One of the investor’s we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Bill Nygren. Nygren has been a manager of the Oakmark Select Fund since 1996, Oakmark Fund since 2000 and the Oakmark Global Select Fund since 2006. He is also the Chief Investment Officer for U.S. Equities at … Read More
Mario Gabelli: We’ll Use The Same Guiding Principles To Avoid Over-Paying For A Company’s Intrinsic Value And Lose Less During Market Manias
One of the investors we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Mario Gabelli, Founder, Chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, Inc. Gabelli recently did a Q&A session with some folks at Reddit which provided some great value investing insights. Here’s an except from the thread on Reddit: Hello Reddit! … Read More
Sequoia Fund: A Great Value Investing Mindset Creates A Substainable Advantage
One of the value investing firms that we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb (RCG), the investment adviser best known for managing the Sequoia Fund. RCG recently released its Q2 2018 Investor Letter. For the second quarter of 2018, Sequoia Fund generated a total return … Read More
Mason Hawkins: Real Value Investing Has A Humility Not Present In Today’s More Popular Method Of Heavily Weighing The Qualitative Factors Of The Business And Minimizing The Importance Of Valuation
One of the value investors we like to follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Mason Hawkins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Longleaf Partners (Longleaf). Last week Longleaf released its Q218 Shareholder Letter which contains a number of warnings for today’s investors saying: “Managers who say convincingly today that … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 07/13/2018
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Some Considerations For Investing Globally (A Wealth of Common Sense) 50 Years of Financial History in Ten Minutes–The Yield Curve Comes Alive (csinvesting) Looking For Value In All The Wrong Places (The Felder Report) Amazon as a Value Stock? Believe It (Bloomberg) … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Undervalued Thor Industries Inc (NYSE: THO)
One of the cheapest stocks in our Large Cap 1000 Stock Screener is Thor Industries Inc (NYSE: THO). Thor Industries Inc (Thor) is an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles through its subsidiaries. The company mainly sells vehicles in the United States and Canada. The company has two reporting segments: towable recreational vehicles … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Dalio, Greenblatt, Grantham Portfolios
One of the new weekly additions here at The Acquirer’s Multiple features some of the top picks from our Stock Screeners and some top investors who are holding these same picks in their portfolios. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray … Read More
Nassim Taleb: Economists Don’t Predict Better Than Cab Drivers. Typically A Little Worse, Often!
Here’s a great interview with Nassim Taleb and Bob Shiller hosted by Nick Paumgarten at The New Yorker Summit. The panel is discussing economics, economists, and their role in finance. Taleb is asked the following question: Paumgarten: Is Economics Even A Science? And here is his Taleb’s response: Taleb: No, no, … Read More
Baupost Says Copy of Seth Klarman’s Book on Amazon Was Not Authorized
In case you haven’t heard. Earlier this month a Kindle version of Seth Klarman’s bible – Margin on Safety, which sells for around $1500, appeared for sale on Amazon for $9.99. Here’s how Bloomberg reported it: Baupost Group said the version of Seth Klarman’s 1991 investment book, “Margin of Safety,” … Read More
Bill Nygren: Value Investors Need To Adapt Their Business Valuation Strategies
In The Oakmark Funds’ latest Q218 market commentary Bill Nygren says that value investors need to adapt their value investing strategies for today’s companies because book value is no longer a definitive indicator of economic value: “For companies in the S&P 500 today, the correlation between stock price and tangible … Read More
Is David Einhorn’s Underperformance A Sign That Value Investing Is Set to Return
Here’s a great article at CNBC which discusses the similarities between David Einhorn’s current performance and that of Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management back in 1999/2000. In terms of what Einhorn’s current performance means for the future of value investing, the article makes the following point: “The down-on-his-luck investor [Einhorn] may … Read More
Stanley Druckenmiller: My Biggest Mistake And What I Learned From It
Here’s a great interview with Stanley Druckenmiller at the Lost Tree Club in 2015. While the entire interview is a must read for all investors, there’s one answer from Druckenmiller that requires closer attention. Ken Langone asks Druckenmiller: KL: You mentioned some of your biggest winners in your career. What is … Read More
How Does Seth Klarman Implement His Value Investing Strategy Differently To Many Other Value Investors
Last week @NeckarValue tweeted a link to a great interview with Seth Klarman at Barron’s titled – “Value Hunter in a Sky-High Market”. The article provided a number of great value investing insights by Klarman and how he implements his value investing strategy differently to a lot of other value investors. Here’s … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 07/06/2018
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Sustaining Wealth is Harder Than Getting Rich (A Wealth of Common Sense) Markets Go Up and Down; Shorting Stocks (csinvesting) If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is? (Michael Mauboussin) The Broker Who Saved America (The Reformed … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Marks, Greenblatt, Simons Portfolios
One of the new weekly additions here at The Acquirer’s Multiple features some of the top picks from our Stock Screeners and some top investors who are holding these same picks in their portfolios. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Undervalued Foot Locker Inc (NYSE: FL)
One of the cheapest stocks in our Large Cap 1000 Stock Screener is Foot Locker Inc (NYSE: FL). Foot Locker operates thousands of retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It also has one franchisee in the Middle East and one in South Korea, each of which … Read More
Aswath Damodaran: 10 Rules For Analyzing Investments and Assessing Value
One of our favorite investing books here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is The Little Book of Valuation, by Aswath Damodaran. There’s a great passage in the book in which he discusses the importance of being able to value stocks before buying them: “Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as one who … Read More
Charles Munger: The Secret Ingredients That Make Berkshire, And The Daily Journal, So Successful
We’ve just been watching the 2017 Daily Journal Annual Meeting in which Charlie Munger, at 12:18 on the video below, discloses some of the secret ingredients that have made Berkshire and The Daily Journal successful. Here’s an excerpt from the meeting where Munger is speaking about DJCO’s software business: When … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai’s Advice For Value Investors – Forbes
Here’s a great recent interview with Mohnish Pabrai and Kevin Harris at SumZero in which Pabrai provides some valuable investing insights: Kevin Harris: What or who have been your most important investing influences? Mohnish Pabrai: That’s an easy one. My important influences have been Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. I … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: ‘Procyclicality’- How It Drives Market Cycles To Extremes
Michael Mauboussin recently released a great paper called – Procyclicality And Its Extremes in which he discusses ‘Procyclicality’ and how it drives market cycles to extremes. He also provides indicators of procyclicality and methods for coping with, and profiting from it. Here is an excerpt from that paper: In economics, procyclical … Read More