Expectations Investing offers a unique and powerful alternative for identifying value-price gaps. Rappaport and Mauboussin provide everything the reader needs to utilize the discounted cash flow model successfully. And they add an important twist: they suggest that rather than forecasting cash flows, investors should begin by estimating the expectations embedded in a company's stock price.
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An investor who has a fix on the market's expectations can then assess the likelihood of expectations revisions. 
To help investors anticipate such revisions, Rappaport and Mauboussin introduce an 'expectations infrastructure' framework for tracing the process of value creation from the basic economic forces that shape a company's performance to the resulting impact on sales, costs, and investment. Investors who use Expectations Investing will have a fundamentally new way to evaluate all stocks, setting them on the path to success. Managers will be able to use the book to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in light of shareholder expectations.
• Investors can earn superior returns by reading the price-implied expectations in stock prices and correctly anticipating revisions in those expectations. • provides the tools investors need to read expectations and anticipate revisions of those expectations by manipulating the traditional discounted cash flow model, and by bridging the gap between valuation and competitive strategy. Overview and Thoughts:, provides investors with a fantastic framework upon which to make critical investing decisions. The book is a quick read, and the core concepts are relatively straightforward to apply, especially for investors with previous valuation experience. It’s critical today to be able to understand what expectations are embedded in a stock’s current price (what’s priced in?), and this book provides a useful set of tools to estimate these price implied expectations. One question I always ask in my personal investing process is, how does the market view my target?
Expectations Investing also bridges valuation (through the expectations investing framework) with competitive strategy analysis and the evaluation of management decisions. Part 1: Gathering the Tools Chapter 1: The Case For Expectations Investing The authors argue that investors can achieve superior returns by reading the expectations that are currently embedded in the price of a stock, and correctly anticipating revisions in those expectations through competitive strategy analysis, and by reading management signals. Active investors have underperformed for a variety of reasons including but not limited to: costs, incentives, style limitations, and ineffective tools. The expectations framework doesn’t distinguish between styles like growth or value, leads investors to reduce the number of trades they make, and provides them with the correct tools they need to succeed. Here are the three steps in the expectations investing process: • Estimate price-implied expectations (using a reverse DCF model) • Identify expectations opportunities (where the company is most sensitive to revisions in expectations, ie. Sales, costs, investments) • Make a buy, hold, or sell decision Chapter 2: How the Market Values Stocks Research shows that despite popular belief that the market is short-term, it actually values stocks based on the magnitude, timing, and riskiness of long-term expected cash flows. In order to understand what expectations are implied in a stock price, investors need to understand a few key concepts: • How to get from a company’s financial statements to free cash flow • The time value of money and the relationship between discounting and compounding (here’s a cool visual from ) • Traditional DCF analysis The expectations investing framework uses the future free cash flow performance implied by the stock price as a benchmark for decision making.