Value Investor Journal ®

@VJ_Rabindranath · Coimbatore, India · joined 11 Aug 2009

38 199Followers

2Following

4 969Posts total

6.2KViews on collected posts

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Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath12 Aug

"Margin of safety" that spread between the price you pay and the value you receive should be your primary source of returns. Then improvement in business fundamentals & upward revision in expectations are the bonus component of returns. I call this "Don't try too hard" investing. 1.7K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath1 Aug

While we teach, we learn - Seneca https://t.co/igmTU8P5om 1.4K views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath30 Jul

Someone asked me 'how would you describe the stock market, if you had to, in one simple line?' My response: 'A place where individually people are stupid but collectively wise.' 1.5K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath18 Jul

@VJ_Rabindranath If you don't watch tv or actively follow news, you become genuinely opinion-less on most things. 34 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath18 Jul

The lowest form of intelligence is to have an opinion on everything under the sun. Being opinion-less on things that don't matter at all is a strength - not a weakness. "If you wish to improve," Epictetus said "be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters." 1.5K views · 17 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath3 Jun 2021

Let me share a real-life story. The “Next” Warren Buffett I know. A thread. 🧵 1/ This story may sound like “Tuesdays with Morrie.” Because whenever I would meet this guy I would try to pick his brains on how to live a simple life and how he goes about investing. 0 views · 1.1K likes · 325 reposts · 111 replies Open on X →

Value Investor Journal ®@VJ_Rabindranath3 Jun 2021

@VJ_Rabindranath This is something I have often wondered about. Is valuation insignificant when looking at a decade? And, in the age of so much disruption, can we even have that long a time frame - 2 decades? @vipuls1979 you had some views on valuation over the long term, if I 0 views · 25 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 564this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.09%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.02%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 564	924	1.69×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.09%	3.62%	1.13×
Engagement rate	1.02%	1.52%	0.67×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.5K18 Jul

1.5K30 Jul

1.4K1 Aug

1.7K12 Aug

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.53%18 Jul

5.88%

0.40%30 Jul

0.98%1 Aug

1.06%12 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes66.2%53 in total

Reposts10.0%8 in total

Replies2.5%2 in total

Bookmarks21.2%17 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.