A roundup of stock related blog posts from Thanksgiving week.

Not all companies are conserving cash in this difficulat credit environment; there were several dividend increases which reiterate my opinion that the dividend cuts might not spread to the non-financial sector.

Sovran Self Storage Inc. is a self-managed real estate investment trust that owns self-storage facilities, mainly in the East, Midwest, Arizona, and Texas. Linked here is a detailed analysis and commentary.

This economic slowdown will cause many companies in the auto sector to go under. As such, stocks related to this industry have taken a huge hit over the last year or so. This offers us the opportunity to buy companies that will outlast the recession at large discounts to their intrinsic values.

An update on the PSD arbitrage and although the price has been dropping recently without any news, there has been some activity behind an opposing party, the commission and PSD. A brief look at the filings.

Is it profitable to invest in liquidation special situations? A look at Capital Crossing and a liquidating ETF.

An intro to the Benjamin Graham investment philosophy. There are several other articles on the site about the details of the ratios Graham used.

Each time the market rallies, the question is asked 'Was yesterday the bottom?' Up to this point the answer has been a resounding 'No' as the market quickly resumed its downward slide. Recently, a columnist asked some Wall Street pros, what they are looking for that will tell them the worst is over.

Every once in a while a value investor will go out of his way to let the public know what goes on behind their mind. Bruce Berkowitz recently did that by holding a public conference call. Thanks to Gurufocus for posting the video up and bringing it to everyone’s attention. Its over an hour long so I suggest you listen to it when you have some free time. Enjoy

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of the Magic Formula Investing screen.

It's no secret that value investors (including us) believe the market is overly optimistic when times are good, and far too pessimistic when times are bad. As a result, there are profit opportunities for those with a long-term outlook. But when we say long-term, are we talking decades, or just a couple of years?

Ben Graham, the father of Value Investing and teacher of Warren Buffett, was also a successful investor in 20th century. The four bread and butter strategies, employed by his firm, the Graham-Newman corporation between 1926 and 1956 included arbitrages, related hedges, liquidations and Net-Current-Asset or Bargain issues.

Part 2 in my filtering process of 2008 Forbes Best Small Companies. Number 16 - 32 was reviewed with only 3 making the cut to the next stage.

Very rarely do value investors reveal their methodologies. We all understand the concept of buying cheap, and applying a margin of safety, but how do the pros actually calculate a company's intrinsic value? Finally, here's an opportunity to see the valuation techniques employed by real value investors.

You might be hesitating to invest because you are unsure how much further the markets will decline. It would be ideal to have a precognitive or clairvoyant ability that would allow us to predict the lowest possible price for a stock, buy it, and then watch the price soar upwards soon after making the investment. The problem is, to my knowledge, no one has demonstrated such an ability.