Do You Use a Consistent Discount Rate for Cash Floes?

i'm curious if you guys target some sort of return when you're analyzing an investment. Are you using some sort of hurdle rate or targeted return in your guises analysis? Ye, that goes back to stortha quad framework. So first of all, were we're looking for the highest quality businesses as we measure them.

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

01:55 - What makes Weitz’s equity and fixed income funds different from others.
04:20 - Weitz’s overall investment process and how it has evolved over time.
04:20 - What their “quality at a discount” (QAD) investing framework is.
11:45 - What 6 factors they look for to assess the quality of a company.
14:16 - What discount rate they use when projecting out cash flows.
24:01 - Their thoughts on Google, Facebook and Amazon stocks.
26:44 - Their investment thesis for Liberty Broadband.
31:30 - What drives large discrepancies between a companies’ enterprise value and market cap, and what should investors be more focused on.
37:52 - Why Accenture stock has been one of their core holdings for 10+ years.
And much, much more!

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