What is the best approach to building a common stock portfolio: active or passive investing? This has been an ongoing debate for several decades. However, few investors realize there is a third option which is far superior to either of the first two: systematic investing. Systematic investing combines the best … Read More
Beware The Profit Makers – Cash is King!
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt about analyzing financial statements over the years, it’s that you must analyse all three financial statements, Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Statement of Cashflows before you consider making an investment. Here’s a real-life example to show you what I mean. In 2015 AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) reported a … Read More
How Did The Top 30 Deep Value Large Cap US Stocks Perform This Week?
We run three screens here at The Acquirer’s Multiple. The All Investable Screener This screen shows the top 30 companies in The Acquirer’s Multiple® All Investable Stocks universe, which includes the largest half of U.S. exchange-traded stocks and ADRs. The screen excludes financials and utilities. The Small & Micro Cap Screener This screen … Read More
How To Pick Good Stocks By Trying To Kill The Business (Strategy) – Bruce Berkowitz
(Image Credit, institutionalinvestor.com) One investor I like to follow closely, is Bruce Berkowitz. Berkowitz is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Fairholme Capital Management, and President and a Director of Fairholme Funds, Inc. In 2010, Berkowitz was named as the 2009 Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year by Morningstar as … Read More
How to Find Undervalued Stocks Using the 80/20 Rule – Bill Nygren (Part 2)
(Image Credit, fortune.com) This is Part 2 of How to Find Undervalued Stocks Using the 80/20 Rule – Bill Nygren. To read Part 1, click here. The following is a continuation of the speech given by Bill Nygren at the Thirteenth Annual Louis Rukeyser Investment Conference, in 2005. Let’s take a look…
How to Find Undervalued Stocks Using the 80/20 Rule – Bill Nygren (Part 1)
(Image Credit, fortune.com) Bill Nygren has been a manager of the Oakmark Select Fund (OAKLX) since 1996, Oakmark Fund (OAKMX) since 2000 and the Oakmark Global Select Fund (OAKWX) since 2006. He joined Harris Associates in 1983 and served as the firm’s Director of Research from 1990 to 1998. Harris … Read More
The Lehman Brothers $1.1 Billion Discrepancy, “Accounting Ingenuity” – David Einhorn
(Image Credit, forbes.com) David Einhorn is one of most famous hedge fund managers on the planet and a master of company analysis. He’s the founder and president of Greenlight Capital, a “long-short value-oriented hedge fund”, which he started in 1996 with $900,000. The fund now has $9.27 Billion in assets under … Read More
The Lost Art of Contrary Thinking – Seth Klarman
Just about every investor has heard of Seth Klarman. According to Forbes, “Investing legend Seth Klarman runs Boston-based firm The Baupost Group. With $27 billion under management, Baupost is one of the largest hedge funds. It posted small losses in 2015. An avid philanthropist, his foundation’s assets hit $350 million … Read More
How Do You Know When a Company is in “The Value Zone” – Arnold Van Den Berg
(Image Credit, gurufocus.com) Value investor, Arnold Van Den Berg founded Century Management in 1974. He is a principal of the firm, the Chief Executive Officer, and co-Chief Investment Officer. According to investment-advisors.credio.com, Century Management has $1.03 Billion in Assets Under Management. Van Den Berg has no formal college education but gained his market … Read More
How to Develop a Simple Investing Strategy, and Don’t Try to Calculate Intrinsic Value – Charles Mizrahi
(Image Credit, twitter.com) A lot of investors have never heard of Charles Mizrahi. Mizrahi is editor of the Hidden Values Alert and the Inevitable Wealth Portfolio newsletters. Hidden Values Alert has been named one of Marketwatch.com’s 10 Best Advisors from October 2007 to January 2015…a period that included the Financial Crisis of 2008 and … Read More
How to Find Great Investments, and Why You Should Ignore DCFs – David Winters
(Image Credit, www.reuters.com) David Winters is an awesome value investor and Founder and Chief Investment Officer of The Wintergreen Fund. Prior to founding Wintergreen Advisors in 2005, Winters was Chief Investment Officer of Franklin Mutual Advisors and Portfolio manager of the Franklin Mutual Discovery Fund. Winters joined Mutual Series in … Read More
Why Models Beat Humans – What Works on Wall Street – James O’Shaughnessy
(Image Credit, business.financialpost.com), One of the best value investors on the planet is of course, James O’Shaughnessy. James O’Shaughnessy, also known as Jim, is a Principal, and Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC. He’s widely regarded as a pioneer in quantitative equity analysis. Jim and his team have identified … Read More
Start with the balance sheet, and ignore DCF – Bruce Greenwald
(Image Credit, www.lifeposts.com) I’m always interested in reading and listening to anything by Bruce Greenwald. Bruce Greenwald is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and Director of Research at First Eagle Funds. He’s also the author of the books Value Investing: from Graham to Buffett and Beyond and … Read More
50 of the best investing blogs on the planet, plus a couple more (2016)
(Image Credit, julieeliselandry.com) As value investing bloggers, there’s a whole bunch of us out there sitting down at the computer trying to come up with the next writing idea that will appeal to readers. I like to think of us as a community of individuals that collectively do our best to educate … Read More
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016) – Part 3
This is Part 3, in the 3 part series The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016). To read Part 1, click here, The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016) Part 1 To read Part 2, click here, The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016) Part 2
What types of stocks should you own, and when is the best time to sell – Leon Cooperman
(Image Credit, wsj.com) Leon Cooperman CFA, is another one of my favorite value investors. In 1967 he started with Goldman Sachs. He held a number of key positions in the firm, he was founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman’s Asset Management division. For nine consecutive years while at Goldman Sachs, Cooperman was voted … Read More
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016) – Part 2
This is Part 2 of The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016). If you missed Part 1, you can find it here, The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016) – Part 1.
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville – (Freshly Transcribed 2016) – Part 1
“The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville” is an article by Warren Buffett promoting value investing, published in the Fall, 1984 issue of Hermes, Columbia Business School magazine. It was based on a speech given on May 17, 1984, at the Columbia University School of Business in honor of the 50th anniversary of … Read More
How to find undervalued businesses, and why you should ignore management – Robert Bruce
(Image Credit, management-ideas.com) One of the best value investor’s on the planet is Robert Bruce. Bruce graduated from Columbia Business School in 1970 and went to work on Wall Street as a securities analyst. Then he read about Walter Schloss in Forbes Magazine and it changed his life. He now runs … Read More
What’s most often forgotten about one of the greatest Superinvestors – Charles Munger
(Image Credit, dealbook.nytimes.com) If you’re a value investing nut like me you’ll have read everything you can on Charles Munger, Warren Buffett, Rick Guerin, Tom Knapp, Ed Anderson, Stan Perlmeter, Bill Ruane and Walter Schloss. The so called “Superinvestors of Graham & Doddsville”. But, we often forget that these investing megastars had ordinary … Read More