Coffee Can Investing
The "Buy and Forget" strategy. Build a portfolio of high-quality companies with clean accounts and consistent growth, then don't touch them for 10 years.
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Visualize how a "Buy & Forget" strategy outperforms standard benchmarks over long horizons.
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The Filtering Process
Only the companies with consistently high ROCE and Revenue Growth survive.
Wealth Projection
The "Gap" between the Gold and Grey lines represents the extra wealth generated by holding high-quality companies vs standard index investing. This gap widens significantly after Year 10 due to compounding.
Selection Criteria
Revenue Growth > 10%
The company must have grown its revenue by at least 10% every single year for the last 10 years. This shows demand for its products.
ROCE > 15%
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) must be above 15% every year. This ensures the company generates cash efficiently and has a "moat".
Why "Coffee Can"?
The term comes from the American Old West, where people would put their valuables in a coffee can and hide it under their mattress, leaving it untouched for decades.
In investing, it refers to the practice of building a high-quality portfolio and then completely ignoring it for a decade. This prevents "activity bias"—the tendency to trade too often, which kills returns through transaction costs and taxes.