I'm a long time
cigar butt investor with a five year hiatus investing Buffett style.
Not exact matches
«Buying the stock at that price was like picking up a discarded
cigar butt that had one puff remaining in it,» Buffett recounts in his 2014 letter to Berkshire Hathaway
investors.
I'm not going to waste too much of your time on this strategy because Warren Buffet, the living Intelligent
Investor, has tried and failed repeatedly to profit from bargain issues and since 1989 has publicly denounced what he nicknamed the «
cigar -
butt» strategy.
Value
investors in my opinion generally follow two distinct approaches to investing: the Graham «
cigar butt» strategy or Buffett's quality at a discount.
Buffett has evolved over the years, moving from a deep value «
cigar butt»
investor into one that buys great businesses at reasonable prices.
If you're a Graham - style value
investor buying a low multiple,
cigar butt stock, your two improbable, extreme outcomes are: (1) bankruptcy or (2) the company's unexpected return to high growth.
I've always been a value
investor, picking both «
cigar butt» Benjamin Graham stocks and selectively concentrating a la Warren Buffett.
As a value
investor, one of the decisions is where to invest the time:
cigar -
butts vs quality businesses vs special sitations, etc etc..
Other Graham - style value
investors wish Munger and Buffett the best of luck with looking at quality as a factor in their decision - making and are comfortable with their own «
cigar butt» approach.
If someone who starts as an
investor reads the book, he or she will appreciate that there are many ways to do it, many ways to cook, and he or she will probably be able to, based on his or her temperament, identify and find some affinity with one of those investment styles, whether it's George Soros or Paul Tudor Jones or Ben Graham with the
cigar butts, or Philip Fisher.
Other value
investors are numbers - driven
cigar -
butt investors who do not consider the quality of the business.