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Matt Ankrum

Matt Ankrum

Investor and managing partner at Ankrum Capital; portfolio manager specializing in identifying long-term 100-bagger stocks; adjunct finance professor at UMKC and University of Denver.

Jun 22, 2026

56:43
But if Matt had held on to Fastenal, it would have grown how much, Matt?
56:51
It would have been up 19 fold.
56:53
And that was from the point that we sold it.
56:55
So what Neeraj is talking about is that we went out there and this was in 1998.
57:02
And again, I was a young analyst, figured out that they were going to miss numbers, got them to sell the stock.
57:10
It went down 55%.
57:13
I mean, think about that.

7 MINS LATER

64:18
Matt,
19:04
Tell us about that.
19:05
Yeah, I, I will tell you one of the hardest things as an analyst is to truly assess management.
19:13
And the reason why it's really hard is because management is human.
19:18
And, you know, management has incentives.
19:21
They have different alignment sometimes.
19:23
They have...
19:24
You know, they have things that they're working in their best interest.

10 MINS LATER

29:33
How did that come up? And why Australia? And what is it about this company that you like?

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