One of our favorite investors here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Joel Greenblatt. Greenblatt is the Managing Partner of Gotham Capital, a hedge fund that he founded in 1985, and a Managing Principal of Gotham Asset Management. He is also the author of four books, You Can Be A Stock … Read More
Undervalued Continental Materials Corp Trading At 25% Discount to TBV
One of the cheapest stocks in our Acquirer’s Multiple, Small & Micro Cap – Stock Screener is Continental Materials Corporation (NYSEMKT:CUO). With a market cap around $34 million, few investors have ever heard of this undervalued nano-cap. Continental Materials Corporation (Continental) produces and sells heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) products; and construction … Read More
Undervalued InterDigital, Inc, Well Positioned For Growth In 5G And The IoT
One of the cheapest stocks in our All Investable – Stock Screener is InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC). InterDigital Inc (InterDigital) designs and develops advanced technologies that enable and enhance wireless communications and capabilities. Since 1972, InterDigital engineers have designed and developed a wide range of innovations that are used in digital cellular and wireless … Read More
Undervalued Vectrus Inc, FCF/Price Yield 15%, Solid Prospective Pipeline and Backlog
One of the cheapest stocks in our All Investable – Stock Screener is Vectrus Inc (NYSE:VEC). With a market cap of $240 million, this micro-cap remains undiscovered by a lot of investors and too small for investment by large institutions. Vectrus provides infrastructure asset management, information technology and network communication services, and logistics … Read More
Undervalued Micro-Cap Network-1 Technologies Inc, FCF/EV Yield 134%
One of the cheapest stocks in our Small & Micro Cap – Stock Screener is Network-1 Technologies Inc (NYSEMKT:NTIP). With a market cap around $89 million, very few investors have ever heard of this great little company. Network-1 Technologies Inc (Network-1) has a remarkable record of taking on and beating technology behemoths like … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai – Value Is Its Own Catalyst – The Market Is a Weighing Machine
One of our favorite investors at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Mohnish Pabrai. Mohnish Pabrai is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Pabrai Investments Funds, the founder and CEO of Dhandho Funds, and the author of The Dhandho Investor and Mosaic – Perspectives on Investing. He’s one of the smartest guys on the … Read More
Allan Mecham – Look for Cockroachlike Businesses
One of my favorite investors is Allan Mecham. Mecham is a value investing legend that flies under the radar. You’re probably asking, Who is Allan Mecham? Forbes wrote an article about him called, Is This The Next Warren Buffett? Marketwatch wrote an article about him titled, The 400% Man, but most investors have never heard of him. … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai | Which Out-of-Favor Stocks Will Continue To Outperform
In the past couple of weeks I’ve written a number of articles on out-of-favor stocks that appear in our Large Cap 1000 Screener (which you can access for free here). The latest out-of-favor industries are autos and airlines and the two stocks I wrote about in particular were Fiat Chrysler Automobiles … Read More
The Acquirer’s Multiple Deep Value Stock Portfolio up 20.87%
Just a quick update on my TAM Deep Value Stock Portfolio. At the end of last week the portfolio was up 20.87%. As you can see below there’s been particularly strong performances from Bridgepoint Education Inc (NYSE:BPI), FreightCar America, Inc. (NASDAQ:RAIL) and American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEI) all of which are up 56.27%, 46.82% and 34.10% … Read More
(New Link) – Still The Best Article Ever Written on Stock Picking – Charles Munger
First of all, my apologies! Last week I published an article called, Still The Best Article Ever Written on Stock Picking by Charles Munger. Then, for some incomprehensible reason I decided to move the article. Don’t ask me why! Anyway, this lead to dozens of emails from people asking me for the … Read More
In Spite of The Recent Trend, There’s Lots More Growth To Come – IDT Corporation (IDT)
One of the best performing stocks in our All Investable Screener, which you can register for here, is IDT Corporation (NYSE:IDT). IDT Corporation, through its IDT Telecom division, provides telecommunications and payment services to individuals and businesses primarily through its flagship BOSS Revolution® and Net2Phone (NTOP)®brands. IDT Telecom’s wholesale business is … Read More
Undervalued Stocks | Argan, Inc. (NYSE:AGX)
Argan, Inc. is a holding company that conducts operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, GPS, APC, SMC and TRC. Through GPS and APC, Argan provides a full range of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations management, maintenance, development, technical and consulting services to the power generation and renewable energy markets for a wide range … Read More
What Does It Take To Be A Successful Contrarian Value Investor – John Rogers
(Image Credit, cnbc.com) John Rogers is a true contrarian value investor. In 1983, Rogers founded Ariel Investments headquartered in Chicago. Since its inception, Ariel Investments has grown from 2 to 88 employees with $10.7 billion in Assets Under Management (2015). In 2008, he was awarded Princeton University’s highest honor, the Woodrow … 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
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
10 Top Value Investing Tweeters & Their Top Tweet (All Time)
(Image Credit, kotaku.com) Last week I compiled a list called (50 of the Best Value Investing Resources (plus a few more). It seemed to be quite popular with readers so today I’ve compiled a list of what I consider to be 10 of the Top Value Investing Tweeters and their top … Read More
Delta raises dividend and plans to complete $5 billion share repurchase $DAL
As Tobias recently tweeted about Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) The best performing stock in The Acquirers Multiple Large Cap Screener midweek is DAL Delta Air Lines Inc. up 5.4 percent to 43.86 The reason for the jump is the company’s latest announcement to analysts that it’s set to increase its … Read More
Johnny’s Real-Life Acquirers Multiple Portfolio – (Month 1 – Dec 2015)
Starting this month, I’ll be using my own savings to construct and track my own Acquirer’s Multiple Portfolio, here at the Acquirer’s Multiple. I’ll buy the top two stocks equally weighted each month, that I don’t already hold, from “The All Investable Stock Screener”, until I hold 24 stocks over 12 … Read More
Micron Technology, Inc. ($MU): Cheap and a Takeover Target
I love it when I get the chance to write about a high-profile stock, particularly when it’s owned by David Einhorn–one of the smartest guys around–and it’s dirt cheap. Poor old Micron Technology, Inc. ($MU). I’ve bought and sold it so many times over the last decade. It was a net net in … Read More
Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC): Strong, cash-rich balance sheet and a buyback
If you were anywhere near finance twitter or television this week you’re aware that the markets are having a tough run at the moment. I’m trying to contain my excitement. Down 6 percent is really nothing. It only looks frightening because the markets have been so subdued for so long. … Read More