Analyzing Secular Growth Stocks

The section concludes with this Chapter, which lists the points made while analyzing companies with long-term growth such as consumers, IT, and pharmaceuticals. 

Pricing power - If a company can raise its prices by 6-8% per year or maintain its prices while the input costs are low. However, business expansion is more important because prices can only be raised only till a certain point. 

Breaking the product down into smaller sizes is an excellent way to keep customers. As the price of the products falls.

Some characteristics of a long-term growth company include:

• Expensive as compared with stocks from other sectors.
• Long-term business viability, for example it’s not easy for a company like Nestle or a Colgate to go out of business. 
• Generating free cash flow and low in capital expenditure as these companies throw back lots of cash dividends to its shareholders.