• Core focus = estimating private market value for companies with simple futures and investing when their stock severely dislocates from that estimate

    • Focus on public businesses trading at significant discounts to private market value (i.e., if business were sold) as estimated ~5 years out

    • While multi-year holding periods are assumed for most investments made, we remain flexible and might hold for a much shorter period; especially true with many of our short-term event-driven situations which may resolve in a matter of months, weeks, or even days

  • Focused on reducing risk of long-term permanent losses, not short-term quotational losses

    • Short-term price movements are an advantage; the greater the undervaluation relative to our estimates, the higher the expected return

    • Maintain and constantly update private market valuation appraisals on a few hundred public companies but ultimately market fluctuations dictate when, if ever, each company’s stock reaches a significantly undervalued level relative to our estimates

  • Highly selective and therefore concentrated in best ideas

    • Portfolio is heavily concentrated in best ideas available - much less diversified than the average investment firm

    • Typically fewer than 15-20 investments and often less than 10; willing to concentrate in less than 5 investments under the right conditions

  • Unconstrained – invest wherever highest estimated return exists

    • No restrictions by company size, industry, geography, etc.

    • Many investments are outside the U.S. and/or in smaller, less-followed, and often illiquidly-traded companies

    • No restriction approach allows for research across thousands of companies, increasing likelihood of finding a few new/better investments each year

    • Since highly undervalued opportunities often exist in the most ignored/misunderstood companies, many of our investments appear unconventional

Investment Approach