Value Investing News

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM), the world's largest automaker, is scheduled to release its fiscal third quarter 2010 earnings after the closing bell on Thursday, February 4, 2010. Analysts, on average, expect the company to report a loss of 6 cents a share on revenue of $38.32 million. In the year ago quarter, the company reported a loss of $1.09 per share on revenue of $3.38 billion.

With General Motors expected to file for bankruptcy soon, GM stock price has been in a freefall. In fact shares have hit the lowest levels since 1932, which was the year Dow Jones Industrials Average bottomed amidst the Great Depression. The stock price is also below $1, making shorting the stock almost impossible.

Even if stocks drop another 15% to 20%, they are likely to at least double from their current levels over the next five years. Trying to catch the market bottom is a loser's game.

ETF Funds - Now that China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s biggest car market, investors should be asking themselves if China is simply a better place to put their money.

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:

What exactly is the problem with Detroit's auto industry and who's to blame? Management? The unions? The real answer may surprise you.

Ford and GM own some of the best consumer brands around...could they have represented value investments that just went wrong?

A roundup of last week's stock related blog posts.

Barron's latest ranking of the companies most esteemed by investors highlights some familiar favorites, including No. 1-ranked Johnson & Johnson.

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:

Marty Whitman shares his value investing insights in this latest letter. This master of distressed investing is taking advantage of the situations in the financial and bond insurer sectors.

Bill Allen likes Toyota's decision to face its recent quality concern issues head on. He believes Toyota (TM) is one of the world's best companies and "should be considered a core holding in any portfolio".