The Compound Investor

I quite like the business model of certain restaurant stocks like Wendy’s (WEN). The fast food firm is essentially a giant rent collector, albeit one in which rent is tied to the sale of hamburgers and fries. Around 95% of its 6,814 restaurants operate on a franchised basis as per…

It has been a couple of years since J.M. Smucker (SJM) last featured on the site. I doubt the business requires a recap since there is hardly a soul in America who isn’t familiar with its products. After all, Ohio-based Smucker has a place in around 90% of the nation’s…

Citigroup (C) released financial results last week. The banking giant last featured on the site back in January, but that pre-COVID article feels totally redundant now. At the time, annual profit generation looked to be somewhere in the region of $17.5B, or $8.50 in per-share terms. We can essentially cut…

I last covered ConocoPhillips (COP) in the early days of the second quarter. Suffice to say, the stock has not shifted much on the price front since then. Its shares traded for around $32.90 back then, while they currently change hands for around $32.35. That rather disappointing performance comes despite…

Regular readers will recall the introduction of The Micro Portfolio and The Coffee Can Portfolio earlier in the year. Now that 3Q20 is done and dusted, it is time for their first reviews. I figured it would be easier to bundle both into a single post rather than have two…