Continuing the quantitative value investment theme I’ve been trying to develop over the last week or so, I present my definition of a simple quantitative value strategy: net nets. James Montier, author of the essay Painting By Numbers: An Ode To Quant, which I use as the justification for simple quantitative investing, authored an article in September [...]
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Montier on net nets: A simple quantitative value strategy
Posted in About, Liquidation Value, Net Current Asset Value, Net Quick Stocks, Net Quick Value, Stocks, tagged Montier, NCAV, Net Current Asset Value, Net Net, Value investing on January 21, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD) 2009 10K update
Posted in Activist Investors, Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD), Net Cash Stocks, Net Net Stocks, Stocks, tagged Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD), NCAV, Net cash, Net Net on December 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Forward Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FORD) has filed its 10K for the period ended September 30, 2009. We started following FORD (see the post archive here) because it was trading at a discount to its net cash and liquidation values, although there was no obvious catalyst. Management appeared to be considering a “strategic transaction” of some kind, [...]
Net Net vs Activist Legend: And the winner is…
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAM), Stocks, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), tagged Carl Icahn, Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ:DRAM), NCAV, Net Net, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) on December 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Greenbackd is dedicated to unearthing undervalued asset situations where a catalyst exists likely to remove the discount or unlock the value. My favorite stocks are those trading at a substantial discount to net current assets or liquidation value, with an activist pushing for a catalyst to unlock the value. Those opportunities, however, are few and far between. I [...]
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