by John Huber | Jul 25, 2016 | Case Studies, Investment Ideas & Company Research, Scratch Notes, Shareholder Letters & Reports
I recently made a list of a few shareholder letters I want to read, and one that I completed a few days ago was Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC). This post is not a comprehensive review of the business, as I just started reading about the company. But I thought some...
by John Huber | Jul 11, 2016 | Case Studies, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
I came across a case study that discusses Dempster Mill recently. I thought I’d post a brief summary of some notes I jotted down while reading it. Dempster Mill is a company that Buffett bought in the early 1960’s when operating his partnership. The company...
by John Huber | Apr 19, 2016 | Case Studies
“The boom is drawn out and accelerates gradually; the bust is sudden and often catastrophic.” – George Soros, Alchemy of Finance There was a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago on the story of “the swift rise and calamitous fall”...
by John Huber | Apr 7, 2016 | Case Studies, Shareholder Letters & Reports, Think Differently
I just got done reading Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders, which is outstanding as it always it. As I finished it, I spent a few minutes thinking about it. He references Amazon’s style of “portfolio management”. He doesn’t call it that of course, but this...
by John Huber | Mar 7, 2016 | Case Studies, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
I was reading through the 2014 (last year’s) Berkshire Hathaway annual report and 10-K looking for a few things, and happened to reread Buffett’s letter from last year. I wrote a post a couple weeks ago concerning buybacks and Outerwall, and how a company that is...
by John Huber | Feb 22, 2016 | Case Studies, General Thoughts
Outerwall is a stock that has been struggling as the cash flows from Red Box are drying up much faster than investors have expected. Not only that, but Outerwall management has had the troubling habit of throwing good money after bad by “investing” in things like...
