Value Investing: Finding Businesses Worth Owning
A practical framework for analyzing companies, estimating intrinsic value, and building a disciplined long-term portfolio
This Value Investing course teaches you how to evaluate businesses with a clear, owner-focused mindset and make smarter decisions in Finance. You’ll learn how to separate price from true worth, estimate intrinsic value, and build a disciplined long-term portfolio with confidence.
Analyze Businesses and Invest With Confidence
- Learn a practical framework for analyzing companies, estimating intrinsic value, and building a disciplined long-term portfolio
- Understand Value Investing from its roots with Graham and Buffett to modern applications
- Read financial statements with greater clarity to assess earnings quality, balance sheet strength, and cash generation
- Apply risk controls, margin of safety, and behavioral discipline to improve decision-making
A practical framework for analyzing companies, estimating intrinsic value, and building a disciplined long-term portfolio.
In this course, you will study the core principles of Value Investing and learn how to think like a business owner rather than a short-term trader. The lessons walk you through the foundations of Finance, from price versus intrinsic value to the history of value investing and the ideas that shaped some of the greatest long-term investors.
You will also build the analytical skills needed to assess a company’s real economic strength. That includes reading income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, identifying durable competitive advantages, evaluating management quality, and normalizing earnings so you can see through one-time items and business cycles. These skills help you distinguish strong businesses from superficial bargains.
The course goes further by showing you how to estimate intrinsic value using valuation multiples and discounted cash flow fundamentals, then protect your downside with margin of safety, position sizing, and risk management. You will also learn how catalysts, time horizon, diversification, concentration, and cash affect portfolio construction and performance.
By the end, you will be able to turn analysis into a clear investment memo and make decisions with more discipline and less emotion. You will leave with a repeatable approach to Finance that supports better stock selection, stronger conviction, and a more durable long-term investing process.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Foundations and Mindset
1 lesson
Core Investing Principle
1 lesson
Graham, Buffett, and Beyond
1 lesson
Business Analysis Basics
1 lesson
Earnings and Profitability
1 lesson
Assets, Liabilities, and Capital Structure
1 lesson
Cash Generation and Quality of Earnings
1 lesson
Moats and Industry Structure
1 lesson
Leadership and Stewardship
1 lesson
Adjusting for Cycles and One-Time Items
1 lesson
Comparables and Quick Screens
1 lesson
Estimating Intrinsic Value
1 lesson
Building an Investment Buffer
1 lesson
When Value Becomes Visible
1 lesson
Position Sizing and Downside Control
1 lesson
Staying Rational Under Pressure
1 lesson
Diversification, Concentration, and Cash
1 lesson
From Analysis to Decision
1 lesson
Professor Samuel Reed
Professor Samuel Reed guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.