In 1987, Coca-Cola was refocusing on its core business and sold its Columbia Pictures subsidiary. The “New Coke” fiasco of 1985 was past. The company was repurchasing common stock. So, how did the business look in the eyes of Buffett and Munger?
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ใน annual letter 1987 ก่อนซื้อ coke ในปี 1988
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Here's what we're looking for:
(1) large purchases (at least $10 million of after-tax
earnings),
(2) demonstrated consistent earning power (future
projections are of little interest to us, nor are
"turnaround" situations),
(3) businesses earning good returns on equity while
employing little or no debt,
(4) management in place (we can't supply it),
(5) simple businesses (if there's lots of technology,
we won't understand it),
(6) an offering price (we don't want to waste our time
or that of the seller by talking, even preliminarily,
about a transaction when price is unknown).
It has a combination of a special brand advantage, a large-scale “cost of production” advantage, and a global network distribution advantage. We could say that it has three moats around its economic castle. In addition, its managers work to build this moat bigger every day.http://m.gurufocus.com/news_read.php?id=215892
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ใน 1988 annual letter เขียนถึง Coca-Cola แค่สองครั้ง
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In 1988 we made major purchases of Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Pfd. (“Freddie Mac”) and Coca Cola. We expect to hold
these securities for a long time. In fact, when we own portions
of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of
those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform
well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint.
Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and
watering the weeds.
annual lettet 1989
นั้นลุงบัฟ พูดถึง cola ถึง 10แห่ง
Of course, we should have started buying Coke much earlier,
soon after Roberto and Don began running things. In fact, if I
had been thinking straight I would have persuaded my grandfather
to sell the grocery store back in 1936 and put all of the
proceeds into Coca-Cola stock. I've learned my lesson: My
response time to the next glaringly attractive idea will be
slashed to well under 50 years.
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They purchased about 7% of the company for $1.02 billion. This turned out to be one of Berkshire's most lucrative investments. Berkshire Hathaway now owns 8.9 percent or 400 million shares of Coca-Cola.
Recently, Coca-Cola’s 5Yr Gross Margin (5-Year Avg.) is approximately 62%. Its Net Profit Margin (5-Year Avg.) is approximately 22%, while the industry Net Profit Margin (5-Year Avg.) is 18.0%. Coca-Cola also has better earning power efficiency in term of Free Cash Flow per unit of sale.
As of 2012, Coca-Cola has a 5-Year Average Return on Equity (ROE) of 29.9%. Its worldwide distribution system is also major competitive advantage.
Circle of competence
I don't think it's as difficult to figure out competence as it may appear.
If you're 5-foot-2, you don't have much future in the NBA.
What I need to get ahead is to be better than idiots.
Charlie Munger
การลงทุนในแต่ละปีที่เกิดขึ้นนั้น นอกจากเงินลงทุนที่เกิดจากปันผลของหุ้นที่ลงทุน หรือดอกเบี้ยพันธบัตร หรือการทำกำไรจากหุ้นที่ขายออกไปบางตัว ได้ capital gain แล้ว
Circle of competence
I don't think it's as difficult to figure out competence as it may appear.
If you're 5-foot-2, you don't have much future in the NBA.
What I need to get ahead is to be better than idiots.
Charlie Munger
1982-2001 Cold War end - begin of Information Age. US GDP continue up from 3 Trillion USD in 1982 to 10 Trillion USD for the first time in 2001, another 3 times step up. This time after Service Age, US economy has move into Information Age. This time unlike the scarely-mood of nuclear war, President Reagan end the nuclear era by his "a world free of nuclear weapons" and Reagan and Gorbachev sign the INF Treaty at the White House in 1987, which end the nuclear era. The "market" this time response by up from high 1070 in 1982 to high 11497 in 1999.[dj] Important note after internet-boom era is that, 1996-2000 according to seekingalpha.com and thechartstore.com, the year 1996 is the first time market capitalization of US stock exceed it GDP.[crt1] And the level of exceed peak at 3/31/2000 when stock market capitalization exceed US GDP by 180.20 percent.[crt1] To compare, on 8/31/1929 peak, the market capitalization is only 88.31 percent of GDP. And the average 1027 months (85.5years) of market capitalization to GDP was 62.15 percent.
