The Acquirer’s Multiple screeners examine the universe of US-listed stocks and ADRs to find the cheapest on the acquirer’s multiple, the name for the metric used by activists, private equity firms and corporate raiders to find deeply undervalued targets. How are the universes defined? We exclude stocks traded over-the-counter (OTC stocks), … Read More
Returns to The Acquirer’s Multiple® Screeners and The Best Value Stocks
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Johnny’s Real-Life Acquirers Multiple Portfolio – Update
OK, a few people have asked me what’s happening with my monthly updates for ‘Johnny’s Real-Life Acquirers Multiple Portfolio’ (AM Portfolio). For those of you that are unaware, I constructed my own AM Portfolio, using my own savings, here at The Acquirer’s Multiple starting in December of 2015. You can read all … Read More
The biggest problem in share investing, is you!
Huh! I don’t mean you as an individual, but you as a human being, when it comes to investing in shares. I’ve just finished reading a whole bunch of research from various sources which clearly show that human beings make terrible decisions when it comes to investing in shares. I … Read More
The Acquirer’s Multiple® Strategy Survey
The Acquirer’s Multiple® is the value ratio “acquirers”—buyout firms, activists, deep value investors—use to find undervalued stocks. As Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations shows undervalued companies trading on a low acquirer’s multiple tend to be good targets for investment. We Need Your Help We’d like to … Read More
Returns to The Acquirer’s Multiple® Screeners and The Best Value Stocks
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How can individual investors beat institutional investors
I know what you’re thinking! How can one retail investor sitting at home with a laptop and an online brokerage account possibly get better returns than a institutional investor? To answer this question, we first need to understand what an institutional investor is. An institutional investor is an organisation whose … Read More
MIND C.T.I. Ltd. strong balance sheet, undervalued micro cap
This week the ‘Small and Micro Cap’ screener uncovered a little gem called MIND C.T.I. Ltd. (NASDAQ:MNDO) MIND CTI is a leading provider of convergent end-to-end prepaid/postpaid billing and customer care product based solutions for service providers as well as unified communications analytics and call accounting solutions for enterprises. Last week the … Read More
Is Home Bias Hurting Your Portfolio?
One of the things that stops some investors from using The Acquirer’s Multiple investment strategy is that they’re based outside of the United States and are unsure about investment in the US shares provided by the ‘screens’ on this website. Like you, I’m not based in the United States. I’m … Read More
Returns to The Acquirer’s Multiple® Screeners and The Best Value Stocks
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Here’s why I prefer The Acquirer’s Multiple over The Discounted Cash Flow Model, for valuation
People often ask me why I use the mechanical method of investing provided by The Acquirer’s Multiple versus The Discounted Cash Flow Model. The answer can be found in this excerpt from the book, Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations, written by the founder … Read More
Returns to The Acquirer’s Multiple® Screeners and The Best Value Stocks
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Here’s why First Solar is one of the best picks in The Large Cap Screener $FSLR
If you’re like me, you believe that as ageing coal power plants are decommissioned, there’s enormous potential for renewable energy, and utility-scale PV (photovoltaic solar energy solutions) in particular. One company filling this void of providing clean and affordable electricity is First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR). If you want to learn … Read More
Why did Tilly’s Inc jump 7.9% in the All Investable Screener? $TLYS
Why did Tilly’s Inc (NYSE:TLYS) jump 7.9% in the All Investable Screener? Earlier this week, Tilly’s announced its first quarter 2016 results. “Our first quarter results were at the better end of our outlook range before taking a legal provision into account, and we managed inventory well with a 7% decrease on a per square … Read More
Returns to The Acquirer’s Multiple® Screeners and The Best Value Stocks
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2. Deep Value Investing Returns (Acquirer’s Multiple) – January 2, 1999 to November 29, 2017
Updated November 29, 2017 Since the last update in July 26, 2016, the screens have had mixed performance. The Large Cap Screen had a strong finish to end the 2016 year up 27.4 percent, handily beating out the Russell 1000’s 15.1 percent by 12.3 percent. 2017 to date has seen continued strength … Read More
3. Don’t Mess With the Screens – Human Intervention Hurts Your Performance
There are two basic approaches to using the screeners that I call business owner, and quantitative investor. The business owner uses the screeners as the launching pad for further research, examining each stock the way a classic, fundamental investor would: As a business. The business owner buys a stock in the screener only if it trades at a … Read More
Why has SAExploration Holdings jumped 8.6%? $SAEX
As Tobias tweeted recently: Biggest movers today in the Small and Micro Screener were SAEX 8.6 percent, CVR 6.3 percent, and LAKE 5.8 percent. So, I thought I’d take a look at SAExploration Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:SAEX) to find out why their share price is climbing. SAExploration recently announced its consolidated financial results … Read More
Ceragon jumps 2.1% in the Small & Micro Cap Screener $CRNT
Ceragon Networks Ltd (NASDAQ:CRNT), the #1 wireless backhaul specialist, recently announced that a leading mobile operator in the Southern Cone of South America is continuing its multi-country, large scale 4G LTE expansion and modernization project using the IP-20 Platform. Following a successful rollout in 2015, this longstanding Ceragon customer placed follow-up … Read More
Returns to The Acquirer’s Multiple® Screeners and The Best Value Stocks
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