Company Analysis Quotes

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

I don't see any particular sweet spot. But I do see sweet stocks that I really love and like and think are going to do well. And one is a company that probably makes that beautiful toenail polish you've got on. A company called Ulta. And it has just beautiful beauty salons all over the country.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.