Underwriting Process

Capital is committed only after business quality, valuation, and downside are studied together.

Touzani Capital evaluates opportunities through a business-first underwriting framework. The process is intentionally selective and is designed to understand downside before upside is embraced.

High-Level Steps

A concise underwriting sequence for public equities.

Step 1

Business quality review

The starting point is the quality of the underlying enterprise, including economics, incentives, industry structure, and durability of returns.

Step 2

Balance sheet and fragility assessment

Leverage, liquidity, refinancing risk, and adverse-case resilience are studied before a valuation discount is treated as meaningful.

Step 3

Valuation framing

Price is compared with an estimate of intrinsic value under realistic, not promotional, assumptions about cash generation and capital intensity.

Step 4

Downside-first decision making

Position sizing, timing, and willingness to act are shaped by downside asymmetry, opportunity cost, and confidence in the underwriting case.

Economic moats

Durable competitive advantages matter because they support resilience in adverse conditions and can make valuation gaps more investable.

Selective capital deployment

Not every undervalued security deserves capital. The bar for action is intentionally high and remains benchmark independent.

Options-based exposure management

Where appropriate, advanced options structures may be used as a tool for exposure management, downside framing, or capital efficiency within a controlled risk process.

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