Compounders Podcast

Sean Stannard-Stockton, President and CIO of Ensemble Capital, discusses the firm's competitive advantage framework, the benefits of having a wealth management arm, and the rationale behind their content creation. They explore the concept of compounders, the unique business of Perimeter Solutions, and lessons learned from MasterCard. They also talk about Ensemble Capital's vision for the future and the significance of making forecasts when investing.

Greg Dean, Founder and Lead of Investor at Langdon Equity Partners, discusses the challenges of managing compounder companies within small-cap strategies. He shares insights on building a new investment firm and the cultural elements that are important. The podcast also explores the evolution of compounders in investing and analyzes the success story of Royal Unibrew in Denmark.

My guests on the show to today are Heather Beatty and Robin Kollannur, the respective founder and Portfolio Manager of ScopeFour Capital. After a number of years working in business development at large investment firms, Heather started ScopeFour, a climate impact-focused firm, to take advantage of the investment opportunities associated with companies that are building impactful climate solutions. Robin has 30 years of experience in money management and has recently joined the firm to implement the ScopeFour process and vision. In this extensive conversation, we discussed: The founding of ScopeFour and the investing opportunity set; The difference between investing for impact versus what has come to be known ESG; The intersection between a company that compounds over time and one that is making a positive impact on the climate; How Robin and Heather narrow down the universe of companies; and How to avoid paying too high a price for the companies that are likely to have the most positive impact. Without any further ado, here is my conversation with Heather Beatty and Robin Kollannur of ScopeFour Capital. For more information about ScopeFour Capital, please visit: https://www.scopefourcapital.com/ Listen to all Compounders Podcast episodes on either Apple or Spotify iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of SNN or its affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.

My guest on the show today is Thomas Li, the co-founder and CEO of financial data company Daloopa. Daloopa is a private company that was founded by a group of former buy-side investment analysts who saw the opportunity to use technology to upgrade the research process at just about any type of investment firm; but with a specific focus on saving analysts and portfolio managers time. Just a few years into its journey, the company already has over 200 employees and has multiple offices around the world. In this wide-ranging interview, Thomas and I discussed: Where the original idea for Daloopa came from; How he views the legacy data providers such as CapitalIQ and Bloomberg; What Daloopa is doing to make the product a must-have versus a nice-to-have; What AI means within the context of Daloopa; and The importance of building a company that naturally generates a lot of cash As a disclaimer, Daloopa is a sponsor of the Compounders podcast. Cove Street nor Ben Claremon are shareholders of Daloopa. Without any further ado, here is my conversation with Daloopa CEO Thomas Li. For more information about Daloopa, please visit: https://daloopa.com/ This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Daloopa. Daloopa was founded by a former hedge fund analyst to bring simplicity to the investment process. Daloopa offers an AI-driven, single source for all company reported data, and allows for investment teams to make the most informed decisions in the shortest amount of time. For more information, please visit: https://daloopa.com/ To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we’ll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.

Aaron Graft, Founder & CEO of Triumph Financial, discusses building a modern payments network for truckers, the profitable nature of Triumph's factoring business, and the benefits of having a bank structure. He also emphasizes the importance of low cost of funds and the need for a streamlined payment process in the trucking industry. Additionally, the discussion touches on shrinking share count, efficient capital stewardship, and the significance of the trucking industry in the economy.

Our guest on the show today is Craig Packer, the CEO of Owl Rock Capital Corp, a 5.4 billion dollar market cap business development company that invests in middle market companies in the US. Craig is also the Chief Investment Officer of Owl Rock Capital, a New York-based direct lending platform with over 50 billion dollars of assets under management. This is the first business development company—or BDC for short—we have had on the podcast, so we wanted to make sure that we spent some time talking about BDCs in general and why Craig thinks they are an attractive niche within public markets. Additionally, in the discussion with Craig, we covered: What metrics investors should focus on when they are considering investing in a BDC; Owl Rock Capital’s investment philosophy and risk management strategies; How Craig would expect the BDC’s portfolio to perform in an economic downturn; What kind of investment opportunities Craig and his team are seeing at the moment; and The proper use of leverage within a BDC structure This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Tegus, an innovative and disruptive company that is changing the way professional investors work. For more information, please visit: https://www.tegus.co/  To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we’ll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.

