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Wealth Building Opportunities for the Active Value Investor
Investing Style: Value
Holding Period: Long-Term
Portfolio: Yes
Market Timing: No
By definition, a value investor is someone with a long time preference who buys businesses or ventures when they’re inexpensive relative to long-term cash flows. Does that sound much like your average investor today?
Most people know very little about the companies they’re buying. They likely know nothing about the long-term cash flows. They also probably don’t care much about the relative cost of owning the business.
They don’t even really think about stock ownership from a business owner’s perspective. They think about ticker symbols and “stocks go up” chart patterns. They’d rather view another 15-second video on social media than dig through a balance sheet.
Main Street investors might claim to be value investors, but their revealed preference is for something else entirely.
The media—and even Wall Street investment firms—have taken notice, with some outlets reporting on the demise of value investing! An analyst report from Bank of America claimed: “Value is Dead.”
Even the London Business School published a paper asking the question: “Is Systematic Value Investing Dead?”
If you’re a student of the market like me, you probably bristle when you hear this kind of claim amplified. I’m here to share an important message with you today: “Value Investing Is NOT Dead.” In fact, it’s thriving.
2024 marked the best year for value stocks since 2021 and the third-best in the past decade. As tracked by the Vanguard Value Fund (VTV), value stocks rose 15.2% last year.
That’s solid – especially when compared to historical averages. Over the past 10 years, VTV has delivered a solid 10% annual return.
Consider this: while most investors are cautious during down markets, selling off their holdings and waiting for prices to rebound, value investors see things differently.
We seek excellent businesses at fair prices, and these low prices signal opportunity.
Now is your chance to join us!
Chris Preston
Chief Analyst, Cabot Stock of the Week and Cabot Value Investor
Chris joined Cabot in 2015, where he previously served as staff analyst, web editor, and Chief Analyst of Cabot Wealth Daily, our free investment advisory, which in 2019 was named “Best Financial/Investing Newsletter or Ezine” at the SIPA (Specialized Information Publishers Association) Awards, with Chris at the helm.
Prior to joining Cabot, Chris was an analyst and assistant managing editor with Wyatt Investment Research.
He has been an investment analyst for more than a decade and a professional writer/editor for nearly 20 years, picking up multiple writing awards along the way.
His bylines have appeared in Forbes, The Money Show, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report and ESPN.com.
Chris lives in Vermont with his wife, two young kids and their golden retriever, Scout. He occasionally sleeps.
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