Value Investing News

For the past decade or so, Donald Yacktman of the Yacktman Fund (YACKX) have outperformed the indexes by investing in large well run companies that they could purchase at a discount. For the most part, they have done so with large companies and several smaller companies when the risk/reward is right.

You can get a good look at Castle Point's portfolio here:
http://www.rocketfinancial.com/Holdings.aspx?fID=10102

He's obviously very focused on financial services companies. You can also look back over time and see what he held in the past!

David Tepper—whose hedge fund made a killing during the crash by betting the government wouldn’t let the big banks fail—is coming out of the billionaire closet.

The intention of the FinReg bill, which was signed into law last month was to curb speculation among banks. Once the bill was passed, most felt that it was just a matter of time before somebody found a loophole. Well yesterday, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) figured it out.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a global leader in investment banking and securities who engages in investment banking, buying and selling securities, asset management and many other financial services focusing on institutional clientele.

The question is which way does the stock go? Unlike penny stocks, large caps like GS are much more sensitive to earnings. As we all know many hot penny stocks have provided huge returns with extremely negative earnings.

What lessons can be learned from the analysis of the Statements of Cash Flow from Lehman Brothers (LEH), Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS) during the housing boom and bust?

Detailed notes from the 2010 Value Investing Congress in Pasadena, CA on May 4th and 5th.

A summary of the investment presentations given by prominent value managers at the Value Investing Congress on May 4th, 2010.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.

The SEC is charging both the firm and the employee in charge at the time with omitting and misstating important disclosures related to the structuring and issuance of a CDO called ABACUS which was backed by sub-prime residential mortgage securities.

Someone in Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) must have angered the wrong person in the government. For a government that has had baby ha

The most important dividend events of the past week included news that have regulators warned financial companies to restrict dividend increases and stock buybacks for the near future. According to Reuters, executives from Goldman Sachs (GS) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM) have had talks with regulators about returning more cash to shareholders.

After earnings announcements from Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Intel Corporation (NasdaqGS: INTC) and JP Morgan Chase Co. (NYSE: JPM) did not live up to expectations and their stocks fell, the market is beginning to get a little nervous. We have seen the market have some recent sharp declines on these earnings, each following day it has bounced back and recovered most of its losses.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, is scheduled to release its fourth quarter earnings for 2009 before the opening bell on Thursday, January 21, 2010. Analysts, on average, expect the company to report earnings of $5.19 per share on revenue of $9.75 billion.