During our first quarter 2024 portfolio update, Ensemble Capital’s Chief Investment Officer Sean Stannard-Stockton, and Senior Investment Analysts Arif Karim and Eileen Segall discuss current market and economic conditions as well as Ferrari (RACE) & IDEX Corp (IEX). There’s a Q&A with the team at the end of the presentation. This is an audio replay of the full webinar. Please read important disclosures at www.ensemblecapital.com/holdings ..read more

During our fourth quarter 2023 portfolio update, Ensemble Capital’s Chief Investment Officer Sean Stannard-Stockton, and Senior Investment Analysts Arif Karim and Eileen Segall discuss current market and economic conditions as well as Netflix (NFLX). There’s a Q&A with the team at the end of the presentation. This is an audio replay of the full webinar. Please read important disclosures at www.ensemblecapital.com/holdings ..read more

During our third quarter 2023 portfolio update, Ensemble Capital’s Chief Investment Officer Sean Stannard-Stockton, and Senior Investment Analyst Arif Karim discuss current market and economic conditions as well as two of our holdings; Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) and Mastercard, Inc. (MA). There’s a Q&A with the team at the end of the presentation. This is an audio replay of the full webinar. Please read important disclosures at www.ensemblecapital.com/holdings   ..read more

During our second quarter 2023 portfolio update, Ensemble Capital’s Chief Investment Officer Sean Stannard-Stockton, and Senior Investment Analysts Arif Karim and Todd Wenning, discussed holdings Alphabet Inc. and ServiceNow, the current market and economic situation, as well as our framework when looking at the housing shortage of the country. There’s a Q&A with the team at the end of the presentation. This is an audio replay of the full webinar. Please read important disclosures at www.ensemblecapital.com/holdings ..read more

While the economy has become intangible-asset driven, the potential low cost advantages of tangible assets shouldn’t be overlooked. Our ideal company has both intangible and tangible asset advantages ..read more

We examine the economic and market history of the 1970s and put it into the context of what to expect from a longer-term perspective ..read more

In part II of our discussion of the math that supports superior investment returns, and how growth and value investors solve for superior returns differently, we look at Warren Buffett’s investment in Coke to illustrate why long term superior returns must come from elevated growth rates ..read more

Chief Investment Officer Sean Stannard-Stockton addresses First Republic Bank (FRC) and the broader impact of the banking crisis on the economy and financial markets. He also outlines our outlook for our strategy over the balance of 2023 and into 2024 and the economic drivers of why many of our holdings were up this quarter.   Please read important disclosure at www.ensemblecapital.com/holdings ..read more

Bad outcomes are a natural part of investing. Todd Wenning discusses why it does no good to dwell on regrets about decisions where a good process led to a bad outcome. Please read important disclosures at www.ensemblecapital.com/holdings ..read more

Value and Growth are not opposite approaches to investing. In this episode we explore why Warren Buffett says that a stock with a low valuation multiple may not be a good value, and how Ensemble Capital thinks about evaluating high growth and low growth businesses with an eye towards generating high rates of return ..read more