Section Five

How to Make Investment Decisions with ValuFocus

Section V describes how to use ValuFocus to achieve higher returns with lower fat-tailed risk.

Chapter 18: ValuFocus—The Key Tool for Investing in Stocks
Chapter 19: Managing Your Stock Portfolio
Chapter 20: Advanced Portfolio Concepts
Chapter 21: What If You Don't Want to Employ ValuFocus
Chapter 22: Always Going Forward
Chapter 23: It Is Time to Get Started

Chapter 18: ValuFocus—The Key Tool for Investing in Stocks

1. Importantly, ValuFocus simplifies the investing process. To avoid the complexity that turns people off, LCRT hides all the automated discounted cash flow calculations “under the hood.” In this volatile market, accurately valuing a company becomes the critical advantage.
2. For multiple intrinsic valuation models, ValuFocus contains an incredible amount of valuable displays.
  • Charts with model intrinsic valuations juxtaposed against fiscal year high/low prices, along with prices at fiscal year plus three months and current price.
  • Tables with intrinsic valuation and under/overvaluation.
  • Space to enter your own sales and EPS estimates for future intrinsic valuations, translated to compare against today's price. These estimates customize the valuations from your wise insights into the competitive conditions of the firm within its industry.
  • Relative wealth charts with the LCRT models' primary drivers: cash economic return, growth rates, and cumulative wealth created for investors.
  • To identify ...

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