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Why Value Investors Shouldn't Ignore Momentum
“Don’t chase performance” is a lesson any good value investor should have learned. But in a piece for Canadian MoneySaver, Validea CEO John Reese looks at how keying on high-momentum,…
Gabelli: Economy Steady, But No Margin Of Safety
Top value strategist Mario Gabelli says that the economy looks steady, but adds that there is not much of a margin of safety in stocks right now. Gabelli tells CNBC…
Why Berkshire Is A Bargain
…“The value of Berkshire’s holdings in publicly traded stock, along with its bonds, cash and the companies it owns outright, comes to roughly 1.7 times book value, calculates Steven Check…
Is Smart Beta Not As Smart As You Think?
…as size, value, momentum, low volatility, and so on,” Gray writes. “Unfortunately, academic researchers are having difficulty finding the secret sauce associated with smart beta. For us, this finding is…
Ben Graham, Index Fund Fan?
Would Benjamin Graham, the man known as “the father of value investing” and a pioneer in security analysis, have liked plain, generic index funds? In a recent column, Jason Zweig,…
Corporate Buybacks Largest Buyer of Stock
…the per-share earnings in a way that enhances the pay of chief executives.” Lazonick said, “companies use a phony ideology saying that if you maximize your shareholder value you somehow…
Where A Bond Guru Is Finding Value
Top bond fund manager Stephen Smith thinks that three key factors — oil’s decline, interest rate declines, and tumbling non-US currencies — will lead to better-than-expected global growth. Smith tells…
Peter Lynch And High-Dividend Stocks
…famously developed the PE-to-growth ratio as a way to value stocks, dividing a stock’s P/E ratio by its long-term growth rate. His idea was that when a company was producing…
Want Growth? Try Retailers, Banks, and Networking Stocks
Every day, Validea uses John Reese’s Guru Strategy investing models to rank dozens of industries using a myriad of financial and fundamental data. The rankings include a value index, a…