Money and Finance
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns:
- Value And Growth Investing...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns: A common misperception among professional investors is that there is a bright-line distinction between value and growth investing. This is a legacy belief...
- The Truly Exceptional Business...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns:The truly exceptional business can operate with little capital. When U.S. securities markets function normally, most healthy businesses have no trouble...
- The Linkage Between Returns-on-capital And Competitive Advantage...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns: The small-cap manager should attempt to understand the linkage between returns-on-capital and competitive advantage. The latter drives the former, but...
- Hussman Weekly Market Comment: An Open Letter To The Fomc: Recognizing The Valuation Bubble In Equities
How does one establish the value of a long-lived asset? Hopefully, that question stirs the economist in all of you, and you immediately respond that every security is a claim on some long-term stream of cash payments (including any terminal value) that...
- Stock Valuation Method - Discounted Cash Flow
This is the 5th part of my stock valuation series and I've previously covered the Graham Number, average dividend yield, average price-to-earnings ratio, and average price-to-sales ratios. The previous 4 posts all looked at a historical trends but...
Money and Finance
Quality and value...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns:
Factor screening on any of the aforementioned ratios suffers from a major flaw: Company value is determined by all future free cash flows discounted to the present. Rudimentary ratios fail to capture what could, should, or would happen to a company beyond the next year or two. Historical cash flows, book value, earnings, or momentum in the growth of any of these factors may not be comparable with what happens in the future for dynamic companies undergoing change. This renders these ratios useless as indicators of value. The key determinants for predicting the future earnings power of a company are actually qualitative. Factors like competitive positioning, industry growth, and the capital allocation ability of management are not adequately captured by simple ratios.
- Value And Growth Investing...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns: A common misperception among professional investors is that there is a bright-line distinction between value and growth investing. This is a legacy belief...
- The Truly Exceptional Business...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns:The truly exceptional business can operate with little capital. When U.S. securities markets function normally, most healthy businesses have no trouble...
- The Linkage Between Returns-on-capital And Competitive Advantage...
From The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns: The small-cap manager should attempt to understand the linkage between returns-on-capital and competitive advantage. The latter drives the former, but...
- Hussman Weekly Market Comment: An Open Letter To The Fomc: Recognizing The Valuation Bubble In Equities
How does one establish the value of a long-lived asset? Hopefully, that question stirs the economist in all of you, and you immediately respond that every security is a claim on some long-term stream of cash payments (including any terminal value) that...
- Stock Valuation Method - Discounted Cash Flow
This is the 5th part of my stock valuation series and I've previously covered the Graham Number, average dividend yield, average price-to-earnings ratio, and average price-to-sales ratios. The previous 4 posts all looked at a historical trends but...