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Showing posts with label commodity type business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commodity type business. Show all posts
Sunday, 20 August 2017

The 3 Killer Cs - Cyclical, Capital-intensive and Commoditised

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"The 3 Killer Cs" Not one but three 'killer Cs' lurk around the darkest corners of the business world.  If any one of the...
Saturday, 29 April 2017

Price Competition

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1.  Highly competitive industry (commodity products) Industries in which price is the most significant consideration in customers'...
Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Businesses with challenging fundamentals - commodity type businesses

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Producers of relatively undifferentiated goods in capital intensive businesses must earn inadequate returns except under conditions of tigh...
Thursday, 11 October 2012

"Mr. Buffett, what types of companies will you purchase in the future?"

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Buffett is often asked what types of companies he will purchase in the future. First, he says, he will avoid commodity businesses and ma...
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...
Saturday, 25 February 2012

What Warren Buffett says about Commodity Companies

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COMMODITY COMPANIES Warren Buffett does not like to invest in what he calls  commodity companies  - companies whose product does not differ...
Monday, 5 December 2011

Characteristics of Commodity and Cyclical companies and their Value Drivers.

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Characteristics of commodity and cyclical companies             While commodity companies can range the spectrum from food grains to precio...
Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Buffett (1978): Commodity type businesses must earn inadequate returns except under conditions of tight supply or real shortage

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In this write up, let us see what Warren Buffett has to say to his shareholders in the 1978 letter: " The textile industry illustrate...
Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Identifying the Commodity Type Businesses

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Commodity type businesses have the following characteristics: Low profit margins on sales coupled with low inventory turnover Low returns o...

The Economic Engine Buffett Wants to Own

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Warren Buffett has separated the world of business into two different categories: the healthy consumer monopoly type business and the si...