Equity Research & Valuation Tampa, FL

Finding value where the rest of the market isn't looking.

Independent, institutional-grade research on under-covered small- and micro-cap equities, combining primary and secondary sources into fundamental analysis that arrives at a defensible intrinsic value.

I.
Approach

How I think about a business.

My primary focus is an independent research process on small- and micro-cap equities in the U.S. and Canada, hunting for businesses at an inflection in operating leverage and profitability before the market re-rates them.

Separately, I spent this past summer as the sole equity researcher for a Bahamian investment firm with over $1 billion in AUM, working to push that market past a status quo where listed companies trade on reputation and word of mouth rather than real analysis. I built valuation coverage on BISX-listed companies across banking, insurance, consumer, telecom, and healthcare, from scratch.

Across both, the throughline is conviction earned the slow way: understand the business model through countless hours of research, stress the downside, and only then form a view on value. I'd rather hold five names I understand deeply than thirty I've skimmed.

Focus
Equity research & valuation
Markets
US / Canada · Bahamas (BISX)
Cap range
Small & micro-cap
Track
CFA Level I candidate
Based
Tampa, Florida
II.
Methodology

From a universe of a hundred to a thesis of one.

01 · Screen

Narrow the universe

A funnel from a broad watchlist down to a short list, filtering for operating-leverage and profitability inflections the market hasn't yet priced. 100 → 10 → 3

02 · Diligence

Read the filings

Financial statements, earnings quality, and capital structure from primary sources, building a view of what the business actually earns and where it can break.

03 · Investigate

Find what isn't handed to you

Where the disclosures go quiet, I do the legwork a journalist would: chasing primary sources and piecing together detail no one packaged up. In overlooked names, the edge usually lives in the information you have to dig for.

04 · Value

Build it bottom-up

Bottom-up DCF models that project a company's future free cash flows and discount them back to present value at a required rate of return. Every output is formula-driven, never hardcoded.

III.
Research

Coverage & selected work.

United States & Canada · Small & Micro-Cap

Research notes

My primary focus. A pipeline of U.S. and Canadian names is in active research right now.

In progress

The first published notes, each with a written thesis and the model behind it, are on the way. Check back soon.

The Bahamas · BISX

Listed-company coverage

Built over a summer as the sole equity researcher for a Bahamian investment firm. Detailed models are held privately; summaries available on request.

TickerSectorPrimary method
AMLConsumer / retailDCF
CABTelecomDCF
BWLIndustrialsDCF
DHSHealthcareDCF
CBLBankingResidual income · DDM
IV.
Contact

Open to research and valuation roles across public and private markets.

© 2026 Mario Johnson · Tampa, Florida · Built name by name.