Here's my simple strategy for beating the market:
Find businesses trading below 50% of their real-world tangible book value.
Throw away anything trading above 5x real-world free cash flow.
Throw away anything with net debt.
What's left are healthy, cash-generative businesses where the downside is largely protected by tangible assets.
Then size positions according to the durability of the cash flows.
The highest-quality businesses get the biggest allocations.
You don't need growth.
You don't need turnarounds.
You don't even need every investment to work.
You just need enough of the market to eventually recognise it was pricing healthy businesses as if they were already dead.
Fairfax seemingly days from buying IDBI Bank.
Looks like it will become the holdco for IIFL companies, Go Digit. In a way Watsa is using the playbook as the Canadian banks in the late 80s/90s, becoming vertically integrated financial supermarkets.
Nobody in the West knows Indian financials or is as well connected as Watsa is. $FFH.TO $FIH.U.NE
Walter Schloss spent nearly 50 years proving you could beat Wall Street with a pencil, Value Line, a tiny office, and the emotional range of a well-maintained filing cabinet. He did not forecast GDP, interview CEOs, model TAMs, or pretend to know where interest rates were going. He bought companies below book value, avoided debt, owned a ridiculous number of ugly little stocks, and waited for arithmetic to embarrass everyone. Buffett called him one of the Superinvestors. The lesson is almost offensive in its simplicity: buy dollars for 40 cents, diversify enough to survive being wrong, and let the market eventually remember that assets are real.
@stressed_assets I think you can make 30-40% on $NLOP as they finish liquidating their portfolio in 6-12 months. Estimates below which I've attempted to be conservative.
Being actively marketed: iHeart and Safelite
BCBS, APCO, and Arcfield are in stages of negotiations for MF conversion.
Nothing wrong with trying to play the most popular trades, but I do truly believe spending time on $EVC here is ultimately a much better return on effort than something like $SPCX if you’re running a PA or smaller fund
Entravision $EVC math is pretty simple:
Media assets don't earn much, but thanks to the spectrum & FCC dereg, there's a realistic path to $500m of value
Meanwhile, Smadex, against the full $800m EV, is priced at a fraction of peers and growing faster.
Value guys afraid to buy because "they missed it" and widow of the former CEO has been selling
But there's zero street coverage and the growth guys barely know this exists (yet)
It has come back in a bit, so $NLOP looking very attractive here again. $22m net cash end of Q1 with $23m of rent left, about a $150m EV. My estimates for remaining asset value still get me to around $15/share NAV:
Magnera reported in February and maintained guide, and affirmed it again today in their Sidoti presentation despite the recent commodity volatility. $MAGN is hedged on energy, and passes through materials costs. Stock down 35% in a month anyway
"Notably, vinyl purchases accounted for 186,000 of Styles’ first week — the biggest week for an album on vinyl by a male artist in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991)" $AENT
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Still here. Potential tariff refund is ~10% of EV (my estimate) which would also put run-rate EBITDA around $40m. Topline still growing. Have about 15 Princess Polly stores in US and said yesterday at UBS they see expansion running to around 100...