Another good substack post idea you could make could be on accounting. I see you have a Buffett like stock screener. one way to improve this stock screener is, instead of looking at LTMs' ROIC, to focus on the last 5-year average ROIC. could be a better way to differentiate a good business and a bad business and could also exclude companies that are quite highly cyclical.
Thanks for making this post. I have a few questions. dont you think per share metrics can also be manipulated? I understand why they are better than non-per-share metrics - you as a shareholder do not want to be diluted- but can't you manipulate per-share metrics by buying back shares regardless of valuation - although it is more difficult to manipulate per-share metrics. You could study IBM for this. In the 2010s, Buffett bought the company, IBM's eps went up, but this was because they were buying back shares and not creating real shareholder value.
would also love your thoughts on earnings based targets vs Cash flow.
also, what are your thoughts on operational performance targets and how do you find out what is the exact target when a company has operational performance related targets when it is listed as part of the remuneration policies. same goes for ROIC metrics. How do you find out if it is based on incremental returns or past returns. this is so to find out if a company has easy or hard targets.
I was also wondering what are your thoughts on past CEO and management on the board. would Coparts board be considered independent when they have Wilis Johnson and Jay addir on the board?
Another question i have is how do you view the chair of the board? what is their role? should they be independent? Could Berkshire's governance policy be considered bad since the chair and the CEO are separate?
I would love a post on Tesla's governance, and elons pay package. could be a great example of what a bad governance looks like since Elons pay package was based on share price movements and not real shareholder value. his brother was also on the board. elon always tries to hype up share prices and talks about future valuations of the company, while real CEOs do not care about share prices and future valuations; they care about the business.
Another good substack post idea you could make could be on accounting. I see you have a Buffett like stock screener. one way to improve this stock screener is, instead of looking at LTMs' ROIC, to focus on the last 5-year average ROIC. could be a better way to differentiate a good business and a bad business and could also exclude companies that are quite highly cyclical.
Thanks for making this post. I have a few questions. dont you think per share metrics can also be manipulated? I understand why they are better than non-per-share metrics - you as a shareholder do not want to be diluted- but can't you manipulate per-share metrics by buying back shares regardless of valuation - although it is more difficult to manipulate per-share metrics. You could study IBM for this. In the 2010s, Buffett bought the company, IBM's eps went up, but this was because they were buying back shares and not creating real shareholder value.
would also love your thoughts on earnings based targets vs Cash flow.
also, what are your thoughts on operational performance targets and how do you find out what is the exact target when a company has operational performance related targets when it is listed as part of the remuneration policies. same goes for ROIC metrics. How do you find out if it is based on incremental returns or past returns. this is so to find out if a company has easy or hard targets.
I was also wondering what are your thoughts on past CEO and management on the board. would Coparts board be considered independent when they have Wilis Johnson and Jay addir on the board?
Another question i have is how do you view the chair of the board? what is their role? should they be independent? Could Berkshire's governance policy be considered bad since the chair and the CEO are separate?
I would love a post on Tesla's governance, and elons pay package. could be a great example of what a bad governance looks like since Elons pay package was based on share price movements and not real shareholder value. his brother was also on the board. elon always tries to hype up share prices and talks about future valuations of the company, while real CEOs do not care about share prices and future valuations; they care about the business.