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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

60- Zombie Value Evaluation

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How can a company that appears to be dead still be a valuable investment? Ben Graham used to buy companies like this all the time in the ‘30s. We like to call them “zombie companies,” and in today’s episode, we’re going to go step-by-step through the process of finding out how much a zombie company can be worth, and why you might consider buying one. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Phil Town this is Phil Town this is Danielle Town

0:08.0

we're here for the Invested Podcast where we are going to learn Warren Buffett style value investing, also known as rule number one

0:17.2

style investing, where we focus on a few critical things that you need to know in order to build a portfolio a lot

0:27.1

faster potentially than you can by just putting your money in a pile of diversified

0:31.2

things you don't understand.

0:33.2

So by building a portfolio you mean like making money.

0:38.8

I mean making money.

0:40.2

Not buying a bazillion stocks as quickly as you can.

0:43.2

Exactly. It's more an entrepreneurial enterprise.

0:47.3

It is more in the sense of, I am going to learn to be good at this thing and I'm going to build, I'm going to own a business in this thing that I've learned.

1:00.0

And then as I've learned more as I own this business, I can expand my business

1:08.0

into industries that are similar to this one. So for example, a Chipotle Mexican grill,

1:14.3

I'm gonna start by getting really good at burritos.

1:17.0

But once I've really figured this out,

1:19.9

I am going to then open a Chinese food version of my burrito business.

1:27.1

Oh.

1:27.6

See what I mean?

1:29.0

I was imagining myself like making a burrito and I was I thought I'm pretty good at making burritos.

1:35.7

And by the way how would you decide if you were thinking seriously as an entrepreneur

1:41.6

about owning let's say a natural quick food restaurant like Chipotle.

1:47.7

I don't think you can get a Chipotle franchise, but if you could, you would be looking at it,'d say okay. What should I do a friend of mine

1:56.7

Shout out to Brent Hamill who's tremendous guy got to play

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