On the Hunt for Great Companies: An Investor’s Guide to Evaluating Business Quality and Durability

Essential Investment Guide to Perform Sophisticated Practical Analysis on Long-Term Business QualityAn unparalleled practical training tool for investment analysis, On the Hunt for Great Companies: An Investor’s Guide to Evaluating Business Quality and Durability helps readers move beyond using rules of thumb for companies or investment hypotheses based on broad-level pattern recognition and instead start using a more thorough approach through sophisticated empirical analysis. Readers will learn how to assess all the essential traits of a good business, including passionate management, staying power, abnormal reinvestment options, low dependency risk, and the ability to identify emerging quality.This book is supported by a wealth of real-world examples, both contemporary and historical, detailed original illustrations, and true business stories and anecdotes from investor and former comedian Simon Kold. In this book, readers will learn about:Elements of intense and durable competitive advantage such as scale economies, switching costs, network effects, brands, proprietary resources, and modest value extractionMethods to formulate falsifiable test statements and empirically test those predictions, rather than relying on heuristics or box-checkingIncorporates memorable investment advice through Kold’s trademark humorous styleDetailed, sophisticated, and highly actionable, On the Hunt for Great Companies is essential for professional investors of all sizes, in all industries, in both public and private markets.Additional ISBNs9781394285761On the Hunt for Great Companies: An Investor’s Guide to Evaluating Business Quality and Durability 1st Edition is written by Simon Kold and published by John Wiley & Sons P&T. ISBNs for On the Hunt for Great Companies are 9781394285754, 1394285752 and the print ISBNs are 9781394285747, 1394285744. Additional ISBNs include 9781394285761.