Benjamin Graham

...less than most other competitors, and is trading at less than half its high of $80 reached in mid 2008. In evaluating a company Benjamin Graham says is important to look at several years of data, and not just base data on TTM. I think this...

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...to investors' successes and failures during the Depression, especially those of mentor and friend Benjamin Graham. Investing buffs know Graham as the legendary father of value investing, whose disciples include Warren Buffett. After taking...

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...smartest, and most successful people out there ... they learn from it. And that's what sets them apart. Case in point: Benjamin Graham He went bankrupt three times as an investor. But each time, he documented and studied his...

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...to have a properly diversified stock portfolio, you need shares in only 10 to 40 companies. Even the great investment analyst Benjamin Graham urged "adequate though not excessive diversification," which he defined as between 10 and about 30...

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The first step for the screen is to determine which companies pass the tests for the enterprising investor, updated from Benjamin Graham's tests presented in The Intelligent Investor. Specifically, here are the tests required for the...

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...many years from now. So what is going on? Story continues below Buffett comes from the school of value investing started by Benjamin Graham and practiced with magical results by the likes of Phil Fisher, Walter Schloss, John Templeton...

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...in more than $13 billion in sales in the past 12 months. The strategy I base on the writings of Benjamin Graham is quite high on Varco. Graham, known as the "Father of Value Investing," was a very conservative investor who dug deep into a...

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...that he is playing a leadership role in the national economic dialogue," says Lawrence Cunningham, author of How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett. "He knows that people listen to what he says and copy what he...

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But that's not the whole story. Speculating, for example, involves the very same process. The legendary Dean of Wall Street, Benjamin Graham, differentiates the two approaches in his seminal work, Security Analysis, and in the process,...

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...in Geico stretches back to 1951, when his interest was sparked by his mentor, the business writer and investor, Benjamin Graham. Mr Graham was an investor in the insurance company, and the young Warren visited the company in Washington...

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