Cash Return on Capital Invested
Ten Years of Investment Analysis with the CROCI Economic Profit Model

Pascal Costantini (Author)

9780750668545, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 10 May 2006

248 pages, Illustrated
23.4 x 16.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 kg

"Costantini distills the apparently arcane art of company valuation into common sense. The book is always accessible, is pleasingly iconoclastic, and is liberally studded with gems of his dry and often self-deprecating humour. In a financial world where investment performance is measured on timescales that increasingly bear no resemblance to corporate investment horizons, this should be required reading as a reality check for every analyst and fund manager--preferably before they reach full-time employment." --Tom Bannatyne, Chairman, Tudor Capital (UK) LP

In this book, Pascal Costantini gives a lively and wonderfully readable account of ten years of efforts by a small group of investment analysts to find a reliable, practical and implementable method for valuing and selecting shares. The result of their effort is an original investment methodology called CROCI (Cash Return on Capital Invested), best described as a variation of the economic profit model. For over a decade now, Costantinis group at Deutsche Bank has been using this valuation tool every time it has had to take a view on the pricing of an equity asset, be it a market, a sector or an individual sharein other words, every single working day, since it is this groups job to advise institutional investors on equity valuation. Costantini describes in detail, accompanied by concrete examples in the form of charts and graphs, the precise investment results of the actual implementation of the CROCI approach in the global equity markets since 1996. Readers will enjoy taking this journey with Costantini to see how and why the model was developed, assess the results of ten years of actual implementation and measure the successes of using this model in stock picking and portfolio construction. This book will also make it easy for them to see how the CROCI approach can be used successfully by others now and in the future.The book is divided into four parts. The first part is a review and discussion of the fundamentals of investment analysis. The second part is dedicated to the construction of economic data, with the sole objective of calculating an economically meaningful asset multiple and relative return, the combination of which gives an economic PE ratio, the authors main stock selection tool. While the economic profit model is not exactly new, it is still largely ignored by the investment community. In essence, it does three things: it calculates the real amount of cash, or value created by a business; it compares the market value of an asset to an approximation of its replacement value; and it assumes that the former will converge to the latter through the arbitrage of investors and capital providers. The third part is dedicated to the analysis of economic data, and the last part deals with the actual implementation of the CROCI economic profit model, including real life examples. This final part also discusses how to use the output of the CROCI model with individual stocks, and then with investment portfolios.*Techniques are based on the authors performance record at Deutsche Bank since 1996 *Based on almost ten years of proprietary knowledge and implementation of these techniques*Factual illustrations of the results of the valuation techniques are provided at each step

Part One: What Is Investment Analysis?
Chapter 1 Investment, Investors and Financial Analysis
Chapter 2 The PE and the Equivalence Principle
Part Two: Digging the Foundations: Reconstruction of Economic Data
Chapter Three Measuring the Value of Economic Assets
Chapter Four: The Relative Return
Chapter Five The Price of Growth
Part Three: Drawing the Plans: Analysis of Economic Profits
Chapter Six: Fundamental Analysis of Economic Characteristics
Chapter Seven: Investment Analysis
Part Four: Building the House: Implementation of an Economic Profit Model
Chapter Eight: Stock Picking with an Economic Profit Model
Chapter Nine: Investing with an Economic Profit Model
Conclusion
References

Subject Areas: Investment & securities [KFFM], Corporate finance [KFFH], Finance [KFF]