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Ep 182. Continued Turmoil on Wall Street and a Cheap Stock to Think About Investing In

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Ep 181. Stock Market Update and Cheap Stocks to Buy

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Ep 180. The CoronaVirus, Current Market, Stocks to Buy, and Games Workshop

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Ep 179. CoronaVirus, Stock Market Crash, Bank Stocks, Bill Ackman, and More

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Ep 178. Revisiting Stocks Written-Up On Focused Compounding After Market Sell-Off

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Ep 176. How to Value Stocks and Think About Intrinsic Value

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Ep 175. Analyzing Entertainment Stocks After Coronavirus Market Sell-Off

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Ep 174. Reading 10ks, ScuttleButt, Retained Earnings, DCF’s, and Other Questions from Twitter

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Ep 173. Analyzing a 10k and Valuing an Insurance Stock

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Ep 172. Key Takeaways From Warren Buffett’s 2019 Shareholder Letter

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Ep 170. How to Think About ROE, ROA, ROIC and ROIIC

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Ep 169. How to Read and Interpret a Balance Sheet

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Ep 168. Investing in Bank Stocks - Going Through CFR’s 10k

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Ep 167. The Art of Finding Stock Ideas

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Ep 166. How to Read the Cash Flow Statement: The Most Important Statement

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Ep 165. Going Through Geoff’s Marked-Up 10k of Transcat

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Ep 164. Snap Judgments: GANS, PLOW, BKE, EGOV, and PLAY

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Ep 163. Investing in Stocks: 47 Minute Walk-Through of a 10k

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Ep 162. Good Debt vs. Bad Debt: How Much Leverage is Too Much?

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Ep 161. The Art Of NOT Selling a Stock

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Ep 160. Snap Judgements: VTSI, PMD, BJRI, BGS, and CAKE

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Ep 159. Trey Henninger of DIYINVESTING Talks about His Investing Process and ETM, NFPC, and PLWN

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Ep. 158. Snap Judgements: SMDM, FSCR, ATUSF, CODA, and KFRC

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Ep 157. Using Historical Financials to Your Advantage: What We’re Trying to Get From Financial Statements

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Ep 156. How to Avoid Value Traps and Melting Ice Cubes

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Ep 155. Our Biggest Mistakes as Investors, and How We’ve Improved

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Ep 154. Process Over Outcome - How to Build the Right Process to Become a Great Investor

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Ep 153. Snap Judgements: MHGU, CTEK, VALU, and LOTB

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Ep 152. How Andrew Finds Stocks for Geoff to Research

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Ep 151. Snap Judgements: INSG, THO, SBGI, EAF, and SKAS

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Ep 150. Answering Investing Questions from Twitter

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Ep 149. Snap Judgments: IHC, SMIT, WINA, PAYS, STLJF

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Ep 148. Business Models We Like and Business Models We Don’t Like

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Ep 147. Going Over 5 Stocks: Sydney Airport, F.W. Thorpe, Gamehost, Vitreous Glass, A-Mark Precious Metals

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Ep 146. Valuing Stocks, and How we think About Returns

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Ep 145. Snap Judgements - Magic Formula Edition - TZOO, KFY, HRB, DHX, and GTX

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Ep 144. Snap Judgements: MLR, MATX, BADFF, EQGPF, GHIFF

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Ep 143. The Bullcase for Investing in Burford Capital with Stephen Gamble

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Ep 142. Our Thoughts on Spinoffs and What we think about Them Going Forward

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Ep 141. How We Find Stock Ideas

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Ep 140. Snap Judgements on Stocks From Twitter

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Ep 139. Portfolio Allocation – Selling a Position to Buy a New Stock

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Ep 138. Investing in Stocks with Bargaining Power

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Ep 137. Our First 5 Minutes on 5 Stocks: LRN, SCVL, ETH, WNC and JVA

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Ep 136. Superinvestor Series: Charlie Munger

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Ep 135. Appraising a Stock: How we Valued $OTCM

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Ep 134. Revisiting Geoff’s Recent Investing Writeups: AMRK, DJCO, PMD and VTU

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Ep 133. Why Reading Business Books Will Make You a Better Investor, and What We’ve Been Reading Lately

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Ep 132. Analyzing an Income Statement: How to Think Above the Bottom Line - and Profit from It

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Ep 131. Snap Judgments: Our First 5-Minutes on 5 Stocks

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Ep 130. Answering Investing Questions From Twitter @FocusedCompound

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Ep 129. Why Buy and Hold Rarely Works: Portfolio Turnover the Warren Buffett Way vs. the Peter Lynch Way

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Ep 128. The Secret to Snap Judgments: Why 95% of Stocks Aren’t Worth Your Time - And How to Instantly Spot the 5% That Are

