2 Stocks Poised to Benefit from Proxy Fights
Proxy fights are rare, but when they happen they can be just the catalyst an out-of-favor stock needs. Here are two emerging candidates.
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Finding value is all about buying something at a discount to what it’s actually worth. The same is true of value investing.
Sometimes factors can cause a stock to get beaten down to the point of being undervalued. Value investing is about finding stocks that are worth more than their current share price.
Investment legends like Sir John Templeton, Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett realized decades before behavioral finance became a respected academic discipline that systematic psychological errors tend to create market inefficiencies. Templeton, Graham and Buffett reasoned that herding behavior (including momentum traders and short-term speculators that chase price trends) and overreaction bias (the tendency of people to overreact to bad news) are strong forces in the market that can push stocks far below their fair value.
Based on these observations, many of the world’s greatest investors look for stocks that are beaten down by the market due to bad news or negative rumors. Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, constantly searched for companies that once fetched sky-high valuations but that crashed when the companies were unable to deliver on investors’ expectations.
Warren Buffett famously said, “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
Value investing is about recognizing opportunities and spotting deep discounts. One way some investors measure a company’s value is its price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E. But P/E is a very simplistic measure of a stock’s value. Experts dig deeper, examining a company’s sales, cash flow, dividend, book value, debt levels, historical valuation patterns and more to determine if a stock is undervalued.
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Benjamin Graham was the father of value investing, and these were his seven primary criteria for selecting winning value stocks.
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Growth stocks have easily outpaced value stocks over the last decade. But these things are cyclical - and the value investing approach should soon win out.
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Benjamin Graham is considered the godfather of value investing. Understanding his system and his thinking can help you find the right value stocks.
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To answer the question, what is value investing, try to find opportunities and spot deep discounts. These criteria can help.
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