Talk Your Book: Investing in Quality Growth
Jensen Portfolio Manager Kevin Walkush joins Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson of the Animal Spirits Podcast to discuss quality growth investing, active management, and more.
From the podcast:
“An important element of our understanding of our businesses and our portfolio construction is rooted in valuation, so we think about what are the fundamentals driving the business. But equal to that is really the valuation. We don’t want to overpay. We certainly want to identify value in those pockets of value where we can really invest and apply more money to those opportunities.
When we think about valuation, we’re a DCF shop. And when we think about discounted cash flow, an important element is that cost of equity overall. And we do discounted cash flow-to-equity analysis. So, our discount rate is based on a risk-free rate and an equity risk premium. When we think about interest rates, very simply, when we think about impact evaluation, rising interest rates that we’ve been experiencing increase that cost of equity overall. And what we’re seeing then is valuations coming down as a result.”
~ Kevin Walkush, Portfolio Manager and Head of ESG
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