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Showing posts with label circle of competence principle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label circle of competence principle. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Four Investing Filters of Buffett (video). Always stay within your circle of competence.

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  Four Investing Filters of Buffett (video). Always stay within your circle of competence. Elaboration of Section 23 This section distills W...
Saturday, 11 January 2020

Business valuation is a complex process yielding imprecise and uncertain results.

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1.   Many businesses simply cannot be valued intelligently. Many businesses are so diverse or difficult to understand that they simply ...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Understanding Your Circle of Competence

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If Buffett cannot understand a company's business, then it lies beyond his circle of competence and he won't attempt to value it. ...

Circle of Competence and Sector Concentration.

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If you are investing within your cicle of competence, your stock selections will gravitate toward certain sectors and investment styles . ...
Monday, 12 June 2017

Good Proxies of Risk

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Risk is embedded in how much you know about the business and how confidently you can predict the future outcome. Circle of Competence:  T...
Monday, 16 May 2016

WHAT to Buy by Buffett

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Buffett Quotes on Great Businesses & Competitive Advantages Investors can be divided into two broad categories: Bottom up investo...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Reading an annual report of a company a day is probably the best use of your time allocated for investing.

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It only takes about 2 minutes to know if a person is well versed with equity investing.  The majority are not and they should rightly invest...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Evaluating a Company - 10 Simple Rules

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Having identified the company of interest and assembled the financial information, do the following analysis. 1.  Does the company have a...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Worthy of a look?

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Not sexy, high growth or hot stock. Warning:  May not be in your "circle of competence." Look at things that are temporary ou...

Circle of Competence

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If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perim...
Saturday, 25 February 2012

STICKING TO WHAT YOU KNOW

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CORE BUSINESSES Warren Buffett likes to invest in companies where management focuses on activities that are within the expertise of the com...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Top 10 Things to Do Before You Invest

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Top 10 Things to Do Before You Invest by Michele Cagan, CPA 1. Pay off every penny of credit card debt. You'll earn sky-high (18 to 2...
Saturday, 19 November 2011

Margin of Safety Concept as explained by Warren Buffett

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The margin of safety has little to do with price but more to do with the quality of the business (durable competitive advantage and economic...
Saturday, 14 May 2011

Interview Warren Buffet in Switzerland: Buying a Business

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Invest in what you understand and in business that is easy to evaluate.

Warren Buffett on Secret of His Success (Excellent)

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Thursday, 30 December 2010

Staying within your Circle of Competence

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Here are some excerpts on "The Meaning of Focus" from a good blog. "Personally I feel that there is no reason for me to d...
Saturday, 25 December 2010

Knowing a Business Leads to Investing Success. Act Like an Owner

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Knowing a Business Leads to Investing Success Written by Greg Speicher on September 29, 2010 Great investing may be simple, but it is not...
Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Do you invest in what you don't understand?

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Principles of value investing have helped create legends of the likes of Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. The principles are simple and easy ...
Friday, 16 April 2010

Buffett (1994): Investing can be done successfully even without making an attempt to figure out the unknowables.

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Staying within one's circle of competence and investing in simple businesses were some of the key points that were discussed in Warren...

Buffett (1993): Staying within one's circle of competence and investing in simple businesses

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A key mistake of investors was they never tried to fathom the relationship between the stock and the underlying business. One should stick...