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Moats, ROIC and the problematic Cost of Equity

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on May 11, 2025May 12, 2025
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

If the CAPM is flawed, what can replace it? The best approach would be to assess whether companies in general and relatively speaking, the company in question, can raise money cheaply in public offerings.

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Investing in businesses vs investing in stocks

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on May 12, 2024May 12, 2024
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

When investing, we view ourselves as business analysts – not as market analysts, not as macroeconomic analysts, and not even as security analysts

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Stocks – avoid stepping in the bad stuff

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 8, 2024April 8, 2024
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

Unless management holds the major part of their family net worth in shares of the company there is a serious potential agency problem

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Tapping into the wealth created by stock market investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 6, 2023August 6, 2023
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

The vast majority of wealth creation comes from a reasonably sized cohort of successful companies. The trick is to identify these wonderful businesses.

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How to distinguish a superb value creator from an also ran

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

The best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of incremental capital at very high rates of return

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Watchlists can be a waste of time

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 22, 2023January 23, 2023
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

But I am not building up a baseball bullpen of game-ready companies

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