Think Like Buffett: How the Screener and the Intrinsic Value Calculator Work Together

There's a reason one sentence from Warren Buffett has outlived every market fad:

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

It sounds simple. It is not easy. Because to live by it, you need to answer two
questions about every stock — and the market only ever hands you one of them for free.

The market shouts the price at you every second of the day. What it never tells you
is the value — what the business might actually be worth. Close that gap, and you're
no longer guessing; you're investing the way Benjamin Graham taught and Buffett made
famous. Leave it open, and you're just reacting to a number on a screen.

TyBuff was built to close that gap. And it does it with two tools that, used together,
turn Buffett's one-liner into a repeatable routine: the Screener and the Intrinsic
Value Calculator.

The market is a weighing machine — eventually

Graham gave us the metaphor; Buffett quotes it to this day:

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a
weighing machine."

In the short run, price is a popularity contest — fear, hype, headlines. In the long
run, weight wins: earnings, cash flow, durable quality. Value investing is simply the
discipline of paying attention to the weight while everyone else is busy voting.

That's the spirit behind both tools below. One helps you study the company. The other
helps you weigh it. Neither tells you what to do — that part stays gloriously, entirely
yours.

Tool one: the Screener — your research lab for a single stock

Start the way you'd start a Google search. Type a ticker, a company name, or an ISIN into
the Screener, and instead of ten blue links you get a complete, single-page research
file on that one company.

It's all there, assembled for you:

This is the "study the business" half of Buffett's discipline — fast, visual, and deep.
Buffett reads thousands of pages a year to understand a company. You can't read less
than him and expect his results — but you can read faster, with the whole picture on one
screen.

Tool two: the Intrinsic Value Calculator — your value anchor

Studying a company tells you what it is. The Intrinsic Value Calculator tells you
what it might be worth — and that's the number that turns a watcher into an investor.

Type the same ticker and it runs two of the most respected valuation methods ever
devised, side by side:

Then it does the thing Graham cared about most. It shows you the Margin of Safety —
how far below (or above) that estimated value the price currently sits. As Graham put it:

"The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid."

A margin of safety is the cushion between what something is worth and what you pay for it.
It's the entire reason value investors sleep at night. The calculator surfaces it as a
single, honest percentage — and even ranks the market's most undervalued and overvalued
names on a leaderboard, so you can go hunting for the gap.

A quick, important word of honesty (and Buffett would insist on it): these are models,
not prophecies. They shine on established, profitable companies and can mislead on
fast-growth, cyclical, or unprofitable ones. The page tells you so itself. That humility
is the value-investing mindset — Buffett's first rule, after all, is about not fooling
yourself.

The combination: screen, weigh, then wait for your pitch

Here's where it clicks. Use them together, and you've rebuilt Buffett's whole process
in a few clicks:

  1. Screen the company to understand its business, trend, and quality.
  2. Run the Intrinsic Value Calculator to estimate what it's worth.
  3. Look at the margin of safety — is the market offering it for meaningfully less
    than your estimate of value?

Buffett's most quoted piece of advice is about exactly this patience:

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the
patient."

And his famous image of the discipline:

"The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything —
you can wait for your pitch."

The Screener and the Calculator are how you tell a fastball from a curveball. Most stocks,
most days, are not your pitch — and that's fine. The tools are just as valuable for the
companies they help you pass on as for the ones they help you find.

Turn conviction into a Tracked portfolio

So you've done the work. You've studied a handful of companies, weighed them, and a couple
genuinely look interesting to you. Now what?

Now you build a Tracked portfolio — TyBuff's manual, hand-built portfolio, where every
position is one you chose and recorded. There's no model running it; it's your watchlist,
your conviction, your ledger. You:

This is the part that connects research to reality. Buffett doesn't trade screens; he owns
businesses he's convinced of and lets time do the heavy lifting:

"Our favorite holding period is forever."

A Tracked portfolio is where that long view actually lives — a record of what you believed,
when, and at what price, so you can hold yourself to it.

An AI research analyst that never sleeps

Here's the modern twist Graham never had: a tireless analyst sitting next to every page.

While you research a stock, the Screener's ticker-aware chat already knows that page —
its chart, volatility, fundamentals, and institutional-activity signals — so you can simply
ask: "What's the recent trend context?" or "Summarize the institutional signals here."
While you manage your Tracked portfolio, a second assistant can discuss your own
numbers — performance, positions, exposure — in plain language.

It's like having a research desk on call, for the cost of a few AI credits per question —
turning hours of digging into a conversation. Buffett prized temperament over raw
brainpower:

"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."

The AI handles the legwork so you can spend your energy where it matters: on judgment, on
patience, on staying rational when the market isn't.

The full loop, the Buffett way

Put it all together and you have a complete, repeatable cycle — the value-investing process,
modernized:

  1. Discover & study a company in the Screener.
  2. Weigh it with the Intrinsic Value Calculator and check the margin of safety.
  3. Decide for yourself — and only act on the ones that are genuinely your pitch.
  4. Build a Tracked portfolio of the convictions you choose to record.
  5. Follow the stats and chat with the AI as the story develops over months and years.

Two questions — what's it worth? and what's the market doing? — answered on one
platform, the way the greatest investor of the modern era taught the world to ask them.

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a
wonderful price." — Warren Buffett

The Screener helps you spot the wonderful company. The Intrinsic Value Calculator helps you
judge the fair price. Your Tracked portfolio remembers the decision. The rest — the
patience, the conviction, the discipline — has always been, and will always be, the
investor's own.

A note in the spirit of Graham's honesty: TyBuff is an analytical research platform, not a
financial adviser. Everything described here — scores, valuations, margins of safety, AI
reports, and chat answers — is an analytical output generated from historical and market
data, for educational and informational purposes only. None of it is investment advice or a
recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security, and past results never guarantee future
ones. Markets carry real risk, including the loss of your entire investment. The tools are
built to help you do your own research and make your own decisions — see our Terms &
Conditions and Full Disclaimer. The quotations
above are attributed to Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham and are reproduced here for
educational commentary.