Seems like a pretty
big value trap.
Not exact matches
A change in management, a
big change in the industry, higher commodity prices, a regulatory change — all of these things can turn a
value trap into a great investment.
So when seeing a low word count, authors can fall into the
trap that more words equals more
value and may be tempted to reduce the price of the book, or might even consider stuffing more words into it to make it seem «
bigger.»
Lots of innocent new authors will fall in the dangerous
trap, of being drained of
big time $ for services and support that falls extremely short in
value.
Benjamin Graham, the father of
value investing, found the
biggest risk of buying bargains was purchasing low quality stocks or
value traps.
Notes through April 18, 2006 Revisiting P / E10, Revisiting P / E10: Dividends, NFB Closed, Links Repaired, The
Big Project, Calculator D, Long - Term Stock Returns, My Most Recent Articles, Dividend Calculators A and B, Dividend Growth Sensitivity Study, Three Powerful Advantages of Dividend Strategies, Calculator H, CTVR Calculator A, Dividends and Constant Terminal
Value Rates, HCTVR Calculator A, May 2006 Highlights, Investment
Traps, Variable Terminal
Value Rate Calculator A, Variable Terminal
Value Rate Calculator B, Why People Ignore Valuations, Latching Calculators, Latched Threshold Survey, Investing for Dummy — The Six «Must Know» Rules, Early Success with Latch and Hold, Continued Success with Latch and Hold, Adding Constraints to Latch and Hold, Time To Catch Up Calculator Notes through June 12, 2006
Revisiting P / E10, Revisiting P / E10: Dividends, NFB Closed, Links Repaired, The
Big Project, Calculator D, Long - Term Stock Returns, My Most Recent Articles, Dividend Calculators A and B, Dividend Growth Sensitivity Study, Three Powerful Advantages of Dividend Strategies, Calculator H, CTVR Calculator A, Dividends and Constant Terminal
Value Rates, HCTVR Calculator A, May 2006 Highlights, Investment
Traps, Variable Terminal
Value Rate Calculator A, Variable Terminal
Value Rate Calculator B, Why People Ignore Valuations, Latching Calculators, Latched Threshold Survey, Investing for Dummy — The Six «Must Know» Rules, Early Success with Latch and Hold, Continued Success with Latch and Hold, Adding Constraints to Latch and Hold, Time To Catch Up Calculator Notes through June 12, 2006 The Lower Latch and Hold Threshold, Additional Constraints with Latch and Hold, Current Research I: Latch and Hold, Dividend Investors, The Accumulation Stage, Idiot Switching, Latch and Hold Spreadsheet A, Typical
Values of P / E10, Growth with Switching, Special Note about Mean Reversion, No New Discovery This Time, Looking a Little Bit Harder, The Stock - Return Predictor, Calculator I. Notes starting June 13, 2006.
They may all turn out to be losers, but I think we need to consider Greenblatt's assertion in the article that you reference (Adding Your Two Cents May Cost a Lot Over the Long Term) that investors systematically avoid buying many of the
biggest winners because they look like losers /
value traps.
A
big debt is an actual trigger for the most deadly
value traps.