-- We're debating angels here anyway — no matter how rosy a perspective we take re their acquisitions, it can't
beat buying a business priced at a 0.05 Price / Sales!
I mean, what
beats buying the business you know best (at the right price)?!
Not exact matches
One of the greatest myths about personal or
business success is that eventually your
business, personal abilities, products or services will get discovered and be embraced by the masses that will
beat a path to your door to
buy what you are selling.
Swiss food group Nestle is to
buy U.S. drugmaker Pfizer's infant nutrition
business for $ 11.85 billion,
beating out French rival Danone in the battle for dominance of baby food in fast - growing emerging markets.
I do believe it's very difficult to do, and I think the much easier path to market
beating returns is to
buy good
businesses at low prices over time, without worrying about overall stock prices.
It got to the point where brokers and Venture capital firms were
beating the bushes LOOKING for companies to throw money at and often they didn't scrutinize these company's
business plans very well and / or
bought into insane growth projections.
I agree that
buying unloved
businesses at
beaten down prices is a form of value investing; it's typically referred to as «cigar butt investing» and was practiced by Buffett in his partnership days.
In smartphones, Microsoft
beat out Blackberry for a distant third place in the smartphone market, and has decided to
buy Nokia's phone
business.
We lend hard money loans to
businesses who want to
buy property quickly to
beat out the competition.
«It's good to
buy a large company with fine
businesses when the price is
beaten down over worry..»
Buying shares in a
business with a moat at a price that is
beaten down is the value investor's mantra.
We know about an investing strategy that
beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and
businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of
Buy - and - Hold.
US IT giant Apple says it plans to
buy headphone maker
Beats and its subsidiary to strengthen Apple's music - streaming
business.