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Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
This is Part 2 of a special Coronavirus Investing Series. If you have not listened to Part 1, please click here to get the overall context/market overview during this unprecedented time.
Overview
In this episode of The Intelligent Investing Podcast, Eric Schleien sits down with Jeremy Raper to discuss AerCap (AER), a bombed-out stock during this coronavirus pandemic. AerCap is the world's largest independent aircraft leasing company. Jeremy believes there is triple-digit upside potential in the name with a low probability the stock goes to 0. We go into detail in the show.
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
This is Part 1 of a special Coronavirus Investing Series.
Overview
In this episode of The Intelligent Investing Podcast, Eric Schleien sits down with Jeremy Raper to discuss a general market overview during this coronavirus pandemic. We discuss 3 baskets of places to start looking and researching to find potential investment opportunities.
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Staying In Touch With Jeremy Raper
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
Show Notes
In this episode, Eric sits down with Julian Lin to discuss the mall real estate industry.
Julian is a contributor on Seeking Alpha with over 13,000 followers. Julian runs a stock investment newsletter named Best of Breed which invests in high-quality companies with “moaty” business models, conservative balance sheets, and best in class management teams. You can find out more about the newsletter here - there is a 2 week free trial available.
Stocks of mall real estate investment trusts (‘Mall REITs’) have been crushed over the past several years, with some names having dividend yields up to 30%. While retail bankruptcies and store closures have indeed pressured the sector, there are many misconceptions.
For one, vacant Sears and JCPenney stores do not signal the “death of malls” but instead present opportunity. Mall landlords are replacing these stores with restaurants, fitness centers, movie theaters, all while earning an 8% cash return on investment.
Further, not all malls are created equal. Many low-quality malls may eventually need to be completely repurposed away, but high-quality malls, known as “Class A malls,” continue to thrive and should have relevance for decades to come. Class A malls continue to raise rents and grow cash flows.
The elevated amount of store closures and retail bankruptcies has depressed occupancy rates and cash flows in the near term, but Class A malls should be able to backfill vacancies and return to strong cash flow growth in short order.
Julian reveals the two names that he is most optimistic about in the sector, one with an A credit balance sheet and another with a nearly 13% dividend yield.
You can find more high-quality growth and value picks from his newsletter Best of Breed here - there is a 2 week free trial available.
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Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
In this episode of The Intelligent Investing Podcast, Eric Schleien sits down with Guy Spier who is the founder and investment manager of The Aquamarine Fund.
Eric and Guy discuss the philosophy of value investing beyond just looking at a business and how it impacts our day to day living and develops us as a human being.
Resources
- Think and Grow Rich
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The Infinite Game
- Finite and Infinite Games
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Staying in touch with Eric
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
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Summary
Eric Schleien sits down with Gobinath Balasubramanian. We discuss Fairfax India and Thomas Cook India.
Other interviews with Gobinath on The Intelligent Investing Podcast:
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A Take-Under In Russia; A Cheap Mexican Cable Company That Will Make Its Market Cap Back In 5 Years
- Value Investing In India
About Gobinath
Gobinath Balasubramanian is the Chief Investment Officer of GB Investments LLC, which he founded in 2016.
Gobinath is a graduate from The University of Tampa – Sykes School of Business in Tampa, FL where he earned his Masters Degree in Finance. He performed his undergraduate studies at St. Peters Engineering college, in Chennai, India, earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication. He holds the Series 65 license.
You can reach Gobinath on his LinkedIn or through his website for GB Investments.
You can also see Gobinath’s first podcast on The Intelligent Investing Podcast, here.
Contact Eric Schleien
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Saturday Feb 22, 2020
Saturday Feb 22, 2020
Today is one of my favorite Saturday's of the year. Every Saturday for over the past decade now, I have woken up every Saturday morning before the Berkshire Hathaway Letter To Shareholders is released, eagerly excited to take in whatever Warren Buffett has to share with us shareholders. I would imagine many of you do the same!
Once again, Warren Buffett has released his letter to shareholders this morning. In this episode of The Intelligent Investing Podcast, I break down the 2019 Berkshire Hathaway Letter To Shareholders with some of my thoughts and insights and go over some of the key highlights.
