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The dumbest net net stock Warren Buffett ever bought

Posted in About, Greenbackd, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stocks, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Warren Buffett, tagged , on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This is an oldie, but a goodie (via CNN). The travails of buying net nets, as told by the master’s apprentice: Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway is the “dumbest” stock he ever bought. He calls his 1964 decision to buy the textile company a $200 billion dollar blunder, sparked by a spiteful urge to retaliate [...]

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ROIC and reversion to the mean: Part 3

Posted in About, Behavioral economics, Contrarian investment, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged , on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Recently I’ve been discussing Michael Mauboussin’s December 2007 Mauboussin on Strategy, “Death, Taxes, and Reversion to the Mean; ROIC Patterns: Luck, Persistence, and What to Do About It,” (.pdf) about Mauboussin’s research on the tendency of return on invested capital (ROIC) to revert to the mean (See Part 1 and Part 2). Mauboussin’s report has significant [...]

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Mike Burry’s Silicon Investor “Value Investing” thread

Posted in About, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged , , , , on March 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Yesterday I ran a post on Dr. Michael Burry, the value investor who was one of the first, if not the first, to figure out how to short sub-prime mortgage bonds in his fund, Scion Capital. In The Big Short, Michael Lewis discusses Burry’s entry into value investing: Late one night in November 1996, while on a cardiology [...]

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Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index results

Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged , , , , on February 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Jon Heller of the superb Cheap Stocks, one of the inspirations for this site, has published the results of his two year net net index experiment in Winding Down The Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index; Outperforms Russell Microcap by 1371 bps, S&P 500 by 2537 bps. The “CS 21 Net/Net Index” was “the first [...]

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Net current asset value and net net working capital back-test refined

Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged , , , , , , on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Jae Jun at Old School Value has updated his great post back-testing the performance of net current asset value (NCAV) against “net net working capital” (NNWC) by refining the back-test (see NCAV NNWC Backtest Refined). His new back-test increases the rebalancing period to 6 months from 4 weeks, excludes companies with daily volume below 30,000 shares, and introduces the [...]

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Back-testing the performance of net current asset value against net net working value

Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged , , , , , , , on February 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Jae Jun at Old School Value has a great post, NCAV NNWC Screen Strategy Backtest, comparing the performance of net current asset value stocks (NCAV) and “net net working capital” (NNWC) stocks over the last three years. To arrive at NNWC, Jae Jun discounts the current asset value of stocks in line with Graham’s liquidation value [...]

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The Kabuki narrative

Posted in About, Behavioral economics, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged , , , , on February 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Regular readers of Greenbackd know that I’m no fan of “the narrative,” which is the story an investor concocts to explain the various pieces of data the investor gathers about a potential investment. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a great deal recently as I grapple with the merits of an investment in Japanese net [...]

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5 big Japanese Graham net nets

Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Value Investment, tagged , , , , on February 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »

In his Are Japanese equities worth more dead than alive?, SocGen’s Dylan Grice conducted some research into the performance of sub-liquidation value stocks in Japan since the mid 1990s. Grice’s findings are compelling: My Factset backtest suggests such stocks trading below liquidation value have averaged a monthly return of 1.5% since the mid 1990s, compared to -0.2% [...]

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Japanese liquidation value: 1932 US redux

Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged , , , , , on February 4, 2010 | 14 Comments »

Zero Hedge has an article Uncovering Liquidation Value… In Japan? discussing SocGen’s Dylan Grice’s Are Japanese equities worth more dead than alive. The title is a nod to Benjamin Graham’s landmark 1932 Forbes article, Inflated Treasuries and Deflated Stockholders, where he discussed the large number of companies in the US then trading at a discount to liquidation [...]

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October Net-Net follow-up

Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

In October I introduced a “monthly” net-net watch list based on the GuruFocus Benjamin Graham Net Current Asset Value Screener (subscription required). I haven’t updated it on a monthly basis, so now it’s a quarterly net-net watch list. July Net-Net Screen I was prompted to introduce the October net-net watch list because of the performance of a watch [...]

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