You don’t need another article telling you to look for low P/E ratios and high book value. That’s table stakes — and in today’s market, it’s not enough. Most value investing strategies are stuck in a world that no longer exists. They worked when markets were slower, less efficient, and not driven by momentum algos […]
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The Odds Are Never Even—Unless You Make Them So At its core, investing sounds simple: buy the stocks that will go up and avoid the ones that won’t. But reality doesn’t cooperate. The future is uncertain, and every decision we make is a guess—hopefully an educated one. So we lean on probabilities, shortcuts, and heuristics
The Best Small Cap Stocks Are Hiding in Plain Sight—If You Know Where to Look. You’re not here for hype. You want serious opportunities with asymmetric upside, wrapped in downside protection. That’s the cornerstone of Ben Graham’s “enterprising investor” playbook—and it still works, especially in the small-cap universe where inefficiencies abound. While most of Wall
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Introduction: The Investor’s Struggle with Market Timing Even if you are a long term investor who is not concerned with short term price fluctuations, you still want to purchase stocks at low prices and sell at high prices. You do not actively try to time the market, but there is no reason to not take
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[This analysis was originally published on March 20, 2025] You can build an industrial behemoth with a single idea. This is what this company did. They started out building interchangeable handles and sockets for the automotive repair industry in 1920. Automobiles were just catching on and repair was a growing market. Pretty soon, they started
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Inflation is the Silent Wealth Killer For all of us today, inflation is a fact of life. We all know that the prices tend to increase as the years roll by. Many of us have fond memories of the bygone times when the same things we buy today cost so much less. A dollar used
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The best dividend growth stocks give you a history of consistent dividend growth, nice current dividend yield, and a low payout ratio that means the dividend should keep growing in the near future. In addition, a history of EPS growth adds additional confidence that the company is well run and growing, and your investment in
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I have made a lot of money buying stocks on margin. But I have also lost money. Investing on margin can bring rapid gains to your portfolio, but if you are not careful, it can also blow up your portfolio. We don’t want to blow up our portfolios. Let’s review how we can avoid this.
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Transforming Your Portfolio into a Cash-Generating Machine We know that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the modern world, and with consistent compounding, our portfolios can grow significantly given enough time. However, investing today places a great deal of focus on buying stocks that appreciate in value, and not much on buying investments that
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A high Piotroski F-Score of 9 means the company has financials like Fort Knox, and it is getting stronger. Historically, these stocks when paired with low Price/Book ratio have performed 7.5% better than the market annually, on average. This is pretty much a cheat code to a high performing portfolio. So what does the score
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