How to Find Great Businesses

"If you compound 25% a year, you're going to get there in 20 years," he says. "Once you find businesses that are like that, that have those good returns, then you really have to kind of dig in and figure out why they earn those returns" He recommends investors spend most of their time figuring out what makes that business special.

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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.

*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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Check out Chris Mayer's Book: 100 Baggers: Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them.
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