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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

During his recent interview with Colossus, Bill Nygren explained why there is an ‘unusual’ value opportunity in Banks today. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: I think if you look at the past generation or two, where banks trade versus the S&P 500, they’ve typically sold at about two-thirds … Read More

In his recent Q1 2023 Market Commentary, Bill Nygren discussed which Bank stocks are safer investments. Here’s an excerpt from the commentary: Nygren: The failed banks were mostly funded by uninsured deposits that tend to move more rapidly than insured deposits. Further, the banks that failed invested those short-duration deposits … Read More

During his recent interview with Value Investing With Legends, Bill Nygren discussed investing when the odds are in your favor. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: Typical position for us is something just short of 2%, we won’t buy a stock once it goes above three and we start … Read More

During his recent interview with Value Investing With Legends, Bill Nygren discusses idea generation for value investors. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: I think it would be an overstatement to say that it’s a systematic process. Our idea generation I think is very similar to a lot of … Read More

During his recent interview with TIP, Bill Nygren discussed how he’s finding lots of opportunities with the market down so much. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: That bottom would be somewhere around October, and that’s basically what we went through. Now, of course, that’s no guarantee that we’re … Read More

During his recent interview with The Motley Fool, Bill Nygren discussed how to identify and value quality businesses. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: I recently read an interview with Berkshire Hathaway’s Todd Combs where he said the worst business imaginable is one that grows and needs infinite capital. … Read More

During his recent presentation, Bill Nygren discussed why investors must take larger position sizes to have maximum impact on their portfolios. Here’s an excerpt from the presentation: Nygren: We think the biggest skill we bring to the table is stock selection. And we want to magnify the impact that our … Read More

In his latest Q3 2022 Market Commentary, Bill Nygren explained why this is a stock-pickers market. Here’s an excerpt from the commentary: “A stock pickers’ market” This is another meaningless phrase that permeates the financial media. It is mostly used when the market is high, and the speaker is trying … Read More

In his recent interview on CNBC, Bill Nygren explained why this ‘recession’ is different. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: We’ve had two quarters of down GDP. In the past that’s always been called a recession. What’s different this time is the employment outlook is so much stronger, especially … Read More

In his latest Q2 2022 Market Commentary, Bill Nygren explains why now is the time for investors to take advantage of increased volatility and market declines. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: Though it is tempting to believe that one should sell stocks following the onset of a bear market, … Read More

In his recent interview with CNBC, Bill Nygren explains why investors get excited at precisely the wrong time. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: Yes the market is coming to us [value investors], and we think there are a lot of very cheap stocks out there right now. But … Read More

In his latest Q1 2022 Market Commentary, Bill Nygren lists 35 major global events that could have significantly impacted markets, but only proved that buy and hold is the best strategy for long term results. Here’s an excerpt from the commentary: Here is an update to the list I used … Read More

In his recent interview on The Investor’s Podcast, Bill Nygren discussed his Devil’s Advocate Reviews, when it comes to new stock selection and existing holdings. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Nygren: Each week we have what we call it our stock selection group meeting. And all of the domestic … Read More

In his latest interview on the Millennial Investing Podcast, Bill Nygren discusses how to avoid value traps. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Anything that we look to buy in any of our Oakmark Funds has to meet three criteria. First, it has to be cheap. We want it to … Read More

In his latest Q4 2021 Market Commentary, Bill Nygren discusses how to apply value investing to growth stocks. Here’s an excerpt from the commentary: Oakmark was one of the first value managers to acknowledge that accounting rules overly penalize the companies investing to grow their businesses. Thirty years ago, we … Read More

In his latest interview on CNBC, Bill Nygren explained why low PE stocks provide a very good hunting ground for long-term investors today. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: At Oakmark we think really long term and you look back over the past decade it has been a great decade … Read More