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During his recent interview with Behind The Balance Sheet, Bill Nygren reflects on his 40-year investment career, emphasizing the importance of both financials and management quality when selecting companies. Initially focused on buying undervalued companies with strong leadership, he later adopted a strategy aimed at finding firms that offer a … Read More

During his recent interview with the RIA Channel, Bill Nygren outlines his three key criteria for selecting companies. First, the stock must be priced cheaply relative to intrinsic value. Second, the management team should be high quality and act like owners, with a long-term focus on maximizing per-share value. Third, … Read More

In this interview with Value Investor Insight, Bill Nygren discussed the importance of discipline in selling investments when they reach around 90% of their estimated business value. He questions why some value investors, who are methodical when buying, switch to a momentum-based approach when selling—waiting for the market to signal … Read More

In his latest Q2 2024 market commentary Bill Nygren discusses how giant cap growth companies that performed well in 2023 continued their success in 2024, while large cap, slower growth companies that underperformed in 2023 continued to struggle. High-priced growth stocks need to maintain growth rates or high P/E ratios … Read More

During his recent interview with Morningstar Magazine, Bill Nygren discusses value investing, emphasizing paying prices significantly below a company’s business value. He critiques traditional metrics like price/book or P/E ratios, noting their diminishing relevance in today’s knowledge-based economy. GAAP accounting’s conservatism often misrepresents modern investments, such as customer acquisition and … Read More

In his latest Q1 2024 commentary, Bill Nygren explains why investors shouldn’t sell after the S&P500 records new highs. An investor selling at each new high would have missed substantial gains, as holding throughout would have multiplied an investment over 200 times. Here’s an excerpt from the commentary: Nygren: In … Read More

In this interview with John Rotonti, Bill Nygren defines a value trap as a company that looks cheap (low multiples) but won’t actually become more valuable over time, typically due to structural problems. To avoid these, Nygren’s firm requires analysts to project future growth and only buy stocks with strong … Read More

During his CSIMA Guest Speakers Series, Bill Nygren discussed the three key features he looks for in his potential investments. Nygren invests in companies with these three key features: Significant discount: He buys stocks at a price significantly below their estimated business value, typically around 60% of that value. The discount … Read More

During his recent interview with CNBC, Bill Nygren explained that in the current environment, there are many stocks trading at a low multiple, making it a good time for value investors to buy stocks at a discount. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: Well certainly so far this year … Read More

In his recent interview with The Motley Fool, Bill Nygren explains why buying a stock at a discount to its intrinsic business value is important because it reduces risk and amplifies reward. He believes that stocks will trade reasonably close to intrinsic business value most of the time, so buying … Read More

During this interview with Millennial Investing, Bill Nygren emphasises the importance of regularly reassessing the intrinsic value of their long-term stock holdings, which often exceed their initial estimates. Their analysts continually update their business value estimates based on new information and aim to do this formally, at least quarterly. If … Read More

In his latest Q3 2023 Market Commentary, Bill Nygren explains why low P/E stocks provide the best hunting ground in 2023 because there is no observable decline in business quality in the 50 lowest-ranked companies by P/E ratio on the S&P 500 today compared to the ones that made that … Read More

During his recent presentation at Natixis, Bill Nygren explained how the growth of passive investing and popularity of low-beta stocks have created attractive value opportunities for active, research-driven investors. Here’s an excerpt from the presentation: Nygren: In a market cycle like we’re in today, we’re dealing with more passive investors than … Read More

During his recent interview with Morningstar, Bill Nygren discusses why he’s excited about the outlook for value stocks using his metric that compares P/E ratios of the S&P 500 stocks. His metric shows that growth stocks are now very highly priced relative to cheap stocks than they have been over … Read More

In his latest market commentary titled – The High Price Of Low Volatility, Bill Nygren explains why value investing requires zigging when the consensus is zagging. Here’s an excerpt from the commentary: Nygren: Value investing requires zigging when the consensus is zagging. We believe that index fund investors have become … Read More

During his recent interview with CNBC, Bill Nygren explained why today is a great time to be a traditional value investor. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: I think what’s important for investors to realize is as good a year as value had in 2022 that it’s given all … Read More