Money and Finance
From Mr. Buffett's 1992 Letter to Shareholders:
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As part of my annual review process for my portfolio, I read through the latest quarterly or annual reports for the companies I own, as well as checked up on the organic dividend growth for each position and for the portfolio as a whole. The dividend...
- The Intelligent Investor
It's time for another installment in my The Intelligent Investor series. On page 348, Graham covers his seven statistical requirements for inclusion in the defensive investors portfolio. His seven criteria are: 1. Adequate Size of the Enterprise...
- The Intelligent Investor
It's time for another installment in my The Intelligent Investor series. On page 348, Graham covers his seven statistical requirements for inclusion in the defensive investors portfolio. His seven criteria are: 1. Adequate Size of the Enterprise...
- Second & Third Picks In Wmd Portfolio - Glaxosmithkline & Ibm
The more real they are, the more fun blogs are to follow. So in that spirit, rather than talking about ideas in the abstract I maintain a hypothetical portfolio to track ideas where I'll semi-regularly (and hypothetically) invest and track buying...
- Samuel Lee On Quality At A Reasonable Price
Samuel Lee's recent article discusses Warren Buffett and the Time Horizon Arbitrage. In it, he describes the implications of Buffett's conversion from a Graham-style deep value, bargain hunter to a Munger-style quality oriented approach. Since...
Money and Finance
Warren Buffett on "value investing"
From Mr. Buffett's 1992 Letter to Shareholders:
Whether appropriate or not, the term "value investing" is widely used. Typically, it connotes the purchase of stocks having attributes such as a low ratio of price to book value, a low price-earnings ratio, or a high dividend yield. Unfortunately, such characteristics, even if they appear in combination, are far from determinative as to whether an investor is indeed buying something for what it is worth and is therefore truly operating on the principle of obtaining value in his investments. Correspondingly, opposite characteristics - a high ratio of price to book value, a high price-earnings ratio, and a low dividend yield - are in no way inconsistent with a "value" purchase.
Similarly, business growth, per se, tells us little about value. It's true that growth often has a positive impact on value, sometimes one of spectacular proportions. But such an effect is far from certain. For example, investors have regularly poured money into the domestic airline business to finance profitless (or worse) growth. For these investors, it would have been far better if Orville had failed to get off the ground at Kitty Hawk: The more the industry has grown, the worse the disaster for owners.
Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing - in other words, only when each dollar used to finance the growth creates over a dollar of long-term market value. In the case of a low-return business requiring incremental funds, growth hurts the investor.
- Dividend Growth Checkup
As part of my annual review process for my portfolio, I read through the latest quarterly or annual reports for the companies I own, as well as checked up on the organic dividend growth for each position and for the portfolio as a whole. The dividend...
- The Intelligent Investor
It's time for another installment in my The Intelligent Investor series. On page 348, Graham covers his seven statistical requirements for inclusion in the defensive investors portfolio. His seven criteria are: 1. Adequate Size of the Enterprise...
- The Intelligent Investor
It's time for another installment in my The Intelligent Investor series. On page 348, Graham covers his seven statistical requirements for inclusion in the defensive investors portfolio. His seven criteria are: 1. Adequate Size of the Enterprise...
- Second & Third Picks In Wmd Portfolio - Glaxosmithkline & Ibm
The more real they are, the more fun blogs are to follow. So in that spirit, rather than talking about ideas in the abstract I maintain a hypothetical portfolio to track ideas where I'll semi-regularly (and hypothetically) invest and track buying...
- Samuel Lee On Quality At A Reasonable Price
Samuel Lee's recent article discusses Warren Buffett and the Time Horizon Arbitrage. In it, he describes the implications of Buffett's conversion from a Graham-style deep value, bargain hunter to a Munger-style quality oriented approach. Since...