Today's episode of the podcast, Robert Hirsch from Freedom Factory talks about "Time to Find Freedom and Buy Your Own Business."
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Transcript of Podcast
Hey, it's Robert from Freedom Factory, and I want to talk to you about something that is a really strong belief of mine, but I was in a forum meeting with my fellow group of entrepreneurs and one of my friends looked at me and he said, is buying a business really the most undervalued asset class? You've said that to me often, but I don't know if I necessarily believe it. So I wanted to go through some simple math and the way I look at buying a business and the way I look at other investments. For example, if you buy a business for four times earnings, and let's say you don't make any changes, it's flat, it doesn't grow, whatever. Your changes don't work. That's going to give you a 25% return, meaning it's going to pay for itself in four years because you bought it four times earnings.
Now, on the other hand, let's say you go buy a stock. Let's say that stock has a price to earnings ratio, which is really just a multiple of 33 well, you're buying it at 3% so I mean, what you're really hoping for is maybe 5% after taxes.
So when I look at what that looks like in three years or five years, and use any financial calculator that you want, and you look at the time value of money, those returns make such a massive difference. Warren Buffett's business partner is a guy named Charlie Munger. And Charlie Munger, they asked him, they said, if you were a young man and you were starting again, and there was no Berkshire Hathaway, what would you do?
And he said, I would buy as many software of service companies as I could at five to seven times earnings, which is generally what they go for with low churn, meaning they don't change. And I would change my whole time to forever. So once again, he would buy software as a service companies at five to seven times earnings. With very low churn and it would hold them forever. So he also sees that small businesses are the most undervalued asset class in America. So if you've ever thought about buying a business or how do you find a business that trades at three times earnings or four times earnings or five times earnings, why don't you give us a call at Freedom Factory?
Because I'll tell you, some of the deals that we see are just incredible. And I think money is made on the buy, not on the sell. And if you can buy the right business, especially want to take advantage of your unique abilities are stupid human trick. And I've talked about that in other videos, but what I mean, let's say you find a great engineering company that has a sales problem and you're an extraordinary salesperson. All of a sudden, if you buy that at 4x and you can double it in two years. Well, your return is unbelievable. So if you've ever thought about buying a business or selling a business, give us a call here at Freedom Factory. I look forward to talking to you soon.
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