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punch's avatar

Hey man, i love this video, thanks for writing this out!

With the 'deployed capital', isn't there $300m of working capital, subtract $100m cash at end of quarter, plus $100m of PPE? So deployed capital of $300m, not $200m?

Can't get my head around this after watching the vid a bunch of times

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Roiss' Conclusions's avatar

Deployed Capital Calculation:

Working Capital (excluding cash): $285.9m - $19.3m cash = $266.6m

Property, Plant & Equipment (PP&E): $100m

Deployed Capital = Working Capital (ex-cash) + PP&E

= $266.6m + $100m

= $366.6m

If we calculate it with 100m in cash and use a discount on the inventory, we would have a total of deployed capital of 286.6m.

Li Lu kept it super simple, so that everyone could follow on the spot during the lesson. It is too hard to follow otherwise - but it gets afterwards

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Christan's avatar

Thank you a lot for the transcript and the comment! Could you still clarify where he gets the 100m of PP&E? Can you see/deduct it from the page provided?

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Roiss' Conclusions's avatar

Almost every manufacturer writes buildings & equipment off over 10–12 yrs.. So we can have a nice formula of. Net PP&E≈Depreciation×(Useful life/2)

That gets us to pretty much 100m.

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punch's avatar

Wait on further thoughts, it seems 'liquid assets' ignores the $100m left in inventory after turning $100m into cash.

And also 'deployed capital' doesnt include inventory too.

I wonder why this isn't included in the deployed capital??

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Glen's avatar

Thank you for such a great post. Really thought provoking.

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Roiss' Conclusions's avatar

Glad that you enjoy it

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Robert Halford's avatar

Very funny watching him get animated about how slow they are.

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Connie Cheung's avatar

This is amazing, thank you. Can you tell me which stock handbook / manual that page about Hyundai Department Store is from? Thank you!

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Roiss' Conclusions's avatar

The Standard & Poor's Stock manual. Which one exactly of the hundreds that came out, I am not sure

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Stephen Chng's avatar

many thanks! your transcript is useful!

1 of the best sessions with 1 of the best investors

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Mr.Gorillaz's avatar

Where do you find the numbers he recalls on the tables? I don't really seem them :/

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