How Early Investors Need to Be in Companies to Get a 100 X Return

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The average starting market cap of these companies was less than 500 million and the companies were fairly substantial businesses already, 170 million or so in sales. So it's not like they're tiny, but there's certainly not 30 or 40 billion dollar market caps either. I wouldn't try to imagine necessarily that gills up 100 X. I'd focus on again those doesn't have a really good business and has a mode it can defend. And then you kind of follow the story and see you go.

Robert Leonard chats with Chris Mayer about finding 100 bagger stocks – what to look for, how to find them, what metrics to analyze, how to think about valuation, the company’s management team, and much more.

Chris is the Portfolio Manager and co-founder of Woodlock House Family Capital, and author of the book 100 Baggers.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

01:34 - What Chris learned after studying 365 stocks that became 100 baggers in the past.

03:45 - What were the common characteristics of these 100 bagger stocks?

06:42 - How early did investors have to get into these stocks to 100x their returns?

08:24 - What was the average market cap of the companies that went on to become 100 baggers?

36:30 - An example of one of Chris’s stock picks he thinks will become a future 100 bagger.

42:42 - The importance of business quality over current valuation and what metrics to look at.

50:44 - Potential traps investors can fall into when trying to find 100 baggers.

55:38 - When Chris would consider selling one of his stocks.

59:09 - Chris’s investment process to find future 100- baggers today.

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