Our Firm / Investment Research Team
Applied Finance, a thought leader in valuation and portfolio construction, is a true “value” investment management company. Unlike the majority of firms today that focus on low multiples to define “value”, we define value as identifying companies trading below their intrinsic value. Our Valuation Driven™ approach forms the foundation of our investment decisions
Applied Finance is 100% employee owned, with the average tenure of our 10 partners being over 17 years.
History of Innovation
Research has always been a critical part of Applied Finance’s culture. In 1995, we humbly began in a Chicago basement, with the idea to create a better approach to measure corporate performance and value companies than existed at the time.
Our roots were and remain dedicated to answering two questions critical to any investment decision:
- What is a firm’s economic performance?
- What is a firm worth?
We developed the Economic Margin® framework to measure a firm’s economic, rather than as-reported accounting performance, leading the industry with primary research into:
- Capitalizing R&D
- Estimating size and leverage risk premium
- Modeling competitive advantage through Economic Profit Horizons
Ultimately, creating a direct link from corporate performance to valuation.
Shortly thereafter, we began assembling a technical team that today includes a unique mix of professionals with diverse functional, educational and cultural backgrounds. The result is a special workplace that values: accomplishment, stability, and ethics in the pursuit of excellence for our clients.
Since 1995, over 20 million individual, point-in-time, company valuations have been calculated. Each week we calculate approximately 20,000 intrinsic value estimates to continually expand our knowledge and improve our strategies.
Our proprietary research analytics provide the foundation for our repeatable and sustainable investment process.
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