5 Things Not to Do When Valuing a Company | Phil Town

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Yes…. an uranium company. The rationale had to do with petition 232 and it's only down. Sold it but got burnt.

Wonderful video! Thank you so much)

Fantastic advice

got a tip from a friend and it doubled. Just don't take advice from friends without a clue..

I would love to have you do a series on finding the big 4 numbers and the averages. I'm kinda spinning my tires on that during the valuation process!!

Got a tip from my brother that AMD was going to go up as they just replaced their ceo, this was around 3 years ago. Took my $1000 tax return and invested in it at $2.65 a share. Little over doubled my money as I was forced to sell.

Hi Phil, I am learning your rule 1 investing at a pace that works best for me and it has been a great ride in my learning. I started out very cautiously as is my nature but have grown in confidence through your books and videos. I would have never a year ago have seen myself where I am today I am grateful to you for opening my eyes to see a reality that most never do. I am no longer afraid of expecting the most in my life. Regards, Mike

I wish I watched this video before listening to a friend’s recommendation, bought a stock and lost 10 grand. It was a small capital very volatile company. It was an expensive lesson.

more videos on options please

Thank you…sir

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i almost bought bitcoin when everyone was saying to buy a few months ago. i am glad i didn't…

How can I buy a stock / company on sale?

I would say the first mistakes investors make is buy a stock base on its price.

Do you have some sort of school? I’m new to all this but I feel like I can dig deep into this. I mean a school starting from A to Z, literally everything anyone should know about investing, including grade level stuff.

How do you define when a company is on sale?

Thanks Phil. I throughly enjoyed this episode like all others. I had very bad experiences and almost lost all of my capital on someone advice. Can you please do an episode on trading rather investing by detailing strategies. Thanks

I think the enemy of the margin of safety is FOMO, with people buying because they think something is going to do well because it is getting a lot of attention in the press or in financial circles (or tips from the brother-in-law). They buy in regardless of the current price. They don’t want to miss out on a possible upward trend. I think that same reasoning is what goes on for a lot of IPOs. What people are not understanding is that when a company is getting a lot of coverage, they’ve likely already missed the good price buy in point.

Yes, I lost money on ZINC.

It wasn't a tip, but somebody I respect saw value in it, so I put the rule aside. Lesson learned.

This video is a good simple summary of the book Rule #1 investing. Great for people who hasnt start following uncle Phil and read his and his daughter's book. great video.

Good tip Mr Phil. "Never buy at retail price". Great principals

Yes, Kraft Heinz a year ago. But it was a micro sized position and I sold with 30% loss when divi was cut. But it taught me a lot for very little money.

Thanks Phil awesome video!!!

I tend to use Motley Fool for investment advice. I do my own research too but they have been consistently beating the market so it’s a great starting point.
When I first started investing I followed the advise of my mother and that ended up pretty poorly. She recommended I buy blue chip bank stocks because they pay good dividends so I invested over half of the funds I had into those stocks, but so far I have made a pretty big capital loss on them (about 10%-20% over 2 years). I also used to follow some of Motley Fools recommendations without further research and they all worked out pretty well. I made an average return of about 5% over the course of 6 months which was a decent amount more than the market at that point. Now I always do my own research though.

Patience is the hardest and the most rewarding.

There is no way Buffet bought Amazon on sale. Plus Amazon has a very bad percentage return and used to lose money on many occasions.

Why not to invest in S & P 500 index fund?

Margin of safety is important.

Nice

My first ever stock purchase (AMD) was based on a youtubers bullish outlook. I lost 13% in a week, lost more as I dollar cost averaged down…just like the same youtuber suggested. I did very little research and therefore had nothing to stand on while my money dissapeared. I ate the losses. The stock rebounded and did well over the year after I sold.

Learning lessons the expensive way sure isnt fun. Especially when they are basic ones.

Hey Phil , thanks for the two videos
5 don'ts in valuation
And 2019 value investing books
I asked you to talk about it and you made a video . That's really helpful .
Can you please make a video about finding the intrinsic value of a company?

Hey Phil, do you have videos on how to compile a business valuation based on financial statements? Or do you plan to make some videos of that sort?

This video was extremely helpful have your books and am enjoying reading them new to the game and watching and learning from you all thanks