Value investing articles, screens and related topics
Wonderful companies at fair prices has been Buffett’s mantra and this screen gives you that. These are large cap stocks that are selling at great price. They may not be undervalued in the classical sense, but these are quality companies with pedigree, and one can reasonably expect them to continue to grow and do well […]
54 Best Stocks to Buy Now Inspired by Buffettology (Large Cap, Mar 2025) Read More »
Growth investing is all the rage today. I follow a lot of investment sub-reddits and the consensus seems to be to just buy QQQ or SPY and sit on it. SPY if you want steady growth, QQQ if you want accelerated growth. A frequent advice on these forums is that you should look at the
Why Deep Value Investing Still Works in a Market Obsessed with Growth Read More »
In investing, it is easy to get carried away. I remember investing heavily in the internet stocks in the early 2000s without knowing much about what they do. I was in the IT industry so I assumed I knew technology. I had bitten off more than I could chew. Most investors think they understand their
Buffett’s Circle of Competence: How to Draw Yours Without Lying to Yourself Read More »
Warren Buffett is famous for his quotes, his calm temperament, and his legendary long-term holdings. But what separates him from almost every other investor isn’t just what he buys—it’s how much he buys. Behind the scenes, Buffett’s approach to capital allocation mirrors a little-known mathematical formula used by gamblers and quantitative traders: the Kelly Criterion.
Buffettology and the Kelly Criterion: The Hidden Formula That Supercharges Compounding Read More »
One of the first things you look for as a value investor are the key price multiples. For example, we know that Price/Earnings ratio, Price/Book ratio and Price/Sales ratio all indicate some level of price appropriateness. If the ratios are too high compared to the normal or the peers, the stock may be over valued.
13 Best Large Cap Stocks with Cheap Multiples – March 2025 Read More »
Why Liquidators Make the Best Value Investors? Most investors try to predict growth. Liquidators look at what’s already there — and ask one simple question: If this business shut down today, how much money could we get back?This lens flips the script. It’s not about blue-sky projections, but hard asset values and what creditors would
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
Value Investing Strategies That Actually Work in 2025 (And Why Most Don’t) Read More »
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
30 of the Best Small Cap Stocks for Graham-Style Investors – March 2025 Edition Read More »
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
20 Large Cap Stocks with Piotroski F-Score of 9 – March 2025 Read More »
