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Sabvest Capital Keeps Delivering

Posted on 31/01/202202/02/2022 by Keith McLachlan

I have a filter that I apply to investment holding companies (so-called “HoldCo’s”) to see whether it may be worth digging deeper into them: Is there an external ManCo? External ManCo’s can mean a misalignment of interest with shareholders. I want HoldCo’s where management are invested with other shareholders. How expensive is the HoldCo structure?…

Afrocentric vs. Discovery

Posted on 27/01/202120/01/2021 by Keith McLachlan

ORIGINAL ARTICLE APPEARS HERE. Having listed on the JSE in 1999, Discovery Ltd (DSY) has been a phenomenal success generating early investors multiples of their money. The Group administers the Discovery Medical Aid (a separate legal entity to the listed company) and, through data mining, clever incentives and cross-selling, the Group has won huge medical…

Master Drilling: Illustrating Value

Posted on 27/08/202027/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on March 22, 2018 I have written about Master Drilling (MDI) previously and I refer you back to these articles for some of the narrative: Master Drilling: Hidden Gem Master Drilling: The Big Mistake You will notice a consistent theme: I like them. The Group recently put out some soft…

Master Drilling: The Big Mistake

Posted on 27/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on August 26, 2016 Previously I wrote the following article on Master Drilling (Master Drilling: Unknown Gem). I will not rewrite the investment case that I noted in that article for Master Drilling as a world-class, niche industrial technology play with global, growing scale and sophistication. Pretty much all of that…

Master Drilling: Hidden Gem

Posted on 27/08/202027/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on March 29, 2016 When I first encountered Master Drilling (MDI), I was mildly impressed and put them on the radar to follow closer. Over the subsequent three years, I began to become quite impressed with the business and its operations. Did you know that Master Drilling (run out South…

Santova: Growing & Undervalued

Posted on 27/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on October 11, 2017 Santova (SNV) is a non-asset based supply chain manager with more than 65% of its earnings coming from outside of South Africa, including the majority of hard currency in this. Santova put out a H1:18 trading statement yesterday that can be summarised as follows: H1:18 EPS and…

Sabvest: Unique Opportunity

Posted on 27/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on August 21, 2018 What makes for a good investment? Simple: (1) Quality underlying, (2) Growth / yield / return, & (3) Underpaying for all this. What makes a good investment fit into a diversified portfolio? Simple: (4) Being as little correlated to existing investments as possible. What makes all of…

When Does Valuation Matter & When Doesn’t it?

Posted on 27/08/202027/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on October 5, 2018 Introduction: Fundamentals are what you get but valuation is how much you pay for it. The less you pay for a given set of fundamentals, the more you weight the odds in your favour that the investment will have a positive outcome. Hence, even if fundamentals are…

Five Reasons Not To Invest In A Stock

Posted on 26/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted April 1, 2016 Given the small cap space as a capital growth asset class and my predisposition towards being long, this website tends to be about which stocks to buy. Let me turn that on its head and give some (hopefully intuitive) pointers for which stocks to not buy. When you are…

The Value of Forecasts

Posted on 26/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on June 30, 2015 In the context of the stock market and its underlying individual listed companies, what is the value of building, making and using forecasts? By their very nature, forecasts for companies are an attempt to anticipate the future earnings of a company. They are not a promise of what the…

Difference Between Value Investing & Being a Contrarian

Posted on 26/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on January 29, 2013 Value investing is a process of identifying potential investments that can be bought for less than they are actually worth. This is done via the valuation process. Once an undervalued investment is identified and it meets the criteria the investor is looking for, it is bought and…

Astral Foods: Quality With Converging Positives

Posted on 26/08/202026/08/2020 by Keith McLachlan

OLD ARTICLE – Originally posted on February 4, 2020 As a well-run, ungeared domestic poultry stock, Astral Foods (code: ARL) has two major variables that largely dictate its fortunes: What cost must it pay to raise its chickens? What price can it sell its chicken products at? Firstly, Astral’s long-term track record is superb, proving…

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