So -
called value investors like to compare the cost of a stock to how much money the company is actually making.
Not exact matches
So if you drew a horizontal line and
call that fair
value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and
call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair
value and way above fair
value, the reason
investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.
On the first quarter
call for the Fairholme Fund, Berkowitz reaffirmed his investment thesis for AIG, saying only that,
like most good
value investors, he had gotten in too early and that he never contemplated a scenario in which the US Treasury would sell its shares below their cost (about $ 28.70 / share).
Prognostications
like that are a problem because financial journalists such as Michael Grynbaum of The New York Times, Les Christie of CNN, and Rex Nutting of CBS MarketWatch, as well as securities
investors and analysts,
call his index «the best gauge» of real estate
values.