The Misfits: FTI Consulting (FCN)

The companies you invest in probably don't want to do business with FTI if they don't have to. But the consultancy group has proven incredibly valuable for its investors.

Raffaele Riario, Camerlengo to Pope Alexander VI, Andrea Bregno, 1478, terracotta (Bode Museum, Berlin) (photo credit Yair Haklai)

In every investor’s life, some stocks change how you think about investing. Sometimes, these are small tweaks to existing frameworks, but others can convince you to make wholesale changes to your process.

FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN) has challenged many of my established notions and methods of finding good investments. Companies that produce returns like FTI’s can do that.

You won’t hear businesses talk about doing business with FTI. Based on the company’s reputation and skill set, it isn’t the kind of company a business wants to announce it’s working with.

Here’s why FTI is a quiet giant in business advisory & consultancy, how it has become the leader in its respective field, and why its business and stock have profoundly changed how I think about sourcing investing ideas.

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