The Intrinsic Value Podcast by The Investor’s Podcast Network is hosted by Shawn O’Malley.

This podcast is inspired by 10 years of interviews with the world’s best investors here at The Investor’s Podcast Network. Shawn applies those lessons while breaking down and valuing a different business every week.

From outlining how companies make money to understanding their competitive advantages, competitors, growth opportunities, and, of course, estimating their intrinsic value, this podcast will help you think smarter about business and investing.

Tune in each week and start growing your knowledge and wealth today!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) chats with Clay Finck and Kyle Grieve of our We Study Billionaires podcast. Shawn reflects with Clay and Kyle on some of their favorite moments as Millennial Investing hosts in the past, from chatting with William Green to discussing whether we are in an “Everything Bubble” and how passive investing has affected markets.

You’ll learn how Clay has evolved as an investor since joining The Investor's Podcast Network, how Kyle built out his stock portfolio and the challenges of doing so publicly, what has resonated with them the most from studying legendary investors, and updates on our new show — The Intrinsic Value Podcast — plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

00:29 - What to expect from our new show, The Intrinsic Value Podcast

03:10 - How Clay has evolved since joining The Investor's Podcast

13:00 - Whether markets are in an “Everything Bubble” and how to manage anxiety as an investor

17:08 - How Kyle built out his portfolio of individual stocks

37:31 - What it means to have skin in the game as a public personality and investor

45:03 - How passive investing has changed financial markets 

49:38 - Why Clay and Kyle both choose to be active investors 

58:53 - What surprised William Green most about legend investors from his interactions with them

1:02:40 - What has resonated with Clay and Kyle the most from studying legend investors

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) goes through the best-selling book Zero to One by the prolific investor Peter Thiel, who’s best known for co-founding PayPal and Palantir and for being the first outside investor in Facebook. Thiel is a highly contrarian thinker, and the book organizes his notes from his time at Stanford lecturing to the next generation of Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs.

You’ll learn Peter Thiel’s favorite question to ask in interviews, the difference between horizontal and vertical progress, how the Tech Bubble changed Silicon Valley, why Peter Thiel actually likes monopolies, what investors get wrong about competition, how the Pareto Principle applies to the venture capital industry, plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

06:06 - What Peter Thiel’s favorite interview question is

09:42 - What the difference is between horizontal and vertical progress

11:41 - Why Thiel thinks that technological progress has stagnated since the 1970s

17:43 - How Thiel took advantage of the Dot-Com Bubble to scale PayPal

19:57 - How the Dot-Com Bubble changed the culture of Silicon Valley and the goals of its founders

23:22 - Why Peter Thiel encourages funders to build a monopoly in specific niches

26:34 - How competition destroys profits

34:50 - Which types of monopolies are good for society 

41:10 - What the Pareto Principle means for the venture capital industry

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) shares his favorite lessons from the billionaire investor Mohnish Pabrai, who some know as the “Indian Warren Buffett.” Pabrai is a master investor, a close friend of Charlie Munger, and a wonderful storyteller, too.

You’ll learn what it means to circle the wagons in investing, how a few big decisions will end up mattering the most throughout your investment career, how GEICO changed Benjamin Graham’s perspective on investing, why Nick Sleep told his investors to simply buy and hold three stocks, what Pabrai learned from having lunch with Buffett, what it means to be a Dhando Investor, plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

03:59 - Why only 4% of Berkshire Hathaway’s decisions over the years have explained most of Buffett’s outperformance

08:52 - Which three stocks Nick Sleep told his investors to hold after winding down his fund

09:48 - Which types of stocks you’d want to circle the wagons around

10:10 - How GEICO changed Benjamin Graham’s perspective on investing

17:19 - What Pabrai learned from having lunch with Warren Buffett

30:26 - Why great companies are not always great investments 

37:55 - How the Patels built a motel empire across America

42:24 - What it means to be a Dhando Investor

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) takes you into the classroom of legendary investor Joel Greenblatt, sharing his biggest takeaways from watching Greenblatt’s lectures at Columbia. Greenblatt is a wildly successful investor, professor, founder of the Value Investor’s Club forum, and best-selling author of some of the most popular stock investing books ever written.

You’ll learn how Greenblatt thinks about the upside and downside potential for investments through three case studies, how Joel Greenblatt derived his Magic Formula for investing, why buying cheap stocks still works even though the strategy is well-known, where to look for the rarest but most attractive types of stock investments, what was Joel Greenblatt’s biggest investing mistake, plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

02:34 - How to think through stock investments via case studies on the best pitches ever submitted to the Value Investor’s Club forum

03:02 - How Joel Greenblatt derived the Magic Formula for investing

05:12 - Which investments are the rarest but most attractive

07:34 - Why it’s important to condense an investment thesis down to just a few sentences

11:52 - How bankruptcy restructurings can actually generate undervalued and overlooked stocks

19:02 - Why so many great investors get their start with microcap stocks and special situations

30:16 - Why value investing still works and has worked across time

41:29 - How Joel Greenblatt made his biggest investing mistake

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) discusses the concept of hidden compounders, where some of the most boring businesses can make the best long-term investments. Compared to well-known compounders like Apple and Amazon, which have well-known track records in compounding returns for investors, there are loads of lesser-known companies with less obvious competitive advantages that operate in less exciting industries with equally impressive track records in recent years. 

