122- Revealing the Whole Food Numbers
InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast
Phil Town & Danielle Town
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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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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