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"Great investors hardly allocate capital solely based on their "gut feel" or pure strategic foresight. They often rely on a solid body of qualitative and quantitative analysis that help those capital allocators make sense of the opportunity and develop the conviction necessary to pull the trigger This book will be a primer in "value investing math": a set of quantitative analysis tools that are part of the toolkit of great investment professionals. Each chapter begins with a real-life "minicase" of an investor utilizing a specific quantitative tool. The chapter then moves to introduce that tool and provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how to find the relevant information andexecute the "math" to derive useful insights. The author will also examine scenarios where such standard investing formulas might hit a roadblock and lay out possible responses to these events"--