🧵 Howard Marks shares his 10 key elements for investing
1) Forget the short run – only the long run matters. 2) Decide whether you believe in market efficiency. If so, is your market sufficiently inefficient to permit outperformance, and are you up to the task of exploiting it?
3) Does your investment style match your personality? Do you tend more towards aggressiveness or defensiveness? Will you try to find more and bigger winners, or focus on avoiding losers, or both? (Hint: “both” is much harder to achieve than one or the other.)
4) Think of your normal balance between aggressiveness and defensiveness based on your financial position, needs, aspirations, and ability to live with fluctuations. Will you vary this balance depending on what happens in the market?
• Leading player in the Global Off-Highway Tire (OHT) market.
• Has a deep understanding of the OHT market, and has more than 3,200 SKUs.
• Will achieve a total capacity of 3,60,000 MTPA by FY23. /1
• Operates in large varieties low volume segment - highly technical and capital intensive.
• Caters to Agriculture, Industrial, Construction, Earthmoving, Mining, Port, Lawn & Garden Tires.
• Raw materials are Natural and Synthetic Rubber, Carbon Black and Nylon fabric. /2
• India's Largest Off-Highway Tire Manufacturer
• Manufactures in India and sells in Europe, America, Australia, and India
• Low-cost tire maker
• Huge cost advantage in terms of the employee cost
• Challenging the global leader
• Competes with Michelin and Bridgestone /3