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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

122- Revealing the Whole Food Numbers

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com The week you’ve been waiting for, we take a look at the growth rates, cash flow, and earnings from Whole Foods to decide if it really was a great deal… Tune in as we try to get into Bezos’ head behind his latest deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is Phil Town and this is Phil Town and this is Danielle Town

0:08.4

we're here for the invested podcast where we're learning to invest Warren Buffett Charlie Munger style we call it

0:14.8

Rule 1 investing for the main rule of investing don't lose money well we're

0:21.5

really just really digging in on how to invest and that means invest, not speculate, that means buying things for less than their worth so that you have a nice margin of safety and can expect to get a good

0:34.4

return on your investments in spite of the vicissitudes of life.

0:38.8

Oh, those bloody vicissitudes.

0:41.6

Yep, they will mess with you good if you don't get margins of safety.

0:44.7

So what we're deep into here is understanding why Jeff Bizos paid $42 a share for Whole Foods when it was selling for about $32 when he made the offer.

0:58.0

And we're looking at trying to understand his method of value in the business.

1:02.8

I have an idea, Daniel, how we should proceed.

1:06.0

I think I should plug in, I want to plug in Jeff's number.

1:10.9

He bought it for 42 bucks a share. What I want to know is what does that mean in terms

1:16.1

of our view of growth rates and PE ratios for our margin of safety analysis what does it mean that he bought in terms of growth?

1:27.0

You're saying you want to look at what growth rate he was anticipating for this company. Yeah, if he paid this much, what does that mean in

1:36.7

terms of how fast this company has to grow in order to make sense out of that investment.

1:43.0

And for us...

1:44.0

Let's look at what he thinks, but I still want to figure out how we, without the

1:49.9

Bizos knowledge, how we figure it out on our own.

1:55.0

Can we do that afterwards?

1:56.8

Yeah, for sure.

1:57.9

Okay.

1:58.9

Okay, so we're starting with some basic data, okay,

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