In the following video, legendary value investor Marty Whitman discusses Benjamin Graham’s net-net formula and his adjustments to it. We’ve previously covered those adjustments here, but we’ve added the video because we think it’s quite amazing to see the great man explaining his rationale for making them. The highlight, from our perspective, is this gem:
We do net-nets based more on common sense. As, for example, you have an asset – a Class A office building – financed with recourse finance, fully tenanted by credit-worthy tenants; That, for accounting purposes, is classified as a fixed asset, but, given such a building, you pick up the telephone and sell it, and really it’s more current than K-Mart’s inventories, for example, which is classified as a current asset.
Enjoy the rest of his wit below:
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