Here is an email I received from a tribesman yesterday…
I agree that evaluating and buying great businesses at the correct price (i.e. prices below the intrinsic value) is of utmost importance.
However, while I think I am getting better in evaluating the growth of businesses, their durable moats and creating my own check list of investing, my biggest challenge is in calculating the range of the “intrinsic value”.
I am still not able to calculate the risk associated with the stock and that is prohibiting me from confidently buying a stock which I believe is a value buy.
May I request you to please share any pointers, books, frameworks which can help me estimate the risk and/or this intrinsic value?
I believe this – calculating intrinsic value – is one big issue most investors face, and thus I thought of replying to this email via a post.
Well, the concept of intrinsic value is indeed tricky.