Buffettology
Review Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett The World’s Most Famous Investor
by MARY BUFFETT & DAVID CLARKE
Description
Anyone who has ever been involved with finance will be all too familiar with the name of Warren Buffett — famously regarded as one of the most famous financial geniuses of all time, many from around the world search for his background, clarity, and, perhaps guidance in order to follow in his footsteps. This is where “Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett The World’s Most Famous Investor” comes in. Written by his wife, Mary Buffet, teaming up with Buffetologist, David Clarke, “Buffettology” is one of the most in-depth documentation of Buffett’s personal life and his successes in the market. Within the contents of its pages, “Buffettology” teaches their readers to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Warren Buffett.
About the Author
Mary Buffett is the coauthor of Scribner’s bestselling Buffettology series, a sought-after business speaker world-wide, and a contributor to HuffPost and the online magazine Thrive Global. Mary and Sean Seah recently launched the Buffett Online School (BuffettOnlineSchool.com), a monthly webinar sharing investment insights and helping students learn to build successful stock portfolios.
For over twenty years, David Clark has been considered the world’s leading authority on the subject of Warren Buffett’s investment methods. His international bestselling investment books, coauthored with Mary Buffett—Buffettology, The Buffettology Workbook, The New Buffettology, The Tao of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, The Management Secrets of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and The Art of Stock Arbitrage, and The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio—have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages and are considered “investment classics” the world over. He has once again joined forces with Mary Buffett, and together they are writing Warren Buffett Investment Analysis, an in-depth investment manual for professional and aspiring investors.
Table of Contents
Disclaimer
PART I: THE ART OF BASIC BUFFETTOLOGY
1. Before You Begin This Book
2. How to Use This Book
3. Roots
4. Investing from a Business Perspective
5. What Is Businesslike Investing?
6. Warren’s View of Earnings
7. The Price You Pay Determines Your Rate of Return
8. The Corporation, Stocks, Bonds — a Few Useful Explanations
9. Valuing a Business
10. The Only Two Things You Need to Know About Business Perspective Investing: What to Buy — and at What Price
11. What We Can Learn from Warren’s Secret Weapon: The Magic of Compounding
12. Determining What Kind of Business You Want to Own
13. The Theory of an Expanding Intrinsic Value
14. The Mediocre Business
15. How to Identify the Excellent Business — the Key to Warren’s Good Fortune
16. Nine Questions to Help You Determine If a Business Is Truly an Excellent One
17. Where to Look for Excellent Businesses
18. More Ways to Find a Company You Want to Invest In
19. What You Need to Know About the Management of the Company You May Invest In
20. When a Downturn in a Company Can Be an Investment Opportunity
21. How Market Mechanics Whipsaw Stock Prices to Create Buying Opportunities
22. Inflation
23. Inflation and the Consumer Monopoly
24. A Few Words on Taxation
25. The Effects of Inflation and Taxation on the Rate of Return, and the Necessity to Obtain a 15% Return on Your Investment
26. The Myth of Diversifications Versus the Concentrated Portfolio
27. When Should You Sell Your Investments?
28. Warren’s Different Kinds of Investments
PART II: ADVANCED BUFFETTOLOGY
29. The Analyst’s Role in Ascertaining Earning Power
30. The Mathematical Tools
31. Test #1, to Determine at a Glance the Predictability of Earnings
32. Test #2, to Determine Your Initial Rate of Return
33. Test #3, to Determine the Per Share Growth Rate
34. Determining the Value of a Company Relative to Government Bonds
35. Understanding Warren’s Preference for Companies with High Rates of Return on Equity
36. Determining the Projected Annual Compounding Rate of Return, Part I
37. Determining the Projected Annual Compounding Rate of Return, Part II
38. The Equity/Bond with an Expanding Coupon
39. Using the Per Share Earnings Annual Growth Rate to Project a Stock’s Future Value
40. How a Company Can Increase Its Shareholders’ Fortunes by Buying Back the Company’s Stock
41. How to Determine If Per Share Earnings Are Increasing Because of Share Repurchases
42. How to Measure Management’s Ability to Utilize Retained Earnings
43. Short-Term Arbitrage Commitments
44. Bringing It All Together: The Case Studies:
Gannett Corporation, 1994
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 1992
McDonald’s Corporation, 1996
How Warren Got Started: The Investment Vehicle
46. Fifty-four Companies to Look At
47. Waiting for the Perfect Pitch Epilogue
Index
