nside a four-story, sumptuously restored 19th-century town house in the historic Mount Vernon district of Baltimore, three of Wall Street’s best stock pickers are roasting each other in a wood-paneled
boardroom as sunlight streams through stained-glass windows.
Brown mostly buys growth companies that have revenues of less than $250 million. Its approach is simple: Find businesses that save time, money, headaches and lives. Then determine whether management has the skills to execute a growth strategy that will push their products or technology into new markets. If these criteria are met, load up on the stock and wait.
The firm’s informal culture and its commitment to championing unloved growth stocks is in many ways a reflection of the incredible life journey of Eddie Brown, one of the great untold stories of African American success on Wall Street. Brown, 78, was born in Apopka, Florida, in 1940 to an unwed 13-year-old mother and raised by his grandparents in a part of town without paved roads, indoor plumbing or electricity.
Up north, the white administrators at Brown’s new high school assumed that he should repeat tenth grade and follow an industrial arts curriculum, but Brown’s mother demanded her son be placed in college prep courses. Then, after taking an aptitude test that indicated he might make a good engineer, Brown applied and was accepted to Howard University, a historically black school in Washington, D.C.
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