Quality in Emerging Markets

Our Working List is our “inventory” of roughly 400 companies, fully vetted as quality names that we would be keen to own, provided valuations are attractive. With respect to Emerging Market (“EM”) names on our Working List, this has increased from 39 companies five...

Diageo’s Valuations over the Decades

Sprucegrove’s inventory of investable candidates, our Working List, is comprised of roughly 400 companies fully vetted by our investment research team as high-quality names we would be pleased to own, provided valuations are attractive. Projected Return on Equity is...

Total, Quality

Over 30 years ago our investment team first identified a quality company that excelled in leveraging its native French competitive strengths to profitably pursue new markets and regions. That company was Total SE (“Total”), with decades of expertise in oil exploration...

Fueled by Fundamentals

Over our 35+ years1 as investment managers, we have focused on investing in quality companies at attractive valuations. We have always defined the quality of a company by the following attributes: (1) at least a 10-year track record of above-average and consistent...

Fundamentals versus Fears

Sprucegrove consistently applies a fundamental, bottom-up process which allows us to invest at times when fear and paranoia may be rampant. We illustrate this within two largely jettisoned segments during the first half of 2020: airlines and cruise lines. As of...

Uncertainty Creates Opportunity

The first quarter of 2020 marked the abrupt end to the longest bull market in history triggered by the fallout from the COVID-19 virus epidemic. Concerns about the magnitude of a global economic recession have led to an unprecedented level of uncertainty. The...
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