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MI381: Joel Greenblatt: Behind the Magic Formula w/ Shawn O’Malley

2024/12/9
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In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_)) takes you into the classroom of legendary investor Joel Greenblatt, sharing his biggest takeaways from watching Greenblatt’s lectures at Columbia. Greenblatt is a wildly successful investor, professor, founder of the Value Investor’s Club forum, and best-selling author of some of the most popular stock investing books ever written. You’ll learn how Greenblatt thinks about the upside and downside potential for investments through three case studies, how Joel Greenblatt derived his Magic Formula for investing, why buying cheap stocks still works even though the strategy is well-known, where to look for the rarest but most attractive types of stock investments, what was Joel Greenblatt’s biggest investing mistake, plus so much more! 

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN

00:00 - Intro

02:34 - How to think through stock investments via case studies on the best pitches ever submitted to the Value Investor’s Club forum

03:02 - How Joel Greenblatt derived the Magic Formula for investing

05:12 - Which investments are the rarest but most attractive

07:34 - Why it’s important to condense an investment thesis down to just a few sentences

11:52 - How bankruptcy restructurings can actually generate undervalued and overlooked stocks

19:02 - Why so many great investors get their start with microcap stocks and special situations

30:16 - Why value investing still works and has worked across time

41:29 - How Joel Greenblatt made his biggest investing mistake

And much, much more!

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