This is C.N.C. Pro Talks, where we go one-on-one with Wall Street's top investors,

smartest traders, and rising stars. We find out what makes them tick, what makes them

money, and how you can follow in their footsteps.

Hello and welcome to see

NBC Pro Talks, I'm Dominic Chu.

We've got a very special guest for this month's interview, and that's Jim Labenthall. So welcome to the show, Jim. And all you have time fans know him as Farmer Jim, but let's give him more of a proper

introduction here. Jim is now currently a partner at Sarity Partners where he's a

member of the firm's Investment Committee. He also manages the U.S. equity portfolios for their clients.

Now for this pro talk we want to dive a little deeper into the world of

fundamental analysis and how to use it to make better investment decisions.

But before we get into the details of all these earnings revisions and peg ratios and price to sales and do

DuPont analysis and everything else,

we're gonna talk a little bit about nuclear submarines

and molecular biology.

And that's because, before Wall Street,

Jim used to be an officer,

if you didn't know this, in the US Navy, leading crews on attack submarines for weeks at a time sometimes,

and before that he studied molecular biology at Princeton,

so a renaissance man, if you will.

It's in this science-minded approach

to the stock market that we're going to kind of

dissect and delve a little bit more into today. So Jim again, thank you for

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