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From Icahn Enterprises L.P. December 2013 Investor Presentation: Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula: we seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices. However, while the typical Graham … Read More

I’ve had a few requests to extend this weekend’s special offer, so I’m going to keep it going to 5pmPDT this afternoon. Click here to subscribe to the Acquirer’s Multiple and pay only 9 bucks for the first month (usually $49). In addition to the free Large Cap 1000 screen, … Read More

For this weekend only, click here to subscribe to the Acquirer’s Multiple and pay only 9 for the first month (usually $49). In addition to the free Large Cap 1000 screen, get exclusive access to The All Investable Screener (see the backtest) The Small and Micro Cap Screener (see the backtest) Commentary … Read More

Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price earnings (CAPE) ratio takes a 10-year inflation-adjusted average of the S&P500’s earnings to arrive at a price/earnings metric smoothed for the business cycle. It’s useful because earnings tend to be volatile and mean reverting. For example, the single-year PE metric peaked in 2009 at 125, indicating … Read More

For this weekend only, click here to subscribe to the Acquirer’s Multiple and pay only 9 for the first month (usually $49). In addition to the free Large Cap 1000 screen, get exclusive access to The All Investable Screener (see the backtest) The Small and Micro Cap Screener (see the backtest) Commentary … Read More

Nevsun Resources (USA) has taken a beating recently, down 17 percent from its June high of $4.26. It remains the cheapest stock in the All Investable universe. Chief Development Officer Scott Trebilcock gives a presentation on behalf of Nevsun Resources at the Metals Investor Forum in Vancouver BC. In the … Read More

I like to check in occasionally to see where the S&P500’s average enterprise multiple stands. Right now it’s trading on just over 12x, where it’s been since the start of the year. It’s rarely been this expensive. Indeed, the average for the full period is 10.4, and it’s only exceeded this level … Read More

CNBC recently screened for small- and mid-cap companies that could attract takeover offers on the basis of valuation. CNBC examined free cash flow yield, enterprise multiple, and total debt as a percentage of equity to find the following nine names emerged: Symbol Company Industry EV/EBITDA FCF Yield Debt % NPK National … Read More

In today’s Observer author William Green has an interesting excerpt from his new book The Great Minds of Investing on Joel Greenblatt: …Mr. Greenblatt is always searching for a “systematic way” of “doing better.” In 2003, this led him and Goldstein to launch a $35 million research project to prove the effectiveness of the … Read More

Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE:MBT) has been beaten up over the last month (off 12.5 percent) and at $9.69 is now the sixth cheapest stock in the Large Cap 1000 Screener (it’s free if you register). With a $9.7 billion market cap and $4.4 billion in net debt, MBT doesn’t have the usual … Read More

Breeze-Eastern Corp (NYSEMKT:BZC) is the 24th cheapest stock in the Small and Micro Cap Screener with an acquirer’s multiple of 8.89. It trades on a PE of 9.7  has an 11.4 FVF/EV yield. We’ve taken a deep dive into it over at Singular Diligence. We’re running a special for the readers … Read More

Bruce Murison* contacted me at the start of June with an interesting proposition: He would open a dedicated account to trade the Acquirer’s Multiple All Investable Stocks Screen and post his strategy and results on the site. He thought knowing there was a public eye keeping him on the straight and narrow might assist with … Read More

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Back in the spring of 1999, when the world was enamored of dot coms and not much else, three guys at Piper Jaffray, Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley, produced a superb research report called Wall Streets Endangered Species. The thesis of the paper was that there were a large … Read More

Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM), one of my very long-term portfolio holdings is seeking a sale. Humana, one of the country’s largest health insurers, is weighing a potential sale of itself after having been approached by several competitors, people briefed on the matter said on Friday. … Any deal for Humana would … Read More

A little over a month ago I travelled to Harvard to speak to Michael Parzen’s business statistics class on Deep Value and the acquirer’s multiple. Here is the recording of that talk. Click here if you’d like to see a current list of stocks with the best rank using The Acquirer’s Multiple® (it’s free!), … Read More

Chart 1. Large Cap Returns 2015 Q1 The Acquirer’s Multiple screeners had a mixed start to the first quarter of 2015. The Large Cap and All Investable screeners massively outperformed– the Large Cap screener was up 9.1 percent vs 1.6 percent for the Russell 1000 TR benchmark, and the All … Read More