Quálitas (Q* MM), July 2021

Quálitas is referred to as the Mexican Progressive.

Shinoken (8909 JP), June 2021

Shinoken seems like a good bet to take.

SES SA (SESG LX), May 2021

The market focusses on the negatives too much. This is a defensive business with a bunch of positive one-offs. Yes, positive one-offs!

Flow Traders revisited (FLOW NA), May 2021

Recently, I read (and re-read) several books and other content about our biases and how these affect our investing decisions (mostly negatively). Over-confidence is one of the very common biases. My learnings about biases motivated me to revisit my Flow Traders analysis …

Flow Traders (FLOW NA), April 2021

I follow Flow Traders for some years but only bought shares late last year – unfortunately after the pandemic-iduced market crash. I like the company and it is one of my medium sized positions (currently seventh biggest). I took another look at flow but did not buy more shares, so far …

Progressive (PGR US), March 2021

Progressive is one of my biggest positions. It’s a very profitable defensive business with ample growth runway for putting its retained earnings to use and continue to earn high returns on equity.

Pandora Exit and Trade Review

I recently sold my last tranche of Pandora A/S shares. Time for a review.

We all look for quality businesses … at the same crowded places. I placed a bet on Qualitás elsewhere.

We are all looking for high quality businesses. Mostly this high quality is apparent (to everyone) only when the price has reached levels from where it is very much fun to look backwards. Many investors find high quality businesses within the ranks of well known companies and better known stocks (and ticker symbols). Maybe I have found something off the beaten path in less crowded markets …

Quicky #18 on Globaltrans (GLTR LI)

Russia is a market segment shun by investors. It’s also a vast country. What better way to transport bulk by rail? …

Germans buy stocks (again). Time to review Tick TS …

With Trade Republic, Germany has its own robinhood – though the app’s gamification /products /users and stimuli to gamble instead of investing at the financial markets is not as extreme as its American role model Robinhood. But, Germans start to invest again …

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!

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?

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 #14 on Koshidaka (2157 JP)

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

Quicky on BBBY (Q3 2020)

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

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.

The world needs cheap high-quality generics. And investments! Hidden growing Krka 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 …

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 …

Oriental Watch still has a huge pile of excess cash

Oriental Watch completed its conditional share buy back offer and reported H1 results.

Thoughts on my rising Pandora position

I trimmed my position in Pandora during this year after a strong rebound of the share price. It continued to perform very strongly and it is again time to decide about my rising Pandora position. The share price has just crossed my last fair value estimate …

Quicky #11 on Quadient (QDT), fka Neopost (NEO)

This is part #11 in my series on new companies. Since I bought some share of Neopost, now Quadient, in late Sept 2016 as a turnaround speculation, I guess it is time to take a closer look …

I looked at the Banking Industry and I invested in this Asian company! (Silverlake)

This is part six and at the same time the last piece of my series on banks, for the time being. In this post I will do a quick recap of the series and take a look at my learnings.

More important for you: I analysed a company I had on my to-do-list for some time now …

Update on SoftBank after Q2 2020 results

SoftBank Group (9984 JP) reported Q2 results, for the period ending Sept 30, 2020.

The 100-Dollar-Company or The Importance of Time (for High Returns)

Return metrics are usually normalized to annual periods. And this is because the dimension of time plays a crucial role in the realm of investment returns.

A General Risk Framework

According to academia, the cost of equity can be calculated using the CAPM, a central model to modern financial theory. But even Damodaran critizes this as a statistical approach usually considered too narrowly. Damodaran tends to and recommends to think about business risk in a more general sense first, without applying sophisticated and data-heavy statistical methods (which might have its place).