I’m considering launching a subscription-only service aimed at identifying stocks similar to those in the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports. Like the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports, I’ll be seeking undervalued industrial companies where a catalyst in the form a buy-out, strategic acquisition, liquidation or activist campaign might emerge to close the gap between [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Net Net Stock’
Greenbackd Endangered Species, Activism and Liquidation Report
Posted in About, Greenbackd, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Greenbackd, Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock on March 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Simoleon Sense interviews James Montier
Posted in About, Net Current Asset Value, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged James Montier, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock, Quantitative investment on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m a huge fan of James Montier’s work on the rationale for a quantitative investment strategy and global Graham net net investing. Miguel Barbosa of Simoleon Sense has a wonderful interview with Montier, covering his views on behavioral investing and value investment. Particularly interesting is Montier’s concept of “seductive details” and the implications for investors: [...]
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 Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock 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 [...]
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 Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, Net Cash Stock, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock, Net Quick Value 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 [...]
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 Liquidating Value, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock, Net net working capital, Net Quick Value 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 [...]
Walking the talk: Applying back-tested investment strategies in practice
Posted in About, Behavioral economics, Contrarian investment, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Quantitative investment, Stocks, Value Investment, tagged Liquidation, Liquidation Value, NCAV, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock, Net Quick Value, Quantitative, Value Investment on February 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, has an interesting post on his blog Musings on Markets, Transaction costs and beating the market. Damodaran’s thesis is that transaction costs – broadly defined to include brokerage commissions, spread and the “price impact” of trading (which I believe is an important issue [...]
The Kabuki narrative
Posted in About, Behavioral economics, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged Japan, Liquidating Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock, Net Quick Value 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 [...]
Performance of Japanese sub-liquidation value stocks: the results
Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Value Investment, tagged Japan, Liquidating Value, Liquidation Value, NCAV, Net Cash Stock, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock, Net nets, Net Quick Value on February 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Since last week’s Japanese liquidation value: 1932 US redux post, I’ve been attempting to determine whether the historical performance of Japanese sub-liquidation value stocks matches the experience in the US, which has been outstanding since the strategy was first identified by Benjamin Graham in 1932. The risk to the Japanese net net experience is the perception (rightly [...]
Japanese liquidation value: 1932 US redux
Posted in About, Liquidation, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, tagged Japan, Net Cash Stock, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Net Net Stock, Net Quick Value 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 [...]
Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAD) Q3 2009 update
Posted in Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAD), Net Net Stocks, Stocks, tagged Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAD), Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net Stock on October 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAD) has filed its 10Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. We started following DRAD (see our post archive here) because it was an undervalued asset play with a plan to sell assets and buy back its stock. The stock is up more than 167% since we started following it to close [...]

