Value in 60 seconds: Balance your insight with the fundamentals

13 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker stresses that personal insight is the most valuable asset when making investment decisions, followed by a clear view of a company's financial history and the market's expectations. He outlines a three‑step approach: (1) examine past financial performance, (2) gauge what the market expects the business to achieve, and (3) assess the risk‑reward profile when market expectations are lower than historical results. He acknowledges the practical limits of evaluating many companies and proposes that marrying individual insight with formal ratings can enhance decision‑making, urging viewers to always bring their insights to the table.

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Your ability to bring insight to the table is invaluable. It's the most important thing to have when trying to make an investment decision. The next most important thing is what does the business look like and what does the market expect? We can only do what the market is telling us. Number one, understand what the financials of the business have been in the past. Number 2, understand what the market expects the business to do. When the market's expecting something a lot less than what it's done in the past, that's just naturally risk reward. We're not in a business that's objectively evaluating that many companies. That would be beyond our capabilities. If we could marry your insight to the ratings, we would probably be doing this on the new constructs yacht. Your insights are super valuable. Always bring those to bear and add them to what it is we're doing.