Glossary
Deep dive
M8.03 · M8.04Also called three-day deep dive, full analysis.
The full rebuild of a business from primary filings, taking days rather than hours, and producing the conviction a position needs.
The work is rebuilding rather than reading: reconstructing the segment history, normalising the earnings, building the capital and returns series, understanding the competitive position from several sources, and stress-testing the result.
The output is a model, a thesis, a set of monitoring conditions and a valuation range.
Most companies do not deserve this. The ones that do deserve all of it.