VALUE INVESTING TUTORIAL
Good Business?
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- History of Consistently Increasing Sales, Earnings and Cash Flow
- Sustainable Competitive Advantage
- Conservative Debt
- Long Term Debt < 3X Net Income
- Return of Equity (ROE) & Return on Assets (ROA) Must be Consistent & High
- ROE > 15% => Great Investment
- Low Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) Required to Maintain Current Operations
- Management buying the stock
- Financial Statement
- - revenue : increasing thru the years
- - net income : increasing thru the years
Good Price?
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- Company is Undervalued: Stock Price Is Below Intrinsic Value
- Stock Breaks Out of Consolidation Or On An Uptrend and must be above the 20 or 50-Day moving Average
10 - under price
15 - fair value
20 - over price
Price/book ratio - less than 1 = undervalue, earning poor
- more than 1 =
Time to buy
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1) Sept to Oct
Seven Reasons To Sell A Value Stock
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- The stock price drops 20% below your purchase price. A 20% drop is very unlikely if you buy a very good company that is undervalued.
- You found you made a mistake when evaluating the company, as it does not meet one of the 9 investment criteria.
- During your regular evaluation, you notice a negative change in one of the 9 investing criteria, and it does not seem temporary (e.g. fall in profit margin, earnings per share, ROE etc…)
- Management takes action that is not in shareholder’s best interests or dilutes their stakes significantly.
- You identify a much better investment (higher growth prospects, better price) that will give you a much higher annual rate of return.
- When the economy is approaching a bubble and the stock’s price is way overvalued.
- Inflation is very high => FED begins to raise interest rates
- S&P 500 PE ratio is above 30.
- The Stock price reverses into a downtrend