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Ep 127. Free Cash Flow Plus Growth: Investing the Warren Buffett Way

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Ep 126. The Only Way That Buy and Hold Ever Works: How Compounders Create Value

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Ep 125. Investing in Bank Stocks: Why Interest Rates and the Yield Curve Matter

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Ep 124. How to Read a 10k

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Ep 123. Investing Other People’s Money: Float, Deposits, Backlog, & AUM

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Ep 122. How to Read a Balance Sheet

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Ep 121. Investing in Stocks: ROC, ROE, ROIC, ROIIC

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Ep 120. Focused Compounding Q3 Results +9.6% | +37.8% YTD

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Ep 119. Investing Mistakes, Creative Things We’ve Done For Research, DCF’s, Screens, Projections, and Other Questions From Twitter

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Ep 118. How to Read a Cash flow Statement - The MOST Important Statement

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Ep 117. Why Investors Are Hardwired to Keep Making The Same Mistakes - REITS, MLPs, IPOs, Shorting Good Stocks, and More

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Ep 116. How to Think About Margin of Safety, Seth Klarman, The Intelligent Investor, and Advice on Looking for Stocks With a Margin of Safety

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Ep 115. Mr. Market from Chapter 8 in The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

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Ep 114. All About Investing in Insurance Stocks

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Ep 113. Investing in Stocks: Monarch Cement $MCEM

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Ep 112. Investment Qualities That Make a Great Investor from Peter Cundill and How to Develop Them

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Ep 111. Warren Buffett’s Investment Filters, Hurdle Rate, Financial Models, and Alice Schroeder

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Ep 110. Energy Stocks, NACCO, Replacement Value, Valuing Stocks, and Thoughts on the Warren Buffett Partnership Fee Structure

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Ep 109. Upcoming Spinoffs, Information Overload, Portfolio Allocation, and Walking Through an Appraisal

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Ep 108. Investing, Market Cycles, Tesla, Portfolio Management, and Life With Vitaliy Katsenelson From Investment Management Associates

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Ep 107. Interest Rates, Discount Rates, The Market Cycle, Tariffs, WeWork, and Much More

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Ep 106. Our Thoughts on NACCO, KLXI, Selling, Currency Over/Under Valuation, and The Big Mac Index

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Ep 105. EV-EBITDA for Handicapping Stocks, Compensation for Management, Competitive Advantages, and Geoff’s Best Investment Ever

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Ep 104. Our Daily Routine

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Ep 102. Stocks to Research from Our Watchlist

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Ep 101. Talking About Stocks on the Focused Compounding Gazette

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Ep 100. What We Look For in Management, How We Judge Management, Compensation, Capital Allocation, and Much More

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Ep 99. Analyzing Stocks, Moats, Research, Advice to New Investors and Cigar Butts vs Quality Businesses

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Ep 98. Focus, Deep Work, and Reading Books/10ks,

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Ep 97. Pari-Mutual System, Probabilities, and Handicapping a stock

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Ep 96. All About Investing in Banks

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Ep 95. International Stocks, Screening, FCF and NI, Managing Money, and Much More

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Ep 93. Investing Mistakes, Passing on NFLX, Coefficient Variation and Reading the Footnotes

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Ep 92. Growth vs. Value, Magical Formula vs. The Acquires Multiple, Shareholder Value in Dark Stocks and Investor Letters We Like

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Ep 91. Stock Talk: North American Energy Partners ($NOA) With Alex Middleton

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Ep 90. All About Illiquid Stocks, Our Thoughts on LEAPS and Talking About Merger Arbitrage

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Ep 89. Sonics & Materials Inc: A Profitable Net-Net Building A Cash Pile with Luke Elliott

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Ep 88. All About Berkshire Hathaway’s 2019 Shareholder Meeting and Other Thoughts on the Company Going Forward

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Ep 87. Favorite Psychology Books, Career Advice, Specialization, Moats and Becoming a Better Investor

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Ep 86. Berkshire Meeting, 10k’s, Books We Reread Often, ROE/ROCE, Inflation and Much More

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Ep 85. Using Volatility to Your Advantage

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Ep 84. Discount rates, Is there a place for Lower return investments in a portfolio, and Geoffs thoughts on regional banks and Majestic Wines

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Ep 83. All About Overlooked Stocks

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Ep 82. Focused Compounding Capital Management, Auditing the Accounting in Dark Stocks, Bidding for Illiquid Stocks, Spinoffs, and How We Think About O...

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Ep 81. Value vs. Book Value, Investing in Other Countries, and How to Prejudge a Stock

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Ep 80. Avoiding Confirmation Bias, Doing Research, Changes to Investing Style, and Much More

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Ep 79. Cloning Super Investors, Alpha, Investing Without the Internet and the Next 30 years