Let the market serve you, and let the game come to you (i.e. make sure you're
buying these businesses cheap).
Not exact matches
By making lending
cheaper, consumers, corporations and governments would be able to borrow money inexpensively and put those dollars back into the economy, whether by
buying goods or investing in
businesses.
If Bitcoin, in its evolution, acquires more compelling utility — making cross-border payments
cheap and fast, for example, or enabling «smart» contracts that encode
business relationships and automatically disburse payments — those who own stakes in the finite currency could find other would - be users, possibly even deep - pocketed corporations, clamoring to
buy from them.
Nutritionist Andy Bellatti told
Business Insider of
cheaper groceries to
buy — such as oatmeal or black beans — if you need to keep up your energy levels throughout the day.
Semiconductors are a volatile
business, but do your homework and you can find
cheap buys.
As market watchers know, he's considered a value investor — someone who
buys companies when they're
cheap — which is a strategy he learned from his Columbia
Business School professor Benjamin Graham, author of the geeky classic The Intelligent Investor.
So we came out with two crude metrics for good and
cheap and you know Ben Graham said by
cheap Warren Buffett said if you could
buy a good
business cheap, even better, we combine those two, and we used a crude database.
And I've been teaching at Columbia for a number of years, I have been doing that 22 years now, but you know that time in the early 2000s, I've been doing it for a bunch years in and we had been making money using the same principles that Buffett uses, you know
buying cheap good
businesses.
Additionally, with the acquisition of General Electric's property loan portfolio, railcar leasing
business, and specialty finance
business, Wells Fargo is looking to expand market share while interest rates remain unattractive, i.e.
buy business on the
cheap.
If China runs a current account surplus with the United States, for example, the assumption is that Chinese manufacturers have a fundamental cost advantage over American manufacturers, the result of which is that American households and
businesses find it
cheaper to import Chinese goods than to
buy American goods, and Chinese households and
businesses find it
cheaper to
buy Chinese goods than to import American goods.
Sometimes it happens by accident, and then it is like dealing with your relatives and you hope to get rid of them but can't really» Charlie Munger «If you're in a lousy
business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result even if you
buy it
cheap.»
«
Buying Berkshire Hathaway itself was a mistake because Berkshire was a lousy textile
business and I
bought it very
cheap.
It was
cheap, so I
bought it and twenty years later I was still running a lousy
business and that money did not compound.
Buying stocks that appear cheap relative to trailing measures of cash flow or other measures (even if they're still «good» businesses that earn high returns on capital), usually means you're buying companies that are out of
Buying stocks that appear
cheap relative to trailing measures of cash flow or other measures (even if they're still «good»
businesses that earn high returns on capital), usually means you're
buying companies that are out of
buying companies that are out of favor.
Low rates discourage banks from providing longer term financing to new
businesses, but low rates provide
cheap capital for Wall Street traders, private equity and activist investors who
buy companies, strip assets and flip investments quickly.
They are being
bought and sold on the market, a gift of
cheap labour to Canadian
business.
Never mind that a
cheap currency makes it more expensive for Chinese households and
businesses to
buy things from the outside world, depressing standards of living and hampering the transition to a consumer society that China's leaders ostensibly want.
Or, thought of another way, if you wanted to enter the fertilizer
business, we believe it would be 50 %
cheaper for you to do so by
buying POT stock in the open market rather than by writing a check to build the assets yourself.
LOL Actually, people like me know that Christian
businesses get discriminated against by people like you, so I go out of my way to shop there, or
buy their products versus the other guys, who may be a few cents
cheaper.
While Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke
bought the
business to get access to premium Californian wine brands, he was also forced to acquire the
cheaper Blossom Hill brands as part of the sale.
The consumer is paying $ 1 a litre and the only winner here is the supermarket... Obviously it is
cheaper to
buy [produce] from overseas than from our country, grown in God knows what... Your latest ad campaign sprouting that you support Aussie growers is insulting... Eventually all the growers you so - called support will be out of
business... The consumer will be stuck
buying expensive, overseas produce... I am ashamed to watch your ads and us farmers burn in resentment when we do.
I
bought another brand from Amazon in 2015 — a 5 ounce jar that cost twelve bucks — but selling it that
cheap, well, the vendor must have gone out of
business.
The youth experiment is what it always was, a
cheaper way to build a team and make money to pay for the new stadium while still putting on an exhibition of good football in order to sell tickets and merchandise and the fans along with the
business's that
bought boxes in the stadium paid for a large chunk of it if not all.
