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America needs 5 million or more homes. There is no talk from Fed which everyone finds hawk’sh, but this guy was placed by Trump because he would lower rates. Maybe it comes before mid terms or after. But a cut or two would help housing market. Sellers have outnumbered buyers …
Screeners divide by total equity. For holding companies that includes money that isn't the shareholders'. Here's the same 183 companies measured both ways.
I kept running into the same problem screening Korean equities: a holding company shows up at 0.2x or 0.5x price-to-book, and when you open the filing a large part of that equity turns out to belong to the minority shareholders of its subsidiaries, not to the company whose shares you'd …
Weekend Humour: THERE ARE ONLY THREE WAYS TO GET RICH by Fred J Young. [I assure you this is a value investing article]
*(I copied this from the 1989 book "Classics: An Investor's Anthology.", published by the CFA Institude.)* THERE ARE ONLY THREE WAYS TO GET RICH THEM THAT'S GOT GETS STAYING RICH IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN GETTING RICH Fred J. Young Fred Young was a key member of the Trust Department …
30-Day Update: I Bought 20 Undervalued Dividend Stocks. Here’s What Happened.
​ About a month ago, I posted this $1,000 challenge portfolio here. The idea was simple: instead of chasing whatever stock was hot that week, I wanted to see what would happen if I spread $1,000 across 20 dividend-paying companies that I believed were undervalued. I also wanted to make …
The Trade Desk: Down 90%, still not cheap
I saw many TTD posts where the entire comparison is based on P/E or P/FCF ratios, without taking a deeper look into the business. That's what I did. TLDR: \- Still overvalued \- Google/Amazon became their competitors, and the pressure on revenue/margin will continue \- Had 4 CFOs in 13 …
Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio holdings for the 2nd quarter are out - SEC Form 13F-HR filing. Huge add to Alphabet and heavy adds to Delta Air Lines and Lennar. Here are the 15 changes compared to Q1.
[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526352200/xslForm13F\_X02/56757.xml](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526352200/xslForm13F_X02/56757.xml) |NAME OF ISSUER|CHG IN SHARES|PCT| |:-|:-|:-| |||| |ALLY FINL INC|\-2,000,000|\-6.9%| |ALPHABET INC CAP STK CL A|\+24,541,369|\+45.2%| |ALPHABET INC CAP STK CL C|\+23,603,218|\+658.3%| |BANK AMER CORP|\-30,230,150|\-5.9%| |CAPITAL ONE FINL CORP|\-4,150,000|\-58.0%| |CONSTELLATION BRANDS INC|\-632,890|**GONE**| |D R HORTON INC|\+3,564|**NEW**| |DAVITA INC|\-1,220,376|\-4.1%| |DELTA AIR LINES INC|\+17,510,544|\+44.0%| |KROGER CO|\-11,000,000|\-22.0%| |LENNAR CORP CL A|\+3,012,099|\+29.8%| |LENNAR …
Stock prices are high. But where else do you go?
We all heard it. Especialy in this sub. Stocks are expensive. There is a war in the middle east. War in Ukraine. Government dept is high. Bubbles in many places in the market… Systemic risk in AI circular financing. You know… The usual CNBC headlines. And these are all legitimate …
IMXI Acquisition by WU Results
About a month ago I made a post about this M&A Arbitrage situation https://www.reddit.com/r/ValueInvesting/s/gtQtGqIn8o [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260813834323/en/Western-Union-and-Intermex-Provide-Update-on-Pending-Acquisition](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260813834323/en/Western-Union-and-Intermex-Provide-Update-on-Pending-Acquisition) The deal blocker was NYDFS approval which was accomplished today. Graham discusses these types of special situations for active investors and outlined some pretty straightforward criteria that we can follow today. \- Deal Status Definitive, …
Cognizant / CTSH is undervalued. LONG
I was looking into cognizant technology solutions ticker ctsh today on august 14 2026 and the numbers from their recent sec filings look crazy mispriced. stock is sitting right around 59.29 dollars with a market cap of 26.7 billion dollars. if you check their latest 10k for 2025 and recent …
DNUT: edging closer to value with FCF and EBITDA multiples expected to decline materially. + hype potential through Pokémon
I’m being serious (but of course speculative as well). Edit: stock up 8% after Pokémon related searches went up 300% today. Management has executed well on reducing debt, decreasing CAPEX, and unceasing margins. If you look through their last earnings you’ll Debt/EBITDA multiples materially lower. Interest coverage, profit margins and …