Sentences with phrase «gain over book value»

The portfolio has more or less stayed at the steady level for the past three months and shows a modest 1.9 % gain over book value since inception.

As of November 30, 2009, the portfolio has a 2.8 % gain over book value:

In the past 90 days, stock markets have advanced a little and the Sleepy Mini Portfolio now shows a modest gain over book value.

Not exact matches

Over the past 5 years, as the market has been strenuously overvalued, the compound annual gain in Berkshire Hathaway's book value has been just 5.97 %.

Booksellers had called the discounting «madness», with Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Books in Colchester describing the promotion as «very short - sighted... It's valuing a short - term gain over long - term stability».

To give you a sense of just how much money is to be made, the single April 2015 transaction allowed the company to remove the principal balance of loans backing the Trust from its balance sheet and realize a pre-tax gain on sale of approximately $ 78 million after estimated closing adjustments and transaction costs, a 10.5 - percent premium over the loans» book value.

In his recently published 2012 letter to Fairfax Financial shareholders, Prem Watsa — a preeminent practitioner of value investing who has grown book value by over 23 % per year over 25 years and generated a 14 % annual return on common stock purchases over the past 15 years — recounts how Fairfax Financial generated a realized gain of $ 341 million from International Coal using precisely this technique.