The Importance of Not Being Precise When Calculating Business Value

Investing is a field of simplifications and approximations rather than extreme precision and quantitative wizardry./nThe key to investing success is not how much you know, but how you behave./nYour behavior will matter far more than your fees, your asset allocation or your analytical abilities.

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On today’s episode, Clay continues his review of Gautam Baid’s book, The Joys of Compounding. Today’s episode is part 3 of our review of this incredible book.

Gautam Baid is the Managing Partner and Fund Manager of Stellar Wealth Partners India Fund, a Delaware-based investment partnership which is available to accredited investors in the US. The fund is modeled after the Buffett Partnership fee structure and invests in listed Indian equities with a long-term, fundamental, and value-oriented approach.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:15 - How journaling can make us better investors.

07:00 - Why incentives are at the root of all human behavior.

09:22 - How management incentives impact our long-term returns as investors in businesses.

18:15 - Why being directionally right is more important than being precise in assessing the intrinsic value of a business.

25:37 - How maintenance capex impacts the value of a business.

32:14 - Ways in which value investors fall for value traps.

32:45 - Why we as investors should respect the market’s wisdom for pricing stocks.

35:09 - The three most important words of investing.

41:25 - How high-quality businesses enhance our margin of safety.

47:55 - How one commodity investment catapulted Gautam to nearly achieving financial independence.

53:36 - Why Seth Klarman, Peter Lynch, and Joel Greenblatt consider spinoffs to be ripe hunting grounds for investors.

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members.
Check out the book, The Joys of Compounding.
Tune into our previous episodes covering The Joys of Compounding: Part 1 & Part 2. Watch the videos here and here.
Check out our recent episode covering Mark Leonard's Letter's and Constellation Software. Watch the video here.
Check out Clay’s YouTube video calculating the intrinsic value of Constellation Software here.
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