Relationships are the most important thing in life! Value investors care about (the price-value) relationship too!

Last year, many of us have experienced that living our lives without other people is pretty dull. And hopefully 2021 will bring back all the strongly missed personal interactions! Many of us want nothing more than to do all the usual things taken for granted: visit restaurants, having a drink or two, going to a party and on vacation, or just spending time with people you like. Relationships are key!

Quick update on Quadient (and a small buy)

After some news regarding Quadient I bought some shares recently.

As investors and consumers shun Tobacco I wonder if now the time is right to buy?

At least in the developed world, more and more people either stop smoking or never begin in the first place. The (relative) number of people smoking traditional cigarettes declines as it goes against the big secular health trend. Could this current situation set the stage for profitalbe investments for many years?

Food for Thought #26 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: valuation, Tinkoff, Sberbank, chips, …

Food for Thought #25 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: Howard Marks’ memo, Twitter, Hong Kong,

Quicky #16 on Tradelink (536 HK)

This part #16 is about Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited, which I found using a screen for ‘cheap’ Hong Kong stocks with a net cash position …

Quicky #15 on Teva

This is part #15 about Teva, the huge Israeli generics producer.

Quicky #14 on Koshidaka (2157 JP)

This is part #14 about Koshidaka Holdings, which business mostly consists of karaoke services in its domestic Japan market.

Hiding from the tax man, and what I like about Check Point

Investors want to minimise or defer tax payments for higher returns. This can happen at the personal investor level and at the company’s level …

Quicky on BBBY (Q3 2020)

Jan 7th, Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY US) reported its Q3 results for three months ending Nov 2020.

Food for Thought #24 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: reviews, TMUS, SESG, BBBY,

Book-review: The Outsiders by William Thorndike

Capital allocation is of utmost importance for exceptional long-term shareholder returns, and should be handled by CEOs accordingly! …

Quicky #13 on China Mobile (941 HK)

This is part #13 of quickies on new companies taking a look at the worlds biggest mobile service provider.

Book-review: Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

I got to know about Thinking in bets from Annie Duke when reading Howard Marks’ books. As many of my readers will know by now, I love poker, but …

My review of 2020 (a SPAC-tacular year)

The year 2020 was a very special one. The global corona pandemic on its own, is more than enough reason to make it a special year in so many perspectives. All of us experienced the pandemic and the national economic lockdowns differently. Some of us were hit harder than others, emotionally or economically …

Food for Thought #23 // Links🔗

I stumbled over some reviews of 2020 (and some other stuff) …

Going to the most fertile hunting grounds

Many of my friends recently attained a hunting licence. I am also a hunter, but in a slightly different sense. I am hunting for …

Do you use fair value or intrinsic value?

The two expressions intrinsic value and fair value are used interchangeably by most investors, certainly including myself so far! I believe we should use the two expressions more deliberately going forward and focus on the small differences. Here is why …

Food for Thought #22 // Links🔗

The year is coming to an end. Here is some more food for thought for the weekend or the holidays, including: investing with a sense for future regrets, Charles Schwab, Square, FEmsa, BBBY, …

The world needs cheap high-quality generics. And investments! A hidden growing producer might do …

I instantly liked the company’s fundamentals, and its foreign ‘hidden’ character. It seems to fly very much under the radar when international investors are concerned. I generally believe this to be a real advantage and can be a strong investor’s edge.

Looking at the company more closely, I liked the vertically integrated business model. But I had to be careful, since I bought into a competitor some years ago. And that investment turned out …

The markets temperature in Dec 2020

One conclusion from Howard Marks is that we cannot know where we (or the market) are going, but we better have an idea of where we stand …

I like this auto insurance company since it is Progressive

Traditional auto insurance companies are not the most desired investments currently. It’s all too easy to buy all these sexy new insurtechs around the corner (via your commission-free trading app). Advertising (or listing) your company as a tech company that could/would/should grow it’s revenue/users/losses by 10/20/50x is all the rage now. If that is what ‘investors’ want, that’s what they get …

Quicky #12 on NTT (JP 9432)

This is part #12 about Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. I hold NTT stocks (9432 JP) since FEb 2018. Now is a good time to review my small legacy position in NTT since …

Food for Thought #21 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: equity markets, bubbles, lessons, Tesla, frauds, McKesson, Benchmarking, …

Food for Thought #20 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: value factor vs value investing, drivers of value creation, twitter, section 230, Farfetch, Bitcoin, regrets, L’Occitane, Sberbank, …