Throwback Thursday – Dole Part 6 – Final Thoughts And Showing You How To Find Hidden Assets

This is another post in our ongoing Throwback Thursday’s Series, where we share with you posts from the past blogs to bring you a ton of value and help you learn.

Today, we’re finishing up this case study but before we get to that, here’s a brief recap and links to all past parts if you missed any:

In Part 1, I valued Dole and compared it to its competition.

In Part 2, I shared with you the results I had in only 104 days after my initial analysis of Dole led to great things.

In Part 3, you learned about some valuable hidden assets Dole owned including the value of its land and ships.

In Part 4, we talked about the rough part of this situation. Dole Chairman was working to manipulate Dole’s share price to bring the company private at a lower price.

In Part 5, we learned what the final ruling was against Dole Chairman and company insiders who were found guilty of manipulating Dole’s share price to take the company private at a lower price.

And today, in the 27-minute video below, I recap everything we learned in this case study and show you how to find the hidden assets mentioned in Part 3 linked above.

Let’s get to it…

Here are just SOME of the things you learned during this ongoing case study…

• We learned how to evaluate and compare a company to its competition
• The margin of safety Dole’s hidden assets gave it
• Which led to why I invested in Dole even though it had a lot of debt
• The many reasons why you should analyze your potential investments competition
• Special situation investing – what Dole turned out to be
• How this all led to a huge 70% gain in only 104 days
• How to find hidden assets within financial statements
• Step by step instructions in the video above to find the value of these assets on Google
• How the value of these assets can sometimes be worth literally billions of dollars in hidden value most others won’t know about
• Several different valuation techniques and how to do them yourself
• How to incorporate significant hidden asset values into your valuations
• The positives and negatives of large insider ownership
• How Dole shareholders got screwed by Dole insiders
• And how they got partially vindicated later by a court of law in Delaware

This was a fantastic study in all the things above and the importance of doing deep work.

I hope you learned a lot and found a ton of value from this case study.

Let me know your thoughts, questions, comments, and concerns in the comments below.

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