Value Investing News

Economic experts recommend investors dedicate 30-40% of their stock portfolio to foreign firms. Does following Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula Investing strategy automatically meet that recommendation?

In a decade, Apple has gone from niche-market roadkill to a company whose growing dominance and competitive tactics in a booming market are thrilling investors, angering competitors, and drawing regulatory scrutiny.

The number of dividend cuts in the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index increased to seven, as two more financial stocks cut their dividends in May.

A true cigar butt valued at well under net cash, Qiao Xing Mobile is nevertheless a growing and quite profitable Chinese mobile phone maker. Can the company survive, or is the market correct in valuing the business at 0 against strong competitors?

Nokia is the world's largest mobile phone maker, with dominant market position in most geographies and a considerable scale advantage allowing it to be the low cost producer in a commodity market.

I couldn’t begin to estimate how many different stocks are traded around the world. Though the population of stocks may be large, there are only a precious few that are worthy dividend stocks. When spending my time looking for worthy investments, there are four primary places I look:

In this video, Vitaliy Katsenelson speaks outside the Value Investing Congress to Forbes on the four cash rich tech stocks he likes.

Nokia is an international dividend achiever. From the end of 1999 up until September 2008 this dividend stock has delivered an annual average total return of 5.00 % to its shareholders. Nokia’s share price has not recovered yet form its all time highs in the early 2000. The stock has lost over 45% of its value so far in 2008.

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen criteria:

Link to Consuelo Mack's most recent edition of WealthTrack - with author of the Warren Buffet Way, and Fund Manager, Robert Hagstrom.
Also includes some personal thoughts

After Motorola threw in the towel on making money in cell phones this year, is it a good buy? It was not 3 years ago. This analysis is still valid today. Motorola’s failure bodes well for Nokia. Disclosure I own Nokia stock.

Barron's covers Jones Apparel Group, Agilent Technologies, Newmont Mining, Integrated Device Technology, book store buyouts, and more this week.