Graham’s 50 Year Study – Foolproof?

January 3, 2010

In 1976, Hartman L. Butler spent an hour with Benjamin Graham and the interview is recorded within a fine study of Graham’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 [...]

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Just How Important Is Brand Equity?

December 13, 2009

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, because [...]

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For Sale: Stunning Colorado Custom-Built Mountain Log Home

December 6, 2009

I‘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 [...]

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It’s Been a Long Time Coming

December 3, 2009

Finally, the updated Graham Investor site! For some time we’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 Investor is [...]

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Adams Golf (ADGF) Set for More Loft?

August 27, 2009

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 [...]

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Stock Tools – Intrinsic Value

June 10, 2009

The word intrinsic comes from the latin intrinsecus meaning “inward”. In modern parlance, intrinsic means “belonging to a thing by its very nature”. 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 [...]

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Invest for Retirement With a Morgage Refinance?

June 7, 2009

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 [...]

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Factoring Current Assets – Cash, Accounts Receivable and Inventory.

June 7, 2009

Roy Anderson Foulke, a prominent economic statistican observed in 1945: “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.” Current Assets play a significant part of the Graham NCAV calculation. Once we have a list of NCAV [...]

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Value Investing and Life Assurance

June 2, 2009

I recently went through the process of applying for term life assurance, and it occurred to me that life assurance has several similarities to investing in value stocks. When you buy term life assurance, you decide the term, and pay a fixed amount each month; buying stocks, via dollar-cost averaging for example, is much the [...]

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A Graham “Bargain Stock” Sentiment Indicator

May 26, 2009
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