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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
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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CSS Industries Analysis
Even though it’s been awhile since my last post, I haven’t forgotten about the blog or investing in general. For those of you so inclined, my most recent analysis of CSS Industries has been published on Gurufocus as an entry … Continue reading
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Micro-Cap Investing is for Me!
A few posts ago, I put up an analysis of Crystal Rock Holdings where I mentioned that it is a micro-cap stock. What this means is that the total market value of all of the outstanding common shares at the … Continue reading
Show Me the Money
In almost every stock analysis, the reported (or projected) earnings per share is referenced as a proxy for how well the company is performing or is expected to perform. However, after reading through a number of company’s annual reports and … Continue reading
Stock Valuation – Crystal Rock
In researching stocks that are trading at a discount to their intrinsic value, I read a fair number of blogs and investing forums from time to time. One of the stocks that was briefly discussed on a forum I frequent … Continue reading
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Investing
As a relative newcomer to the incredibly diverse field of investing, the sheer amount of information available can be overwhelming at times. With no formal training in investing or finance, it has taken me awhile to gain exposure to many … Continue reading
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Engineering Income 