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November 25, 2024MI379: Quality Investing: Learnings From John Huber w/ Shawn O’Malley
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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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members.
Saber Capital Management’s website.
Check out What Is Your Investing Edge? Article from John Huber.
John Huber’s latest interviews on Millennial Investing (YouTube Video) and We Study Billionaires (YouTube Video).
Follow John’s Substack: Base Hit Investing.
Buffett’s 1987 shareholder letter discussing returns on capital.
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November 18, 2024MI378: The Aggressive Conservative Investor: Lessons From Martin Whitman w/ Shawn O'Malley
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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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
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Request a free copy of Whitman’s book, Dear Fellow Shareholders, on this page.
Whitman’s book Distress Investing.
Case studies on legend investors from past episodes: Howard Marks, Bill Ackman, Bill Miller, George Soros.
William Thorndike Jr.'s book, The Outsiders.
Hunter Hopcroft’s blog post on Martin Whitman — check out Hunter on Twitter.
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50 min
November 11, 2024MI377: How Aswath Damodaran Invests Across The Corporate Lifecycle w/ Shawn O’Malley
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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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members.
Clay Finck’s interview with Aswath Damodaran on We Study Billionaires | YouTube Video.
Morgan Stanley’s paper on stages of the corporate life cycle.
Damodaran’s free online course about the corporate life cycle.
Book: The Corporate Lifecycle by Aswath Damodaran.
Book: The Little Book of Valuation by Aswath Damodaran.
Blog post on the investing implications of the corporate life cycle.
Check out the case study on aging on Intel, Starbucks, and Walgreens.
Aswath Damodaran’s YouTube channel.
Aswath Damodaran’s free mobile app for valuation.
Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here.
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50 min
November 04, 2024MI376: Why Do Great Companies Fail? The Innovator’s Dilemma w/ Shawn O’Malley
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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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members.
Sign up for TIP’s free newsletter, We Study Markets.
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.
Clayton Christensen’s website.
Executive Summary of the book.
Clayton Christensen’s Essential Articles, from the Harvard Business Review.
Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here.
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46 min
October 28, 2024MI375: How George Soros Beat the Markets: The Alchemy of Finance w/ Shawn O’Malley
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) discusses The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros. George Soros is a controversial political figure, but he is a legend on Wall Street. Many know him as the man who “broke the Bank of England” for his epic short bets against the British pound that broke its currency peg. Soros’s hedge fund is among the best performing ever, generating billions of dollars in wealth and giving rise to a number of Soros’s protégés who would make their own names for themselves.
You’ll learn about Soros’s life growing up in Nazi-occupied Hungary, how he went from immigrant to hedge fund titan, why philosophy and abstract thinking were critical to Soros’s success, Soros’s unique theory on investing called Reflexivity and how it has helped him throughout his career, which shortcomings Soros identified in markets, how he used reflexivity to profit from a boom in conglomerates, plus so much more!

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN
00:00 - Intro
02:18 - What it was like for George Soros growing up in Nazi-occupied Hungary
03:15 - How Soros went from immigrant to hedge fund titan
10:01 - What is reflexivity, and how did Soros use it
12:16 - Why markets are a place to test hypotheses
24:30 - Why Soros thinks free markets have shortcomings
26:33 - What value investors miss about reflexivity and stock prices
29:45 - How Soros profited from a boom in conglomerates using reflexivity
32:06 - What causes reversals in markets
And much, much more!

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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members.
George Soros's book, The Alchemy of Finance.
George Soros's book, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve.
George Soros’s wiki.
How Soros broke the Bank of England.
Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here.
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46 min
October 21, 2024MI374: Fortune’s Formula: The Scientific Betting System For Beating Wall Street w/ Shawn O’Malley
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) discusses the formula used by some of history’s best investors to systematically beat the market averages. It’s not a secret formula for winning if you don’t have any investing edge, but it is a system for maximizing wealth over time by properly sizing bets based on your conviction in terms of how favorable bets are for you ( your “edge.”)
You’ll learn about the great minds of Bell Labs behind the Kelly formula, how Ed Thorpe used the Kelly formula to beat the dealers in Las Vegas, which investors have used the Kelly formula and found success with it, how to define having an “edge” in investing and what that can mean for you, the controversies surrounding the Kelly formula, and why the Kelly formula isn’t better known, plus so much more!

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN
00:00 - Intro
01:57 - The origins of the esteemed Bell Labs and how its research led to the Kelly formula’s creation
02:27 -How to define and use the Kelly formula
18:22 - Why the Kelly formula is helpful
23:40 - Why there are limits to the Kelly formula
25:17 - How Ed Thorpe beat the dealer and the markets with the Kelly formula
28:22 - How Claude Shannon’s approach to beating the markets with the Kelly formula differed from Thorpe’s
36:38 - What it means to have an edge in markets
38:52 - Why the Kelly formula is controversial
41:02 - How to think about your own edge in markets
41:44 - Why the Kelly formula isn’t better known
And much, much more!

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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members.
Check out Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone.
Check out Beat the Dealer by Ed Thorpe.
Read Beat the Market (free PDF) by Ed Thorpe.
Bell Labs’ history.
Read about the Information theory.
The Kelly Formula, explained.
William Thorndike's book The Outsiders.
Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here.
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51 min
October 14, 2024MI373: Valuing the Best Stock of the Last Three Decades w/ Shawn O'Malley
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) breaks down the energy drink company Monster Beverage, which you may be surprised to learn has been one of the best-performing stocks of the last few decades.
You’ll learn about how Monster got its start almost one hundred years ago and how it took on a new identity in the early 2000s, how Monster Energy changed the beverage market, why Monster’s stock has done so incredibly well, how Monster is fending off the competition and its plan for continuing to compound excellent returns, why Monster’s relationship with Coca-Cola is such a strategic advantage, how to think about valuing Monster Beverage, plus so much more!

