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Travis Hoium

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

So, you know, it's not a massive growth business.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

They bought this in 1983, but it's a solid growth business.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

It's generating positive free cash flow.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

And I think this just falls into Buffett's wheelhouse because it was a price that we often don't see in markets today.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

And it was a deal with somebody that he was very familiar with.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

I remember Munger in an interview saying something like, hey, we did a lot of deals with the same people for decades.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

And the only reason that people remember us is because we're still alive.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

And

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

So it's just sort of classic Buffett.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

I think even, you know, Rose Blumpkin should be part of the myth of Berkshire Hathaway.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

Buffett joked that he would have to make mandatory retirement age 103 because she worked until 103, tried retiring at 95, but she got bored.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

So it's just kind of classic Buffett in all kinds of different ways, but more legacy Buffett, you know, from the 60s, 70s, 80s, picking up these companies for what we would see as incredibly cheap prices today because he did the work that no one else was willing to do at the time.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

Yeah, absolutely.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

And the other thing is the durability of the business.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

You know, I'm here in the Midwest.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

And there is something about some of these family-run businesses.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

Nebraska Furniture Mart doesn't do anything crazy.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

They don't do anything sexy.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

They sell furniture, but people go there because they've been going there for years or for decades.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Forget Earnings Season. It’s Takeover Season.

That's the way that a lot of businesses run.