IFB174: Bottleneck Businesses and Secular Growth Trends with Braden Dennis

Announcer (00:02): II love this podcast because it crushes your dreams of getting rich quick. They actually got me into reading stats for anything you’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast led by Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern. Step-by-step premium investing guidance for beginners. Your path to financial freedom starts now. Dave (00:33): Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. This is episode 174. Tonight, We have one of our favorite guests back for us—another show. We have Braden Dennis from Stratosphere Investing and the Canadian Investor, the top podcast investing podcast in Canada, I believe. And it is fantastic, by the way, a little side note. Suppose you’ve not checked it out easily to check it out. It’s great stuff. He and Simon are fantastic. So I’m going to go ahead and turn it over to Andrew and Braden. And we’ll go ahead and have our little conversation tonight. So Braden, welcome back to the show. Braden (01:05): Hey, thanks, Dave. And I appreciate the kind words I get to have you on again. Andrew (01:11): Braden, I figured we’d just get right to it. So you sent us a cool framework that you are describing some of the things you’d like to look for with stocks, and you call those Stratosphere Compounders, a lot of different, good elements in there. Andrew (01:28): Maybe you describe that for a high level, and there’s some good stuff in there that we can talk about. Braden (01:35): Yeah. So this framework that I made a couple of months ago was almost a stock checklist and all kind of notes I had put down on a document, but I wanted to make it into a graphic that was easy to understand, not only for interested people but for myself to wrap around what I think is a good longterm compounder and going back to basics. And sometimes you got to bring yourself back to basics. When it comes to investing, you are ultimately seeking to find companies that will be much stronger, more profitable, have a wider moat, and be more important in the future. And this is a framework to identify what those businesses are and the characteristics that they have. Braden (02:31): Just quickly, the elements that are consistent in a lot of these businesses are typically a...