You’ll learn what it means to be a hidden compounder, why many hidden compounders have invisible moats, what to look for in finding hidden compounders, what makes companies like Old Dominion and Teqnion so successful, why intangible assets can provide more enduring advantages than physical assets, why Peter Lynch loves boring businesses, plus so much more!

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

03:13 - What is a hidden compounder, and how to think about their invisible moats

03:43 - Why Peter Lynch loves boring businesses

06:44 - What signs to look for in identifying hidden compounders

31:36 - What the Lindy effect is, and how it relates to hidden compounders

32:27 - How Warren Buffett has set the standard for investing in boring, hidden compounders

37:48 - Why intangible competitive advantages can be the most enduring

40:17 - Morgan Stanley’s conclusions on investing in compounders

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) explores the fundamentals of, and merits in, being a long-term, quality-focused investor, using John Huber’s success and philosophy as an example to follow. Huber is the rare money manager who truly aligns incentives with his investors by using the template created by Warren Buffett back in his days before Berkshire Hathaway. 

You’ll learn about what makes Huber’s fee structure special, Huber’s philosophy for investing long-term in high-quality companies, how time-arbitrage gives long-term investors a structural advantage in markets, how to blend both a focus on value and quality, the importance of assessing compounding power, how much to pay for quality companies, how changes in valuation multiples affect returns even for great businesses, plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

01:36 - Why John Huber used the Buffett partnership fee structure in his fund

03:44 - How time-arbitrage gives investors an advantage over time

04:55 - What it means to find investments where you can win big, and if you lose, not lose much

11:40 - How to calculate ROIC and why it matters for compounders

28:11 - What price to pay for the highest-quality businesses

32:33 - How changes in price-to-earnings multiples can affect returns over time

35:36 - How to blend both value and quality as investing styles

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) explores the highs and lows of famed investor Martin Whitman’s career. Whitman is the founder of Third Avenue Management, which, at its peak in 2006, managed 26 billion dollars across a handful of funds. For nearly two decades, Whitman outperformed market benchmarks with average annual returns of 12 percent. 

Whitman’s approach to investing is unique, and in this episode, you’ll learn about why the balance sheet is just as important or more important than the income statement, how Whitman got his reputation for being a “vulture” investor, how Whitman was able to profit from companies going through bankruptcy, the legal differences between being a bondholder and stockholder, what Whitman looks for in the companies he owns long-term, and takeaways from Whitman’s legacy, plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

07:13 - Why investors should focus on creditworthiness

08:20 - Why the balance sheet is just as important or more important than the income statement

11:35 - How Whitman’s legacy was tarnished by the 2008 Financial Crisis

15:05 - How to assess earnings power using assets

28:58 - What strategies Whitman used to beat the market averages

35:09 - How different markets have varying degrees of efficiency

37:42 - What issues Whitman has with current accounting standards

43:16 - The case for thinking more like a creditor in stock investing

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) discusses how companies can age just like people, how to define and understand the corporate life cycle, why the corporate decline phase is both inevitable and almost always poorly managed, how to invest across the corporate life cycle, plus so much more from studying Aswath Damodaran and recent research from Michael Mauboussin & Dan Callahan of Morgan Stanley.

Aswath Damodaran is a renowned professor of finance at NYU who recently published a book on corporate life cycles. Shawn pulls from Aswath and other sources in painting an actionable picture of the corporate life cycle and how it affects investors while also diving into case studies on three aging companies: Intel, Walgreens, and Starbucks.

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

02:18 - Why companies age 

07:37 - What the corporate life cycle looks like

18:03 - How companies can age gracefully (and why most don’t)

23:35 - How Intel, Walgreens, and Starbucks face different and similar challenges of aging

29:23 - Which declining stock Aswath Damodaran is investing in

34:31 - Investing strategies based on the corporate life cycle

36:59 - Why it’s important to diversify across the corporate life cycle

43:19 - Why younger companies carry more duration risk

And much, much more!

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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@shawn_OMalley_) discusses why great companies fail, as outlined by Clayton Christensen in his timeless book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, which was first published in 1997. The Economist actually named it one of the six most important business books ever written.

Christensen was an academic and business consultant who wrote a number of compelling books, but the Innovator’s Dilemma is by far his best-known work. Christensen worked at Harvard Business School for a decade before founding a consulting firm in 2000 and a venture capital firm focused on investing in Southeast Asia in 2005. 

In this episode, you’ll learn how disruptive innovations shift the status quo, the difference between disruptive and sustaining innovations, why companies can seemingly do everything right and still lose out to new competition, how following logical incentives can actually lead management to disregard threats from disruptive technology, why disruptive technologies tend to emerge on the fringes of established customer demographics, and what companies can do to prepare themselves for the inevitable rise of disruptive technologies, plus so much more!

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

02:11 - What is a disruptive innovation, and how it differs from sustaining innovations.

02:52 - How the “paradox” of innovation impacts industry leaders.

05:11 - Why even the best of the best companies aren’t immune to disruptive innovation.

08:03 - How to think about disruptive technologies from the vantage point of a value investor.

08:55 - How Tesla disrupted the automotive industry.

13:15 - Why the fast-paced hard-drive industry is such a good case study on innovation.

21:10 - How value networks shape biases and outcomes in companies.

31:28 - What industry leaders can do to manage disruptive innovation.

36:20 - How Honda stumbled into disruptive innovation in the U.S. market.

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