Posts by Andrew Stotz
Business DNA: Private and Public Hospitals Are a Win-Win
Dr. Charoen Meensook co-founded Thainakarin Hospital in 1993. He helped the hospital survive the Asian financial crisis in 1997 by encouraging his employees to always do “their best and expect the results to follow.” And the hospital has come far since 1997…
Read MoreInvest Smartly, Choose Stocks for the Long Run
Book review of Stocks for the Long Run: I used this book as a desk reference, long before I had access to charts and data online. It helped me understand what type of long-term return that I should expect.
Read MoreDemystifying Investment Lingo – How to Buy Stocks
Book review of How to Buy Stocks: The value of this book for beginners is that it explains the main different investment options and what to expect when you put your money in them
Read MoreMake Indexing Your Investment Strategy
Book review of Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Investors who don’t try to profit by predicting market shifts will do better in the long run with tax-favored savings and investment plans with a diversified portfolio built up of index funds, over speculators who try their hand at short-term predictions.
Read More10 Ways Ethics Adds Value to YOU
Within the financial world, there are many areas of focus such as accounting, economics, valuation, or derivatives. And, of course, there is ethics. I want to teach you 10 ways that ethics can add value to you.
Read MoreWhy We Stopped Performance Appraisals at CoffeeWORKS
Twenty years ago I co-founded a coffee roasting factory in Bangkok, Thailand while I was head of research at an investment bank in Bangkok. I learned more about investing and valuing businesses from that experience than I ever learned from all my studies of finance, including my CFA exams.
The most valuable thing I learned is that you get the most from employees when they love their jobs and respect their teammates and the people they work for.
Read MoreProfitable Growth is What Matters for Long-Term Value
World Class Benchmarking measures the financial performance of a company through Profitable Growth. Our database includes about 27,000 companies worldwide and each company is benchmarked versus all its global sector peers.
Learn more about it in this post, and why Profitable Growth is what matters to you as an investor.
Read MoreAre financial analysts’ earnings forecasts accurate?
This A. Stotz Academic-Style Research is revealing findings from Andrew’s dissertation and focuses on answering the question: Are financial analysts’ earnings forecasts accurate?
Read the full article to learn the answer…
Read MoreBusiness DNA: Face to Face with Armed Guards
Business DNA: Masthawin Charnvirakul joined one of his family’s companies, STP & I, and was quickly appointed to pilot it through its darkest time. Masthawin’s leadership emphasized changes that have brought the company to the financial success it is experiencing today.
Read More18 Questions for Pre-Revenue Valuation of a Startup
Oftentimes, I’m asked about the concept of pre-revenue valuation for a startup. Well, that’s a very difficult thing because you’ve got no revenue and certainly no profit. How do you value this? In my opinion, the first step in the valuation of a company is to ask these 18 questions. These 18 questions cover five areas. First is trust; second is the idea; third is execution; fourth is the exit; and the fifth is enthusiasm.
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