“We don’t bluff. It’s not my style anyway. Over a lifetime, you’ll get a reputation for either bluffing or not bluffing. And therefore, I want it to be understood that I don’t do it.”
A line from a country song expresses our feeling about new ventures, turnarounds, or auction-like sales: ‘When the phone don’t ring, you’ll know it’s me.’”
The value of any stock, bond or business today is determined by the cash inflows and outflows—discounted at an appropriate interest rate—that can be expected to occur during the lifetime of the asset.
Simple mathematics and a logical brain are what you need in order to withstand the emotions of deal making, because emotions can get in the way of closing a deal.
Stock prices rise and fall because of investors' perception of the future profitability of a company - in other words, on the stock's intrinsic value.
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In the 1940 edition of Security Analysis, Graham and Dodd used a now historic company as an example of one way intrinsic value is determined.
Graham: In 1922, prior to the boom in aviation securities, Wright Aeronautical Corporation stock was selling on the New York Stock Exchange at only $8, although it was paying a dividend of $1, had for some time been earning over $2 a share, and showed more than $8 per share in cash assets in the treasury. In this case analysis would readily have established that the intrinsic value of the issue was substantially above the market price.
Graham looked at Wright Aeronautical again in 1928. By then the company was selling at $280 per share. It was paying a $2 dividend, and earning $8 per share, and the net asset value was $50 per share. Wright was still a sound company, but future prospects in no way justified its market price. The company was, by Graham's reckoning, selling substantially above its intrinsic value.
One of the assumptions of the discounted cash flow theory is that people are rational, that nobody would buy a business for more than its future discounted cash flows. Since a stock represents ownership in a company, this assumption applies to the stock market. But why, then, do stocks exhibit such volatile movements? It doesn't make sense for a stock's price to fluctuate so much when the intrinsic value isn't changing by the minute. The fact is that many people do not view stocks as a representation of discounted cash flows, but as trading vehicles. Who cares what the cash flows are if you can sell the stock to somebody else for more than what you paid for it? Cynics of this approach have labeled it the greater fool theory, since the profit on a trade is not determined by a company's value, but about speculating whether you can sell to some other investor (the fool). On the other hand, a trader would say that investors relying solely on fundamentals are leaving themselves at the mercy of the market instead of observing its trends and tendencies. This debate demonstrates the general difference between a technical and fundamental investor. A follower of technical analysis is guided not by value, but by the trends in the market often represented in charts. So, which is better: fundamental or technical? The answer is neither. As we mentioned in the introduction, every strategy has its own merits. In general, fundamental is thought of as a long-term strategy, while technical is used more for short-term strategies.
Share price should be no more than two-thirds of intrinsic worth. Look at companies with P/E ratios at the lowest 10% of all equity securities. PEG should be less than one. Stock price should be no more than tangible book value. There should be no more debt than equity (i.e. D/E ratio < 1). Current assets should be two times current liabilities. Dividend yield should be at least two-thirds of the long-term AAA bond yield. Earnings growth should be at least 7% per annum compounded over the last 10 years. ==================
when u find one that pass all the test....it is like to be
1 Xinguan , a China hustle 2 in a sun set industry no one wants 3 unresolved shareholder issues 4 a severe bear market where plenty can be found 5 a dead stock, have not moved for years 6 credibility issues, CEO just charged for corruption
7....if u are talking about American large caps, it may have a bit of sense.....if u are talking about Bursa small caps, it is just rubbish for u to gamble.
conclusion...best to avoid unless u are king trader like me.
A good trader can trade any thing, good bad ugly also can......
Share price should be no more than two-thirds of intrinsic worth. Look at companies with P/E ratios at the lowest 10% of all equity securities. PEG should be less than one. Stock price should be no more than tangible book value. There should be no more debt than equity (i.e. D/E ratio < 1). Current assets should be two times current liabilities. Dividend yield should be at least two-thirds of the long-term AAA bond yield. Earnings growth should be at least 7% per annum compounded over the last 10 years. ===============
when people are charging out the door as in severe bear market, buy companies with name recognition.....
when people are charging through the door, as a bull market....just grow some balls....u don't need a check list, what u need are some balls., and adrenaline.
for a trader, the when is more important than the what and hows
for an investor, it is more important to check out the people and the business than to check out the boxes in the list above. U still need to check out the story......make sure u got a good story to tell, not which boxes have been ticked.
The problem with bull market trading is,....u don't know when to stop.
Its like the casino, the casino is not scared u win, the casino is only scared u don't return.
so how to solve this problem?
I don't know...The only thing I can think of is to change from a high turnover guy to a low turnover guy. But , your average buy and hold guy actually do far worse than me in 2018. so how?
tomorrow....tomorrow I give u a better solution.....
MARKET FLUCTUATIONS OF INVESTOR'S PORTFOLIO Note carefully what Graham is saying here.
