Thursday 17 April 2014

A quality strategy - appreciating the future earning potentials of wonderful companies.

Though Warren Buffett popularized the idea of the moat, he credits partner Charlie Munger for bringing him around to the idea that "it's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

A quality strategy is a bet that the market doesn't appreciate wonderful companies enough, particularly their earnings potential many years out. 

As Charlie Munger said, "If a business earns 18% on capital over 20 or 30 years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result." 

(Of course, it's not easy to identify in advance firms that can sustain such high rates of return for so long.)




http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=643125&SR=Yahoo

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