Value investing articles, screens and related topics
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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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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The Power of Economic Moats in Value Investing The first rule of investing is “do not lose money”. This speaks to the need for investors to make sure that the compounding of their investments proceeds in one direction only – up. While this is hard to ensure given the daily market noise, over a period
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Small cap growth stocks are considered shooting stars. Some will pay out big, but most will lose you money. The reason of course is that many of these stocks are obscenely overvalued. But what if we screen for growth stocks that are also reasonably priced? This is the screen that Peter Lynch would have loved.
6 Small Cap Growth at Reasonable Value Stocks to Buy – Mar 2025 Read More »
You know that small cap value delivers exceptionally strong returns over long term. You also know that these stocks may need time to break out of their undervaluation and start delivering. You do not know how long this wait could be. Enter the small cap value stocks with dividends. Every quarter, the stock pays you
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Looking to buy “Wonderful Companies at Fair Price” stocks like Warren Buffett does? These companies tend to possess certain moat and can form the core of your portfolio. You will likely hold these stocks for a very long term, and if you do, these stocks will take very good care of your portfolio. The Buffettology
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The US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) was created to match revenues with expenses, and standardize reporting across all companies in all industries and sectors, but often the results can be misleading. Additionally, it introduces opportunities for the management to “smoothen” things out to keep the Wall Street happy. As a result, investors end up
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Ultimately GARP amounts to a measure of quality that you can buy at a good price. As Buffett is fond of saying, try to buy wonderful businesses selling at a good price. This Growth at Reasonable Price screen considers the 5 year sales growth, operating income growth and earnings growth and filters for companies that
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Investors have long debated why cheap stocks—those with low price-to-book (P/B), price-to-earnings (P/E), or price-to-cash flow (P/CF) ratios—tend to outperform over the long run. This persistent phenomenon, known as the value premium, has been a cornerstone of quantitative and fundamental investing for decades. But why does it exist? Is it a free lunch, or does
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