The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value part 15 potx

... 1 that the definition of an “enterprising” investor depends not on the amount of risk you seek, but the amount of work you are willing to put in, Graham falls back on the conventional notion that ... be sure, a transaction fee of $4 takes a monstrous 8% bite out of a $50 monthly investment—but if that’s all the money you can spare, then these microinvesting sites are the only...

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... International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e -book on- screen. ... 360n 620 Index About the Authors BENJAMIN GRAHAM (1894-1976), the father of value investing, has been an inspiration for many of today’s most successful businesspeople. H...

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... with only one small decline over the entire period. Its book value was about equal to the market price. With this conservatively 168 The Intelligent Investor the end of 1968 and revalued on June ... to the particular issue. If the resultant value is suffi- ciently above the market price—and if the investor has confidence in the technique employed—he can tag the s...

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... and other professional investors are saddled with: • With billions of dollars under management, they must gravitate toward the biggest stocks the only ones they can buy in the multimillion-dollar ... investing intelligently is about controlling the controllable. You can’t control whether the stocks or funds you buy will outperform the market today, next week, this month, or this y...

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... wishes, consider himself basically a part owner of these busi- nesses, at a cost corresponding to what the balance sheet shows to be the money invested therein.* The rate of earnings on invested capital ... shares have appeal for the long term Acontinued acqui- sition policy together with a strong position in industrial fields and an accelerated international program suggests furt...

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... diversification more than individual selection. Incidentally, the universally accepted idea of diversification is, in part at least, the negation of the ambitious pre- tensions of selectivity. If one ... select the best stocks unerringly, one would only lose by diversifying. Yet within the limits of the four most general rules of common-stock selection suggested for the defens...

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... even stronger in the 1990s, when it almost seemed that the stronger the company was, the less likely it was to pay a dividend—or for its shareholders to want one. The “payout ratio” (or the percentage ... subscription rights).† As we men- tioned above, the shareholders would find themselves in exactly the same position if they received stock dividends in lieu of the popular...

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... cents, but the expectation of reward is greater in the latter case. The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is. One quick example: The Washington Post Company ... and value. When the price of a stock can be influenced by a “herd” on Wall Street with prices set at the margin by the most emotional person, or the greediest perso...

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... 330 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 13 339 14. Stock Selection for the Defensive Investor 347 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 14 367 15. Stock Selection for the Enterprising Investor 376 COMMENTARY ON CHAPTER 15 396 16. Convertible ... in the Endnotes sec- tion beginning on p. 579. The new footnotes that Jason Zweig has intro- duced appear at the bottom of Graham’s pages (and, in the typef...

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... this book in 1949 the figures were almost the exact opposite: the bonds returned only 2.66% and the stocks yielded 6.82%. 2 In previous editions we have consistently urged that at least 25% of the ... Analysis was the textbook that transformed this musty circle into a modern pro- fession. 1 And The Intelligent Investor is the first book ever to describe, for individual i...

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