IFB188: The Value Mindset and Why Stocks Are Like Trees

Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show we discuss: * Why we gravitated towards value investing* Where to find debt schedules* Why stocks are like trees* How often do we calculate metrics such as P/E, P/B, or P/S For more insight like this into investing and stock selection for beginners, visit stockmarketpdf.com SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Tunein Transcript Announcer (00:02): I love this podcast because it crushes your dreams and getting rich quickly. 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 with a step-by-step premium investing guide for beginners. Your path to financial freedom starts now. Dave (00:32): Hi folks. Welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast. Tonight is episode 188, and tonight we’re going to do a little bit of a nerdy, geeky numbers metric type podcast. So if you are not up on this, we have a back to beginning series listed on our website, and you can go there and listen to some of those podcasts. They will help fill you in on some of the acronyms and terminology that you may not be super familiar with. So if some of these things that we’re talking about tonight are a little confusing to you. Please go back and listen to those and then come back and listen to this episode. All make a lot more sense. We’ll try to make it as simple as we can, but some terminology may be a little bit unfamiliar to some of you. Dave (01:17): So if with that, I will go ahead and read the first question. So we’re going to do Andrew, and I will do our usual give and take, and we’ll answer some questions tonight. So the first one here is you mentioned in your podcast that you both look up to Peter winch and Benjamin Graham as investors; after reading both the intelligent investor and one up on wall street, it seems like your investment strategy is leaning more towards that of Benjamin Graham. Are there any reasons you choose the value approach overgrowth and stick with it in the future? Andrew, what are your thoughts on that? Andrew (