Value Investing News

Virtually every financial writer will pen an article selecting his or her top stock picks for the upcoming year. I enjoy reading them and the logic behind the picks. As a long-term buy and hold investor, generally most aren't useful for me; nevertheless, I find them entertaining and sometimes there is a gem to be found. Here are some picks for 2012...

As in the above example, where a few readers want to identify both Sirius and Bank of America together as being “cheap," I have come to realize there are various categories of that definition. One of the traits that fuse and unify all investors together in the market (or in the grocery store) is the need to find a bargain or a cheap stock to buy.

Nobody knows Joel Greenblatt's exact recipe for calculating the Magic Formula lists, but here are 3 replacements I would make in the current screens.

Barron's recently released its list of 500 stocks ranked by revenue growth and return on capital. How do the top 100 stack up when ranked by Magic Formula statistics?

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula Investing screen.

Kodak, one of the great American brands of the past 100 years, has seen its traditional film business devastated by the digital photography revolution. Can the company successfully transition into a digital imaging company before the legacy film business turns negative?

Magic Formula Investing is a great way to find good investment sectors along with attractively priced stocks of high-quality companies.

Research In Motion (RIMM), the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has great growth prospects, excellent financial strength, and solid business momentum. But can the company compete with the new wave of smartphones from Google and Apple?

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula Investing screens.

These are exactly the kinds of companies that Philip Fisher would want to own. (Philip Fisher was Warren Buffett's mentor when it came to growth stocks.) So why don't these stocks appeal to value investors? Quite simply, because of the...