Chart showing Median Acquirer’s Multiple (EV / EBIT Operating Income) and Rolling 12-Month Returns in the Large Cap 1000 Universe (1999 to 2018)

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The chart above shows the median acquirer’s multiple (LHS) in the largest 1000 US-listed stocks and ADRs each quarter since 1999 versus the subsequent 12-month returns for the universe (RHS, inverted). The relationship isn’t particularly predictive (R-squared is 0.12). The median acquirer’s multiple right now is 20.11. That sits at the … Read More

George Soros: “I Believe That Market Prices Are Always Wrong In The Sense That They Present A Biased View Of The Future”

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One of our favorite investing books here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros. There’s one passage in particular which encapsulates Soros’ successful approach to investing and what makes him different to most other investors. Soros writes: In the first ten years of my business … Read More

Tobias Carlisle: Interview With ‘The Sure Investing Podcast’ On The Acquirer’s Multiple & Deep Value Investing

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Here’s a great interview at The Sure Investing Podcast with our Chief here at The Acquirer’s Multiple – Tobias Carlisle. During the interview Tobias discusses his book – The Acquirer’s Multiple and how he developed his deep value investing strategy. To listen to the interview click on the ‘play’ button below: Please take … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Reads

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Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Full Collection Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meetings (Videos) (Warren Buffett Archive) The Nerds Were Right. Math Makes Life Beautiful. (Farnam Street) You Are What You Read (The Reformed Broker) Bad Advice Can Be Expensive (A Wealth of Common Sense) Should I Time the Market? (The Irrelevant Investor) Nobody Planned This, … Read More

Charlie Munger: The First Rule Of Value Investing

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Here’s a great interview with Charlie Munger and Yahoo Finance Editor-In-Chief Andy Serwer. During the interview Munger discusses the first rule of value investing: Value investing has changed over the years, but the fundamental way its disciples think about it hasn’t, according to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) vice chair Charlie Munger. … Read More

Bruce Greenwald: “You Are Who You Are. That’s Why I’m Not Really A Professional Investor!”

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We’ve just been reading through the latest issue of the Graham & Doddsville newsletter featuring a great interview with Mark Cooper and Bruce Greenwald. Mark Cooper is a co-portfolio manager of the International Small Cap Value strategy at First Eagle Investment Management. He’s also one of Greenwald’s former students and current collaborators. During the interview, … Read More

Warren Buffett’s Three Best Investing Tips — Including ‘Margin of Safety’ — Explained

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Here’s a great article at CNBC discussing Warren Buffett’s three best investing tips, including margin of safety: Warren Buffett believes investors should buy stocks within their “circle of competence” and at attractive values to succeed in the stock market. Buffett’s track record is unparalleled. From 1965 to 2017, Berkshire Hathaway’s … Read More

Seth Klarman: Successful Value Investing Requires A Multi-Strategy Approach

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Back in 2008 Columbia Business School celebrated the 75th anniversary of the publication of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd’s Security Analysis. The anniversary celebration, hosted by the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, consisted of a symposium featuring contributors to the sixth edition of Security Analysis, including David Abrams, Bruce … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Reads

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Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Is Book Value as Relevant as it used to be? (Part 1) (csinvesting) Inertia: The Force That Holds the Universe Together (Farnam Street) The Cost of Waiting (The Irrelevant Investor) BANG: Why The Gold Miners Could Soon Make FANG Look Tame (The Felder Report) 50 Shades of Warren Buffett (Vitaliy … Read More

John Maynard Keynes: Only In The Stockmarket Do We Frequently Attempt To Revalue Businesses Hourly, Daily, And Weekly

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One of the best books ever written on investing and investor psychology is – The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes. One passage in particular illustrates how the stock market is the only medium in which we frequently attempt to revalue businesses hourly, weekly, and monthly. … Read More

Charlie Munger: The Stock Picking Industry Is Four Or Five Percent Super-Rational, Disciplined People, And The Rest Of Them Are Sort Of Like Faith-Healers Or Shamans

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One of the best resources for investors are the Daily Journal Annual Meetings chaired by Charles Munger. During the 2015 Annual Meeting Munger was asked the following question regarding indexing and what it might lead to: “Indexing has grown a lot in the last thirty years or so as a form … Read More

Seth Klarman: Interplanetary Visitors Would Question Our Intelligence If They Examined The Behavior Of Financial Market Participants

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One of the best book’s ever written on investing is Margin of Safety, by Seth Klarman. In one passage in particular Klarman illustrates how interplanetary visitors would question the intelligence of human beings if they examined the behavior of financial market participants. Here is an excerpt from that book: If interplanetary visitors … Read More