For this week’s post, I decided to talk to the camera. Be sure to watch if you haven’t here.

To Focused Compounding Members,   I hope everyone had a great holiday! Let me start by saying I am not one for New Year’s resolutions. I genuinely believe you should start today instead of tomorrow – and that an arbitrary date should not dictate when you should work to become the better version of yourself.   That said, one of the things I wanted Geoff and myself to do before the new year was to write down 5 goals that we would be proud of

by ANDREW KUHN   Parks! America                                              Price:    $0.14 Shares: 74.8m MC:     $10.4m Cash:    $3.2m Debt:    $2.4m EV:       $9.6m   Geoff and I use a checklist that we go through before investing in any company. Let’s go over it here before jumping into the actual business.   Boxes that need to be checked for us to invest:   Overlooked: Parks! America is an illiquid microcap. The stock currently has a market cap of only $10.4m, of which only about 4% of the shares turn over

“Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business” -Warren Buffett For the past few weeks I have been studying and doing research on Hostess Brands, the maker of the classic chocolate cupcake with the squiggly white frosting line and of course the iconic, golden, cream-filled Twinkie. At first glance, the company passed almost all my filters on my investment checklist for a company I would want to be involved with. They claim to have a 90%