Last time on the Wealth Builder series, Matt Wood talked about value investing in relatively low-cost stocks that pay dividends. Companies that cashflow, just like your own.

The other approach, known as growth investing, while more alluring, is also way higher risk. Not better or worse. Just different.

For every friend or acquaintance who struck it rich on Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, or even Bitcoin, there are 10 more quietly sulking and licking their wounds because they bought at the wrong time, didn’t understand the asset, or underestimated the downside.

Value investing is buying for stability and cash flow. Growth investing is buying for the major upside. They both can work, but the approaches are very different.

In this episode, we will show that when it comes to growth investing, there is a standard of excellence to analyzing companies and how well they’re run that real professionals hold to before taking any investment position. 

It’s not roulette… it’s a careful selection based on real data and rigorous research.

To help demystify the world of growth investing, we’re joined by Anthony Scilipoti.  He is the President and CEO of Veritas Investment Research. A CPA in Canada and the US for the last 30 years, his team of 28 conducts and publishes rigorous research and analysis on publicly traded companies to help investors understand which ones accurately represent what’s happening inside their companies and which ones are hiding behind smoke and mirrors.

Highlights:

• Anthony’s methodology for analyzing companies from the inside out
• He illustrates that accounting is very subjective, and there is a lot more to understanding a company and its potential value than what you see on it’s stock ticker
• As a bonus, Anthony also gives us some perspective on growth stocks and why people invest in expensive companies that don’t push out cash dividends.

Your hard-earned money should be invested in great companies, not just the latest trends.