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Blind Stock Valuation
One of the bloggers I follow on a regular basis over at Gurufocus has put up a blind stock valuation challenge here. In any case, I took a stab at valuing the company which I have copied out below. You’ll … Continue reading
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Stock Picking Contest – 2012 Q1 Update
I haven’t posted anything for awhile, but I’m starting to get some free time again and have a bunch of half written articles, so if you’re lucky, I’ll get some of them finished up and posted soon. Anyway, an easy … Continue reading
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Mistakes
So I’ve been at this value investing thing for awhile now, and along the way I can definitely say that I’ve made my share of mistakes. Or growing pains as I like to think of them. Anyway, I’m going to … Continue reading
Stocks for 2012
One of the blogs I read on a semi-regular basis participates in a stock-picking contest each year. In the contest, bloggers from a number of different finance sites pick four stocks that they ‘own’ for a year. Any stock or … Continue reading
Housekeeping
So now that another calendar year has almost passed, it’s time to reflect on the year that has gone by. And by reflecting, I mean crunching some good hard numbers to figure out what happened in your financial life this … Continue reading
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Tenets of Value Investing – Mr. Market
For those of you unfamiliar with Mr. Market, he is an analogy that Ben Graham introduced to explain volatility in the markets. Every day, Mr. Market provides a price for every stock in the market that he is willing to … Continue reading
My aren’t we picky…
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is how to rank a lot of seemingly cheap companies against one another. Due to the recent market turbulence, there have been a lot of companies trading at very low levels in … Continue reading
Let’s get that Snowball Rolling…
Last time I talked about compound interest and how time and the rate of return were able to supercharge the effects of compounding. Time in the market is something that can’t really be controlled as there’s only so many years … Continue reading
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It just takes a little snowball to start an avalanche…
So I’ve decided to take a break with the discussion on stocks and investing styles and the like with this post. Instead I’m going to talk about the 8th Wonder of the World (as Einstein famously noted), compound interest. Compounding … Continue reading
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Being Prepared
So the Scouts had it right after all. After all the craziness in the markets over the last few weeks, the importance of being prepared becomes all the more evident. Whether this means having an appropriate asset allocation, cash to … Continue reading
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Engineering Income 