Ep. 27 | Defining Return Expectations

We continually strive to improve upon our investment research process of underwriting businesses and making judgments about individual stock valuations. Our preference for companies with long histories of dividend consistency leads us to invest in higher-quality businesses, which we believe elevate our likelihood of success. Outlining our formal set of expectations around each component of investment return is something we find is well worth scrutinizing and continually tracking. One such protocol that helps us do this is our Total Shareholder Return (TSR) framework.

In this episode, we sit down with John Crawford, IV, CFA, our Managing Director of Equity Investments and Aaron Foresman, CFA, our Managing Director of Equity Research, to discuss how our Total Shareholder Return framework helps us define and evaluate internal expectations for a company. In addition to being available on our website, we are pleased that our podcasts are available on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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