Value Investing News

It is a well-documented fact that a significant portion of the historical equity returns are a result of reinvested dividends. In Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns (2002), the authors looked at equity returns from capital gains and dividends from 1900 to 2000.

Investing in Dividend Stocks is a long-term strategy. Frequent buying and selling of dividend stocks can significantly increase your expenses and taxes, thus lowering your returns. A growing dividend is a strong indication of a company’s increasing intrinsic value. Great companies that increase dividends tend to have rising share prices over time.

Continuation of notes from famed value investor Glenn Greenberg at Columbia. Greenberg talks about how to find winning companies that can deliver returns of 15%.

Geoff Gannon goes through Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) 13F and separates Lou Simpson's GEICO portfolio from Warren Buffett's own buys and sells. This article lists the 22 stocks in GEICO's portfolio and the amount allocated to each.

Bud Labitan is a fellow value investor and the author of Valuations – 30 Intrinsic Value Estimations in the Style of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. I recently met with him on the campus of Purdue University Calumet at the School of Management.

Ben: Interesting. What moved you to finally put one together?
Bud Labitan: As a book, "Valuations" came about in my mind after I had posted a few example valuations at seekingalpha.com. I wanted a book that showed cases on how to sensibly value a business.

Berkshire Hathaway's Q4 portfolio has been filed. New or increased positions include BNI, WMT, IR, RSG, IRM, BDX, and WFC.