tenbagger

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What tenbagger is, and just as importantly, what it is not. For the full method, work through the learning path.

What is tenbagger?
tenbagger is a value-investing analysis tool. You pick a company, it pulls the fundamentals from FMP, SEC EDGAR, and Dataroma, and it helps you read the business: the financial statements, quality scorecards, what respected investors own, and an estimate of what the company is worth. The point is to understand a business before you own a piece of it.
Does tenbagger tell me what to buy or sell?
No. tenbagger never recommends a stock, never predicts a price, and never gives financial advice. It shows you the numbers and the frameworks value investors use, and you reach your own conclusion. That line is deliberate: the product is here to help you think, not to think for you.
Does tenbagger predict stock prices or returns?
No. It does not forecast prices, rank hot stocks, or promise a return. Value investing is about estimating what a business is worth and paying less than that. tenbagger helps with the estimate, not with guessing where the price goes next.
Who is tenbagger for?
Self-directed investors who would rather understand one business deeply than own fifty they cannot explain. That includes beginners who have opened a 10-K once and closed it fast, and experienced investors who already read filings but want the arithmetic done faithfully in one place.
Do I need to know accounting or finance to use it?
No. The Learn curriculum starts from what a share actually is and builds up to reading the statements and valuing a business, in plain English. Every metric links to a glossary definition, so you pick up the vocabulary as you go.
What frameworks does tenbagger use?
The ones in the value-investing canon: an economic moat scorecard (Buffett and Clark), the Piotroski F-Score for financial health, the Altman Z-Score for bankruptcy risk, DuPont for return on equity, and intrinsic-value estimates including discounted cash flow. The five-questions chapter ties them together.
What data sources does tenbagger use?
Company fundamentals from Financial Modeling Prep, filings from SEC EDGAR, and superinvestor holdings from Dataroma. It focuses on durable fundamentals, not technical charts or price momentum.
Is tenbagger a trading platform?
No. You cannot buy or sell through tenbagger. It is a research and analysis workspace; you act on your own conclusions through your own broker.
What does the name tenbagger mean?
It is Peter Lynch's term for an investment that returns ten times what you paid for it. We use it as a name for the ambition behind patient, business-first investing, not as a promise of any particular result.