Value basics ⬇️ Image
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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21 Sep
My Google Finance screenshot from 10 yrs ago (Aug 2011).

Look where the indices and stocks shown were trading back then vs now. (Compare Mktcaps, not prices as many of them had splits over the yrs).

$AAPL $ADBE $AMZN $CMG $GOOG $ISRG $LULU $MA $MELI $MSFT $NFLX $NVDA $V
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.
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17 Sep
My fav non-Tech, US based Co.'s. ~6⃣0⃣ names.

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
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17 Sep
"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.

cc: @dmuthuk @Gautam__Baid @iancassel

My fav parts in the thread below.

thewoodshedd.com/docs/40%20%27i…
Some great pts
On what can go wrong and 3 components that make investments endure the test of time.
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16 Sep
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. ⬇️

…estments-manofallseasons.blogspot.com/search/label/5…
✔️Margin of Safety: Seth Klarman

"Markets exist because of differences of opinion among investors"

"In investing it is never wrong to change your mind, it is only wrong to changed your mind and do nothing about it"

…estments-manofallseasons.blogspot.com/2019/06/book-r…
✔️100 Baggers by Chris Mayer

“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."

…estments-manofallseasons.blogspot.com/2018/05/book-1…
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14 Sep
Excellent presentation on Economic Moats🏰.

Goes into much more detail than the cursory & generic explanations. h/t @brianlaungaoaeh 👏

Targeted towards Tech startups, but very useful info for Public Mkt investors too.

cc: @dmuthuk @Gautam__Baid

slideshare.net/BrianLaungAoae…
Contents
✔️Network Effects🕸️
✔️Switching Costs⚖️
✔️Intangibles ™️
✔️Cost Advantages💰
✔️Efficient Scale💪
✔️Summary📜
✔️Network Effects
Direct
Indirect
Two-sided
Local
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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.

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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.

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-Small but a leader in a growing Healthy Lifestyle trend
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