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Focused Compounding — 478 episodes · page 1 of 5
Ep 480. A-Z on IGV: Value Hunt in Software (F-M)
Ep 479. A-Z on IGV: Value Hunt in Software (C-E)
Ep 478. A-Z on IGV: Value Hunt in Software
Ep 477. Jamie Dimon’s Annual Letter to JPMorgan Shareholders
Ep 476. Greg Abel's First Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
Ep 475. AI Capex, NFLX/WBD Deal, and the FISV/LRN Meltdown
Ep 474. Buffett’s Thanksgiving Letter and Berkshire’s Next Chapter
Ep 473. What Happens to Stocks When the Fed Starts Cutting Rates?
Ep 472. Moats in Commodities: Why Some Price Takers Win Big
Ep 471. Howard Marks’ Memo: The Calculus of Value
Ep 470. 13-F Season: Berkshire, Fundsmith, and Superinvestor Moves
Ep 469. Investor Q&A: From Low-Beta Growth Stocks to AI’s Disruption of Investing
Ep 468. Regulated to Unleashed: Finding Inflections in Deregulation
Ep 467. Gross Margin & Gross Profit Per Share as Predictors of Stock Price Performance
Ep 466. All-Time Highs, Passive Distortions, and Thoughts on BRK Post-Buffett
Ep 465. Massive Stock Sell-Off: Tariffs, Oil Crash, and Interest Rates — What Now?
Ep 464. Buffett’s Playbook: Past and Present
Ep 463. Key Takeaways From Warren Buffett's 2024 Letter to Berkshire Shareholders
Ep 462. Berkshire's 13-F, Buybacks at 100x P/E, and Momentum & Pods' Effects on Stock Prices
Ep 461. The Trump Economy, Interest Rates, Deficits, Supermarkets, and an Intriguing Value Stock
Ep 460. Strong Jobs Report, Bond Market Signals, Scale Economies Shared, and Questions from X
Ep 459. Interest Rates, Recessions, Customer Behavior, and Themes vs. Individual Ideas
Ep 458. Capital Allocation Returns (AAP vs. AZO), Family Entertainment Stocks, Supplier Concentration, and Customer Behavior
Ep 457. First 12 Hours on a Stock, 13-Fs, NKE/SBUX/ULTA, and Questions from X
Ep 456. Yen Carry Trade, Buffett's AAPL Sales, and MCS vs. CNK Price Divergence
Ep 455. Box Office, S&P 500 vs. Russell YTD, NVDA, and Value Investing in 2024
Ep 454. Cable Talk: Charter’s Valuation, A Ted Weschler Position, and Thoughts on the Industry
Ep 453. Asset-Earnings Equivalence, Cyclical Downturns, and Thoughts on NVDA
Ep 452. Analyzing Debt: Optimal Capital Structures
Ep 451. 2024 Box Office, AMC Short Squeeze, and the Future of the Movie Industry
Ep 450. Our Takeaways from the Berkshire Hathaway Meeting
Ep 449. Focused Compounding's Plan for Parks! America
Ep 448. Stocks Below Replacement Cost, Nuclear Power Dynamics, and Insurance Premium Surges
Ep 447. Tangible Offline vs. Intangible Online: The Revenge of the Old Economy
Ep 446. Energy Investing the Warren Buffett Way
Ep 445. Market Share and Profitability: Unraveling the Relationship
Ep 444. Rising Margins: Continuation or Reversion to the Mean?
Ep 443. Efficiency, Narratives, and Stock Prices: Sifting Through the Noise
Ep 442. Measuring and Judging a Company's Growth: What Matters and What Doesn't
Ep 441. Upcoming Spinoffs, A Case for CRMT's Cheapness, and Thoughts on Future Corp Tax Rates
Ep 440. Surviving the Test of Time: Why Some Companies Fail and Others Live Forever
Ep 439. Bankruptcy Investing: How to Analyze and Profit from Distressed Companies
Ep 438. Navigating Three Rate Cuts With Sticky Inflation in 2024
Ep 437. Outsider CEOs: John Malone and TCI
Ep 436. S&P 500 YTD, The FTC's Move Against Kroger-Albertsons, Nvidia's Surge, and Year-End Predictions
Ep 435. Warren Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
Ep 434. Snap Judgments from Listeners and Analysis of AMR's Extraordinary Returns
Ep 433. Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going
Ep 432. Outsider CEOs: Bill Anders and General Dynamics
Ep 431. Parks! America, Inc.: Failures in Capital Allocation, Corporate Governance, and Business Basics
Ep 430. Unpacking the EV Landscape in 2024: Supply, Demand, and Pricing
Ep 429. The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value
Ep 428. Dear Chairman: Robert Young vs. New York Central - The Proxyteers Storm the Vanderbilt Line
Ep 427. M&A Activity: Spirit/JetBlue, Hawaiian Holdings/Alaska Airlines, and Kroger/Albertsons
Ep 426. Expectations Investing: Predictions for the Box Office and Movie Theaters in 2024
Ep 425. Dear Chairman: Benjamin Graham vs. Northern Pipeline - The Birth of Modern Shareholder Activism
Ep 424. Outsider CEOs: Tom Murphy, A Perpetual Motion Machine for Returns
Ep 423. The Warren Buffett Way: Mastering the Art of Capital Allocation
Ep 422. Creating Business Systems, John Neff, Multiple Expansion, Inflection Points, and Other Investing Musings
Ep 421. New Year, New You: How to Invest When You Only Have An Hour a Day to Do It
Ep 420. 2023 in Review and 2024 Predictions
Ep 419. Is the Steel Industry in Play? U.S. Steel and Friedman Industries
Ep 418. Warren Buffett, Teledyne, and the Art of Allocating Company Capital
Ep 417. Banking on the Curve: A Fresh Look at Bank Stocks
Ep 416. Assessing Land Banks: Value Trap or Value Investment?