In August we sold $60 million of 12 3/4% notes due August 1,
2005, with a sinking fund to begin in 1991.
The managing underwriters, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Securities Corporation, represented by Bill Fisher, and Chiles,
Heider & Company, Inc., represented by Charlie Heider, did an
absolutely first-class job from start to finish of the financing.
The Home Depot Inc. entered China in 2006 by acquiring 12 stores from Home Way, a Chinese company. But by September 2012, all Home Depot stores closed in China.
In 1978, The Coca-Cola Company became the only company allowed to sell packaged cold drinks in China. So far, it has invested more than $1.3 billion in the Chinese market, with an additional $2 billion planned as part of its 2020 global vision. The company wants to double its revenue and bottlers by 2020.
Coke considers China, which is its third-largest market after the United States and Mexico, as having the greatest potential globally. Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola, said he cannot predict when China might become the company's largest market, but said "it will happen".
In China, Coca-Cola employs more than 30,000 local people, and has more than 40 bottling plants. Last year, the company opened its 41st bottling plant in Hohhot in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Kent has confidence in emerging markets such as China and he thinks the company's long-term plan in China is on the right track.
Kent said he was happy with the projections about the Chinese market despite sales falling 3 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2010. For 2010 overall, sales in China rose 6 percent year-on-year
Asia-Pacific revenue fell 16 percent, while that from Brazil, Russia, India and China fell 14 percent in the quarter.
"China is going through a very significant economic set of reforms," Schroeter said on the earnings call. "While they have slowed, we don't think that this opportunity has gone away."
Schroeter said that revenue in the world's second-biggest economy, which accounts for about 5 percent of IBM's sales, will take several quarters to recover.
ในวิดีโอ ของ คุญ มอนิช แพบไบร์ Mohnish Pabrai Lecture at Columbia
ที่แปะ ก่อนหน้า
แกเน้น ว่า
"identify the durability of the Moat is 80-90% of the battle"
Circle of competence
I don't think it's as difficult to figure out competence as it may appear.
If you're 5-foot-2, you don't have much future in the NBA.
What I need to get ahead is to be better than idiots.
Charlie Munger
Guerin was a very successful investor who was friends with Buffett and Munger. He is not well known. If not for Buffett and his mention of Guerin in The Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville, we might have never heard of him at all. But Guerin’s track record (in terms of absolute performance) was actually as good or better than any of the other investors Buffett mentioned (including Buffett himself). Guerin produced eye-popping gross annual returns of 32.9% per year.
แต่ margin คือปัญหา..
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เรื่อง ของ “What ever happened to Rick Guerin”? โดยคุณ Mohnish Pabrai อีกแล้ว
Asia-Pacific revenue fell 16 percent, while that from Brazil, Russia, India and China fell 14 percent in the quarter.
"China is going through a very significant economic set of reforms," Schroeter said on the earnings call. "While they have slowed, we don't think that this opportunity has gone away."
Schroeter said that revenue in the world's second-biggest economy, which accounts for about 5 percent of IBM's sales, will take several quarters to recover.
Circle of competence
I don't think it's as difficult to figure out competence as it may appear.
If you're 5-foot-2, you don't have much future in the NBA.
What I need to get ahead is to be better than idiots.
Charlie Munger
Berkshire increased its ownership interest last year in each of its “Big Four” investments – American
Express, Coca-Cola, IBM and Wells Fargo. We purchased additional shares of Wells Fargo (increasing
our ownership to 9.2% versus 8.7% at yearend 2012) and IBM (6.3% versus 6.0%). Meanwhile, stock
repurchases at Coca-Cola and American Express raised our percentage ownership. Our equity in Coca-
Cola grew from 8.9% to 9.1% and our interest in American Express from 13.7% to 14.2%.
Circle of competence
I don't think it's as difficult to figure out competence as it may appear.
If you're 5-foot-2, you don't have much future in the NBA.
What I need to get ahead is to be better than idiots.
Charlie Munger
Circle of competence
I don't think it's as difficult to figure out competence as it may appear.
If you're 5-foot-2, you don't have much future in the NBA.
What I need to get ahead is to be better than idiots.
Charlie Munger