Pricing Power

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The Idea Farm
November 12, 2023

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“Never play macho man with the market.”

Paul Tudor Jones

Research

Steve Hou - Pricing Power Everywhere (16 pages)

Bloomberg Indices’ Steve Hou does a deep dive on pricing power, which has become become top of mind for investors as inflation has risen to the highest levels in four decades. He defines pricing power as profit margin stability and finds pricing power stocks to be higher quality, higher growth and low beta.

"The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power. If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10 percent, then you've got a terrible business." – Warren Buffett

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