Ep 415. A Tribute to Charlie Munger
Ep 414. Normalizing Supply-Driven, Demand-Driven, and Bond-Like Earnings
Ep 413. Pod About a Pod: Todd Combs on Berkshire, Shorting, and Strategy
Ep 412. The Many Different Ways to Guess a Business’s Future Revenue
Ep 411. Understanding Your Opportunity Cost in an Inflationary Environment
Ep 410. Analyzing Past Peaks: The Dynamics of Compounders & Cyclicals
Ep 409. Corporate Governance and The Power of Ownership
Ep 408. Where Do You Draw the Line Between Money Mind and Style?
Ep 407. Two-Minute Drill on Stocks and Recalling the Bank Failures Earlier in the Year
Ep 406. Searching for Value: Long-Term Net Net Returns & Two Actionable Ideas
Ep 405. Merger Arbitrage: Spirit Airlines vs. Albertsons
Ep 404. The Number One Trait of Top Investors: A Money Mindset
Ep 403. Investing the Peter Lynch Way
Ep 402. Uncovering Warren Buffett’s Investments in Japan
Ep 401. Macro for Value Investors: What Alice Schroeder Means by ’Buffett Cares about Macro’
Ep 400. Where Does Your Return Come From: Yield, Growth, and Multiple Expansion, and the Difference Between Speculation and Investing
Ep 399. Berkshire Hathaway’s Homebuilder Investment, Market Positioning, and Assessing Business Profit Persistency
Ep 398. The Financial History of General Motors with Capital Allocation Author, Jacob McDonough
Ep 397. The Financial History of GEICO with Capital Allocation Author, Jacob McDonough
Ep 396. Box Office Flops, Cinemark’s Valuation, and Revisiting Overlooked Bank Stocks
Ep 395. Analyzing 10-Baggers from the Past 10 Years, Industry Returns, and Snap Judgments from Twitter
Ep 394. Insider Purchases, Good vs. Bad Spinoffs, Commodities, and Ideas Geoff Has Passed On
Ep 393. NVDA’s Valuation, Oil Outlook, SRG’s Liquidation, and Event Driven Investing
Ep 392. Unlocking Investment Wisdom: Reading for Success, Evaluating Companies, and Essential Financial Concepts for Capital Allocators
Ep 391. Buffett’s Investment in Paramount, Streaming vs. Theaters, and Takeaways from Todd Combs’ Podcast
Ep 390. The Omaha Experience: Our Take on Berkshire’s AGM
Ep 389. Interest Rate Hike, Credit Suisse’s Failure, and Other Banking + Economic Risks on the Horizon
Ep 388. SVB Financial Collapse, Modern Bank Runs, and The Future of Regional Banks
Ep 387. Bank Stock Sell-Offs, Higher Interest Rates, and JetBlue + Spirit Airlines Merger Arbitrage
Ep 386. Takeaways from Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letter and Analyzing Ted Weschler’s Dillards Investment
Ep 385. 5 Years of Podcasting, Theme Park Industry in 2023, Munger DJCO Meeting, and Berkshire’s 13-F
Ep 384. Strong Jobs Report + Inflation Fears, Movie Theaters Look Cheap, and Analyzing + Judging an Acquisition
Ep 383. Fed Raised Interest Rates, Market Cycles, Multi Strat Portfolio, & Airlines Look Cheap
Ep 382. Franchise Value, The Secret to Geoff Gannon’s Investing, and Analyzing Airline Stocks
Ep 381. Disney and Nelson Peltz, Carvana’s Fall, Pair Trading Strategies, and Charlie Munger’s Top 3 Places to Find Stocks