Welcome to Coffee Can Investor

I am a coffee can investor. I have devised a portfolio that I intend to hold over long periods of time. I am sharing my thoughts as I go on this journey, inviting you to join me.

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I intend to write about once a week about the philosophy of coffee can investing, provide investing and portfolio selection frameworks, while also provide analysis of lots of stocks that I hold in the coffee can portfolio.

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Topics

This blog contains posts about a vast variety of topics, related to Coffee Can Investing. Here are the some of the more popular categories of topics, and you will find links to archives filtered by each category below:

  • Philosophy: Read about the philosophy of Coffee Can Investing / Buy & Never Sell mode of investing - why I believe it will provide superior returns etc.

  • Portfolio: I write about my portfolio from time to time, and explain why I hold a category of investments. These are generic in nature and will be separate from when I write about individual businesses (see Analysis below).

  • Analysis: I like to write at some level of depth about the companies in my portfolio. Find them under this tag.

  • Valuation: I write about how I think about the valuation of my portfolio using different metrics from time to time. This tag should provide you will all those articles.

  • Performance: Finally, I write candidly about how my portfolio is performing. These are infrequent posts, but hopefully useful to readers who are tracking performance. Find them here.

Highlighted Posts

Wanna get started, here are some popular posts

The Coffee Can Investor
My Coffee Can Portfolio
In this post, I am going to share my own Coffee Can Portfolio (CCP). This is not a solicitation for you to buy those securities, but to share how I think about constructing a coffee can portfolio, so you can use that to construct your own portfolio. You are obviously free to use these tickers, though you will be hugely disappointed to know that there is…
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The Coffee Can Investor
Have you hit your Financial Equilibrium?
Are you worried about achieving Financial Independence? Does it seem too daunting? How about aiming for Financial Equilibrium first? This can be done when you build a corpus between 1/5th and a 1/3rd of your target retirement corpus. Read on to learn more…
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The Coffee Can Investor
Building a Personal Finance Dashboard
I have been a bit busy the past 2 weeks and haven’t had time to put together new content. So this week’s post is going to be a bit light. However, I think it is an important topic - it is instructive for investors to have a relatively good understanding of how their finances stand. Hence, bringing up the topic of building a Personal Finance dashboard to…
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The Coffee Can Investor
8 Investing Lessons from a Mountain Climbing Trip
The past week, my colleagues and I went on a camping/hiking trip near Lake Tahoe, California. We camped at Fallen Leaf Campgrounds, and we hiked up Mt Tallac, a mountain at about 3000m elevation, with a hike that is about 10.5km each way in a climb, spanning about 1000m elevation from the campground…
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Summary Analysis: Bunzl Inc
After my last post on Sumitomo Corporation (8053.T), let’s move westwards and talk about Bunzl Inc, a UK headquartered distribution services business. Founded originally in 1854, Bunzl spent its first century in existence in various businesses completely unrecognisable from its current existence - as a haberdashery, as a cigarette and filter maker, as a …
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Happy Investing!