Scorecard #16 – Do the Right Thing
… Incentives drive behavior and the senior management of any business is responsible for putting the proper incentives in place and defining a company’s culture by setting the tone at the top.
Scorecard #14 – Inamatus Corus
… Media stocks remain under pressure these days. It all started back in the fall of 2015 with the selloff in Walt Disney Company’s stock (NYSE:DIS) due to subscriber declines in its ESPN division. The stocks of other media companies quickly followed suit.
Scorecard #13 – Tug of Wa℞
… Health care is a very personal and sensitive subject. Most nations would prefer all of their citizens to have unlimited access to life saving drugs at reasonable prices. However, countries have limited means.
Scorecard #10 – Steady Progress
… Express Scripts Holding Company (Nasdaq:ESRX) is the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company in North America. It serves thousands of clients including managed-care organizations, insurance carriers, employers, third-party administrators, public sector and union sponsored benefit plans.
Scorecard #8 – Unconventional Wisdom
… Cisco Systems is the world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of high-performance networking equipment for the Internet. Their products are ubiquitous and most often the industry standard. In an era of increasing usage of smartphones, tablets, and connected devices (the “Internet of Everything”) data transfer and consumption should continue to increase exponentially.
Scorecard #4 – PIIGS and Merde
… One of the keys to being successful at investing over the long term is to stick to businesses and industries within your circle of competence. Put another way, you should invest only in businesses that you know and understand.
Scorecard #3 – Mr. Market and The Path Less Traveled
… Another key success factor in investing is being able to come to your own conclusions based on thorough research, hard work and proper reasoning. Conventional wisdom is often but not always correct. The difference is important.
Scorecard #2 – The Truly Important Things in Life (and Investing)
… One mistake that people often make is to assume that the stock markets will decline when the economy is in recession or one is forecasted. Being a math geek I went back and looked at the correlation between US GDP and US stock market returns over the past 80 years. The results will probably surprise you.