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I recently read a paper on competitive advantages in which many value investors will be interested. It's from 2005, so it does talk about Apple as being a company with no competitive advantage, but I...

Many value investors tend to favour quantitative over qualitative factors when evaluating stocks. Nevertheless, it is absolutely imperative that investors go beyond the quarterly reports in...

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Micropac Industries (MPAD) looks cheap...very cheap! It trades for $13.5 million despite net cash of $10 million and a profitable history: in the last four years it has total income of around $7...

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What makes these three words (the title of this post) so hard to say? Does it suggest ignorance, incompetence or lack of intelligence? In the investing world, the phrase is probably not used enough,...

Through a series of experiments, Dan Ariely documents the many ways in which humans behave irrationally. By understanding these human tendencies, we can both learn to behave more rationally when it...

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Through a series of experiments, Dan Ariely documents the many ways in which humans behave irrationally. By understanding these human tendencies, we can both learn to behave more rationally when it...

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Virco Manufacturing's market cap has fallen from $50 million a few months ago to about $24 million today, giving it a P/B ratio of under 0.6. The company manufactures and distributes desks, tables,...

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On this blog, you will mostly find discussion of low multiple stocks, as far as investment discussions go. That is, a company undergoing some temporary difficulty that trades at a low P/E or low P/S...

On this blog, you will mostly find discussion of low multiple stocks, as far as investment discussions go. That is, a company undergoing some temporary difficulty that trades at a low P/E or low P/S...

Almost two years ago, LS Starrett (SCX) was discussed on this site as a potential value investment. Having appreciated some 50% since that time, the stock now trades much closer to its intrinsic...

Several quarters ago, SuperValu was discussed on this site as a potential opportunity for regular investors to participate in what looked like a leveraged-buyout type investment play. A few months...

Last year at this time, Rimage looked like an attractive stock. It had both a ton of cash relative to its market cap, and a steady source of cash flow such that it could generate a great return for...

Through a series of experiments, Dan Ariely documents the many ways in which humans behave irrationally. By understanding these human tendencies, we can both learn to behave more rationally when it...

Through a series of experiments, Dan Ariely documents the many ways in which humans behave irrationally. By understanding these human tendencies, we can both learn to behave more rationally when it...

The PE10 is a useful ratio that aids the investor in determining the relative price level of the aggregate stock market. But as discussed on this site a few days ago, the metric is far from perfect,...