But that's exactly what I've finally come across: A business that offers reasonable (i.e. non-threatening) leverage, low expenses, a substantial discount to intrinsic value, and guaranteed & uncorrelated returns that will significantly increase that
intrinsic value over time.
Using historical drivers of returns (i.e. historical operating profits, market value of investments, interest rates, etc.) we can assess how Berkshire's stock has tracked a derived
intrinsic value over time.
My solution: All I want is a low risk & uncorrelated investment which guarantees significant increases in
intrinsic value over time.
This is always a debate among value investors: Is it better to look for asset based investments like Graham / Schloss and other deep value school, or is it better to strive for great businesses at reasonable prices that are almost certain to compound
intrinsic value over time?
He thought that the bank was a high quality bank that was growing
intrinsic value over time.
For undervalued businesses, market value catches up to
intrinsic value over time.
Now, both are quite different... one I would categorize as a company that will likely grow
intrinsic value over time, the other is a special situation.
Just keep it simple, look for obvious situations that you can understand, and try to find businesses that will grow
intrinsic value over time that produce stable free cash flow and high returns on capital that are available at cheap prices.
As you know from reading, I love cheap stocks, and many of them are unloved cheap stocks with temporary problems, but I'd rather own a business that can grow
its intrinsic value over time, because my margin of safety increases over time and gives me more room for error in my analysis work.
I wanted to flag a point here — Mean Reversion in Graham's concepts is in the context of Mr. Market — that an individual stock price will revert to its own
intrinsic value over time, regardless of the vagaries of the market.
And we will do our best to optimize the returns of the Oakmark Global Fund by purchasing undervalued companies that are growing
their intrinsic value over time and that are managed by individuals who think and act like long - term owners of the business.
This means that if you believe the current share price should move towards
its intrinsic value over time, a low beta could suggest it is not likely to reach that level anytime soon, and once it's there, it may be hard to fall back down into an attractive buying range again.
We continue to do our best to optimize the returns of the Fund by purchasing undervalued companies that are growing
their intrinsic value over time and that are managed by individuals who think and act like long - term owners of the business.
Not exact matches
Once it gets up to a certain amount you can have fun with it and buy items of
intrinsic wealth that continue to increase
value over time, such as gold, silver or platinum... Antique jewelry and sterling silver are examples of
intrinsic wealth that also have the added bonus of contributing something beautiful to your life.
Very simply, they are high quality businesses that can grow their
intrinsic value at high rates of return
over long periods of
time.
A business that can grow
intrinsic value at say 12 - 15 %
over an extended period of
time will create enormous wealth for its owners
over time, regardless of what the economy does, or what the stock market does, or what earnings multiples do, etc...
Gold is the only currency that retains its buying power
over time — it has
intrinsic value.
Given your belief that Berkshire's
intrinsic value continues to exceed its book
value with the difference continuing to widen
over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2
times book
value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?
A: Glass Lewis Realizable Pay is calculated
over a three - year period and includes: actual salary received; actual incentive cash granted and earned; the
intrinsic value of
time - vesting equity granted; the
intrinsic value of performance - based equity granted and earned; and all other compensation paid.
A careful selection of a few investments having regard to their cheapness in relation to their probable actual and potential
intrinsic value over a period of years ahead and in relation to alternative investments at the
time;
The firm's success
over time has been due to his and his team's ability to identify companies trading at a significant discount to
intrinsic value.
Their
intrinsic value to an investor, is what those assets can produce
over time, relative to the price paid.
«
Over time, of course, market price and
intrinsic value will arrive at about the same destination.
Over time, however, stock prices and
intrinsic value almost invariably converge» Warren Buffett
You want to get to high growth, where
intrinsic value increases
over time.»
When an option loses its
time value, the
intrinsic value is left
over, which is equivalent to the difference between the strike price less the stock price.
As you can see, the
intrinsic value of the enterprise (as evidenced by the compounding net worth and earning power) has compounded very nicely
over a long period of
time, which has led to similar returns for shareholders.
In the examples cited (AZO, NVR, etc...), the cannibalization created
value because shares were bought in at discounts to
intrinsic value over long periods of
time.
Greenberg basically said that he wanted to construct his portfolio in such a way that a 1987 type crash (down 25 % in one day) would not worry him because the quality of the companies in his portfolio gave him confidence that despite their lower quotational
values, their
intrinsic values would increase
over time, thus providing him with a margin of safety (
time was his friend).
Very few businesses will compound their
intrinsic value at 20 %
over long periods of
time (or even 15 %).
Intrinsic value can appreciate
over time as earnings grow and the company becomes more profitable.
An increase
over time in share price doesn't mean the market will force a
value stock to reach its
intrinsic value either.
And one way to think about it is this: As long as you are paying a fair price for Markel — one that is equal or below
intrinsic value — and Markel can grow
intrinsic value at 12 - 14 % per year, then you should expect 12 - 14 % shareholder returns
over a long period of
time.
I have a chunk of
time value left to expire
over the next two and a half months and a decent amount of
intrinsic value left in some of my options that are in the money.
As long as they can continue to achieve profitability in their underwriting and can find ways to invest their portfolio at the same return
over time, they'll continue to create the same returns on equity and the same growth in
intrinsic value.
For example if a company had a ROE 20 % and can reinvest 100 % of their earnings, and earnings will grow at 20 %
over time, then will
intrinsic value of the business also approximate this 20 % annual growth rate?
Pretty simple... if the business has an ROIC of 20 % and can reinvest 100 % of their earnings, then earnings will grow at 20 %
over time, and the growth of the
intrinsic value of the business will also approximate this 20 % annual growth rate.
Equity Schemes Our investment philosophy for equity - oriented investments is based on the belief that
over time stock prices reflect their
intrinsic values.
The point is that
intrinsic value will inevitably manifest
over time.
The goal is to buy companies for less than their
intrinsic value over a long period of
time.
We see for the first
time in June 2016 that the S&P
Intrinsic Value Weighted Japan Index underperformed the S&P Japan BMI
over a rolling five - year period.
It's understanding productive assets and their likely
intrinsic value; how they may or may not compound in
intrinsic worth
over a long
time horizon.
Now, much of the
time, one would usually expect
intrinsic values to change pretty slowly
over the course of a year — after all, most news is really just noise, when you boil it down.
The principal risks of investing in the Funds are: stock market risk (stocks fluctuate in response to the activities of individual companies and to general stock market and economic conditions), stock selection risk (Fenimore utilizes a
value approach to stock selection and there is risk that the stocks selected may not realize their
intrinsic value, or their price may go down
over time), and small - cap risk (prices of small - cap companies can fluctuate more than the stocks of larger companies and may not correspond to changes in the stock market in general).
Given your belief that Berkshire's
intrinsic value continues to exceed its book
value with the difference continuing to widen
over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2
times book
value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?
Of course, the stock market's the best place to be long - term, despite its gyrations — and insisting on buying at
value prices (preferably on stocks which continue to compound their
intrinsic value) can work to your advantage enormously
over time.
Because you have to revise your assumptions from
time to
time to reflect business and market conditions,
intrinsic value fluctuates
over time, and it can go up or down.»
I think the more Munger influence of buying high - quality business
over time that compound because of that convergence between stock price and
intrinsic value is probably even more of a fundamental tenant of our process.
If a security is a stream of cash flows, returning those flows to shareholders
over time (dividends, buybacks) will drive the stock price and help it trade (up presumably) with
intrinsic value.
This means higher returns for the investment portfolio
over time, and it means above average book
value compounding, which correlates
over time with the
intrinsic growth in
value of the enterprise.