<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="0.92"> <channel><title>The Graham Investor &#187; Blog</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com</link> <description>Intelligent Value Investing</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:30:07 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language> <item><title>Sanofi-Aventis &#8211; Longer Term Recovery?</title> <description><![CDATA[Come Wednesday, February 10, French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis (ADR: SNY), maker of blockbuster bloodthinner Plavix will announce Fourth Quarter results for 2009. We came across SNY in a &#8220;January Effect&#8221; review of sectors. In short, the &#8220;January Effect&#8221; &#8211; more than adequately referenced elsewhere on the web &#8211; basically states that how stocks do in January [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/02/07/sanofi-aventis-longer-term-recovery/</link> </item> <item><title>Slight Changes to NCAV Screens</title> <description><![CDATA[Since quite a few people requested it, and there were many questions such as &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t XXX showing up on the NCAV screen?&#8221; I have decided to remove the criterion of positive Operating Cash Flow. This will probably lead to more stocks showing up on the screen. OCF will still be displayed and you can [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/02/06/slight-changes-to-ncav-screens/</link> </item> <item><title>Graham&#8217;s 50 Year Study &#8211; Foolproof?</title> <description><![CDATA[In 1976, Hartman L. Butler spent an hour with Benjamin Graham and the interview is recorded within a fine study of Graham&#8217;s life published by The Financial Analysts Research Foundation. During the interview, Graham describes buying groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued, regardless of the industry and without detailed investigation [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/01/03/grahams-50-year-study-foolproof/</link> </item> <item><title>Just How Important Is Brand Equity?</title> <description><![CDATA[Brand Equity is an intangible asset, but possibly one of the most important ones in value investing. Companies with strong brand equity, usually those that have been building brand equity for years via clever or persistent marketing such as Coca Cola, Nike, etc.,  often prove to be better investments even when their price drops, [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/12/13/just-how-important-is-brand-equity/</link> </item> <item><title>For Sale: Stunning Colorado Custom-Built Mountain Log Home</title> <description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m posting this on behalf of some friends who sold their business in order to realize a dream and build this amazing home. Please visit the link below and submit the form on the page only if you are a serious buyer. Alternatively, if you know someone who is looking for a property of this [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/12/06/for-sale-stunning-colorado-custom-built-mountain-log-home/</link> </item> <item><title>It&#8217;s Been a Long Time Coming</title> <description><![CDATA[Finally, the updated Graham Investor site!  For some time we&#8217;ve been trying to get away from the Plone Content Management System, as the migration path was seriously broken, and the plugins were dead in the water or few and far between. It was becoming next to impossible to add any content.  The Graham [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/12/03/its-been-a-long-time-coming/</link> </item> <item><title>Adams Golf (ADGF) Set for More Loft?</title> <description><![CDATA[Adams Golf, a small manufacturer of golf clubs based in Plano, TX, has been regular on the Graham screen for a few months. The stock is just under $3, having fallen from a high of just over $10 in 2008. Adams is not in the same league as Callaway, Nike and Titleist and as such I [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/08/27/adams-golf-adgf-set-for-more-loft/</link> </item> <item><title>Stock Tools &#8211; Intrinsic Value</title> <description><![CDATA[The word intrinsic comes from the latin intrinsecus meaning &#8220;inward&#8221;. In modern parlance, intrinsic means &#8220;belonging to a thing by its very nature&#8221;. The intrinsic value of a stock will thus be very personal to that stock, unique even, and will be totally unrelated to the intrinsic value of another stock. In a sense, intrinsic [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/10/stock-tools-intrinsic-value/</link> </item> <item><title>Invest for Retirement With a Morgage Refinance?</title> <description><![CDATA[It may sound crazy but it can work for some people. If you have lots of equity in your home you may still be able to obtain a cash out morgage refinance at current low rates, despite the credit crisis. If you have a $200k mortgage at 7% or more, refinancing to around 5% will [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/07/invest-for-retirement-with-a-morgage-refinance/</link> </item> <item><title>Factoring Current Assets &#8211; Cash, Accounts Receivable and Inventory.</title> <description><![CDATA[Roy Anderson Foulke, a prominent economic statistican observed in 1945: &#8220;The classification of current assets is undoubtedly the most important classification in a balance sheet, as current assets largely determine the going solvency of a business concern.&#8221; Current Assets play a significant part of the Graham NCAV calculation. Once we have a list of NCAV stocks, [...]]]></description><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/07/factoring-current-assets-cash-accounts-receivable-and-inventory/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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