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN
00:00 - Intro
02:22 - How Monster Beverage got its start almost a century ago
04:49 - How a single product completely changed Monster Beverage’s trajectory as a company
06:30 - Why Monster has delivered such exceptional returns
08:34 - Why Coca-Cola invested in Monster and how that partnership is still helping Monster to this day
10:08 - What the energy drink market looks like today and how competition threatens Monster
20:53 - What investors can learn from doing a case study on Monster
23:53 - Which challenges could weigh on Monster the most going forward
30:09 - Whether Shawn thinks the stock offers good value
And much, much more!

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41 min
October 07, 2024MI372: Can Disney Bring The Magic Back? Valuing Disney w/ Shawn O'Malley
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) will be breaking down the Magic Kingdom company: Disney.
You’ll learn about why recognition value is so important to Disney, why hit movies are just the top of the sales funnel for Disney, how Disney has built a flywheel supporting its businesses, what the outlook is for Disney’s streaming efforts, how Covid hurt the company and how it has bounced back, why the company’s famed ex-CEO Bob Iger returned, what to make of Disney’s financials and valuation, plus so much more!

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN
00:00 - Intro
01:48 - How Disney relies on recognition value at the top of its sales funnel
04:36 - What to understand about the flywheel of Disney’s businesses
11:34 - How Disney’s streaming business is doing
14:17 - Why Covid was so challenging for Disney
19:17 - Why Disney’s famed ex-CEO Bob Iger returned to the company
32:02 - What makes ESPN so profitable
36:43 - What to make of Disney’s financials and valuation
39:51 - Shawn’s opinion on buying the stock
And much, much more!

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Check out The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Bob Iger.
Check out Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler.
Breakdown of TV Sports Rights.
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52 min
September 30, 2024MI371: The Case for Alibaba w/ Daniel Mahncke
In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) is joined by stock investor and founder of The All-in-One Investing Platform, Daniel Mahncke, to break down the world’s largest online Retailer: Alibaba.
You’ll learn about Alibaba’s different business segments, how Alibaba has been impacted by regulations from the Chinese government, why investors have lost trust in Chinese regulators, what drives Alibaba’s profits, what drove the recent slowdown in Alibaba’s business, why Alibaba may finally offer an attractive valuation to investors, plus so much more!

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00:00 - Intro
03:00 - Which segments drive Alibaba’s business the most
16:35 - Why the Chinese government cracked down on tech companies
17:02 - Why investors have soured generally on Chinese stocks
30:35 - How Covid disrupted Alibaba’s operations
34:02 - What is the outlook for Alibaba’s profitability
37:32 - How to value Alibaba
43:48 - Why Alibaba may finally offer good value to investors
47:12 - Which risks are most concerning for Alibaba
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Daniel Mahncke’s All-In-One Investing Platform.
Warren Buffett Shareholder Letter 1994.
Charlie Munger on investing in China and his Alibaba Investment.
Howard Marks Memo: Thinking about Macro.
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57 min
September 27, 2024MI Rewind: A Rational Approach to Investing w/ Tobias Carlisle
Clay Finck chats with Tobias Carlisle about what led him to becoming a value investor, what mean reversion is and how it relates to his overall investment strategy, how inflation impacts his investment process, what the shiller PE is and why it’s something to be mindful of, what his thoughts are on determining an appropriate discount rate, and much, much more!
Tobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer’s Multiple®. He is also the founder of Acquirers Funds® which manages ZIG, the Acquirers Fund, and DEEP, the Roundhill Acquirers Deep Value Fund.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - How Tobias ended up becoming a value investor.
07:43 - What investors had a big impact on Tobias’s own development?
12:02 - What mean reversion is from an investment standpoint, and how it relates to his overall investment strategy.
21:44 - What the shiller PE is, and why it is something to be mindful of.
32:20 - How inflation impacts his overall thought process for stock investing.
44:03 - Tobias’s thoughts on an appropriate discount rate, and what discount rate Warren Buffett might be using in his valuation process.
47:19 - The two funds the Acquirer’s Fund manages - ZIG and DEEP.
And much, much more!

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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
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Tobias Carlisle’s book The Acquirer’s Multiple.
Tobias Carlisle’s book Deep Value.
Tobias Carlisle’s book Quantitative Value.
Bruce Greenwald’s book Value Investing.
Benjamin Graham’s book, The Intelligent Investor.
The Acquirer’s Podcast.
The Acquirer’s Multiple.
The Acquirer’s Fund.
Related Episode: Listen to MI025: Deep Value Investing w/ Tobias Carlisle, or watch the video.
Related Episode: MI084: Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, And Berkshire Hathaway w/ Adam Mead, or watch the video.
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53 min

About The Intrinsic Value Podcast - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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Presented by The Investors Podcast Network with over 10 million downloads — home to the popular We Study Billionaires podcast, The Intrinsic Value Podcast is a new show focused on breaking down businesses, estimating their intrinsic value per share, and deciding whether they should be added to an ongoing portfolio of stocks built out each week. From assessing the monopoly power of Google to determining the fair value of publicly-traded sports franchises, no topics is off limits in the pursuit of understanding as many different businesses as possible and putting together the ultimate long-term stock portfolio.