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Investment Management Club. Stock Pitching 101. The Template. Agenda. Industry Company Management Financials Stock Drivers Valuation. Industry. How attractive is the industry Margins Growth rate Industry structure (Porter’s 5 forces)
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Investment Management Club Stock Pitching 101
Agenda • Industry • Company • Management • Financials • Stock Drivers • Valuation
Industry • How attractive is the industry • Margins • Growth rate • Industry structure (Porter’s 5 forces) • Key drivers of the industry? Is the industry cyclical or secular? • Outlook for the sector
Company • Who owns the company • How does your company make money? (What, how, who) • What is unique about your company / Competitive advantage • Cost advantage vs. Differentiation advantage • … • Company performance and comparison with the sector • Outlook for the company
Management • Is the business well managed? • Track record • Corporate governance • … • If not? What is changing
Financials Modelling cash flows help to put thoughts in writing and check assumptions • Industry growth rate – why? • Company growth rate – why? • Volume drivers • Price drivers • Profit growth – why? • Cost drivers • How capex intensive is the company? Pay attention to the “why” – don’t just use a big growth rate, Support any number you use with reasoning..
Stock Drivers • What drives the stock performance? (can be hard to figure out) • Where is it listed? What is the free float? • Who owns the company? • Street expectations vs. your expectations, why the difference?
Valuation • How does the street value these stocks? • How has the market valued these companies in the past? • Key valuation ratios? • Implied DCF valuation. What does the stock price imply? • Upside and downside
Finally….Remember Anthony B’s 3 Golden Rules!!! • Always back up your main points with data • Do a sensitivity around your valuation assumptions e.g. wacc, multipliers • Recognise the 1 or 2 risks that may cause your investment to under perform…..address these!
Selecting A Stock • Approach – Top Down and Bottom Up • Country – attractiveness, GDP upgrades, theme, point in cycle, structural change. • Sector – strong growth drivers, apply 5 forces • Stock – relative to global peer group • Even a bottom up approach can address the industry and the economy, but the focus lies on the company.
Few final tips…… • Small cap often more interesting than large cap. More inefficiencies. • Easier to talk about and listen to an easy business model • Stocks should have significant upside, at least 30-40% in 2-3 years or so • Try to have a story i.e. Nike of China, Tropicana of Brasil etc
Stock Pitching: Rules • One pager + valuation – using the template • Deadline Oct 18, submit to Hugh Chisholm, hchisholm.mba2007@london.edu • The finalists will know at least one week in advance that they will be presenting. All submission will be part of a shadow portfolio, to be presented at the next stock pitch in March. • Stock Pitch event on Nov 1st around 18 o’clock (more info to follow). • Pitching gives priority for Alpha Challenge etc.