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We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

TIP267: An Intrinsic Value Assessment w/ Sean Stannard-Stockton (Business Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Investing, Education, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you'll learn:

  • What is the intrinsic value of First Republic Bank
  • Why First Republic Bank can be seen as a retail business with a superior franchise
  • How to value banks, and the importance of price to tangible book value
  • Which key ratios to use to evaluate performance and debt levels of banks
  • Ask The Investors: How to pick stocks when you have a full-time job

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:30.0

Enjoy the show.

0:32.0

You are listening to the Investors podcast.

0:37.0

Where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.

0:43.0

We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected.

0:47.0

Welcome to today's show.

0:57.0

My name is Stig Brodison and I'm here today with my co-host Preston Pesh.

1:01.0

Today's topic is banking and we especially going to talk about First Republic Bank.

1:07.0

And our guest for today is Sean Stanner Stockton.

1:10.0

Sean, thank you so much for coming on the show.

1:13.0

Thank you so much for having me.

1:15.0

We ask you to come here on the show to pitch First Republic Bank for our audience.

1:19.0

Before we talk about this specific stock, could you for our audience who are not familiar with you or in simple capital?

1:25.0

Please elaborate on your investment strategy first.

1:29.0

We take most of our inspiration from value investors who have been successful over time.

1:34.0

We really focus on investing in competitively-advanced businesses.

1:38.0

We think that businesses on average don't have competitive advantages and they can do fine.

1:43.0

The stocks can do well.

1:45.0

But they're really hard to value because at any given time, an investment of competition can come in.

1:49.0

Every time something gets going well, competitors notice and they go after those profits.

1:53.0

We look for businesses that have something structural about the business that prevents competitors from coming after them.

1:59.0

And First Republic is a really good example of that.

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