2019 Berkshire Hathaway Letter
The full letter can be found, here.
You can also watch this podcast on YouTube
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Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
In this episode, Eric Schleien sits down with Alex Portelli to discuss his various entrepreneurial ventures.
Alex is a serial entrepreneur, and has started a diner, an ATM business, a real estate company, and an online news organization. He's now currently working on his next venture.
Alex is currently an investor in short term rental properties and is an owner of several successful websites.
Alex started his privately held AirBnB business 4 years ago and went from owning 0 to 8 properties since then. His web company is prntly.com and he is currently launching another company called prntpage.com which is currently in beta-testing.
Prntly.com became notorious after Donald Trump started re-tweeting some of their posts during the primary election cycle in 2016.
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Evan Bleker is a professional investor who has built his track record by buying high quality net net stocks. When not researching stocks, he focuses his time on helping small investors learn the strategy so they can earn great returns.
Evan manages two investing websites: Net Net Hunter and Broken Leg Investing.
Evan discussed Warren Buffett's net net investing practice during his partnership. Further resources available here:
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You can sign up for his free newsletter on the Net Net Hunter home page.
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Hi Guys, it's Eric Schleien back again bringing you Episode #75! Thank you everyone for supporting the show 75 episodes later! You guys rock! This episode was recorded right before Christmas, however, a month later not much has changed. I sit down with Igor Ciric who is an individual investor who applies engineering frameworks to invest in publicly traded technology and technology-related companies.
Check-Cap Ltd. (CHEK)
One of the Igor's holdings is in a company called Check-Cap Ltd. (CHEK). Check-Cap is a clinical-stage medical diagnostics company developing C-Scan®, the first capsule-based system for preparation-free, colorectal cancer screening. Utilizing innovative ultra-low dose X-ray and wireless communication technologies, their capsule generate information on the contours of the inside of the colon as it passes naturally. This information is used to create a 3D map of the colon, which allows physicians to look for polyps and other abnormalities. Designed to improve the patient experience and increase the willingness of individuals to participate in recommended colorectal cancer screening, C-Scan removes many frequently-cited barriers, such as laxative bowel preparation, invasiveness and sedation.
Investment Overview
Check cap was selling $70 a share back in 2015. Today it’s an illiquid stock selling
for around $1.6 a share and the market cap is a bit over 13M.
Articles For Context:
C-scan price of $600 vs. $500 for Pillcam and $1000 for colonoscopies (US).
- Colon cancer screening multi billion market.
- Medtronic has $3 bil in annual net income and $123 bil market cap. 1 month of
income -> $28 a share. (17x current share price) - Given Imaging had losses and no revenue for the six months in 2001. In 2002 the company grew revenues $29 million. In 2014, Covidien acquired Given Imaging for $860 million net of cash, 4.78X the $160 - $200 million in annual sales Covidien expected to gain from the acquisition. (When the company had grown) -> $100 a. share (60x current share price)
- Exact Sciences Corporation multiple of x22.5 would generate $150 a share (92x current share price)
Risks
- Funding
- Going Commerical (GE - Assembly, packaging, and shipping)
- Warrants & Further Dilution
Recent Study Results
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Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
It's been a while since we've talked about Cambria Automobiles on the Intelligent Investing Podcast. You can hear the original episode we did on Cambria, here.
Update
Cambria Automobiles came out with earnings around the end of November. The stock was up ~15% on that news. The company increased earnings by ~25% over the previous year whereas the rest of the car dealership industry was down because of poor new car sales in the UK.
Cambria is up mostly because of new dealerships and startup losses are not turning into profits.
There are three categories of profits for car dealerships:
- New Car Sales (NCS)
- Used Car Sales (UCS)-used car
- After Sales (Parts & Service)
All three categories for Cambria were up which is an amazing accomplishment. It's even more incredible for NCS because that's the number one driver for the industry being down this year.
Why Is Cambria Different?
Because the company started fibve luxury dealerships around 18-24 months ago. Luxury dealerships have more profit contribution when they mature than non-luxury which is what most of the industry is.