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Lifetime Value & Customer Acquisition Cost: A Framework For Investing
Last Wednesday we dove deep into unit economic analysis. We discussed what it is, why it’s important and how to use it in investment analysis.Alta Fox Capital founder, Connor Haley, stressed the importance of unit economics during our podcast. You can find that here.This week we’re diving deep into a similar concept, lifetime value (LTV)…
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What Is Tik Tok’s ARPU? [DIRTY DOZEN]
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement and improvidence, or want of application.~ Samuel Smiles Good morning!In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we talk about sentiment, the path of relative factor performance following a large spike in…
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Account Receivable: Fundamental Accounting For Investing
Many of you loved our first edition of Weekly Accounting Breakdown. We’re stoked to hear so many readers want to learn more about accounting. This week’s lesson: Account Receivable (A/R)If you missed last week’s email on working capital, read it here.Also, let us know if there’s one accounting concept you want us to cover. We’d…
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Brian Feroldi: Using Checklists To Find Compounders
Brian Feroldi is an investor and writer for the Motley Fool. His main interests involve the healthcare and technology industries. His goal is to buy the highest quality companies he can find, then hold on to let compounding do its thing. We spend an hour discussing his start in investing, biggest mistakes, and the checklist…
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Unit Economics In Fundamental Stock Analysis: What It Is & Why It Matters
Last week we had Connor Haley on the podcast. If you haven’t heard our conversation, check it out here. For those that don’t know who Connor is, here’s a quick rundown: Graduated Harvard University Founded Alta Fox Capital in 2018 and has generated (to date) 40% gross annualized returns #1 Micro Cap Investor on Micro…
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IT’S ALL MONTE CARLO
In the original Market Wizards, commodities trader Larry Hite talked about four types of bets: Good Bets, Bad Bets, Winning Bets, and Losing Bets.Hite’s point was that a winning bet is not always a good one, and a losing bet is not always a bad one. We can see why through the lens of Expected…
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Why Yields Are About To Rise [DIRTY DOZEN]
The mind can be a wonderful tool for self-delusion – it was not designed to deal with complexity and nonlinear uncertainties. Counter to the common discourse, more information means more delusions: our detection of false patterns is growing faster and faster as a side effect of modernity and the information age: there is this mismatch…
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Working Capital: What It Is & Why It Matters
Working capital is your current assets minus current liabilities (CA – CL). Current assets are things like: Cash in the bank Accounts receivables (money that needs collecting) Inventory Investments Current liabilities are things like: Accounts payable (bills you need to pay) Short-term debt Current portion of long-term debt Unearned revenue outstanding (similar to A/R) Apple’s (AAPL)…
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(Semi) Weekly Accounting Breakdown: Working Capital
We’ve received a lot of positive feedback on the Cash Flow: It’s All That Matters series. So much so that we thought our readers would like a more regular installment of all things accounting.The goal: Send weekly accounting lessons that you can read in less than five minutes. We know learning about accounting is like…
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Cyclical Stocks and a New Idea w/ Alex Jones, Porter Street Research
This episode is brought to you by TIKR. Join the free beta today at TIKR.com/hive. They’re constantly releasing new updates that make the platform better. I couldn’t be more excited to partner with TIKR. Disclaimer Nothing you hear on this podcast is in any way, shape or form to be construed as investment advice. The…