The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
by Joel Greenblatt
In short, companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.
The third little detail we haven’t yet considered is that next year is only one year.
Second, once we come up with our estimate for how much Jason’s business will earn next year, we have to determine how confident we are in our prediction.