Brian Lane, President and CEO of Comfort Systems, discusses the company's acquisition philosophy, handling potential recessionary periods, building up recurring revenue, industry competitiveness, and overcoming inflationary and labor challenges in the mechanical and electrical contracting industries.

Our guest on the show today is Steve Daly, the CEO of Instructure Holdings, a 3.6 billion dollar educational software company. After serving on the Board of the company, Steve became the CEO in late 2020, right in the middle of pivotal time for the company. Instructure’s core products consist of cloud-based learning management systems used by higher education and K through 12 schools all around the world. Listeners may not be familiar with Instructure, but the Canvas brand is likely something many people have heard of or even used. In 2020, the COVID outbreak presented all kinds of challenges for schools, especially when it came to figuring out how to use technology to continue the education process in a remote environment. Given how well Instructure is positioned to help schools embrace new technologies, I was excited to hear from Steve about: How the outbreak of COVID impacted the demand for learning management systems in both higher ed and K through 12; Why cloud systems are better than on premise systems and how that leads to very low churn among customers; Penetration rates of learning management systems across end markets and the different strategies Instructure employs to grow; How the company went from being quite unprofitable to generating very attractive margins in a short period of time; and How Thoma Bravo’s Orlando Bravo convinced Steve to join the Board of Instructure and eventually become the CEO. This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Tegus, an innovative and disruptive company that is changing the way professional investors work. For more information, please visit: https://www.tegus.co/  To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we’ll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.

Our guests on the show today are Scott King and Jeff Gorman, the CEO and Executive Chairman of The Gorman-Rupp Company, a 700 million dollar market cap company that designs, manufactures, and sells pumps and pump systems to customers all over the world. 2022 has been quite an eventful for year for the company. Earlier in the year, Jeff Gorman stepped back to Chairman, allowing Scott to become the CEO, despite not having the Gorman last name. The company also completed a very large acquisition of a company called Fill-Rite. Given those events and all of the other challenges in the world today, I was excited to speak with Scott and Jeff about: The timing of the management transition and the expectation that Scott continue the company’s long history of dividend increases The rationale for the Fill-Rite deal and why now was the right time to take a big swing—with some leverage; The importance of culture and the family-like values that have persisted over the last 90 years; Where the company is investing in technology and innovation; and How the company approaches tough economics times given all of the different crises the company has weathered during its long history This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Tegus, an innovative and disruptive company that is changing the way professional investors work. For more information, please visit: https://www.tegus.co/  To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we’ll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable..

My guest on the show today is Chris Mayer, the Portfolio Manager of the Woodlock House Family Capital fund and the co-founder of the firm. He is also the author of 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How To Find Them. You will notice that we are doing something a little different with this episode. Chris is our first guest who is not an executive at a public company. But, since this podcast is called Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger, we thought it would be great to have on the guy who literally wrote the book on finding 100-baggers. In this wide-ranging interview, Chris and I discussed: The common attributes of 100-baggers Chris found in his study of compounders; The biases that make it hard for investors to realize a 100-bagger; Why individual investors might be more likely than are institutional investors to get the full benefit of decades of compounding; Where serial acquirers fit within the 100-bagger paradigm; and Why high incremental returns on capital are so important to long-term success This episode of Compounders: The Anatomy of a Multibagger is sponsored by Tegus, an innovative and disruptive company that is changing the way professional investors work. For more information, please visit: https://www.tegus.co/  To get all the latest updates about the podcast, see who we’ll have on next, as well as watch the video version of the pod, please follow us on twitter at @BenClaremon and subscribe to the SNN Network YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/snnwire. For more information about Cove Street Capital, please visit: https://covestreetcapital.com/ iTunes: https://apple.co/3xlUvPY Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jxkxLl Each new episode will be available every Tuesday morning on Apple, Spotify and all podcast streaming platforms. All opinions expressed by your hosts and the podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Cove Street Capital or any affiliates. This podcast is for informational purposes only, it is not investment advice, and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. We are not recommending the purchase or sale of any securities. The hosts and guests may be beneficial owners of the securities discussed. You should not assume that the securities discussed are or will be profitable.