Monaco will sell most of their stars this year because their
business model is to
buy cheap and sell for large profits but they will not sell all their best players.
and the others who never played or had only a handful of appearances could not even be loaned out some of them, that's good
business they were
cheap, now we knwo why they were
cheap, now look merterseker, sanchez, ozil, theo, koschilney off contract, how much money is there alone, also wenger has a habit of
buying kids spending 5 - 8 years developing them then other clubs say thanks we will have him, oh well he wasn't good enough, as he plays for his country, when are we going to start pressuring kroenke, gazidis and wenger with lowering of the stocks and merchandise so we are not profitable to the greedy self centred yank who uses us a a money pit.
Processed foods are a big
business, food companies make it attractive and
cheap to
buy their foods.
Gim me
cheap housing that I can
buy and renovate to modern standards and do
business and house people in, dammit!
In fact, he's facing major opposition from the local farmers who can get their pesticides and livestock antibiotics much
cheaper from GIGAS, a large company that's infiltrated the community and is slowly
buying up all
business and property in town.
A quick glance at the Whiz Kid's
business, and one might jump to the conclusion that computer -
buying companies are making out with the
cheap price.
So generating data about book sales from Amazon isn't likely to be very accurate — except the fact that many bookstores are going out of
business because people prefer to A)
buy online where things are
cheaper or B)
buy an ebook.
That is my main difficulty as a beginner in value investing, to be sure that I am
buying a good
business at
cheap or at least reasonable price.
It's much easier to find quality
businesses that are growing their value over time and
buy them at
cheap prices.
«You need to figure out intrinsic value,
buy when
cheap and sell when expensive,» says George Athanassakos, professor of finance and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at Ivey
Business School.
Even if a public
business were willing to sell itself
cheap enough to Buffett, Buffett doesn't want the bidding war that will erupt from others that want to
buy it more dearly.
Now not everyone is cut out to be dispassionate about investing, treating it like a
business where you are trying to
buy safe assets
cheap, and sell them dearly when they come back into favor.
there is always the temptation for
buying cheap stocks but so so on the quality of
business.
Buying an already existing
business is relatively
cheaper than starting one.
Just like I enjoy a good sale at the grocery store on new food that I need to
buy to eat today, I enjoy
cheaper shares on high quality
businesses that I'm looking to
buy today so that I can build more wealth tomorrow.
This is despite the fact that, as early as 1965 and while working under Graham, Buffett was becoming aware that the latter's strategy of
buying cheap stocks (what Graham called «cigar - butts», or companies selling for less than their net working capital) was not ideal, for it did not consider the quality of
businesses, and just a stock's cheapness.
By making lending
cheaper, consumers, corporations and governments would be able to borrow money inexpensively and put those dollars back into the economy, whether by
buying goods or investing in
businesses.
Basically, they shall keep working on their bread and butter
business, and
buy back shares when they get too
cheap so they can increase the payout on the fewer remaning shares.
So I
bought a lot of
cheap stocks and found out in many cases why they were so
cheap: they were poor
businesses that couldn't justify their book value because they weren't going to generate adequate returns on it.
Robert Robotti: When I started my
business in the early 1980s my original focus because I'm an accountant was on
buying cheap stocks relative to companies» balance sheets.
Value investors, for instance, like to
buy a stock
cheap and sell it on at a profit as the market finally learns to appreciate the underlying
business franchise.
And the second mistake was that, while I would sometimes
buy into a great
business because it became
cheap by the standards laid down by Ben Graham in his books, I also sold out of them when they were no longer
cheap by Graham's standards.
Without trying to sound crass of course ROE will continue at it's current level he is
buying a railroad (high fixed cost
business and a monopoly) it's not like someone is going build a competeing railroad in the same area there will only ever be one and it will always be
cheaper than trucking or shipping by air.
Buying a Gruesome
Business Cheap Well, that's exactly what Buffett did in case of Berkshire Hathaway.
While it might be difficult to practice Walter Schloss» approach (especially of
buying things very
cheap) in the current times of most quality
businesses lacking margin of safety, there still are many lessons that we can learn from this master of deep value approach to investing.
Whether
buying distressed assets or whole companies, the intelligent acquirer can add new markets, technologies, or
cheap capital assets to make the existing
business more productive.
Warren Buffett had a twist on that and said, «Gee, it's nice to
buy cheap things but I also like to
buy good
businesses.»