It is not just possible, but probable, that most of the stocks you own will gain at least 50% from their lowest price and lose at least 33% ("equivalent one-third") from their highest price -regardless of which stocks you own or whether the market as a whole goes up or down.
If you can't live with that - or you think your portfolio is somehow magically exempt from it - then you are not yet entitled to call yourself an investor.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM'S 113 WISE WORDS The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all times he is free to disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons' mistakes of judgement."
This Ben Graham wise comment below is applicable to margin of safety stock like insas share price rm 0.70 with Nta rm 2.54 and nett cash Rm 0.70 per share with PE less than 10x and with decent div yield of about 3% pa loh..!!
Not applicable to overvalue stock like QL and Nestle, if u encounter big selloff on this type of counter u better cut n lari kuat kuat loh...bcos no margin of safety mah with Pe 50x, dividend yield of o.5% to 2.0% pa loh.....!!
Posted by 3iii > Jan 18, 2019 06:38 PM | Report Abuse
Finally:
MARKET FLUCTUATIONS OF INVESTOR'S PORTFOLIO Note carefully what Graham is saying here.
It is not just possible, but probable, that most of the stocks you own will gain at least 50% from their lowest price and lose at least 33% ("equivalent one-third") from their highest price -regardless of which stocks you own or whether the market as a whole goes up or down.
If you can't live with that - or you think your portfolio is somehow magically exempt from it - then you are not yet entitled to call yourself an investor.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM'S 113 WISE WORDS The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all times he is free to disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons' mistakes of judgement."
U ask yourself what type of earning power ?? When Nestle earnings yield is less than 2% pa based on PE above 50%...even u put monies in fixed deposits u get an earning power of 4% pa mah....!!
If u buy insas got earning power as Pe less than 10x...earning yield already exceed 10% pa mah...!!
Margin of Safety for those who are invested in Nestle, DLady, PBB, Petdag and HEIM, as explained and taught by Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
In the ordinary common stock, bought for investment under normal conditions, the margin of safety lies in an expected earning power considerably above the going rate for bonds.
Over a ten-year period the typical excess of stock earning power over bond interest may aggregate 50% of the price paid.
This figure is sufficient to provide a very real margin of safety— which, under favorable conditions, will prevent or minimize a loss.
Nestle ROE very terror 120% pa with NTA of Rm 3.00 it generate earnings of Rm 3.60....but u need to buy nestle for Rm 140.00...so ur earnings yield is less than 2.6 % pa loh...!!
Now u compare nestle 2.6% pa v insas 14% pa, u ask who got more earnings power leh ?? Of course Insas mah...14& pa warnings yield even kindy student understand 14% pa is more than 2.6% pa mah..!
But growth proponent may argue, nestle have growth woh ??
Raider ask very logical question loh...how much growth & for how long nestle need to grow from 2.6% pa to catch up with insas yield of 14% pa even, if u assume insas has no growth at all loh...!!
The answer is very long and very uncertain when nestle can catch up mah...!!
An english old saying a bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush mah...!! Insas yield is already there with 14%pa...now u want to speculate nestle yield 2.6% pa can catch up, but when leh ??
Thus insas has definitely has higher margin of safety than nestle loh..!!
Posted by stockraider > Jan 18, 2019 08:31 PM | Report Abuse X
U need understand what is real earning power loh...!!
Insas ROE only 4% pa....but based on rm 2.54 u generating eps of Rm 0.10 pa loh....!!
so if u buy insas at rm 0.70 u r getting yield of 14% pa....this is what we call earning power loh...!!
Posted by stockraider > Jan 18, 2019 08:19 PM | Report Abuse X
U ask yourself what type of earning power ?? When Nestle earnings yield is less than 2% pa based on PE above 50%...even u put monies in fixed deposits u get an earning power of 4% pa mah....!!
If u buy insas got earning power as Pe less than 10x...earning yield already exceed 10% pa mah...!!
Margin of Safety for those who are invested in Nestle, DLady, PBB, Petdag and HEIM, as explained and taught by Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
In the ordinary common stock, bought for investment under normal conditions, the margin of safety lies in an expected earning power considerably above the going rate for bonds.
Over a ten-year period the typical excess of stock earning power over bond interest may aggregate 50% of the price paid.
This figure is sufficient to provide a very real margin of safety— which, under favorable conditions, will prevent or minimize a loss.
A lot of investors buy stocks just because they are cheap without understanding that cheap is not always better.
Buffett learned from Charlie Munger that “it is far better to buy a wonderful business at a fair price than to buy a fair business at a wonderful price.”
Chances of losing money in cheap stocks are very high compared to investment in a fairly valued stock
Some stocks always remain in news and grab the attention of many. Stay away from such stocks which are highly volatile.
Warren Buffett once said, “Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well."
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