Since 2000, there has been a remarkable trend where the largest companies have experienced growth beyond expectations and maintained high returns on capital persistently. This phenomenon is exemplified by the top quintile of public companies outperforming the next quintile significantly. The sustained high levels of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) have led to substantial wealth creation. There are theories suggesting that large technology companies have achieved this through substantial investment in proprietary software, enabling them to leverage scale benefits and customer differentiation unlike ever before.
Michael Mauboussin is the Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, a $70 billion equity manager. Michael is renowned for his ability to articulate important investment concepts backed by academic research. His first of three prior conversations on the show is replayed in the feed. You can find the rest at capitalallocators.com.
Our conversation explores Michael’s most recent piece on pattern recognition, including when it works and when it doesn’t. We then transition to discussing the changing nature of public markets, inspired by another of Michael’s recent research reports entitled Birth, Death, and Wealth Creation.
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