…approach replaces the market-cap-weighting system with a system that weighs stocks based on sales, cash flow, dividends, and book value, says that the financial crisis of 2008 hasn’t yet run…
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Siegel: Don't Forget the Dividend
…down to the basic definition of an asset price: It’s the present value of cash flows, and for a firm, that is dividends,” he says. “So there’s a lot of…
The Neff Approach: Low P/Es and Strong Yields Make for Big Profits
…do it? By focusing first and foremost on value, and a key part of how he found value involved the Price/Earnings Ratio. While others have called him a “contrarian” or…
Yacktman Playing Defense, Waiting for Opportunities
Donald Yacktman has been one of the top mutual fund managers of the past decade, and in a new interview with Barron’s he discusses parts of his value-centric strategy. According…
Hulbert: Two Top Forecasting Models Bullish
…forecasters with excellent long-term track records are bullish right now. The first is Sam Eisenstadt, the former Value Line research chairman. His model predicts that over the next six months,…
Reese on Wall Street's Most Unheralded Guru
…investing world than many better-known pundits. Back in 2000, while teaching at the University of Chicago, Piotroski authored a paper entitled “Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information…
A Better Metric than P/E or P/B?
…predictors of future stock performance. The study, entitled “The Other Side of Value: Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium” (click here for a PDF version), was performed by Robert…
Grantham Bullish on Timber -- and Little Else
…reports. But Grantham likes timber, saying that it has been an “enormous holder of value” during such tough times as the Great Depression and the high-inflation years of the 1970s….
Buffett, Berkshire Make Big Q1 Changes
…CNBC says, and the value of its U.S. stock portfolio fell by about 12% during the quarter after all of its moves. But Buffett’s firm did do some buying, acquiring…
Herro Sees Dip as European Buying Opportunity
…value — if any, by the way. In many instances there hasn’t been a decline in intrinsic value,” he explains. One firm he’s been keying on: Spanish bank Banco Santander….